Matter was eternal

and from the first e entially evil; there was then no bygone time when the “origin of evil” took place. Nor was the world created by the Supreme Being; it was framed by an exalted spirit, called in consequence the Demiurge, whom many identified with the God of the Jews. He had shining qualities, but was selfish and arrogant. He wished men to worship, not the Supreme Being, but himself. The former was the purest Light, and pervaded that boundle space which the Greeks called pleroma. He did not remain forever alone, but brought into existence two holy and a ne of different sexes, called ns, from whose marriage came others of the same order, till there was a whole family of them in the pleroma. The chief of these ASons was Jesus Christ, who was sent to the wor!d to win ‘t back from the Demiurge to its proper allegiance. The germs of gnosticism existed in the Ist century; it did not, however, reach ee till the reign of Adrian in the 2d. The system had declined by the 3d century, but was ‘not extinct till about the 6th. | Gmu, a species of antelope. The adult male is about 5 feet 6 inches long, and 3 feet 10 inches high at the shoulder; horns, dark, broad, upon the summit of the head, tapering out sideways over ethe eyes, and turning /up into a oointed hook, legs long. The gnu lives in small herds in the karroos of Southern Africa. When alarmed it flings up its heels and capers like a restive horse; then the herd goes off in single file, following a leader, with amazing speed. A gnu brought to bay or wounded turns on its a ailant.