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I need help identifying a cult

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Help me out here, /lit/. I recall once reading about an esoteric jewish/gnostic cult whose adherents believed that it was necessary to commit every possible sin so as to resemble the divine spark of God.

Does this ring any bells?
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>>9817134
fuck, I meant "reassemble" not "resemble"
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>>9817134
Not the Manicheans, or the Sabbateans?
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>>9817134
Borges made them up.
You've been BORGE'D
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>>9817134
You can find the complete writings of St John of Damascus on archive . org, in "Heresies" he lists all cults and heresies, along with their practices, from c. 9th century.
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I thought it was augustines earlier religion or some sect mentioned in the divine comedy but I couldn't find anything.
Something about people running around hedonistcally or something like that and it was a christian sect.
>>9817159
Not op but that better not be the case cause I swear it's real.
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>>9817159
Make a BORGE'D meme please
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>>9817134
Bogomils?
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I believe you are looking for Communists?
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>>9817156
OP here, this is what I talking about, the Sabbateans, specifically as explained by Jacob Frank. Thanks!
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>>9817136
Germans?
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>>9817159
OP here again; Borges wrote a short story called "The Theologians" about a fictional cult that was inspired by the followers of Carpocrates, which was an early Gnostic sect that "believed that in order to leave this world, one's imprisoned eternal soul must pass through every possible condition of earthly life" and that "the Carpocratians did "all those things which we dare not either speak or hear of" "

Frankism, which is based off the writings of Jacob Frank, and is loosely derived from Sabbateanism, is the belief that the soul can be purified through transgression, and the distinction between good and evil was an illusion maintained by a false material god (sounds like Gnosticism but I don't think it's related cladistically)
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>>9819084
You're welcome!
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Any gathering of three or more persons;
Criteria includes males with shoulder length hair or longer, and endangerment through inattentive driving.
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