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Exposition of the Valentinian and Gnostic heresies

1. Preface
   Forasmuch as there are some, who, putting the truth away from them,...
2. Chapter 1
   They affirm that there is in certain high places unseen and unnamed,...
3. Chapter 2
   To proceed. Their First Father they affirm to be known unto none...
4. Chapter 3
   These then are the transactions spoken of by them as taking place...
5. Chapter 4
   Now the transactions without the Pleroma, stated by them, are as follows....
6. Chapter 5
   Having now therefore these three ingredients given her, by their account: the...
7. Chapter 6
   There being then three principles; the material, first of all, which they...
8. Chapter 7
   Now when the whole seed is made perfect, Achamoth their mother, they...
9. Chapter 8
   Now such being their Theory, which neither Prophets proclaimed, nor the Lord...
10. Chapter 9
    Thou seest, dearly beloved, their craft, which they that use deceive themselves,...
11. Chapter 10
    For, as to the Church, dispersed as she is through the whole...
12. Chapter 11
    Let us now take a view also of the unstable mind of...
13. Chapter 12
    But Ptolemy and his set—he being, as we are told, yet more...
14. Chapter 13
    A certain other also there is of their party, boasting to be...
15. Chapter 14
    This Mark then, affirming himself most entirely by himself to have been...
16. Chapter 15
    Thus then doth their Silence, full of all wisdom, declare the generation...
17. Chapter 16
    The birth then of their Æons, and the wandering and discovery of...
18. Chapter 17
    I have a mind also to explain to thee, how they affirm...
19. Chapter 18
    Of the Creation, then, they so speak; and daily each one of...
20. Chapter 19
    I have thought it right to add to these such points as...
21. Chapter 20
    And besides all this, they privily bring in an unspeakable multitude of...
22. Chapter 21
    As to their tradition about the Redemption, it proves to be invisible...
23. Chapter 22
    But we holding the rule of Faith, i.e., that there is one...
24. Chapter 23
    For Simon the Samaritan, that sorcerer, of whom Luke the disciple and...
25. Chapter 24
    Of these Saturninus, who was of Antioch by Daphne, and Basilides, having...
26. Chapter 25
    But Carpocrates and his set say that the world and the things...
27. Chapter 26
    And a certain Cerinthus too in Asia taught that the world was...
28. Chapter 27
    One Cerdon too, taking his beginning from Simon and his set, sojourned...
29. Chapter 28
    Now from these who have been mentioned many offshoots of many heresies...
30. Chapter 29
    And besides these, from among those whom we have before mentioned as...
31. Chapter 30
    But others again utter prodigious things, that there is a kind of...
32. Chapter 31
    And others again say that Cain is from that higher princely nature;...