Pistis Sophia Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18.

Then Mariam said to the Saviour: "My Lord, the
word which thou hast spoken to us : 'Who has ears to hear,
let him hear', thou sayest so that we may understand the
word which thou hast spoken. Hear now, my Lord, for
I will speak openly. The word which thou hast spoken:
'I have taken a third part of the power of the archons of
all the aeons, and I have turned their Heimarmene and their
sphere over which they rule, so that when the race of
mankind call upon them in their mysteries - these which
the transgressing angels have taught them for the completion
of their evil and iniquitous deeds in the mystery of their
magic - from this hour now they should not be able to
complete their iniquitous deeds, because thou hast taken
their power from them and from their astrologers and from
their soothsayers and from those who tell men who are in
the world all things which will happen, so that from this
hour they will not understand anything which will happen
so as to tell it. For thou hast turned their sphere, and thou
hast made them spend six months turned to the left, com-
pleting their (periods of) influence, and six months looking
to the right, completing their (periods of) influence.' Now
concerning this word, my Lord, the power within the prophet
Isaiah has spoken thus and has related once in a spiritual
parable, speaking about the vision of Egypt : 'Where now
Egypt, where are thy soothsayers and thy astrologers, and
those who call from the earth, and those who call from
their bellies? Let them now tell thee, from this hour, the
things which the Lord Sabaoth will do.' Now before thou
didst come, the power within Isaiah, the prophet, prophesied
concerning thee, that thou wouldst take away the power
of the archons of the aeons, and that thou wouldst turn their
sphere and their Heimarmene, so that from this hour they
would know nothing. Concerning this also it has said : 'You
will not know what the Lord Sabaoth will do'. That is,
none of the archons will know what things thou wilt do
from this hour. They (the archons) are Egypt, because they
are matter. The power within Isaiah has once prophesied
about thee saying : 'You will not know from this hour what
the Lord Sabaoth will do' Concerning the power of light
which thou hast taken from Sabaoth the Good, who is in
the place of the right, and which today is in thy material
body, concerning this now, thou hast said to us, my Lord
Jesus: 'He who has ears to hear, let him hear'~, so that
thou shouldst know whose heart is directed towards the
Kingdom of Heaven."

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