Valentinus has also a supreme Æon, Unbegotten, Invisible, Self-Existent, remaining from everlasting in impassive serenity. This God, named Bythus, has his Sakti like the Dhyani Buddhas. She is called Ennœa (Idea), also Charis (Grace). Bythus is also called Propator (First Father). After countless ages he determines to evolve the Pleroma, and for that purpose brings forth Nous (Mind) and Aletheia (Truth). From Nous, according to Valentinus, by the aid of Aletheia proceeded Logos (Word) and Zoe (Life). Nous was also called Monogenes (the Only Begotten). Zoe brought forth Anthropos (Man) and Ecclesia (Church). These brought forth other Æons. In this system Christ figures as Phos (Light), Soter (Saviour), and Logos (Word). He gives light to the Pleroma. Now let us turn to the famous opening verses of the fourth gospel. I copy down the translation of them by the author of the "Evolution of Christianity." "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was divine. The same was in the beginning with God. All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing came into existence. That which hath been made in him was Zoe (Life), and Zoe was the Phos (Light) of men, and Phos shineth in the darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.... "And the Logos became flesh, and dwelt amongst us, full of Charis (Grace) and Aletheia (Truth). And we beheld his glory, glory as of Monogenes (the Only Begotten) from the Father." As the author of the "Evolution of Christianity" truly says, we have here a condensation of the Æons of Valentinus. John unifies Christ in Monogenes, Logos, Phos, and Soter. He descends as Phos (Light). He has Æonic relationship with Charis and Aletheia. "Of his Pleroma have we all received," says the fourth evangelist. (John i. 16.) "It was the Father's good pleasure that in him the whole Pleroma should have its home" (Col. i. 19). "In him dwells the whole Pleroma of the Godhead in bodily shape." (Col. ii. 9). "The Church, which is his body, the Pleroma of him that filleth all in all." (Eph. i. 23.) We turn now to the Æons or Dhyani Buddhas. "According to the purpose of the Æons." (Eph. iii. 11.) "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations." The author of the "Evolution of Christianity" shows that the authorised version has no sense. He amends it thus:-- "The mystery concealed from the Æons and from their offspring." From this two things are patent:-- 1. Johannine Christianity is Gnosticism. 2. Gnosticism is Buddhism.