1. ‘O Light, forget not my song of praise.
2. For the self willed and his lion-faced power opened their mouths against me, they dealt cunningly with me.
3. And they surrounded me, wishing to take away my power; and they hated me because I sang praises to thee.
4. Instead of loving me, they slandered me, but I sang praises.
5. They planned to take away my power because I sang praises to thee, O Light. And they hated me because I loved thee.
6. Let the darkness come over the self willed, and may the archon of the outer darkness remain at his right hand.
7. And when thou dost judge him, take his power away from him; and that which he thought – to take away my light from me – do thou take his from him.
8. And may all his powers of his light within him diminish; and may another one take his greatness in the three triple-powered ones.
9. May all the powers of his emanations become without light; and may his matter be without light in it.
10. May his emanations remain in the Chaos, and may they not be allowed to go to their place; may their light which is in them diminish, and let them not be allowed to go up to the thirteenth aeon, their place.
11. May the receiver, the purifier of the lights, purify all the lights which are in the self willed; and may he take them from them.
12. May the archons of the darkness below rule over his emanations, and let not anyone receive him to himself in his place; and let not anyone hear the power of his emanations in the Chaos.
13. May the light which is in his emanations be taken away, and may their name be removed from the thirteenth aeon; indeed rather may his name be taken away from that place for ever.
14. And upon the lion-faced power, may there be brought the sin of him who emanated it in the presence of the light; and may the iniquity of the matter which brought him (the self willed) forth not be erased.
15. And may their sin immediately be in the presence of the eternal light; and may they not be allowed to see, and may their name be removed from every place;
16. Because they did not spare me, and they oppressed the one whose light and power they took away. And afterwards they put me among them, wishing to take away all my light from me.
17. They loved to come down to the Chaos; may they be within it, and not be brought forth from this time hence. They did not want the place of righteousness as dwelling place, and they will not be taken to it from this time forth.
18. He put on the darkness like a garment; and it (the darkness) went into him like water, and it went into all his powers like oil.
19. May he wrap himself in the Chaos like a garment, and gird himself with the darkness like a leather girdle at all times.
20. While these things happen to those who brought these things upon me on account of the light; and they said: let us take away all her power.
21. But thou, O Light, have compassion on me, on account of the mystery of thy name; and save me in the beneficence of thy mercy.
22. Because they have taken away my light and my power, and my power is shaken within me, and I have not been able to stand upright in their midst,
23. I have become like matter which has fallen; I have been cast on this side and that, like a demon which is in the air.
24. My power has been destroyed, for I possess no mystery; and my matter has faded because of my light, for they took it away.
25. And as for me, they mocked me; they looked at me as they winked about me.
26. Help me according to thy compassion.’
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/ October 6, 2024