A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Hermogenians

HERMOGENIANS, a denomination which arose towards the close of the second century; so denominated from Hermogenes, a painter by profession. He regarded matter as the turbid fountain of all evil, and could not persuade himself that God had created it, because he was willing to attribute to him nothing but good, he believed however, that from this eternal mass of evil and corruption, the Deity formed this beautiful world, and its inhabitants, both celestial and terrestrial.