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179CHAPTER 1321. And when the Saviour had said this, Salome started forward and said: \parents are the rulers, how standeth it written in the Law of Moses: 'He who shall abandon his father and his mother, let him die the death'? Hath not thus the Law made statement thereon?\2. And when Salome had said this, the light-power in Mary Magdalene bubbled up in her and she said to the Saviour: \my sister Salome to tell her the solution of the word which she hath spoken.\3. It came to pass then, when the Saviour had heard Mary say these words, that he called her most exceedingly blessed. The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: \commandment unto thee, Mary, that thou speak the solution of the word which Salome hath spoken.\4. And when the Saviour had said this, Mary started forward to Salome, embraced her and said unto her: 5. \the Law of Moses: 'He who shall abandon his father and his mother, let him die the death,'--now, therefore, my sister Salome, the Law hath not said this concerning the soul nor concerning the body nor concerning the counterfeiting spirit, for all these are sons of the rulers and are out of them. But the Law hath said this concerning the power which hath came forth out of the Saviour, and which is the light-man within us to-day. 6. The Law hath moreover said: Every one who shall remain without the Saviour and all his mysteries, his parents, will not only die the death but go to ruin in destruction.\7. When then Mary had said this, Salome started forward to Mary and embraced her anew. Salome said: \8. It came to pass, when the Saviour had heard the words of Mary, that he called her most exceedingly blessed. 9. The Saviour answered and said unto Mary in the midst of his disciples: \therefore, Mary, who it is who compelleth the man until he sinneth.10. \not agitate it every hour, making it do all sins and all iniquities. And they give commandment moreover unto the counterfeiting spirit, saying: 'If the soul cometh out of the body, do not agitate it, being assigned to it and transferring it to all the regions of the judgments, region by region, on account of all the sins which thou hast made it do,