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The Work of the Great Builder

1. Then the Lord of the Seven Climes and the Mother of the Righteous began to plan how to arrange this world. Then they began to fashion it. First they made five Carpets ; there they seated the Holder of Custody under that they formed ten firmaments (and) set up one magic twelve faced Lens ; there they seated a Son of God as Watcher, so that the demons could do no harm in all the ten firmaments. Further more they evoked forty Angels, who hold the ten firmaments upraised.
 2. In each firmament they fashioned twelve Gates; they constructed four more Gates in the four directions right where those Angels stand. The thickness of the ten firmaments is a hundred thousand parasangs; (that of) their air again is ten thousand parasangs.
3. To each of the twelve Gates that are in each of the firmaments they constructed six Thresholds, to each Threshold thirty Bazaars; in each Bazaar (there are) twelve Rows, (and in each Row two Sides); to the one Side they made 180 Stalls, (and) 180 to the other Side. In every Stall they chained and confined yakskas (and) demons, the males apart from the females. Thereupon the All Maker 1 called the Lord ' of the Firmaments; they seated him on a throne in the seventh heaven, and made him the lord and king over all the firmaments. Then they fashioned below the ten firmaments a rolling Wheel and Zodiac. Within the Zodiac they fettered those that were the most wicked, vicious and rebellious of the demons of the Darkness. They made the Twelve Signs and the seven Planets rulers over the whole Mixed World, and set them in opposition to each other.
5. From all the demons that had been imprisoned in the Zodiac, they wove to and fro the roots, veins and links; in the lowest firmament they bored a hole and suspended the' Zodiac from it. two Sons of God were set as Watchers by them, so as continually to control (?) the Upper Wheel (M 178: Henning).


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