Ritual purification. (See Baptism A. and B. NHL.) "Therefore baptism is called death and an end of the old life when we take leave of the evil principalities, but it is also called life according to Christ, of which he issole Lord. But the power of the transformation of him who is baptised does not concern the body but the soul, for he who comes up is unchanged. From the moment when he comes up from baptism he is called a servant of God even by the unclean spirits and they now "tremble" at him whom shortly before they obsessed". (Theodotus, Criddle Collection, See also; from "Pistis Sopia". http://www.webcom.com/cgi-bin/glimpse