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| Doctrines Concerning Æons; The Chaldean Astrology; Heresy Derivable from It.
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Chapter
II.—Doctrines Concerning Æons; The Chaldean Astrology;
Heresy Derivable from It.
Employing these (as analogies), Euphrates the
Peratic, and Acembes150
| 150 Or,
“Celbes,” or “Ademes.” The first is the
form of the name employed in book v. c, viii.; the second in book x. c.
vi. | the
Carystian, and the rest of the crowd of these (speculators), imposing
names different from the doctrine of the truth, speak of a sedition of
Æons, and of a revolt of good powers over to evil (ones), and of
the concord of good with wicked (Æons), calling them
Toparchai and Proastioi, and very many other names.
But the entire of this heresy, as attempted by them, I shall explain
and refute when we come to treat of the subject of these
(Æons). But now, lest any one suppose the opinions
propounded by the Chaldeans respecting astrological doctrine to be
trustworthy and secure, we shall not hesitate to furnish a brief
refutation respecting these, establishing that the futile art is
calculated both to deceive and blind the soul indulging in vain
expectations, rather than to profit it. And we urge our case with
these, not according to any experience of the art, but from knowledge
based on practical principles. Those who have cultivated the art,
becoming disciples of the Chaldeans, and communicating mysteries as if
strange and astonishing to men, having changed the names (merely), have
from this source concocted their heresy. But since, estimating
the astrological art as a powerful one, and availing themselves of the
testimonies adduced by its patrons, they wish to gain reliance for
their own attempted conclusions, we shall at present, as it has seemed
expedient, prove the astrological art to be untenable, as our intention
next is to invalidate also the Peratic system, as a branch growing out
of an unstable root.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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