''The Key of Truth'' is a text identified as a manual of either a

Paulician Paulicianism ( Classical Armenian: Պաւղիկեաններ, ; grc, Παυλικιανοί, "The followers of Paul"; Arab sources: ''Baylakānī'', ''al Bayāliqa'' )Nersessian, Vrej (1998). The Tondrakian Movement: Religious Movements in the ...

Tondrakian Tondrakians ( hy, Թոնդրակեաններ) were members of an anti-feudal, heretical Christian sect that flourished in medieval Armenia between the early 9th century and 11th century and centered on the district of Tondrak, north of Lake Van ...

church in Armenia. Frederick Conybeare first identified the 1782 manuscript from the library of Ejmiacin in Armenia and published a translation and edition in 1898. Conybeare claimed that the text was a servicebook of the medieval Paulicians, and it contains a rite of adult baptism with water'' Contra Patarenos'' Page 33 Hugh Eteriano, Janet Hamilton, Sarah Hamilton - 2004 "146 In 1898 FC Conybeare found a copy of ''The Key of Truth'' in a manuscript written in 1782, in the Library of Ejmiacin. He claimed that this was a servicebook of the medieval Paulicians, and it contains a rite of adult baptism with water ." and conscious omission of Trinitarian terminology. There is scholarly consensus that ''The Key of Truth'' was used by sectarians with beliefs derived from the Paulicians, but scholars after Conybeare consider that these beliefs may have evolved since the Middle Ages.

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English Translation of ''The Key of Truth'' at Archive.org
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