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501 6 | indulge it. And so at last I enter on my task.~
502 4 | serpent. Ptolemaeus afterwards entered on the same path, by distinguishing
503 14 | had not accomplished her enterprise, with fear, lest she should
504 26 | however, (they say) that it enters into the formation of the
505 14 | Spirit from an angel. She entertains a regret lot Christ immediately
506 7 | like his father and his equal in every respect. In short,
507 16 | calmly, and his prolific equipage. With such energies as she
508 8 | couple more, so furnishing an equipoise to their parents, since
509 6 | unaccompanied with the Latin equivalents; only these will be marked
510 20 | constructs bodies, heavy, light, erect and stooping, celestial
511 1intro| from its many springs many errors may well emanate. If you
512 17 | with the joy of so great an escape from her unhappy condition,
513 10 | supplicates in her behalf, and especially Nus. Why not? What was the
514 31 | Scripture, the Pleroma of espousals (for you might suppose that
515 21 | inability to approach spiritual essences, (constituted as he was)
516 12 | reformed and thoroughly established, and being composed to rest
517 39 | have to provide for the establishment of the universe, and that
518 29 | ignorance, held them in great esteem. For it was from their list
519 2 | ACCEPTED, AND SIMPLICITY EULOGIZED OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES.~For
520 30 | what is to become of the eunuchs whom we see amongst them?~
521 13 | hear and take heed. At all events, these things are said to
522 | ever
523 5 | churches Irenaeus, that very exact inquirer into all doctrines;
524 27 | departed from him during the examination before Pilate. In like manner,
525 8 | here quoting from a like example what may serve to show the
526 29 | this very account, so much excelled all others, that the Demiurge,
527 8 | certain Latin rhetorician, an excessively cool fellow, whose name
528 6 | in any instance mirth be excited, this will be quite as much
529 14 | as unseasonably, so as to exclaim at her IAO! just as we hear
530 22 | against the devil is the more excusable, even because the peculiarly
531 20 | since she was actually executing her own operation? But whilst
532 29 | ADVERTED TO. THEY ARE ALL EXEMPLIFIED AMONGST MEN. FOR INSTANCE,
533 27 | being injured, being equally exempt from all manner of outrage,
534 20 | solitude of his eternal exile, rounded a new empire this
535 13 | space, where God did not exist?~
536 24 | unable to imagine, because it exists nowhere. Now, since fluidity
537 3 | many offsprings, so many exits, so many issues, felicities
538 4 | the fact. Valentinus had expected to become a bishop, because
539 11 | is insinuated, that it is expedient for God not to be apprehended,
540 14 | inseparable companion, she was expelled to places devoid of that
541 6 | way as to have no gravity expended on them. Vain and silly
542 27 | through her, not of her not experiencing a mother in her, but nothing
543 13 | sonable help of Horos, the expiation of her Enthymesis and accruing
544 6 | heretical) mystery, to explain in what manner we are to
545 23 | since they have not as yet explained to us the original sensation
546 6 | above, for the purpose of explaining the personal names, rendered
547 6 | at present with the mere exposition (of the heresy), still,
548 17 | there is no other way of expressing one's meaning), she during
549 7 | placid and, if I may use the expression, stupid divinity, such as
550 39 | Valentinians have already extended their rank growth to the
551 4 | himself with all his might to exterminate the truth; and finding the
552 12 | customs. By way of adding external honour also to their wonderful
553 9 | the great universe, and, externally, the guardian thereof. To
554 16 | corporeal condition of Matter, extracting out of her inherent, incorporeal
555 7 | profoundest repose, in the extreme rest of a placid and, if
556 12 | chorus of praise in the exuberance of their joy. The Father
557 15 | poisonous, so that the Nonacris exuded therefrom which killed Alexander;
558 12 | Therefore, as sailors always exult over the reckoning they
559 9 | immeasurable Father, joyous and exulting, while they of course pine
560 11 | perception of him, either by the eye or the ear, except through
561 24 | constituted of Sophia's eye-rheums and viscid discharges, which
562 10 | evil plight, she raises her eyes, and turns them to the Father.
563 5 | time on his hands as to fabricate materials which are already
564 3 | high and open places, and facing the light! As the symbol
565 19 | the ministering angels, facsimiles of their lords? This is
566 2 | also "wise in our practical faculties." At the same time, with
567 10 | vain, as her strength was failing her, she falls to praying.
