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| The Christ of the Demiurge, Sent into the World by the Virgin. Not of Her. He Found in Her, Not a Mother, But Only a Passage or Channel. Jesus Descended Upon Christ, at His Baptism, Like a Dove; But, Being Incapable of Suffering, He Left Christ to Die on the Cross Alone. PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP
Chapter XXVII.—The
Christ of the Demiurge, Sent into the World by the Virgin. Not of Her.
He Found in Her, Not a Mother, But Only a Passage or Channel. Jesus
Descended Upon Christ, at His Baptism, Like a Dove; But, Being
Incapable of Suffering, He Left Christ to Die on the Cross
Alone.
I now adduce6856 (what they
say) concerning Christ, upon whom some of them engraft Jesus with so
much licence, that they foist into Him a spiritual seed together with
an animal inflatus. Indeed, I will not undertake to
describe6857 these incongruous
crammings,6858 which they have
contrived in relation both to their men and their gods. Even the
Demiurge has a Christ of His own—His natural Son. An animal, in
short, produced by Himself, proclaimed by the prophets—His
position being one which must be decided by prepositions; in other
words, He was produced by means of a virgin, rather than
of a virgin! On the ground that, having descended into the
virgin rather in the manner of a passage through her than of a birth by
her, He came into existence through her, not of
her—not experiencing a mother in her, but nothing more than a
way. Upon this same Christ, therefore (so they say), Jesus descended in
the sacrament of baptism, in the likeness of a dove. Moreover,
there was even in Christ accruing from Achamoth the condiment of a
spiritual seed, in order of course to prevent the corruption of all the
other stuffing.6859 For after the
precedent of the principal Tetrad, they guard him with four
substances—the spiritual one of Achamoth, the animal one of the
Demiurge, the corporeal one, which cannot be described, and that of
Soter, or, in other phrase, the columbine.6860
6860 That which descended
like a dove. | As
for Soter (Jesus), he remained in Christ to the last,
impassible, incapable of injury, incapable of apprehension. By and by,
when it came to a question of capture, he departed from him during the
examination before Pilate. In like manner, his mother’s seed did
not admit of being injured, being equally exempt from all manner of
outrage,6861 and being
undiscovered even by the Demiurge himself. The animal and carnal
Christ, however, does suffer after the fashion6862 of
the superior Christ, who, for the purpose of producing Achamoth, had
been stretched upon the cross, that is, Horos, in a substantial though
not a cognizable6863 form. In this
manner do they reduce all things to mere images—Christians
themselves being indeed nothing but imaginary
beings!E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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