... And I said, "Lord,
from where did the counterfeit spirit come?"
Then he said to me, "The Mother-Father,
who is rich in mercy, the holy Spirit
in every way, the One who is merciful and
who sympathizes with you (pl.), i.e., the
Epinoia of the foreknowledge of light,
he raised up the offspring of the perfect
race and its thinking and the eternal
light of man. When
the chief archon realized that they were exalted
above him in the height - and they surpass
him in thinking - then he wanted to seize their
thought, not knowing that they surpassed
him in thinking, and that he will not be able
to seize them.
"He made a plan
with his authorities, which are his powers, and
they committed together adultery with Sophia, and
bitter fate was begotten through them,
which is the last of the changeable bonds.
And it is of a sort that
is interchangeable. And it is harder and
stronger than she with whom
the gods united, and the angels and the demons
and all the generations until this day.
For from that fate
came forth every sin and
injustice and blasphemy, and the chain
of forgetfulness and ignorance and every
severe command, and serious sins
and great fears. And thus
the whole creation was made blind,
in order that they may not know God, who is
above all of them. And because of the chain of forgetfulness,
their sins were hidden. For they are bound with
measures and times and moments,
since it (fate) is lord over everything."
