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Clement of Alexandria - The Stromata - On ascension and the spiritual path
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013285
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Strom 7:3:13
...........gnostic souls that surpass in the greatness of contemplation the mode of life of each of the holy ranks ever moving to higher and yet higher places [litt. “reaching places better than the better places], embracing the divine vision not in mirrors or by means of mirrors. This is the vision attainable by “the pure in heart”; this is the function of the Gnostic, who has been perfected, to have convene with God through the great High Priestess ... The Gnostic even forms and creates himself and besides also, he, like to God, adorns those who hear him