[Footnote 114: See Schwartze's _Pistis-Sophia_ and Amélineau's _Notice sur le Papyrus Gnostique Bruce_.]
[Footnote 115: _De Mysteriis Liber_, vii. 4.]
[Footnote 116: Compare also _Herodot._ ii, 54--[Greek: phonae anthropaeiae].]
[Footnote 119: _Psel. Schol. in Orac. Magic_, p. 70.]
[Footnote 120: Theodoret gives [Greek: ennoia].]
[Footnote 121: A. Aphthartos Morphê. B. Nous tôn Holôn. c. Epinoia Megalê. D. Eikôn. a. Nous. b. Phônê. c. Logismos. d. Enthumêsis. e. Onoma. f. Epinoia.]
[Footnote 124: Wilson's Trans. i. pp. 55 _et seqq._]
[Footnote 125: Prabhavâpyaya: Pra-bhava=the forth-being or origin, and Apy-aya=the return or reabsorption. It is the same idea as the Simonian Treasure-house.]
[Footnote 126: Ayana simply means "moving."]
[Footnote 127: _Mânava-Dharma Shâstra_, i. 10.]
[Footnote 130: This Gnostic gospel, together with the treatises entitled, _The Book of the Gnoses of the Invisible_ and _The Book of the Great Logos in each Mystery_ (the Bruce MSS.), is especially referred to, as, with the exception of the _Codex Nazaraeus_, being the only Gnostic works remaining to us. All else comes from the writings of the Fathers.]
[Footnote 132: The most advanced theory, however, is that the foetus derives nourishment from the amniotic fluid, and Dr. Jerome A. Anderson sums up his highly interesting paper on the "Nutrition of the Foetus" in the _American Journal of Obstetrics_, Vol. XXI, July, 1888, as follows:
"To briefly sum up the facts supporting amniotic nutrition:
"1st. The constant presence of nutritive substances in the amniotic fluid during the whole period of gestation.
"2nd. The certainty of the absorption by a growing, almost skinless, foetus of any nutritive material in which it is constantly bathed.
"3rd. The permeability of the digestive tract at an early period, and the necessary entrance therein, according to the laws of hydrostatics, of the albuminous amniotic fluid.
"4th. The presence of, as it seems to me, _bonâ fide_ débris of digestion, or meconium, in the lower intestine.
"5th. The presence of urine in the bladder, and bile in the upper intestine; their normal locations.
"6th. The mechanical difficulties opposing direct nutrition through the placenta, and the impossibility of nourishment by this method during the early stages of embryonic life previous to the formation of the placenta or umbilical vesicle.