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Page 113
Chapter XXXI.
Moreover, if any one would wish to become acquainted with the artifices of those sorcerers, through which they desire to lead men away by their teaching (as if they possessed the knowledge of certain secret rites), but are not at all successful in so doing, let him listen to the instruction which they receive after passing through what is termed the "fence of wickedness," [4440] --gates which are subjected to the world of ruling spirits. [4441] (The following, then, is the manner in which they proceed): "I salute the one-formed [4442] king, the bond of blindness, complete [4443] oblivion, the first power, preserved by the spirit of providence and by wisdom, from whom I am sent forth pure, being already part of the light of the son and of the father: grace be with me; yea, O father, let it be with me." They say also that the beginnings of the Ogdoad [4444] are derived from this. In the next place, they are taught to say as follows, while passing through what they call Ialdabaoth: "Thou, O first and seventh, who art born to command with confidence, thou, O Ialdabaoth, who art the rational ruler of a pure mind, and a perfect work to son and father, bearing the symbol of life in the character of a type, and opening to the world the gate which thou didst close against thy kingdom, I pass again in freedom through thy realm. Let grace be with me; yea, O father, let it be with me." They say, moreover, that the star Phaenon [4445] is in sympathy [4446] with the lion-like ruler. They next imagine that he who has passed through Ialdabaoth and arrived at Iao ought thus to speak: "Thou, O second Iao, who shinest by night, [4447] who art the ruler of the secret mysteries of son and father, first prince of death, and portion of the innocent, bearing now mine own beard as symbol, I am ready to pass through thy realm, having strengthened him who is born of thee by the living word. Grace be with me; father, let it be with me."
[4440] phragmon kakias.
[4441] pulas archonton aioni dedemenas.
[4442] monotropon.
[4443] lethen aperiskepton.
[4444] 'Ogdoados. Cf. Tertullian, de Praescript. adv. Haereticos, cap. xxxiii. (vol. iii. p. 259), and other references in Benedictine ed.
[4445] Phainon. "Ea, quae Saturni stella dicitur, phainon que a Graecis dicitur."--Cicero, de Nat. Deorum, book ii. c. 20.
[4446] sumpathein.
[4447] nuktophaes.
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