568 12 | danger)? What ship's captain fails to rejoice even with indecent
569 3 | crowd, to remove from a familiar authority to an unknown
570 6 | others, again, are more familiarly known in their Greek form.
571 23 | elements and bodies fire was fanned. Now, since they have not
572 16 | suppose) with the dozen fasces. Hereupon Achamoth, being
573 5 | we have of our own mind fashioned our own materials, since
574 2 | condition for the lesser fault; since it is perhaps better
575 16 | full of evil through its faults, the other susceptible of
576 8 | covered with glory, the favourite of fortune, the greatest
577 30 | diligence in sin, since Achamoth fawns on them as her own; for
578 6 | its enemies, because it is fearless. Only we must take care
579 25 | in order that, being then fecundated in the material body as
580 15 | in the dark! Nor need you feel astonished how from her
581 3 | many exits, so many issues, felicities and infelicities of a dispersed
582 38 | power which apostatized and fell away from any one of the
583 8 | rhetorician, an excessively cool fellow, whose name was Phosphorus.
584 11 | the AEons. Even from this fellowship in a common duty two schools
585 34 | that the worthy chronicler Fenestella must not suppose that an
586 15 | cold, and bituminous, and ferruginous, and sulphurous, and even
587 23 | have had a good deal of fever. ~
588 23 | delicate emotions of her (feverish grief). For you may be quite
589 14 | way, Romans!"), or else Fidem Caesaris!" ("By the faith
590 35 | occupied the first and the fifth place; from Anennoetos came
591 8 | why are there not sets of fifty and of a hundred procreated?
592 18 | the place of honour on his fight hand; whereas, in respect
593 1intro| the vainest and foulest figment for men's pliant liking,
594 24 | of what sort are their figments concerning man? For, after
595 23 | sadness of Sophia had not filtered it, just as her fear did
596 33 | last produce, by way of finale, after so long a story,
597 3 | otherwise learned, as soon as he finds so many names of AEons,
598 36 | and so this Ward is His first-begotten Son, and to the Word was
599 7 | Monogenes be called Protogenes (Firstbegotten), since he was begotten
600 20 | apples grew in the sea, and fishes on the tree; after the same
601 25 | there, it might be found fit for one day receiving the
602 6 | topics are met with especial fitness by laughter. Even the truth
603 1intro| even instruction during five years for their perfect
604 16 | consolidated them in one mass, he fixes them in a separate body,
605 15 | this smile of joy light flashed forth. How great was this
606 20 | sojourned there amidst its fleecy clouds and shrubs. Ptolemy
607 31 | to the mill and ground to flour, has hidden it in the kneading-trough
608 20 | he assumed that nut-trees flourished in the skies. The Demiurge
609 2 | I have admitted that it flows from simplicity. In brief, "
610 24 | indeed dreams of, from its fluid and fusible composition,
611 24 | exists nowhere. Now, since fluidity and fusibility are qualities
612 27 | much licence, that they foist into Him a spiritual seed
613 3 | however, who are the simple folk, we know all about it. In
614 1intro| previously created. Then follows the duty of silence. Carefully
615 3 | III. THE FOLLY OF THIS HERESY. IT DISSECTS
616 12 | are all on the self-same footing in respect of form and knowledge,
617 35 | put their Ogdoad in the foremost rank; itself, however, derived
618 12 | be, in all probability, a formal procedure in the mode or
619 | former
620 14 | things for names to be also forthcoming. Enthymesis came from action;
621 8 | Are you a believer in Fortunata, and Hedone, and Acinetus,
622 13 | there are the most dangerous fortunes of Sophia in her ardent
623 12 | Zoes, into Ecclesias, into Forunatas, so that Ovid would have
624 1intro| fabricated the vainest and foulest figment for men's pliant
625 9 | considerable power. He is the foundation of the great universe, and,
626 4 | it is true, from their founder, yet is their origin by
627 29 | the human race, become the fountain-heads of just as many qualities
628 12 | JUMBLE OF THE PLEROMA. THE FRANTIC DELIGHT OF THE MEMBERS THEREOF.
