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Against Heresies
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They further maintain that the passion which took place in the case of the twelfth Aeon is pointed at by the apostasy of Judas, who was the twelfth apostle, and also by the fact that Christ suffered in the twelfth month. For their opinion is, that He continued to preach for one year only after His baptism. The same thing is also most clearly indicated by the case of the woman who suffered from an issue of blood. For after she had been thus afflicted during twelve years, she was healed by the advent of the Saviour, when she had touched the border of His garment; and on this account the Saviour said, "Who touched me?" 1 --teaching his disciples the mystery which had occurred among the Aeons, and the healing of that Aeon who had been involved in suffering. For she who had been afflicted twelve years represented that power whose essence, as they narrate, was stretching itself forth, and flowing into immensity; and unless she had touched the garment of the Son, 2 that is, Aletheia of the first Tetrad, who is denoted by the hem spoken of, she would have been dissolved into the general essence 3 [of which she participated]. She stopped short, however, and ceased any longer to suffer. For the power that went forth from the Son (and this power they term Horos) healed her, and separated the passion from her.
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Mark v. 31. ↩
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The Latin reads "filii," which we have followed. Reference is made in this word to Nous, who was, as we have already seen, also called Son, and who interested himself in the recovery of Sophia. Aletheia was his consort, and was typified by the hem of the Saviour's garment. ↩
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Her individuality (morphe) would have been lost, while her substance (ousia) would have survived in the common essence of the Aeons. ↩
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Gegen die Häresien (BKV)
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Das dem zwölften Äon widerfahrene Missgeschick wird angezeigt durch den Verrat des Judas, welcher der zwölfte Apostel war, und dadurch, daß er im zwölften Monat litt, denn nur ein Jahr soll er nach der Taufe gepredigt haben. Ferner zeigt sich dies deutlichst an der blutflüssigen Frau. Nachdem sie zwölf Jahre krank gewesen ist, wurde sie durch die Ankunft des Erlösers geheilt, indem sie seinen Rocksaum berührte. Deswegen sprach der Heiland: „Wer hat mich berührt?“1 . Hierdurch lehrte er den Jüngern die oben erzählte, geheimnisvolle Geschichte der Äonen und wie der in das Unglück verstrickte Äon geheilt wurde. Die zwölf Jahre lang blutflüssige Frau bedeutet jene Äonenkraft, die nach außen strebte und in das Endlose ihrer Wesenheit ausfloß; hätte sie nicht sein Gewand berührt2 , so wäre sie eben in ihre Wesenheit aufgelöst worden. So machte er halt und ihr Leiden hörte auf; denn die von ihm ausgehende Kraft, der Horos, heilte sie und befreite sie von ihrem Leiden.