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Chapter 9  
     
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 Now the archon who is weak has three names.
 
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 The first name is YHWH,
 
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 the second is Saklas, the deceiver,
 
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 and the third is Satan.
 
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 And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him.
 
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 For he said, I am God and there is no other God beside me, for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come.
 
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 And the archons created seven powers for themselves,
 
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 and the powers created for themselves six angels for each one until they became 365 angels.
 
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 And these are the bodies belonging with the names: the first is Amen, a he has a sheeps face;
 
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 the second is Elohim, he has a donkeys face;
 
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 the third is Astaphaios, he has a hyenas face;
 
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 the fourth is Yah, he has a serpents face with seven heads;
 
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 the fifth is Sabaoth, he has a dragons face;
 
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 the sixth is Adonai, he had a monkeys face;
 
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 the seventh is Shaddai, he has a shining fire-face.
 
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 This is the sevenness of the week.
 
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 But YHWH had a multitude of faces, more than all of them, so that he could put a face before all of them, according to his desire, when he is in the midst of seraphs.
 
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 He shared his fire with them; therefore he became lord over them.
 
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 Because of the power of the glory he possessed of his mothers light, he called himself God.
 
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 And he did not obey the place from which he came.
 
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 And he united the seven powers in his thought with the authorities which were with him.
 
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 And when he spoke it happened.
 
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 And he named each power beginning with the highest: the first is goodness with the first (authority), Amen;
 
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 the second is foreknowledge with the second one, Elohim;
 
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 and the third is divinity with the third one, Astraphaio);
 
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 the fourth is lordship with the fourth one, Yah;
 
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 the fifth is kingdom with the fifth one, Sabaoth;
 
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 the sixth is envy with the sixth one, Adonai;
 
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 the seventh is understanding with the seventh one, Shaddai.
 
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 And these have a firmament corresponding to each age-heaven.
 
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 They were given names according to the glory which belongs to heaven for the destruction of the powers.
 
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 And in the names which were given to them by their Originator there was power.
 
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 But the names which were given them according to the glory which belongs to heaven mean for them destruction and powerlessness.
 
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 Thus they have two names.
 
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 And having created [...] everything, he organized according to the model of the first ages which had come into being,
 
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 So that he might create them like the indestructible ones.  
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 Not because he had seen the indestructible ones, but the power in him, which he had taken from his mother, produced in him the likeness of the cosmos.
 

 
 
 

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