"At the first,
he renounces getting and letting go;
At the second,
evil inclination.
At the third,
illusion and delusion.
At the fourth,
his usurping, cardinal, egoistic arrogance.
At the fifth,
wilful presumption and jeopardising bravado.
At the sixth,
greed, avarice, miserliness,springing from passion
for wealth and perishable possession.
At the seventh,
all deceit betrayal, guile and calumny
lurking in ambush.
Then stripped naked of the old man,
he enters the sphere of Sophia,
Divine Wisdom.'
Taken from Poimandres, in the Gnostic Gospels
Translated by Alan Jacobs
Published by Watkins Media Ltd 2006
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