75. And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.
76. And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with them that are scorners, nor count yourself with them that are tormented.
77. For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.
78. For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.
79. And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate them that fear God,
80. these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.
81. The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High.
82. The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.
83. The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for them that have believed the covenants of the Most High.
84. The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
85. The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness.
86. The sixth way, they shall see how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.
87. The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.
88. Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.