Why the path of the æons was changed
And Iesus answered and said unto Philip and to all the disciples together:
"I have changed their path for the salvation of all souls.
Amēn, amēn,
I say unto you If I had not changed their path, a host of souls would have been destroyed, and they would have spent a long time, if the rulers (of the æons) and the rulers (of the Fate and of the sphere and of all their regions and all their heavens and all their æons) had not been brought to naught; and the souls would have continued a long time here outside, and the completion (of the number of perfect souls) would have been delayed, which [souls] shall be counted in the Inheritance (of the Height) through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury (of the Light). For this cause then I have changed their path, that they might be deluded and fall into agitation and yield up the power (which is in the matter of their world and which they fashion into souls) in order that those who shall be saved, might be quickly purified and raised on high, they and the whole power, and that those who shall not be saved, might be quickly destroyed."