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1001 3 | entire fable, will it not occur to you that you have heard
1002 29 | of Adam himself, in which occurs a threefold division as
1003 22 | ALTHOUGH HIS WORK.~The odium felt amongst them against
1004 14 | has restored to her the odour of immortality, in order
1005 3 | to what is hidden, is to offend faith on the very threshold.
1006 11 | learn, should be enabled to offer up their thanksgiving, and
1007 3 | many marriages, so many offsprings, so many exits, so many
1008 12 | his ancestors; and lastly Omnia (All Things), as formed
1009 3 | home! always in high and open places, and facing the light!
1010 10 | effect. All her sorrows operate. Inasmuch as all that conflict
1011 20 | actually executing her own operation? But whilst building up
1012 14 | who had met her mother so opportunely, fallen in with the daughter
1013 29 | characteristics, finding opportunity for such distinction in
1014 7 | Valentinion gods, the simple originals of heretical sanctity and
1015 13 | of the AEons, the piebald ornamentation of Sorer, the consubstantial
1016 26 | doubtful issue, inasmuch as it oscillates between the material and
1017 | ourselves
1018 6 | may be blinded by so many outlandish names, collected together,
1019 3 | concealed with so great an outlay of artifice, is to destroy
1020 27 | exempt from all manner of outrage, and being undiscovered
1021 16 | cleanses her from all the outrages of Passion, without, however,
1022 15 | the tears wherewith she overflowed. She had salt tear-drops,
1023 14 | another tide of emotion still overwhelmed her, even of conversion
1024 12 | into Forunatas, so that Ovid would have blotted out his
1025 18 | outside. In fact, it was owing to this very ambiguity about
1026 8 | were to be got out of the page's hall! For why are there
1027 6 | seen on the margins of the pages. Nor will the Greek be unaccompanied
1028 10 | affliction which was no less painful than his loss. Then, in
1029 10 | treatment of her case, and took pains at self-concealment. Remedies
1030 19 | of their most extravagant painter? At the female Achamoth,
1031 19 | of their lords? This is painting a mule from an ass, and
1032 32 | our own origin. Into the palace of the Pleroma nothing of
1033 10 | suppose, disfigured with paleness and emaciation, and that
1034 19 | XIX. PALPABLE ABSURDITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS
1035 12 | title-mongers had called him Pancarpian, after certain Athenian
1036 12 | like the jay of AEsop, the Pandora of Hesiod, the bowl of Accius,
1037 8 | which I have also referred): Paracletus (Comforter) and Pistis (
1038 20 | himself; as also (they call) Paradise the fourth archangel, because
1039 31 | immediately received by that paragon of perfection Sorer, as
1040 18 | herself spiritual. For a participation in the same nature has,
1041 5 | of faith, even as in this particular one. Now if there are no
1042 35 | propounded with such absurd particulars?~
1043 20 | the power of which Adam partook, when he sojourned there
1044 6 | all means, if only with a passing thrust. Let the reader regard
1045 7 | the infinite ages of the past in the greatest and profoundest
1046 8 | Pistis (Faith), Patricas (Paternal) and Elpis (Hope), Metricos (
1047 2 | the face of the Lord is patiently waited for by those who "
1048 8 | Comforter) and Pistis (Faith), Patricas (Paternal) and Elpis (Hope),
1049 12 | over the reckoning they pay. in common, so do these
1050 2 | the harbinger of divine peace; the other from the beginning
1051 22 | excusable, even because the peculiarly sordid character of his
1052 34 | be found among the good people of Luna.~
1053 3 | to him, whom he already perceives in all His works, Him indeed
1054 18 | secretly from her, without his perceiving her, he was impelled to
1055 11 | short, even to enjoy any perception of him, either by the eye
1056 9 | alternative for her than perdition, if she had not by good
1057 20 | shrubs. Ptolemy remembered perfectly well the prattle of his
1058 4 | full. But this heresy is permitted to fashion itself into as
1059 11 | of conditions which lack perpetuity-namely, nativity and formation.
1060 7 | but in respect of his personality, Proarkê (Before the Beginning),
1061 17 | the emotion somehow became personally inflamed with desire towards
1062 8 | name was Phosphorus. He was personating a man of valour, and wound
1063 9 | from danger, and tardily persuaded, she relinquished further
1064 1intro| instructing them; although truth persuades by teaching, but does not
1065 32 | No, not even so. Well, as phantoms? Would that it were nothing
1066 5 | themselves: for instance Justin, philosopher and martyr; Miltiades, the
1067 24 | GROUND, BUT OF A NONDESCRIPT PHILOSOPHIC SUBSTANCE.~Such being their
1068 27 | that of Soter, or, in other phrase, the columbine. As for Sorer
1069 15 | master (as he was) of all physical philosophy, thought out.
