The title of this Gnostic work means "The Most High Stranger." It was discovered in 1946 in an urn near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. The work of Allogenes is mentioned by the Neoplatonist historian Porphyry and by later Syriac Christian writings against heresy. The name Allogenes means "foreigner" or "stranger."
Allogenes Supreme is a Gnostic "apocalypse" written in Coptic. It describes the creation of the higher world and praises Barbelo, the heavenly mother. The surviving copy of this work was written during the fourth century AD. However, the original version may date back to the second century AD.
See also Apocrypha.