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                                    186shall have faith in me and hearken unto me, and make them into refined light and lead them into the Light.\CHAPTER 134HOW ARE WE TO KNOW IF A DOCTRINE BELONGS TO JESUS AND ONE IN A THOUSAND1.When then Jesus had said this,Mary answered and said: \and they come upon the doctrines of error, I whence then are they to know whether they belong to thee or not?\2.The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: \skilful money-changers. Take the good, throw the bad away.'3.\then ye know that there will be cold; if south wind cometh, then ye know that there will be burning and ferventheat.' 4.Now, therefore, say unto them: 'If ye have known the face of the heaven and of the earth from the winds, then know ye exactly, if then any come now unto you and proclaim unto you a godhead, whether their words have harmonized and fitted with all your words which I have spoken unto you through two up to three witnesses, and whether they have harmonized in the setting of the air and of the heavens and of the circuits and of the stars and of the light-givers and of the whole earth and all on it and ofall waters and all in them.' Say unto them: 'Those who shall come unto you, and their words fit and harmonize in the whole gnosis with that which I have said unto you, I will receive as belonging unto us.' This is what ye shall say unto men, if ye make proclamation unto them in order that they may guard themselves from the doctrines of error.5.\the world, that I may save them. For even for the righteous, who have never done any evil and have not sinned at all, it is necessary that they should find the mysteries which are in the Books of Yew, which I have made Enoch write in Paradise, discoursing with him out of the tree of the Gnosis and out of the tree of the Life. And I made him deposit them in the rock Ararad, and set the ruler Kalapataur%u014dth, who is over Skemm%u016bt, on whose head is the foot of Yew, and who surroundeth all %u00e6ons and Fates, --I set up that ruler as watcher over the Books of Yew on account of the flood, and in order that none of the rulers may be envious of them and destroy them. These will I give you, when I shall have told you the expansion of the universe.\6.When then the Saviour had said this, Mary answered and said: \is the man in the world who hath not sinned at all, who is pure of iniquities? For if he is 
                                
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