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The Secret Book of John
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 10 — Berlin Codex
1. He ⟦page 39⟧ grasped another place and created for himself an aeon that burns with shining fire, the one where he lives (even) now, and he mated with Pride, who dwells with him, and begot the authorities who are subjected to him, the twelve angels, an aeon for each one of them, according to the pattern of the indestructible aeons.
2. He further created for each one of them seven angels, and for the angels three powers, all of whom are subjected to him, being 360 angelic beings together with his third power, in appearance like the first pattern, which was prior to him.
3. When the authorities now emerged from ⟦page 40⟧ the chief begetter, the chief archon of the darkness, through the ignorance of the one who had begotten them, these were their names:
4. The first is Yaoth;
5. the second is Hermas, who is the fire-eye;
6. the third is Galila;
7. the fourth is Yobel;
8. the fifth is Adonaios;
9. the sixth is Sabaoth;
10. the seventh is Kainan, even Kae, who is named Cain, who is the sun;
11. the eighth is Abiressine;
12. the ninth is Yobel;
13. the tenth is Harmoupiael;
14. the eleventh is Adonin;
15. the twelfth is Belias.
16. They all, however, possess a set of names from Lust and ⟦page 41⟧ Anger,
17. but they possess another set of names, producing a double set assigned to them.
18. The latter were assigned to them by the glory of Heaven, but these accurately make manifest their nature.
19. Saklas also called them according to the names that refer to illusion and to their power,
20. through which they progressively diminish and weaken, but by the latter (names) they grow strong and multiply.