The Thunder, Perfect Mind: A Heraclitean Interpretation

Douglas C. Bates
13 min readNov 5, 2022

Perhaps the most enigmatic of all of the ancient texts recovered at Nag Hamadi is The Thunder, Perfect Mind. It is wholly unlike the other texts found in this cache of ancient Gnostic texts. Based on the meter of the text, it was probably composed in Greek. Our copy is a translation into Coptic.

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Douglas C. Bates

Ancient Greek philosophies of life. http://www.pyrrhonism.org Author of “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism.”