1070 19 | wish me to laugh at these pictures of their most extravagant
1071 13 | reform of the AEons, the piebald ornamentation of Sorer,
1072 27 | during the examination before Pilate. In like manner, his mother'
1073 15 | and substance for all this pile of the world (a mystery)
1074 7 | private rooms? with chamber piled upon chamber, and assigned
1075 9 | exulting, while they of course pine in sorrow. To be sure, Nus,
1076 25 | spiritual seed, and, as by a pipe, inject it into the clayey
1077 8 | Paracletus (Comforter) and Pistis (Faith), Patricas (Paternal)
1078 7 | in the extreme rest of a placid and, if I may use the expression,
1079 20 | unaware that trees ought to be planted only on the ground. His
1080 15 | learn, the Stoics may know, Plato himself (may discover),
1081 13 | things are said to have been played out within the company of
1082 28 | world, mainly under the plea of protecting the church,
1083 12 | most part consists of a pleasing variety. They all contributed
1084 1intro| foulest figment for men's pliant liking, out of the affluent
1085 3 | because he has named Him in a plurality (of gods), and adored Him
1086 7 | Beginning with Ennius, the Roman poet, he simply spoke of "the
1087 29 | animal nature, which was poised between divergent hopes,
1088 15 | and sulphurous, and even poisonous, so that the Nonacris exuded
1089 16 | being quite struck with the pomp of his approach, immediately
1090 36 | tiresome story is utterly poor and weak.~
1091 14 | just as we hear the cry "Porro Quirites" ("Out of the way,
1092 24 | as his substance not any portion of "the dry land," as they
1093 26 | Himself with the primary portions of those substances, the
1094 27 | proclaimed by the prophets His position being one which must be
1095 30 | salvation, which we do not possess by any privilege of our
1096 5 | which are already in his possession.~
1097 26 | salvation. As if He could possibly have been more required
1098 29 | such distinction in the posterity of Adam himself, in which
1099 6 | meaning. But although I must postpone all discussion, and be content
1100 24 | Demiurge mould man as a potter does his clay, and animates
1101 8 | one hand, Sermo and Vita pour out at a birth a half-score
1102 16 | inveterate and confirmed by practice he throws together; and
1103 14 | because she had not yet practised herself in the part of Catullus'
1104 20 | remembered perfectly well the prattle of his boyhood, that apples
1105 16 | QUALITIES.~She, too, resorts to prayers, after the manner of her
1106 10 | failing her, she falls to praying. Her entire kindred also
1107 22 | He deserves from them the pre-eminence which all heresies provide
1108 36 | Those, moreover, whom He preconceived in His thought when He produced
1109 5 | fabricated, then the apostle who predicted them s must have been guilty
1110 1intro| MYSTERIES. BOTH SYSTEMS ALIKE IN PREFERRING CONCEALMENT OF ERROR AND
1111 29 | in Abel; the spiritual, preordained for certain salvation, they
1112 27 | which must be decided by prepositions; in other words, He was
1113 23 | elevated of all summits presides the tricenary Pleroma, Horos
1114 16 | Hermogenes, and all others who presume to teach that God made all
1115 1intro| representation, under the pretext of nature's reverend name,
1116 7 | existed not in Bythos. And a pretty absurdity would it be, if
1117 37 | pronounced his dict with an even priestly authority. They run thus:
1118 29 | select men for kings and for priests; and these even now, if
1119 26 | clothed Himself with the primary portions of those substances,
1120 20 | after the precedent of the primeval Ogdoada. These heavens,
1121 27 | after the precedent of the principal Tetrad, they guard him with
1122 7 | Ennius in the fashion of private rooms? with chamber piled
1123 30 | we do not possess by any privilege of our state, we may work
1124 7 | respect of his personality, Proarkê (Before the Beginning),
1125 12 | There would be, in all probability, a formal procedure in the
1126 12 | all probability, a formal procedure in the mode or in the form
