Peratæ, i. 3; mentioned by Clem, Alex., i. 146 _n._ 1; their teaching, i. 146-159; their triple division of the cosmos, i. 146; ii. 154; their Christology, i. 147; their astrological theories, i. 148, 149; their book _Proastii_ quoted, i. 50-153; why called Peratæ, i. 154; their saviour Serpent, i. 155; Serpent is type of Christ, Joseph and Nimrod, i. 155, 156; the constellation Draco, i. 157; anatomy of brain typifies Father and Son, i. 159; summary of doctrines of, ii. 154, 155. _See_ Edem, Euphrates Persephone, as lover of Adonis, i. 124. _See_ Hecate Persians say God is Light, i. 104 Pharisees. _See_ Jews Philo, his Logos and Gnostic ideas, ii. 7 _n._ 3, 8 _n._ 2, 173 _n._ 4 Philumena. _See_ Apelles Photius, his _Bibliotheca_ quoted, i. 12, 13 _n._ 1. Phrên. _See_ Râ Phrygians (Montanists), their tenets, ii. 113, 114; followers of Montanus, Priscilla and Maximilla, ii. 113; lean towards Noetian and Patripassian heresies, ii. 114; summary of doctrines of, ii. 167, 168. _See_ Mysteries, Naassenes Pindar, ode on first man assigned to, i. 122 _Pistis Sophia_, The, quoted, i. 3 n. 1, 9 _n._ 1, 123 _nn._ 1, 3, 124 _n._ 11, 150 _nn._ 1, 3, 152 _n._ 2, 155 _n._ 1, 162 _n._ 2, 173 _n._ 1, 177 _n._ 5; ii. 5 _n._ 4, 16 _n._ 4, 43 _n._ 2, 45 _n._ 4, 48 _n._ 3, 52 _n._ 9, 53 _n._ 2, 71 _n._ 6, 79 _n._ 3, 93 _n._ 7, 97 _n._ 1, 102 _n._ 2 Plato, i. 16; his teaching, i, 51-55; passages from Aristotle ascribed by Hippolytus to, i. 53, 54; his _Clitopho_ quoted as _Republic_, i. 55 _n._ 7; analogy between his teaching and Simon M.’s, ii. 5; and Valentinus’, ii. 18, 19, 25; quoted, ii. 23, 36, 37. _See_ Alcinous Plutarch, his _de Iside et Osiride_ quoted, i. 129 _n._ 3; _de Exilio_, ii, 23 _n._ 1 Point, indivisible, from which all things spring, i. 115, 141; ii. 9 Pontianus, Pope (230-235 A.D.), i. 7 Praxeas, a heretic refuted by Tertullian and mentioned by pseudo-Tert., but not by Irenæus or Hippolytus, i. 13 Prepon the Assyrian. _See_ Marcion Priscilla. _See_ Phrygians Proastii. _See_ Peratæ Proteus, identified with Attis, i. 137 Prudentius quoted, i. 7 Ptolemy, Claudius, the astronomer, mentioned, i. 82; his _Tetrabiblos_ quoted, i. 88 _n._ 2 ---- follower of Valentinus, his tenets, ii. 39, 40; his letter to his “fair sister Flora,” ii. 39 _n._ 7 Pyrrho, wrongly called an Academic by Hippolytus, i. 32; his teaching, i. 59 Pythagoras, i. 15, 16, 17; his life and followers, i. 36-39; his theory of numbers, i. 37, 115 _n._ 6, 116; ii. 20; Accidents attributed to, ii. 21; his theory of metempsychosis, ii. 23; gnomic sayings of, ii. 23, 24; solar theory of, ii. 24 Quartodecimans, i. 17; their tenets, ii. 112, 113; Irenæus their advocate, ii. 112 _n._ 6 Râ, Egyptian Sun-God, invoked by magicians, i. 92 _n._ 7