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Refutation of the Gnostic systems by reason and argument

1. Preface
   As to the first Book which precedes this, detecting the knowledge falsely...
2. Chapter 1
   It is well then to begin from the first and chiefest head,...
3. Chapter 2
   But they who say that the world was framed by Angels, or...
4. Chapter 3
   Wherefore the Deep which they talk of is a thing incongruous; as...
5. Chapter 4
   We may inquire into the cause of the Divine arrangement of which...
6. Chapter 5
   Against them therefore who maintain that this world was made without the...
7. Chapter 6
   Further: how were either the Angels or the Maker of the world...
8. Chapter 7
   And so, whereas the Demiurge was ignorant of all, the Saviour, they...
9. Chapter 8
   If again they say that the one sort are the shadow of...
10. Chapter 9
    Now that God is the Artificer of the world, themselves also hold,...
11. Chapter 10
    It is therefore utterly unreasonable, passing by Him Who is truly God,...
12. Chapter 11
    And whereas on the one hand they refuse to believe that He...
13. Chapter 12
    And first concerning their use of the number 30, thus we shall...
14. Chapter 13
    Moreover, the first order itself of their Emanation is indefensible, as we...
15. Chapter 14
    Much more naturally and more elegantly concerning the origin of all things...
16. Chapter 15
    But let us return to the aforesaid question of emanations. And first,...
17. Chapter 16
    But if they will not assent to either of these statements, because...
18. Chapter 17
    Having then so great incongruities and perplexities in the order implied by...
19. Chapter 18
    Again, how is it not futile, their affirming His very Wisdom to...
20. Chapter 19
    And what sort of talk is it about their so-called Seed? that...
21. Chapter 20
    Moreover, that they bring into their device the parables and acts of...
22. Chapter 21
    But if they say that the twelve Apostles are the type of...
23. Chapter 22
    But that the whole of their doctrine about the number Thirty fails,...
24. Chapter 23
    Neither is their ignorance less manifest in regard of that woman, who...
25. Chapter 24
    And again their invention is proved false, and their device unstable, by...
26. Chapter 25
    But should any one say to this, “What then? doth all come...
27. Chapter 26
    It is better and more profitable, to be simple and scantily learned,...
28. Chapter 27
    The sound, and safe, and cautious, and truth-loving mind,—whatsoever things God hath...
29. Chapter 28
    Having therefore the very rule of Truth, and the witness concerning God...
30. Chapter 29
    And now let us return to what remains of their theory: how...
31. Chapter 30
    And this being so, they in their folly say they mount up...
32. Chapter 31
    The Valentinians then being overthrown, the whole multitude of the Heretics is...
33. Chapter 32
    Moreover the following impious maxim of theirs concerning actions is refuted by...
34. Chapter 33
    But their transmigration from body to body we may overthrow by this...
35. Chapter 34
    Moreover our Lord hath taught very fully, that souls besides their continuance...
36. Chapter 35
    But as for Basilides in particular, he will be forced to affirm,...