Abstract
In hisLife of Plotinus(16), Porphyry makes reference to certain gnostic ‘revelations’ under the names of ‘Zoroaster and Zostrianos and Nicotheus and Allogenes and Messos and many others of this kind’ which were circulated in Plotinus' school and refuted by Plotinus and his students, including Porphyry himself. Porphyry claims to have made ‘several refutations against the book of Zoroaster’ while Amelius apparently wrote some ‘forty volumes against the book of Zostrianos’. The surprising discovery of Coptic gnostic texts in the Nag Hammadi Library under the specific names ofAllogenes(Nag Hammadi Codex XI.3) andZostrianos(VIII.1) and the close relation of these texts toThe Three Steles of Seth(VII.5) andMarsanes(x) has led to the general consensus that we now possess some of the actual texts mentioned by Porphyry.
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