The Tripartite Tractate: Remembrance and Prayer

This is a short passage from The Tripartite Tractate, translated by Einar Thomassen and found in The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Codex I. The section is called Remembrance and Prayer (81,26-82,9).

The importance of this tractate is, above all that it contains a version of the Valentinian system that is distinctly Valentinian at the same time that it differs on many points from the well-known systems reported by the church fathers. For this reason, it helps us understand better what are the constant and indispensable features of the Valentinian systems and what are individual and local variations. Thus, the system of Tripartite Tractate doesn't have a Pleroma of thirty aeons and does not list the names of the aeons. Its aeons are numberless and nameless.

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