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The Gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval (1887)

King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, D. Nutt · leaf 83

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KMAINS. O i boforo proccculing to consider tlio tangible luoiiunicntH left uhby those iiloas, it will bo nocos.sary to give soino account of theforms in which they attained to their fullest development.For this purpose I shall select the three principal systems, re-presented by historians as tlie… … Fig. 3. 58 THE GNOSTICS AND THEIK REMAINS. SIMONIANISM. It is my intentiou here to exhibit the system of SimonMagus, a native of Gitteh in Samaria, and I will prove thatfrom him all those that come after have derived the elementsof their doctrines, and impudently attempted the same thingsunder…

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