Note 626 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS

Plato, Symposium, cc. 17, 18. Diotima later on in the same Dialogue says that it is an old story that those who are in love are seeking their lost half. In one of the documents of the Pistis Sophia, it is said that “the servants of the Sphere of Destiny” after making the soul of man, divide it into two parts, and give one part to a man and another to a woman who are then bound to come together (no matter how far apart they may be) and to unite, when a new soul is the result (Pistis Sophia, p. 346, Copt.).