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                                    199BOOK SIXCHAPTER 1441. . . . . . .2. . . . [and lead them forth to the fire-rivers and fire-seas] and take vengeance on it therein for another six months and eight days. Thereafter they lead it up on the way of the midst, and every one of the rulers of the way of the midst chastizeth it in his chastisements another six months and eight days. Thereafter they lead it to the Virgin of Light, who judgeth the good and the evil, that she may judge it. And when the sphere turneth itself, she handeth it over to her receivers, that they may cast it into the coons of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere lead it forth to a water which is below the sphere; and it becometh a seething fire and eateth into it, until it purifieth it utterly.3. \souls the cup of forgetfulness, and he bringeth a cup filled with the water of forgetfulness and handeth it to the soul, and it drinketh it and forgetteth all regions and all the regions to which it hath gone. And they cast it down into a body which will spend its time continually troubled in its heart.4. \5. Mary continued and said: \out of the body, whither shall he get or what is, his chastisement?\6. Jesus said: \sphere, that he cometh out of the body, then Abiout and Charm%u014dn, the receivers of Ari%u0113l, come, lead his soul out of the body and spend three days going round with it and instructing it concerning the creatures of the world.7. \chastisements eleven months and twenty-and-one days.8. \demons, and every one of his demons fall upon it another eleven months and twentyand-one days, scourging it with fiery whips.9. \therein another eleven months and twenty-and-one days.10. \the way of the midst chastizeth it in his chastisements another eleven months and twenty-and-one days.11. \sinners, that she may judge it. And when the sphere turneth itself, she handeth it over to her receivers, that they may cast it into the %u00e6ons of the sphere. And the servitors of 
                                
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