The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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" " " " THE moistens the soul and plunges it into the THJ^ROBE Region of Death, according to the word OF GLORY of Heraclitus : For to souls water becomes death." The Peratic writer continues : This Death overtakes the Egyptians in the Red Sea together with their chariots [set. vehicles]. Now all who are ignorant [set. are without the Gnosis] are Egyp tians." Hippolytus then summarizes as follows : And this, they say, is the Going-forth out of Egypt out of the body. For they consider that the body is a little Egypt, and that they cross over [or transcend hence their name Peratse] the Red Sea (that is, the Water of Destruction, which is Kronos [that is, Time]), and reach a state beyond the Red Sea (that is, Gene ration), and enter the Desert (that is, reach a state free from Generation), where there are all together the Gods of Destruction and the God of Salvation." And the Peratic writer adds : Now the Gods of Destruction are the 36
" " " Stars [that is, the Fate-spheres] which THE bring upon sentient beings the necessity THE of changeable Generation [Genesis, the OF GLORY. Brahmanical and Buddhist Samsdra]. These Moses called the Serpents of the Desert who bite and destroy those who imagine they have crossed the Red Sea. To the Sons of Israel, therefore, who were being bitten in the Desert, Moses revealed the True Serpent [sci. of Wisdom], the Perfect One ; and they who believed on Him, were not bitten in the Desert (that is, by the Powers). "No one, therefore, is thus able to save and deliver those who come forth from the Land of Egypt (that is, from the body and from the world), save only the Perfect Serpent, Him who is full of [all] fulnesses. He who centres his hopes upon Him, is not destroyed by the Serpents of the Desert (that is, by the Gods of Genera tion)." It is thus evident that for these mystical 37
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