It would thus amount _to a gross mistake to see merely errors_ in the Angelology of the Kabalists and Gnostics, so severely treated by the Apostle of the Gentiles, for his imposing censure reached _only their exaggerations and vicious interpretations_, and still more, _the application of those noble_ titles _to the miserable personalities of demoniacal usurpers_.(619) Often nothing so resemble each other as _the language of the judges and that of the convicts_ [of saints and Occultists]. One has to penetrate deeply into this _dual_ study [of creed and profession] and what is still better, _to trust blindly to the authority of the tribunal_ [the Church of Rome, of course] to enable oneself to seize precisely the point of the error. The _Gnosis_ condemned by St. Paul remains, nevertheless, for him as for Plato the supreme knowledge of all truths, and of the _Being par excellence_, ὁ ὄντως ὤν (_Republ._ Bk. VI). The Ideas, _types_, ἀρχὰι of the Greek philosopher, the _Intelligences_ of Pythagoras, the _aeons_ or _emanations_, the occasion of so much reproach to the first heretics, the Logos or Word, Chief of these Intelligences, the _Demiurgos_, the architect of the world under his father’s direction [of the Pagans], the unknown God, the _En‐soph_, or the _It of the Infinite_ [of the Kabalists], the angelical periods,(620) the _seven_ spirits, the Depths of _Ahriman_, the World’s _Rectors_, the _Archontes_ of the air, the _God of this world_, the _pleroma_ of the intelligences, down to _Metatron_ the angel of the Jews, _all this is found word for word, as so many truths, in the works of our greatest doctors, and in St. Paul_.(621) If an Occultist, eager to charge the Church with a numberless series of plagiarisms were to write the above, could he have written more strongly? And have we, or have we not, the right, after such a complete confession, to reverse the tables and to say of Roman Catholics and others what is said of the Gnostics and Occultists. “They used our expressions and rejected our doctrines.” For it is not the “promoters of the false Gnosis”—who had all those expressions from their archaic ancestors—who helped themselves to Christian expressions, but verily the Christian Fathers and Theologians, who helped themselves to our nest, and have tried ever since to soil it.