[916]. Lafaye, L’In. Mith. pp. 111, 112, goes further and says that both Gnostics and Manichaeans derived their doctrine from Mithraism, which formed a half-way house between Paganism and Christianity. But see [Chapter XIII], infra.
[917]. Origen, adv. Cels. Bk VI. c. 22. For “musical” there should probably be read mystical, the τ being easily omitted by a copyist.
[918]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 38.
[919]. Charles, Bk of the Secrets of Enoch, pp. xxx sqq.
[920]. The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, published by James in Cambridge Texts and Studies, vol. V. No. 1, p. 44.
[921]. adv. Cels. Bk VI. c. 22. He has, however, got the order wrong, as copper is generally associated with the planet Venus, tin with Jupiter, iron with Mars, silver with the Moon, gold with the Sun, and lead with Saturn.
[922]. Bouché Leclercq, L’Astrologie Grecque, p. 23, for authorities.
[923]. Op. cit. p. 276. Cf. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 40.
[924]. Porphyry, de Abstinentia, Bk IV. c. 16.
[925]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 129, n. 6, for list of monuments.