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| | GNOSTICISM |
 | | The one is the totality of the divine powers and attributes, the other the region of shadow and darkness. |
 | | There are three classes of men: the spiritual, in whom the divine element, a spark of light from the ideal world, predominates; the material, bodily, carnal, physical, in whom matter, the gross sensuous principle, rules; and the psychical, in whom the demiurgic, quasi-divine principle, the mean between the two preceding, prevails. |
 | | Now, even those (of the heretics) who are of a more serious turn in regard of the Divinity, and have derived their systems of speculation from the Greeks, must stand convicted (of these charges). |
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