[150] Cf. Ezekiel x. 12.
[151] ῥῆμα, not λόγος.
[152] Here we see the interpretation put by Hippolytus an the Aristotelian τὰ ὅλα.
[153] θεμελιόω. The whole of this sentence singularly resembles that in the Great Announcement ascribed to Simon Magus, for which see II, p. 12 infra.
[154] This idea of the Indivisible Point, which recurs in several Gnostic writings, including those of Simon and Basilides, seems founded on the mathematical axiom that the line and therefore all solid bodies spring from the point, which itself has “neither parts nor magnitude.”
[155] Ἐπινοίᾳ. This also is used by Simon as the equivalent of Ἔννοια.
[156] Ps. xix. 3.
[157] ἀπρονοήτως, Cr., sine numine quidquam; Macmahon, “without premeditation.”
[158] Performances in the theatres formed part of the Megalesia or Festival of the Great Mother.
[159] I should be inclined to read τῆς Μεγάλης μυστήρια, “Mysteries of the Great Mother.”