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35was sore pressed by all the emanations of Self-willed, and the lion-faced power took away my light in me.4.\ And I cried for help, but my voice hath not reached out of the darkness. And I looked unto the height, that the Light, in which I had had faith, might help me.5.\ And when I looked unto the height, I saw all the rulers of the %u00e6ons, how in their numbers they looked down on me and rejoiced over me, though I had done them no ill; but they hated me without a cause. And when the emanations ofSelf-willed saw the rulers of the %u00e6ons rejoicing over me, they knew that the rulers of the %u00e6ons would not come to my aid; and those emanations which sore pressed me with violence, took courage, and the light which I had not taken from them, they have taken from me.6.\ Now, therefore, O Light of Truth, thou knowest that I have done this in my innocence, thinking that the lion-faced light-power belonged to thee; and the sin which I have done is open before thee.7.\ Suffer me no more to lack, O Lord, for I have had faith in thy light from the beginning; O Lord, O Light of the powers, suffer me no more to lack my light.8.\ For because of thy inducement and for the sake of thy light am I fallen into this oppression, and shame hath covered me.9.\ And because of the illusion of thy light, I am become a stranger to my brethren, the invisibles, and to the great emanations of Barb%u0113l%u014d.10.\wrath of Self-willed is come upon me--of him who had not hearkened unto thy command to emanate from the emanation of his powerbecause I was in his %u00e6on without performing his mystery.11.\12.\height.13.\mystery mocked me.14.\Light of lights, I am sore pressed in thedarkness of chaos. If now thou wilt come to save me, --great is thy mercy, --then hear me in truth and save me.15.\may be saved from the emanations of god Self-willedwhich press me sore, and from their evil doings.16.\the whole of my power, andlet not this chaos shroud my power.17.\great mercy of thy Light.18.\