The followers of Seth developed a serious attitude problem over time...



In addition, the strong evidence in most of these texts for the existence of an established baptismal ritual tends to promote the designation "Sethian" from the status of a merely heuristic typological category to a genuine traditio-historical one, designating the mythico-ritual traditions of a group who called themselves variously "the great generation," "strangers," "the immovable, incorruptible race," "the seed of Seth," "the living and unshakable race," "the children of Seth," "the holy seed of Seth," and "those who are worthy."





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