From this period she begins to be herself an active fashioner of her productions. With the _spiritual_ seed she could not meddle, because it was equal to herself: but from the _animate_(677) substance she first formed the actual Creator of all earthly things, called likewise God the Father, the Saviour, the King of all, the Mother’s Father, the Fatherless(678). By him she, or rather the Saviour through her, fashioned all things here below, from the two substances, animate and material: first the seven heavens, who are also seven angels(679), then the earth and man(680), and all the elements and creatures, and lastly the spirits of wickedness, of whom the prince of this world was the chief(681). Of these man was a compound of the animate and the material(682). All these the Creator made, not knowing what he did; and so his mother Achamoth, without his knowledge, infused into the man which he had made, that spiritual seed of which I have before spoken(683), which is the Church, (or rather the Calling, ἐκκλησία,) an image of the Ecclesia above(684). It is not however to be supposed that all men have a share of this seed of election. It is only partially possessed. Those who have it not may be saved by faith and good works, those who have it are necessarily saved, and are incapable of being corrupted by any action or course of life. To the former class belong Churchmen, (Christians) to the latter Gnostics(685). The natural consequences followed, such as I have detailed before, with more or less of disguise, according to the character or circumstances of the professors of such doctrines. Some did openly whatever they felt inclined to, others went more warily to work: but the result every where was the same, the free indulgence of the sensual passions, with all their lamentable consequences; and those so much the more fatal, as they were accompanied by a profession of superior knowledge and purity(686). We have mentioned one Jesus already: but they likewise professed to believe in the Jesus of the Gospel. They taught that the Creator produced a son, unspiritual like himself, and that he was sent into the world by the Virgin Mary, as a mere vehicle, such as a water‐pipe is to water; that he was(687) clad in a body different from that of others; that when he was baptized, the Jesus before mentioned descended upon him in the form of a dove; and that he was likewise impregnated by Achamoth with the spiritual seed. Of these four portions of his nature only the two former suffered; the Saviour having quitted him when he was delivered up to Pilate(688).