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428intercourse, how will it beget anything different from beasts? So, therefore, you are babes until you become perfect.\10.And Thomas answered, \that are invisible and difficult to explain are like those who shoot their arrows at a target at night. To be sure, they shoot their arrows as anyone would -since they shootat the target -but it is not visible. Yet when the light comes forth and hides the darkness, then the work of each will appear. And you, our light, enlighten, O lord.\11.Jesus said, \12.Thomas, spoke, saying, \rise and set?\13.The Savioursaid, \not in order that you remain here, but rather that you might come forth and whenever all the elect abandon bestiality, then this light will withdraw up to its essence, and its essence will welcome it, since it is a good servant.\14.Then the Saviourcontinued and said, \the fire that blazes in the bodies ofmen and in their marrow, kindling in them night and day, and burning the limbs of men and making their minds become drunk and their souls become deranged [...] them within males and females [...] night and moving them, [...] secretly and visibly. For the males move [...] upon the females and the females upon the males. 15.Therefore it is said, \wings so as to fly, fleeing the lust that scorches the spirits of men.\himself wingsto flee every visible spirit.\16.And Thomas answered, saying, \have understood that you are the one who is beneficial to us, as you say.\17.Again the Saviouranswered and said, \since this is the doctrine of the perfect. If, now, you desire to become perfect, you shall observe these things; if not, your name is 'Ignorant', since it is impossible for an intelligent man to dwell with a fool, for the intelligent man is perfect in all wisdom. To the fool, however, the good and bad are the same -indeed the wise man will be nourished by the truth and (Ps. 1:3) \stream\things, things that are far from the truth. 18.For that which guides them, the fire, will give them an illusion of truth, and will shine on them with a perishable beauty, and it will imprison them in a dark sweetness and