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1 10 | given another account of the aberration and recovery of Sophia.
2 10 | ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STRANGE ABERRATIONS OF SOPHIA, AND THE RESTRAINING
3 11 | OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD ABLY EXPOSED.~Accordingly, after
4 32 | conveyed to the Demiurge in the abodes of the middle region. We
5 14 | feature, even an untimely and abortive production. Whilst she is
6 9 | part of the body, spread abroad their infection to some
7 14 | Pleroma. It is usual out of an abundance of things for names to be
8 35 | place; from Anennoetos came Acataleptos (Incomprehensible) in the
9 9 | But, further, there is an "acceptance of persons," inasmuch as
10 2 | SIMPLE PERSONS. THE CHARGE ACCEPTED, AND SIMPLICITY EULOGIZED
11 1intro| they previously beset all access to their body with tormenting
12 12 | Pandora of Hesiod, the bowl of Accius, the honey-cake of Nestor,
13 2 | if we, on our parts, be accounted foolish because we are simple,
14 25 | XXV. AN EXTRAVAGANT WAY OF ACCOUNTING FOR THE COMMUNICATION OF
15 29 | nay, one which is on all accounts their due.~
16 18 | which, we may well suppose, accrued to her from her three children,
17 32 | and material mark there accrues an entire destruction, because "
18 29 | their list that he had been accustomed to select men for kings
19 8 | and Hedone (Pleasure), Acinetos (Immoveable) and Syncrasis (
20 8 | Fortunata, and Hedone, and Acinetus, and Theletus? Then shout
21 15 | And yet it might now have acted as some alleviation amidst
22 16 | PASSION BY THE PARACLETE, ACTING THROUGH SOTER, WHO OUT OF
23 14 | forthcoming. Enthymesis came from action; whence Achamoth came is
24 36 | Son, and to the Word was added Life. And by this process
25 12 | Athenian customs. By way of adding external honour also to
26 23 | CREATION OF THE DEMIURGE. THE ADDITION OF FIRE TO THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS
27 27 | ON THE CROSS ALONE.~I now adduce (what they say) concerning
28 18 | solely to the animal nature, adducing the structions of Soter (
29 6 | collected together, and adjusted at pleasure, and of doubtful
30 11 | these, to procure a complete adjustment among the AEons. Even from
31 4 | who usually changes and adjusts her dress every day. And
32 28 | care, he carries on the administration of this world, mainly under
33 32 | stealthily, if the case admits of the idea. What then?
34 4 | but (they deny all) unity, admitting only diversity. And thus
35 3 | plurality (of gods), and adored Him in other forms. Yet,
36 12 | which they are severally adorned. Vainly, as I suppose. For
37 33 | They have been variously advanced by those who have improved
38 29 | instruction increases and advances into full conviction, as
39 29 | other conditions, from Seth adventitiously, not in the way of nature,
40 14 | XIV. THE ADVENTURES OF ACHAMOTH OUTSIDE THE
41 29 | THE THREE NATURES AGAIN ADVERTED TO. THEY ARE ALL EXEMPLIFIED
42 4 | names and the numbers of the AEnons into personal substances,
43 12 | nosegay, like the jay of AEsop, the Pandora of Hesiod,
44 4 | Valentinians, although they affect to disavow their name. They
45 31 | ACHAMOTH AND THE DEMIURGE ARE AFFECTED THEN. IRONY ON THE SUBJECT.~
46 9 | difficulty, and racked with affection. Thus she was all but swallowed
47 39 | THEIR DIVERSITY OF SENTIMENT AFFECTS THE VERY CENTRAL DOCTRINE
48 14 | complicated mesh, she began to be afflicted with every impulse thereof,
49 10 | denial of the Father, an affliction which was no less painful
50 1intro| pliant liking, out of the affluent suggestions of Holy Scripture,
51 33 | nature, inasmuch as she affords efficiency to Cogitatio.~
52 8 | Metricos (Maternal) and Agape (Love), Ainos (Praise) and
53 5 | the model of chaste old age and Christian eloquence.
