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 | | The Egyptian Gnostic Basilideans accepted the existence of an archon called Abraxas who was the prince of 365 spiritual beings (Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.24). |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/Archon?mySession=f0350f783de7c7a3bc71a5e009150090
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| | The Invisible Basilica: Basilides |
| | There are also those who are incapable of faith, who feel perfectly at home in the world and are, indeed, entirely a part of it; these Basilides labels "pigs and dogs." Basilides also rejected the orthodox Christian idea of the ressurection of the flesh; Basilides taught that only souls are saved, bodies are worth nothing. | | | When the Supreme Deity perceived the corruption of the world of illusion and the suffering of humanity, he sent his firstborn, Nous or Christ, into the world to bring them to salvation from illusion through the transcendent Knowledge (Gnôsis) of their Divine Nature. | | | Since Nous was a divine power, and not corporeal, He could not die-- Jesus, therefore, did not die on the cross, as assumed by those in the bonds of illusion. |
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http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/basilides.htm
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| | Becky's Page |
| | Baptism was one of their most important ceremonies; and the Basilideans celebrated the 10th of January, as the anniversary of the day on which Christ was baptized in Jordan. | | | They had the ceremony of laying on of hands, by way of purification; and that of the mystic banquet, emblem of that to which they believed the Heavenly Wisdom would one day admit them, in the fullness of things. | | | They had at least three Degrees-the Material, the Intellectual, and the Spiritual, and the lesser and greater Mysteries; and the number of those who attained the highest Degree was quite small. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2594/masonrc.htm
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| | Epiphany |
| | Clement of Alexandria, who died in 215CE, reports that the “Gnostic sect of the Basilideans observed a feast at this time of year in honor of the Baptism of Christ.” Then there is a lot of evidence from the 4 |
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http://www.stmartins-charlotte.org/website/sermons/20050209.html
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| | The Registrar of the Cosmic University |
| | Gnosticism, on the other hand, held that the well-balanced world was created by an inferior power, 'the Demiurge,' whom Gnostics identified with the God of the Hebrew Bible, 'the God of the Jews.' | | | When Church historians use the term 'Gnosticism,' they are referring to sects of the second and third centuries: Simonians, Valentinians, Orphites, Basilideans, Marcionites, Saturnilians, and Sethians, for example. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/692/692_review_munk.html
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| | bishop.magecity » abraxas |
| | A term used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the second century, designating the Supreme Being or god whom they worshipped. | | | They believed that Jesus Christ emanated from Abraxas and was a phantom while here on earth. | | | The mystic word abracadabra was derived from his name. |
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http://magecitypress.com/bishop/wp?p=121
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| | St. Clement of Alexandria makes note of a feast observed by gnostic Christians (the Basilideans) that seems related to our Epiphany. |
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http://www.christ-church.los-altos.ca.us/sermons/Epiph.doc
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| | Christian Controversy in Alexandria Clement's Polemic Against the Basilideans and Valentinians American University ... |
| | Summary of Christian Controversy in Alexandria: Clement's Polemic Against the Basilideans and Valentinians (American University Studies Series VII, Theology and Religion) | | | Christian Controversy in Alexandria Clement's Polemic Against the Basilideans and Valentinians American University Studies Series VII, Theology and Religion by Everett Procter | | | Christian Controversy in Alexandria: Clement's Polemic Against the Basilideans and Valentinians (American University Studies Series VII, Theology and Religion) |
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http://www.book-summary-review.com/Christian-Controversy-in-Alexandria-Clement-s-Polemic-Against-the-Basilideans-and-Valentinians-American-University-Studies-Series-VII-Theology-and-Religion-0820423785.htm
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| | History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. (v.xiii.viii) |
| | These Marcosians held to a two-fold baptism, that applied to the human Jesus, the Messiah of the psychical, and that administered to the heavenly Christ, the Messiah of the spiritual; they decorated the baptistery like a banquet-hall; and they first introduced extreme unction. | | | The Simonians and Carpocratians used images of Christ and of their religious heroes in their worship. | | | As early as the second century the Basilideans celebrated the feast of Epiphany. |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xiii.viii.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Docetae |
| | Justin nowhere expressly combats Docetic errors, but he mentions several Gnostics who were notorious for their Docetic aberrations, as Basilideans and Valentinians, and in his "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew" he strongly emphasizes the birth of Christ from the Virgin. | | | Polycarp in his letter to the Philippians re-echoes I John, iv 2- 4; to the same purpose. | | | Tertullian wrote a treatise "On the flesh of Christ" and attacked Docetic errors in his "Adversus Marcionem". |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05070c.htm
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| | Edward Peters |
| | Everett Procter - Christian Controversy in Alexandria: Clement s Polemic Against the Basilideans and Valentinians [American University Studies, Series Vii, Theology A] - 0820423785 |
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http://didgeridooman.com/264144_edward-peters_0812210247christiansocietyan...
