“... Valentinian theologians give great attention to this passage: each of the major writers whose work remains has described the experience of the contlict that makes Paul ery out in despair that “it is no longer I whe act, but sin that dwells in me" (7:20). In their view Paul here expresses the conflict inherent in the pneumatic’s experience. For the pneumatic perceives intuitively the ‘‘pneumatic law’’ within himself, but finds himself bound in materiality; he finds his actual condition hopelessly “sarkic.”’ Walentinus describes how evil spirits dwell in the heart, effecting evil actions: ‘‘each of these (demons) effects its own acts, insulting the heart many times with inappropriate desires."’ The tormented heart. having become the “‘dwelling- place of many demons” cannot cleanse itself; the Good Father must intervene to cleanse and to illuminate it.''® The writer of the Gospel of Philip refers to Rom 7:19 to describe how evil “masters us, and we are its slaves. It lakes us captive, so that we do whut we do not want, and what we want we do tas not do. ...”