Note 596 — Chapter X · THE SYSTEM OF THE PISTIS SOPHIA AND ITS RELATED TEXTS[459]
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Mallet, Le Culte de Neit à Saïs, p. 200, points out that the God Nu described in the 18th Chapter of the Book of the Dead is “the infinite abyss, the Βυθός, the πατὴρ ἄγνωστος of the Gnostics.” So Maspero in Rev. Critique, 30 Sept. 1909, p. 13, who declares that the author of the Pistis Sophia was influenced directly or indirectly by Osirian beliefs.