Paraphrase of Shem

[1][2] Shem's mind is taken to the top of the world and encounters a voice, named Derdekeas (Aramaic for "boy"[2]), that explains the truth about the powers of light, darkness, and spirit.

He appeared in a cloud of the hymen and gave eternal honor to the members of the darkness so they wouldn't engage in impure activities.

Demons brought the flood and the Tower of Babel, and the image of the spirit appeared in the earth and water due to their actions.

To fulfill the sin of nature, the womb was made pleasant, but the demon was sent to plot with the water of darkness and cause a flood to take the light away from faith.

Derdekeas tells Shem to return to his race and faith and reveals that the disturbance that happened was so that nature might become empty, and the wrath of the darkness subsided.

The mouth of darkness was shut, and nature cast forth the power of fire, which resulted in the creation of beasts and human beings.

Derdekeas instructs Shem to consider himself pleasing in the thought of light and not to have dealings with the fire and body of darkness, which was an unclean work.

Derdekeas also talks about the difficulty of completing the spiritual journey while wearing a body, and how only a small number of people with the mind and thought of the light of the spirit will be able to do so.

Derdekeas claims that he has opened the eternal gates and granted perception to those who are worthy, but that the wrath of the world and the forces of darkness will rise against him.

[4] He says that many people who wear the erring flesh will be led astray and bound by the water, which is an insignificant body and a source of many sins.

A demon will come up from the power of fire and divide the heaven, and a wind from his mouth with a female likeness will reign over the world.

He repeats the litany spoken by Derdekeas about various spiritual beings and powers and acknowledges the impure light and root of evil represented by Moluchtha and Essoch.