How, then, is it logical to say that these [Gnostics] are spiritual, but he through whom they were made is ensouled? Or, if—and this alone is true, as we have shown in many ways by clearest proofs—he by himself, by his own will and self-determination, made and ordered all things, and if his will is the [cause of the] substance of all things,34 then he alone will be acknowledged as the God who made all things; he alone is omnipotent and alone the Father who, by the Word of his power,35 created and