This book studies the life and thought of Valentinus using his genuine fragments. After translating the fragments and introducing Valentinus' life, it reorders the fragments and segues into a line-by-line spiritual and historical Valentinus Sees a Vision (Fragment 7)Summer Harvest (Fragment 8)Evil Angels and the God Human (Fragment 1)The Image and the Name (Fragment 5)You Are Deathless! (Fragment 4)The Pure in Heart (Fragment 2) .On Self-control (Containing Fragment 3) The Truth is Everywhere (Fragment 6) This volume is the first to integrate the discovery that Valentinus wrote the letter On Self-control formerly attributed to Basil of Caesarea. It closes with an argument that Valentinus wrote the Gospel of Truth.