Heideana <heideana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Isn't there some disagreement if the Father is a monad or a dyad in
> the Gnostic literature available to us? Not sure how it effects the
> overall conversation, but I just read about the monad/dyad issue last
> week....
Some differences there, yeah, just like you say, since the
Father is sometimes called a monad (the Apocryphon of John
comes to mind), but sometimes said to be a dyad, for example by
Valentinus according to the account in Irenaeus' _Adversus
Haereses_ 1.11.1, where he's described as "inexpressible by any
name" but divided in two parts, viz. "Arrhetus," meaning
something like "beyond speech," and "Sige," which means silence.
-- Catawumpus
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