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 1 1|         from Him made the lower world; and that, because light
 2 1|    heavens were formed, and the world, in honour of Abraxas, whose
 3 1|     angels, those who made this world, he places the God of the
 4 1|        not by this maker of the world, but by the above-named
 5 2|      Because the powers of this world were unwilling that Christ
 6 3|     upper Virtues, created this world in the lower regions: that
 7 3|      For he, too, says that the world was originated by those
 8 3|          in that he affirms the world to have been made by God,
 9 4|        however, originated this world out of those material essences
10 6|        being the creator of the world. He repudiates the prophecies
11 6|         have it appear that the world. was originated in imitation
12 6|         imitation of a superior world. With this lower world he
13 6| superior world. With this lower world he mingled throughout (a
14 6|      perfectly as that superior world had been originated. The