Carpocrates
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Carpocratians · the noble Carpocratians
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Stromata
Founder of the Carpocratian sect, father of Epiphanes, taught community of women.
Such, then, are the doctrines of these noble Carpocratians.
We have mentioned also the lawless community of women according to Carpocrates;
He was educated by his father both in the ordinary curriculum and in the doctrines of Plato, and was the founder of the monadic knowledge, from which the sect of the Carpocratians took its origin.
De Anima
Heretic whose disciples claim their souls equal or surpass Christ's.
But Carpocrates too claims as much for himself out of the higher places, so that his disciples both equal their own souls now to Christ, let alone to the apostles, and, when they will, prefer them — souls which they have accordingly conceived out of a sublime virtue, despising the world's powerful principalities.
From it Carpocrates too uses it, alike a magus, alike a fornicator, save that he has less of a Helen.