Basilideans
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Stromata
Followers of Basilides who taught that the passions are spirit-beings ('appendages') attached to the rational soul.
Those about Basilides are wont to call the passions "appendages," and to say that these are certain spirits existing in essence, appended to the rational soul according to a certain original disturbance and confusion;
now only this must be noted, that the Basilidean man preserves the image of a certain Trojan horse, according to the poetic myth, having enfolded in one body an army of so many different spirits.
but the school of Basilides say that, when the apostles asked whether it might not be better not to marry, the Lord answered, "Not all can receive this saying;