Note 365 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

So Hope Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, 1913, p. 114, points out that half of the Persian Amshaspands or archangels bear names expressing “what Mazda is” and the other half “what Mazda gives.” There is much likeness, as has been said, between the Amshaspands and the “Roots” of Simon Magus.