Note 302 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS
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Amélineau, Le Gnosticisme Égyptien, p. 30. Its early shape was probably more magical and less ethical than its later developments, because, as the same author (P.S.B.A. 1888, p. 392) says, for several centuries it was only the lowest classes in Egypt that became Christians.