The Elcesaites, Elkasites, or Helkesaites were a sect of followers of Jesus in the third century, whose religion was a syncretism of Gnosticism and Jewish Christianity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkasite http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/FATHERS2/ANF05/ANF0513.HTM#P2237_708984