54 35 | place; from Aoratos came Agennetos (Unbegotten) in the fourth
55 8 | Profound) and Mixis (Mixture), Ageratos (Never old) and Henosis (
56 7 | existed in the infinite ages of the past in the greatest
57 7 | happened, conduced in this most agreeable repose to remind him of
58 19 | And yet there is not any agreement between the propriety of
59 8 | school of Phosphorus, feu (ah!) Are you a believer in
60 10 | she was another without aid from a male, and she began
61 9 | straining after impossible aims, was disappointed of her
62 8 | Maternal) and Agape (Love), Ainos (Praise) and Synesis (Intelligence),
63 7 | indeed, as to his essence, Aiôn teleos (Perfect AEon), but
64 23 | for inhaling and ejecting air that delicate vest of all
65 15 | the "consternation" and "alarm" (of which we have also
66 15 | exuded therefrom which killed Alexander; and the river of the Lyncestae
67 7 | Sige, Nus. and Veritas, are alleged to be the first fourfold
68 1intro| symbol of virility. But this allegorical representation, under the
69 15 | might now have acted as some alleviation amidst the horror of her
70 | almost
71 9 | there have been any other alternative for her than perdition,
72 18 | it was owing to this very ambiguity about the personal agency
73 4 | spirits which, when roused by ambition, are usually inflamed with
74 39 | what can you hope for more ample concerning faith in that
75 12 | and Sermo (Word) after his ancestors; and lastly Omnia (All Things),
76 17 | actual contemplation of the angelic luminaries (one is ashamed)
77 24 | potter does his clay, and animates him with his own breath.
78 36 | He on that account was announced as Man. Those, moreover,
79 28 | actually have to make some announcement himself by the prophets,
80 35 | place; from Arrhetos came Anonomastos (Nameless) in the third
81 1intro| sincere and honest, they answer you with stern look and
82 3 | the inspired apostle by anticipation condemned, whilst these
83 4 | Valentinus. Axionicus at Antioch is the only man who at the
84 15 | and we on our part are anxiously employed in saving up in
85 | anywhere
86 4 | which, however, he kept apart from God. Valentinus had
87 1intro| comprising as they do so many apostates from the truth, who have
88 38 | to derive the power which apostatized and fell away from any one
89 1intro| suspension of full knowledge, and apparently raise the dignity of their
90 32 | the souls in which they appear to be clothed, which they
91 39 | inherits by right His Father's appellation. Some there are who have
92 18 | Father), whilst his other appellations were distinctly assigned
93 33 | THESE REMAINING CHAPTERS AN APPENDIX TO THE MAIN WORK. IN THIS
94 20 | prattle of his boyhood, that apples grew in the sea, and fishes
95 4 | the desire of revenge, he applied himself with all his might
96 18 | one another. Therefore she applies herself solely to the animal
97 16 | dislike to quit the Pleroma, appoints the Paraclete as his deputy.
98 27 | of injury, incapable of apprehension. By and by, when it came
99 16 | incorporeal passion such an aptitude of nature as might qualify
100 1intro| sacrilege by help of an arbitrary symbol, and by empty images
101 20 | call) Paradise the fourth archangel, because they fix it above
102 19 | Propator; and whilst the archangels, who were the work of the
103 35 | after Proarche they say Arche (Beginning) came forth and
104 13 | fortunes of Sophia in her ardent longing for the Father,
105 1intro| sacred names and titles and arguments of true religion, they have
106 11 | duty two schools actually arise, two chairs, and, to some
107 9 | of sin which had indeed arisen amongst the others who were
108 7 | Before the Beginning), ê'Arkê (The Beginning), and sometimes
109 3 | weapon with which we are armed for our encounter; it unmasks
110 17 | offspring, and then there arose a leash of natures, from
111 16 | which has set us in battle array against Hermogenes, and
112 3 | with so great an outlay of artifice, is to destroy it.~
113 32 | everything has been reduced to ashes; and so their fable too
114 1intro| revealed at last all the aspirations of the fully initiated,
115 19 | painting a mule from an ass, and sketching Ptolemy from
116 34 | single wedlock, preferred assigning no sex whatever to By-thus;
117 37 | Solitude). With this was associated another power, to which
118 15 | dark! Nor need you feel astonished how from her joy so splendid
119 3 | of course, shows their astuteness, if their lessons are disgraceful;
120 6 | castigation, it must be attacked by all means, if only with
121 16 | nature as might qualify it to attain to a reciprocity of bodily
122 29 | even now, if they have once attained to a full and complete knowledge
123 33 | interruption distract the reader's attention, I have preferred reserving
124 7 | has his dwelling in the attics. They call him indeed, as
125 33 | their master," who have attributed to their Bythus two wives
126 32 | There will be no one to do aught against me, nor will they
127 3 | in this we have the first augury of our victory; because
128 8 | old) and Henosis (Union), Autophyes (Essential nature) and Hedone (
129 10 | say, Malum for as! (Evil, avaunt!) Still, that was a spiritual
130 4 | their name from Valentinus. Axionicus at Antioch is the only man
131 3 | fond nurse when you were a baby, among the lullabies she
132 32 | clothed, which they will give back to their Demiurge as they
133 18 | material substances which they banish to his left hand, they name
134 10 | the accruing Passion, was banished by Horos, and crucified
135 7 | he had read about Jupiter banqueting therein. As for our heretics,
136 10 | conjugal help, conceived and bare a female offspring. Does
137 30 | any man) degenerate, and a bastard to the truth, who spends
138 15 | splendid an element could have beamed upon the world, when from
139 32 | following effect: To all which bear the earthy" and material
140 33 | Cogitatio; Monogenes a male bearing a resemblance to Voluntas.
