The only difference between the Ophite cosmogony and that of the St. John Nazarenes is a change of names. We find equally an identical system in the _Kabala_, the _Book of Mystery_ (_Liber Mysterii_).[294] All the three systems, especially that of the kabalists and the Nazarenes, which were the _models_ for the Ophite Cosmogony, belong to the pure Oriental Gnosticism. The _Codex Nazaræus_ opens with: “The Supreme King of Light, Mano, the great first one,”[295] etc., the latter being the emanation of Ferho--the unknown, formless LIFE. He is the chief of the Æons, from whom proceed (or shoot forth) five refulgent rays of Divine light. Mano is _Rex Lucis_, the Bythos-Ennoia of the Ophites. “_Unus est Rex Lucis in suo regno, nec ullus qui eo altior, nullus qui ejus similitudinem retulerit, nullus qui sublatis oculis, viderit Coronam quæ in ejus capite est._” He is the Manifested Light around the highest of the three kabalistic heads, the concealed wisdom; from him emanate the three _Lives_. Æbel Zivo is the revealed Logos, Christos the “Apostle Gabriel,” and the first Legate or messenger of light. If Bythos and Ennoia are the Nazarene Mano, then the dual-natured, the semi-spiritual, semi-material Achamoth must be Fetahil when viewed from her spiritual aspect; and if regarded in her grosser nature, she is the Nazarene “Spiritus.” Fetahil,[296] who is the reflection of his father, Lord Abatur, the _third_ life--as the elder Sophia is also the third emanation--is the “newest-man.” Perceiving his fruitless attempts to create a perfect material world, the “Spiritus” calls to one of her progeny, the Karabtanos--Ilda-Baoth--who is without sense or judgment (“blind matter”), to unite himself with her to create something definite out of this confused (_turbulentos_) matter, which task she is enabled to achieve only after having produced from this union with Karabtanos the seven stellars. Like the six sons or genii of the Gnostic Ilda-Baoth, they then frame the material world. The same story is repeated over again in Sophia-Achamoth. Delegated by her purely spiritual parent, the elder Sophia, to create the world of _visible forms_, she descended into chaos, and, overpowered by the emanation of matter, lost her way. Still ambitious to create a world of matter of her own, she busied herself hovering to and fro about the dark abyss, and imparted life and motion to the inert elements, until she became so hopelessly entangled in matter that, like Fetahil, she is represented sitting immersed in mud, and unable to extricate herself from it; until, by the contact of matter itself, she produces the _Creator_ of the material world. He is the Demiurgus, called by the Ophites Ilda-Baoth, and, as we will directly show, the parent of the Jewish God in the opinion of some sects, and held by others to be the “Lord God” Himself. It is at this point of the kabalistic-gnostic cosmogony that begins the Mosaic _Bible_. Having accepted the Jewish