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 1  Text   |      make war with the [P. 196.] Light ? For lo, that adversary
 2  Text   |        because he is akin to the Light their adversary, or he is
 3  Text   |       And then, in the nature of Light also is there an adversary ?
 4  Text   |         O Mani ? The Dark or the Light ? If the Dark was greater,
 5  Text   |         could not be overcome by Light. But if Sons of the Dark
 6  Text   |         know how the Sons of the Light may return to their place.
 7  Text   |     coming from all quarters the Light which is in all quarters
 8  Text   |       refining and cleansing the Light from the Darkness, and the
 9  Text   |          avoid shame. For how is Light refined in the mouth of
10  Text   |         Plato knew the Virgin of Light . . .7 and the Mother of
11  Text(6)|          quite legible in a good light. Evidently the feggoka&toxos (
12  Text   |  Darkness made an assault on the Light and desired it, while Hermes
13  Text   |     Darkness (he says) loved the Light its opposite'—and how does
14  Text   |        it? And how did Fire love Light? How, pray, will it be benefited
15  Text   |         their faces ! And so the Light makes no distinction between
16  Text   |         necessarily follows that Light also (was mixed) with Light!
17  Text   |      Light also (was mixed) with Light! Now that these Natures
18  Text   |           against the Element of Light it would cast it. For opposite
19  Text   |         cannot set in motion the Light of the Sun.~ ~But if the
20  Text   |      acquired brightness and the Light extension and Water flow,
21  Text   |       Darkness to smoke, and the Light and the Fire and the Wind . . ~[
22  Text   |         the very same thing come Light, Wind, Darkness, experiment,
23  Text   |       colours ; for he said 'the Light is white, the Fire is red,
24  Text   | therefore what is the texture of Light, and what is the taste of
25  Text   |     above the Fire ; and because Light is lighter than Wind it
26  Text   |          their Natures teach us, light and heavy, would not 'the
27  Text   |            For how can heavy and light things in one rank or in
28  Text   |          the skirts of the upper Light,' when it 'made an assault
29  Text   |        of the lowest part of the Light' only destroyed? And therefore
30  Text   |     Darkness has been mixed with Light, a word that may seem probable
31  Text   |        bound [Natures], that is, Light and Wind and Water and Fire . . .
32  Text   |      what sheath-skins belong to Light and to Wind and to Fire
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