141 3 | though not all at once, beast as he is that skulks the
142 10 | and that neglect of her beauty which was natural to one
143 | becoming
144 7 | Firstbegotten), since he was begotten first! Thus Bythos and Sige,
145 10 | also supplicates in her behalf, and especially Nus. Why
146 | behind
147 8 | TO STOP AT THIRTY?~For, behold, when the second Tetrad
148 4 | certain points of their belief, "This is not so;" and, "
149 8 | Phosphorus, feu (ah!) Are you a believer in Fortunata, and Hedone,
150 8 | what special attributes belong to these numbers four, and
151 9 | silence even on her own beloved heretics; although they
152 23 | marking off its boundary line. Beneath it, Achamoth occupies the
153 15 | forth. How great was this beneficence of Providence, which induced
154 1intro| Accordingly, they previously beset all access to their body
155 | beside
156 2 | rather do Him violence, and betray Him.~
157 1intro| is an officiousness which betrays their guilt. Their disgrace
158 | beyond
159 2 | simple. The apostle, too, bids us to "become children again"
160 4 | had expected to become a bishop, because he was an able
161 15 | salt tear-drops, she had bitter, and sweet, and warm, and
162 15 | and warm, and cold, and bituminous, and ferruginous, and sulphurous,
163 18 | XVIII. BLASPHEMOUS OPINION CONCERNING THE ORIGIN
164 11 | more emits a new couple (blasphemously named). I should suppose
165 18 | an intense horror at the blasphemy thereof: she produces this
166 7 | in some happy isle of the blessed, I know not where. There
167 8 | Ecclesia) and Macariotes (Blessedness) Theletus (Perfect) and
168 29 | they say, never receive the blessings of salvation; for that nature
169 6 | then, that no one may be blinded by so many outlandish names,
170 2 | infants have borne by their blood a testimony to Christ. (
171 39 | One party form Him of the blossoms of all the AEons. Another
172 12 | so that Ovid would have blotted out his own Metamorphoses
173 3 | Nothing causes truth a blush, except only being hidden,
174 12 | they produce for him a bodyguard of angels of like nature.
175 29 | naturalized in the fraternal bond of the spiritual state,
176 8 | are there no comrades and boon companions named for them?~
177 33 | easy to him. The former bore him Monogenes (Only-Begotten)
178 10 | comedies, from which to borrow the process of exposing
179 13 | if it be such within the bosom of the Father, within the
180 23 | Pleroma, Horos marking off its boundary line. Beneath it, Achamoth
181 10 | indeed remained within the bounds of the Pleroma, but that
182 12 | the Pandora of Hesiod, the bowl of Accius, the honey-cake
183 20 | well the prattle of his boyhood, that apples grew in the
184 2 | II. THESE HERETICS BRAND THE CHRISTIANS AS SIMPLE
185 2 | For this reason we are branded by them as simple, and as
186 9 | unable to restrain herself, breaks away without the society
187 12 | concurrence of even their new brethren and masters, they contribute
188 32 | you may perhaps in the bridal-chamber of the Pleroma I have already
189 32 | tell us? In the capacity of brides. Then will they end their
190 2 | flows from simplicity. In brief, "the dove" has usually
191 38 | trifle more human, as he is briefer: he divides the Ogdoad into
192 13 | CONSTITUTION OF THE PLEROMA, BRIEFLY RECAPITULATED. TRANSITION'
193 3 | encounter; it unmasks and brings to views the whole of their
194 4 | confessorship had given him, he broke with the church of the true
195 1intro| stern look and contracted brow, and say, "The subject is
196 37 | Now listen to some other buffooneries of a master who is a great
197 20 | own operation? But whilst building up so vast an edifice for
198 9 | desires, while they are burning with the secret longing
199 32 | that secret fire is then to burst forth, which, after devastating
200 34 | assigning no sex whatever to By-thus; and therefore very likely
201 4 | affections of motion. Sundry bypaths were then struck off therefrom,
202 8 | half-score whom I have mentioned: Bythios (Profound) and Mixis (Mixture),
203 14 | Romans!"), or else Fidem Caesaris!" ("By the faith of Caesat!"),
204 14 | Caesaris!" ("By the faith of Caesat!"), whence (as they will
205 23 | out of the most profitable calamities of Sophia; inasmuch as, (
206 15 | may form an idea of the calamity which she encountered, so
207 16 | afterwards she surveys him calmly, and his prolific equipage.
