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    NOTES

    1.  Because the early church was implacable in its wrath against Marcion, not much

    remains of his work.  The best primary sources on his teachings are attacks against

    him by  early church fathers like Tertullian (e.g. his Third Century work Adversus

    Marcionem).  Most of the scholarship on Marcion during the last hundred years has

    appeared in German (e.g. Adolf von Harnack's Geschichte der altchristlichen

    Literatur bis Eusebius).  However good--though brief--biographies of Marcion

    appear in:  W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity, Fortress Press, Philadelphia,

    1984, pp. 212-218;   James Hastings, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics,

    Charles Scribners, New York, 1908-1927, Vol. VIII, pp. 407-409;  Robert R. Wilken,

    "Marcion," The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, ed., MacMillan Publishing,

    New York, 1987, Vol. 9, pp. 194-196; and The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1986,  Vol. 7, pp. 825-826.  For additional

    details on Marcion, see: Roland H. Bainton, Christianity, The American Heritage

    Library, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1987,  pp. 67-68; Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and

    Christians, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1986, p. 332; and Elaine Pagels, The

    Gnostic Gospels, Vintage Books, New York, 1981, pp. 33, 44.

    2. Isaiah used the term Lucifer merely to refer poetically to the king of Babylon--not

    exactly his favorite monarch.  Later, Christians like John Milton would take Isaiah's

    figure of speech and weave an elaborate tale around it, crafting a devil of im-

    pressive proportions.

    3.  Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths, Simon and Schuster, New York,

    1985, p. 161.

    4.  Bryan Mullen, Ph.D., "Atrocity As A Function of Lynch Mob Composition,"

    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 1986, pp. 187-197.

    5.  Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Bantam Books,

    New York, 1965, pp. 13-16.

    6.  The term "entelechy" was introduced into modern scientific discourse over 50

    years ago by German experimental embryologist and philosopher Hans Adolf

    Eduard Driesch.  The version of the concept I've chosen to use is that proposed by

    Douglas Hofstadter (Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennet, The Mind's I:

    Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul,  Bantam Books, New York, 1981, pp.

    144-46).  For different interpretations of entelechy, see: Robert Wright, Three

    Scientists and Their Gods: Looking For Meaning in an Age of Information, Times

    Books, New York, 1988, p. 124; and Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint: New

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