The unrepented souls of the blasphemers, those in the doctrines of error
and its teachers, those who have intercourse with males, stained and impious
men, atheists,murderers, adulterers, and sorcerers, will go to the outer darkness where the
punishment is harshest.
Read on to know of the
severity of the chastisements.
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Pistis
Sophia, Chapter 127
What souls pass into the dragon, and how.The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "No soul
at all will be led into the dragon through these doors. But the soul[s] of the
blasphemers and of those who are in the doctrines of error and of all who teach
doctrines of error, and of those who have intercourse with males, and of those
stained and impious men and of atheists and murderers and adulterers and sorcerers,--all
such souls then, if while still in life they do not repent but remain persistently in their sin, and all the
souls which have stayed behind without, that is those which have had the number
of the circuits which are appointed them in the sphere, without having
repented,--well, at their last circuit will those souls, they and all the souls
of which I have just told you, be led out of [?] the jaws of the tail of the
dragon into the dungeons of the outer darkness. And when those souls of the doors
of the dungeons have been led into the outer darkness into the jaws of his
tail, he turneth his tail into his own mouth and shutteth them in. Thus will
the souls be led into the outer darkness.
The nature of the names of the dragon."And the dragon of the outer darkness hath twelve
authentic names on his doors, a name on every one of the doors of the dungeons.
And these twelve names are different one from another; but the twelve are one
in the other, so that he who speaketh one name, speaketh all. These then will I
tell you at the expansion of the universe. Thus then is fashioned the outer
darkness,--that is the dragon."
When then the Saviour had said this, Mary answered and
said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, are then the chastisements of that dragon
far more terrible compared with all the chastisements of the judgments?"
Of the severity of the chastisements of
the dragon.The Saviour answered and said
unto Mary: "Not only are they more painful compared with all the
chastisements of the judgments, but all the souls which are led into that
region, will be frozen up [?] in the violent cold and the hail and exceedingly
violent fire which is in that region, but also at the dissolution of the world,
that is at the ascension of the universe, those souls will perish through the
violent cold and the exceedingly violent fire and be non-existent for
ever."
Mary answered and said: "Woe unto the souls of
sinners! Now, therefore, my Lord, is the fire in the world of mankind fiercer,
or the fire in Amente?"
Of the degrees of the fires of the
chastisements.The Saviour answered and
said unto Mary: "Amēn, I say unto thee: The fire in Amente is nine times
fiercer than the fire in mankind.
"And the fire in the chastisements of the great
chaos is nine times more violent than that in Amente.
"And the fire in the chastisements of the rulers
who [are] on the way of the midst, is nine times more violent than the fire of
the chastisements in the great chaos.
"And the fire in the dragon of the outer darkness and in all
the chastisements in him is seventy times more violent than the fire in all the
chastisements and in all the judgments of the rulers who [are] on the way of
the midst."