208 12 | all danger)? What ship's captain fails to rejoice even with
209 27 | it came to a question of capture, he departed from him during
210 9 | Lytrotes (Redeemer,) and Carpistes(Emancipator). When Sophia
211 28 | thenceforth free from all care, he carries on the administration of
212 8 | names. In the schools of Carthage there was once a certain
213 6 | shall seem to require a castigation, it must be attacked by
214 16 | which had happened in the casualties which befell her mother.
215 10 | an evil? Yet not a single casualty befell Sophia without its
216 11 | it being impossible to catch the idea of him, or comprehend
217 14 | practised herself in the part of Catullus' Laureolus, and given over,
218 31 | coincidence!) For if he had caught a glance of her, he would
219 8 | number thirty all fecundity ceases. The generating force and
220 32 | numerical rank. For the right celebration of these nuptials, instead
221 7 | of males and females the cells (so to speak) of the primordial
222 39 | SENTIMENT AFFECTS THE VERY CENTRAL DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIANITY,
223 28 | all his might, like the centurion in the Gospel. And being
224 11 | schools actually arise, two chairs, and, to some extent, the
225 4 | destroyed; and even if it chance to be changed, the very
226 4 | even if it chance to be changed, the very change bears testimony
227 27 | MOTHER, BUT ONLY A PASSAGE OR CHANNEL. JESUS DESCENDED UPON CHRIST,
228 33 | TO THE MAIN WORK. IN THIS CHAPTER TERTULLIAN NOTICES A DIFFERENCE
229 33 | XXXIII. THESE REMAINING CHAPTERS AN APPENDIX TO THE MAIN
230 34 | VALENTINIANS RESPECTING THE DEITY, CHARACTERISTIC RAILLERY.~Others of purer
231 29 | three) with their especial characteristics, finding opportunity for
232 2 | CHRISTIANS AS SIMPLE PERSONS. THE CHARGE ACCEPTED, AND SIMPLICITY
233 7 | which they also call both Charis (Grace) and Sige (Silence).
234 9 | swallowed up by reason of the charm and toil (of her research),
235 5 | own Proculus, the model of chaste old age and Christian eloquence.
