God.”203 Hence also it comes to pass, that when the soul is involved in difficulties and dis- tresses, for its own relief it calls out, “Oh” (Ω), in honour of the letter in question,204 so that its cognate soul above may recognise [its distress], and send down to it relief. 9. Thus it is, that in regard to the whole name,205 which consists of thirty letters, and Bythus, who receives his increase from the letters of this [name], and, moreover, the body of Aletheia, which is composed of twelve members, each of which consists of two letters, and the voice which she uttered without having spoken at all, and in regard to the analysis of that name which cannot be expressed in words, and the soul of the world and of man, according as they possess that arrangement, which is after the image [of things above], he has uttered his nonsensical opinions. It remains that I relate how the Tetrad showed him from the names a power equal in number; so that nothing, my friend, which I have received as spoken by him, may remain unknown to thee; and thus thy request, often proposed to me, may be fulfilled. 203 Ps. xix. 1. 204 The text is here altogether uncertain: we have given the probable meaning. 205 That is, the name of Soter, the perfect result of the whole Pleroma. 893 Chapter XIV.—The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting…