Library Theodoret Compendium of Heretical Fables
Book 1
On the Ascodrutae
These say that the divine mysteries, being symbols of things invisible, ought not to be performed through things that are seen, nor the bodiless through things perceptible and bodily. And that the perfect redemption is the true recognition of what is. For all things that are seen, constituted by ignorance and passion, are dissolved through knowledge. The ransom, then, must also be spiritual. For this reason they neither baptize those who approach, nor is the mystery of baptism performed among them. For they call ransom the recognition of all things.
Greek: Theodoret of Cyrus, Haereticarum fabularum compendium / Αἱρετικῆς κακομυθίας ἐπιτομή (CPG 6223; PG 83, 336–556). English: study translation for BWAB Library—not a modern copyrighted translation. The full five books are hosted here.