1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies .<br/>2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets.<br/>3. What Valentinus has laid down, and that his doctrine is not framed from the Scriptures, but from those of the Platonists and Pythagorists.<br/>4. And what is thought by Secundus, Ptolemy and Heracleon, and how they have used as their own, but with different words, the thoughts of those whom the Greeks (think) wise.<br/>5. What has been held by Marcus and Colarbasus [and their disciples] and that some of them gave heed to magic arts and Pythagorean numbers.