Church
that now is, but to the Church which is from above. For it is
spiritual, as is our Jesus, but is manifested in these last days to
save us. But the Church, being spiritual, is manifested in the flesh
of Christ.... Great is the Life and Immortality which this flesh can
partake of--that is, of the Holy Spirit which is joined to it--nor can
any declare or utter what the Lord has prepared for His chosen.'"

(25) This extremely interesting and important passage is also one of
great difficulty, for it is full of technical terms and allusions which
would need a small treatise to elucidate properly. For example, it
seems to imply the doctrine of two Logoi that Clement of Alexandria was
accused of teaching, and which is found in certain Hellenistic
writings. The "Body of Light" is the Astroeides in which the "Adept"
can cross the "Fate-Sphere," the "Midst," the regions of consciousness
where mechanical cause and effect prevail and contact the Pleroma, or
Universe of Divine Freedom and Fullness. "Charis" or "Grace" is the
name of the Bride or Body of the Logos, and the use of it here
symbolises a "raiment" or "Body" still more exalted than the
Astroeides. It is the Body beyond the Stars, the Monadic Robe or "Robe
of Glory," into which the "Star-like Body" was transformed at the
Horos, Limit or Boundary of the Worlds of Difference and of Sameness.
What kind of Peace was that in which the Alone-begotten dwelt in the
Monad? A Peace most truly given to those within and those without, for
in it all things were created. To realise what is meant we must
remember that "Charis" and "Resurrection" were names of "Staurus," the
Pillar that made with Horos the Great Cross referred to more than once.
"Peace," then, was the state of the Logos in Mystic crucifixion, the
Peace of God which established, reconciled, justified all things.
Hence it can be inferred what transformation the Star Body had to
undergo to become the Robe of Glory. The Cross and the Master were
one. The Cross of Calvary was to the Gnostic Teacher the outer and
efficacious sign of this Mystery or Sacrament. So also the Pentecostal
outpouring recorded in Acts was the outward sign, or sacramental token,
of the assumption by the Master of the Robe of Glory, the vesture of
the Monad or Transcendental and Universal Church, which could not be
assumed here. From thenceforth the band of disciples became a Church,
the Mystic Body of Christ, the outward sign of conce