 The influence of Buddhism in any sense on either the "gnostikos" Valentinus (c.170) or the Nag Hammadi texts (3rd century) is not supported by modern scholarship, although Elaine Pagels (1979) called it a "possibility".The Syrian–Egyptian traditions postulate a remote, supreme Godhead, the Monad.From this highest divinity emanate lower divine beings, known as Aeons.