Section 3
xvi Ophites or Naassenes, lxxviii.
; origin of the name investigated, ibid, lxxix. ; their system a fusion of Cabbalistic notions with heathen mysteries, lxxx. ; man the subject of two distinct acts of creation, Hid. ; origin of soul, necessity of baptismal regeneration, lxxxi. ; though in a heathen sense, lxxxii. ; Light the creative principle, lxxxiii.
; the Ophic Nus evolved, ib. ; fall of man, lxxxiv. ; Ophite worship and Christology, ib. ; not strictly Docetic, lxxxv. ; a perversion of certain important Christian doctrines, lxxxvi.
Peratse of Chaldsea, astrological fatalists, Ixxxvii.
Saturninus, last of the Samaritan following, lxxxviii.
; copied Simon, and mediately Zoroaster, lxxxix. ; two distinct races of men, by nature good and bad, xc. ; vegetarian and Docetic, ib.
Basilides, a Syrian, engrafted on the theories of Simon Peripatetic and Pla tonic principles, xci. xcii. ; negative term for the Deity, ib. ; probable
meaning, xciii. ; held the Diarchic theory, xciv. ; still in subordination to one supreme principle, xcv.
Creation Bpoken of Peripatetice, rather than Platcmice, xcvi. ; Atheistic in language, not in idea, ib. ; his Cosmogony, originating from Light, xcvii. xcviii.
Three vlbrifrcs, and angelic essences evolved, xcix.— ci. ; Demiurge, ci. ; Gospel light kindling as flame, cii. ciii. ; later Platonism compared, civ. ; varying accounts examined, cvi. —cix.
Valentinus an Egyptian, ex. ; gave a strong Oriental colouring to his Platonic and Pythagorean notions, cxi. ; copied Basilides, cxii. —cxv. p Three groups of .lEons, cxvi. ; as in the Egyptian Theogonia, cxvii. ; rationale of the Ogdoad, cxx. exxi. ; of the Decad and Dodecad, exxii. exxiii.
Enthymesis in relation with Gnosis, exxv.
; Passion eliminated from the Pleroma and materialised, exxvii.
Valentinian Christology, exxviii. ; a fourfold Christ, exxix.
Formation of Achamoth, ib. exxxii. ; origin of matter, exxx.
; philosophical analogies, exxxi. ; introduction of evil, exxxiii. ; and of the spiritual principle, ibid. ; Seftiv xai iplaTepov, ib. exxxiv. ; Demiurge, exxxvi ; Hebdomas, exxxvii. ; Cosmocrator, exxxviji.
Creation of man as a quadruple compound, cxl. ; Docetic view of Christ, cxli. ; gift of Spirit indefectible, ib. cxlii. ; moral effect of this doctrine, cxlii. ; Valentinian theory of inspiration, cxliii.
The Valentinian scheme in closer contact with the Platonic system, than with the East, cxliv. ; still certain striking analogies with Oriental theories, cxlvi. ; the system popular rather than lasting, ib.
Mansion's three principles, cxlvii. ; Christology Docetic, cxlviii. ; symbolised with the Encratitse, cxlix. ; repudiated Jewish and heathen systems alike, ci. ; vitality of his system, cli.