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A spirited courage is required to triumph over the impediments that the indolence of nature as well as the cowardice of the heart oppose to our in struction. It was not without reason that the ancient Mythos made Minerva issue fully armed from the head of Jupiter, for it is with warfare that this instruction com mences.
Every initiated Gnostic, however, must have known that the mythos referred to the World-Soul in the Cosmos and the Soul in man. The accounts of the Acts and of Justin and Irenaeus are so confusing that it has been supposed that two Simons are referred to. For if he claimed to be a reïncarnation of Jesus, appearing in Jerusalem as the Son, he could not have been contemporary with the apostles.
But to do this he must have a mythos which assumed that souls lived before their earthly existence. With this in view he builds his home of the dead out of what Servius calls much sapientia, filling in details here and there even from the legendary lower-world personages so that the reader may meet some familiar faces.
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