Book VII

Refutation of All Heresies (Philosophumena) · Saint Hippolytus of Rome

1. Contents.
2. Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.
3. The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.
4. Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.
5. Aristotle's General Idea.
6. Nonentity as a Cause.
7. Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.
8. Aristotle's Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.
9. Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle.
10. Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”
11. Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the “Sonship.”
12. The “Great Archon” Of Basilides.
13. Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle.
14. Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”
15. Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.
16. God's Dealings with the Creature; Basilides' Notion of (1) the Inner Man, (2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our Lord.
17. The System of Saturnilus.
18. Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles.
19. Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy.
20. The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour.
21. The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.
22. The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.
23. Doctrine of the Ebionæans.
24. The Heresy of Theodotus.
25. The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.
26. The Heresy of Cerdon.
27. The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.