Valentinus

Unsheathed Sword of Intelligence

By: M. David Litwa

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

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.