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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Valentinus and Valentinians
		Valentinus, the best known and most influential of the Gnostic heretics, was born according to Epiphanius (Haer., XXXI) on the coast of Egypt.
		Valentinus professed to have derived his ideas from Theodas or Theudas, a disciple of St. Paul, but his system is obviously an attempt to amalgamate Greek and Oriental speculations of the most fantastic kind with Christian ideas.
		While Valentinus was alive he made many disciples, and his system was the most widely diffused of all the forms of Gnosticism.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15256a.htm (575 words)

	Saint Valentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is believed that the priest and the bishop Valentinus are each buried along the Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different lengths from the city.
		The historical 2nd-century bishop Valentinus (died ca 153) is not venerated on any day of the Roman Catholic calendar, for his teachings were declared heretical and his works suppressed.
		Valentinus or Valentinius was the best known and for a time the most successful Christian Gnostic theologian, and a charismatic though divisive figure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Valentine (555 words)

	Valentinus - A Gnostic for All Seasons
		Valentinus, the Gnostic who almost became pope, was thus the only man who could have succeeded in gaining a form of permanent positive recognition for the Gnostic approach to the message of Christ.
		Valentinus, in opposition to this guilt-ridden view of life, held that the above-noted defect is not the result of our wrongdoing, but is inherent in the system of existence wherein we live and move and have our being.
		Valentinus is in very good company indeed when he establishes the proposition of the wrong system of false reality that can be set aright by the human spirit.
	www.gnosis.org /valentinus.htm (3209 words)

	Valentinius Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus claimed that Theudas imparted to him the secret wisdom that Paul had taught privately to his inner circle, which Paul publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen Christ (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts 9:9-10), when he received the secret teaching from him.
		Valentinus taught first in Alexandria and went to Rome about 136, during the pontificate of Pope Hyginus, and remained until the pontificate of Pope Anicetus.
		Among the more prominent disciples of Valentinus, who, however, did not slavishly follow their master in all his views, were Bardasanes, invariably linked to Valentinus in later references, as well as Heracleon, Ptolemy and Marcus.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Valentinius (1849 words)

	The Book Of Wonder Encyclopaedia - ~V is for Valentine~
		Valentinus knew that her condition was permanent but he gave the man his word he would do his best.
		Through the jailer Valentinus kept in contact with Julia sending her messages of faith and inspiration and, knowing his death was close, wrote her a final note signing it "From Your Valentine".
		When Julia's father gave her the note from Valentinus there was a yellow crocus with it and as Julia looked towards it her sight was restored which was hailed as a miracle.
	www.shaw1uk.freeserve.co.uk /book/pagev.html (412 words)

	Christian Gnosticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus later went to Rome, where he began his public teaching career, which was so successful that he actually had a serious chance of being elected Bishop of Rome.
		Valentinus was certainly the most overtly Christian of the Gnostic philosophers of his era.
		For Valentinus, then, the individual who is predestined for salvation is also predestined for a sort of divine stewardship that involves an active hand in history, and not a mere repose with God, or even a blissful existence of loving creation, as Basilides held.
	www.hermetic-philosophy.com /gnosis1.htm (5652 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Valentinus
		Valentinus may have studied with Basilides in Alexandria, he also claimed additional secret teachings from someone named Theodas, who was allegedly a disciple of Paul.
		Valentinus was the most prominent and influential of the historical Christian Gnostics.
		According to Valentinus, the Human Race is divided into three Races corresponding to the three sons of Adam: the Hylic, corresponding to Cain; the Psychic, corresponding to Abel; and the Pneumatic, corresponding to Seth.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/valentinus.htm (1304 words)

	Valentinus (Wace information)
		Valentinus cannot have begun to disseminate his Gnostic doctrines till towards the end of the reign of Hadrian (117-138).
		If this interpretation be, as we may assume, correct, Valentinus must have conceived the whole universe as forming a grand scale of being, beginning with the abysmal ground of all spiritual life, and thence descending lower and lower down to matter.
		Since the doctrine of Valentinus concerning the Aeons originated in the cosmogonic and astral powers of the old Syrian Gnosis, one cannot doubt that the Aeons were originally thought of as mythological personages and not as personified notions, although Tertullian (adv.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /info/valentinus-wace.html (5403 words)

	Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition
		Valentinus was a second century AD Gnostic Christian mystic and speculative theologian.
		Valentinus himself admits that it is an surprising idea, "It was quite amazing that they were in the Father without being aquainted with him and that they alone were able to emanate, inasmuch as they were not able to perceive and recognize the one in whom they were" (Gospel Truth 22:27-33).
		According to Valentinus, the Father's "free act of speaking is the manifestation of the Son" (Valentinus Fragment 2).
	www.webcom.com /gnosis/library/valentinus/Name_Naming.htm (3318 words)

	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Valentinus
		Valentinus was the founder of Roman and Alexandrian schools of Gnosticism, an eclectic, dualistic system of religious doctrines postulating the evil origin of matter and the revelatory enlightenment, or gnosis, of an elite.
		Valentinus flourished 136-165 CE in Rome and Alexandria.
		Ptolemy, a disciple of Valentinus, is known as the author of an open letter to a wealthy and eminent Christian lady, Flora by name, whom he tries to convert to the Valentinian system.
	www.ntcanon.org /Valentinus.shtml (1639 words)

	Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition
		As a result, fear overcame the Craftsman and his angels (Valentinus Fragment 1), and they became envious of the human being "because they were separated from the spiritual union" (Gospel of Philip 70:26-29).
		Valentinus describes it this way, "The Father is within them and they are within the Father, being perfect, being undivided in the truly good one, being in no way deficient in anything, but they are refreshed in the Spirit" (Gospel of Truth 42:27-33).
		As Valentinus says, "Since deficiency came into being when the Father was unknown, therefore when the Father is known, from that moment on, the deficiency will no longer exist." (Gospel of Truth 24:28-32) and the "realm of appearance is no longer manifest but will pass away in the harmony of unity" (Gospel of Truth 25:1-6).
	www.gnostique.net /Valentinus/psychandsalve.html (3076 words)

	Valentinus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus was one of the most influential Gnostic Christian teachers of the second century A.D. He founded a movement which spread throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
		Valentinus was a second century Christian mystic and poet.
		Valentinus was born in Phrebonis in upper Egypt about 100 AD and educated in nearby Alexandria.
	www.egnu.org /thelemapedia/index.php/Valentinus (2378 words)

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		But Valentinus was dedicated to the ideals of Christ, and not even the threat of death could keep him from practicing his beliefs.
		Valentinus knew that her condition would be difficult to treat but he gave the man his word he would do his best.
		Valentinus was buried at what is now the Church of Praxedes in Rome.
	www.angelfire.com /ma4/littlewhitewolf/CupidsFV.html (584 words)

	MetroActive Features \| Valentine History
		While keeping Valentinus under house arrest, the soldier brought his beautiful, bright and blind young daughter, Julia, to visit him with hopes that she might be cured.
		Valentinus continued to see Julia even after he was thrown in the clink, and supposedly he passed the rest of his long days cutting paper into intricate shapes to stave off madness.
		Probably just as Valentinus' head was lopped off on the Via Flaminia, the busiest road in the Roman Empire, Julia took Valentinus' note from her father's hands and looked at the world for the first time through her own eyes.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/02.10.99/valentine-9906.html (1199 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Fausta (wife of Constans II)
		Fausta, wife of Constans II, as the daughter of the general Valentinus Arshakuni, was a descendant of the Armenian Arsacid house, which had ruled in Armenia until the early fifth century.
		[[1]] Valentinus had designs on the throne, and Fausta's marriage to Constans, grandson of Heraclius, was the result of political manoeuvring by her father following his involvement in the overthrow of the government of Constans' uncle Heraclonas and his mother Martina.
		Valentinus appears to have aimed at becoming emperor in his own right: in any case his position was strengthened by his status as father-in-law to an underage ruler.
	www.roman-emperors.org /faustaii.htm (953 words)

	AllRefer.com - Valentinus (Miscellaneous Religion, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Probably born in Egypt, Valentinus received his education in Alexandria and after c.135 taught in Rome, where he attracted brilliant converts.
		Valentinus viewed ultimate reality as a procession of aeons, 33 in all, issuing in pairs from the primal aeons, abyss and silence.
		Valentinus wrote letters, homilies, and psalms, of which fragments survive.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Valentns.html (372 words)

	Barkur Online
		Valentinus was dedicated to the ideals of Christ, and not even the threat of death could keep him from practicing his religious beliefs.
		Valentinus, the holy man, did what he knew was right.
		On the eve of his death, Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God, and signed it, "From your Valentine." His death sentence was carried out on the next day, February 14, 270 A.D. near the gate that was later named Porta Valentini, in his memory.
	www.barkuronline.com /Tony/Tony3.html (800 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus, therefore, and Heracleon, and Ptolemaeus, and the entire school of these (heretics), as disciples of Pythagoras and Plato, (and) following these guides, have laid down as e fundamental principle of their doctrine the arithmetical system.
		There is, says (Valentinus), not anything at all begotten, but the Father is alone unbegotten, not subject to the condition of place, not (subject to the condition of) time, having no counsellor, (and) not being any other substance that could be realized according to the ordinary methods of perception.
		Valentinus) subjoins, however, the following statement: That the trespasses appertaining to the Aeons within (the Pleroma) had been corrected; and likewise had been rectified the trespasses appertaining to the Ogdoad, (that is,) Sophia, outside (the Pleroma); and also (the trespasses) appertaining to the Hebdomad (had been rectified).
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-10.htm (17766 words)

