Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 77
thou art the Standing One
Simon answered that he was, then Dositheus, perceiving that
he himself was not the Standing One, fell down and worshipped
him, and gave up his own place as chief to Simon, ordering
all the rank of thirty men to obey him; himself taking
the inferior place which Simon formerly occupied. Not long
Chapter XII: Simon Magus and Luna
to himself; and with her he still goes about, as you see, deceiving
multitudes, and asserting that he himself is a certain power
which is above Yahweh the Creator, while Luna, who is with
him, has been brought down from the higher heavens, and
that she is Wisdom, the mother of all things, for whom, says
he, the Greeks and barbarians contending, were able in some
measure to see an image of her; but of herself, as she is, as the
dweller with the first and only elohim, they were wholly ignorant.
Propounding these and other things of the same sort, he
has deceived many. But I ought also to state this, which I remember
that I myself saw. Once, when this Luna of his was in
a certain tower, a great multitude had assembled to see her,
and were standing around the tower on all sides; but she was
seen by all the people to lean forward, and to look out through
all the windows of that tower. Many other wonderful things he
did and does; so that men, being astonished at them, think that
Chapter XIII: Simon Magus: Secret of His Magic
Whole questionable paragraph:
how these things could be effected by magic art, and what was
the nature of that thing, Simon began thus to explain it to us as
llied
and violently slain, and invoked by unutterable adjurations