Carpocrates (Carpoc`rates) , a Gnostic of Alexandria of the 2nd century, who believed in the transmigration of the soul and its final emancipation from all external bonds and obligations, by means of concentrated meditation on the divine unity, and a life in conformity therewith; was the founder of a sect called after his name.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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