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Republic by Plato – The original is not Gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current Gnostic concepts. The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise; The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer; Asclepius 21–29 – another Hermetic treatise; Codex VII: The ...
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, [1] [2] is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The text describes the origin of three powers: the Father, the Mother, and the Son, who came forth from the great invisible Spirit.
The Untitled Text [1] [2] in the Bruce Codex—also called the Untitled Treatise, [3] the Untitled Apocalypse, [4] and The Gnosis of the Light [4] —is a Gnostic text. When James Bruce acquired the codex in Egypt in 1769, [5] "very little knowledge" was available about this period of Gnostic Christianity. [4]
The Book of Thomas the Contender [1] [2] or The Book of Thomas [3] [4] is a Gnostic revelation dialogue. [5] It is the seventh tractate in Codex II of the Nag Hammadi library. [1] The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [1] likely composed in Syria during the early 200s AD.
The Thought of Norea is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the second of three treatises in Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi library texts, taking up pages 27–29 of the codex's 74 pages. [ 1 ] The text consists of only 52 lines, [ 2 ] making it one of the shortest treatises in the entire library. [ 3 ]
"Fragment G", which Clement of Alexandria (Stromateis 6.52.3-4) related to "On Friends", asserts that there is shared matter between Gnostic Christian material, and material found in "publicly available books"; which is the result of "the law that is written in the [human] heart". Layton relates this to GTr 19.34 − when Jesus taught, "in ...
The Epistle of Eugnostos [1] or Eugnostos the Blessed [1] [2] [3] is a Gnostic epistle found in Codices III and V of the Nag Hammadi library. [2] Both copies seem to be a Coptic translation of a Greek original that was composed in Egypt around the late 1st century; the copy from Codex III is the earlier translation. [3]
The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter, also known as the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter and Revelation of Peter, is the third tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The work is associated with Gnosticism , a sect of early Christianity , and is considered part of the New Testament apocrypha and a work of apocalyptic literature .