Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: "The #Gnostic is so addicted to Truth as to not need to use an oath." - Clement of ...
"The #Gnostic is so addicted to Truth as to not need to use an oath."
- Clement of Alexandria in "Stromata"
Clement, BTW, was a saint for ~ 900 years before the Orthodox church un-sainted him. Pretty suspicious, that. Maybe his message was no longer consistent because church dogma is defined more by purity tests than Truth? Maybe...
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