Word: valentinus
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Wilson argues from internal evidence that Philip was probably written by a disciple of the shadowy but formidable heretic Valentinus, the 2nd century priest who stood as candidate for the bishopric of Rome before lapsing into Gnosticism. In his works, which were savagely attacked by such early Christian apologists as St. Irenaeus, Valentinus argued that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom...
...Believed to commemorate the death of two Roman priests in 269 A.D., each called Valentinus, and both executed on the same day. One of them is supposed to have been executed for marrying lovers who came to him, despite a decree by Emperor Claudius II forbidding marriage (single men made better soldiers...
...Unborn is a travelogue through the future. Its chief action involves a halfhearted love affair between F. W. and an Astromental girl and the final fierce clash between the retrogrades and the Astromentalists. The nub of Author Werfel's posthumous philosophy lies in his quotation from Valentinus the Gnostic: "There are two fundamental species of angels. The ones helped man from the beginning to make the earth habitable. The others prevented him from doing it. Mankind is still far too immature to be told which of these angels are the good ones and which the bad ones...