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Contents.

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Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.

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The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.

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Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.

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Aristotle's General Idea.

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Nonentity as a Cause.

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Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.

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Aristotle's Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.

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Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle.

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Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”

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Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the “Sonship.”

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The “Great Archon” Of Basilides.

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Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle.

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Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”

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Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.

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God's Dealings with the Creature; Basilides' Notion of (1) the Inner Man, (2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our Lord.

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The System of Saturnilus.

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Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles.

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Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy.

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The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour.

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The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.

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The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.

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Doctrine of the Ebionæans.

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The Heresy of Theodotus.

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The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.

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The Heresy of Cerdon.

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The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.

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