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I wish also to relate to you how they say that creation itself was fashioned by the Demiurge after the image of the invisible things, while he was ignorant of it, by means of the Mother. First, they say that the four elements—fire, water, earth, air—were projected as an image of the first Tetrad above; and that their activities, reckoned together with them—namely hot and cold, dry and moist—accurately portray the Ogdoad. From this they count out ten powers thus: seven spherical bodies, which they also call heavens; then the circle that encloses them, which they also name the eighth heaven; and besides these, the sun and the moon. These, being ten in number, they say are images of the invisible Decad that proceeded from Logos and Zoe. And the Dodecad, they say, is indicated through what is called the zodiacal circle. For the twelve signs of the zodiac most plainly delineate, they say, the Dodecad that is daughter of Anthropos and Ekklesia. And since the highest heaven was yoked over against the most swift revolution of the whole, and—pressing close upon the very vault—counterbalances by its own slowness the swiftness of those others, so that it completes its circuit from point to point in thirty years, they say it is an image of Horos, who encompasses their Mother of thirty names. The moon again, traversing its own heaven in thirty days, by the number of those days images the thirty Aeons. And the sun, completing its course in twelve months and finishing its cyclical restoration, through the twelve months makes manifest the Dodecad. The days too, having the measure of twelve hours, are a type of the Dodecad. Moreover they say the hour, the twelfth part of the day, is ordered out of thirty degrees on account of the image of the Triacontad. And the perimeter of the zodiacal circle itself is three hundred and sixty degrees, for each sign has thirty. Thus they say that through the circle the image of the conjunction of the twelve with the thirty is preserved. Further, asserting that the earth is divided into twelve regions, and that in each region it receives a power from the heavens descending perpendicularly, bringing forth children resembling the power that sends down its emanation, they affirm most plainly that it is a type of the Dodecad and of her children. Besides this they say that the Demiurge desired to imitate the boundless, eternal, undefined, and timeless character of the Ogdoad above, but, being unable to reproduce its permanence and everlastingness, because he was himself the fruit of a Deficiency, he deposited its eternity in times and seasons and great numbers of years, supposing that by the multitude of times he might imitate its boundlessness. And here they say that, the truth having escaped him, falsehood followed after; and on this account his work shall receive dissolution when the times are fulfilled.