Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Messiah, whilst elaborating a metaphysic of
Spiritual Idealism.
The Gospel of Truth was composed in
about 150 AD by Valentine, the famous saint
of Alexandria (born circa 100 AD).
A continuous interwoven meditation on the
Logos, it was scarcely mentioned in
antiquity— and until the Nag Hammadi
discovery not even a phrase from this noble
composition was known to have survived.
(A preliminary version of another text from the Nag
Hammadi library, which may also be by Valentine:
www.metalog.org/files/supremacy.html.)
In the early years following the
discovery of these documents, and before
they could be given sufficiently careful
scrutiny by scholars, it was commonplace
for them collectively to be labeled
‘gnostic’ (see e.g. Grant & Freedman [1960], in
Recent Scholarly Comments). This has always
been a generic term for the Mediterranean
mixture of essentially anti-sensory religious
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