"The Supreme Being with all the infinite emanations is called Abraxas; and the Saviour with all his virtues, Kaulakau—otherwise, line-upon-line, rectitude upon rectitude.
"The power of Kaulakau is obtained by the aid of certain words, which are inscribed upon this chalcedony to help the memory."
(And he points to a little stone suspended at his neck, upon which stone fantastic characters are graven.)
"Then thou wilt be transported into the Invisible and placed above all law; thou shalt contemn all things—even virtue!
"We, the Pure, must flee from pain, after the example of Kaulakau."
Anthony. "What! and the cross?"
The Elkhesaites (in robes of hyacinth answers him). "The woe and the degradation, the condemnation and oppression of my fathers[5] are blotted out, through the mission which has come.
"One may deny the inferior Christ, the man—Jesus; but the other Christ must be adored—whose personality was evolved under the brooding of the Dove's wings.
"Honor marriage; the Holy Spirit is feminine!"