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Chapter
XXXIII.
Celsus next relates other fables, to the effect
that “certain persons return to the shapes of the
archontics,4454
4454 εἰς τὰς
ἀρχοντικὰς
μορφάς. | so that some are
called lions, others bulls, others dragons, or eagles, or bears, or
dogs.” We found also in the diagram which we possessed, and
which Celsus called the “square pattern,” the
statements4455
4455 Guietus thinks that
some word has been omitted here, as ξίφος, which seems very
probable. | made by these
unhappy beings concerning the gates of Paradise. The flaming
sword was depicted as the diameter of a flaming circle, and as if
mounting guard over the tree of knowledge and of life. Celsus,
however, either would not or could not repeat the harangues which,
according to the fables of these impious individuals, are represented
as spoken at each of the gates by those who pass through them; but this
we have done in order to show to Celsus and those who read his
treatise, that we know the depth of these unhallowed
mysteries,4456
4456 τὸ τῆς
ἀτελέστου
τελετῆς
πέρας. | and that they are
far removed from the worship which Christians offer up to
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