629 12 | delight? Was not the Pleroma freed (from all danger)? What
630 34 | have, for the purpose of freeing him from the discredit of
631 12 | rejoice even with indecent frolic? Every day we observe the
632 38 | the AEons, but from the fruits which issued from their
633 32 | but a Marcus or a Gaius, full-grown in this flesh of ours, with
634 8 | mystery of the Pleroma, the fulness of the thirty-fold divinity.
635 8 | produce a couple more, so furnishing an equipoise to their parents,
636 25 | SPIRITUAL NATURE TO MAN. IT WAS FURTIVELY MANAGED BY ACHAMOTH, THROUGH
637 24 | Now, since fluidity and fusibility are qualities Of liquid
638 24 | dreams of, from its fluid and fusible composition, the origin
639 28 | WHOM HE HEARS OF THE GREAT FUTURE IN STORE FOR HIMSELF.~Meanwhile
640 36 | His mere motion that they gain their designations. When,
641 36 | offspring, He on that account gained the name of FATHER. After
642 32 | Although but a Marcus or a Gaius, full-grown in this flesh
643 31 | proceeded to gather it into her garner, or, after it has been taken
644 6 | rather than to inflict deep gashes. If in any instance mirth
645 31 | and has then proceeded to gather it into her garner, or,
646 17 | upon her. She at length gave birth to an offspring, and
647 36 | really neither more nor less Gemonian; but that on a given signal
648 34 | this deity" in the neuter gender rather than "this god."
649 6 | case of some others, the genders, are not suitable; while
650 3 | the fables and endless genealogies" which the inspired apostle
651 38 | SECUNDUS, AS COMPARED WITH THE GENERAL DOCTRINE OF VALENTINUS.~
652 11 | was the reason of their generation and formation. Now by these
653 7 | deposits in lieu of seed in the genital region, as it were, of the
654 4 | was an able man both in genius and eloquence. Being indignant,
655 25 | So that you have a new Geryon here, only a fourfold (rather
656 11 | ORIGIN OF CHRIST AND THE HOLY GHOST STERNLY REBUKED. AN ABSURDITY
657 4 | perverse ingenuity a spiritual gift; but (they deny all) unity,
658 11 | however, belonged the special gifts, whereby they, having been
659 32 | place where there is no more giving in marriage, where I have
660 12 | himself also revelled in the glad feeling; of course, because
661 31 | For if he had caught a glance of her, he would have preferred
662 32 | despoiled of my sex, I am Glassed with angels not a male angel,
663 39 | DIVERSITY VITIATES EVERY GNOSTIC SCHOOL.~Now, concerning
664 39 | growth to the woods of the Gnostics.~
665 10 | Father's sex. They also go on to tell us that Horos
666 17 | evils, wonderful to tell goes on and bears fruit with
667 26 | the whole of which He was going. to restore to salvation;
668 28 | like the centurion in the Gospel. And being enlightened by
669 8 | no other names were to be got out of the page's hall!
670 29 | natural condition. This grain, then, of spiritual seed
671 9 | SOPHIA RESTRAINED BY HOROS. GRAND TITLES BORNE BY THIS LAST
672 12 | because his children and grandchildren sang so well. And why should
673 32 | stern husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather (never
674 11 | Only-begotten). Well, I will even grant them what they allege about
675 7 | things. Let it, however, be granted that this Bythos of theirs
676 32 | destruction, because "all flesh is grass," and amongst these is the
677 26 | side to which it has mainly gravitated. As regards the spiritual,
678 6 | such a way as to have no gravity expended on them. Vain and
679 32 | father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather (never mind what, in fact,
680 17 | on and bears fruit with greater results. For warmed with
681 23 | emotions of her (feverish grief). For you may be quite sure
682 30 | of discipline, should we grow dull in the works of holiness
683 39 | already extended their rank growth to the woods of the Gnostics.~
684 1intro| silence. Carefully is that guarded, which is so long in finding.
