sonships

Basilidian Gnosis they are called sonships (uiotetes), in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The first of these sonships returned to the nonexistent god, while the second tried to do so but could not come close until “winged with the Holy Spirit”; the third remained in “the mixture of seeds.”

GNOSTICISM ROBERT M. GRANT 1968

Christ had its proper created existence; that in Christ there were two filiationes, or sonships, a human and a Divine; that the sacraments have only moral causality; that, formally and in the last analysis, heavenly bappiness consists not in the visio Dei, but in the fruitio; that in hell venial sin is not punished with everlasting punishment; etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Its major premise assumes that similar phenomena not merely may, but must, spring from similar causes; its minor premise contends that Christ's virgin birth and the mythical divine sonships of the pagan world are similar phenomena, a contention false on the face of it.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

A trifling predilection for the real thing in sonships is absolutely vital, even to the continuance of the artificial variety.

The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885