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... Gnostic sects whose creed was the result of the operation of the subtle intellect of the classical world upon the ... Gnostics had set out upon the perilous enter- prise called thinking with the avowed purpose of solv- ing the problem ...
... Gnostic sects whose creed was the result of the operation of the subtle intellect of the classical world upon the ... Gnostics had set out upon the perilous enter- prise called thinking with the avowed purpose of solv- ing the problem ...
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... Gnostics to the consideration of certain paradoxical propositions which they , with resolute logic , hastened to embrace . If the evil man is no less necessary than the good , why should we withhold from him our admiration and approval ...
... Gnostics to the consideration of certain paradoxical propositions which they , with resolute logic , hastened to embrace . If the evil man is no less necessary than the good , why should we withhold from him our admiration and approval ...
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