We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.
Clement of AlexandriaWhen the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.
Clement of AlexandriaBut it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
Clement of Alexandria