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Sethian Gnosticism is one of the two major Gnostic traditions (alongside Valentinianism). It centres on Seth — the third son of Adam and Eve — as the revealer of divine knowledge and the ancestor of the true spiritual humanity. Sethian texts include the Secret Book of John, the Gospel of the Egyptians, and Allogenes.
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- Named for Seth, son of Adam, seen as the first pneumatic (spiritual) human
- Produced some of the most cosmologically complex Gnostic texts
- Core texts: Secret Book of John, Gospel of Egyptians, Three Steles of Seth, Zostrianos
- Deeply influenced by Jewish mysticism and Middle Platonic philosophy