It is no coincidence that the Gospel of John portray's Jesus in terms analogous to the Simonians' depiction of Simon. Could the first converts among the Children of LIght have been Simonians who transferred their Gnostic mythology from Simon Magus to Jesus?
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The church fathers who attacked heresies took this up and made Simon Magus not only the founder of the Simonians, but of gnosis as a whole
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Simonians used sex to pollute women in imitation of their founder .
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The Simonians did not truly follow the Roman gods, but instead venerated their order's founders—Simon and his wife, Helena—in the guises of Zeus and Minerva.
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