sources: SRC_IRENAEUS_AH

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SRC_IRENAEUS_AH Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002)   heresiological source The five-book polemic by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon (c. 130–202 CE), is the single most comprehensive ancient source for Gnostic cosmological systems, particularly Valentinian theology. Books I.1-9 provide the fullest surviving account of the Valentinian Pleroma: the thirty aeons in their fifteen syzygies, the names of all Decad and Dodecad members, the emanation sequence from Bythos/Sige through Nous/Aletheia, Logos/Zoe, Anthropos/Ecclesia, the fall of Sophia (the 30th aeon), the production of Achamoth, and the creation of the material world by the Demiurge/Yaldabaoth. Irenaeus is writing polemically against these systems and may not always represent Valentinian theology accurately, but his account preserves details found in no other ancient source and is confirmed on many points by the Nag Hammadi texts discovered in 1945. Essential for all ENT_VAL_* entities and for the Valentinian reception of older Gnostic cosmological concepts. Cited for ENT_VAL_DECAD, ENT_VAL_DODECAD, ENT_VAL_MONOGENES, ENT_VAL_PISTIS, ENT_VAL_AGAPE, ENT_VAL_THELETOS, and the structural Yaldabaoth relationships.

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