The author of the diagram claims, moreover, for his sect, the greatest antiquity, bringing forward, as a proof, that their “forefathers” were the builders of all the “Dracontia” temples, even of those beyond “the great waters.” He asserts that the “Just One,” who was the mouthpiece of the Eternal Æon (Christos), himself sent his disciples into the world, placing them under the double protection of Sige (Silence, the Logos), and Ophis, the Agathodæmon. The author alludes, no doubt, to the favorite expression of Jesus, “be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” On the diagram, Ophis is represented as the Egyptian Cnuphis or Kneph, called Dracontiæ. He appears as a serpent standing erect on its tail, with a lion’s head, crowned and radiated, and bearing on the point of each ray one of the seven Greek vowels--symbol of the seven celestial spheres. This figure is quite familiar to those who are acquainted with the Gnostic gems,[607] and is borrowed from the Egyptian _Hermetic books_. The description given in the _Revelation_, of one “like unto the Son of Man,” with his seven stars, and who is the Logos, is another form of Ophis. The Nazarene diagram, except in a change of names, is identical with that of the Gnostics, who evidently borrowed their ideas from it, adding a few appellations from the Basiledean and Valentinian systems. To avoid repetition, we will now simply present the two in parallel. Thus, we find that, in the Nazarene Cosmogony, the names of their powers and genii stand in the following relations to those of the Gnostics: NAZARENE. GNOSTIC-OPHITE. _First Trinity._ _First Unity in a Trinity._ Lord FERHO--the Life which IAO--the Ineffable Name of is no Life--the Supreme God. the Unknown Deity--Abraxas, The _Cause_ which produces and the “Eternal Spiritual the Light, or the Logos _in Sun.” Unity enclosed within abscondito_. The water of the Depth, Bythos, feminine Jordanus Maximus--the water principle--the boundless of Life, or Ajar, the circle, within which lie all feminine principle. Unity in ideal forms. From this Unity a Trinity, enclosed within emanates the ISH AMON. _Second Trinity._ _Second Trinity._ (The manifestation (Idem.) of the first.) 1. Lord MANO--the King of 1. Ennoia--mind. Life and Light--_Rex Lucis_. First LIFE, or the primitive man. 2. Lord Jordan--manifestation 2. Ophis, the Agathodæmon. or emanation of Jordan Maximus--the waters of grace. Second LIFE. 3. The Superior Father-- 3. Sophia Androgyne--wisdom; Abatur. Third LIFE. who, in her turn--fecundated with the Divine Light--produces