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XIX.—Palpable Absurdities and Contradictions in the System
Respecting Achamoth and the Demiurge.
And yet there is not any agreement between the
propriety of the names and that of the works, from which all the names
are suggested; since all of them ought to have borne the name of her by
whom the things were done, unless after all6810
it
turn out that they were not made by her. For, although they say
that Achamoth devised these forms in honour of the Æons, they
yet6811
transfer this work to Soter as its
author, when they say that he6812
| 6812 This is the force of
the “qui” with the subjunctive verb. | operated through
her, so far as to give her the very image of the invisible and unknown
Father—that is, the image which was unknown and invisible to the
Demiurge; whilst he6813
formed this same
Demiurge in imitation6814
of Nus the son
of Propator;6815
| 6815 There seems to be a
relative gradation meant among these extra-Pleroma beings, as there was among the Æons
of the Pleroma; and, further, a relation between the two sets of
beings—Achamoth bearing a relation to Propator, the Demiurge to
Nus, etc. | and whilst the
archangels, who were the work of the Demiurge, resembled the other
Æons. Now, when I hear of such images of the three, I ask, do you
not wish me to laugh at these pictures of their most extravagant
painter? At the female Achamoth, a picture of the Father? At the
Demiurge, ignorant of his mother, much more so of his father? At the
picture of Nus, ignorant of his father too, and the ministering angels,
facsimiles of their lords? This is painting a mule from an ass, and
sketching Ptolemy from Valentinus.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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