BOOK IX: NOETUS, CALLISTUS, AND OTHERS 117-148 1. NOETUS 118 2. CALLISTUS 124 3. THE ELCHESAITES 132 4. THE JEWS 138 BOOK X: SUMMARIES, AND THE WORD OF TRUTH 149-178 1. THE SUMMARY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 150 2. THE SUMMARY OF THE HERESIES 153 3. THE WORD OF TRUTH 171 INDEX 179 PHILOSOPHUMENA BOOK VI SIMON MAGUS, VALENTINUS, AND THEIR FOLLOWERS [Sidenote: p. 242 Cruice.] 1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the _Refutation of all Heresies_. 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus has laid down, and that his doctrine is not framed from the Scriptures, but from those of the Platonists and Pythagorists. 4. And what is thought by Secundus, Ptolemy and Heracleon, and how they have used as their own, but with different words, the thoughts of those whom the Greeks (think) wise. 5. What has been held by Marcus and Colarbasus [and their disciples] and that some of them gave heed to magic arts and Pythagorean numbers. 6. Now such opinions as belong to those who have taken their principles from the serpent[1] and, when the time arrived, of their own accord brought their doctrines into light, we have set forth in the Book before this, being the [Sidenote: p. 243.] Vth of the _Refutation of all Heresies_. Here, however, I will not keep silence as to the opinions of those who come after (them),[2] but will leave not one unrefuted, if it be possible to keep them all in mind, together with their secret rites which are justly to be called orgies, inasmuch as those who dare such things are not far from God’s wrath[3]--to use the word in its etymological sense. 1. _About Simon._ 7. It seems then right now to set forth also the (doings) of Simon,[4] the man of Gitto,[5] a village of Samaria, whereby we shall show that those also who followed (him) taking hints from other names have ventured upon like things. This Simon, being skilled in magic arts and having played upon many, sometimes by the Thrasymedean[6] process in the way we have set forth above, but sometimes working iniquity by means of devils, designed to deify himself, (although only) a human sorcerer filled with desperation whom the [Sidenote: p. 244.] Apostles refuted in the _Acts_.[7] Than whom Apsethus the Libyan was much wiser and more modest when he ambitiously attempted to be considered a god in Libya. Whose story as it is not very different from the vain desire of Simon, it seems fitting to narrate as one worthy to have been attempted by Simon himself.