Ptolemy the Gnostic, (Greek: Πτολεμαίος ο Γνωστικός Latin: Ptolemaeus Gnosticus) was a disciple of the Gnostic teacher Valentinius and is known for the...

The "Letter to Flora" is a Gnostic text written by Ptolemy, a Valentinian teacher, to a woman named Flora. Prior to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library...

AD), Christian martyrs Ptolemy (Gnostic) (c. 180 AD), a religious philosopher who was active in Roman Italy and Gaul Ptolemy-el-Garib (fl. c. 300 AD)...

[dubious – discuss] (this is a feature of Ptolemy's version of the Valentinian gnostic myth). Jewish Gnosticism with a focus on Sophia was active by 90...

disciples of Valentinus were Heracleon, Ptolemy, Marcus and possibly Bardaisan. Many of the writings of these Gnostics, and a large number of excerpts from...

There is significant scholarly debate around what Gnosticism is, and therefore what qualifies as a "Gnostic text." Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi,...

(Perfect) and Sophia (Wisdom) According to Irenaeus, the followers of the Gnostics Ptolemy and Colorbasus had Aeons that differ from those of Valentinus. Logos...

Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements. Founded by Valentinus in the 2nd century AD, its influence spread widely, not just within...

Epiphanes (reigned 101–96 BC), King of Cappadocia Epiphanes (gnostic), legendary Gnostic writer Gaius Julius Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the last king of...

Jewish community, where 100,000 Judean Jews settled during the reign of Ptolemy Soter (323–285 BC), and was an early center of Christianity. The Cyrenian...

young Egyptian king Ptolemy XIII Theodotus of Byzantium (2nd century), an early Christian writer from Byzantium Theodotus the Gnostic (2nd century), a key...

Marcellians identified themselves as "gnostics", many modern scholars do not classify them as members of the sect of Gnosticism. Women played prominent roles...

for you both." This is the one Gnostic detail of the text, which is in every other way a conventional miracle tale. Ptolemy leaves a plot of land to the...

also called The Reality of the Rulers or The Nature of the Rulers, is a Gnostic writing. The only known surviving manuscript is in Coptic as the fourth...

France). In it, Irenaeus identifies and describes several schools of Gnosticism, and other schools of Christian thought, whose beliefs he rejects as heresy...

Marvin, eds. (2003). The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-57062-242-7. Barker, Andrew (2000). Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics. Cambridge University...

Michael (1989). The Voudon Gnostic Workbook. Magickal Childe. ISBN 0-939708-12-4. Bertiaux, Michael (2007). The Voudon Gnostic Workbook: Expanded Edition...

threefold sonship consubstantial with the god who is not. The Valentinian Gnostic Ptolemy says in his letter to Flora that it is the nature of the good God to...

Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn. Greek astronomers such as Geminus and Ptolemy recorded these classical planets during classical antiquity, introducing...

commentary made on John by the Gnostics Ptolemy, Basilides and Heracleon. In the quote below Irenaeus argues against the gnostic heresy from his book Against...

sized companion named Zoe. The system mass is (4.58±0.07)×1017 kg. In the Gnostic tradition, Logos and Zoe are a paired emanation of the deity, and part...

Theodoret, Haer. Fab. i. 7. Rasimus, Tuomas (2009). Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence. Brill...

The earliest atlas (Ptolemy's Geography) is made (approximate date). This is also the approximate date of completion of Ptolemy's monumental work Almagest...

also became a feature of this period, most notably in Egypt, where the Ptolemies adapted earlier Egyptian practices and Greek hero-cults and established...

It states, for cognizance, (gnostic-to know): ...the dwellers in Egypt, glorifying-(djeser), the God appearing-(Ptolemy V - epiphanous), the lord of...

to be first seen in Ptolemy's Geography c. 150. The term was reintroduced in the 15th century from the rediscovery of Ptolemy's work during the Age of...

pastiche" of Hellenistic and Roman mythology interspersed with Jewish, Gnostic and early Christian legend. The Sibylline Oracles are a valuable source...

period the lighthouse was constructed on the orders of Ptolemy I and II. It is probable that Ptolemy I was also responsible for the building of the Heptastadion...

folklore. For example, the classical motif of the phoenix continues into the Gnostic manuscript On the Origin of the World from the Nag Hammadi Library collection...

death in 323 BC, his general Ptolemy Lagides took possession of Egypt and brought Alexander's body to Egypt with him. Ptolemy at first ruled from the old...