Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion

Silence Father Truth. And this is the tetrad from the Father and Truth: Man Church Word Life. Then by the will of the all-containing Depth, Man and Church, mindful of paternal words, came together with each other and bring forth a dodecad of pre-existing male-females. The males therefore are: Paraclete, Paternal, Maternal, Ever-Mindful, Willed, which is Light, Ecclesiastical, and the females: Faith, Hope, Love, Intelligence, Blessedness, Wisdom. And afterwards Word and Life, they too having refashioned the gift of union, had communion with each other; and their communion was the will, and having come together they brought forth a decad of pre-existing ones, also male-females. The males are: Bythios, Ageless, Self-begotten, Only-begotten, Unmoved; these acquired the name for the glory of the all-containing one, and the females: Mixture, Union, Blending, Oneness, Pleasure, and these acquired the name for the glory of Silence. 6. The Triacontad of Father Truth being thus perfected, which the earthly, not understanding it, count, and whenever they come to it, no longer finding a number, they go around in a circle, counting it again—and it is Depth, Silence, Father, Truth, Man, Church, Word, Life, Paraclete, Paternal, Maternal, Ever-Mindful, Willed, Ecclesiastical, Faith, Hope, Love, 1.393 Intelligence, Blessedness, Wisdom, Bythios, Ageless, Self-begotten, Only-begotten, Unmoved, Mixture, Union, Blending, Oneness, Pleasure—, then the all-containing one with unsurpassable intelligence decreed that another Ogdoad be called in place of the pre-existing authentic Ogdoad, which remains in the number of the Triacontad; for it was not the thought of Greatness to fall into number, he set up males in place of the males: Only, Third, Fifth, Seventh and the females: Dyad, Tetrad, Hexad, Ogdoad. This therefore is the Ogdoad, which was called in place of the pre-existing Ogdoad of Depth, Father, Man, Word, and of Silence, Truth, Church, Life, it was united with the lights and became a perfected Triacontad. And the pre-existing Ogdoad was at rest. But the Depth came forth by the support of Greatness to be united with the Triacontad; for he came together with Truth, and the Father of Truth came together with the Church, and the Maternal had Life, and the Paraclete the Henad, and the Henad was united with the Father of Truth, and the Father of Truth was with Silence, and the spiritual Word had communion * in a spiritual mixture 1.394 and incorruptible blending, the Self-Father making his own rest the indivisible end. The Triacontad therefore, completing the deep mysteries, perfecting a marriage in incorruptible things, brought forth incorruptible lights, which were named children of the Middle and were without characteristic, the intellectual not being present, resting outside of thought, without Conception. For about whatever one does, if he does not understand it universally, he does not do it. Then, when the lights had come into being, of which it is not necessary to declare the multitude by number, but to consider, for each has been allotted its own name for the full knowledge of ineffable mysteries, Silence, therefore, wishing for the election of knowledge to save all things, brought together the second opposing Ogdoad in an incorruptible mixture, and by an intellectual will; and her intellectual will was the Holy Spirit, which is in the midst of the holy churches. Having sent this, therefore, into the second Ogdoad, she persuaded it also to be united with her. 1.395 A marriage, therefore, was perfected in the parts of the Ogdoad, the Holy Spirit being united with the Only, and the Dyad with the Third, and the Third with the Hexad, and the Ogdoad with the Seventh, and the Seventh with the Dyad, and the Hexad with the Fifth. And the whole Ogdoad came together with ageless pleasure and incorruptible mixture; for there was no separation from one another; but there was a blending with blameless pleasure, and it brought forth a pentad of pre-existing ones without female, whose names are these: Karpistes, Horothetes, Charisterios, Aphetos

