Note 587 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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Amélineau, Gnosticisme Égyptien, p. 39, makes this perfectly clear. Cf. Ad. Franck, “Le Gnosticisme Égyptien” in Journal des Savans, Avril, 1888, pp. 212, 213. Hatch (H.L. p. 205) points out that it is the doctrine of “Philo and the Platonists.”