<x-tad-bigger>Writings of Justin and Irenaeus
</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Justin Martyr</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> (in his </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Apologies</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, and in a lost work against heresies, which Irenaeus used as his main source) and </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Irenaeus</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> (</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Adversus Haereses</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>) recount the myth of Simon and Helene. According to this myth, which was the center of Simonian religion, in the beginning God had his first thought, his </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Ennoia</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> (see </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Sophia</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>), which was female, and that thought was to create the angels. The First Thought then descended into the lower regions and created the angels. But the angels rebelled against her out of jealousy and created the world as her prison, imprisoning her in a female body. Thereafter, she was reincarnated many times, each time being shamed. Her many reincarnations included </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Helen</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> of Troy; among others, and she finally was reincarnated as Helene, a slave and prostitute in the </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Phoenician</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> city of </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Tyre</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>. God then descended in the form of Simon Magus, to rescue his Ennoia. Having redeemed her from slavery, he travelled about with her, proclaiming himself to be God and her to be the Ennoia, promising that he would dissolve this world the angels had made, but that those who trusted in him and Helene could return with them to the higher regions.
Justin and Irenaeus record several other pieces of information, including: that Simon came from the Samaritan village of Gitta and that the Simonians worshipped Simon in the form of </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Zeus</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> and Helene in the form of </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Athena</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>. They also say that a statue to Simon was erected by Claudius Caesar on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Simoni Deo Sancto</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, "To Simon the Holy God". However, in the </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>1500s</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, a statue was unearthed on the island in question, inscribed to </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Semo Sancus</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, a </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Sabine</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> deity, leading most scholars to believe that Justin Martyr confused </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Semoni Sancus</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> with Simon.</x-tad-bigger>
Noting a curious coincidence with Ana:
I've been wandering about in Wikipedia this past while(10/06)... and coming across Irenaeus I recalled having processed "irenic" with her and so I look it up....
At 18:53 on 4/10/06 in 1537 bytes
Divizio wrote:
irenic ~
..........Simon
This within one minute of searching Michel Serres, reading the sentence, "A key word for understanding Serres is 'irenic' "
And so with the OED online open to the definition of "irenic" ,a. and n.
Theology, or Irenics... presents the points of agreement among Christians with a view to the ultimate unity... of Christendom.
Divizio wrote: "cineri:
.............................and Simon appeared.
Wiley*[Utterly] and profoundly. Ignorance to be illumined thioya*[thioya*[through]] a desire to conquer the unknown and exact a sense of purposeful being. Informed through the risk of engagement. Mystically affirmed through ultimate belief in self and so the expression of Spirit. Irt'z ALL about Belief.
P!^VP
