Chapter IV

, _supra_. The unanimity with which all post-Christian

Gnostics accepted the superhuman nature of Jesus seems to have struck Harnack. See his _What is Christianity?_ Eng. ed. 1904, pp. 209, 210.

Footnote 51:

_Iliad_ I. ll. 560 _sqq._; IV. ll. 57, 330; XIV. ll. 320 _sqq._

Footnote 52:

_Odyssey_ XI. ll. 600 _sqq._; Plutarch, _Life of Pelopidas_, c. XVI.

Footnote 53:

Plutarch, _de Is. et Os._ c. LXXI.

Footnote 54:

_Ibid._ cc. XXV., XXVII., XXX.

Footnote 55:

Probably this was one of the reasons why the Mysteries which showed the death of a god had in Greece to be celebrated in secret. See Diodorus’ remark (Bk V. c. 77, § 3) that the things which the Greeks only handed down in secret were by the Cretans concealed from no one.

Footnote 56:

Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 19, p. 265, Cruice.

Footnote 57:

Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 19, II. p. 200, Harvey.

Footnote 58:

ἀμορφία. Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 27, p. 366, Cruice.

Footnote 59:

Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 18, p. 197, Harvey. Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 28, p. 368, Cruice.

Footnote 60:

Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VIII. c. 8.

Footnote 61:

Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 1, § 13, pp. cxli and 61, Harvey.

Footnote 62:

_Ibid._ Bk I. c. 1, § 31, pp. cxli and 62, Harvey.

Footnote 63:

Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 19, § 3, p. 202, Harvey; Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk IV. c. 24, p. 225, Cruice; Tertullian, _Scorpiace_, c. I.

Footnote 64:

For the accusation against the Christians, see Athenagoras, _Apologia_, cc. III., XXXI.; Justin Martyr, _First Apol._ c. XXVI. For that against the Jews, Strack, _Le Sang et la fausse Accusation du Meurtre Rituel_, Paris, 1893. For that against the Freemasons, “Devil Worship and Freemasonry,” _Contemporary Review_ for 1896.

Footnote 65:

See n. 1, _supra_. So Eusebius speaks of the Simonians receiving baptism and slipping into the Church without revealing their secret tenets, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk II. c. 1.

Footnote 66:

Revillout, _Vie et Sentences de Secundus_, Paris, 1873, p. 3, n. 1.

Footnote 67:

Amélineau, _Le Gnosticisme Égyptien_, p. 75, thus enumerates them: the doctrine of emanation, an unknown [_i.e._ an inaccessible and incomprehensible] God, the resemblance of the three worlds, the aeonology of Simon, and a common cosmology. To this may be added the inherent malignity of matter and the belief in salvation by knowledge. See Krüger, _La Grande Encyclopédie_, _s.v._ Gnosticisme.

Footnote 68:

Renan, _Mare Aurèle_, p. 114.

Footnote 69:

Witness the confusion between Ennoia and Epinoia in