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to have been cast out by necessity into the places of the dwelling of the void. For she came to be outside the Light and the Pleroma, shapeless and formless, like an abortion, because of having comprehended nothing; and that the Christ above, taking pity on her and extending himself through the Cross, with his own power gave her a shaping, a shaping only with respect to substance, but not with respect to knowledge; and having done this, he ran back up, withdrawing his power, and left her, so that, becoming aware of the passion surrounding her due to her removal from the Pleroma, she might long for higher things, possessing a certain fragrance of incorruptibility, left in her l. to her by Christ and the Holy Spirit. Wherefore she is also called by both names, both Sophia, as a patronymic, (for her father is called Sophia), and Holy Spirit, from the spirit associated with Christ. And that when she had been shaped and had become intelligent, but was immediately emptied of the Word who was invisibly with her, that is, Christ, she set out in search of the light that had left her and was not able to apprehend it, because she was prevented by Horos (Limit). And that here Horos, preventing her forward impulse, said Iao; whence they assert the name Iao came to be. And not being able to pass through Horos, because she was entwined with passion, and being left alone outside, she fell under every part of the passion, it being multipartite and multiform, and she suffered: grief, indeed, because she did not apprehend; fear, lest, just as the light had left her, so too life might fail her; and perplexity on top of these things; and in ignorance in all things. And not as her mother, the first Sophia and Aeon, did she have an alteration in her passions, but an opposition. And that another disposition had also come upon her, that of turning back to the one who gave her life. This, they say, became the constitution and substance of matter, from which this world has been formed. For from her turning back, every soul of the world and of the Demiurge has taken its origin, but from her fear and grief the remaining things have had their beginning; for from her tears has come all liquid substance; from her laughter, the luminous; and from her grief and consternation, the corporeal elements of the world. For at one time she would weep and grieve, as they say, because she had been left alone in the darkness and the void; at another time, coming to the thought of the light that had left her, she would relax and laugh; then again she would be afraid; and at other times she was perplexed and beside herself. 1.1.8 And what then? There was much tragedy here from that point, and the fantasy of each one of them, pompously relating in one way or another from what sort of passion, from what sort of element, substance took its origin; which things it seems to me they reasonably do not wish to teach everyone openly, but only those who are able to pay great fees for such great mysteries. For these things are no longer like those about which our Lord has said, Freely you have received, freely give; but recondite, and monstrous, and profound mysteries, acquired with much labor by the lovers of falsehood. For who would not spend all his possessions, in order to learn that from the tears of the Enthymesis of the suffering Aeon, the seas, and springs, and rivers, and every watery substance has taken its origin, and from her laughter the light, and from her consternation and helplessness the corporeal elements of the world? But I myself also wish to contribute something to their fruitfulness. For since I see that some waters are fresh, such as springs, and rivers, and rains, and such things; but those in the seas are salt; I consider that not all have been projected from her tears, because a tear is salt in its quality; it is clear, therefore, that the salt waters are those from her tears. But it is likely that she, being in great agony and helplessness, also sweated; from this, then, according to their hypothesis, one must suppose that springs and rivers, and if any other fresh waters exist, have not l. partook had their origin from her tears, but from her sweats; for it is improbable, since tears are of a single quality, that some should be salt, and others

