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Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements. Founded by Valentinus in the second century AD, its influence spread widely, not just within Rome, but also from Northwest Africa to Egypt through to Asia Minor and Syria in the east.

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Valentinian works are named in reference to the bishop and teacher Valentinius. Circa 153 AD, Valentinius developed a complex cosmology outside the Sethian tradition. At one point he was close to being appointed the Bishop of Rome of what is now the Roman Catholic Church. Works attributed to his school are listed below, and fragmentary pieces directly linked to him are noted with an asterisk:

  • The Divine Word Present in the Infant (Fragment A) *
  • On the Three Natures (Fragment B) *
  • Adam's Faculty of Speech (Fragment C) *
  • To Agathopous: Jesus' Digestive System (Fragment D) *
  • Annihilation of the Realm of Death (Fragment F) *
  • On Friends: The Source of Common Wisdom (Fragment G) *
  • Epistle on Attachments (Fragment H) *
  • Summer Harvest*
  • The Gospel of Truth*
  • Ptolemy's Version of the Gnostic Myth
  • Prayer of the Apostle Paul
  • Ptolemy's Epistle to Flora
  • Treatise on the Resurrection (Epistle to Rheginus)
  • Gospel of Philip

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