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Red is the mark of Fire.

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The Carpocratian Church

In the name of The Father, The Mother, and The Child, faith and love lead to salvation.

(based on Irenaeus of Lyon, The Doctrines of Carpocrates Against Heresies 1.25.5, c. 180 CE)

What might Gnosticism have become if it had won?

The Carpocratian Church of Commonality and Equality is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and online church reconstructed and re-imagined from sources prior to the third century CE. We are a Gnostic Jewish-Christian fellowship drawing inspiration from Marcellina of Rome and Carpocrates of Alexandria—figures who synthesized Jewish mystical traditions with Hellenistic philosophy in the spirit of ancient Alexandria.

Those who hated us claimed we hated the world, but our sole ancient record affirms the sacredness of embodiment and the equality of all Souls. We practice love as The Good King, Jesus of Nazareth—seventh son of Joseph and Mary—together with His Beloved Magdala did—uniting the Forces of water & fire to attain Gnosis.

The Church publishes free scripture and research, encourages inclusive spiritual learning, and supports diversity, equity, and shared human dignity.

Core Beliefs:

"The justice of God is a certain sharing together with equality." (Stromata 3.2.6.1)
"God made all things common for humankind." (Ibid 3.2.8.2)
"Private ownership established by laws cuts up and gnaws away at the fellowship of the divine law." (Ibid 3.2.7.3)
"Desire is a decree of God." (Ibid 3.2.8.4)
"We are saved, indeed, by means of faith and love." (Contra Heareses 25.5.3)
"All other things [than faith and love] are indifferent by nature." (Ibid 25.5.3)
"All other things [than faith and love] are reckoned by opinion—some good and some evil." (Ibid 25.5.3)
"Nothing is evil by nature." (Ibid 25.5.3)
"The sensible world was made by fabricating powers—Builders—far inferior to the ineffable power of the unknown ingenerable Father." (Ibid 25.1.1)
"The Accuser, being chief among The Builders, leads Souls which have perished from the world to the Supreme Judge. After judgement, the Accuser delivers Souls to another angel, the Jailer, that he may shut them up in other bodies." (Ibid 25.4.4)
"By means of transmigration from body to body, Souls shall experience of every kind of life as well as every kind of action." (Ibid 25.4.2)

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Blue is the mark of Water.

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The Carpocratian School

Go to School.

A unit is that through which each of the existing things is said to be one. A number, then, is a multitude composed of units.

(based on Euclid, Elements 7.def.1, 7.def.2, c. 300 BCE)

What if the goal of faith-based education was Gnosis?

The Carpocratian School is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and online school that seeks to reconstruct and reimagine the encyclical humanities Carpocrates of Alexandria is said to have imparted to his son and only child Epiphanes, on the island of Cephalonia in the early second century CE. In his short life, Epiphanes would go on to produce treatises and polemics so popular that the early patriarchs of the Catholic Church urgently retorted them.

(quoted and paraphrased descriptions of Carpocrates and Epiphanes attributed to Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata 3.2.5.3, c. 200 CE)

The School publishes free books on the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Our books on the world sciences of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy are coming soon!