. The anti-universalists, or history of the fallen angels of the itiesof this odious magician need not be related ; one, however, is toosingular to be omitted : he carried about with him a lady namedHelena, and announced her as the identical person whose fatalbeauty had occasioned the Trojan war. (a thousand years before.)She had passed, by a hundred transmigrations, into her presentform ; she was the first conception, he said, of his own eternalmind; by her he had begotten angels and archangels, and bythese had the world been created. This heresy was not muchahead of that of the
. The anti-universalists, or history of the fallen angels of the itiesof this odious magician need not be related ; one, however, is toosingular to be omitted : he carried about with him a lady namedHelena, and announced her as the identical person whose fatalbeauty had occasioned the Trojan war. (a thousand years before.)She had passed, by a hundred transmigrations, into her presentform ; she was the first conception, he said, of his own eternalmind; by her he had begotten angels and archangels, and bythese had the world been created. This heresy was not muchahead of that of the Shakers of the present day, who believe thatAnn Lee, the wife of a blacksmith in England, and the motherof many children, was the bride of the Lamb, or the Lambswife; and that she was the woman of the Revelations, who wasclothed with the sun, and had the moon under her feet, and uponher head a crown of twelve stars ; and that by her, not only thedoor of complete and finished salvation was opened to this world,but the world to come : and that she suffered in like manner for. ANGELS OP THE SCRIPTURES. 357 sin, and that without her Christ himself is imperfect.—BrowrCsHistory of the Shakers, pages 114, 115, 286. And that he?pretensions reached even beyond this life, according to the sameauthor, in the same work ; he says of her, that at a certain timeduring the Revolution, when Ann Lee was imprisoned in thecity of Albany, with other Shakers, on a suspicion of toryism,of which they were not guilty, that she declared that many de-parted human spirits had come to her, and had confessed theirsins, and accordingly were absolved, and immediately enteredinto rest. The disciples of this imposter, Simon Magus, represented himunder the form of Jupiter, and his female associate under that ofMinerva; and these representations were probably the first ofthose Gnostic amulets, which afterwards became so annexed engraving (marked No. 1) is from a gem in the col-lection of Dr. Walsh
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