[306] That is, the spiritual germs emanating from the "plerôma." [307] Plotinos here treats as synonymous "new earth," "reason of the world," "model of the world," and "form of the world;" but Bouillet shows that there is reason to believe he was in error in the matter. [308] From the plerôma, whose "seeds of election" they were, and which now become to them a foreign country. [309] Of the aeons, from whom souls, as intelligible beings, had emanated. [310] As in the famous drama of Sophia and Achamoth. [311] The unseen place; the transmigrations of Basilides, Valentinus, Carpocrates, and the others. [312] P. 39. Cary, 15. [313] Added to Plato by Plotinos. [314] Plotinos had done so himself (Intelligence, and the intelligible world); Numenius (25) also did so. [315] See iv. 3.8, 15. [316] Such as Pythagoras and Plato, Life of Plot. 23. [317] See ii. 9.17. [318] The doctrine of the Gnostics. [319] Or, generations, the "syzygies" of the aeons, see Titus iii. 9. [320] ii. 9.17. [321] As in the drama of the fall of Sophia and Achamoth. [322] See ii. 1.1; iii. 2.1; iv. 3.9. [323] See i. 2. [324] iv. 3. [325] For the descending souls enter bodies already organized by the universal Soul, see iv. 3.6; ii. 1.5; ii. 3.9; ii. 9.18. [326] Lower part, see ii. 1.5; ii. 3.5, 18. [327] See ii. 1, 3, 4, 5. [328] The first "bond" is nature, the second is the human soul. [329] See ii. 1.3. [330] That is, the stars, ii. 3.7-13. [331] See ii. 9.5. [332] With Plato's Timaeus, 29, Cary, 9. [333] In the universal Soul, ii. 3.16, 17. [334] By existing and creating, see ii. 5.2. [335] See i. 8.7, for matter. [336] See ii. 9.3. [337] See Philo, de Gigant. i. [338] See ii. 2.1. [339] See ii. 3.9-13. [340] See iv. 8. [341] See ii. 3.9. [342] See i. 4.8. [343] See i. 2. [344] See i. 4.7. [345] See ii. 3.13. [346] See i. 4.8. [347] See i. 4.14-16. [348] See ii. 3.8, 16. [349] See ii. 3.9. [350] See below. [351] The stars, see ii. 3.9. [352] That is, Intelligence, see i. 8.2. [353] The stars prognosticate events, see ii. 3.9. [354] See i. 2. [355] To the perfect Father, Bythos, Irenaeus, ii. 18. [356] See Irenaeus, iii. 15. [357] See ii. 9.16. [358] See Irenaeus. i. 21. [359] See Irenaeus, iii. 15. [360] See i. 1.12. [361] Thus identifying the "reasonable soul" with Sophia, and "the soul of growth and generation" with Achamoth. [362] See ii. 9.4. [363] ii. 3.16. [364] Or "seminal reasons," ii. 3.13. [365] See iii. 4.1. [366] As wrote Plato in his second Letter, 2, 312, Cary, 482. [367] Jeremiah x. 2. [368] Pindar, Olymp. i. 43. [369] See ii. 3.9. [370] See ii. 3.7. [371] See ii. 3.7. [372] As thought Plato, Laws, x, p. 897, Cviii. 265; Cary, C8, that evil is only negative. [373] See Irenaeus, i. 25. [374] See Origen, c. Cels. i. 24. [375] See i. 2. [376] This is, however, extreme, as Clement of Alexandria hands down helpful extracts from Valentinus, Strom. iv.; etc. [377] See ii. 9.9 [378] See i. 6.7.