Section 61 (Page 293)
VALENTINUS
PLATONIS ASSECLA.
dum.
1Plato vero rursus materiam dicit, et exemplum, et Deum. lib. h.
Quos isti 2sequentes, figuras ilhus et exemplum imagines seorum ""■^i1 quae sunt sursum, vocaverunt, per demutationem nominis semetxiYa m. 134. ipsos inventores et faetores hujusmodi imaginariie fictionis gloriantes. xn. vii. cf. Philostr. vit. Apoll. m. xix.
Grote, H. Gr. Pt.
11. c.
19. visible to certain favoured individuals of the human race (a purely Indian idea, Plato vero rursus materiam dicit
Cf. COLEBROOKE,
Trans, of R. As. SoC. I.
37).
Hence Sextcs Empir. says of etc.] Apuleius lib. de doctrina Platonis: Initia rcrum tria arbitrabatur Plato,
I. him, rb Si tttuKa elvai £v rep irepiexovrt Deum, et materiam, rerumque formas, inreptpvfj Kal dvOpuTroeiSels tx0VTa fiopipas, Kal KaBbXov roiavra biroTa /Soi/Xerai ai'mp quas ISias idem vocat.
Cyrillus lib. 11. contra Julianum ante medium, Kal irdXtv dxairXdYreo'
Atj/idicptTos, ltavreXCit tart.
SvffirapdScKTov. adv. Phys. IX. 41.
And in an earlier section of the same book /uV Srj Seivbs Kal Stafijirros nxdVuM' rptis dpxas ctvai rov irayrbs Sioptferat, b
he says that Democritus affirmed these Qebv, Kal vXrjr, koI fZSos'
Kal Qebv flip t'rai tp-qat rbv Troir/rrjv' vXrjv Si rb viroKel- (!Sio\a to be the Deity.
Ar/fi&Kpiros Si tlS(a\d riva <p-naw ipLir^dfrety rots avdptbp-evw eTSos Si rb iKdarov rdv yivopUvwv TrapdSiiyna.
Gr. nXdVopos rpeis dpxas wots, Kal rofrurv ra fiiv ttvat ayaBotroia, ra Si KaKOiroid' (vQev Kal e^xerai eti\6ywv rov Tavrbs eTvai \iyovros, Qebv Kal vKtjv Kal eftos. Jlst. M. Coh. adGr. rvxeiv elSuXoW thai Si ravra p.cyd\a re Cf. also Menag. n.
69 in Diog.
Laert. Lib. in. who says, 41, that 6.
Kal inrepneyiOr), Kal SvatpBapra /lie, ovk AtpBapra Si, irpoartp-alvew re ra fiiWovra rots dvBpu)irais, Utujpo&pLCva Kal tfttavas itpihrra.
"OBev rovrwv avrwv <patnaalav was dualistic. it Auo Si tQv Trdvrwv diritprjvev dpxas, Bebv Kal vXrjv.
The undamental principles with Plato as with Aristotle were f \a@6irr€s ol va\aiol virevbrjaav etvat Btbv, two, viz. Mind and Matter.
The Plato pvnSevbs iXXov vapa ravra Svros Beov rov nic ISiat were rather the modal subsist AtpBaprov ipiaiv txorrot. ib.
19.
Demo critus is said to have derived much of ence of the Divine Mind, and therefore of a more subordinate character.
Hippolytus follows Iren^eus in his account, his system from Eastern Magi left at Alxlera by Xerxes, Dior,. Laeht. IX. § 34.
Plato also, in the Phcedo and else Si vepl WKdrtava ile rptuiv thai ravra oi where, indicates the foreign origin of Xtyovat, Bcbv Kal vKrjv Kal irapdSetyp.a, Philos. x.
Plutarch likewise says in the same way that Plato's system involved rpets dpxas, rbv 0cbv, ri)» CXr/v, portions of his system, and in the Timojut
7. puts into the mouth of the barbarian instructor of Socrates the words, "EXX17rr)v ISiav. de Plac. Phil. 1. 10. yes vptfts del TratSh iare' ytpav Si "EXX7jx
Hippolttus traces the notions of Valentinus to the Timseus as his text oiSeli, ov yip Ixere udOrifia xpwy 7roX(6y, * implying the exotic nature of the Greek p.iv ol>v &px*l rfy inrodiaews philosophy.
What therefore is more book ij ; probable than that the formt of Demo critus, and the ideas of Plato, should iv Tip Tifialtp rov IIXdTWPOs aoepla Alyvirriwv.
VI.
11. icrriv 7i The Clerm.
MS. omits eorum, but have descended from the same source as
is, the Cabbalistic Sephiroth, that certainly required.
The Greek from it is the traditions of the earliest Eastern was scarcely rdt dW eUbvas, but rat rwv dVw eUbvas.
Tlie same MS. for The arithmetical mysticism of Pythagoras was also derived from theosophy ? hujusmodi has the corrupt reading hujus mundi. the East.
