Proof of How the Alexandrian Gospel of Mark Functioned as a 'Secret' Gospel

As you know I am always struggling for ways to establish some CONTEXT for the Gospel of Mark referenced in the letter to Theodore. I think I have finally figured out how two gospels could have been used as an exoteric and esoteric texts in Alexandria.

I think the precedent must have been established in the Jewish tradition in Alexandrian with regards to the Torah and the Book of Jubilees.

I happen to think that the text Clement references Mark writing for Peter in Alexandria is the Gospel of Peter but that isn't the point. I was trying to see whether the references to the kerygma Petrou might be to the Gospel of Peter and one statement stood out - business about an 'absolute calendar' i.e. one that isn't affected by the planets "Neither worship ye him as do the Jews, for they, who suppose that they alone know God, do not know him, serving angels and archangels, the month and the moon: and if no moon be seen, they do not celebrate what is called the first sabbath, nor keep the new moon, nor the days of unleavened bread, nor the feast (of tabernacles?), nor the great day (of atonement)."

If you follow the legendary understanding of the origins of Egyptian Church St. Mark is connected to the Therapeutae. The Therapeutae used the Jubilee calendar of 364 days, where the 'forty ninth Sabbath' (i.e. the seventh seventh day) is followed by a special 'eighth day' (or Sunday) and where the first day of the eighth year is always one of those 'Jubilee eight days' just referenced.

It was an absolute calendar unaffected by the things that the kerygma Petrou criticizes the Jews for.

Not only do I think that this interest in the eighth day is connected with the liturgical tradition of to Theodore, what is more important I think that the Therapeutae had two Torahs essentially - one exoteric the other esoteric - exactly like what the Letter to Theodore suggests about Clement's Alexandrian community.

We all know how indebted Clement was to Philo. There is also this reference in Philo which caught my eye:

For the Instructor, by Moses, deprived them of the use of innumerable things, adding reasons--the spiritual ones hidden; the carnal ones apparent, to which indeed they have trusted; in the case of some animals, because they did not part the hoof, and others because they did not ruminate their food, and others because alone of aquatic animals they were devoid of scales; so that altogether but a few were left appropriate for their food. [Paedagogue 2.1]

Anyway sorry to bother everyone. I just suddenly realized that the idea of two gospels (the gospel being essentially a 'new Torah') one exoteric the other esoteric actually has a precedent in the Jewish tradition of Alexandria. The precedent for an carnal and spiritual gospel was already present in the Jewish communities in Alexandria which used the Pentateuch AND the Book of Jubilees.

My friend Rory Boid is proving that the Book of Jubilees is connected with Samaritanism for those who are curious.