The Stromata: Book VI
On the true Christian teacher, and on the value and limits of all human learning.
Chapter I.—Plan.Chapter II.—The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. The Greeks Plagiarized from One Another.Chapter III.—Plagiarism by the Greeks of the Miracles Related in the Sacred Books of the Hebrews.Chapter IV.—The Greeks Drew Many of Their Philosophical Tenets from the Egyptian and Indian Gymnosophists.Chapter V.—The Greeks Had Some Knowledge of the True God.Chapter VI.—The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades.Chapter VII.—What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called.Chapter VIII.—Philosophy is Knowledge Given by God.Chapter IX.—The Gnostic Free of All Perturbations of the Soul.Chapter X.—The Gnostic Avails Himself of the Help of All Human Knowledge.Chapter XI.—The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music.Chapter XII.—Human Nature Possesses an Adaptation for Perfection; The Gnostic Alone Attains It.Chapter XIII.—Degrees of Glory in Heaven Corresponding with the Dignities of the Church Below.Chapter XIV.—Degrees of Glory in Heaven.Chapter XV.—Different Degrees of Knowledge.Chapter XVI.—Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue.Chapter XVII.—Philosophy Conveys Only an Imperfect Knowledge of God.Chapter XVIII.—The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic.