Allogenes

A contemplative ascent text with almost no myth in it: the seer withdraws through stages of knowing toward an Unknowable that can be approached only by a "primary revelation" beyond all thought. Plotinus's circle in Rome read texts of this family and Porphyry says they wrote against them.

The bridge to Neoplatonism, which is the forebears' bench in this same annex. It also shows that not all Gnostic material is mythological — some of it is austere contemplative philosophy.