And when he says "The Son of Man must be rejected and insulted and crucified," he seems to be speaking of someone else, that is, of him who has passion.
It is worth at least considering the possibility that the mystery administered by Jesus may well have been to transfer his soul into that of his initiate. The idea is quite at home in the writings of Clement. It would also fit in with our understanding of 'naked with naked' as an allusion to Plato's conception of the judgment of the dead in Gorgias 523d. The initiate into the mysteries of Alexandria based on Secret Mark would have presumably understood themselves as having received a new divine soul after their 'death.'
