C. For « God (H. he says) is Spirit" ^

Wherefore He says :
"Neither in this mountain do the true worshippers worship, nor in Jerusalem, but in Spirit.** •
^ The somewhat boastful tone, shown in several passages already, probably betrays C. ; it may, however, be assigned to J.
* A/*^|ai, a play on Amygdalos. ' That is, ** scarifications.''
* Cf, John i. 3., reading, however, ohZhf and not thfi M\ tv of W.H.
* The Piper; properly, the player on the syrinx or seven-reeded Pan-pipe. Compare the Mystery Ritual in Th$ Ads of John : " I would pipe ; dance all of you ! " (F. F, F, p. 432) ; and, "We have piped unto you and ye have not danced" (Matt xL 17 = Luke vii. 27).
* Or harmonised ; that is, cosmic or ordered. Cf, C, J7., i. 15 : ** For being above the Harmony, He becamer a slave enharmo- nised " ; also Orph. Hymn,, viii. II ; and also Acts of Jokn^ where the Logos is spoken of as " Wisdom in harmony " {F, F. F,, 436).
» Cf, John iv. 24.
« A conflation of John iv. 21 and 23. The ** moimtain," when used mystically, signifies the inner ^ Mount of initiation." Jeru- nlem in the text signifies the Jerusalem Below. The true wor- shippers worship in the Jerusalem Above.
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For the wonhip of Uie perfect [men] (IL he ays) is spiritml, not fleshlj.
J. And " Spirit " (R he says) is there where both Father and Son are named, generated there from Him ^ and the Father.
S. He* (H. he says) is the Many-named, Myriad- eyed, Incomprehensible, whom every nature desires, some one way, some another.
J. This (H. he says) is the Word* of God, which is :
" The Word of Announcement of the Great Power. Wherefore It shall be sealed, and hidden, and concealed, stored in the HaUtation, where the Soot of the Uni- versals has its foundation —
"Of .^ons^ Powers, Intelligences, Gods, Angels, Spirits Del^ate, Existing Non-existences, Generated Ingenerables, Comprehensible Incomprehensibles, — Tears, Months, Days, Hours, — of [the] Boundless Point, from which the most minute begins to increase by parts.^
" For (H. he says) the Point which is nothing and is composed of nothing, though partless, will become by
» Se. the Son.
> 8e. the Piper.
3 p^fim — used alflo by Philo and LXX.
* With Blight verbal omisaianB the opening lines down to '* foundation " are identical with the beginning of Tk« Great Apoca- hfpae or AnnauncemerU of the " Simonian " tradition, an exceedingly interesting docnnent from which aome quotations have been preserved to us by Hippolytus elsewhere (PhUoi,y vi 9). The '* Simonian " tradition was regarded by all the Church Fathers as the source of all " heresy " ; but modem criticism regards The Oreal AnnouncemeiU as a late document of the Christian Onoeis. The quotation of this document by J., however, makes this opinion, in my view, entirely untenable. If my analysis stands firm, The Great Announcement is thus proved to be pre-Christian, according to the traditional date. I am also inclined to think that in this quotation itself we have already the work of a commentator and not the original form of the Apocalypse.
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means of its own Thought a Greatness ^ beyond our own comprehension."