Note 530 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES
Reading edition
Cf. Abel’s Orphica, Fr. 160, 161, 162, 202, 203, 204. From the Orphics the practice passed into the Mysteries and the writings of the post-Christian Gnostics. See Hatch, Hibbert Lectures, 1888, pp. 69, 74-75.