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The History of God
FIELD No. F2C3
Visual depiction of Simon Magus

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Simon Magus

New Testament sorcerer who claimed to be the Great Power of God and performed wonders before Emperor Nero

the first god-man of Gnosticism challenging the apostles in Rome

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.