Preliminary Material / Bentley Layton -- The Domestication of Gnosis / Henry Chadwick -- Gnosis and Psychology / Gilles Quispel -- The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature / Carsten Colpe -- Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism / Harold Bloom -- In Search of Valentinus / G. C. Stead -- Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism / Ugo Bianchi -- Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John / Gilles Quispel -- Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth / R. McL. Wilson -- The Dog and the Mushrooms / Rowan A. Greer -- Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems / John Whittaker -- La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques / Michel Tardieu -- Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition / Helmut Koester -- Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ’s Passion: Paradigms for the Christian’s Response to Persecution? / Elaine H. Pagels -- Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth / Joel Fineman -- Gnosis und Christentum / Barbara Aland -- Concluding Discussion -- The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory / John Dillon -- Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus / Dominic J. O’meara -- Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth / William R. Schoedel -- Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus / Jean-Daniel Kaestli -- Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto / James F. Mccue -- Les «Mythes» Valentiniens de la création et de l’eschatologie dans le langage d’Origène: le mot hypothesis / Marguerite Harl -- «Vraie» et «fausse» gnose d’après Clément d’Alexandrie / Andre Mehat -- Did Gnostics Make Pictures? / Paul Corby Finney -- Preliminary Material / Bentley Layton -- Philo on Seth / Robert Kraft -- Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books / Michael E. Stone -- The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature / Birger A. Pearson -- Discussion / Bentley Layton -- Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and eve, and 1 Enoch / George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World / Carsten Colpe -- Discussion / Bentley Layton -- Stalking Those Elusive Sethians / Frederik Wisse -- Die “Sethianische” Gnosis—Eine häresiologische Fiktion? / Kurt Rudolph -- Discussion / Bentley Layton -- The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism / Hans-Martin Schenke -- Triade uno Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi / Alexander Böhlig -- Discussion / Bentley Layton -- Sethians and Johannine Thought / James M. Robinson -- Discussion / Bentley Layton -- Concluding Discussion / Bentley Layton -- The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia / Nils A. Dahl -- Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy / Ithamar Gruenwald -- Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex / Albert Henrichs -- From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism / Ludwig Koenen -- Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation / Klaus Koschorke -- The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5. 10.2) / M. Marcovich -- Le cadre scolaire des traités de l’Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2) / Louis Painchaud.