685 32 | wedlock. This will be the guerdon of the spiritual, this the
686 11 | and how to form some guess about the unbegotten, and
687 18 | structions of Soter (for her guidance). And first of all (she
688 5 | THE AUTHOR MAKES HIS OWN GUIDES.~My own path, however, lies
689 1intro| officiousness which betrays their guilt. Their disgrace is proclaimed
690 5 | predicted them s must have been guilty of falsehood. If, however,
691 16 | salutation, kurie kaire (" Hail, Lord ")! Upon this, I suppose,
692 8 | DESCENT OF OTHER AEONS; FIRST HALF A SCORE, THEN TWO MORE,
693 8 | be got out of the page's hall! For why are there not sets
694 2 | from the first has been the harbinger of divine peace; the other
695 4 | Marcus. Theotimus worked hard about "the images of the
696 31 | Achamoth has completed the full harvest of her seed, and has then
697 28 | than he runs to him with haste and joy, with all his might,
698 28 | SAVIOUR'S ADVENT, FROM WHOM HE HEARS OF THE GREAT FUTURE IN STORE
699 2 | seek Him in simplicity of heart," as says the very Wisdom
700 21 | your laughter still more heartily) even Holy Spirit. In this
701 17 | condition, and at the same time heated with the actual contemplation
702 1intro| silence, having nothing of the heavenly in them but their mystery.
703 20 | elements) he constructs bodies, heavy, light, erect and stooping,
704 20 | name of Sabbatum from the hebdomadal nature of his abode; his
705 13 | you should hear and take heed. At all events, these things
706 10 | surprise? Well, even the hen has the power of being able
707 8 | Ageratos (Never old) and Henosis (Union), Autophyes (Essential
708 4 | struck off therefrom, by Heraclean and Secundus and the magician
709 5 | were contemporary with the heresiarchs themselves: for instance
710 34 | must not suppose that an hermaphrodite; was only to be found among
711 16 | in battle array against Hermogenes, and all others who presume
712 32 | readmitted invisibly to the Heroma stealthily, if the case
713 12 | of AEsop, the Pandora of Hesiod, the bowl of Accius, the
714 3 | mutilated Deity, will that man hesitate at once to pronounce that
715 25 | principle, the spiritual man lay hid, although inserted by his
716 3 | Let, then, the serpent hide himself as much as he is
717 31 | celestial Hebdomad to the higher regions, to his mother's
718 31 | the second stage to the highest, since she is restored to
719 14 | the Scriptures. Being thus hindered from proceeding further,
720 4 | fashion, whenever they have hit upon any novelty, they forthwith
721 3 | worm himself into secret holes; let him unroll his length
722 30 | grow dull in the works of holiness and justice, should we desire
723 3 | how simple is the very home! always in high and open
724 7 | elevated site, or because in Homer he had read about Jupiter
725 12 | turned into Nuses, into Homos, into Theletuses; and so
726 1intro| them inquiries sincere and honest, they answer you with stern
727 12 | the bowl of Accius, the honey-cake of Nestor, the miscellany
728 3 | unkindness, if they are honourable. As for us, however, who
729 30 | that, for the purpose of honouring the celestial marriages,
730 29 | poised between divergent hopes, they find in Abel; the
731 3 | towers of Lamia, and the horns of the sun? Let, however,
732 10 | conductor about," as well as Horothetes (Setter of Limits). By his
733 14 | LONGING FOR CHRIST. HOROS' HOSTILITY TO HER. HER CONTINUED SUFFERING.~
734 12 | OF PARTS SET FORTH WITH HUMOROUS IRONY.~Thus they are all
735 8 | not sets of fifty and of a hundred procreated? Why, too, are
736 7 | upon heights, they have hung up, raised and spread out
737 14 | desertion by him. Therefore she hurried forth herself, in quest
738 12 | nearer the mark, if these idle title-mongers had called
739 20 | limits of the Pleroma in the ignominious solitude of his eternal
740 2 | II. THESE HERETICS BRAND THE
741 3 | III. THE FOLLY OF THIS HERESY.
742 10 | Sophia was checked in her illicit courses, and purified from
743 15 | flowed forth for man. O illuminating smile! O irrigating tear!
744 11 | Sophia to her husband, the (illustrious) Monogenes, the Nus, released
745 27 | being indeed nothing but imaginary beings!~
746 17 | which had its origin in her imagination.~
747 39 | Some there are who have imagined that another origin must
748 21 | of animal elements, that, imagining himself to be the only being,
749 17 | prurient excitement had imbibed and impressed upon her.
