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Allogenes the Stranger ("the Alien One") is a Sethian Gnostic text in which the figure of Allogenes receives a series of revelations about the highest divine reality — the Invisible Spirit — and then ascends through the heavenly realms to witness it. Plotinus and his circle studied and attacked this text directly.
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Quick Facts
- Found in Nag Hammadi Codex XI
- Among the most philosophically sophisticated Nag Hammadi texts — heavily influenced by Middle Platonism
- Plotinus mentions "Apocalypses of Zoroaster, Zostrianos, Nicotheos, Allogenes" — all texts now in the Nag Hammadi Library
- The text describes an apophatic God (beyond all description) — "the silence of silence"