Pistis Sophia
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Anonymous or composite
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~120,000 words · 552 passages
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- APAPistis Sophia. (n.d.). Pistis Sophia a Gnostic miscellany being for the most part extracts from the boo [Pistis Sophia]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/pistis-sophia/pistis-sophia-a-gnostic-miscellany-being-for-the-most-part-extracts-from-the-boo
- MLAPistis Sophia. Pistis Sophia a Gnostic miscellany being for the most part extracts from the boo [Pistis Sophia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/pistis-sophia/pistis-sophia-a-gnostic-miscellany-being-for-the-most-part-extracts-from-the-boo.
- ChicagoPistis Sophia. Pistis Sophia a Gnostic miscellany being for the most part extracts from the boo [Pistis Sophia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/pistis-sophia/pistis-sophia-a-gnostic-miscellany-being-for-the-most-part-extracts-from-the-boo.
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What it is about
Pistis Sophia, a Gnostic miscellany.
Context and history
One of the few long Gnostic texts known before the Nag Hammadi finds: the risen Jesus teaches the disciples for eleven years, and Mary Magdalene is the one who asks the best questions. Preserved in Coptic, in a manuscript bought in London in the eighteenth century.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
the total expansion of all the regions of the great Invisible and of the three triple-powers and of the four-and-tAventj^i— invisibles, and all their regions and their seons and their orders, how they are extended — those which are the emanations of the great Invisible — and their ungenerated and their self-generated and their generated and their light-givers and their unpaired and their rulers and their authorities and their lords and their archangels and their angels and their decans and their servitors and all the houses of their spheres and all the orders of every one of them. And Jesus had not told his disciples the total expansion of the emanations of the Treasury, nor their orders, how they are extended ; nor had he told them their saviours, according to the order of every one, how they are ; nor had he told them what guard is at every [gate] of the Treasury of the Light ; nor had he told them the region of the Twin-saviour, who | is the Child of the Child ; nor had he told them the regions of the three Amens, in what regions they are expanded ; nor had he told them into what region the five Trees are expanded ; nor as to the seven Amens, that is the seven Voices, what is their region, how they are expanded.…
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