236 10 | declare that Sophia was checked in her illicit courses,
237 24 | turns his hands to man, and chooses for him as his substance
238 12 | celebrate the Father in a chorus of praise in the exuberance
239 39 | VERY CENTRAL DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIANITY, EVEN THE PERSON AND CHARACTER
240 34 | feminine, so that the worthy chronicler Fenestella must not suppose
241 5 | Miltiades, the sophist of the churches Irenaeus, that very exact
242 15 | employed in saving up in our cisterns the very wails and tears
243 23 | following limits, as in a citadel. In the most elevated of
244 8 | I come to you, excellent citizens, from battle, with victory
245 25 | imagine the industry of this clandestine arrangement. For to this
246 13 | fall of the curtain and the clapping of hands. What remains in
247 32 | we shall be content to be classed with our god, in whom lies
248 18 | his authority over both classes, nay over the universe.~
249 24 | man as a potter does his clay, and animates him with his
250 16 | in knowledge, as well as cleanses her from all the outrages
251 20 | this world (of ours) by clearing away the confusion and distinguishing
252 4 | only diversity. And thus we clearly see that, setting aside
253 30 | celebrate the mystery always by cleaving to a companion, that, is
254 1intro| themselves. If you come to a close engagement with them they
255 5 | these it would be my desire closely to follow in every work
256 20 | there amidst its fleecy clouds and shrubs. Ptolemy remembered
257 4 | the truth; and finding the clue of a certain old opinion,
258 12 | surrounded by attendants who are co-equal with himself?~
259 24 | constituent elements). Moreover, a coating of flesh was, as they allege,
260 27 | substantial though not a cognizable form. In this manner do
261 31 | however seeing her. (A happy coincidence!) For if he had caught a
262 18 | which were done, that they coined for him the mixed name of (
263 15 | and sweet, and warm, and cold, and bituminous, and ferruginous,
264 29 | ABEL, AND SETH.~I will now collect from different sources,
265 6 | so many outlandish names, collected together, and adjusted at
266 4 | which, it wears all the colourable features of ignorant conceits.~
267 23 | creatures, that revealer of all colours, that instrument of the
268 27 | or, in other phrase, the columbine. As for Sorer Jesus), he
269 10 | should we have tragedies and comedies, from which to borrow the
270 8 | also referred): Paracletus (Comforter) and Pistis (Faith), Patricas (
271 3 | whom nature has already commended to him, whom he already
272 1intro| their own disciples do they commit a secret before they have
273 25 | therefore, the Demiurge commits to Adam the transmission
274 8 | Immoveable) and Syncrasis (Commixture,) Monogenes (Only-begotten)
275 25 | WAY OF ACCOUNTING FOR THE COMMUNICATION OF THE SPIRITUAL NATURE
276 1intro| double tongue, they affirm a community of faith (with yourself).
277 8 | there no comrades and boon companions named for them?~
278 38 | OPINIONS OF SECUNDUS, AS COMPARED WITH THE GENERAL DOCTRINE
279 1intro| INTRODUCTORY. TERTULLIAN COMPARES THE HERESY TO THE OLD ELEUSINIAN
280 2 | as if indeed wisdom were compelled to be wanting in simplicity,
281 20 | celestial and terrene. He then completes the sevenfold stages of
282 14 | of hers in a manifold and complicated mesh, she began to be afflicted
283 16 | separate body, so as to compose the corporeal condition
284 24 | from its fluid and fusible composition, the origin of which I am
285 11 | catch the idea of him, or comprehend him, or, in short, even
286 11 | whereas what in Him is comprehensible is productive, not of perpetuity,
287 1intro| very large body of heretics comprising as they do so many apostates
288 8 | Why, too, are there no comrades and boon companions named
289 1intro| SYSTEMS ALIKE IN PREFERRING CONCEALMENT OF ERROR AND SIN TO PROCLAMATION
290 10 | without any conjugal help, conceived and bare a female offspring.
291 11 | indeed from all care and concern of the Father, in order
292 12 | in feeling too. With the concurrence of even their new brethren
293 11 | Pleroma, and so prevent any concussion of the kind again, once
294 27 | accruing from Achamoth the condiment of a spiritual seed, in
295 7 | things, as it happened, conduced in this most agreeable repose
296 14 | descends from the heights, conducted by Horos, in order to impart
297 10 | Metagogius, that is, "a conductor about," as well as Horothetes (
298 21 | Spirit. In this way they have conferred all honour on that female,
299 30 | should we desire to make our confession anywhere else, I know not
300 4 | reason of a claim which confessorship had given him, he broke
301 23 | eminent powers, moreover, they confine within the following limits,
302 16 | had become inveterate and confirmed by practice he throws together;
303 16 | suppose, he receives her, confirms and conforms her in knowledge,
304 10 | operate. Inasmuch as all that conflict of hers contributes to the
305 16 | receives her, confirms and conforms her in knowledge, as well
