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The Church Fathers · c. 250–300

Pistis Sophia

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Eleven years after the resurrection, Jesus explains the fall and repentance of the aeon Sophia to disciples including Mary Magdalene, who asks most of the questions.

Why it lasted

Known in Europe since the eighteenth century, long before Nag Hammadi, and for two centuries the main source of what Gnosticism was thought to be.

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5 sections · complete, from Horner translation, SPCK, 1924 (Project Gutenberg 76266).

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