Note 470 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES
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I.e. by sexual desire. The same idea is met with in the doctrines of Simon Magus, see Chap. VI, infra, and in many other sects. Cf. Cumont, Recherches sur le Manichéisme, Bruxelles, 1908, pt I. Appx 1, “La Séduction des Archontes” for particulars.