31. Irenaeus writes that the Marcosians "maintain that the long robe of the priest failing over his feet, as being adorned with four rows of precious stones, indicates the Tetrad." [AH i.18.1]Clement of Alexandria writes "the twelve stones, set in four rows on the breast, describe for us the circle of the zodiac, in the four changes of the year." [Stromata vi.11]
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."