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Against Heresies
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They maintain, moreover, that those souls which possess the seed of Achamoth are superior to the rest, and are more dearly loved by the Demiurge than others, while he knows not the true cause thereof, but imagines that they are what they are through his favour towards them. Wherefore, also, they say he distributed them to prophets, priests, and kings; and they declare that many things were spoken 1 by this seed through the prophets, inasmuch as it was endowed with a transcendently lofty nature. The mother also, they say, spake much about things above, and that both through him and through the souls which were formed by him. Then, again, they divide the prophecies [into different classes], maintaining that one portion was uttered by the mother, a second by her seed, and a third by the Demiurge. In like manner, they hold that Jesus uttered some things under the influence of the Saviour, others under that of the mother, and others still under that of the Demiurge, as we shall show further on in our work.
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Billius, following the old Latin version, reads, "They interpret many things, spoken by the prophets, of this seed." ↩
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Gegen die Häresien (BKV)
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Die den Samen der Achamoth empfangen haben, sind besser als die übrigen Seelen, darum liebt sie der Demiurg auch mehr als die andern, indem er meint, daß er sie so erschaffen habe, und die wahre Ursache nicht kennt. Deshalb verordnete er sie auch zu Propheten, Priestern und Königen. Da aber die Propheten von besserer Wesenheit sind, hat der Same vieles durch ihren Mund gesprochen; vieles aber von diesen höheren Dingen hat auch die Mutter gesprochen, jedoch durch ihn und die von ihm abstammenden Seelen. Demgemäß zerfallen die Prophezeiungen in solche, die vom Sperma, in solche, die von der Mutter, in solche, die von dem S. 22Demiurgen kommen. Ebenso hat Jesus seine Aussprüche teils vom Heiland, teils von der Mutter, teils von dem Demiurgen, wie wir im Verlauf unseres Werkes zeigen werden.