1127 14 | Being thus hindered from proceeding further, and being unable
1128 20 | means of those works, which proclaim him at once to be father,
1129 1intro| CONCEALMENT OF ERROR AND SIN TO PROCLAMATION OF TRUTH AND VIRTUE.~The
1130 8 | many as they did themselves procreate. I now give the names of
1131 8 | of fifty and of a hundred procreated? Why, too, are there no
1132 7 | of the entire Pleroma: it procreates Homo (Man) and Ecclesia (
1133 5 | into all doctrines; our own Proculus, the model of chaste old
1134 11 | the case of all these, to procure a complete adjustment among
1135 33 | strength of Voluntas which procures the masculine nature, inasmuch
1136 26 | have it that He, in some prodigious way, clothed Himself with
1137 11 | Him is comprehensible is productive, not of perpetuity, but
1138 11 | XI. THE PROFANE ACCOUNT GIVEN OF THE ORIGIN
1139 18 | Having become a better proficient in practical conduct by
1140 23 | same body, out of the most profitable calamities of Sophia; inasmuch
1141 7 | past in the greatest and profoundest repose, in the extreme rest
1142 37 | Solitariness and Solitude is profoundly supreme. Whatever designation
1143 16 | surveys him calmly, and his prolific equipage. With such energies
1144 5 | self-appointed leaders of their promiscuous followers. Nor shall we
1145 3 | man hesitate at once to pronounce that these are "the fables
1146 32 | with a beard and such like proofs (of virility,) it may be
1147 37 | Solitariness, and Unity, or Union, propagated all the other emanations
1148 19 | imitation of Nus the son of Propator; and whilst the archangels,
1149 1intro| from the truth, who have a propensity for fables, and no discipline
1150 28 | as may be necessary and proper.~
1151 1intro| dignity of their mysteries in proportion to the craving for them
1152 1intro| may well emanate. If you propose to them inquiries sincere
1153 6 | ALTHOUGH WRITING IN LATIN HE PROPOSES TO RETAIN THE GREEK NAMES
1154 6 | wherein we merely undertake to propound this (heretical) mystery,
1155 35 | right in a system which is propounded with such absurd particulars?~
1156 28 | mainly under the plea of protecting the church, for as long
1157 17 | LOVE WITH THE ANGELS. A PROTEST AGAINST THE LASCIVIOUS FEATURES
1158 7 | might Monogenes be called Protogenes (Firstbegotten), since he
1159 26 | whole structure of the world provided; for this purpose also did
1160 15 | was this beneficence of Providence, which induced her to smile,
1161 15 | sadness even so necessary a provision flowed forth for man. O
1162 3 | simplicity, and as merely prudent, who produce such fables
1163 17 | transport,and the delight of her prurient excitement had imbibed and
1164 4 | the subtlety of a serpent. Ptolemaeus afterwards entered on the
1165 34 | CHARACTERISTIC RAILLERY.~Others of purer mind, mindful of the honour
1166 32 | despoiling consists of the putting off of the souls in which
1167 15 | HER SMILE.~Well, now, the Pythagoreans may learn, the Stoics may
1168 16 | aptitude of nature as might qualify it to attain to a reciprocity
1169 2 | wisdom which falls short in quantity, than that which is bad
1170 5 | hear it said of us from any quarter, that we have of our own
1171 1intro| you try them with subtle questions, with the ambiguities of
1172 14 | as we hear the cry "Porro Quirites" ("Out of the way, Romans!"),
1173 16 | Who now felt a dislike to quit the Pleroma, appoints the
1174 8 | Wisdom). I cannot help here quoting from a like example what
1175 7 | sanctity and majesty, a rabble shall I say of criminals
1176 9 | overcome with difficulty, and racked with affection. Thus she
1177 3 | Holy Spirit, it loves the (radiant) East, that figure of Christ.
1178 29 | among superior beings like rain into good souls, that is,
1179 15 | renders men effeminate. The rains of heaven Achamoth whimpered
1180 1intro| knowledge, and apparently raise the dignity of their mysteries
1181 7 | heights, they have hung up, raised and spread out as a dwelling
1182 10 | in this evil plight, she raises her eyes, and turns them
1183 32 | will they end their Sabine rapes with the sanction of wedlock.
