The Gnostics and their remains : ancient and mediaeval

Robarts - University Of Toronto, C. W. (Charles William) King

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AllA lioy AU/H TALISMA GNOSTICINTOCOSVEBTEDOF CKEES JADE,CEBACMA 197.)(See pageGNOSTICSTHE AND THEIR REMAINS, MEDIEVAL.ANCIENT AND W. MA.C. KING, omnia caacisNam veluti trcpidant atquepuori sic 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 CLOWESPRINTED CROSS.CHARINQSTAMFORD STREET AND reserved.][All rightsPREFACE. WHEN this work first itappeared, three-and-twenty years ago, became at once an of unmerited and ofabuse,object equally unmerited Small divines it for an insidiouspraise. mistaking " to overthrow as law established,"attempt opinions by spurted at it with in the milk of the under ; whilst,pens dipped Gospel " " the same Friends of lauded it tohallucination,very Light the skies either both of theparty equally ignorant subject, and of the of labours. One noted Zoiluspurpose my (whose recollections 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 callingmy he notwhereas was a native of Pontus that; understanding was valid in of the mistake Pontusmy argument equally spite a of the of and whatDarius,being empireoriginally province is whence Mithraicismmore to the the actual focuspurpose, diffused itself over the Eoman world. the book wasA still cause ofgreater outcry against my to hands the Sacred Ark ofpresuming uponlay presumptuous " that the Free andandMasonry, openly express my opinion " of these times have no more real connexion with theAccepted ancient likeoutof whose terms and forms, fig-leaves,Craft, they thehave stitched wherewith to cover real together aprons, the Italian Carbonari ofnakedness of their thanpretension, whoseMurat s had with the trade of charcoal burners,day President s throne.baskets were borrowed for the King the cistaHiram s skull his teeth with withinragegnashed the course ofand one valiant Levite of Abia,;mystica youngVI PREFACE. "thus to confute all assertions : Athelstanproceeds logically my built a church : he could not build without masons ; argal, Athelstan was the of infounder Masonry England. But of this the same treatment is in store;enough necessarily for the edition it must look furpresent ; " lamina, taedae."Verbera, carnifices, robur, pix, The one reviewer of its who exhibited anypredecessor acquain tance with the literature of the felt himself hissubject, (from " " in bound to his theposition) duty qualify praise by passing " that I had in the work more ofsummary judgment displayed the of a ThisGnostic than of a Catholic Christian."spirit intended for I as thesentence, condemnatory, accept highest inthat could be to labourspraise given my taking yvwortKos " " its strict sense of one addicted to and who ;knowledge studies the and remains of fortherefore history any opinion thethe solo of the truth and not for ;purpose understanding sake of the under oneTruth can existdemonstrating only defined form. Let me now in the Ito state edition,how,proceed present have endeavoured still further to deservethe attachedappellation to me Treatise was thethe Aristarchus.by good-natured My one Gnostic Dr. Walsh s little bookonly upon Archaeology (for scarce had since Chiflet sdeserves the thatname) appeared " " admirable in his HistoireMatter,Apistopistus (1617); of thedu Gnosticisme an excellentCritique (1827), analysis doctrines of the for itsGnosis, monuments,doing nothing the of theon a reduced scale,beyond republishing, engravings " The sources of information accessible to Apistopistus." only me at the time were the same as thoseof that editionwriting drawn Matter before the treatises ofme,upon by namely Irenaeus I have becomeand In the interval,Epiplianius. in order to havewith, and, master,acquainted thoroughly made translations two discovered worksof,complete recently inthat throw much difficult thislight upon many questions The one is the of allRefutation Heresies,investigation. ascribed, either to or : its author intiOrigen Hippolytus being with the which he holds fordoctrinesacquainted upmately