Valentinus

Unsheathed Sword of Intelligence

This book studies the life and thought of Valentinus using his genuine fragments. After translating the fragments and introducing Valentinus' life, it reorders the fragments and segues into a line-by-line spiritual and historical commentary:

• Valentinus Sees a Vision (Fragment 7)
• Summer Harvest (Fragment 8)
• Evil Angels and the God Human (Fragment 1)
• The Image and the Name (Fragment 5)
• You Are Deathless! (Fragment 4)
• The Pure in Heart (Fragment 2) .
• On Self-control (Containing Fragment 3)
• The Truth is Everywhere (Fragment 6)

This volume is the first to integrate the discovery that Valentinus wrote the letter On Self-control formerly attributed to Basil of Caesarea. It closes with an argument that Valentinus wrote the Gospel of Truth.