Miscellanies 2.20.114

We must, becoming stronger in the reasoning part, show ourselves masters of the lower creation within us.” For he too supposes two souls in us, like the Pythagoreans; we will examine them later. But Valentinus too, writing to certain people, writes in these very words about the appendages: “There is one who is good, whose free manifestation is the one through the Son; and through him alone could the heart become pure, every evil spirit being driven out of the heart. For the many spirits dwelling in it do not allow it to be pure; each of them carries out its own works, insulting it in many ways with unfitting desires. And the heart seems to me to experience something like an inn: for an inn is bored through and dug up and often filled with dung by men who stay in it licentiously and take no forethought for the place, since it belongs to someone else. In this way too the heart, as long as it receives no forethought, is unclean, being the dwelling place of many demons; but when the only good Father visits it, it is sanctified and shines with light; and so the one who has such a heart is blessed, for he will see God.”