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Gospel of Mary
>'And Desire said, 'I didn't see you going down, but now I see you're going up. So why are you lying, since you belong to me?'
>'In response the soul said, 'I saw you, but you didn't see me or know me. I was to you just a garment, and you didn't recognize me.' When it said these things, it left, rejoicing greatly.

>'Again, it came to the third power, which is called 'Ignorance.' [It] interrogated the soul and [said], 'Where are you going? In wickedness you're bound. Since you're bound, don't judge!'
>'[And] the soul said, 'Why do you judge me, since I haven't judged? I was bound, even though I haven't bound. They didn't recognize me, but I've recognized that everything will dissolve – both the things of the [earth] and the things of [heaven].'

>'When the soul had overcome the third power, it went up and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms...'These are the seven powers of Wrath. They ask the soul, 'Where do you come from, you murderer, and where are you going, conqueror of space?'
>'In response the soul said, 'What binds me has been killed, what surrounds me has been overcome, my desire is gone, and ignorance has died. In a [world] I was released from a world, [and] in a type from a type which is above, and from the chain of forgetfulness which exists only for a time. From now on I'll receive the rest of the time of the season of the age in silence.''
A similar idea/construction exists in Allogenes. They follow a similar format: the heavenly authority (God in Job, Archons in Mary) asks a 'trespasser' that isn't supposed to be there where they came from and what they are doing in heaven, and the trespasser gives an answer that legitimizes them and allows them to conduct their business. I wonder if it's a coincidence, if the writers of Mary/Allogenes made an intentional reference to the passage in Job, or if it's something else.
gpt
Very interesting connection. Thanks for sharing.