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172is called in his region 'Chr%u0113ma%u014dr.'15.\Darkness, each and every one of them hath a name every hour, and every one of them changeth his face every hour. And moreover every one of these dungeons hath a door opening upwards, so that the dragon of the Outer Darknesshath twelve dark dungeons, and every dungeon hath a door opening upwards. And an angel of the height watcheth each of the doors of the dungeons, --whom Yew, the First Man, the overseer of the Light, the envoy ofthe First Commandment, hath established as watchers of the dragon, so that the dragon and the rulers of his dungeons which are in him, may not mutiny.\CHAPTER 127%u2013THOSE PLACED IN THE OUTER DARKNESS AND THE FIRES OF AMENTE1.When the Saviour had said this, Mary Magdalene answered and said: \then the souls which shall be led into that region, be led through these twelve doors of the dungeons, every one according to the judgment of which it is deserving?\2.The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: 3.\4.But the soul[s] of the blasphemers and of those who are in the doctrines of error and of all who teach doctrines of error, and of those who have intercourse with males, and of those stained and impious men and of atheists and murderers and adulterers and sorcerers, --all such souls then, if while still in life they do not repent but remain persistently in their sin, and all the souls which have stayed behind without, that is those whichhave had the number of the circuits which are appointed them in the sphere, without having repented, --well, at their last circuit will those souls, they and all the souls of which I have just told you, be led out of [?] the jaws of the tail of the dragon into the dungeons of the Outer Darkness. 5.And when those souls of the doors of the dungeons have been led into the Outer Darknessinto the jaws of his tail, he turneth his tail into his own mouth and shutteth them in. Thus will the souls be led into the Outer Darkness.6.\name on every one of the doors of the dungeons. And these twelve names are different one from another; but the twelve are one in the other, so that he who speaketh one name, speaketh all. These then will I tell you at the expansion of the universe. Thus then is fashioned the Outer Darkness, --that is the dragon.\