[3] Scholars note that the text is interrelated with The Sophia of Jesus Christ;[1][2] SJC adds more specifically Christian elements to the cosmology-focused Eug.
The author, Eugnostos (meaning "well-known" in Greek),[3] greets his readers and asserts that all human beings born until now have failed to understand the true nature of God through their inquiries and speculations.
He then describes the ineffable God as being beyond the grasp of human understanding, with no birth, no name, no form, and no ruler.
Belief in the words he has written about the true God can be attained only by going from what is hidden to what is visible, and that this thought will lead to faith in the invisible.
From their consenting, thoughts appeared, leading to the creation of the world and its elements including time, the year, months, days, and hours.
The conclusion describes a belief system in which there is an Immortal Man who reveals various aeons and powers with different names, such as Unity and Rest, Assembly, and Life.
The ending states that this is enough for now, and that a person who needs not be taught will appear and speak these things with pure knowledge and joy.
The vocabulary, cosmology, and lists of emanations and limbs used in Eugnostos, some of which are also present in the Sophia of Jesus Christ, resemble their Manichaean counterparts in many ways.