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inthe Cornell University Library.  \nThere are no known copyright restrictions inthe United States on the use of the text.  \nCornell Unlversity LibraryBT1390 .K541887  \nGnostlcs and their remains,encient and31924029323858olinOvers  \nAll books are subject to recall after two weeks.Olin/Kroch Library  \n# DATE DUE\n\n\n|  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1   | 00   |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| GAYLORD   |  |  | PRINTED INU.S.A.   |\n\nCERAUSJA OF GREEN JADE,CONVERTED INTO A GNOSTIC TALISMAN.(See page 197.)  \n尘HEGNO STIC S  \nAND  \nTHEIR REMAINS,  \nANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL.  \nBY  \nC.V.KING,MA.  \n“Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia cmcisIn tenebris metuunt,sic nos in luce timemusInterdum nflo quæ sunt metuenda magis quamQure pueri in tenebris pavitant,finguntqne futura.\"  \nSECOND EDITION.  \nLONDON:DAVID NUTT,270,STRAND.  \n1887.  \nA  \nT  \n1390  \n之十  \n1887  \n警  \nJ8  \nLONDON:  \nPRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND 8ONS,LIMITED,STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSs.  \nPREFACE.  \nWHEN this work first appeared,three-and-twenty years ago,itbecame at once an object of unmerited abuse,and of equallyunmerited praise.Small divines mistaking it for an insidiousattempt to overthrow opinions“as by law established,”spurtedat it with pens dipped in the milk of the Gospel;whilst,underthe very same hallucination,“Friends of Light”lauded it tothe skies—either party equally ignorant both of the subject,and of the purpose of my labours.One noted Zoilu8(whoserecollections of Homer would seem to be of the same deeply-marked nature as Ensign Blifil's)is disgusted at my citing“Aidoneus”as a title of the God of the Shades;another isastonished at my ignorance in calling Bardanes a Persian,whereas he was a native of Pontus;not understanding thatmy argument was equally valid in spite of the mistake—Pontusbeing originally a province of the empire of Darius,and whatis more to the purpose,the actual focus whence Mithraicismdiffused itself over the Roman world.  \nA still greater cause of outcry against the book was mypresuming to lay presumptuous hands upon the Sacred Ark ofMasonry,and openly express my opinion that the“Free andAccepted”of these times have no more real connexion with theancient Craft,out of whose terms and forms,like fig-leaves,theyhave stitched together apron8,wherewith to cover the realnakedness of their pretension,than the Italian Carbonari ofMurat's day bad with the trade of charcoal burners,whosebaskets were borrowed for the President's throne.KingHiram's skull gnashed his teeth with rage within the cistamystica;and one waliant young Levite of the course of Abia,  \nproceeds thus logically to confute all my assertions:“Athelstanbuilt a church:he could not build without masons;argal,Athelstan was the founder of Masonry in England.  \nBut enough of this;the same treatment is necessarily in storefor the present edition;it must look for  \n“Verbera,carnifices,robur,pix,lamina,taedae.”  \nThe one reviewer of its predecessor who exhibited any acquain-tance with the litorature of the subject,felt himself(from hisposition)“in duty bound”to qualify his praise by passing thesummary judgment “that I had displayed in the work more ofthe spirit of a Gnostic than of a Catholic Christian.”Thissentence,intended for condemnatory,I accept as the highestpraise that could be given to my labours—taking γvwcTLKós inits strict sense of“one addicted to knowledge”;and whotherefore studies the history and remains of any opinion forthe sole purpose of understanding the truth;and not for thesake of demonstrating the Truth can only exist under onedefined form.  \nLet me now proceed to state how,in the present edition,Ihave endeavoured still further to deserve the appellation attachedto me by the good-natured 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