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| | Gnosticism, Introduced by SeekersWay.org |
| | Though the origins seem to have been in pagan and Jewish (perhaps Kabbalistic) sects before the coming of Jesus Christ, Gnosticism generally refers to the teachings of those Christians in the first century A.D. who were not members of the orthodox Christian churches. | | | By the second and third centuries A.D., Gnosticism had grown into numerous scattered groups, which generally fell into two main schools - the Basilideans and the Valentinians, both of which were considered heretics by the orthodox Church authorities. | | | Until recently, all that was generally known of Gnosticism was recorded by the critics of the time (e.g., Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Origen, and Plotinus). |
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http://www.seekersway.org/seekers_guide/gnosticism_1_a.html
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| | Science Fair Projects - Abraxas |
| | It is believed by some that the mystical word Abracadabra is also taken from Abraxas. | | | These orders were supposed to occupy 365 heavens, each fashioned like, but inferior to that above it; and the lowest of the heavens was thought to be the abode of the spirits who formed Earth and its inhabitants, and to whom was committed the administration of its affairs. | | | The letters of abraxas, in the Greek notation, make up the number 365, and the Basilideans gave the name to the 365 orders of spirits which, as they conceived, emanated in succession from the Supreme Being. |
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http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Abraxas
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| | theArtist |
| | The Gnostic sect of the Basilideans, from the second century after Christ, thought it named the hidden divinity and it incorporated great mysteries because it contained the seven Greek letters which compute numerically to 365, the number of days in the solar year. | | | It was further believed that Abraxas commanded 365 gods, each possessing a virtue, so there was a virtue for each day of the year. | | | Abraxas is such a word, thought to have special powers, both a talisman and an incantation that can be found in numerous ancient cultures. |
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http://www.worldofartmagazine.com/WoA7/7woa_altman.htm
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| | Terms |
| | The true roots of what we know as Christmas lie in a feast celebrating the baptism of Christ on January 6. | | | The heretical Basilideans taught that the divine Christ first appeared on earth at the baptism of Jesus and was then temporarily united with the human Jesus. |
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http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/christmas.htm
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| | an affair on golgotha - 4 - the place of the skull - comparative-religion.com |
| | We might note here that in the primitive Church as the Disciples originated it; there was no sacrament or activity that celebrated Jesus' death on the cross. | | | And even more stirring to those sects of Christianity that hold to a creed contrary to the Church's basic doctrine. | | | The tradition concerning Jesus' death by crucifixion was not accepted by a number of early Christian sects, which included the Basilideans, the Docetions, the Waldenses, the Cathars and the Knights Templar. |
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http://www.comparative-religion.com/articles/golgotha/golgotha6.php
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| | Flickr: Abraxas3d |
| | Abraxas was a term used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the second century, designating the Supreme Being or god whom they worshipped. | | | Asleep in the Garden of the Alchemist - New Theme 'Sanctuary' | | | Abraxas is a great and terrible floating eyeball, armed with the technology to record things. |
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http://www.flickr.com/people/w5nyv
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| | Lex Communis |
| | The existence of such docetic preachings informed the selection of the four gospels which affirm a suffering, physical Jesus. | | | This is a view that was also shared among some early Christian sects, like the Basilideans, who believed that Christ himself was never crucified. | | | I'm not acquainted withe the Basilideans, but, certainly, there were Docetists who preached that a non-suffering Jesus was never actually crucified in the flesh because He was never in the flesh. |
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http://peterseanesq.blogspot.com/2004/05/muslim-perspective-on-passion.html
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| | Gnosis & Christianity: Pre-Christian Systems |
| | We find in Supernatural Religion the following (for every Christian) startling sentence: "We are, therefore, indebted to Marcion for the correct version even of 'the Lord's Prayer'." | | | If, leaving for the present the prominent founders of Christian sects, we now turn to that of the Ophites, which assumed a definite form about the time of Marcion and the Basilideans, we may find in it the reason for the heresies of all others. |
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http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/christianity/Pre-ChristianSystems.html
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| | The Traditions of Matthias |
| | 7.17.108) teachings of Matthias were used by Basilideans and perhaps other gnostic groups. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/traditionsmatthias.html
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| | The Ecole Initiative: Docetism |
| | Thus when the carnal body suffered and died, the Savior redeemed the flesh by means of the flesh, though he himself had stripped off his mortal body. | | | This testimony from Hippolytus is all the more helpful since Hippolytus also knows of the Basilideans, Cerinthians, Marcionites, and so on--though he evidently does not consider them Docetists. |
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http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/articles/docetism.html
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