H. P. Blavatsky

Docetae. Lit.,“The Illusionists”. The name given by orthodox Christians to those Gnostics who held that Christ did not, nor could he, suffer death actually, but that, if such a thing had happened, it was merely an illusion which they explained in various ways.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Docetae