	Santus Valentinus Angeliad of Surazeus Astarius Gothinius Jesuvius Prophet of Athena Liberty Goddess World Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus is locked in a white marble prison room with golden bars where Claudius grandson of Deus visits him each day playing chess between bars when a young woman in entourage of fat Emperor Martia daughter of Martius jail-keeper of Valentinus catches his eye and falls in love with handsome priest.
		Martia visits Valentinus in purple dusk among roses two lovers kissing by garden wall thick with vines under silver moonlight as fountains sparkle with tears as she turns and runs from his aching arms in despair so he writes her love letters proclaiming his devotion signing from your Valentinus with kisses of worship.
		Santus Valentinus is stoned to death by Claudius on 14 February 269 leaving Martia devastated weeping in sorrow as her belly swells with child of Valentinus who is born in October who grows tall with glittering eyes and flowing red hair whose descendent Popa Gelasius proclaims Santus Valentinus patron saint of lovers in 496.
	worldchronicle.net /angeliad/Santus_Valentinus.htm (469 words)

	VALENTINUS - Online Information article about VALENTINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For Valentinus himself we have also to consider the fragments of his writings pre-served by Clemens Alexandrinus.
		It is significant that Valentinus himself is credited with having written a treatise upon the three natures (Schwartz, Aporien, i.
		The central point of the piety of Valentinus seems to have been tha mystical contemplation of God; in a letter preserved in Clemens ii.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TUM_VAN/VALENTINUS.html (7379 words)

	Basilides, Carpocrates, Valentinus
		Valentinus' system of classical Gnosticism was characterized by three major themes, which also represent his continuing trifold importance to contemporary neo-classical Gnostic theology and our Church in particular:
		Valentinus emphasized a primary characteristic of God (we might call it God's essence or even God's "godness") as being bythos or bathos, which is to say "divine depth." God is like a giant chasm or abyss, though not an abyss of sadness or suffering, but rather an abyss of love, joy, and infinite unity.
		Finally, Valentinus devoted a great deal of time to developing a complex and fairly comprehensive Gnostic christology (or interpretation of the meaning and role of Christ).
	gnostic-church.org /triumvirate.htm (1828 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V
		Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from the Platonic and Pythagoric Philosophy; The Valentinian Theory of Emanation by Duads.
		Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Christ and the Spirit.
		Valentinus' Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the Nature of Jesus' Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and Ptolemaeus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and Bardesanes.
	www.biblefacts.org /ecf/vol5/anf05-10.htm (17707 words)

	Rehabilitating the Memory of Saint Valentine, the Teacher
		Valentinus, the hero of the legend, lived in the time of Claudius Caesar, Emperor of Rome in the second century a.d.
		On the eve of his martyrdom, Valentinus wrote a letter to his pupil, urging her to stay close to God in prayer.
		Valentinus, the martyr, gave up his spirit the next day, February 14, 270 a.d., near the gate that was later named Porta Valentini (The Gate of Valentine).
	www.struggler.org /Valentine.html (1381 words)

	Supernatural Religion - Pt 2 Ch 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Valentinus came out of Egypt to Rome in that year, when his public career practically commenced, and he continued to flourish for at least twenty years after.
		Tischendorf's pretended moderation, therefore, consists in dating the period when Valentinus flourished from the very year of his first appearance, and in assigning the active career of Ptolemaeus to 160, when Valentinus was still alive and teaching.
		If anything be clear, on the contrary, it is that distinction is drawn between Valentinus and Ptolemaeus and Heracleon, and that Irenaeus points out inconsistencies between the doctrines of the founder and those of his later followers.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~freethought/cassels/sr/p2c10.htm (7672 words)

	Valentinus
		First, there is the mythmaker—continuing in the steps of the gnostics, but strikingly innovative so as to take account of the different brand of philosophy, a more profound acceptance of biblical and cross-centered Christianity, and a different structuring of the myth.
		Although it begins with formal rhetoric and continues with exhortation of the listeners, GTr ends in a purely visionary mode in which Valentinus confesses that he is already present in the "place" of repose and salvation.
		Like Marcion, Valentinus held to a faith that did not fit into the orthodoxy of early Catholicism but that also does not strictly correspond to classical Gnosticism, as known from the Apocryphon of John and the bulk of the refutations of Irenaeus.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /valentinus.html (989 words)

	Valentinus
		Valentinus was a "2nd century AD), Egyptian religious philosopher, founder of Roman and Alexandrian schools of Gnosticism, a system of religious dualism (belief in rival deities of good and evil) with a doctrine of salvation by gnosis, or esoteric knowledge.
		His disciples claimed that he had been educated by Theodas, a purported pupil of St. Paul, and was baptized a Christian.
		According to documentary fragments of 2nd- and 3rd-century theologians Valentinus moved to Rome c.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/gnosis/valentinus.html (578 words)

	The Good Life Newsletter
		Valentinus, so devoted to Christ, refused to turn away from practicing Christian beliefs, and so was arrested and imprisoned.
		She had been blind since birth, so when Valentinus begin to teach her about in different subjects, she began to see the world, and eventually God, through his eyes.
		On the eve of his death, Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God, and he signed it, "From Your Valentine." His sentence was carried out the next day, February 14, 270, near a gate that was later named Porta Valentini in his memory.
	www.christcenteredcoaching.com /200402 (710 words)

	valentinesday
		valentinus was a christian priest put to death on 2/14 270 ad
		valentinus secretly married roman soldiers and their sweethearts.
		so valentines day is a combination of elements of lepercalia and the life of valentinus.
	members.aol.com /ksmpoppop/valentinesday.html (229 words)

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