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Christian Mysticism
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: On Love, and the Repressing of Our Desires. (7)
The same work, then, presents a difference, according as it is done by fear, or accomplished by love, and is wrought by faith or by knowledge. Rightly, therefore, their rewards are different. To the Gnostic "are prepared what eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man;" but to him who has exercised simple faith He testifies a hundredfold in return for what he has left, - a promise which has turned out to fall within human comprehension. Come to this point, I recollect one who called himself a Gnostic.
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9. On Thought and Sense (4)
The seeds of God, 'tis true, are few, but vast and fair, and good - virtue and self-control, devotion. Devotion is God-gnosis; and he who knoweth...
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