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81led her again into the lower regions of the chaos and alarmed her again exceedingly.4.\Tyrant, who also was wroth with Pistis Sophia, because she desired to go to the Light of lights, which was above them all; therefore was he wroth with her. It came to pass then, when Adamas, the Tyrant, had looked down out of the Twelve %u00c6ons, that he saw the emanations of Self-willed oppressing Pistis Sophia, until they should take from her all her lights. 5.It came to pass then, when the power of Adamas had come down into the chaos unto all the emanations of Selfwilled, it came to pass then, when that demon came down into the chaos, that it dashed down Pistis Sophia. And the lion-faced power and the serpentform and the basilisk-form and the dragon-form and all the other very numerous emanations of Self-willed surrounded Pistis Sophia all together, desiring to take from her anew her powers in her, and they oppressed Pistis Sophia exceedingly and threatened her. 6.It came to pass then, when they oppressed her and alarmed her exceedingly, that she cried again to the Light and sang praises, saying:7.\8.\Light.9.\and thou shalt save me from all his violent threats.'10.\Mystery which looketh within, I sent again Gabri%u0113l and Micha%u0113l and the great lightstream, that they should help Pistis Sophia. 11.And I gave commandment unto Gabri%u0113l and Micha%u0113l to bear Pistis Sophia in their hands, so that her feet should not touch the darkness below; and I gave them commandment moreover to guide her in the regions of the chaos, out of which she was to be led.12.\light-stream, and moreover [when] all the emanations of Self-willed and the emanations of Adamas had seen the light-stream, how it shone very exceedingly and there was no measure for the light about it, that they became terrorstricken and quitted PistisSophia. And the great light-stream surrounded Pistis Sophia on all sides of her, on her left and on her right and on all her sides, and it became a light-wreathround her head.13.\great courage, and it ceased not to surround her on all her sides; and she was no longer in fear of the emanations of Self-willed which are in the chaos, nor was she any more in