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written for students loyal to traditional Platonism, 158 αἵρεσις, 11, 43, 47, 151–52 Alcibiades, 45, 145, 156–57 Alexander of Lycopolis, 73–74, 75, 209n202, 209n203 Alexander the Libyan, 2, 8 alienation: in Allogenes, 3, 9, 29–30, 32; invocation of foreign revelations, 30; resident alien topos, 96, 102–4, 110, 146, 223n42, 228n114; Seth as “alien,” 29, 84, 86, 103–4, 184n249; in Sethian apocalypses, 3–4, 78, 84, 86, 96, 139, 154; in Zostrianos, 102–6 allegory: defined, 204n134; Platonists interpret fiction with, 5, 61, 75; Plotinus on, 66–68; in Plutarch, 64–66; Sethian apocalypses as nonallegorical, 73 Allogenes: angelification of, 125; as archetype of the elect, 130; as incarnation of Seth, 54; laments his studies prior to ascent, 139; patriarchal status of, 54; Porphyry on, 9, 161; Sethian apocalypses appeal to authority of, 59; as stranger-foreigner, 32 Allogenes: as apocalypse, 51; as ascent narrative, 51, 55; baptism not mentioned in, 133; Barbelo in, 54–55, 70–72, 83–84, 92–93, 115, 117, 218n108; “Books of the Foreigners” as version of, 104; breaks between revelatory discourses in, 55; on celestial baptism, 122; composition of revelatory manuscript for posterity, 55–56; contemplation as emphasis of, 85, 86; dating of, 155, 198n40; doxology in, 115–16; on end of Abraham, 1, 55, 103, 125–26, 129 Abramowski, Luise, 98, 104, 246n61 Aculinus, 2, 8, 29, 45, 161–62, 167n2 Adam and Eve: Adam as angelified patriarch, 129, 132; in Gnostic cosmology, 35; in Ophite texts, 50; resemble angels, 127; Seth as third child of, 49, 82; Seth begets race of Adam, 84–85; in Sethian ethnic reasoning, 87; in Zostrianos, 82. See also Apocalypse of Adam Adda, 144 Adelphius, 2, 8, 161–62 Aelius Aristides, 14, 18 Aeonic Copies, 43, 56, 97–98, 186n10 aeons: aeon of the aeons, 116, 117; in Gnostic cosmology, 34; Manichaean, 143; metempsychotic aeons according to Zostrianos, 97–98, 220n12; in Platonizing Sethian apocalypses, 70–71; Plotinus on, 43, 97; subaeons of Barbelo, 70–71, 77, 90–92 Aeschines, 12 aetherial earth, 97, 123, 124, 220n11 Against the Gnostics (Plotinus): also titled Against Those Who Say That the Universe and Its Maker Are Evil, 32; dating of, 153; on dissolution of souls, 106; edited by Porphyry, 3, 32, 153; on election, 78; on the use of foreign sounds in Greek philosophy, 118–19; on Gnostic cosmology, 33–40, 68; on Gnostic savior, 40–42; on Gnostic tradition, 42–44; on Gnostic view of salvation, 92; identity of the “Gnostics,” 44–47, 192n98; Iamblichus as familiar with, 150; metempsychosis in, 105; on Plotinus’ “friends,” 45, 192n97; i n de x Index 304 Apocalypse of Adam: on Adam and Eve as angels, 127; on baptism, 133, 143, 155, 238n151, 239n154; on cataclysms at end of aeon, 108; dating of, 155; on elect seed of Seth, 86; function of, 134–35; as historical-cosmic apocalypse, 96; as history of descents of Seth, 51; Manichaeism compared with, 143–44; on Seth as celestial being, 79–80; on Seth as savior of mankind, 85; as Sethian text, 193n4; on strangers, 103, 224n65 Apocalypse of Allogenes, 30, 162 Apocalypse of Elchasai, 45, 156–57 2 Apocalypse of James, 198n43 Apocalypse of Messos, 162 Apocalypse of Moses, 201n80 Apocalypse of Nicotheus, 29, 126, 157 Apocalypse of Peter (Coptic), 198n43 Apocalypse of Sethel, 143 Apocalypse of Zephaniah, 128–29, 235n112 Apocalypse of Zoroaster, 48, 162, 183n237 Apocalypse of Zostrianos, 162 apocalypses, 48–76; apocalyptic content in, 51; apocalyptic technique, 52; apocalyptic truth claim, 111; breaks between revelatory discourses in, 55; composition of revelatory manuscript for posterity, 55–56; cosmological speculations common to, 95; elements of, 52; eschatology as central to debate over defining genre of, 95; esotericism of, 51–52; function of, 52; Gnosticism’s affinity with apocalyptic genre, 111; historical-cosmic, 95–96; Jewish mystical traditions and, 2; from Nag Hammadi, 3; Porphyry on, 3, 8; pseudepigraphic appeal to authority in, 52; Sethian celestial baptism and angelification compared with liturgical transformation in, 128; speculative, 52. See also Sethian apocalypses Apocryphon of John: baptismal theology of, 132, 134; on Barbelo and providence, 90; Barbeloite cosmogony of, 125; descent in, 57; on fall of Sophia, 34–35; on Five Seals, 133; Johannine themes in, 154; preserves Ophite traditions, 50, 195n14; “Pronoia Hymn,” 133, 154, 239n155; resident alien topos in, 106; Sethian and apocalyptic Allogenes (continued) the world, 110; ethnic language in, 86, 89; frame narrative of, 53, 59; Harmedon in, 117; imagery in, 70–73; Invisible Spirit in, 70–72, 83...

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