THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GNOSTICISM AND SPIRITUALITY

with the basic Gnostics, both of these brief passages contained an excellent wealth of indicating. The traditional Gnostics pointed to and emphasized the particular illustrations or photos utilized by Genesis: Seth was of “An additional seed,” “while in the likeness” of Adam, and “appointed by God. Hippolytus used “Sethian” to denote

set in another way, and utilizing the conceptual language he appropriates from neo-Kantianism, Jonas delivers the link amongst texts, unique authors, and an important entity termed “Spirits,” parts of totality which have been broader than a selected unique individual, still continue to minimal as opposed with totality by itself. [168] Valentin