The Epistle of Eugnostos or Eugnostos the Blessed is a Gnostic epistle found in Codices III and V of the Nag Hammadi library. Both copies seem to be a Coptic translation of a Greek original that was composed in Egypt around the late 1st century; the copy from Codex III is the earlier translation. Scholars note that the text is interrelated with The Sophia of Jesus Christ; SJC adds more specifically Christian elements to the cosmology-focused Eug. The text is a philosophical discourse on the nature of God and the world. The author asserts that previous human inquiries have failed to reach the truth about the nature of God, who is ineffable and beyond human understanding. The author describes a belief system in which there is an Immortal Man who reveals various aeons and powers with different names and authorities over different kingdoms and worlds. Summary The author, Eugnostos (meaning "well-known" in Greek), greets his readers and asserts that all human beings born until now have failed to understand the true nature of God through their inquiries and speculations. He then describes the ineffable God as being beyond the grasp of human understanding, with no birth, no name, no form, and no ruler. This God is the perfect and unchanging source of all things, and the difference between the perishable and the imperishable. Belief in the words he has written about the true God can be attained only by going from what is hidden to what is visible, and that this thought will lead to faith in the invisible. The author describes the Lord of the Universe as the "Forefather" rather than the "Father." The Lord sees himself within himself, like a mirror, and he appeared as a self-begotten and self-fathering entity. He revealed many other confronting, self-begotten entities who are equal in age and power and called "Sons of Unbegotten Father." The Unknowable is full of imperishableness and ineffable joy, and the First who appeared before the universe in infinity is the Self-grown, Self-constructed Father, full of shining, ineffable light. The First created the Immortal Androgynous Man, who is the source of divinity and kingdom. He is called the "God of gods" and the "King of kings." The text discusses the attributes of the First Man, who is known as "Faith." He is described as having a unique mind and thought that reflects and considers rationality and power. There