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Updated: May 21, 2025
For thence it is that all things begin to stretch below their wondrous rays. Compare this with the teaching of Simon that the "fruit" of the Tree is placed in the Store-house and not cast into the Fire. In his aeonology, Simon, like other Gnostic teachers, begins with the Word, the Logos, which springs up from the Depths of the Unknown Invisible, Incomprehensible Silence.
Or it may be that both borrowed from some common source now lost to us. The story of Helen is here for the first time given. Whether or not there was a Helen we shall probably never know. The "lost sheep" was a necessity of every Gnostic system, which taught the descent of the soul into matter. These data are common to all Gnostic aeonology.
But before passing on to the aeonology of Simon, a short delay, to enquire more fully into the notions of the Initiated among the ancients as to the nature of Mystic Fire, will not be without advantage.
If it is argued that Simon was the first inventor of this aeonology, it is astonishing that his name and that of Helen should not have had some recognition in the succeeding systems.
The Simon of Theodoret differs from that of his predecessor only in one or two important details of the aeonology, a fact that has presumably led Matter to suppose that he has introduced some later Gnostic ideas or confused the teachings of the later Simonians with those of Simon.
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