Selections from “Pistis Sophia” – Chapters 17 to 21, Part 2 of 2

“She (Mary Magdalene) said: ‘My Lord, will all the men who know the mystery of the magic of all the rulers of all the aeons of the fate and of those of the sphere, in the way in which the angels who transgressed have taught them, if they invoke them in their mysteries, that is in their evil magic, to the hindering of good deeds, – will they accomplish them from now on or not?’ Jesus answered and said unto Mary: ‘They will not accomplish them as they accomplished them from the beginning, because I have taken away a third of their power; but they will raise a loan from those who know the mysteries of the magic of the thirteenth aeon. And if they invoke the mysteries of the magic of those who are in the thirteenth aeon, they will accomplish them well and surely, because I have not taken away power from that region, according to the command of the First Mystery.’”

“And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished saying these words, that Mary continued again and said: ‘My Lord, will not then the horoscope-casters and consulters from now on declare unto men what will come to pass for them?’ And Jesus answered and said unto Mary: ‘If the horoscope-casters find the fate and the sphere turned towards the left, according to their first extension, their words will come to pass, and they will say what is to take place. But if they chance on the fate or the sphere turned to the right, they are bound to say nothing true, for I have changed their influences and their squares and their triangles and their octagons; seeing that their influences from the beginning onwards were continuously turned to the left and their squares and their triangles and their octagons. But now I have made them spend six months turned to the left and six months turned to the right. He who then shall find their reckoning from the time when I changed them, setting them so as to spend six months facing towards their left and six months facing their right paths, – he who then shall observe them in this wise, will know their influences surely and will declare all things which they will do.’ ‘And moreover, I have made them spend six months turned to the left and accomplishing the works of their influences and all their configurations, in order that the rulers who are in the aeons and in their spheres and in their heavens and in all their regions, may be confounded in confusion and deluded in delusion, so that they may not understand their own paths.’”