The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth is 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.
Insufficient information has survived from the manuscript to reconstruct the original title. Alternative titles include The Eighth Reveals The Ninth, Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth or The Ogdoad and Ennead.
Dated to a period possibly of the second century CE, it is a reasoned assumption that the textual information found written in Coptic had been translated from a Greek original.
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- Diospolis
- Hermes
- plectrum
- pleroma
Translated by James Brashler, Peter A. Dirkse, and Douglas M. Parrott Selection made from James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library,1990 &
