Note 362 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

Some memory of this seems to have enlivened the disputes between the Nominalists and Realists of the XIIIth century. Cf. the wrangling of the Doctors at the School of Salerno in Longfellow’s Golden Legend

I, with the Doctor Seraphic, maintain

That the word that’s not spoken, but conceived in the brain,

Is the type of Eternal Generation,

The spoken word is the Incarnation.