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178Light, they cleanse those souls anew and purify them most exceedingly and give them anew mysteries and put them in the last order which [is] in the Treasury, and those souls will be saved from all the chastisements of the judgments.\9.And when the Saviour had said this, he said unto his disciples: \what manner I discourse with you?\10.Mary then answered and said \aforetime, in a similitude, saying:11.'Make to yourselves a friend out of the Mam%u014dn of Unrighteousness, so that if ye remain behind, he may receive you into the everlasting tents.' Who then is the Mam%u014dn of unrighteousness, if not the dragon of the Outer Darkness? 12.This is the word: He who shall understand the mystery of one of the names of the dragon of the Outer Darkness, if he remaineth behind in the Outer Darknessor if he hath completed the circuits of the changes, and speaketh the name of the dragon, he will be saved and go up out of the darkness and be received into the Treasury of the Light. This is the word, my Lord.\13.The Saviour answered again and said unto Mary:\This is the solution of the word.\CHAPTER 131%u2013CREATION OF THE COUNTERFEIT SPIRIT AND THE SOUL1.Mary continued again and said: \into this world or doth he not come?\2.The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: \above the world], he covereth the darkness of the dragon; but if the sun is below the world, then the darkness of the dragon abideth as veiling of the sun and the breath of the darkness cometh into the world in form of a smoke in the night, that is, if the sun withdraweth into himself his rays, then indeed the world is not able to endure the darkness of the dragon in its true form; otherwise would it be dissolved and go to ruin withal.\3.When the Saviour had said this, Mary continued again and said unto the Saviour: \Lord, still do I question thee and hide[it] not from me. Now, therefore, my Lord, who compelleth then the man until he sinneth?\4.The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: \man until he sinneth.\