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151the height; the soul on the other hand senseth to seek after the region of righteousness which is mixed, which is the region of the commixture; the counterfeiting spirit on the other hand seeketh after all evils and lusts and all sins; the body on the contrary senseth nothing unless it taketh up force out of the matter.8. \retributive receivers assign the servitors to follow them and be witnesses of all the sins which they commit, with a view to the manner and method how they will chastize them in the judgments.9. \the rulers of the great Fate have commanded for the soul, and it maketh them for the soul.10. \whole god-head; and the counterfeiting spirit leadeth away the soul and compelleth it continually to do all its lawless deeds, all its mischiefs and all its sin, and is persistently allotted to the soul and is hostile to it, and making it do all this evil and all these sins.11. \which it will make it do. Moreover also if it will rest in the night [or] by day, it stirreth it in dreams or in lusts of the world, and maketh it to lust after all the things of the world. In a word, it driveth [?] it into all the things which the rulers have commanded for it and it is hostile to the soul, making it do what pleaseth it not.12. \doeth all sins.13. \leadeth the man unto death through the rulers and their bonds with which they are bound through the Fate.14. \thereafter the retributive receivers spend three days circling round with that soul in all the regions and dispatch it to all the %u00e6ons of the world. And the counterfeiting spirit and the destiny follow that soul; and the power returneth to the Virgin of Light.15. \chaos; and when they bring it down to the chaos, they hand it over to those who chastize. And the retributive receivers return unto their own regions according to the economy of the works of the rulers concerning the coming-forth of the souls.16. \and transferring it according to the chastisement because of the sins which it hath made it commit, and is in great enmity to the soul.17. \which it hath committed, the counterfeiting spirit leadeth it forth out of the chaos,