On this Valentines Day, fellow seeker Michael Strojan has offered some fascinating insights into one of Gnosticism's greatest teachers - Valentinus.  His blog is definitely worth a look.  

He begins,

While many Christians take the fourteenth of February to celebrate the Feast of Saint Valentine – or one of the saint Valentines – many contemporary Gnostics have taken this day to memorialize the great Gnostic teacher and bishop Valentinus who the best known as the most successful early Christian gnostic theologian.

Recognized as a brilliant theologian even by his contemporaries who would later repudiate his teachings as unorthodox, Valentinus attracted a large following in Rome which would later become divided into an Eastern and a Western or Italian branch.

You can read the rest HERE.