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| 37. | Illusive Appearance of the Moon, | 105 | |
| 38. | Illusive Appearance of the Stars, | 106 | |
| 39. | Imitation of an Earthquake, | 106 | |
| 40. | Trick with the Liver, | 106 | |
| 41. | Making a Skull speak, | 106 | |
| 42. | The Fraud of the foregoing Practices—their connection with Heresy, | 107 | |
| 43. | Recapitulation of Theologies and Cosmogonies—System of the Persians—of the Babylonians—the Egyptian Notion of Deity—their Theology based on a Theory of Numbers—their System of Cosmogony, | 108 | |
| 44. | Egyptian Theory of Nature—their Amulets, | 112 | |
| 45. | Use of the foregoing Discussions, | 113 | |
| 46. | The Astrotheosophists—Aratus imitated by the Heresiarchs—his System of the Disposition of the Stars, | 113 | |
| 47. | Opinions of the Heretics borrowed from Aratus, | 115 | |
| 48. | Invention of the Lyre—allegorizing the Appearance and Position of the Stars—Origin of the Phœnicians—The Logos identified by Aratus with the Constellation Canis—Influence of Canis on Fertility and Life generally, | 116 | |
| 49. | Symbol of the Creature—and of Spirit—and of the different Orders of Animals, | 119 | |
| 50. | Folly of Astrology, | 120 | |
| 51. | The Hebdomadarii—System of the Arithmeticians—pressed into the Service of Heresy—Instances of, in Simon and Valentinus—the Nature of the Universe deducible from the Physiology of the Brain, | 121 | |
| BOOK V. | |||
| Contents, | 125 | ||
| 1. | Recapitulation—Characteristics of Heresy—Origin of the Name Naasseni—the System of the Naasseni, | 125 | |
| 2. | Naasseni ascribe their System, through Mariamne, to James the Lord's Brother—really traceable to the ancient Mysteries—their Psychology as given in the "Gospel according to Thomas"—Assyrian Theory of the Soul—the Systems of the Naasseni and the Assyrians compared—Support drawn by the Naasseni from the Phrygian and Egyptian Mysteries—the Mysteries of Isis—these Mysteries allegorized by the Naasseni, | 128 | |
