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Tag: Gnosticism

  • Petrine Initiation in the “Old World” of Pure Intellect

    The debate with the old workman continues, and he assures Peter he is no demagogue: I am not such a fool in my old age that, understanding what is true, I should deny it for the favor of the rabble. Niceta proposes that Peter be the master of the debate, which should be between himself…

  • Titus Flavius Clemens and the Golden Chain

    What evidence could we adduce for the claim that Clement of Alexandria possessed secret wisdom? First of all, we could establish his difference from (say) Tertullian or even Jerome (who had the dream about getting rid of his pagan library): “…by philosophy I mean not the Stoic, nor the Platonic, nor the Epicurean, nor that…