1184 32 | But I, too, am no doubt a rash man, in having exposed:
1185 32 | and in this state will be readmitted invisibly to the Heroma
1186 4 | in a divided state, being ready to say (and that sincerely)
1187 1intro| reverend name, obscures a real sacrilege by help of an
1188 36 | steps like these, which are really neither more nor less Gemonian;
1189 11 | AND THE HOLY GHOST STERNLY REBUKED. AN ABSURDITY RESPECTING
1190 13 | OF THE PLEROMA, BRIEFLY RECAPITULATED. TRANSITION' TO THE OTHER
1191 29 | bad souls they say, never receive the blessings of salvation;
1192 16 | Upon this, I suppose, he receives her, confirms and conforms
1193 25 | be found fit for one day receiving the perfect Word. When,
1194 | recently
1195 1intro| however, lies in their secret recesses: there are revealed at last
1196 16 | qualify it to attain to a reciprocity of bodily substances, which
1197 30 | animal) seed, because we are reckoned as sprung from the loves
1198 3 | No man will be ashamed to recognise Him as God whom nature has
1199 15 | occasionally smiled at the recollection of the sight of Christ,
1200 32 | the spiritual, this the recompense of their faith! Such fables
1201 7 | THEIR NAMES AND DESCENT RECORDED.~Beginning with Ennius,
1202 10 | account of the aberration and recovery of Sophia. After her vain
1203 9 | Crux (Cross), and Lytrotes (Redeemer,) and Carpistes(Emancipator).
1204 27 | In this manner do they reduce all things to mere images
1205 39 | out amongst them, from the redundance of their mother's seed.
1206 8 | twelve (to which I have also referred): Paracletus (Comforter)
1207 12 | day. Straightway they were reformed and thoroughly established,
1208 11 | Father, so that they do not refuse us (the attainment of) the
1209 6 | many things which deserve refutation in such a way as to have
1210 5 | of the opinions and their refutations, in carefully written volumes,
1211 5 | at all but what those who refute them are supposed to have
1212 5 | HAVE CAREFULLY AND FULLY REFUTED THE HERESY.THESE THE AUTHOR
1213 3 | therefore, must they be regarded as wanting in simplicity,
1214 26 | has mainly gravitated. As regards the spiritual, however, (
1215 31 | celestial Hebdomad to the higher regions, to his mother's now vacant
1216 14 | angel. She entertains a regret lot Christ immediately after
1217 36 | more sensible are they who, rejecting all this tiresome nonsense,
1218 12 | ship's captain fails to rejoice even with indecent frolic?
1219 9 | to rival Nus, who alone rejoiced in the knowledge of the
1220 11 | nature of their conjugal relations (you see what the whole
1221 23 | XXIII. THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PLEROMA.
1222 11 | illustrious) Monogenes, the Nus, released indeed from all care and
1223 1intro| which they maintain their religious system. Now, in the case
1224 9 | and tardily persuaded, she relinquished further research after the
1225 33 | XXXIII. THESE REMAINING CHAPTERS AN APPENDIX TO
1226 1intro| are now the object of our remarks, the Valentinians, have
1227 10 | pains at self-concealment. Remedies could nowhere be found.
1228 20 | clouds and shrubs. Ptolemy remembered perfectly well the prattle
1229 7 | most agreeable repose to remind him of the need of by and
1230 9 | and dissolved into the remnant of his substance; nor would
1231 3 | deities to another crowd, to remove from a familiar authority
1232 31 | begin with, Achamoth herself removes from the middle region,
1233 6 | explaining the personal names, rendered necessary by the ambiguities
1234 6 | are to use them. Now the rendering of some of these names from
1235 15 | from the same source, which renders men effeminate. The rains
1236 8 | not still left some strong rennet for curdling numbers. As
1237 15 | mystery) which not even the renowned Mercurius Trismegistus,
1238 26 | it and be disciplined by repeated intercourse with it. For
1239 36 | XXXVI. LESS REPREHENSIBLE THEORIES IN THE HERESY.