306 20 | ours) by clearing away the confusion and distinguishing the difference
307 23 | on my own responsibility conjecture that its spark was struck
308 7 | double Tetra, out of the conjunctions of males and females the
309 10 | what has been born without connubial modesty? While the thing
310 1intro| dissipations of their own, consecrated by a profound silence, having
311 30 | the loves of Theletus, and consequently as an abortion, just as
312 20 | These heavens, however, they consider to be intelligent, and sometimes
313 9 | Horus (Limit). He too had considerable power. He is the foundation
314 14 | was a worse suffering, considering her condition; for another
315 11 | in order that he might consolidate all things, and defend and
316 16 | together; and when he had consolidated them in one mass, he fixes
317 39 | a par? Such conceits are constantly cropping out amongst them,
318 12 | fashion the most beautiful constellation of the Pleroma, and its
319 24 | Demiurge. You have two (of his constituent elements). Moreover, a coating
320 8 | DOZEN BESIDES. THESE THIRTY CONSTITUTE THE PLEROMA. BUT WHY BE
321 13 | THE SUBJECT, TOUCHING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PLEROMA, BRIEFLY
322 26 | substance, however, which was constructed of an animal nature (only
323 20 | incorporeal (elements) he constructs bodies, heavy, light, erect
324 31 | and they two afterwards consummate new nuptials. This must
325 13 | In this series, then, is contained the first emanation of AEons,
326 30 | marriages, it is necessary to contemplate and celebrate the mystery
327 14 | HOROS' HOSTILITY TO HER. HER CONTINUED SUFFERING.~For Enthymesis,
328 1intro| you with stern look and contracted brow, and say, "The subject
329 9 | quest of the Father and contracts that kind of sin which had
330 19 | PALPABLE ABSURDITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE SYSTEM RESPECTING
331 3 | AND MUTILATES THE DEITY. CONTRASTED WITH THE SIMPLE WISDOM OF
332 12 | brethren and masters, they contribute into one common stock the
333 10 | all that conflict of hers contributes to the origin of Matter.
334 12 | MEMBERS THEREOF. THEIR JOINT CONTRIBUTION OF PARTS SET FORTH WITH
335 27 | crammings, which they have contrived in relation both to their
336 9 | amongst the others who were conversant with Nus but had flowed
337 32 | say, our souls, will be conveyed to the Demiurge in the abodes
338 29 | increases and advances into full conviction, as we have already said;
339 8 | rhetorician, an excessively cool fellow, whose name was Phosphorus.
340 26 | afterwards from the Demiurge; His corporal substance, however, which
341 27 | of course to prevent the corruption of all the other stuffing.
342 16 | created" ), with a retinue and cortege of contemporary angels,
343 11 | named). I should suppose the coupling of two males to be a very
344 10 | was checked in her illicit courses, and purified from all evils,
345 4 | many various shapes as a courtezan, who usually changes and
346 27 | describe these incongruous crammings, which they have contrived
347 1intro| mysteries in proportion to the craving for them which they have
348 3 | joints; let him tortuously crawl, though not all at once,
349 21 | there must be a creator of a creature of some sort or other. How
350 23 | delicate vest of all corporeal creatures, that revealer of all colours,
351 9 | to know the Father, the crime is almost accomplished.
352 7 | a rabble shall I say of criminals or of deities? at any rate,
353 35 | ABSURD SUBSTITUTES FOR BYTHUS CRITICISED BY TERTULLIAN.~There are
354 39 | conceits are constantly cropping out amongst them, from the
355 3 | multitude of deities to another crowd, to remove from a familiar
356 10 | was banished by Horos, and crucified and cast out from the Pleroma,
357 2 | was children who shouted "Crucify Him"? They were neither
358 9 | the additional names of Crux (Cross), and Lytrotes (Redeemer,)
359 14 | IAO! just as we hear the cry "Porro Quirites" ("Out of
360 12 | formed from a universally culled nosegay, like the jay of
361 8 | left some strong rennet for curdling numbers. As if no other
362 28 | XXVIII. THE DEMIURGE CURED OF HIS IGNORANCE BY THE
363 4 | that, setting aside their customary dissimulation, most of them
364 12 | after certain Athenian customs. By way of adding external
365 15 | not linger for ever in the dark! Nor need you feel astonished
366 38 | one light and the other darkness. Only he is unwilling to
367 14 | opportunely, fallen in with the daughter quite as unseasonably, so
368 23 | she must have had a good deal of fever. ~
369 32 | I have to return after death to the place where there
370 6 | but wherever its mirth is decent, there it is a duty to indulge
371 27 | being one which must be decided by prepositions; in other
372 8 | fortune, the greatest of men, decked with triumph." And forthwith
373 24 | his "image," he must be deemed clayey, that is to say,
374 30 | otherwise (they account any man) degenerate, and a bastard to the truth,
375 18 | left hand, they name him Demiurgus; whilst his title King designates
376 22 | birth of the angels, and demons, and all the wicked spirits.
