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Allogenes the Stranger

Without Mind, Life, or Existence
Gnostic trans. John D. Turner • c. 3rd century CE
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Now he is an entity insofar as he exists, in that he either exists and becomes (is and exists?), or {acts} <lives> or knows, although he {lives}<acts> without Mind or Life or Existence --or Nonexistence-- incomprehensibly. And although he is an entity along with its own attributes, he is not left over in any way, as if he yields something that is assayed or purified [or] as if he receives or gives.
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Nor is he diminished in any way, [whether] by his own desire or whether by giving or receiving through another.
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Neither does he have any desire, whether his own or that would have been added by something else.
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But neither does he produce anything by himself lest he become diminished in some other way.
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Therefore, he requires neither Mind nor Life nor indeed anything at all.