1240 1intro| virility. But this allegorical representation, under the pretext of nature'
1241 1intro| empty images obviates the reproach of falsehood! In like manner,
1242 29 | nature, which had become reprobate for salvation, they assign
1243 26 | possibly have been more required by any others than by those
1244 9 | Emancipator). When Sophia was thus rescued from danger, and tardily
1245 33 | Monogenes a male bearing a resemblance to Voluntas. For it is the
1246 19 | the work of the Demiurge, resembled the other AEons. Now, when
1247 33 | attention, I have preferred reserving to this place. They have
1248 24 | separated from the earthy residuum, and only afterwards became
1249 16 | BETTER QUALITIES.~She, too, resorts to prayers, after the manner
1250 23 | Sophia, I will on my own responsibility conjecture that its spark
1251 26 | of which He was going. to restore to salvation; in such wise
1252 9 | is her name), unable to restrain herself, breaks away without
1253 9 | THE VAGARIES OF SOPHIA RESTRAINED BY HOROS. GRAND TITLES BORNE
1254 10 | ABERRATIONS OF SOPHIA, AND THE RESTRAINING SERVICES OF HORUS. SOPHIA
1255 7 | Instantaneous conception is the result: Sige becomes pregnant,
1256 6 | IN LATIN HE PROPOSES TO RETAIN THE GREEK NAMES OF THE VALENTINIAN
1257 14 | the Holy Spirit, Christ returns to the Pleroma. It is usual
1258 1intro| secret recesses: there are revealed at last all the aspirations
1259 23 | corporeal creatures, that revealer of all colours, that instrument
1260 12 | well. And why should he not revel in absolute delight? Was
1261 4 | call their presumption a revelation, their own perverse ingenuity
1262 12 | The Father himself also revelled in the glad feeling; of
1263 4 | inflamed with the desire of revenge, he applied himself with
1264 1intro| the pretext of nature's reverend name, obscures a real sacrilege
1265 4 | And why not? When they review that spiritual seed of theirs
1266 31 | world, and the dispensing of reward. As soon as Achamoth has
1267 8 | was once a certain Latin rhetorician, an excessively cool fellow,
1268 6 | the truth may indulge in ridicule, because it is jubilant;
1269 37 | XXXVII. OTHER TURGID AND RIDICULOUS THEORIES ABOUT THE ORIGIN
1270 26 | which they also call "the right-handed," a doubtful issue, inasmuch
1271 9 | overcome with a desire to rival Nus, who alone rejoiced
1272 15 | killed Alexander; and the river of the Lyncestae flowed
1273 7 | Beginning with Ennius, the Roman poet, he simply spoke of "
1274 14 | Quirites" ("Out of the way, Romans!"), or else Fidem Caesaris!" ("
1275 12 | equalization, there was no room for the process of a common
1276 20 | solitude of his eternal exile, rounded a new empire this world (
1277 4 | restless) spirits which, when roused by ambition, are usually
1278 30 | their pleasure. For this rule, (they say), is enjoined
1279 22 | they call him Munditenens (Ruler of the World), and maintain
1280 37 | priestly authority. They run thus: There comes, says
1281 28 | Sorer (Saviour) than he runs to him with haste and joy,
1282 20 | had the additional name of Sabbatum from the hebdomadal nature
1283 32 | Then will they end their Sabine rapes with the sanction
1284 27 | Jesus descended in the sacrament of baptism, in the likeness
1285 1intro| mystery. By the help of the sacred names and titles and arguments
1286 1intro| reverend name, obscures a real sacrilege by help of an arbitrary
1287 15 | produces drunkenness; and the Salmacis was derived from the same
1288 31 | his mother's now vacant saloon by this time knowing her,
1289 15 | she overflowed. She had salt tear-drops, she had bitter,
1290 16 | she meets him with the salutation, kurie kaire (" Hail, Lord ")!
1291 32 | their Sabine rapes with the sanction of wedlock. This will be
1292 7 | simple originals of heretical sanctity and majesty, a rabble shall
1293 15 | are anxiously employed in saving up in our cisterns the very
1294 8 | valour, and wound up with saying, "I come to you, excellent
1295 6 | heresy), still, wherever any scandalous feature shall seem to require
1296 4 | ABLE BUT RESTLESS MAN. MANY SCHISMATICAL LEADERS OF THE SCHOOL MENTIONED.
1297 8 | triumph." And forthwith his scholars begin to shout for the school
1298 1intro| the entire mystery of the sealed tongue, the symbol of virility.
1299 14 | how else would she make search for His light, which was
1300 23 | that instrument of the seasons if the sadness of Sophia
1301 1intro| superstition, it is their secrecy that is their disgrace.
1302 18 | from Achamoth, or if only secretly from her, without his perceiving
1303 30 | DANGEROUS VIEWS OF THIS SECT RESPECTING GOOD WORKS, THAT
1304 24 | dregs of tears as mud is the sediment of waters. Thus does the
1305 3 | condemned, whilst these seeds of heresy were even then
1306 31 | knowing her, without however seeing her. (A happy coincidence!)
