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Zostrianos

Zostrianos crosses the desert in despair, a luminous angel takes him up, and he ascends through the Sethian aeons

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Tradition: Sethian Platonising Gnostic apocalypse
Translation: John H. Sieber / John D. Turner (composite, abridged)
License: Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
Codex: Nag Hammadi Library
Source: www.gnosis.org

Nag Hammadi Codex VIII,1. The longest Sethian text and the most heavily damaged. This abridgement preserves the framing narrative and the major theophanies; many of the technical Platonising passages are summarised.

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