Note 67 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

Amélineau, Le Gnosticisme Égyptien, p. 75, thus enumerates them: the doctrine of emanation, an unknown [i.e. an inaccessible and incomprehensible] God, the resemblance of the three worlds, the aeonology of Simon, and a common cosmology. To this may be added the inherent malignity of matter and the belief in salvation by knowledge. See Krüger, La Grande Encyclopédie, s.v. Gnosticisme.