The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e. [Please select]
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Ralph seemed to have become, in a somewhat gnostic manner, a full-fledged financier. [Please select]
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'This,' said he, lifting it up, 'is an ancient Gnostic amulet.' [Please select]
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These forms beheld in divine natures possess a fabricative power, but with us they are only gnostic, and no longer demiurgic, through the defluxion of our wings, or degradation of our intellectual powers. [Please select]
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