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Краткое содержание: The Tripartite Tractate
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A young aeon reaches for the unreachable Father, and a whole world of shadows and light begins to unfold.
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The Tripartite Tractate in short
The Tripartite Tractate tells one story in three parts. The Father, beyond every name, brings forth the Son and the Church of aeons. The youngest aeon, the Logos, reaches too far, and from his fall come shadows and a lower world ruled by a Demiurge who does not know his own source.
What The Tripartite Tractate is about
In December 1945 a farmer named Muhammad Ali al-Samman dug near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi and found a sealed clay jar. Inside were thirteen papyrus books written in Coptic. One held a treatise that asks where the universe comes from, why evil stands beside good, and what a human being really is.
The Tripartite Tractate is the work of an unknown Valentinian Christian teacher, written in Greek in the late second or early third century. You will meet a Father beyond every name, and a young aeon whose reach for the unreachable sets a universe in motion.
Для кого. This book suits readers who love early Christian history, mystical writing and big questions about God, evil and the human soul. It also rewards anyone curious about the Nag Hammadi discovery.
The 8 key ideas
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A Valentinian treatise rose from a buried library
The Tripartite Tractate belongs to the Nag Hammadi library, thirteen books found in Upper Egypt in 1945.
The treatise belongs to the Valentinian school, named for Valentinus, a Christian teacher from Egypt who later taught in Rome. Before 1945, most of what the world knew of the school came from church fathers such as Irenaeus, who wrote against it. Here the school speaks in its own words.
The work has three parts. The first describes the Father, the Son and the Church of aeons, and the fault that disturbs that realm. The second follows the fault down into the making of the lower world and the coming of the Savior. The third describes three kinds of human being and the path of return. A few words need a key. The Pleroma is the fullness, the whole divine realm. Aeons are the beings who unfold from the Father inside it. The Logos is the Word, the youngest of them. The Demiurge is the lower ruler who shapes the visible world.
The Valentinians saw themselves as Christians with a deeper reading of the faith. The treatise leans on the Gospel of John and the letters of Paul.
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The Father is beyond every name we use
The treatise opens with the Father, whom it calls the root of the Totality.
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The Son and the Church are the Father's thought
Inside the Father there is a Son who exists from the beginning.
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One aeon reaches too far and falls
The drama starts with the youngest aeon, the Logos.
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Turning back brings light and a Savior
The Logos turns around.
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A lower ruler shapes the world without knowing
Now the Logos arranges the realm beneath the Pleroma.
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The Savior comes and three kinds of people appear
The text presents the Savior as coming from the spiritual Logos and taking on flesh.
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Redemption restores everything to its beginning
The final chapters state that all need redemption: humans, angels and even the Son, who became man.
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What is the Tripartite Tractate about?
It describes the Father beyond all names, the Son and the Church of aeons, the fall of the Logos and the making of the world, and the three kinds of human being. It ends with redemption and return to the source.
Who wrote the Tripartite Tractate and when?
No author is named. Scholars place it in the Valentinian school and date the Greek original to the late second or early third century, with a Coptic translation made in the fourth century.
What are the three kinds of people in the Tripartite Tractate?
The spiritual, the psychic and the material. The spiritual run to the Savior at once, the psychic need teaching by a voice and can lean toward good or evil, and the material shun the light.
What does the Logos mean in this text?
The Logos, or Word, is the youngest aeon in the divine realm. His good wish to grasp the Father sets the story in motion, and his later turning back and prayer lead toward restoration.
Where was the Tripartite Tractate found?
It was found in 1945 near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, among thirteen ancient books. It stands in the first of them, called Codex One, and it is the longest treatise in that collection.
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The Tripartite Tractate. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-tripartite-tractate.
The tripartite tractate. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-tripartite-tractate (Original work published ca. 250)
The Tripartite Tractate. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-the-tripartite-tractate.
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