He appeared after that with the Christian attribute, so He called the Christians, and they responded. He shone upon them, and they obeyed, except that they openly declared and came to what was entrusted to them; so they manifested it, and they were the nation closest to affirmation and farthest from denial. Were it not that they believed in a humanity (Nasut) alongside the divinity (Lahut) and a darkness alongside the light, they would have been with the believers and would not have been separated from the Gnostics. So He lightened their burden for them, and did not impose upon them of the hardship except the easiest part, in proportion to what they ignored. So people became comfortable with them, and He granted them most of the conditions, and gave them a share of trustworthiness, and a portion of affection, and made lawful for them to eat everything that was good for them and to drink what their souls accepted."¹

Sayings of the Esotericists of the Christians

Valentinus said that Christ did not take a real human body but took the appearance (or form) of the body, the manifestation of the body, and the semblance of man from the Virgin, but his airy body passed through her virginal body.

As their scholar Saturninus says that the Savior, the Lord Christ, was without birth, without a body, and without form. He was visible hypothetically, and he came to destroy the God of the Jews, who was one of the angels, and to save those who believe.

Their scholar Valentinus said that Christ was not born of the Virgin, but his airy body passed through her virginal body.

This saying of Valentinus is the transcendence of the image over matter, thus resembling the saying of the monotheists, even though the explanation is not elaborate by the transmitter of the text, who is one of the Christian apparentists.