Note 618 — Chapter X · THE SYSTEM OF THE PISTIS SOPHIA AND ITS RELATED TEXTS[459]
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Tertullian, de Carne Christi, c. 9. Irenaeus, Bk II. c. 7, § 1, p. 270, Harvey, seems to have known both of Barbelo and of the Virgin of Light, since he speaks of corpora sursum ... spiritalia et lucida, “spiritual and translucent bodies on high” casting a shadow below in quam Matrem suam descendisse dicunt “into which they allege their Mother descended.”