Book V - Snyder Bible

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irit of
man holds the next place after Elohim, when once it is set free
from the darkness of his body. And immediately it acquires
told you, that when it goes out of the body it
ely
knows that there is a judgment to come, and that every one
shall suffer punishment for those evils that he hath done; and
therefore they are unwilling to take vengeance on their slayers,
because they themselves are enduring torments for their
own evil deeds which they had done here, and they know that
severer punishments await them in the judgment. Moreover,
they are not permitted by the malachim who preside over
achim
do not permit them to come hither, or to do what they
please, how can the spirits obey the magician who invokes
irits
that are willing to come: but when the presiding malachim
are adjured by one greater than themselves, they have the
excuse of our violence who adjure them, to permit the spirits
which we invoke to go out: for they do not sin who suffer vi-
Niceta, not able longer to refrain, hastily answered, as indeed I
also was about to do, only I wished first to get information
from him on several points; but, as I said, Niceta, anticipating
violence to malachim, and invoke spirits, and deceive men,
and bargain for divine honor to yourself from them? And how
do you persuade us that there shall be no judgment, as some
of the Jews profess, and that spirits are not immortal, as many
suppose, though you see them with your very eyes, and re-
Chapter XIV: Simon Magus, Professes to be elohim