Art of the Gnostic Gospels
You Are Here (the Hebdomad)
"…by that very process of reasoning on which they depend for teaching that there is a certain Pleroma or God above the Creator of heaven and earth, any one who chooses to employ it may maintain that there is another Pleroma above the Pleroma, above that again another…and thus, their doctrine flowing out into immensity…. after worlds without limits, and gods that cannot be numbered.
…Basilides himself will, according to his own principles, find it necessary to maintain not only that there are three hundred and sixty-five heavens made in succession by one another, but that an immense and innumerable multitude of heavens have always been in the process of being made, and are being made, and will continue to be made, so that the formation of heavens of this kind can never cease…the operation must go on ad infinitum…"
(Irenaeus, Against all Heresies, ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers/ANF-01/iren/iren2.html)
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