On the Naassens

You might like to look at this book if you get hold of it. Maria Grazia. Lancellotti, The Naassenes: A Gnostic Identity among Judaism, Christianity, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Traditions. Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 2000. I mention it for three reasons. First, I see that Abu ‘l-Fath. has a sect near the end of his categories that seems to be this one. Second, the author has shown that the sect represents an OLD tradition of Syrian-Palestinian religion which continued in Christian guise, and which, although strange (loony, in my judgment) is not Gnosticism when examined (which is loony in a completely different way). Third, because she makes the point in chapter II: 7 that denial of reproduction by castration or perhaps merely vasectomy is not denial of sexual activity.

A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it here