750 19 | formed this same Demiurge in imitation of Nus the son of Propator;
751 9 | enjoys the knowledge of the immeasurable Father, joyous and exulting,
752 7 | describe him as unbegotten, immense, infinite, invisible, and
753 32 | AT THE LAST JUDGMENT. THE IMMORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE.~As for
754 14 | restored to her the odour of immortality, in order that she might,
755 8 | Hedone (Pleasure), Acinetos (Immoveable) and Syncrasis (Commixture,)
756 32 | wholly intellectual spirits impalpable, invisible and in this state
757 16 | Jesus, to whom the Father imparted the supreme power over the
758 27 | remained in Christ to the last, impassible, incapable of injury, incapable
759 18 | his perceiving her, he was impelled to all that he did, even
760 3 | simply, for this reason, imperfectly known; because man has not
761 25 | the same quality), and implanted it in her son the Demiurge,
762 9 | she who (you must know) imposes silence even on her own
763 17 | excitement had imbibed and impressed upon her. She at length
764 30 | an imperfect nature, is imprinted the mark of this (animal)
765 33 | advanced by those who have improved on the doctrines of Ptolemy.
766 21 | score, you must know, of his inability to approach spiritual essences, (
767 11 | and, to some extent, the inauguration of a division in the doctrine
768 25 | impart life to Adam by his inbreathing, he might at the same time
769 4 | from God. Valentinus had included these in the very essence
770 7 | comprehending the measureless and incomprensible greatness of his father.
771 27 | undertake to describe these incongruous crammings, which they have
772 29 | but under her instruction increases and advances into full conviction,
773 12 | fails to rejoice even with indecent frolic? Every day we observe
774 3 | difficulty, and defend them only indirectly, who at the same time do
775 16 | utterly severing them, with an indiscriminateness like that which had happened
776 3 | in other forms. Yet, to induce oneself to turn from this
777 15 | beneficence of Providence, which induced her to smile, and all that
778 25 | is for you to imagine the industry of this clandestine arrangement.
779 14 | Achamoth because by this inexplicable name alone must she be henceforth
780 9 | body, spread abroad their infection to some other limb. The
781 3 | many issues, felicities and infelicities of a dispersed and mutilated
782 18 | of all things, which are inferior to him. For from him do
783 10 | was pronounced to be an infirm and feminine fruit.~
784 27 | together with an animal inflatus. Indeed, I will not undertake
785 6 | to wound rather than to inflict deep gashes. If in any instance
786 14 | that she might, under its influence, be overcome with the desire
787 35 | be ignorant of than to be informed. For what can be right in
788 29 | such wise that Achamoth infuses it among superior beings
789 4 | revelation, their own perverse ingenuity a spiritual gift; but (they
790 23 | would have had no space for inhaling and ejecting air that delicate
791 39 | the universe, and that He inherits by right His Father's appellation.
792 25 | seed, and, as by a pipe, inject it into the clayey nature;
793 27 | seed did not admit of being injured, being equally exempt from
794 27 | impassible, incapable of injury, incapable of apprehension.
795 37 | production, the intellectual, innascible, invisible beginning of
796 4 | By this variety, indeed, innovation is stamped on the very face
797 5 | Irenaeus, that very exact inquirer into all doctrines; our
798 1intro| If you propose to them inquiries sincere and honest, they
799 14 | the vicious Passion, her inseparable companion, she was expelled
800 25 | spiritual man lay hid, although inserted by his breath, and at the
801 11 | the tenet, I suppose, is insinuated, that it is expedient for
802 3 | endless genealogies" which the inspired apostle by anticipation
