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"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 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 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.
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 Testimony of Truth is a Gnostic Christian text. [1] It is the third of three treatises in Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi library texts, taking up pages 29–74 of the codex. [2]
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 ]
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 Apocryphon of James, [1] also called the Secret Book of James [2] [3] or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, [4] [5] is a Gnostic epistle. [1] [4] It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library.