Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ The Creator of this world, who was the God of the Jews, according to Valentinus, arrived by degrees to that pitch of arrogance, that he either imagined himself to be God alone, or at least was desirous that mankind should consider him as such. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ Those who abandoned false deities, and the God of the Jews, and, living according to the precepts of Christ, submit the animal and sensual soul to the discipline of reason, shall be finally happy. Their rational and sensual soul shall ascend to the seats of bliss, which border on the pleroma. And when all souls are purified thoroughly, and separated from matter, then a raging fire shall dissolve the frame of this corporeal world. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ He also made man, in whose composition the subtile and the grosser matter were eunited in equal portions; but Achamoth, the mother of Demiurge, added to them a spiritual and celestial substance—the immortal soul. ”
