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CONTENTS.
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| 39. | The Quaternion exhibits "Truth," | 250 | |
| 40. | The Name of Christ Jesus, | 251 | |
| 41. | Marcus' mystic Interpretation of the Alphabet, | 251 | |
| 42. | His System applied to explain our Lord's Life and Death, | 253 | |
| 43. | Letters, Symbols of the Heavens, | 254 | |
| 44. | Respecting the Generation of the Twenty-four Letters, | 255 | |
| 45. | Why Jesus is called Alpha, | 257 | |
| 46. | Marcus' Account of the Birth and Life of our Lord, | 258 | |
| 47. | The System of Marcus shown to be that of Pythagoras by Quotations from the Writings of Marcus' Followers, | 259 | |
| 48. | Their Cosmogony framed according to these mystic Doctrines of Letters, | 262 | |
| 49. | The Work of the Demiurge perishable, | 263 | |
| 50. | Marcus and Colarbasus refuted by Irenæus, | 264 | |
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| Contents, | 265 | ||
| 1. | Heresy compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens—Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens, | 266 | |
| 2. | The System of Basilides derived from Aristotle, | 267 | |
| 3. | Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy, | 268 | |
| 4. | Aristotle's general Idea, | 268 | |
| 5. | Nonentity as a Cause, | 269 | |
| 6. | Substance, according to Aristotle—the Predicates, | 269 | |
| 7. | Aristotle's Cosmogony—his "Psychology"—his "Entelecheia"—his Theology—his Ethics—Basilides follows Aristotle, | 271 | |
| 8. | Basilides and Isidorus allege Apostolic Sanction for their Systems—they really follow Aristotle, | 273 | |
| 9. | Basilides adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of "Nonentity," | 274 | |
| 10. | Origin of the World—Basilides' Account of the "Sonship," | 275 | |
| 11. | The "Great Archon" of Basilides, | 279 | |
| 12. | Basilides adopts the "Entelecheia" of Aristotle, | 280 | |
| 13. | Further Explanation of the "Sonship," | 282 | |
| 14. | Whence came the Gospel—the Number of Heavens according to Basilides—Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception, | 283 | |
| 15. | 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, | 286 | |
| 16. | The System of Saturnilus, | 289 | |
