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Chapter XXVI.—His
Wickedness.
“For he even began to commit murder939
| 939 [With the
account of Simon’s doings in chaps. 26–32 compare
Recognitions, ii. 9, 10, 13–15; iii.
47.—R.] | as himself disclosed to us, as a friend
to friends, that, having separated the soul of a child from its own
body by horrid incantations, as his assistant for the exhibition of
anything that he pleased, and having drawn the likeness of the boy, he
has it set up in the inner room where he sleeps, saying that he once
formed the boy of air, by divine arts, and having painted his likeness,
he gave him back again to the air. And he explains that he did the deed
thus. He says that the first soul of man, being turned into the
nature of heat, drew to itself, and sucked in the surrounding air,
after the fashion of a gourd;940
| 940 Which was used by the
ancients as cupping-glasses are now used. | and then that he
changed it into water, when it was within the form of the spirit; and
he said that he changed into the nature of blood the air that was in
it, which could not be poured out on account of the consistency of the
spirit, and that he made the blood solidified into flesh; then, the
flesh being thus consolidated, that he exhibited a man not made
from earth, but from air. And thus, having persuaded himself that
he was able to make a new sort of man, he said that he reversed
the changes, and again restored him to the air. And when he told
this to others, he was believed; but by us who were present at his
ceremonies he was religiously disbelieved. Wherefore we denounced
his impieties, and withdrew from him.”
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