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σκηνώματος κενώματος τόποις ἐκβεβράσθαι κατὰ ἀνάγκην. Ἔξω γὰρ φωτὸς ἐγένετο καὶ Πληρώματος, ἄμορφος καὶ ἀνείδεος, ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα, διὰ τὸ μηδὲν κατειληφέναι· οἰκτείραντά τε αὐτὴν τὸν ἄνω Χριστὸν, καὶ διὰ τοῦ Σταυροῦ ἐπεκταθέντα, τῇ ἰδίᾳ δυνάμει μορφῶσαι μόρφωσιν τὴν κατ' οὐσίαν μόνον, ἀλλ' οὐ τὴν κατὰ γνῶσιν· καὶ πράξαντα τοῦτο ἀναδραμεῖν συστείλαντα αὐτοῦ τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ καταλιπεῖν, ὅπως αἰσθομένη τοῦ περὶ αὐτὴν πάθους διὰ τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν τοῦ Πληρώματος, ὀρεχθῇ τῶν διαφερόντων, ἔχουσά τινα ὀδμὴν ἀφθαρσίας, ἐγκαταλειφθεῖσαν αὐτὴν l. αὐτῇ ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. ∆ιὸ καὶ αὐτὴν τοῖς ἀμφοτέροις ὀνόμασι καλεῖσθαι, Σοφίαν τε πατρωνυμικῶς, (ὁ γὰρ πατὴρ αὐτῆς Σοφία κληΐζεται), καὶ πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἀπὸ τοῦ περὶ τὸν Χριστὸν πνεύματος. Μορφωθεῖσάν τε αὐτὴν, καὶ ἔμφρονα γενηθεῖσαν, παραυτίκα δὲ κενωθεῖσαν ἀοράτου αὐτῇ συνόντος Λόγου, τουτέστι τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐπὶ ζήτησιν ὁρμῆσαι τοῦ καταλιπόντος αὐτὴν φωτὸς καὶ μὴ δυνηθῆναι καταλαβεῖν αὐτὸ, διὰ τὸ κωλυθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὅρου. Καὶ ἐνταῦθα τὸν Ὅρον κωλύοντα αὐτὴν τῆς εἰς τοὔμπροσθεν ὁρμῆς εἰπεῖν Ἰαώ· ὅθεν τὸ Ἰαὼ ὄνομα γεγενῆσθαι φάσκουσι. Μὴ δυνηθεῖσαν δὲ διοδεῦσαι τὸν Ὅρον, διὰ τὸ συμπεπλέχθαι τῷ πάθει, καὶ μόνην ἀπολειφθεῖσαν ἔξω, παντὶ μέρει τοῦ πάθους ὑποπεσεῖν πολυμεροῦς καὶ πολυποικίλου ὑπάρχοντος, καὶ παθεῖν, λύπην μὲν, ὅτι οὐ κατέλαβε· φόβον δὲ, μὴ καθάπερ αὐτὴν τὸ φῶς, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ζῇν ἐπιλίπῃ· ἀπορίαν τε ἐπὶ τούτοις· ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ δὲ τὰ πάντα. Καὶ οὐ καθάπερ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῆς, ἡ πρώτη Σοφία καὶ Αἰὼν, ἑτεροίωσιν ἐν τοῖς πάθεσιν εἶχεν, ἀλλὰ ἐναντιότητα. Ἐπισυμβεβηκέναι δ' αὐτῇ καὶ ἑτέραν διάθεσιν, τὴν τῆς ἐπιστροφῆς ἐπὶ τὸν ζωοποιήσαντα. Ταύτην σύστασιν καὶ οὐσίαν τῆς ὕλης γεγενῆσθαι λέγουσιν, ἐξ ἧς ὅδε ὁ κόσμος συνέστηκεν. Ἐκ μὲν γὰρ τῆς ἐπιστροφῆς τὴν τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τοῦ δημιουργοῦ πᾶσαν ψυχὴν τὴν γένεσιν εἰληφέναι, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ φόβου καὶ τῆς λύπης τὰ λοιπὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐσχηκέναι· ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν δακρύων αὐτῆς γεγονέναι πᾶσαν ἔνυγρον οὐσίαν· ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ γέλωτος, τὴν φωτεινήν· ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς λύπης καὶ τῆς ἐκπλήξεως, τὰ σωματικὰ τοῦ κόσμου στοιχεῖα. Ποτὲ μὲν γὰρ ἔκλαιε καὶ ἐλυπεῖτο, ὡς λέγουσι, διὰ τὸ καταλελεῖφθαι μόνην ἐν τῷ σκότει καὶ τῷ κενώματι· ποτὲ δὲ εἰς ἔννοιαν ἥκουσα τοῦ καταλιπόντος αὐτὴν φωτὸς, διεχεῖτο καὶ ἐγέλα· ποτὲ δ' αὖ πάλιν ἐφοβεῖτο· ἄλλοτε δὲ διηπόρει, καὶ ἐξίστατο. 1.1.8 Καὶ τί γάρ; τραγῳδία πολλὴ λοιπὸν ἦν ἐνθάδε, καὶ φαντασία ἑνὸς ἑκάστου αὐτῶν, ἄλλως καὶ ἄλλως σοβαρῶς ἐκδιηγουμένου ἐκ ποταποῦ πάθους, ἐκ ποίου στοιχείου ἡ οὐσία τὴν γένεσιν εἴληφεν· ἃ καὶ εἰκότως δοκοῦσί μοι μὴ ἅπαντας θέλειν ἐν φανερῷ διδάσκειν, ἀλλ' ἢ μόνους ἐκείνους τοὺς καὶ μεγάλους μισθοὺς ὑπὲρ τηλικούτων μυστηρίων τελεῖν δυναμένους. Οὐκέτι γὰρ ταῦτα ὅμοια ἐκείνοις, περὶ ὧν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν εἴρηκε, δωρεὰν ἐλάβετε, δωρεὰν δότε· ἀλλὰ ἀνακεχωρηκότα, καὶ τερατώδη καὶ βαθέα μυστήρια μετὰ πολλοῦ καμάτου περιγινόμενα τοῖς φιλοψευδέσι. Τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ἐκδαπανήσειε πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μάθῃ, ὅτι ἀπὸ τῶν δακρύων τῆς Ἐνθυμήσεως τοῦ πεπονθότος Αἰῶνος, θάλασσαι, καὶ πηγαὶ, καὶ ποταμοὶ, καὶ πᾶσα ἔνυδρος οὐσία τὴν γένεσιν εἴληφεν, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ γέλωτος αὐτῆς τὸ φῶς, καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἐκπλήξεως καὶ τῆς ἀμηχανίας τὰ σωματικὰ τοῦ κόσμου στοιχεῖα; Βούλομαι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς συνεισενεγκεῖν τι τῇ καρποφορίᾳ αὐτῶν. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ὁρῶ τὰ μὲν γλυκέα ὕδατα ὄντα, οἷον πηγὰς, καὶ ποταμοὺς, καὶ ὄμβρους, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα· τὰ δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖς θαλάσσαις ἁλμυρά· ἐπινοῶ μὴ πάντα ἀπὸ τῶν δακρύων αὐτῆς προβεβλῆσθαι, διότι τὸ δάκρυον ἁλμυρὸν τῇ ποιότητι ὑπάρχει· φανερὸν οὖν, ὅτι τὰ ἁλμυρὰ ὕδατα ταῦτά ἐστι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν δακρύων. Εἰκὸς δὲ αὐτὴν ἐν ἀγωνίᾳ πολλῇ καὶ ἀμηχανίᾳ γεγονυῖαν καὶ ἱδρωκέναι· ἐντεῦθεν δὴ κατὰ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν αὐτῶν ὑπολαμβάνειν δεῖ, πηγὰς καὶ ποταμοὺς, καὶ εἴ τινα ἄλλα γλυκέα ὕδατα ὑπάρχει, τὴν γένεσιν μὴ l. μετεσχ. ἐσχηκέναι ἀπὸ τῶν δακρύων ἱδρώτων αὐτῆς· ἀπίθανον γὰρ, μιᾶς ποιότητος οὔσης τῶν δακρύων, τὰ μὲν ἁλμυρὰ, τὰ δὲ