Surely you can see that no one who received such an offer would turn it down no one would find anything else that he wanted. Instead, everyone would think he’d found out at last what he had always wanted: to come together and melt together with the one he loves, so that one person emerged from two. Why should this be? It’s because, as I said, we used to be complete wholes in our original nature, and now “Love” is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. That quite reminds me of what we taught people on my mission. Again, such passages suggest that from a Latter-day Saint point of view, Clement of Alexandria had it right. Florian Ebeling, The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times, forward by Jan Assmann trans by David Lorton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007), 39-40. Clement is also the Father that spoke most highly of marriage. I love reading about Clement of Alexandria. Later generations always tried to shut him up because his views contradicted the state supported creeds. Most modern Christians try to pretend that all of the views outlined in the creeds have been believed by all Christians since the time of the Apostles.
