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The Gospel of the Egyptians (also called the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit) is one of the most important Sethian Gnostic texts in the Nag Hammadi Library. It presents itself as a sacred scripture revealed to Seth — the third son of Adam — and describes the origins of the Sethian spiritual race and the heavenly liturgy that saves them.
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Quick Facts
- Found in two copies: Nag Hammadi Codex III and Codex IV
- Distinct from the fragmentary non-Gnostic "Gospel of the Egyptians" known to Clement of Alexandria
- Seth is described as the heavenly ancestor of the pneumatic (spiritual) race — those capable of gnosis
- Contains hymns and prayers used in Sethian ritual — some in untranslatable glossolalia