Contents
- Introductory. Tertullian Compares the Heresy to the Old Eleusinian Mysteries…
- These Heretics Brand the Christians as Simple Persons. The Charge Accepted, and…
- The Folly of This Heresy. It Dissects and Mutilates the Deity. Contrasted With…
- The Heresy Traceable to Valentinus, an Able But Restless Man. Many Schismatical…
- Many Eminent Christian Writers Have Carefully and Fully Refuted the Heresy…
- Although Writing in Latin He Proposes to Retain the Greek Names of the…
- The First Eight Emanations, or Æons, Called the Ogdoad, Are the Fountain of All…
- The Names and Descent of Other Æons; First Half a Score, Then Two More, and…
- Other Capricious Features in the System. The Æons Unequal in Attributes. The…
- Another Account of the Strange Aberrations of Sophia, and the Restraining…
- The Profane Account Given of the Origin of Christ and the Holy Ghost Sternly…
- The Strange Jumble of the Pleroma. The Frantic Delight of the Members Thereof…
- First Part of the Subject, Touching the Constitution of the Pleroma, Briefly…
- The Adventures of Achamoth Outside the Pleroma. The Mission of Christ in…
- Strange Account of the Origin of Matter, From the Various Affections of…
- Achamoth Purified From All Impurities of Her Passion by the Paraclete, Acting…
- Achamoth in Love With the Angels. A Protest Against the Lascivious Features of…
- Blasphemous Opinion Concerning the Origin of the Demiurge, Supposed to Be the…
- Palpable Absurdities and Contradictions in the System Respecting Achamoth and…
- The Demiurge Works Away at Creation, as the Drudge of His Mother Achamoth, in…
- The Vanity as Well as Ignorance of the Demiurge. Absurd Results From So…
- Origin of the Devil, in the Criminal Excess of the Sorrow of Achamoth. The…
- The Relative Positions of the Pleroma. The Region of Achamoth, and the Creation…
- The Formation of Man by the Demiurge. Human Flesh Not Made of the Ground, But…
- An Extravagant Way of Accounting for the Communication of the Spiritual Nature…
- The Three Several Natures--The Material, the Animal, and the Spiritual, and…
- The Christ of the Demiurge, Sent Into the World by the Virgin. Not of Her. He…
- The Demiurge Cured of His Ignorance by the Saviour's Advent, From Whom He Hears…
- The Three Natures Again Adverted to. They Are All Exemplified Amongst Men. For…
- The Lax and Dangerous Views of This Sect Respecting Good Works. That These Are…
- At the Last Day Great Changes Take Place Amongst the Æons as Well as Among Men…
- Indignant Irony Exposing the Valentinian Fable About the Judicial Treatment of…
- These Remaining Chapters an Appendix to the Main Work. In This Chapter…
- Other Varying Opinions Among the Valentinians Respecting the Deity…
- Yet More Discrepancies. Just Now the Sex of Bythus Was an Object of Dispute…
- Less Reprehensible Theories in the Heresy. Bad is the Best of Valentinianism
- Other Turgid and Ridiculous Theories About the Origin of the Æons and Creation…
- Diversity in the Opinions of Secundus, as Compared With the General Doctrine of…
- Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very Central Doctrine of Christianity…