Σιγὴ Πατὴρ Ἀλήθεια. αὕτη δὲ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τῆς Ἀληθείαςτετράς· Ἄνθρωπος Ἐκκλησία Λόγος Ζωή. τότε τοῦ πάντα περιέχοντος Βυθοῦ θελήματι ὁ Ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἡ Ἐκκλησία πατρικῶν μνησθέντεςλόγων συνῄεσαν ἑαυτοῖς καὶ ἀναδεικνύουσι δωδεκάδα προυνίκων ἀρρενοθηλύντων. οἱ οὖν ἄρρενές εἰσι· Παράκλητος Πατρικὸς Μητρικὸς Ἀείνους Θελητός, ὅ ἐστι Φῶς, Ἐκκλησιαστικός, αἱ δὲ θήλειαι· Πίστις ἘλπὶςἈγάπη Σύνεσις Μακαρία Σοφία. μετέπειτα δὲ Λόγος καὶ Ζωή, καὶ αὐτοὶ τὸ τῆς ἑνώσεως μεταπλάσαντες δώρημα, ἑαυτοῖς ἐκοινώνησαν ἦν δὲ ἡ κοινωνία αὐτῶν τὸ θέλημα καὶ συνελθόντες ἀνεδείξαντο δεκάδα προυνίκων καὶ αὐτῶν ἀρρενοθηλύντων. οἱ μὲν ἄρρενές εἰσι· Βύθιος Ἀγήρατος Αὐτοφυὴς Μονογενὴς Ἀκίνητος οὗτοι τὴν προσωνυμίαν εἰς τὴν δόξαν τοῦ πάντα περιέχοντος περιεποιήσαντο, αἱ δὲ θήλειαι· Μῖξις Ἕνωσις Σύγκρασις Ἑνότης Ἡδονή, καὶ αὗται τὴν προσωνυμίαν εἰς δόξαν τῆς Σιγῆςπεριεποιήσαντο. 6. Τετελειωμένης οὖν τῆς κατὰ Πατέρα Ἀληθείας τριακάδος, ἣν οἱ ἐπίγειοι μὴ ἐπιστάμενοι ἀριθμοῦσι καὶ ὁπόταν ἔλθωσιν ἐπ' αὐτήν, μηκέτι ἀριθμὸν εὑρίσκοντες ἀνακυκλοῦσι, πάλιν ἀριθμοῦντες αὐτήν-ἔστι δὲ Βυθὸς Σιγὴ Πατὴρ Ἀλήθεια Ἄνθρωπος Ἐκκλησία Λόγος Ζωὴ Παράκλητος Πατρκὸς Μητρικὸς Ἀείνους Θελητὸς Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Πίστις Ἐλπὶς Ἀγάπη 1.393 Σύνεσις Μακαρία Σοφία Βύθιος Ἀγήρατος Αὐτοφυὴς Μονογενὴς Ἀκίνητος Μῖξις Ἕνωσις Σύγκρασις Ἑνότης Ἡδονή-, τότε ὁ τὰ πάντα περιέχωσυνέσει τῇ ἀνυπερβλήτῳ δογματίσας τε κληθῆναι ἑτέραν Ὀγδοάδα ἀντὶ τῆς προούσης αὐθεντικῆς Ὀγδοάδος, ἥτις ἐν τῷ ἀριθμῷ τῆς Τριακάδος μείνῃ οὐ γὰρ ἦν Μεγέθους φρόνημα εἰς ἀριθμὸν πίπτειν, ἀντέστησεν ἀντὶ τῶν ἀρρένων τοὺς ἄρρενας· Μόνον Τρίτον Πέμπτον Ἕβδομον καὶ τὰς θηλείας· ∆υάδα Τετράδα Ἑξάδα Ὀγδοάδα. αὕτη οὖν ἡ Ὀγδοάςἐστιν, ἡ ἀντικληθεῖσα ἀντὶ τῆς προούσης Ὀγδοάδος Βυθοῦ Πατρὸς Ἀνθρώπου Λόγου καὶ Σιγῆς Ἀληθείας Ἐκκλησίας Ζωῆς, ἡνώθητοῖς φωσὶ καὶ ἐγένετο Τριακὰς ἀπηρτισμένη. καὶ ἦν ἡ προοῦσα Ὀγδοὰς ἀναπαυομένη. ὁ δὲ Βυθὸς ἐξῆλθεν Μεγέθους στηρίγματι ἑνωθῆναι τῇ Τριακάδι· συνῄει γὰρ τῇ Ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς Ἀληθείας συνήρχετοτῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ ὁ Μητρικὸς εἶχε τὴν Ζωὴν καὶ ὁ Παράκλητος τὴν Ἑνάδα καὶ ἡ Ἑνὰς ἡνοῦτο τῷ Πατρὶ τῆς Ἀληθείας καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς Ἀληθείαςἦν μετὰ τῆς Σιγῆς, ὁ Λόγος δὲ ὁ πνευματικὸς ἐκοινώνει * πνευματικῇ μίξει 1.394 καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ συγκράσει, ποιοῦντος τὸ τέλος τοῦ Αὐτοπάτορος ἀδιχοτόμητον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀνάπαυσιν. ἡ οὖν Τριακὰς ἀπαρτίσασα βύθια μυστήρια, τελειώσασα γάμον ἐν ἀφθάρτοις ἀνέδειξε φῶτα ἄφθαρτα, ἅτινα Μεσότητος ὠνομάσθησαν τέκνα καὶ ἀχαρακτήριστα ἦσαν, τοῦ νοϊκοῦ μὴ παρακειμένου, ἐκτὸς φρονήσεως ἀναπαυόμενα χωρὶς Ἐννοίας. περὶ γὰρ οὗ τις πράσσει, ἐὰν μὴ νοῇ καθολικῶς, οὐ πράσσει. τότε γενομένων τῶν φώτων, ὧν τὴν πολυπληθίαν πρὸς ἀριθμὸν ἐξειπεῖν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον, περινοεῖν δέ ἕκαστον γὰρ τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα κεκλήρωται δι' ἐπίγνωσιν ἀρρήτων μυστηρίων, ἡ οὖν Σιγὴ βουληθεῖσα εἰς ἐκλογὴν γνώσεως ἅπαντα σῶσαι συνῆγε τῇ δευτέρᾳ ἀντιτεθείσῃ Ὀγδοάδι ἀφθάρτῳ μίξει, νοϊκῇ δὲ βουλήσει· ἦν δὲ αὐτῆς ἡ νοϊκὴ βούλησις Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, τὸ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἁγίων ἐκκλησιῶν. τοῦτο οὖν εἰς τὴν δευτέραν Ὀγδοάδα πέμψασα ἔπεισε καὶ αὐτὴν ἑνωθῆναι αὐτῇ. 1.395 γάμος οὖν ἐτελειοῦτο ἐν τοῖς τῆς Ὀγδοάδος μέρεσιν, ἑνουμένου τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος τῷ Μόνῳ καὶ τῆς ∆υάδος τῷ Τρίτῳ καὶ τοῦ Τρίτου τῇ Ἑξάδι καὶ τῆς Ὀγδοάδος τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ καὶ τοῦ Ἑβδόμου τῇ ∆υάδι καὶ τῆς Ἑξαδος τῷ Πέμπτῳ. ὅλη δὲ ἡ Ὀγδοὰς συνῆλθε μετὰ ἡδονῆς ἀγηράτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου μίξεως οὐ γὰρ ἦν χωρισμὸς ἀλλήλων· ἦν δὲ σύγκρασις μεθ' ἡδονῆς ἀμώμου καὶ ἀνέδειξε πεντάδα προυνίκων ἀθηλύντων, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματά ἐστι ταῦτα· Καρπιστὴς Ὁροθέτης Χαριστήριος Ἄφετος