Zostrianos

Zostrianos

Zostrianos is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The main surviving copies come from the Nag Hammadi library, but it is heavily damaged (although on a word-by-word basis).

Like Marsenes and Allogenes, the text concerns a vision received by a man named "Zostrianos" and explains and enumerates, in great detail, the emanations that the Gnostics said are produced by God (the true, highest, god), in the Gnostic's esoteric cosmology. Within the text there are indications that the Sethians had developed ideas of monism, an idea from Platonism which is thought to have become part of Sethianism towards the end of the 3rd century.

References

* [http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/zostr.html A translation of Zostrianos]

External links

* [http://texts.00.gs/Zostrianos.htm heavenly beings in Zostrianos]


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