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140 A.D.) who, Pagel writes, describes the vision that “descended upon him ...in the form of a woman” who says to him, “I wish to show you Truth herself; for I have brought her down from above, so that you may see her without a veil, and understand her beauty.”
Until I read Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels I recalled the expression the naked truth as having derived from an old Roman fable (perhaps from Horace, around 50 B.C.) about Truth and Falsehood emerging from a swim together, Falsehood stealing Truth's clothers.
Pagel then quotes Marcus on how “the naked Truth” came to him in a woman's form.