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he who bakes bread will be baked. And for this reason they are forbidden to do work. And again they say, that there are certain other worlds, the luminaries being able from this world † from which they rise. And if anyone walks on the ground, he harms the earth 3.66 and he who moves his hand harms the air, since the air is the soul of men and of animals and of birds and of fishes and of reptiles and of whatever is in the world; for I told you that this body is not of God, but is of matter and is darkness and it must itself be darkened. 29. And concerning paradise, which is called a world; the plants in it are desires and other deceptions that corrupt the thoughts of men. And that plant in paradise, from which they know the good, is Jesus himself and the knowledge of him in the world. He who partakes discerns the good and the evil. However, the world itself is not of God, but was formed from a part of matter and for this reason all things perish. What the rulers stole from the first man is what fills the moon, which is purified daily from the world. And if a soul departs without knowing the truth, it is handed over to the demons so that they may torment 3.67 it in the gehennas of fire, and after the punishment it is transferred into other bodies, that it may be tormented, and thus it is cast into the great fire until the consummation. 30. Concerning the prophets among you, he speaks thus: that they are spirits of impiety or of the lawlessness of the darkness which rose up from the beginning, and having been deceived by these they did not speak in truth. For that ruler blinded their minds. And if anyone follows their words, he dies for ever, bound to the clod of earth, because he did not learn the knowledge of the paraclete. And he commanded his elect alone, being no more than seven in number: if you cease eating, pray and pour on your head oil exorcised with many names, for the strengthening of this faith. But the names were not revealed 3.68 to me; for only the seven use these. And again, the honorable and great name among you, Sabaoth, he says is the nature of man and the father of desire. And for this reason, he says, the simple worship desire, considering it a god. Concerning how Adam was created, he says thus: that the one who said, 'Come, and let us make man in our image and after our likeness,' or 'after the form which we saw,' is a ruler who said to the other rulers that 'Come, give me from the light which we took, and let us make man according to the form of us the rulers and after that which we saw, which is the first man.' And thus they created man. And they created Eve similarly, giving to her from their desire in order to deceive Adam. And through these the formation of the world came from the creation of the ruler. 31. And that God has no part with this world nor rejoices in it, because from the beginning he has been plundered by the rulers 3.69 and it became an affliction to him. For this reason he sends and plunders from them his soul day by day through these luminaries, the sun and the moon, by which the whole world and all creation is seized. The one who spoke with Moses and the Jews and the priests he says is the ruler of darkness; so that Christians and Jews and Gentiles are one and the same, worshipping the same god. For in his desires he deceives them, not being a god of truth. Therefore, all who hope in that god who spoke with Moses and the prophets are to be bound with him, because they did not hope in the God of truth. For he spoke with them according to their desires. And after all these things, at the end he says as he himself wrote: when the † old man reveals his image, then the Shoulder-bearer 3.70 lets the earth go outside, and thus is released the great

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