Editing Letter to Flora (section)

The "'''Letter to Flora'''" is a Gnostic text written by [[Ptolemy (gnostic)|Ptolemy]], a [[Valentinius|Valentinian]] teacher, to a woman named Flora.

Prior to the discovery of the [[Nag Hammadi Library]], the ''Letter'' was one of the few authentic Gnostic works available to scholars. The letter was included in full in [[Epiphanius of Salamis|Epiphanius]]'s ''[[Panarion]]'', an unsympathetic text which condemns its theology as [[Heresy|heretical]]. Ptolemy's beliefs are also known from the writings of [[Irenaeus]].