The Gnostics were right, then, in calling the Jewish God an “Angel of Matter,” or he who breathed (conscious) life into Adam, and whose Planet was Saturn.
34. And God hath put a girdle about his loins [the rings of Saturn], and the name of the girdle is Death.
In Anthropogony this “girdle” is the human body with its two lower principles. These three die, while the innermost Man is immortal. And now we approach the secret of Satan.
37. ... Upon Satan only is the shame of generation.
38. He hath lost his virginal estate [so hath the Kumâra, by incarnating]: uncovering heavenly secrets, he hath entered into bondage.
39. He encompasseth with bonds and limits all things....
42. Twain are the armies of God: in heaven the hosts of Michael; in the abyss [the manifested world] the legions of Satan.
43. These are the Unmanifest and the Manifest; the free and the bound [in Matter]; the virginal and the fallen.
44. And both are the ministers of the Father, fulfilling the Word divine.
Therefore: