Note 339 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

Philippe Berger, “Les Stèles Puniques de la Bibliothèque Nationale,” Gazette Archéologique, 11me ann. Paris, 1876, p. 123, says that the Aryan genius sees atmospheric phenomena where the Semite imagines persons who unite and give birth (personnes qui s’unissent et s’engendrent les unes les autres). Renan, Hist. du Peuple d’Israel, Paris, 1887, t. I. p. 49, shows that all Semites are naturally euhemerists and therefore anthropomorphists.