{"collection":"Gnosticism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff45_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff45_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff45_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/fff/fff45.htm","summary":"Concerning the One of the Powers of the Perfect man.The \"free utterance,\" or perfect expression, of the Alone Good can only be manifested by the man made perfect. Such a man was Jesus. Thus we find Valentinus writing to Agath\u014dpus as follows:\n\"It was by his unremitting self-denial in all things that Jesus attained to [lit., gained by working] godship; he ate and drank in a peculiar manner, without any waste.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to its Foes: iii. From the Letter to Agath\u014dpus","tradition":"Gnosticism","translated_text":null,"word_count":264}