[42] Thus the tractate makes Simon Magus call his Helena Sophia, and says that Basilides named his Supreme God Abraxas. It knows nothing of the God-who-is-not and the three Sonhoods of our text: and it gives an entirely different account of the Sethians, whom it calls Sethitæ, and says that they identified Christ with Seth. In this heresy, too, it introduces Sophia, and makes her the author of the Flood.
[43] Euseb., Hist. Eccles. IV, c. 22. He is quoting Hegesippus. See also Origen contra Celsum, VI, c. 11.
[44] II, p. 3 infra.
[45] II, pp. 61 ff. infra.
[46] pp. [103], [119]; II, pp. 1, 57, 148, 149 infra.
[49] II, p. 97 infra.
[50] II, p. 116 infra.