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they say. For they assert that he formed all things after himself, being secretly moved by the Mother; whence also they call him Metropator and Apator and Demiurge and Father, saying he is the father of the things on the right, that is of the psychical, but the demiurge of the things on the left, that is of the material, and king of all things. For this Enthymesis, wishing to make all things in honor of the Aeons, they say made images of them, or rather the Savior did through her. And that she herself † was preserved in the image of the invisible Father, not being known by the Demiurge, but he in the image of the only-begotten son, and the archangels and angels who were made by him in the image of the other Aeons. Therefore they say that he became father and god of those outside the Pleroma, being the maker of all things psychical and material. For having separated the two substances which were mixed together, and having made bodies out of incorporeal things, he created both the heavenly and the earthly things, and became the demiurge of material and psychical things, of things on the right and on the left, of light and heavy things, of things that move upwards and things that move downwards. For he fashioned seven heavens, above which they say the Demiurge is. And for this reason they call him Hebdomad, but the Mother, Achamoth, Ogdoad, preserving the number of the archetypal and first Ogdoad of the Pleroma. And they say that the seven heavens are not intelligible, but they suppose them to be angels, and the Demiurge himself also an angel, but like God, just as they say that paradise, 1.414 being above the third heaven, is a fourth archangel in power, and that Adam, having spent time in it, received something from him. But they assert that the Demiurge thought he fashioned these things from himself in every respect, but that he made them as Achamoth projected them. For he made heaven without knowing heaven; and he formed man, being ignorant of man; and he showed forth the earth, not understanding the earth; and thus they say concerning all things that he was ignorant of the forms of what he was making, and of the Mother herself, but thought that he alone was all things. And they assert that the Mother was the cause for him of this creation, having thus wished to bring him forth, as head and beginning of her own substance, and lord of the whole operation. And this Mother they also call Ogdoad and Sophia and Earth and Jerusalem and Holy Spirit and Lord, in the masculine; and she has the place of the Midst, and is above the Demiurge, but below or outside the Pleroma until the consummation. 19. Since, therefore, they say that the material substance was constituted from three passions, fear and grief and perplexity, from fear and conversion the psychical things received their constitution; from conversion they will have it that the Demiurge came into being, but from fear all the remaining psychical substance, such as the souls of irrational animals and beasts and men. And for this reason, being too weak to know spiritual things, he considered himself to be the only God and said through the prophets, "I am God, and besides me there is no other." But from grief they teach that the spiritual things of wickedness came to be; whence also the Devil had his origin, whom they also call Cosmocrator, and the demons and the an1.415gels and all the spiritual substance of wickedness. But they say the Demiurge is the psychical son of their Mother, and the Cosmocrator is a creature of the Demiurge. And the Cosmocrator knows the things above him, because he is a spirit of wickedness, but the Demiurge is ignorant of them, since he is psychical. And their Mother dwells in the super-celestial place, that is in the Midst, but the Demiurge in the celestial place, that is in the Hebdomad, and the Cosmocrator in our world. But from astonishment and

