By Water & Blood

On the Peratae

Ademes of Carystus, and Euphrates the Peratic, from whom those of like mind with these were styled Peratae, say that there is one world divided three ways; and that the one part is like a great spring, able to be divided by reason into infinites. The first cut they name Triad, and call it perfect good, paternal greatness. The second is a multitude of infinite powers. The third they call particular. And the first they say is unbegotten, and they name three gods, three words, three minds, three human beings. And from above, from the unbegottenness and the first division of the world, beside the very consummation of the world, in the times of Herod, there came down a certain three-natured and three-bodied and three-powered human being, called Christ; and he passed through both the unbegotten world and the self-generated, and came into this world in which we are. And when Christ came down, he will prepare the things brought down from above to go back up, and will hand over to punishment those that plotted against these. And they say that the unbegotten world and the self-generated will be saved; but this world, which they name particular, will perish.