The Book of Ethics

And there is no soul in the house of manifestation. And at the time of the reversal of the night that is to the generation: to the soul its soul it gives. 86. The South: to them completed in the likeness. And the light: to those who we dwell. And more the crossed: to the disciplines: and not to them. Righteousness: to them, not to the monks. And behold you have seen: not in the simple and not in the delicate, nor in the lives of joy do they branch to them. And in the darkness he has departed: in the name of monasticism, the hidden of our life: more than them. 86. Everyone who does works: to the holy epistles of the souls: and to them the fruits: in the ways Melania and the holders of more disciplines. But in the clear ones of the hidden and of the descent we made. In the distinction: in the testimony of the descents to the side of the heart so that they might not be asked. 86. And it was not invalidating: while the wonders: the animals that the cherubim gazed upon between: and in their order the descents: ministers. And it was that which turns against: the descents like after the wonder: and in the power that in the heavens they are worshipped: from the rise of the bodily powers: their lives these that are in times: and the worshipped lives: in the enmity of my soul that I placed in the night: from the children he empowers. 86. The administration of the descents: in the likeness from the manifestation: as to the soul it from God is life. In the likeness, however, of the night: as to the spirit as its hope: and their clothing as in its knowledge is life. And it was from its side that as for our descents: not as for the bodily that we might love. 88. That which was a wonder: in the likeness from the manifestation: (1) as that the sight is God: and there is no place: and the dispensers are ministers. In the likeness, however, of the night: as that being: while from the midst of the bodies...

(1) Here begins the lacuna in P.