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you would perhaps have said to me: ‘I haven't descended into the abyss nor as yet into hell, nor have I ever ascended to heaven.'
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But I've only asked you here about fire and wind and the day you have passed through, things you can't exist without, and you haven't answered me about them."
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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."