1307 2 | waited for by those who "seek Him in simplicity of heart,"
1308 | seem
1309 | seemed
1310 29 | he had been accustomed to select men for kings and for priests;
1311 5 | chief teachers, not with the self-appointed leaders of their promiscuous
1312 10 | case, and took pains at self-concealment. Remedies could nowhere
1313 1intro| a victory over them by a self-immolation. Not even to their own disciples
1314 36 | VALENTINIANISM.~How much more sensible are they who, rejecting
1315 27 | CHRIST OF THE DEMIURGE, SENT INTO THE WORLD BY THE VIRGIN.
1316 39 | XXXIX. THEIR DIVERSITY OF SENTIMENT AFFECTS THE VERY CENTRAL
1317 24 | dried by the waters becoming separated from the earthy residuum,
1318 16 | IMPURITIES ARRANGES MATTER, SEPARATING ITS EVIL FROM THE BETTER
1319 13 | OUTSIDE THE CURTAIN.~In this series, then, is contained the
1320 2 | Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and simple as doves." Now
1321 32 | suppose? Not at all. As servants, then? No, not even so.
1322 8 | a like example what may serve to show the import of these
1323 2 | the dove" has usually served to figure Christ; "the serpent,"
1324 10 | SOPHIA, AND THE RESTRAINING SERVICES OF HORUS. SOPHIA WAS NOT
1325 8 | hall! For why are there not sets of fifty and of a hundred
1326 10 | as well as Horothetes (Setter of Limits). By his assistance
1327 4 | thus we clearly see that, setting aside their customary dissimulation,
1328 20 | terrene. He then completes the sevenfold stages of heaven itself,
1329 35 | Nameless) in the third and the seventh place; from Aoratos came
1330 25 | Achamoth herself had carefully severed off (the same quality),
1331 15 | situation; for she might have shaken off all the obscurity thereof
1332 11 | of two males to be a very shameful thing, or else the one must
1333 10 | although without form or shape, inasmuch as it had apprehended
1334 4 | itself into as many various shapes as a courtezan, who usually
1335 12 | from all danger)? What ship's captain fails to rejoice
1336 3 | of heresy were even then shooting forth? Deservedly, therefore,
1337 2 | that it was children who shouted "Crucify Him"? They were
1338 20 | amidst its fleecy clouds and shrubs. Ptolemy remembered perfectly
1339 26 | sure to fall at last on the side to which it has mainly gravitated.
1340 12 | case of the females, into Siges, into Zoes, into Ecclesias,
1341 15 | the recollection of the sight of Christ, and from this
1342 36 | Gemonian; but that on a given signal the eight-fold emanation,
1343 6 | expended on them. Vain and silly topics are met with especial
1344 1intro| propose to them inquiries sincere and honest, they answer
1345 4 | being ready to say (and that sincerely) of certain points of their
1346 3 | unroll his length through his sinuous joints; let him tortuously
1347 7 | account of their elevated site, or because in Homer he
1348 15 | amidst the horror of her situation; for she might have shaken
1349 35 | Incomprehensible) in the second and the sixth place; from Arrhetos came
1350 19 | a mule from an ass, and sketching Ptolemy from Valentinus.~
1351 20 | nut-trees flourished in the skies. The Demiurge does his work
1352 26 | wonderful and indescribable skill), He wore for a dispensational
1353 24 | and it is this tunic I of skin which is susceptible of
1354 6 | reader regard it as the skirmish before the battle. It will
1355 3 | once, beast as he is that skulks the light. Of our dove,
1356 29 | seed is modest and very small when cast from her hand,
1357 15 | destitution, she occasionally smiled at the recollection of the
1358 9 | breaks away without the society of her husband Theletus,
1359 20 | which Adam partook, when he sojourned there amidst its fleecy
1360 23 | Hebdomad, or rather the Devil, sojourning in this world in common
1361 9 | by birth (never mind the solecism, since Sophia (Wisdom) is
1362 18 | Therefore she applies herself solely to the animal nature, adducing
1363 21 | only being, he uttered this soliloquy: "I am God, and beside me
1364 2 | not of Valentinus, but of Solomon. Then, again, infants have
1365 | somehow
1366 13 | the Father, the most sea sonable help of Horos, the expiation
1367 32 | attendants on Soter. As sons, do you suppose? Not at
1368 28 | Seed, and the Demiurge), no sooner heard of the advent of Sorer (
1369 5 | and martyr; Miltiades, the sophist of the churches Irenaeus,
1370 22 | even because the peculiarly sordid character of his origin
1371 10 | without its effect. All her sorrows operate. Inasmuch as all
1372 32 | and amongst these is the soul of moral man, except when
1373 7 | he simply spoke of "the spacious saloons of heaven," either
1374 23 | responsibility conjecture that its spark was struck out of the delicate
1375 31 | leavened, then shall the end speedily come. Then, to begin with,
1376 30 | bastard to the truth, who spends his life in the world without
1377 8 | and desire of the AEons is spent. As if there were not still
1378 26 | order that He might, in spite of His own unwillingness,
1379 15 | astonished how from her joy so splendid an element could have beamed
1380 7 | the Roman poet, he simply spoke of "the spacious saloons
1381 39 | Others, again, that He rather sprang from the twelve, the offspring
1382 1intro| Scripture, since from its many springs many errors may well emanate.
