Note 177 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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dehinc et Spiritum, et animam et omnia mundialia; inde generatum omnem oblivionem, et malitiam, et zelum, et invidiam, et mortem. Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, p. 232, Harvey. So Dionysos, whose emblem (Clem. Alex. Protrept. c. II.) was the serpent, is identified with the soul of the world. Cf. Berger, Études sur la Philosophumena, Nancy, 1873, pp. 39 sqq.