Book
VI.
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Contents.
following are the
contents of the sixth book of the Refutation of all Heresies:—
What the opinions are that are attempted (to be
established) by Simon, and that his doctrine derives its force from the
(lucubrations) of magicians and poets.
What are the opinions propounded by Valentinus, and that
his system is not constructed out of the Scriptures, but out of the
Platonic and Pythagorean tenets.
And what are the opinions of Secundus, and
Ptolemæus, and Heracleon, as persons also who themselves advanced
the same doctrines as the philosophers among the Greeks, but enunciated
them in different phraseology.
And what are the suppositions put forward by Marcus and
Colarbasus, and that some of them devoted their attention to magical
arts and the Pythagorean numbers.