Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·Fourth Book — Books of the Saviour·Chapter 144
Virgin of Light, who judgeth the good and the evil, that she may judge it
Of the chastisement of the slanderer · Virgin of Light, who judgeth the righteous and the sinners, that she may judge it
Source context
- Theme
- post-mortem soul judgment and distribution of light-power by the receivers of the outer darkness
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Egyptian Book of the Dead / Weighing of the HeartThe judgment of souls by receivers who assess the residual spiritual substance echoes the Hall of Two Truths, where Anubis and Thoth weigh the heart against Maat and assign post-mortem destinations accordingly.
- Neoplatonic demonology (Iamblichus, De Mysteriis)The hierarchically ordered receivers who execute cosmic justice over descending souls show cross-tradition congruence with Iamblichean intermediate daimones tasked with enforcing karmic ordinances across the grades of being.
- Jewish apocalyptic (1 Enoch, Book of the Watchers)The outer darkness administered by named angel-receivers parallels the angelic wardens of punishment-chambers described in 1 Enoch 18–21, where fallen or sinful souls are held in prepared regions awaiting final judgment.
Chapter 144
Chapter 144
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Of the chastisement of the curser.. . . [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 |380. a seething fire and eateth into it, until it purifieth it utterly.
"And then cometh Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, who handeth the 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.
"This is the chastisement of the curser."
Mary continued and said: "My Lord, the man
who persistently slandereth, if he cometh out of the body, whither shall he get or what is, his chastisement?"
Of the chastisement of the slanderer.Jesus said: "A man who persistently slandereth, if his time is completed through the sphere, that he cometh out of the body, then Abiout and Charmōn, the receivers of Ariēl, 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.
"Thereafter they lead it below into Ameute before Ariēl, and he chastizeth it in his chastisements eleven months and twenty-and-one days.
"Thereafter they lead it into the chaos before. Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-nine demons, and every one of his demons fall upon it another eleven months and twenty-and-one days, scourging it with fiery whips.
"Thereafter |381. they lead it into fire-rivers and boiling fire-seas, to take vengeance on it therein another eleven months and twenty-and-one days.
"And thereafter they carry it on to the way of the midst, and every one of the rulers on the way of the midst chastizeth it in his chastisements another eleven months and twenty-and-one days.
"Thereafter they carry it to the Virgin of Light, who judgeth the righteous and the 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 æons of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere will lead it to a water which is below the sphere; and it becometh
a seething fire and eateth into it until it purifieth it utterly.
"And Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, bringeth the cup of forgetfulness and handeth it to the soul, and it drinketh it and forgetteth all regions and all things and all the regions through which it hath gone. And they deliver it unto a body which will spend its time being afflicted.
"This is the chastisement of the slanderer."