803 7 | of the womb of his Sige. Instantaneous conception is the result:
804 | instead
805 1intro| of persuading men before instructing them; although truth persuades
806 23 | revealer of all colours, that instrument of the seasons if the sadness
807 8 | Ainos (Praise) and Synesis (Intelligence), Ecclesiasticus (Son of
808 20 | however, they consider to be intelligent, and sometimes they make
809 26 | disciplined by repeated intercourse with it. For the animal (
810 23 | it, Achamoth occupies the intermediate space for her abode, treading
811 9 | tormenting themselves with these internal desires, while they are
812 9 | Father; but his mother, Sige, interposed she who (you must know)
813 31 | that the Julian laws were interposing, since there are these migrations
814 33 | those points which not to interrupt the course of it, and by
815 33 | course of it, and by the interruption distract the reader's attention,
816 35 | and that, too, at such intervals, I prefer to be ignorant
817 1intro| with yourself). If you intimate to them that you understand
818 1intro| I. INTRODUCTORY. TERTULLIAN COMPARES THE
819 16 | such vices as had become inveterate and confirmed by practice
820 32 | state will be readmitted invisibly to the Heroma stealthily,
821 5 | sophist of the churches Irenaeus, that very exact inquirer
822 15 | O illuminating smile! O irrigating tear! And yet it might now
823 32 | enraged, that Fortune would be irritated. But I am yet a liege-man
824 7 | tenements in some happy isle of the blessed, I know not
825 3 | so many exits, so many issues, felicities and infelicities
826 4 | IV. THE HERESY TRACEABLE TO
827 9 | IX. OTHER CAPRICIOUS FEATURES
828 12 | culled nosegay, like the jay of AEsop, the Pandora of
829 12 | THE MEMBERS THEREOF. THEIR JOINT CONTRIBUTION OF PARTS SET
830 12 | glory of the Father, they jointly fashion the most beautiful
831 3 | length through his sinuous joints; let him tortuously crawl,
832 12 | ebullitions of sailors' joys. Therefore, as sailors always
833 6 | ridicule, because it is jubilant; it may play with its enemies,
834 32 | TREATMENT OF MANKIND AT THE LAST JUDGMENT. THE IMMORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE.~
835 32 | VALENTINIAN FABLE ABOUT THE JUDICIAL TREATMENT OF MANKIND AT
836 31 | you might suppose that the Julian laws were interposing, since
837 12 | XII. THE STRANGE JUMBLE OF THE PLEROMA. THE FRANTIC
838 7 | Homer he had read about Jupiter banqueting therein. As for
839 30 | the works of holiness and justice, should we desire to make
840 22 | character of his origin justifies it. For he is supposed by
841 5 | themselves: for instance Justin, philosopher and martyr;
842 16 | with the salutation, kurie kaire (" Hail, Lord ")! Upon this,
843 4 | memory of Valentinus, by keeping his rules to the full. But
844 4 | substances, which, however, he kept apart from God. Valentinus
845 15 | Nonacris exuded therefrom which killed Alexander; and the river
846 10 | falls to praying. Her entire kindred also supplicates in her
847 15 | encountered, so vast were the kinds of the tears wherewith she
848 29 | accustomed to select men for kings and for priests; and these
849 1intro| sure of them. They have the knack of persuading men before
850 31 | flour, has hidden it in the kneading-trough with yeast until the whole
851 16 | him with the salutation, kurie kaire (" Hail, Lord ")!
852 3 | wrest all his wisdom in the labyrinths of his obscurities; let
853 11 | rather of conditions which lack perpetuity-namely, nativity
854 9 | Father, found repose, and laid aside all her excitement,
855 3 | you about the towers of Lamia, and the horns of the sun?
856 24 | any portion of "the dry land," as they say, of which
857 1intro| who are no doubt a very large body of heretics comprising
858 12 | if he had only known our larger one in the present day.
859 17 | ANGELS. A PROTEST AGAINST THE LASCIVIOUS FEATURES OF VALENTINIANISM.
