ISBN: 9781232405900

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 468 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.9in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 468 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.9in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: . . . those tending upwards as well as of those tending downwards. He created also seven heavens, above which they say that he, the Demiurge, exists. And on this account they term him Hebdomas, and his mother Achamoth Ogdoads, preserving the number of the first-begotten and primary Ogdoad as the Pleroma. They affirm, moreover, that these seven heavens are intelligent, and speak of them as being angels, while they refer to the Demiurge himself as being ar angel bearing a likeness to God; and in the same strain, they declare that Paradise, situated above the third heaven, is a fourth angel possessed of power, from whom Adam derived certain qualities while he conversed with him. 3. They go on to say that the Demiurge imagined that he created all these things of himself, while he in reality made them in conjunction with the productive power of Achamoth. He formed the heavens, yet was ignorant of the heavens; he fashioned man, yet knew not man; he brought to light the earth, yet had no acquaintance with the earth; and, in like manner, they declare that he was ignorant of the forms of all that he made, and knew not even of the existence of his own mother, but imagined that he himself was all things. They further affirm 3 Metropator, as proceeding only from his mother Achamoth: Apator, as having no male progenitor. 6 Harvey remarks, The Valentinian Saviour being an aggregation of all the aeonic perfections, the images of them were reproduced by the spiritual conception of Achamoth beholding the glory of 2wrjp. The reader will not fail to observe that every successive development is the reflex of a more divine antecedent. The relation indicated seems to be as follows: Achamoth, after being formed according to knowledge, was outside of the Plero. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<