The Gnostics and their remains : ancient and mediaeval

AllAlioyAU/HTALISMA GNOSTICINTOCOSVEBTEDOF CKEES JADE,CEBACMA197.)(See pageGNOSTICSTHEANDTHEIR REMAINS,MEDIEVAL.ANCIENT ANDW. MA.C. KING,omnia caacisNam veluti trcpidant atquepuorisic nos in luce timemusIn tencbris metuimt,sunt metueudaIntcrdum nilo magis quamqua;futura.ori in tenebris finguntquepavitant,SECOND EDITION.LONDON:STRAND.DAVID NUTT, 270,1887.LONDON :AND SONS, LIMITED,BY WILLIAM CLOWESPRINTEDCROSS.CHARINQSTAMFORD STREET ANDreserved.][All rightsPREFACE.WHEN this work first itappeared, three-and-twenty years ago,became at once an of unmerited and ofabuse,object equallyunmerited Small divines it for an insidiouspraise. mistaking"to overthrow as law established,"attempt opinions by spurtedat it with in the milk of the under; whilst,pens dipped Gospel""the same Friends of lauded it tohallucination,very Lightthe skies either both of theparty equally ignorant subject,and of the of labours. One noted Zoiluspurpose my (whoserecollections of Homer would seem to be of the same deeply-marked nature as Blifil is atEnsign disgusted my citings)" "of the anotherAidoneus as a title of the God Shades is;astonished at in Bardanes a Persian,ignorance callingmyhe notwhereas was a native of Pontus that; understandingwas valid in of the mistake Pontusmy argument equally spitea of the of and whatDarius,being empireoriginally provinceis whence Mithraicismmore to the the actual focuspurpose,diffused itself ...