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 1     I, prooe|          it requisite to bring to light their secret doctrines,
 2     I, prooe|       deemed worthy to behold the light, since not even irrational
 3     I, prooe|          to behold, in an obvious light, the clandestine rites of
 4     I, prooe|    supplies, not only bringing to light, by means of our refutation,
 5     I, 2    |        mother, and that father is light, but mother darkness; and
 6     I, 2    |         darkness; and that of the light the parts are hot, dry,
 7     I, 2    |          are hot, dry, not heavy, light, swift; but of darkness,
 8     I, 7    |         And that the moon has not light of its own, but from the
 9     I, 7    |        way is a reflection of the light of the stars which do not
10     I, 8    |          so that the sun diffused light over the earth, and made
11     I, 21   |          These affirm that God is light, not such as one sees, nor
12     I, 21   |   perceived by the wise. And this light which they say is discourse,
13    IV, 28   |    letters to come once more into light; and by these he ascertains
14    IV, 37   |          candle, emitting a faint light from a higher position than
15    IV, 37   |     faintly burning; and then the light, that which streams from
16    IV, 43   |          the Deity is luminous, a light contained in air. The Babylonians,
17    IV, 43   |         ninety perfect parts. And light has been appropriated to
18    IV, 43   |          to the duad, and life to light, according to nature, and
19    IV, 44   |          good, as right and left, light and darkness, night and
20     V, 2    |           all, it is as it were a light not set under a bushel,
21     V, 2    |         and Christ will give thee light."~This is the Christ who,
22     V, 4    |         has never beheld the true light, "which lighteneth every
23     V, 5    |         holding sway, it eyes the light,~And now it weeps on misery
24     V, 7    |       opportunity for bringing to light the secret mysteries of
25     V, 11   |     heaven, always conspicuous in light. This, he says, is the great
26     V, 14   |          says, the substances are light and darkness; and of these,
27     V, 14   |      darkness which is below, and light which is above. It is not
28     V, 14   |         by words. Since, however, light is above and darkness below,
29     V, 14   |          between these; and since light is so constituted, that,
30     V, 14   |           the power of spirit and light simultaneously exists in
31     V, 14   |        terrible water, into which light is absorbed and translated
32     V, 14   |         conscious that, where the light has been abstracted from
33     V, 14   |       lustre and scintillation of light with the fragrance of the
34     V, 14   |          perceptive power, so the light and spirit seek after the
35     V, 14   |       distributed, along with the light, the fragrance of the Spirit
36     V, 14   | generation, it holds together the light scattered from above along
37     V, 14   |      different species. And this (light) is a perfect God, who from
38     V, 14   |         of existent things, and a light of darkness. And it struggles
39     V, 14   | solicitude actuating the supernal light is as to how and in what
40     V, 14   |          above, from that perfect light, (and) was overpowered in
41     V, 14   |      generation. After, then, the light and the spirit had been
42     V, 14   |          perfect Word of supernal light being therefore assimilated (
43     V, 15   |        ruentes" appears to be the light (which exists), according
44     V, 15   |        the flow from above of the light downwards. Wherefore one
45     V, 15   |          dark, ought, because the light has set (over it), to convey
46     V, 15   |       spark borne clown from (the light) itself; in the assertion
47     V, 16   |           like manner, the ray of light which has been com-mingled
48     V, 16   |          the Logos is still: (the light, I say, hastens to the Logos
49     V, 21   |     heaven above, and beholding a light superior to that which He
50     V, 21   |          returned to Him from the light, saying, "This is the gate
51    VI, 7    |       takes unto itself an art, a light of existent things is produced;
52    VI, 33   |           a left tetrad,--namely, light and darkness. And he affirms
53    VI, 42   |         manifested to the sons of light the regeneration that had
54   VII, 8    |   heretics bring this (system) to light as if it were peculiarly
55   VII, 10   |           by Moses: "Let there be light, and there was light." Whence
56   VII, 10   |           be light, and there was light." Whence he says, came the
57   VII, 10   |          Whence he says, came the light? From nothing. For it has
58   VII, 10   |         was spoken, "Let there be light." And this, he says, is
59   VII, 10   |         Gospels: "He was the true light, which lighteth every man
60   VII, 14   |        Archon of the Hebdomad the light which Himself possessed
61   VII, 14   |          for man to declare." The light, (therefore,) which came
62   VII, 14   |        being illuminated with the light that shone upon him. This,
63   VII, 14   |         firmly connected with the light which from above shone down (
64  VIII, 2    |    eternal (entities) constituted light. Light, however, was not
65  VIII, 2    |      entities) constituted light. Light, however, was not devoid
66  VIII, 2    |           any (other power). But (light) proportionately with the
67  VIII, 2    |         security and profusion of light, did not allow his brilliant
68  VIII, 2    |     divided the darkness from the light, and called the light which
69  VIII, 2    |         the light, and called the light which was above the firmament
70  VIII, 2    |           which is generated from light, from whence the Great Archon
71  VIII, 2    |           for the transmission of light. Now Moses has employed,
72  VIII, 2    |        because all the species of light pass down from above by
73  VIII, 3    |         after he became fire from light, proceeded to create the
74  VIII, 3    |       those eternal attributes of light which, (being) from above,
75  VIII, 3    |      reason of the Deity of fiery light, (that is,) the Demiurge,
76  VIII, 3    |          as He wishes it. Now the light of vision accomplishes the
77  VIII, 3    |      there are that belong to the light of the eye, and enveloped
78  VIII, 5    |      without being predestinated, light was generated simultaneously
79    IX, 5    |   Therefore neither darkness, nor light, nor evil, nor good, Heraclitus
80     X, 7    | principles, the Sethians say, are light and darkness. And in the
81     X, 7    |     darkness, which is below, and light, which is above. It is not
82     X, 7    |    express. Since, therefore, the light is above and the darkness
83     X, 7    |   intermediate between these, the light, also, as a ray of sun,
84     X, 7    |          of the spirit and of the light is below, in the darkness
85     X, 7    |    horrible water, into which the light along with the spirit is
86     X, 7    |         and knowing that when the light has been removed from it
87     X, 7    |            and a scintillation of light, along with the fragrance
88     X, 7    |            and from the brilliant light. And they affirm that mind
89     X, 7    |         the entire anxiety of the light above is, that it may deliver
90     X, 7    |     perfect Logos of the supernal light, underwent a transformation,
91     X, 7    |        the scintillation from the light. And that this is what has
92     X, 12   |         This, then, was the great light of the AEons--it was entirely
93     X, 12   |        Docetae maintain that this light, on proceeding into the
94     X, 12   |    darkness and the simplicity of light, proceeded to create heaven;
95     X, 12   |   separated the darkness from the light. As all the species of the
96     X, 12   |          having been generated by light. And from this (source),