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23and all their orders, fearing and being greatly agitated because of the great light which was about me--not of the former quality that it was about me when I was on the earth of mankind, when the lightvesture came over me, for the world could not bear the light such as it was in its truth, else would the world at once be destroyed and all upon it, --but the light which was about me in the Twelve %u00c6onswas eight-thousand-andseven-hundred-myriad times greater than that which was about me in the world among you.CHAPTER 15%u2013LIMITATION OF THE TYRANTS OF THE FATEAND SPHERE1.\which was about me, that they were all thrown into agitation one over against the other, and ran hither and thither in the %u00e6ons. And all %u00e6ons and all heavens and their whole ordering were agitated one over against the other on account of the great fear which was on them, for they knew not the mystery which had taken place. And Adamas, the great Tyrant, and all the tyrants in all the %u00e6ons began to fight in vain against the light, and they knew not against whom they fought, because they saw nothing but the overmastering light.2.\together one with another, were dashed down in the %u00e6ons and became as the inhabitants of the earth, dead and without breath of life.3.\evil doings, and that, if the men who are in the world, invoke them in their mysteries--those which the angels who transgressed have brought down, that is their sorceries, in order that, therefore, if they invoke them in their evil doings, they may not be able to accomplish them.4.\pass that they spend six months turned to the left and accomplish their influences, and that six months they face to the right and accomplish their influences. For by command of the First Commandment and by command of the First Mystery.Yew, the Overseer of the Light, had set them facing the left at every time and accomplishing their influences and their deeds.CHAPTER 16%u2013REMOVAL OF POWER1.\against the light. And I took athird of their power, in order that they should not be able to accomplish their evil deeds. And the Fateand the sphere, over which they rule, I have