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Avant-propos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII

Bibliographie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX-XV

Abréviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVI

INTRODUCTION (John D. Turner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-248

I. Dramatis Personae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12A. Marsanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2B. Certain other Revealer figures . . . . . . . . . . . . 4C. The Divine and Cosmic Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . 9D. Synoptic Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

II. Summary of Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-23Structural Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

III. Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-39A. Function and Communication Situation . . . . . . . 27B. Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31C. Relationships among Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . 33D. Macro- and Micro- Literary Structures . . . . . . . 34E. Communicative Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38F. Modes of Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

IV. Mythology and Ritual Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39-81A. The Principal Savior Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39-49

Autogenes (and Sophia?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40The Barbelo Aeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Gamaliel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43The Glories (?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Marsanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

B. The Baptismal Ritual as the Occasion for SalvificVision 49

C. Theurgical Tendencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-81Alphabetical, Numerical and Graphic Symbolism

in Marsanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

The Five Configurations or Shapes of the Soul . . . 57Consonants – Symbolizing the Body? . . . . . . . . 62Syllables and the Psychophysical Complex . . . . . 65Articulate Speech – Words and Discourse . . . . . . 67Numbers and their Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Alphanumeric Speculation and the Platonic Doc-trine of the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75References to Other Cultic Objects . . . . . . . . . 77Instances of Alphabetical, Numerical and GraphicSymbolism in Other Sethian Treatises . . . . . . . . 78

V. The Divine and Cosmic Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . 81-133A. The Realms Beyond Being and the Realm of True

Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84-120The Invisible Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84The Triple Powered One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90The Aeon of Barbelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Kalyptos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Protophanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Autogenes – and Sophia? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111The Triple Male Child – not in Marsanes . . . . . . 116

B. The Psychic and Natural Realms Below the BarbeloAeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120-133The Self-generated Aeons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123The Repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125The Sojourn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Seals 1-3: The Cosmic and Material . . . . . . . . . 128

The Antitypes – not in Marsanes . . . . . . . . . 129The “Airy Earth” – not in Marsanes . . . . . . . 130The Material Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

VI. The Structure of the Visionary Ascent . . . . . . . . . 134-154A. The Preliminary Discursive Stage . . . . . . . . . . 137-142B. The Silent Contemplative Assimilation to the Barbelo

Aeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143-145C. The Final Contemplative Vision of the Supreme

Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145-148

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D. The Visionary Ascent in the Platonic Tradition . . . 149-154VII. The Sethian Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155-174

A. The Sethian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155-158B. Common Sethian Doctrines and Mythologoumena . 158-163C. The Historical Development of the Sethian

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163-168D. Compositional Priority among the Platonizing

Sethian Treatises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169-174

VIII. The Platonic Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175-230A. The Derivation of Reality in Plato and the Old

Academy:Two Opposed Principles . . . . . . . . . 176-179B. The Derivation of Reality in Plato’s Timaeus: Father,

Mother, Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179-180C. The Supreme Principles of Plato’s Late Ontology . . 181-182D. The Sethian Appropriation of Plato’s Supreme

Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182-183E. The Monistic Transformation of the Old Academic

Duality of Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183-184F. The Neopythagorean Derivation of the Dyad from the

Monad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184-187G. Moderatus of Gades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188-191H. The Derivation of Multiplicity from a Transcendent

One: “Otherness” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192-200“Otherness” in the Anonymous ParmenidesCommentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192“Otherness” in Plotinus as Intelligible Matter,Secondary Activity, and Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194“Otherness” and the Derivation of the Aeon ofBarbelo from the Invisible Spirit in Marsanes . . . . 199

I The Ontological Hierarchy in Neoplatonism and thePlatonizing Sethian Treatises . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200-202

J. The Hierarchies of the Platonizing Sethian Treatises 202-207The System of the Three Steles of Seth . . . . . 202The System of Zostrianos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203The System of Allogenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205The System of Marsanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

K. Comparison of the Sethian Hierarchy . . . . . . . . 207-208L. The Hierarchies of the Later Neoplatonists:

Iamblichus and Theodore of Asine . . . . . . . . . . 209-230

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Iamblichus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Theodore of Asine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212The Systems of Marsanes, Iamblichus, and TheodoreCompared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

IX. Significance and Originality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230-248A. Sethian Theurgy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231-234B. Modifications of the Divine Hierarchy . . . . . . . . 234-243

The Unknown Silent One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234The Invisible Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Barbelo and the Barbelo Aeon . . . . . . . . . . . . 235The Cosmic Soul? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

C. The Character of the Revealer . . . . . . . . . . . . 243-244D. Relation to Other Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244-248

TEXTE ET TRADUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249-357Texte copte (Wolf-Peter Funk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250-356Traduction (Paul-Hubert Poirier) . . . . . . . . . . . . 251-357

LES FRAGMENTS NON PLACÉS DU CODEX X (W.-P. F.) . . . . . 358-361

COMMENTAIRE (P.-H. P.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363-468

INDEX (W.-P. F.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469-495I. Mots gréco-coptes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470-474

II. Noms propres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475III. Mots autochtones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476-489IV. Séquences de lettres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490V. Formes de conjugaison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491-493

VI. Pronominaux triadiques (PTN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494-495

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