Why wonder at the unfathomable mysteries of the Christian religion, since it is perfectly _human_? Have we not a letter written by one of the most respected Fathers of the Church to this same Jerome, which shows better than whole volumes their traditionary policy? This is what _Saint_ Gregory of Nazianzen wrote to his friend and confidant _Saint_ Jerome: “Nothing can impose better on a people than _verbiage_; the less they understand the more they admire. Our fathers and doctors have often said, not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity forced them to.” But to return to our Sophia-Achamoth and the belief of the genuine, primitive Christians. After having produced Ilda-Baoth, Ilda from ילד, a child, and Baoth from בויץ, the egg, or בהות, _Baoth_, a waste, a desolation, Sophia-Achamoth suffered so much from the contact with matter, that after extraordinary struggles she escapes at last out of the muddy chaos. Although unacquainted with the pleroma, the region of her mother, she reached the middle space and succeeded in shaking off the material parts which have stuck to her spiritual nature; after which she immediately built a strong barrier between the world of intelligences (spirits) and the world of matter. Ilda-Baoth, is thus the “son of darkness,” the creator of our sinful world (the physical portion of it). He follows the example of Bythos and produces from himself six stellar spirits (sons). They are all in his own image, and reflections one of the other, which become darker as they successively recede from their father. With the latter, they all inhabit seven regions disposed like a ladder, beginning under the middle space, the region of their mother, Sophia-Achamoth, and ending with our earth, the _seventh_ region. Thus they are the genii of the seven planetary spheres of which the lowest is the region of our earth (the sphere which surrounds it, our æther). The respective names of these genii of the spheres are _Iòve_ (Jehovah), _Sabaoth_, _Adonai_, _Eloi_, _Ouraios_, _Astaphaios_.[313] The first four, as every one knows, are the mystic names of the Jewish “Lord God,”[314] he being, as C. W. King expresses it, “thus degraded by the Ophites into the appellations of the subordinates of the Creator; “the two last names are those of the genii of fire and water.”