See Hitter, Hint, de la Phil.
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Et hoc autem quod ex subjecta materia dicunt fabricaLIB. II. xviii. 4.
'ipAs's h*" torem fecisse mundum, et 'Anaxagoras, et 2 Empedocles, et 3PJato xiv. 4. primi ante hos dixerunt; ut videlicet datur intelligi, et ipsi a Matre sua inspirati.
Quod autem ex 3 necessitate unumquodque in ilia secedit, ex quibus et factum esse dicunt; et hujus necessitatis 4servum esse Deum, ita ut non possit mortali immortalitatem 1 Anaxagoras, as might be imagined, NtiKos t' ov\6p.emy Six", tuv, irdXavTov held firmly the tenet of all physical awdvTtj, Kal (pi\lij peri Toitriv, torj [irjubt re v\dphilosophers, ex nViilo nil fit; (oiKe 'Ava^aybpas outus diretpa olyj8ijvai ri tos re, and it is added, 1% Kal TrapaSlSwri ris {rroixeta, bid rb uiroXa^Sdvetv, ttjv KOivijp So^v tuc tpvatKujv elvai d.\i)dT), uiy ou twv ti\wv dpxis, S' fiev v\iKas, yijv, vSwp, yivop-bou ouSevbs ix tou fiy Svtos. Arist.
Trvp, dipa'
Suo Si rets SpaeTTjplovs, <pC\Lav Phys. I. 5.
Kal vetKos.
X. c. 7.
Compare vn.
29. s Empedocles also shewed himself a 1 Empedocles seems to haveborrowed
a portion of his opinions at second-hand complete fatalist, as IiiKX.trs states ; through Pythagoras from the Persian "Eoti? dvdyKijs xPV/^i &edv iprjtpiffpxi Magi.
According to his instructor, the ■naXalov, good principle, or tpMa, was eternally 'AtSiov, TrXare'effffi KaTeatppyjyujpAvov Bpopposed by the evil principle, or ceiVos, KOIS. the four elements also were co-eternal with these principles.
Hippolytus But in this again he only followed his instructor Pythagoras, who held the quotes verses of Empedocles, some of which are met with in Sextub Empir. same; eluapp^vijv re tojv 6\wv koI Kara fUpci alrlav elvai ttjs Siotrfaews.
But this fate resolves itself into a Divine and other writers, and have been col lected by Karsten, while others are harmony, when it is added in the sequel, recovered for the first time in the PhiloTrp> t* dperty apfiovlav elvai Kal rty sopkumena.
The four material prin vyletaVj Kal rb iyadbv dwav, Kal rbv 6e6v. ciples are described as Aid Kal KaO' appiovlav aweardvai ret 5Xa.
Tiaaapa twv Trdvruv (n^iifiara wpCrrov Qiklav t' elvai ivappMviov lobTijTa. Plut. v. Pyth. viii.
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A pure fatalism was &KOVC Zeis ipyfy, "H/"? re ipeplafiios, ifi' 'Aiheld by the Gnostic Perate ; raXoiVi
Si Swveis avroifs Hepdras pnjSiv Svvaadai vofdfovres two er yeviffet KaderniKbrwv Siatpvyctv Nij<rm 6' ij SaKpuois rfyyei Kpoivufia ppoTciov.
T^v diro rijs yeviaews rots yeyevtjpAvon Where Hippolytus says, Zeis i<rrt to CipusjLirrpi funpav. Hipp. Philoi.
16.
3 Ex subjecta materia, v\rp> Si rV iraaav viroKeip.e'vTjv \iyei (6 IlXdruv sc.) vup'
"H/>?/ Si tpepioplioSj tj yrj ij tpipouaa tovs vpbs rbv pMov Kapirois'
'AXSuveis Si, b iiip, Sri irdvra St' airrov ^XlvovTts, rjv Kal Se^ap-ivrjv Kal TiBfyrji/ Ka\eT Trjv air 01V iTXip dpxty efoai Kal ciyp&vov alrrbv oi KaOopG>p.ev' vfjoris Si rb uSwp, pJbvov yip touto JxVa Tpo<pijs atriov
Xpovov Ttp detp 7avrrjvt Kal dyevvrfrov rbv K&auov.
'Ek yip avTov ffvveaTaval tpyew yivbfievov iraoi rots Tpe<pouivois, avrb /catf' airrb rpitpeiv ou Suvdp.evov ri Tpe<p6fxeva.
Philoa. VII.
29.
Afterwards the verses avrbv. ... To 5^ vapdSeiypu rrjv Sidvoiav tou Seou elvat, b Kal ISias KakeX, otov ukoare repeated with the addition of two vlap.ari Trpoaixw Trj if'vxv & 6fo> Ta TtdvTa eSri/uoupyct.
HlPP. Philmoph. I. that describe the antagonising moral See note l, p. 293. principles of good and evil, similarly * tervum cm Deum.
Jupiter himnamed by Pytiiagoras, Phil. VI.
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