On her loins a demon performed Mass, pronounced the Credo, deposited the offertory of the faithful. Michelet speculates the Eucharist used in a Black Mass consisted of the same confarreatio used as a love potion. Sweet friend, I can bear no more. William Gaddis, who makes a few cameo appearances in the novel. Others have attributed it to Bardesanes.
Internal evidence suggests the first quarter of the third century as a date of composition.
His parents, his brothers, and himself are brought together by the agency of St. Peter. The body of the doctrine thus set forth is not orthodox. It is, in fact, eccentric. The Latin is a version of another form, expurgated and translated by Rufinus in the fourth century. It is in ten books, and is called the Clementine Recognitions.