C. For ^ all things (H. he sajB) were made through Him, and

without Him no one thing was made that was made. In Him is Life."*
This (H. he says) is " Life," the ineffable Race of perfect men, which was unknown to former generations.
And the " nothing " ^ which hath been made " without Him,'' is the special cosmos ; * for the latter hath been made without Him by the third and fourth [? Ruler^
placed by J. or C, for § 19 connects directly with the exposition oonceming the ithyphallic Hermes. See R. 100, n« 4. ' its 4k yiis fiowrm, T^'pv4w'^v,
* Men was the Phrygian Deus Lunus. See Drezler's admirable art ».v. in Roscher, iL 2687-2770.
s Kcic/pMf — a word-play on mipas (homX unreprodudble in English.
* John L 3, 4. So the present text ; but it must have been *' nothing" in the text which lay before C.
^ Of. the logoiy from TU Book of the Oreat Logos according to the Mystery : ''Jesus, the Living One, answered and said : Blessed is the man who knoweth this [Word (Logos)\ and hath brought down the Heaven, and borne the Earth and raised it heavenwards, and he becometh the Middle, for it (the Middle) is Schmidt (C), Onostisthe Schrifien in koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brveianus (Leipzig, 1892), p. 144 ; and KopHsdi-gnottisthe Sihrifien (Leipzig, 1905), p. 259.
* That is the world of phenomena, or cosmos of species (Uuc^s) and not of genera or wholes.
' The fourth Demiurgic Power of the Sensible World was Esaldaios, as we have already seen from J., § 12. The indications are too vague to recover the "measures" and ''numbers" of the system. But the '' third and fourth " are apparently both " fiery " — the former giving " light," the latter "heat" Compare § 23 C, who speaks of the third Gate, or entrance to the third Heaven. This Heaven, the third from below, would correspond with the first setheric sphere — there being, presumably,* three before the fourth or nuddle, the " Fiery Ruler."
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J. This^ (H. he says) is the drinking-vessel — the Gup in which " the King drinketh and divineth." «
This (H. he says) was found hidden in the "fair seed " of Benjamin.
(18) S. The Greeks also speak of it (H. he says) with inspired tongue, as follows :
" Bring water, bring [me] wine, boy ! Give me to drink, and sink me in slumber ! ' My Gup tells me of what race I must be born, [Speaking with silence unspeaking]." *