Occult Art : Visions of Gnosis

Like Sheep among Wolves

"And they say they cannot be saved in any other way, except they pass through all things, just as Carpocrates also said. And at every sinful and base action an angel is present and instils in him who ventures the deed audacity and impurity; what it is in act they say in the angel’s name: "O thou angel, I make use of thy work; O thou power, I accomplish thy deed." And this is the perfect "knowledge," to enter without fear into such operations, which it is not lawful even to name."

(St. Irenaeus of Lyon , Against Heresies, from Willis Barnstone’s the Other Bible, pp. 648-49, pub. 1984)