the gnostic · Atlas

in the texts

The gnostic, Clement's ideal of the mature Christian who does good for love of the good itself and attains likeness to God.

But God is free of passion, free of wrath and free of desire;

This man is no longer continent, but has come into the habit of freedom from passion, awaiting to put on the divine form.

since the habit never goes out of itself, falling away from being a habit, whether knowledge be called a habit or a disposition.