And Jesus answered and said unto Philip and to all the disciples together: "I have changed their courses for the salvation of all souls. Amen, amen, I say unto you: If I had not changed their courses, a host of souls would have been destroyed, and they would have spent a long time, if the rulers of the aeons and the rulers of the Fate and of the sphere had not been brought to naught; and the souls would have spent a long time here outside, and the completion of the number of perfect souls would have been delayed, which [souls] shall be reckoned in the Inheritance of the height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light.
2"For this cause then I have changed their paths, that they might be confounded and fall into agitation, and surrender the power which is in the matter of their world, 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."
3It came to pass then, when Philip had heard these words, that he sat down and continued writing.