[295] The Gnostic Horos.
[296] As Plato said Phaedrus, 246; Cary, 55.
[297] The Gnostic theory of creation by the fall of Sophia and Achamoth.
[298] See ii. 9.11. Valentinus however said only that Achamoth had created all things in honor of the aeons; only the later theologians held this view mentioned by Plotinos.
[299] See i. 2.1, 2.
[300] See I. Tim. vi. 20, 21; and ii. 9.9.
[301] See ii. 3.9.
[302] See ii. 1.4.
[303] This, however, is a mistake of Plotinos's, as the Gnostics held not this, but that the pneumatic or spiritual humans dwell on earth, and the psychic in heaven, as Bouillet remarks.
[304] So that they should remain in the model instead of descending here below?