The Tyrants

CHAPTER 26: [The Destruction of Maldek]

This then they accomplished continuously before their power was diminished and they became exhausted or powerless.

When they became powerless, their light in their region ceased and their kingdom was destroyed, and the universe became quickly raised up.

It came to pass then, when they had perceived this at the time, and when the number of the cipher of Melchizedek, the Receiver [of the Light], happened, then had he to come out again and enter into the midst of the rulers of all the æons and into the midst of all the rulers of the Fate and of those of the sphere; and he threw them into agitation, and made them quickly abandon their circles. And forthwith they were constrained, and cast forth the power out of themselves, out of the breath of their mouth and the tears of their eyes and the sweat of their bodies.

Melchizedek purified them, as he does continually.

He carrieth their light into the Treasury of the Light. And all the rulers of the æons and the rulers of the Fate and those of the sphere turn to the matter of their refuse.

They devour it and do not let it go and become souls in the world. They devour then their matter, so that they may not become powerless and exhausted and their power cease in them and their kingdom become destroyed, but in order that they may delay and linger a long time until the completion of the number of the perfect souls who shall be in the Treasury of the Light.

CHAPTER 27

When the rulers of the æons and those of the Fate and those of the sphere continued to carry out this type,–turning on themselves, devouring the refuse of their matter, and not allowing souls to be born into the world of mankind, in order that they might delay in being rulers, and that the powers which are in their powers, that is the souls, might spend a long time here outside,–they then persisted doing this continually for 2 circles [planets].

Then when I wished to ascend for the ministry for the sake of which I was called by command of the First Mystery, that I came up into the midst of the tyrants of the rulers of the twelve æons, with my light-vesture about me, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for the light which was about me.

When those tyrants saw the great light around me, the great Tyrant Adamas and all the tyrants of the 12 æons [star systems], all together began to fight against the light of my vesture.

They wanted to hold it fast among them in order to delay in their rulership. This then they did, not knowing against whom they fought.

When then they mutinied and fought against the light, thereon by command of the First Mystery I changed the paths and the courses of their æons and the paths of their Fate and of their sphere.

I made them face 6 months towards the triangles on the left and towards the squares and towards those in their aspect and towards their octagons, just as they had formerly been.

But their manner of turning, or facing, I changed to another order, and made them other six months face towards the works of their influences in the squares on the right and in their triangles and in those in their aspect and in their octagons.

I made them to be confounded in great confusion and deluded in great delusion – the rulers of the æons and all the rulers of the Fate and those of the sphere.

I set them in great agitation, and thence on they were no longer able to turn towards the refuse of their matter to devour it, in order that their regions may continue to delay and they [themselves] may spend a long time as rulers.

But when I had taken away 1/3 of their power, I changed their spheres [planets], so that they spend a time facing to the left and another time facing to the right.

I have changed their whole path [orbits] and their whole course.

I have made the path of their course to hurry, so that they may be quickly purified and raised up quickly.

I have shortened their circles, and made their path more speedy, and it will be exceedingly hurried [elliptical orbits].

They were thrown into confusion in their path, and from then on were no more able to devour the matter of the refuse of the purification They no more have the power of devouring their matter.

I have shortened their times and their periods, so that the perfect number of souls who shall receive the mysteries and be in the Treasury of the Light, shall be quickly completed. For had I not changed their courses, and had I not shortened their periods, they would not have let any soul come into the world, because of the matter of their refuse |40. which they devoured, and they would have destroyed many souls.

For this cause I said unto you aforetime: ‘I have shortened the times because of my elect; otherwise no soul would have been able to be saved.’ And I have shortened the times and the periods because of the perfect number of the souls who shall receive the mysteries, that is to say, the ’elect’; and had I not shortened their periods, no material soul would have been saved, but they would have perished in the fire which is in the flesh of the rulers. This then is the word on which thou dost question me with precision."

CHAPTER 28

Hearken concerning the things which befell me among the rulers of the twelve æons and all their rulers and their lords and their authorities and their angels and their archangels.

hen then they had seen the vesture of light which was about me, they and their unpaired, then every one of them saw the mystery of his name, that it was on my vesture of light, which was about me. They fell down all together, adored the vesture of light which was about me, and cried out all together, saying:

‘How hath the lord of the universe passed through us without our knowing it?’ And they all sang praises together to the interiors of the interiors. And all their triple-powers and their great forefathers and their ungenerated and their self-generated and their generated and their gods and their light-sparks and their light-bearers–in a word all their great ones–saw the tyrants of their region, that their power was diminished in them.

They were in weakness and themselves fell into great and immeasurable fear.

They gazed on the mystery of their name on my vesture, and they had set out to come and adore the mystery of their name which was on my vesture, and they could not because of the great light which was about me; but they adored a little removed from me, and they adored the light of my vesture and all cried out together, singing praises to the interiors of the interiors.

When this befell among the tyrants who are below these rulers, that they all lost power and fell down to the ground in their æons and became as the dead world-dwellers with no breath in them, as they became in the hour when I took from them their power.

When I left those æons, every one of all those who were in the 12 æons, was bound to their order all together, and they accomplished their works as I have established them, so that they spend six months turned to the left and accomplishing their works in their squares and their triangles and in those which are in their aspect, and that further they spend another six months facing to the right and towards their triangles and their squares and those which are in their aspect. Thus then will those who are in the Fate and in the sphere travel.