Pistis Sophia Chapter 21

CHAPTER 21.

It happened, however, when Jesus finished speaking
these words, Maria answered again and said : "My Lord,
will the astrologers and the soothsayers not tell men, from
this hour, what will happen?"
Jesus answered, however, and said to Maria : "When the
astrologers find the Heimarmene and the sphere turned to
the left, according to their first distribution, then their words
concur and they will say what is due to happen. But when
they meet the Heimarmene or the sphere turned to the right,
they do not speak anything of the truth, because I have
turned their (periods of) influence and their quadrangles and
their triangles and their figures of eight , since their (periods
of) influence remained turned to the left from the beginning,
together with their quadrangles and their triangles and their
figures of eight. However, I have now caused them to spend
six months turned to the left, and six months turned to the
right. He who now will find their reckoning from the time
when I turned them, placing them to spend six months
looking to their left hand parts, and six months looking to
their right hand paths, and who will now consult them in
this way, will know their (periods of) influence with cer-
tainty, and he will predict all things that they will do.
Likewise also the soothsayers, when they call upon the name
of the archons, and they meet them looking to the left,
everything concerning which they will seek of their decans,
they will tell them with certainty. However, when their
soothsayers call upon their names as they are looking to the
right, they will not hear them, because they look in another
form than their first ordinance in which Jeu established
them, since their names are other when they are turned
to the left than when they are turned to the right. And when
they call upon them as they are turned to the right, they
will not speak the truth to them, but in confusion they will
confuse them, and with threats they will threaten them.
Those now who do not know their paths as they are turned
to the right, with their triangles and their quadrangles and
all their figures, they will find nothing of truth, but they will
be confused in great confusion, and they will be in great
error, and they will be deluded in great delusion, because
the works which they did in in the time when they were
turned to the left in their quadrangles, in their triangles
and in their figures of eight, these in which they continued
as they were turned to the left, I have now turned. And
I have caused them to spend six months making all their
patterns turned to the right, so that they should be confused
in confusion in their whole circuit. And furthermore I have
caused them to spend six months turned to the left, doing
the works of their (periods of) influence and all their patterns,
so that the archons which are in the aeons and in their
spheres and in their heavens and in all their places should
be confused in confusion, and should wander in error, so
that they should not understand their own paths".

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