[…]
For, in general, these men have drawn some of their material from Plato, while the rest consists of innovations introduced to establish their own brand of philosophy, but these were discovered by leaving the truth behind. For the judgements, the rivers in Hades, and reincarnations are all drawn from Plato, and putting a multiplicity in the intelligible world – Being, Intellect, a Demiurge distinct [from Being and Intellect], and Soul – this was extracted from what was said in Timaeus. For Plato says, ‘The creator of this sensible universe, then, rationally planned that it should have all of the Forms that Intellect observes as contained in the real Living Being’, and, not comprehending Plato, they assumed that there is one Intellect in stillness and containing all Beings within it, and another Intellect, distinct from that one, that contemplates, as well as the [Intellect] that rationally plans – frequently ‘demiurgic Soul’ is found by them in place of the rationally planning Intellect – and they think that this is Plato’s Demiurge, though they are far from knowing who the Demiurge is.
And, in general, they are wrong about the manner of creation and about much else of Plato’s thought, and they give feeble distortions of our man’s views, as if they were the ones who had a clear grasp of the intelligible nature while Plato and the other divinely gifted men did not. […]