Gospel of Philip: The earthly rulers thought that what they did they did by their own power and will. But in reality the Holy Spirit in secret accomplished all that through them — accomplished as He considered appropriate.

16. The earthly rulers thought that what they did they
did by their own power and will. But in reality the Holy
Spirit in secret accomplished all that through them — accomplished
as He considered appropriate.
They also sow everywhere the true knowledge, which
existed since the beginning. And many people see it while
it is being sown, but only a few of them recall about it by
the time of the harvest.

The Holy Spirit directs the acts of people when necessary,
but people usually are not aware of this.
He, among other things, creates — through vicious people
— difficulties in the form of temptations and enticements (such
as false doctrines) for other embodied people. This is done for
the sake of their intellectual development. After all, they are
sent here to learn, and not just to live.
The meaning of our lives on the Earth consists in our self
development, which must go in three main directions: intellectual,
ethical, and psychoenergetical. And our Teacher is God.

Diligent students, after graduating from this School, are in
vited by the Father, if they are worthy of this, to His Abode to
merge there with Him forever.
But remedial students remain forever “repeaters”, become
slaves of this world.
The time of the “harvest” is the end of the world: the
School is closed, the worthy students move to the Abode of
God-the-Father, enriching Him with Themselves; the lot of the
rest is the outer darkness: destruction, death of the souls.
… A special comment has to be made concerning the use of
the pronoun They with regard to the Holy Spirit in this fragment.
This is not an error: the Holy Spirit is indeed an aggregate
of former humans who attained in their development the
right to be in the Highest eons.