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λέγουσι. πάντα γὰρ τὰ μετ' αὐτὸν φάσκουσι αὐτὸν μεμορφωκέναι, λεληθότως κινούμενον ὑπὸ τῆς Μητρός· ὅθεν καὶ Μητροπάτορα καὶ Ἀπάτορα καὶ ∆ημιουργὸν αὐτὸν καὶ Πατέρα καλοῦσι, τῶν μὲν δεξιῶν πατέρα λέγοντες αὐτὸν τουτέστιν τῶν ψυχικῶν, τῶν δὲ ἀριστερῶν τουτέστιν τῶν ὑλικῶν δημιουργόν, συμπάντων δὲ βασιλέα. τὴν γὰρ Ἐνθύμησιν ταύτην βουληθεῖσαν εἰς τιμὴν τῶν Αἰώνων τὰ πάντα ποιῆσαι, εἰκόνας λέγουσι πεποιηκέναι αὐτῶν, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸν Σωτῆρα δι' αὐτῆς. καὶ αὐτὴν μὲν † ἐν εἰκόνι τοῦ ἀοράτου Πατρὸς τετηρηκέναι, μὴ γινωσκομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ, τοῦτον δὲ τοῦ μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ, τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν Αἰώνων τοὺς ὑπὸ τούτου γεγονότας ἀρχαγγέλους τε καὶ ἀγγέλους. Πατέρα οὖν καὶ θεὸν λέγουσιν αὐτὸν γεγονέναι τῶν ἐκτὸς τοῦ Πληρώματος, ποιητὴν ὄντα πάντων ψυχικῶν τε καὶ ὑλικῶν. διακρίναντα γὰρ τὰς δύο οὐσίας συγκεχυμένας καὶ ἐξ ἀσωμάτων σωματοποιήσαντα, δεδημιουργηκέναι τά τε οὐράνια καὶ τὰ γήϊνα, καὶ γεγονέναι ὑλικῶν καὶ ψυχικῶν, δεξιῶν καὶ ἀριστερῶν δημιουργόν, κούφων καὶ βαρέων, ἀνωφερῶν καὶ κατωφερῶν. ἑπτὰ γὰρ οὐρανοὺς κατεσκευακέναι, ὧν ἐπάνω τὸν ∆ημιουργὸν εἶναι λέγουσιν. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Ἑβδομάδα καλοῦσιν αὐτόν, τὴν δὲ Μητέρα τὴν Ἀχαμὼθ Ὀγδοάδα, ἀποσῴζουσαν τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῆς ἀρχεγόνου καὶ πρώτης τοῦ Πληρώματος Ὀγδοάδος. τοὺς δὲ ἑπτὰ οὐρανοὺς οὐκ εἶναι νοητούς φασιν, ἀγγέλους δὲ αὐτοὺς ὑποτίθενται, καὶ τὸν ∆ημιουργὸν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν ἄγγελον, θεῷ δὲ ἐοικότα, ὡς καὶ τὸν παράδεισον, 1.414 ὑπὲρ τρίτον οὐρανὸν ὄντα, τέταρτον ἀρχάγγελον λέγουσι δυνάμει ὑπάρχειν καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τι εἰληφέναι τὸν Ἀδὰμ διατετριφότα ἐν αὐτῷ. Ταῦτα δὲ τὸν ∆ημιουργὸν φάσκουσιν ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ μὲν ᾠῆσθαι κατὰ πάντα κατασκευάζειν, πεποιηκέναι δ' αὐτὰ τῆς Ἀχαμὼθ προβαλλούσης. οὐρανὸν γὰρ πεποιηκέναι μὴ εἰδότα οὐρανόν· καὶ ἄνθρωπον πεπλακέναι, ἀγνοοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον· γῆν τε δεδειχέναι, μὴ ἐπιστάμενον τὴν γῆν· καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων οὕτως λέγουσιν ἠγνοηκέναι αὐτὸν τὰς ἰδέας ὧν ἐποίει καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν Μητέρα, αὐτὸν δὲ μόνον ᾠῆσθαι πάντα εἶναι. αἰτίαν δ' αὐτῷ γεγονέναι τὴν Μητέρα τῆς ποιήσεως ταύτης φάσκουσι, τὴν οὕτω βουληθεῖσαν προαγαγεῖν αὐτόν, κεφαλὴν μὲν καὶ ἀρχὴν τῆς ἰδίας οὐσίας, κύριον δὲ τῆς ὅλης πραγματείας. ταύτην δὲ τὴν Μητέρα καὶ Ὀγδοάδα καλοῦσι καὶ Σοφίαν καὶ Γῆν καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα καὶ Κύριον ἀρσενικῶς· ἔχειν δὲ τὸν τῆς Μεσότητος τόπον αὐτὴν καὶ εἶναι ὑπεράνω μὲν τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ, ὑποκάτω δὲ ἢ ἔξω τοῦ Πληρώματος μέχρι συντελείας. 19. Ἐπεὶ οὖν τὴν ὑλικὴν οὐσίαν ἐκ τριῶν παθῶν συστῆναι λέγουσι, φόβου τε καὶ λύπης καὶ ἀπορίας, ἐκ μὲν τοῦ φόβου καὶ τῆς ἐπιστροφῆς τὰ ψυχικὰ τὴν σύστασιν εἰληφέναι· ἐκ μὲν τῆς ἐπιστροφῆς τὸν ∆ημιουργὸν βούλονται τὴν γένεσιν ἐσχηκέναι, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ φόβου τὴν λοιπὴν πᾶσαν ψυχικὴν ὑπόστασιν ὡς ψυχὰς ἀλόγων ζῴων καὶ θηρίων καὶ ἀνθρώπων. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀτονώτερον αὐτὸν ὑπάρχοντα πρὸς τὸ γινώσκειν τὰ πνευματικὰ αὑτὸν νενομικέναι μόνον εἶναι θεὸν καὶ διὰ τῶν προφητῶν εἰρηκέναι «ἐγὼ θεός, πλὴν ἐμοῦ οὐδείς». ἐκ δὲ τῆς λύπης τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας διδάσκουσι γεγονέναι· ὅθεν καὶ τὸν ∆ιάβολον τὴν γένεσιν ἐσχηκέναι, ὃν καὶ Κοσμοκράτορα καλοῦσι, καὶ τὰ δαιμόνια καὶ τοὺς ἀγ1.415 γέλους καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν πνευματικὴν τῆς πονηρίας ὑπόστασιν. ἀλλὰ τὸν μὲν ∆ημιουργὸν υἱὸν ψυχικὸν τῆς Μητρὸς αὐτῶν λέγουσι, τὸν δὲ Κοσμοκράτορα κτίσμα τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ. καὶ τὸν μὲν Κοσμοκράτορα γινώσκειν τὰ ὑπὲρ αὐτόν, ὅτι πνεῦμά ἐστι τῆς πονηρίας, τὸν δὲ ∆ημιουργὸν ἀγνοεῖν, ἅτε ψυχικὸν ὑπάρχοντα. οἰκεῖν δὲ τὴν Μητέρα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν ὑπερουράνιον τόπον τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ Μεσότητι, τὸν ∆ημιουργὸν δὲ εἰς τὸν ἐπουράνιον τόπον τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ Ἑβδομάδι, τὸν δὲ Κοσμοκράτορα ἐν τῷ καθ' ἡμᾶς κόσμῳ. ἐκ δὲ τῆς ἐκπλήξεως καὶ