860 12 | after his ancestors; and lastly Omnia (All Things), as formed
861 19 | ask, do you not wish me to laugh at these pictures of their
862 6 | unseemly, and so itself be laughed at; but wherever its mirth
863 14 | in the part of Catullus' Laureolus, and given over, as it were,
864 4 | about "the images of the law." Valentinus, however, was
865 31 | suppose that the Julian laws were interposing, since
866 30 | XXX. THE LAX AND DANGEROUS VIEWS OF THIS
867 3 | faith which he has otherwise learned, as soon as he finds so
868 28 | by him on all points, he learns from him also of his own
869 9 | others also all that he had learnt about the greatness and
870 17 | and then there arose a leash of natures, from a triad
871 | least
872 31 | yeast until the whole be leavened, then shall the end speedily
873 26 | which they also call "the left-handed," they assign undoubted
874 2 | latter condition for the lesser fault; since it is perhaps
875 3 | their astuteness, if their lessons are disgraceful; their unkindness,
876 14 | her enterprise, with fear, lest she should lose her life,
877 27 | engraft Jesus with so much licence, that they foist into Him
878 32 | irritated. But I am yet a liege-man of the Demiurge. I have
879 7 | things. This he deposits in lieu of seed in the genital region,
880 | likely
881 10 | to tell us that Horos is likewise called Metagogius, that
882 1intro| figment for men's pliant liking, out of the affluent suggestions
883 9 | infection to some other limb. The fact is, under a pretence
884 9 | luck fallen in with Horus (Limit). He too had considerable
885 23 | marking off its boundary line. Beneath it, Achamoth occupies
886 6 | these will be marked in lines above, for the purpose of
887 15 | and all that we might not linger for ever in the dark! Nor
888 29 | esteem. For it was from their list that he had been accustomed
889 37 | STATED AND CONDEMNED.~Now listen to some other buffooneries
890 5 | not only those who have lived before us, but those also
891 1intro| they answer you with stern look and contracted brow, and
892 19 | angels, facsimiles of their lords? This is painting a mule
893 14 | with fear, lest she should lose her life, even as she had
894 10 | no less painful than his loss. Then, in the midst of all
895 14 | her life, even as she had lost the light, with consternation,
896 14 | She entertains a regret lot Christ immediately after
897 30 | life in the world without loving a woman or uniting himself
898 35 | place for Bythus, but only a lower one. They put their Ogdoad
899 9 | if she had not by good luck fallen in with Horus (Limit).
900 3 | you were a baby, among the lullabies she sang to you about the
901 17 | contemplation of the angelic luminaries (one is ashamed) to use
902 34 | among the good people of Luna.~
903 15 | Alexander; and the river of the Lyncestae flowed from the same source,
904 9 | names of Crux (Cross), and Lytrotes (Redeemer,) and Carpistes(
905 8 | Monogenes (Only-begotten) and Macaria (Happiness). On the other
906 8 | Ecclesiasticus (Son of Ecclesia) and Macariotes (Blessedness) Theletus (
907 32 | her own son, would turn mad, that Theletus would be
908 4 | Heraclean and Secundus and the magician Marcus. Theotimus worked
909 30 | the tribunals of the chief magistrates! As for them, however, they
910 33 | CHAPTERS AN APPENDIX TO THE MAIN WORK. IN THIS CHAPTER TERTULLIAN
911 7 | of heretical sanctity and majesty, a rabble shall I say of
912 | MAKES
913 9 | Sophia; as is usual with maladies which, after arising in
914 10 | means of Monogenes Nus, a male-female (AEon), because there is
915 2 | to be as children in malice" by our simplicity, yet
916 10 | Pleroma, even as they say, Malum for as! (Evil, avaunt!)
917 25 | TO MAN. IT WAS FURTIVELY MANAGED BY ACHAMOTH, THROUGH THE
918 3 | wrench oneself from what is manifest to what is hidden, is to
919 36 | He wanted Himself to be manifested, He on that account was
920 14 | that passion of hers in a manifold and complicated mesh, she
921 32 | THE JUDICIAL TREATMENT OF MANKIND AT THE LAST JUDGMENT. THE
922 6 | meanings will be seen on the margins of the pages. Nor will the
923 23 | tricenary Pleroma, Horos marking off its boundary line. Beneath
924 32 | there is no more giving in marriage, where I have to be clothed
925 13 | are alike born, and are married, and produce offspring:
926 5 | Justin, philosopher and martyr; Miltiades, the sophist
927 30 | eluding even the necessity of martyrdom on any pretence which may
928 7 | heretics, however, it is marvellous what storeys upon storeys
929 12 | even their new brethren and masters, they contribute into one
930 21 | the Demiurge had so little mastery over things, on the score,
931 8 | Elpis (Hope), Metricos (Maternal) and Agape (Love), Ainos (
