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187BOOK FIVECHAPTER 1361. IT came to pass then, when Jesus our Lord had been crucified and had risen from the dead on the third day, that his disciples gathered round him, adored him and said: \Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have abandoned father and mother and the whole world and have followed thee.\2. At that time Jesus stood with his disciples on the water of the Ocean and made invocation with this prayer, saying: \boundless Light: ae%u0113iou%u014d ia%u014d a%u014di %u014dia psin%u014dther thern%u014dps n%u014dpsither zagour%u0113 pagour%u0113 nethmoma%u014dth nepsioma%u014dth marachachtha th%u014dbarrabau tharnachachan zorokothora ieou [= Yew] saba%u014dth.\3. While Jesus said this, Thomas, Andrew, James and Simon the Cananite were in the west with their faces turned towards the east, and Philip and Bartholomew were in the south turned towards the north, and the rest of the disciples and the women-disciples stood back of Jesus. But Jesus stood at the altar.4. And Jesus made invocation, turning himself towards the four corners of the world with his disciples, who were all clad in linen garments, and saying: \interpretation: i%u014dta, because the universe hath gone forth; alpha, because it will turn itself back again; %u014dmega, because the completion of all the completeness will take place.5. And when Jesus had said this, he said: \ermanou%u0113r ermanou%u0113r.\hear me for the sake of my disciples whom I have led before thee, that they may have faith in all the words of thy truth, and grant all for which I shall invoke thee; for I know the name of the father of the Treasury of the Light.\6. Again did Jesus, -- that is Aberamenth%u014d, -- make invocation, speaking the name of the father of the Treasury of the Light, and said: \authorities and the angels and the archangels and all powers and all things of the invisible god Agrammachamarei and Barb%u0113l%u014d draw near the Leech [Bdella] on one side and withdraw to the right.\7. And in that hour all the heavens went to the west, and all the %u00e6ons and the sphere and their rulers and all their powers flew together to the west to the left of the disk of the sun and the disk of the moon.8. And the disk of the sun was a great dragon whose tail was in his mouth and who reached to seven powers of the Left and whom four powers in the form of white horses drew.