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- will". According to Clement, Carpocrates was from Alexandria although his sect was primarily located in Cephallenia. Carpocrates is again mentioned in the...
- in the 2nd century AD and existed until the 6th. It was named after Carpocrates of Alexandria, its founder, and gained its final form in the writings...
- licentious, but he does not ****ociate them with Nicolas: But the followers of Carpocrates and Epiphanes think that wives should be common property. Through them...
- Early sects Borborites Cainites Carpocrates Marcosians Nicolaism Simonians Mandaeism Syrian-Egyptian Archontics Bardaisan Basilideans Hermeticism Ophites...
- the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates. In Basilides's system, he reports, the world was made by the angels...
- advocation of free love, cancelling debt, and freeing slaves derived from Carpocrates' Doctrine of libertinage, the refusal of marriage, the abolition of social...
- rather as deliberately practising it. He states that they taught, as did Carpocrates, that salvation could be attained only by p****ing through all experience...
- The Gospel of Cerinthus is a lost gospel used by Cerinthus and by Carpocrates. According to Epiphanius, this is a Jewish Gospel or Gnostic Gospel identical...
- XXIII. Simon Magus and Menander. XXIV. Saturninus and Basilides. XXV. Carpocrates. XXVI. Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and Nicolaitans. XXVII. Cerdo and Marcion...
- community of Carpocratians, an early Gnostic Christian sect, because Carpocrates lived on the island. In the ancient period, the people lived in four...