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and said to him, "It would have been better not to have come into being than to come here, live in the middle of wickedness, suffer, and not understand why."
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He said to me: "You can't even understand the things that are yours, which you have grown up with.
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How then can your mind contain the way of the Most High? How can a person who is already corrupted by the corrupt world understand the realm beyond corruption?" I fell on my face
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and said to him, "It would have been better not to have come into being than to come here, live in the middle of wickedness, suffer, and not understand why."
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He answered me: "I went forth to a forest of trees on the plain, and they devised a plan
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and said: ‘Come, let's go and make war on the sea so that it may recede before us, and let's make for ourselves more forests.'