And whenever should the Sphere turn round, she is wont to give her to her Receivers, that they may cast her unto the Aeons of the Sphere, that the Ministers of the Sphere may take her unto water being below the Sphere, that it may become [349 ] smoke boiling, that it may eat in at her, until it purify her entirely.
After these (things) is wont to come Ialouham the Receiver of Sabaoth, the Adamas, and he bringeth the cup of the forgetfulness, and he giveth it to the soul that she may drink it, and she forgetteth every thing with every Place unto which she went: and they cast her unto a body lame and maimed and blind.
This is the punishment of the man, (a) robber.
Answered Andreas, said he, A man proud, (a) despiser whenever he should come out of body, what will they do to him?
Said Jesus, This of this kind whenever his time should be completed by the Sphere, are wont to come after him the 196 Receivers of Ariel and take his soul, and they spend three days going about in the World teaching her the creatures of [349 ] the World.
After these (things) they are wont to take her down unto Amente, up to Ariel that he may punish her in his punishments for twenty months.
After these (things) they are wont to take her unto the Chaos up to Ialdabaoth with his forty nine demons, and that he may punish her with his demons one by one for other twenty months.
After these (things) they are wont to take her up on the road of the Middle, that each of the Rulers of the road of the Middle may punish her for other twenty months.
And after these (things), they are wont to take her to the Virgin of the Light that she may judge her.
And whenever should the Sphere turn round, she is wont to give her to her Receivers, that they may cast her unto Aeons of the Sphere.
And are wont the Ministers of the Sphere to take her out unto water being underneath the Sphere, that it may become a smoke boiling that it may eat in [350 ] at her until it purifieth her.
And is wont to come Ialouham the Receiver of Sabaoth, the Adamas, and bringeth the cup of forgetfulness, and he giveth it to the soul that she may drink it, and she forgetteth every thing with every Place unto which she went: and they cast her down unto a body dumb, deformed, that every one may remain despising him.
This is the punishment of the man proud (a) despiser.
Said he, Thomas, A man blasphemer continually, what is his punishment?
Said Jesus, This of this kind whenever should his time be completed by the Sphere, are wont to come after him the Receivers of Ialdabaoth and bind him with his tongue to a great demon with face of horse, and they spend three days going about with him in the World and punish him.
After these (things) they are wont to take him [350 ] out unto the place of the cold with the snow to punish him for eleven years.
After these (things) they are wont to take him down unto the Chaos (close) to Ialdabaoth with his forty nine demons, that each of the demons may punish him other eleven years.
After these (things) they are wont to take him out unto the Darkness which is outer, until the day (in) which they will judge the great Ruler of face of dragon which goeth round the Darkness, and is wont that soul, she is wont to be numbed and to waste away and to be dissolved.
This is the judgment of the man blasphemer.
Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.
The passage details a structured cycle of judgment where souls are sentenced by specific Aeons and Rulers for specific sins like pride and blasphemy.
The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.
The soul is cast into a body that is lame and maimed and blind, representing an exile from her divine state.
The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.
The ultimate goal of the purification process is for the soul to be entirely purified and restored to a state of wholeness.