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209FIRSTBOOKOFJEUGNOSIS OF THE INVISIBLE GODArchive NotesIn the original Coptic manuscript, several pages of related ritual formulae have been collected together --these having been probably taken from other separate collections. Interspaced in the text are complex symbolic diagrams listing a variety of the \ of God and the Powers\The names listed in these diagrams (which are not \transliterated into the English text) consist of long strings of vowel sounds which, like the great name \to be intoned or chanted.