377 10 | one who was deploring the denial of the Father, an affliction
378 4 | spiritual gift; but (they deny all) unity, admitting only
379 10 | was natural to one who was deploring the denial of the Father,
380 25 | For to this end had she deposited and concealed (this germ),
381 7 | beginning of all things. This he deposits in lieu of seed in the genital
382 3 | views the whole of their depraved system. And in this we have
383 26 | from Christ they may also deprive it of the hope of salvation!~
384 7 | and sometimes Bythos (Depth), a name which is most unfit
385 16 | appoints the Paraclete as his deputy. To her, therefore, he despatches
386 32 | so great a mystery in so derisive a way: I ought to be afraid
387 14 | is in this plight, Christ descends from the heights, conducted
388 15 | suppliant to those who had deserted her.~
389 14 | after she had discovered her desertion by him. Therefore she hurried
390 6 | There are many things which deserve refutation in such a way
391 3 | even then shooting forth? Deservedly, therefore, must they be
392 37 | profoundly supreme. Whatever designation you give the power, it is
393 36 | motion that they gain their designations. When, as they say, He thought
394 9 | themselves with these internal desires, while they are burning
395 16 | deputy. To her, therefore, he despatches Soter, (who must be the
396 2 | the beginning has been the despoiler of the divine image. Accordingly,
397 26 | SPIRITUAL, AND THEIR SEVERAL DESTINATIONS. THE STRANGE VALENTINIAN
398 15 | in this vast prospect of destitution, she occasionally smiled
399 4 | their origin by no means destroyed; and even if it chance to
400 7 | you would imagine to be detached tenements in some happy
401 7 | there is nothing which I detect in beings of this sort more
402 1intro| fables, and no discipline to deter them (therefrom) care for
403 18 | her three children, she determined to impart form to each of
404 32 | burst forth, which, after devastating the whole existence of things,
405 2 | respect to the order of development in Wisdom, I have admitted
406 19 | although they say that Achamoth devised these forms in honour of
407 14 | she was expelled to places devoid of that light which is the
408 37 | and who has pronounced his dict with an even priestly authority.
409 27 | SUFFERING, HE LEFT CHRIST TO DIE ON THE CROSS ALONE.~I now
410 29 | threefold division as to moral differences. Cain and Abel, and Seth,
411 30 | of their life and their diligence in sin, since Achamoth fawns
412 14 | restored to life, and had been directed to this very conversion.~
413 9 | after impossible aims, was disappointed of her hope, she is both
414 10 | vain endeavours, and the disappointment of her hope, she was, I
415 4 | although they affect to disavow their name. They have departed,
416 24 | s eye-rheums and viscid discharges, which are just as much
417 33 | FOLLOWERS OF PTOLEMY, A DISCIPLE OF VALENTINUS.~I shall now
418 26 | in company with it and be disciplined by repeated intercourse
419 34 | of freeing him from the discredit of even single wedlock,
420 11 | female, and so the male is discredited by the female. One divinity
421 35 | XXXV. YET MORE DISCREPANCIES. JUST NOW THE SEX OF BYTHUS
422 6 | EMANATIONS OF DEITY. NOT TO DISCUSS THE HERESY BUT ONLY TO EXPOSE
423 10 | hope, she was, I suppose, disfigured with paleness and emaciation,
424 3 | astuteness, if their lessons are disgraceful; their unkindness, if they
425 16 | But Christ, Who now felt a dislike to quit the Pleroma, appoints
426 29 | they affirm concerning the dispensation of the whole human race.
427 26 | indescribable skill), He wore for a dispensational purpose, in order that He
428 31 | end of the world, and the dispensing of reward. As soon as Achamoth
429 35 | BYTHUS WAS AN OBJECT OF DISPUTE; NOW HIS RANK COMES IN QUESTION.
430 18 | to a very great extent, disqualified like and consubstantial
431 3 | FOLLY OF THIS HERESY. IT DISSECTS AND MUTILATES THE DEITY.
