Simon Magus

And if we might enlarge yet a little farther, we would say that in these and the preceding sections a distinction is made between the Mind in its more potential aspect, and the Mind in operation, which is the Formative Mind. These are the "Hidden" and "Manifested" Fires of Simon Magus, mentioned in The Great Announcement, where he says ... 

The Gnostics subscribed neither to the theory that the Trinity is One, nor that Jesus was a myth. The Gnostics believed that Simon of Cyrene, the Traitor, died in place of Jesus. They followed Basilides of Alexandria who taught that Simon Magus had written ... 

See, for instance, Irenaeus s criticism of Simon Magus in Adv.Haer. 1.2. Petrement, Separate God, 63. 

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