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Only this “ likeness ” and the ''ogdoad ''itself is a blind, just as in the seven creations of the Vishnu Purânas, to which two more are added of which the eighth, termed Anûgraha, “ possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness,” a Sankhyan more than a Purânic idea. For Irenæus says again (b. i. xxx. 6) that “ they (the Gnostics) had a like eighth creation which was good and bad, divine and human. They affirm that man was formed ''on the eighth day''. Sometimes they affirm that he was made on the ''sixth day'', and at others on the eighth ; unless, perchance, they mean that his earthly part was formed on the sixth day and his fleshly part (?) on the eighth day ; these two being distinguished by them.” | Only this “ likeness ” and the ''ogdoad ''itself is a blind, just as in the seven creations of the Vishnu Purânas, to which two more are added of which the eighth, termed Anûgraha, “ possesses both the qualities of goodness and darkness,” a Sankhyan more than a Purânic idea. For Irenæus says again (b. i. xxx. 6) that “ they (the Gnostics) had a like eighth creation which was good and bad, divine and human. They affirm that man was formed ''on the eighth day''. Sometimes they affirm that he was made on the ''sixth day'', and at others on the eighth ; unless, perchance, they mean that his earthly part was formed on the sixth day and his fleshly part (?) on the eighth day ; these two being distinguished by them.” | ||
They were so “ distinguished,” but not as Irenæus gives it. The Gnostics had a superior ''Hebdomad'', and an inferior one, in Heaven ; and a third terrestrial ''Hebdomad'', on the plane of matter. Iao, the mystery god and the Regent of the Moon, as given in Origen’s chart, was the chief of these superior “ ''Seven Heavens'',” † hence identical with the chief of the lunar Pitris, that name being given by them to the lunar Dhyan-Chohans. “ They affirm that these seven heavens are intelligent, and ''speak of them as being angels'',” writes the same Irenæus ; and adds that on this account they termed Iao Hebdomas, while his mother was called “ ''Ogdoas'',” because, as he explains, “ she preserved the number of ''the first begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma.''” (Ibid. b. i, v. 2). | They were so “ distinguished,” but not as Irenæus gives it. The Gnostics had a superior ''Hebdomad'', and an inferior one, in Heaven ; and a third terrestrial ''Hebdomad'', on the plane of matter. {{Style S-Small capitals|Iao}}, the mystery god and the Regent of the Moon, as given in Origen’s chart, was the chief of these superior “ ''Seven Heavens'',” † hence identical with the chief of the lunar Pitris, that name being given by them to the lunar Dhyan-Chohans. “ They affirm that these seven heavens are intelligent, and ''speak of them as being angels'',” writes the same Irenæus ; and adds that on this account they termed Iao Hebdomas, while his mother was called “ ''Ogdoas'',” because, as he explains, “ she preserved the number of ''the first begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma.''” (Ibid. b. i, v. 2). | ||
This “ first begotten ''Ogdoad ”'' was (''a'') in theogony the ''second Logos ''(the manifested) because he was born of the Seven-fold ''first Logos'', hence he is the eighth on this manifested plane ; and (''b'') in astrolatry, it was the ''Sun'', Mârttanda — the eighth son of Aditi, whom she rejects while preserving her Seven Sons, ''the planets. ''For the ancients have never regarded the Sun as a planet, but ''as a central and fixed Star. ''This, then, is the second Hebdomad born of the ''Seven-rayed ''one, Agni, the Sun | This “ first begotten ''Ogdoad ”'' was (''a'') in theogony the ''second Logos ''(the manifested) because he was born of the Seven-fold ''first Logos'', hence he is the eighth on this manifested plane ; and (''b'') in astrolatry, it was the ''Sun'', Mârttanda — the eighth son of Aditi, whom she rejects while preserving her Seven Sons, ''the planets. ''For the ancients have never regarded the Sun as a planet, but ''as a central and fixed Star. ''This, then, is the second Hebdomad born of the ''Seven-rayed ''one, Agni, the Sun | ||