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192CHAPTER 1401. \%u00c6thiopian, a female ruler, who is entirely black, under whom stand fourteen other [arch]demons which rule over a multitude of other demons. And it is those demons which stand under Ariouth the %u00c6thiopian, that enter into strife-seekers until they stir up wars and murders arise, and they harden their heart and seduce it to wrath in order that murders may arise.2. \thirteen years in her regions, while she tormenteth them through her dark smoke and her wicked fire, so that they come nigh unto destruction.3. \called in the world Zeus, cometh, and he cometh to the fourth %u00e6on of the sphere, that is the Crab, and Boubastis, who is called in the world Aphrodit%u0113, cometh into the tenth %u00e6on of the sphere which is called the Goat, at that time the veils which are between those of the Left and those of the Right, draw themselves aside, and Yew looketh forth to the right; the whole world becometh alarmed and is agitated together with all the %u00e6ons of the sphere. And he looketh on the dwellings of Ariouth the Ethiopian, so that her regions are dissolved and ruined, and all the souls which are in her chastisements are carried off and cast back into the sphere anew, because they are ruined through her dark smoke and her wicked fire.\4. He continued further in his discourse and said: \Hekat%u0113, and there are under her authority seven-and-twenty [arch]demons, and it is they which enter into men and seduce them to perjuries and lies and to covet that which doth not belong to them.5. \demons which stand under her, in order that they may torment them through her dark smoke and her wicked fire, they being exceedingly afflicted through the demons. And they spend one-hundred-and-five years and six months, being chastized in her wicked chastisements; and they begin to be dissolved and destroyed.6. \the Midst, who is called in the world Zeus, cometh, and he cometh to the eighth %u00e6on of the sphere which is called the Scorpion, and when Boubastis, whom they call Aphrodit%u0113, cometh, and she cometh to the second %u00e6on of the sphere which is called the Bull, then the veils which are between those of the Right and those of the Left draw themselves aside and Zorokothora Melchisedec looketh out of the height; and the world and the mountains are agitated and the %u00e6ons become alarmed. And he looketh on all the regions of Hekat%u0113, so that her regions are dissolved and destroyed, and all the souls which are in her chastisements, are carried off and cast back anew into the sphere,