Check out Rudolph's work on the Gnostics. It shows a core similarity among the variations. Also note that Irenaeus described Gnosticism well, when he described the Apocryphon of John, the work Nag Hammadi gace us several copies of, showing its importance. All of this to say, the discussion is not so distorted as some make us think.

 

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