"Jesus saith: Blessed is the man who crucifieth the world, and doth not let the world crucify him." And later on the mystery is set forth in another Saying: "Jesus saith: Blessed is the man who knoweth this Word, and hath brought down the Heaven, and borne the Earth and raised it heavenwards; and he becometh the Midst, for it (the Midst) is a 'nothing.'" (_F._, 518, 519.) Those who have become spiritual, who have "risen from the Dead," are born into the Race of the Logos, they become kin with Him. Of this Race much has been written by the mystics of the many different schools of these early days. Thus the Jewish Gnostic commentator of the Naassene Document writes: "One is the Nature Below which is subject to Death; and one is the Race without a king [that is, those who are kings of themselves] which is born Above" (_H._, i., 164.). And the Christian Gnostic commentator refers to the "ineffable Race of perfect men" (_H._, i., 166), who are in the Logos. Such _illuminati_ were called by one tradition of the Christianized Gnosis the Race of Elxai, the Hidden Power or Holy Spirit, the Spouse of Iexai, the Hidden Lord or Logos. (_H._, ii., 242; see my _Did Jesus live 100 B.C.?_ chap. xviii.) Philo of Alexandria tells us that "Wisdom, who, after the fashion of a mother, brings forth the self-taught Race, declares that God is the Sower of it" (_H._, i., 220). This is the term he applies to his beloved Therapeuts, adding that "this Race is rare and found with difficulty." Elsewhere he tells us that the angels are the "people" of God; but there is a still higher degree of union, whereby a man becomes one of the Race, or Kin, of God. This Race is an intimate union of all them who are "kin to Him"; they become one. For this Race "is one, the highest one; but 'people' is the name of many." "As many, then, as have advanced in discipline and instruction, and been perfected therein, have their lot among this 'many.' "But they who have passed beyond these introductory exercises, becoming natural disciples of God, receiving Wisdom free from all toil, migrate to this incorruptible and perfect Race, receiving a lot superior to their former lives in genesis" (_H._, i., 554.). And so in one of the Hymns of Thrice Greatest Hermes, after the triple trisagion, the "Hermes" or Illuminated prays: "And fill me with Thy Power and with this Grace of Thine, that I may give the Light to those in ignorance of the Race--my Brethren and Thy Sons." (_H._, ii., 20.). Philo calls it "self-taught," just as the Buddhists speak of the Arhats as _asekha_; and the Trismegistic teacher writes: "This Race, my sons, is never taught; but when He willeth it, its memory is restored by God." (_H._, ii., 221.) The "Elect Race" of Valentinus is the "Sonship" of Basilides that incarnates on earth for the abolition of Death. (_F._, 303.)