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Carpócrates

Index: Una vindicación del falso Basílides, Discusión, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 213. Tres versiones de Judas, Ficciones, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 514. Los teólogos, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 554.
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Alexandrian Gnostic philosopher, 2nd century

Fishburn and Hughes: "A second-century Neoplatonist from Alexandria, the founder of a heretical sect which believed in the dualism of good and evil, denied the divinity of Christ and held that the soul is imprisoned in the body from which it strives to be free. The Theologians: Carpocrates believed that a man could be redeemed only after he had undergone experiences of all kinds and committed every possible deed, good and bad. Carpocrates himself seems to have led a simple life, but his followers were often accused of gross indulgence and superstition." (41)