[489] On the authority of Irenæus, Justin Martyr, and the “Codex” itself, Dunlap shows that the Nazarenes treated their “spirit,” or rather soul, as a female and Evil Power. Irenæus, accusing the Gnostics of heresy, calls Christ and the Holy Ghost “the gnostic pair that produce the Æons” (Dunlap: “Sod, the Son of the Man,” p. 52, foot-note).
[490] Fetahil was with the Nazarenes the king of light, and the Creator; but in this instance he is the unlucky Prometheus, who fails to get hold of the Living Fire, necessary for the formation of the divine soul, as he is ignorant of the secret name (the ineffable or incommunicable name of the kabalists).
[491] The spirit of matter and concupiscence.
[492] See Franck’s “Codex Nazaræus” and Dunlap’s “Sod, the Son of the Man.”
[493] “Codex Nazaræus,” ii. 233.
[494] This Mano of the Nazarenes strangely resembles the Hindu Manu, the heavenly man of the “Rig-Vedas.”
[495] “I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman” (John xv. 1).
[496] With the Gnostics, Christ, as well as Michael, who is identical in some respects with him, was the “Chief of the Æons.”
[497] “Codex Nazaræus,” i. 135.
[498] Ibid.