The Authentikos Logos: a New Document of Christian Platonism

THE AUTHENTIKOS LOGOS: A NEW DOCUMENT OF CHRISTIAN PLATONISM BY R. VAN DEN BROEK The Authentikos Logos is the third treatise of Codex VI of the Nag Ham- madi Library (pp. 22-35). By now, it is known through a facsimile edition and two critical editions of the Coptic text, an English, a French and two German translations, and a commentary.' It contains, in the words of G. W. MacRae, "an exposition of the origin, condition and ultimate bliss of the soul."2 Among the scholars who have studied this text there is a general consensus that it does not show typically