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    Chapter XXXVII.—Other Turgid and Ridiculous Theories About the Origin of the Æons and Creation, Stated and Condemned.

    Now listen to some other buffooneries6924

    6924 Oehler gives good reasons for the reading “ingenia circulatoria,” instead of the various readings of other editors.

    of a master who is a great swell among them,6925

    6925 Insignioris apud eos magistri.

    and who has pronounced his dicta with an even priestly authority. They run thus: There comes, says he, before all things Pro-arche, the inconceivable, and indescribable, and nameless, which I for my own part call Monotes (Solitude). With this was associated another power, to which also I give the name of Henotes (Unity). Now, inasmuch as Monotes and Henotes—that is to say, Solitude and Union—were only one being, they produced, and yet not in the way of production,6926

    6926 Non proferentes. Another reading is “non proserentes” (not generating).

    the intellectual, innascible, invisible beginning of all things, which human language6927

    6927 Sermo.

    has called Monad (Solitude).6928

    6928 Or, solitariness.

    This has inherent in itself a consubstantial force, which it calls Unity6929

    6929 Or, Union.

    These powers, accordingly, Solitude or Solitariness, and Unity, or Union, propagated all the other emanations of Æons.6930

    6930 Compare our Irenæus, I. 2, 3. [Vol. I. p. 316.]

    Wonderful distinction, to be sure! Whatever change Union and Unity may undergo, Solitariness and Solitude is profoundly supreme. Whatever designation you give the power, it is one and the same.

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