When1: 135
When2: 160
Who: Valentinus
What: philosopher
Where: Rome, Italy
works\ Gospel of Truth [135 to 160]
Detail: He lived 100 to 153, was Gnostic, and founded Valentinians.
Metaphysics
The indefinite state joined with silence or thought to make spirit or reason, which then joined with truth or Ideas. Then reason joined with life to make the ideal man, who joined with Church. The Wisdom longs for original indefinite state, and this sinful desire enters the Void to make material world.
In Gnosticism, Sophia or Wisdom disorders the divine world {pleroma}, and God banishes it. Jesus Christ has the knowledge {gnosis} to restore the divine world to include people. Now Holy Spirit rules the world. Jesus the Savior will return. The Demiurge, Yahweh of Old Testament, who created the physical world, rules the world outside the pleroma.
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