Occult Art : Visions of Gnosis

The Deep things of Satan

"You did well in silencing the unspeakable teachings of the Carpocratians. For… priding themselves in knowledge, as they say, "of the deep things of Satan," they do not know that they are casting themselves away into "the nether world of darkness"… For even if they should say something true, one who loves the truth should not, even so, agree with them…."

(Clement of Alexandria, Letter to Theodore, from Willis Barnstone’s The Other Bible, pp. 341-42, pub. A.D.1984)