Note 75 — Chapter III · ASIATIC PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP.
Reading edition
The Gnostics and Their Remains, p. 224.
The references to Hippolytus, made by King may be found in vol. vi., Ante-Nicene Library, Edinburgh, 1877, pp. 126-194, especially 150, 151. One should read the fifth book of his “Refutation of All Heresies” to see how much water, as a divine agency and power, entered into various phases of the gnostic system. The original of the quotations from the gnostic gospel, Pistis-Sophia, may be found in the London edition—Latin—of 1856.