1383 30 | because we are reckoned as sprung from the loves of Theletus,
1384 31 | region, from the second stage to the highest, since she
1385 20 | completes the sevenfold stages of heaven itself, with his
1386 7 | each god by just as many staircases as there were heresies.
1387 4 | variety, indeed, innovation is stamped on the very face of their
1388 10 | there is this variation of statement about the Father's sex.
1389 32 | invisibly to the Heroma stealthily, if the case admits of the
1390 36 | descended from another by steps like these, which are really
1391 11 | CHRIST AND THE HOLY GHOST STERNLY REBUKED. AN ABSURDITY RESPECTING
1392 15 | Pythagoreans may learn, the Stoics may know, Plato himself (
1393 20 | heavy, light, erect and stooping, celestial and terrene.
1394 | STOP
1395 9 | Father. But when Sophia, straining after impossible aims, was
1396 10 | all evils, and henceforth strengthened (in virtue), and restored
1397 27 | producing Achamoth, had been stretched upon the cross, that is,
1398 10 | Father. Having, however, striven in vain, as her strength
1399 8 | were not still left some strong rennet for curdling numbers.
1400 18 | animal nature, adducing the structions of Soter (for her guidance).
1401 27 | corruption of all the other stuffing. For after the precedent
1402 7 | may use the expression, stupid divinity, such as Epicurus
1403 16 | whole body of the AEons, by subjecting them all to him, so that "
1404 27 | cross, that is, Horos, in a substantial though not a cognizable
1405 35 | COMES IN QUESTION. ABSURD SUBSTITUTES FOR BYTHUS CRITICISED BY
1406 24 | afterwards placed over the clayey substratum, and it is this tunic I
1407 1intro| profound." If you try them with subtle questions, with the ambiguities
1408 4 | path for himself with the subtlety of a serpent. Ptolemaeus
1409 28 | prospect how that he is to succeed to his mother's place. Being
1410 33 | Cogitatio alone was not sufficient wherewith to produce any
1411 20 | then, that she did not suggest the fact, since she was
1412 19 | which all the names are suggested; since all of them ought
1413 1intro| liking, out of the affluent suggestions of Holy Scripture, since
1414 30 | on any pretence which may suit their pleasure. For this
1415 6 | others, the genders, are not suitable; while others, again, are
1416 15 | bituminous, and ferruginous, and sulphurous, and even poisonous, so
1417 23 | the most elevated of all summits presides the tricenary Pleroma,
1418 3 | Lamia, and the horns of the sun? Let, however, any man approach
1419 9 | UNEQUAL IN ATTRIBUTES. THE SUPERIORITY OF NUS; THE VAGARIES OF
1420 1intro| very heresy of Athenian superstition, it is their secrecy that
1421 15 | not to be obliged to turn suppliant to those who had deserted
1422 10 | Her entire kindred also supplicates in her behalf, and especially
1423 14 | further, and being unable to surmount the Cross, that is to say,
1424 12 | fruit, Jesus. Him they also surname Soter (Saviour) and Christ,
1425 21 | believe that Sophia has the surnames of earth and of Mother "
1426 10 | offspring. Does this excite your surprise? Well, even the hen has
1427 12 | will be his eminence when surrounded by attendants who are co-equal
1428 16 | modesty; but afterwards she surveys him calmly, and his prolific
1429 1intro| mould their opinions by this suspension of full knowledge, and apparently
1430 21 | he had, at any rate, some suspicion of the existence of some
1431 9 | affection. Thus she was all but swallowed up by reason of the charm
1432 32 | nothing but the spiritual swarm of Valentinus. There, then,
1433 15 | tear-drops, she had bitter, and sweet, and warm, and cold, and
1434 37 | a master who is a great swell among them, and who has
1435 8 | Acinetos (Immoveable) and Syncrasis (Commixture,) Monogenes (
1436 8 | Love), Ainos (Praise) and Synesis (Intelligence), Ecclesiasticus (
1437 1intro| ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES. BOTH SYSTEMS ALIKE IN PREFERRING CONCEALMENT
1438 32 | Pleroma I have already said so tacitly even become the parent by
1439 31 | garner, or, after it has been taken to the mill and ground to
1440 | taking