432 4 | setting aside their customary dissimulation, most of them are in a divided
433 1intro| have formed Eleusinian dissipations of their own, consecrated
434 30 | prove their nobility by the dissoluteness of their life and their
435 9 | toil (of her research), and dissolved into the remnant of his
436 18 | other appellations were distinctly assigned according to the
437 33 | and by the interruption distract the reader's attention,
438 10 | ignorance, her fear, her distress, become substances. Hereupon
439 29 | which was poised between divergent hopes, they find in Abel;
440 38 | human, as he is briefer: he divides the Ogdoad into a pair of
441 12 | Accordingly, out of the donation which they contributed to
442 12 | for I have discovered how doubtfully the case is stated), where
443 2 | serpents, and simple as doves." Now if we, on our parts,
444 25 | he might at the same time draw off from the vital principle
445 10 | HER ENTHYMESIS.~But some dreamers have given another account
446 24 | which philosophy indeed dreams of, from its fluid and fusible
447 24 | which are just as much the dregs of tears as mud is the sediment
448 4 | changes and adjusts her dress every day. And why not?
449 24 | was, at that time, not yet dried by the waters becoming separated
450 6 | the battle. It will be my drift to show how to wound rather
451 20 | AWAY AT CREATION, AS THE DRUDGE OF HIS MOTHER ACHAMOTH,
452 15 | same source, which produces drunkenness; and the Salmacis was derived
453 29 | is on all accounts their due.~
454 30 | discipline, should we grow dull in the works of holiness
455 32 | the middle region. We are duly thankful; we shall be content
456 16 | veil, moved at first with a dutiful feeling of veneration and
457 3 | his obscurities; let him dwell deep down in the ground;
458 7 | is most unfit for one who dwells in the heights above! They
459 26 | touched by them, and even of dying. But there was nothing material
460 7 | Before the Beginning), ê'Arkê (The Beginning), and
461 2 | simplicity alone will be more easily able to know and to declare
462 3 | it loves the (radiant) East, that figure of Christ.
463 12 | we observe the uproarious ebullitions of sailors' joys. Therefore,
464 12 | into Siges, into Zoes, into Ecclesias, into Forunatas, so that
465 8 | Synesis (Intelligence), Ecclesiasticus (Son of Ecclesia) and Macariotes (
466 20 | whilst building up so vast an edifice for her son by means of
467 26 | in order that it may be educated in company with it and be
468 15 | source, which renders men effeminate. The rains of heaven Achamoth
469 33 | inasmuch as she affords efficiency to Cogitatio.~
470 36 | that on a given signal the eight-fold emanation, of which we have
471 10 | NOT HERSELF, AFTER ALL, EJECTED FROM THE PLEROMA, BUT ONLY
472 23 | no space for inhaling and ejecting air that delicate vest of
473 8 | Patricas (Paternal) and Elpis (Hope), Metricos (Maternal)
474 30 | any of the calls of duty, eluding even the necessity of martyrdom
475 10 | disfigured with paleness and emaciation, and that neglect of her
476 1intro| springs many errors may well emanate. If you propose to them
477 14 | still a question; Sophia emanates from the Father, the Holy
478 9 | Redeemer,) and Carpistes(Emancipator). When Sophia was thus rescued
479 13 | of the Father, within the embrace of the guardian Horos, what
480 12 | stated), where will be his eminence when surrounded by attendants
481 5 | written volumes, by so many eminently holy and excellent men,
482 11 | the kind again, once more emits a new couple (blasphemously
483 23 | struck out of the delicate emotions of her (feverish grief).
484 20 | eternal exile, rounded a new empire this world (of ours) by
485 15 | on our part are anxiously employed in saving up in our cisterns
486 16 | substances, which should emulate one another, so that a twofold
487 11 | earnestness to learn, should be enabled to offer up their thanksgiving,
488 3 | which we are armed for our encounter; it unmasks and brings to
489 15 | of the calamity which she encountered, so vast were the kinds
490 10 | of Sophia. After her vain endeavours, and the disappointment
491 32 | their fable too will be ended. But I, too, am no doubt
492 3 | these are "the fables and endless genealogies" which the inspired
493 6 | jubilant; it may play with its enemies, because it is fearless.
494 1intro| If you come to a close engagement with them they destroy your
495 27 | upon whom some of them engraft Jesus with so much licence,
496 9 | Nus alone among them all enjoys the knowledge of the immeasurable
497 28 | in the Gospel. And being enlightened by him on all points, he
498 32 | that Theletus would be enraged, that Fortune would be irritated.
499 1intro| long initiation before they enrol (their members), even instruction
500 29 | that is, those who are enrolled in the animal class. Whereas