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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

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PRIOR to the section on Justinus, Hippolytus treats of three schools under the names Naasseni, Peratæ, and Sethians or Sithians. All three schools apparently belong to the same cycle, and the first two present features so identical as to make it highly probable that the Naassene work and the two Peratic treatises from which Hippolytus quotes, pertain to the same Gnostic circle. Although the name Naassene is derived from the Hebrew Nachash, a serpent, Hippolytus does not call the Naassenes…

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