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The Church Fathers · c. 150–200

The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit

The Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians

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What it is

A Sethian account of how the heavens were populated, ending in a hymn of vowels and a claim that Seth wrote the book, placed it on a mountain, and set it there to remain until the last times. Jesus appears as Seth's final garment.

Why it lasted

The clearest single statement of Sethian mythology, and one of the few gnostic texts to describe its own liturgy — a baptism with named angels and a wordless chant.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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