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Christian speculation", while German and American scholarship views it as "a distinctly inner-Jewish, albeit syncretistic and heterodox, phenomenon." Roelof van den Broek notes that "Sethianism" may never have been a separate religious movement but that the term rather refers to a set of mythological
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At this point the events of the Sethian narrative begin to cohere with the events of Genesis, with the demiurge and his archontic cohorts fulfilling the role of the creator. As in Genesis, the demiurge declares himself to be the only god, and that none exist superior to him. However, the audience's
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The demiurge emanates unknowingly a shadow "Image" of Adam, during the process unwittingly transferring the portion of power stolen from Sophia into the first physical human body. He then creates Eve from Adam's rib, in an attempt to isolate and regain the power he has lost. By way of this he
914:. In the later 2nd century CE, the Christianized Barbeloites fused with the Sethites, together forming the Gnostic Sethianists. Seth and Christ were identified as bearers of "the true image of God who had recently appeared in the world as the Logos to rescue Jesus from the cross." 1091:, who is coactor in the emanations that follow. The aeons that result are representative of the various attributes of God, which are indiscernible when they are not abstracted from their origin. God and the aeons comprise the sum total of the spiritual universe, known as the 1458:
Turner: "Around 375 A.D., Epiphanius has difficulty recalling where he had encountered Sethians, and says that they are not to be found everywhere, but now only in Egypt and Palestine, although fifty years before they had spread as far as Greater Armenia (Pan. 39.1.1 2;
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In some versions of the myth, the Aeon Sophia imitates God's actions, performing an emanation of her own, without the prior approval of the other aeons in the Pleroma. This results in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of the
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of 367, which banned the use of non-canonical books. Some of these texts are known to have been in existence in the 2nd century, but it is impossible to exclude the presence of later syncretic material in their 4th-century translations.
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Most surviving Sethian texts are preserved only in Coptic translation of the Greek original. Very little direct evidence of Gnostic teaching was available prior to the discovery of the
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Using this stolen power, Yaldabaoth creates a material world in imitation of the divine Pleroma. To complete this task, he spawns a group of entities known collectively as
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In this way, Barbelo and the emanations may be seen as poetic devices allowing an otherwise utterly unknowable God to be discussed in a meaningful way amongst initiates.
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were a baptizing group that in the mid-2nd century fused with Christian baptizing groups. They started to view the pre-existing Christ as the "self-generated (
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attempts to rape Eve who now contains Sophia's divine power; several texts depict him as failing when Sophia's spirit transplants itself into the
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and inclusion of material similar to the Apocryphon of John and other such texts, connects the text to Barbeloite and/or Sethian Gnosticism.
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knowledge of what has gone before casts this statement, and the nature of the creator itself, in a radically different light.
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Kurt Rudolph, “Coptica-Mandaica, Zu einigen Übereinstimmungen zwischen Koptisch-Gnostischen und Mandäischen Texten,” in
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Hancock, Curtis L. (1991), "Negative Theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism", in Wallis; Bregman (eds.),
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absorption of Jewish and Greek pre-Christian sources, has not found acceptance in later scholarship.
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Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Retaining Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence
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as the "thirteenth spirit (daemon)", who "exceeded" the evil sacrifices the disciples offered to
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has published an English translation of it, bringing it into mainstream awareness. It portrays
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Schenke, H.-M., "Das sethianische System nach Nag-Hammadi-Handschriften," in: P. Nagel (ed.),
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first descended upon, and whose knowledge the Sethians laid claim to as their origin.
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themes that occur in various texts. According to Turner, Sethianism was influenced by
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Two powers in heaven: early rabbinic reports about Christianity and Gnosticism
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theology, which describes God through a series of positive statements such as
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The addition of the prologue radically alters the significance of events in
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John D Turner: translations of the Sethian Nag Hammadi text and history
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by sacrificing the "man who clothed me (Jesus)". Its reference to
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was one of the first scholars to categorize several texts in the
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Gnosis und Spätantike Religionsgeschichte: Gesämmelte Aufsätze
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Wisse, Frederik (1981), "Stalking those elusive Sethians",
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Gospel of Judas, pg 56. translated by Kasser, Meyer, Wurst.
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Gospel of Judas, pg 44. translated by Kasser, Meyer, Wurst.
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Essays on the Nag Hammadi Texts in Honour of Pahor Labib
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Various scholars have noted many similarities between
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Beliefs condemned as heretical by the Catholic Church
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Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, Volume 6
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Index

Sethians
Temple of Set
Tapio Wilska
a series
Gnosticism

Adam kasia
Adam pagria
Aeon
Anima mundi
Archon
Barbelo
Demiurge
Five Seals
Gnosis
Kenoma
Luminary
Manda
Monad
Ogdoad
Pleroma
Sophia
Uthra
World of Light
World of Darkness
Yaldabaoth
Gnostic sects
List of Gnostic sects
Proto-Gnosticism
Maghāriya

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