1441 34 | therefore very likely they talk of "this deity" in the neuter
1442 9 | rescued from danger, and tardily persuaded, she relinquished
1443 6 | so at last I enter on my task.~
1444 5 | original tenets of their chief teachers, not with the self-appointed
1445 1intro| although truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by first
1446 7 | to be the first fourfold team of the Valentinian set (
1447 15 | illuminating smile! O irrigating tear! And yet it might now have
1448 15 | overflowed. She had salt tear-drops, she had bitter, and sweet,
1449 7 | as to his essence, Aiôn teleos (Perfect AEon), but in respect
1450 2 | Christ; "the serpent," to tempt Him. The one even from the
1451 7 | would imagine to be detached tenements in some happy isle of the
1452 11 | these several positions the tenet, I suppose, is insinuated,
1453 5 | lies along the original tenets of their chief teachers,
1454 20 | stooping, celestial and terrene. He then completes the sevenfold
1455 7 | have an Ogdoad, a double Tetra, out of the conjunctions
1456 38 | the Ogdoad into a pair of Tetrads, a right hand one and a
1457 32 | middle region. We are duly thankful; we shall be content to
1458 11 | enabled to offer up their thanksgiving, and be introduced to a
1459 12 | Nuses, into Homos, into Theletuses; and so in the case of the
1460 28 | his mother's place. Being thenceforth free from all care, he carries
1461 4 | and the magician Marcus. Theotimus worked hard about "the images
1462 | therein
1463 3 | will be ashamed to give ear thereto. No man will be ashamed
1464 8 | Pleroma, the fulness of the thirty-fold divinity. Let us see what
1465 12 | reason by the above-mentioned thorough equalization, there was
1466 3 | offend faith on the very threshold. Now, even suppose that
1467 20 | heaven itself, with his own throne above all. Whence he had
1468 16 | confirmed by practice he throws together; and when he had
1469 6 | if only with a passing thrust. Let the reader regard it
1470 14 | her condition; for another tide of emotion still overwhelmed
1471 12 | the mark, if these idle title-mongers had called him Pancarpian,
1472 9 | reason of the charm and toil (of her research), and dissolved
1473 6 | on them. Vain and silly topics are met with especial fitness
1474 32 | nuptials, instead of the torch and veil, I suppose that
1475 3 | sinuous joints; let him tortuously crawl, though not all at
1476 18 | however, she was unable to touch, inasmuch as she was herself
1477 26 | persons, and of being seen and touched by them, and even of dying.
1478 13 | FIRST PART OF THE SUBJECT, TOUCHING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
1479 3 | she sang to you about the towers of Lamia, and the horns
1480 4 | IV. THE HERESY TRACEABLE TO VALENTINUS, AN ABLE BUT
1481 25 | and the perfection of man; tracing this perfection from Achamoth,
1482 10 | where, then, should we have tragedies and comedies, from which
1483 13 | the first scene of the tragedy. The rest of the play, however,
1484 26 | nature) was in want of training even by the senses: for
1485 11 | be introduced to a true tranquillity.~
1486 19 | honour of the AEons, they yet transfer this work to Soter as its
1487 39 | and the Life were suitably transferred to Him. Others, again, that
1488 30 | should we in any point transgress the yoke of discipline,
1489 13 | BRIEFLY RECAPITULATED. TRANSITION' TO THE OTHER PART, WHICH
1490 25 | Demiurge commits to Adam the transmission of his own vital principle,
1491 17 | the violence of her joyous transport,and the delight of her prurient
1492 23 | intermediate space for her abode, treading down her son. For under
1493 20 | the sea, and fishes on the tree; after the same fashion,
1494 20 | perhaps he is unaware that trees ought to be planted only
1495 17 | leash of natures, from a triad of causes, one material,
1496 30 | powers of this world at the tribunals of the chief magistrates!
1497 23 | all summits presides the tricenary Pleroma, Horos marking off
1498 9 | him lay, both wished and tried to impart to the others
1499 38 | VALENTINUS.~Secundus is a trifle more human, as he is briefer:
1500 15 | even the renowned Mercurius Trismegistus, master (as he was) of all