mixture of luminous parts with material elements. This mixture, in a word, is the great calamity, the loss that must be retrieved through redemption. How did this mixture come to pass? The Hymn designates the soul, the principle of this compound, as the common product of mind and chaos. Such is also the theory of the Perates and Sethians, mentioned by Hippolytus. These sects most nearly approach the dualistic scheme, yet the latter is not distinctly defined. In Justin, also, dualism is diminished. Bibliography Hippolytus, Philosophumena, Book V: "Naasseni" Gnostic Society Library: The Naassene Fragment Attribution Agrapha of Jesus and apocryphal fragments Gnosticism