Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The adherents of Basilides are in the habit of calling the passions\r\nappendages: saying that these are in essence certain spirits attached\r\nto the rational soul, through some original perturbation and confusion;\r\nand that, again, other bastard and heterogeneous natures of spirits\r\ngrow on to them, like that of the wolf, the ape, the lion, the goat,\r\nwhose properties showing themselves around the soul, they say,\r\nassimilate the lusts of the soul to the likeness of the animals. For\r\nthey imitate the actions of those whose properties they bear. And\r\nnot only are they associated with the impulses and perceptions of\r\nthe irrational animals, but they affect<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_226\" id=\"FNanchor_226\">[226]</a> the motions and the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_65\">[65]</span>\r\nbeauties of plants, on account of their bearing also the properties of\r\nplants attached to them. They have also the properties of a particular\r\nstate, as the hardness of steel. But against this dogma we shall argue\r\nsubsequently, when we treat of the soul. At present this only needs\r\nto be pointed out, that man, according to Basilides, preserves the\r\nappearance of a wooden horse, according to the poetic myth, embracing\r\nas he does in one body a host of such different spirits. Accordingly,\r\nBasilides’ son himself, Isidorus, in his book, <i>About the Soul\r\nattached to us</i>, while agreeing in the dogma, as if condemning\r\nhimself, writes in these words: “For if I persuade any one that the\r\nsoul is undivided, and that the passions of the wicked are occasioned\r\nby the violence of the appendages, the worthless among men will have\r\nno slight pretence for saying, ‘I was compelled, I was carried away, I\r\ndid it against my will, I acted unwillingly;’ though he himself led the\r\ndesire of evil things, and did not fight against the assaults of the\r\nappendages. But we must, by acquiring superiority in the rational part,\r\nshow ourselves masters of the inferior creation in us.” For he too lays\r\ndown the hypothesis of two souls in us, like the Pythagoreans, at whom\r\nwe shall glance afterwards.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_226","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-101"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dbff0fd4dac08453c8c85a749b834189aa58740e9e916389fc2f51a20282d432","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_226","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_226","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_226\" id=\"Footnote_226\">[226]</a> Or, vie with.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_226","text_sha256":"979d942c0c93e32e10f332fdc129f098aa10cb54f6bb598a71edd3ed4093919a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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