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The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth

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The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth refers to an ancient document, one of three Hermetic texts of the mostly Gnostic Nag Hammadi findings. It is the 30th tractate in the library at large, the sixth in codex VI.

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Insufficient information has survived from the manuscript to reconstruct the original title. Alternative titles include The Eighth Reveals The Ninth (from the text itself), Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (J.M.Robinson) or The Ogdoad and Ennead. Dated to a period possibly of the second century CE (D.M. Parrott 1988), it is a reasoned assumption that the textual information found written in Coptic had been translated from a Greek original.

(words used in Codex VI)

  • begotten
  • Diospolis
  • Hermes
  • plectrum
  • pleroma
  • References

    The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Wikipedia