Valentinus then taught, according to Irenæus, that all things sprung from one primeval pair, the Ineffable and Silence(655): the latter being according to the fragment the Thought of the former or his Grace, but called Silence more correctly, because she accomplished every thing by simple _desire_ without utterance. From these, according to Valentinus, sprung another pair, the Father(656) and the Truth: the former of whom the fragment makes to emanate from the Unbegotten Original and Silence, by her desire; the latter from herself and the Father, by some mysterious union of the _lights_ from each; so that their offspring was a _true_ image of herself and thence derived her name. Truth, therefore, by a like mysterious union with her Father, produces a tetrad of two pairs, the Word and the Life, Man and the Church. Subsequently the Holy Spirit was sent forth either by the Truth or by the Church, (for upon that point the Old Translator of Irenæus and Epiphanius differ,) to examine the Æons, and to make them fruitful in the produce of truth(657). So far Irenæus and the fragment correspond, excepting that the latter places Man and the Church first(658): but from this point there appears nothing more in common, and as henceforth there is a general coincidence between Valentinus and his followers, I shall give the scheme as it appears in the first book of Irenæus, mentioning the variations where they occur. It may be however proper to notice this radical difference between the heresiarch and his disciples, that he considered all these Æons, as they were called, or Eternal Essences, as merely feelings, affections, and motions of the one unseen, infinite First Cause, whereas they regarded them as so many personal beings(659). The last mentioned tetrad then, knowing themselves to have been sent forth to the glory of the unbegotten Father, desired to glorify him by their own act. Wherefore the Word and the Truth sent forth ten Æons, called the Profound and Mixture, the Ever‐youthful and Union, the Self‐existent and Pleasure, the Immoveable and Commixture, the Only‐begotten and the Blessed: whilst Man and the Church sent forth twelve, called the Paraclete and Faith, the Paternal and Hope, the Maternal and Charity, Aïnus (the Eternal Mind, or as it is in the Latin Æons, or Praise) and Comprehension, the Ecclesiastical and Blessedness, the Desired and Wisdom(660).