932 6 | use the Greek names; their meanings will be seen on the margins
933 7 | capable of comprehending the measureless and incomprensible greatness
934 26 | unwillingness, be capable of meeting persons, and of being seen
935 16 | from the contemplation, she meets him with the salutation,
936 4 | time does honour to the memory of Valentinus, by keeping
937 14 | Having accomplished His merciful mission, not without the
938 15 | which not even the renowned Mercurius Trismegistus, master (as
939 6 | RAILLERY WHICH ITS ABSURDITY MERITS.~In order then, that no
940 14 | manifold and complicated mesh, she began to be afflicted
941 10 | Horos is likewise called Metagogius, that is, "a conductor about,"
942 12 | have blotted out his own Metamorphoses if he had only known our
943 35 | eight place. Now by what method he arranges this, that each
944 8 | Paternal) and Elpis (Hope), Metricos (Maternal) and Agape (Love),
945 10 | than his loss. Then, in the midst of all this sorrow, she
946 31 | interposing, since there are these migrations from place to place). In
947 31 | it has been taken to the mill and ground to flour, has
948 5 | philosopher and martyr; Miltiades, the sophist of the churches
949 34 | RAILLERY.~Others of purer mind, mindful of the honour of the Deity,
950 19 | his father too, and the ministering angels, facsimiles of their
951 25 | Ecclesia (the Church), the mirror of the church above, and
952 12 | honey-cake of Nestor, the miscellany of Ptolemy. How much nearer
953 2 | better to be in error than to mislead. Besides, the face of the
954 18 | they coined for him the mixed name of (Motherly Father),
955 8 | Bythios (Profound) and Mixis (Mixture), Ageratos (Never
956 8 | Bythios (Profound) and Mixis (Mixture), Ageratos (Never old) and
957 12 | formal procedure in the mode or in the form of the very
958 5 | doctrines; our own Proculus, the model of chaste old age and Christian
959 29 | then, of spiritual seed is modest and very small when cast
960 37 | human language' has called Monad (Solitude). This has inherent
961 25 | rather than a threefold) monster.~
962 21 | of earth and of Mother "Mother-Earth," of course and (what may
963 18 | for him the mixed name of (Motherly Father), whilst his other
964 24 | much the dregs of tears as mud is the sediment of waters.
965 24 | conclusion, believe that muddy earth is constituted of
966 19 | lords? This is painting a mule from an ass, and sketching
967 3 | oneself to turn from this multitude of deities to another crowd,
968 3 | infelicities of a dispersed and mutilated Deity, will that man hesitate
969 3 | HERESY. IT DISSECTS AND MUTILATES THE DEITY. CONTRASTED WITH
970 12 | nature. If this be their mutual condition, it may be all
971 | myself
972 11 | lack perpetuity-namely, nativity and formation. The Son,
973 29 | since they are already naturalized in the fraternal bond of
974 12 | miscellany of Ptolemy. How much nearer the mark, if these idle
975 30 | of duty, eluding even the necessity of martyrdom on any pretence
976 10 | and emaciation, and that neglect of her beauty which was
977 12 | Accius, the honey-cake of Nestor, the miscellany of Ptolemy.
978 34 | talk of "this deity" in the neuter gender rather than "this
979 30 | however, they may prove their nobility by the dissoluteness of
980 15 | even poisonous, so that the Nonacris exuded therefrom which killed
981 24 | OF THE GROUND, BUT OF A NONDESCRIPT PHILOSOPHIC SUBSTANCE.~Such
982 36 | rejecting all this tiresome nonsense, have refused to believe
983 12 | from a universally culled nosegay, like the jay of AEsop,
984 33 | THIS CHAPTER TERTULLIAN NOTICES A DIFFERENCE AMONG SUNDRY
985 21 | himself to be the only being, notwithstanding his uncertainty, and although
986 4 | whenever they have hit upon any novelty, they forthwith call their
987 32 | angel of some AEon of high numerical rank. For the right celebration
988 3 | very like it from your fond nurse when you were a baby, among
989 12 | They are all turned into Nuses, into Homos, into Theletuses;
990 20 | fashion, he assumed that nut-trees flourished in the skies.
991 15 | to smile, even not to be obliged to turn suppliant to those
992 1intro| nature's reverend name, obscures a real sacrilege by help
993 3 | in the labyrinths of his obscurities; let him dwell deep down
994 15 | have shaken off all the obscurity thereof as often as she
995 29 | the spiritual state, Will obtain a sure salvation, nay, one
996 1intro| symbol, and by empty images obviates the reproach of falsehood!
997 15 | prospect of destitution, she occasionally smiled at the recollection
998 20 | WHILE OF THE NATURE OF HIS OCCUPATION.~The Demiurge therefore,
999 35 | Beginning) came forth and occupied the first and the fifth
1000 23 | line. Beneath it, Achamoth occupies the intermediate space for