A Roman presbyter of the early third century who catalogued every heresy he could find, traced each one back to a Greek philosopher, and left commentaries and fragments besides. Modern English.
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Contents
The Refutation of All Heresies
1Water, Number, and Fire2From Anaximander to Socrates3From Plato to the Brahmins4The Druids and Hesiod5Against the Chaldean Art6Measuring the Heavens7Divination by Numbers and Stars8The Magicians’ Tricks Exposed9The Moon on the Ceiling10Stars, Numbers, and the Brain11The Priests of the Serpent12Adam, the Soul, and Hermes13The Perfect Man and the Gate14The Serpent and the Four Rivers15The Peratae and Their Serpent16Light, Darkness, and Spirit17The Well and the Snake-Woman18Elohim, Edem, and Baruch19Simon Magus and the Parrots20The Standing One and Helen21Pythagoras Behind Valentinus22Sophia’s Passions and Plato’s Letter23The Cup and the Alphabet24The Number of the Name25The Debt to Irenaeus26The Sirens and the Seed27The Seed and the Great Archon28Abrasax and the Great Ignorance29Marcion Borrows from Empedocles30The Christ Who Came Down31The Fig Tree and the Iota32The Single Stroke of the Iota33Heraclitus Behind Noetus34Callistus and the Book of Elchasai35The Seven Witnesses and the Essenes36The Sects Among the Jews37Out of the Labyrinth38From Valentinus to the Melchizedekians39Older Than the Greeks40How Man May Become God