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| | Ophites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Mandaeans are considered an ophite religion that has survived (upto and including the present day). | | | Due to the church orthodoxy destroying (in the 4th century) the Ophite's own manuscripts and texts, most information about the ophitic sects must be gleaned from what their enemies said of them: Hippolytus (Philosoph. | | | Christians supporting the church orthodoxy viewed Gnosticism as their arch enemy, and took particular offence at the Ophites turning their view of the serpent on its head, eventually persecuting them out of existence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophites
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| | Ophites: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library |
| | One Ophitic hymn, the Hymn of the Naasenes, survives. | | | The Ophites carried to extremes the teaching of Marcion that an essential hostility exists between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. | | | The Ophites acknowledged Jesus as the savior, but rejected the importance of the crucifixion; Christ came to reveal gnosis (knowledge), not to die for people's sins. |
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http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/ophites.jsp?l=O&p=1
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| | Jewish Origins of Gnosticism |
| | Further evidence concerning the Ophite Gnostics in Palestine, according to Friedlander, is afforded by the prescription in the Talmud that the gily6nim and the 'Books of the Minim' are not to be saved from the fire but are to be burnt in their place, along with the 'azkarbt (divine names) occurring in them. | | | Indeed, Filastrius numbers the Ophites, Caanites, and Sethians among the sects that flourished in Judaism 'before the advent of Jesus." It is obvious that these sects could not have originated from within Christianity, from the very fact that their chief doctrines are derived from the Old Testament rather than from the New. | | | The Sethians shared in the errors of the Ophites and Cainites, teaching that the world was created by angels and not by the highest God. |
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| | Satanic Reds |
| | The last mentioned is the son of the fallen wisdom (Yalda Bahut means son of chaos), and from him proceeded, in successive generations, Jao, Sabaot, Adoneus, Eloeus, Oreus, and Astaphaeus, which are said to be manifestations of the God of the Old Testament. | | | Such sects existed with Judaism before the rise of Christianity; and as there were Ophites who rejected the Gospels it would be proper to make a distinction between Jewish, Christian, and anti-Christian Ophites were not the sources. | | | Irenaeus, who, toward the end of the second century, wrote a history of heresy, did not know the Gnostics under the name of Ophites; but Clement (Stromata, vii 17, 108) mentions beside the Cainists the Ophians (Ophianoi), saying that their name is derived from the object of their worship. |
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| | The Norwegian Pentagram VII |
| | The Ophites, a Christian Gnostic sect worshipped Jesus in the form of a serpent. | | | The Ophites did not see Jesus as a 'saviour' in the traditional sense i.e. | | | When sects differing from the Catholic Church were excommunicated and driven away, the Ophites along with many other 'heretic' groups, supposedly sought refuge in Syria. |
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| | The books by Gilles C H Nullens - Part A: Old Craft - A.9 The Ophites |
| | The Ophites doctrine was similar to that of the Valentinian Gnostics. | | | Serpent in Greek is "ophis" from which the Ophites took their name to mean that they were the followers of the wisdom-serpent. | | | The Ophites were an important Gnostic sect that offered an alternative to orthodox Christianity in the first few centuries AD. |
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http://www.nullens.org/content/view/148/49
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| | Ophites |
| | A branch of the Gnostics Ophites, who regarded Seth, the son of Adam, as the first spiritual man, and maintained that Seth reappeared as Christ. | | | "Iurbo and Adunai, according to the Ophites, are names of Iao-Jehovah, one of the emanations of Ilda-Baoth"; and Adunai "under the polishing hand of Ezra becomes finally the later-vowelled Adonai of the Massorah -- the One and Supreme God of the Christians" (IU 2:185, 131). | | | Plural of hivi (hiwwi), which mystically signifies a serpent; likewise one of the tribes mentioned in the Old Testament as originating from Canaan (Genesis 10:17), the serpent tribe of Palestine who were ministers to the temples, somewhat like the Levites or Ophites of Israel and Asia Minor respectively (cf IU 2:481). |
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| | OPHITES. |
| | As the first Ophites had contrived to make an amalgam of the fervent and hysterical worship of nature in Anatolia with the Jewish and Christian tenets, so no doubt these daughter sects contrived to fit in with them the legends of the local cults among which they found themselves. | | | But such comprimises were not likely to last long when the Catholic Church began to define and enforce the orthodox faith, and the Ophites seem to have been one of the first to succumb. | | | The aim of the sect seems to have been to produce an eclectic system which should reconcile the religious traditions current from time immemorial in Western Asia with the worship of the Hellenized gods of Asia Minor, and the teachings of the already powerful Christian Church. |
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http://www.antiqillum.com/texts/bg/Qadosh/qadosh059.htm
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| | Worship of the Serpent: Chapter III. Serpent-Worship in Europe |
| | They permitted the Ophites to retain many of their idolatrous opinions and practices even after baptism, considering, perhaps, that half a Christian was better than an entire Pagan, and hoping that though the father might be only an accommodating, the son would, in time, become a sincere believer in the Gospel. | | | It has been already remarked that, in the Ophite religion, it was the general custom to name the priesthood after the god of their adoration. | | | But this would be the necessary con-sequence of his being an Ophite; for the military ensigns of most ancient nations were usually the images of the gods whom they worshipped. |
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| | Chapter VII |
| | Moreover, the Ophite seven planetary genii, who emanated one from the other, are found again in the Nazarene religion, under the name of the "seven impostor-daemons," or stellars, who "will deceive all the sons of Adam." These are Sol; Spiritus Venereus (Holy Spirit, in her material aspect), | | | Both were the Logoi of the Ophites; or the unity as Logos manifesting itself as a double principle of good and evil; for, according to their views, these two principles are immutable, and existed from all eternity, as they will ever continue to exist. | | | Glancing rapidly at the Ophites and Nazareans, we shall pass to their scions which yet exist in Syria and Palestine, under the name of Druzes of Mount Lebanon; and near Basra or Bassorah, in Persia, under that of Mendaeans, or Disciples of St. John. |
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| | History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. (v.xiii.xvii) |
| | Origen speaks of a branch of the Ophites, who were as great enemies of Jesus as the heathen Celsus, and who admitted none into their society who had not first cursed his name. | | | But the majority seem to have acknowledged the goodness of Jesus and the benefit of his crucifixion brought about by the far-sighted wisdom of Judas. | | | The Ophites again branch out in several sects, especially three. |
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| | In what is traditionally recognized as his description of the tenets of the Ophites, Irenaeus lists a belief which this sect understood the disciples of Jesus to have embraced in error (Adv. | | | Outside of Irenaeus's reference to the Ophite interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:50, the Gospel According to Philip (second half of third century?) provides a glimpse of a Christian Gnostic, perhaps Valentinian, reading of the Pauline passage Gospel According to Philip 56.26-57.19 (Schenke, Say. | | | That is, for the bishop of Lyon, Jesus was raised in his worldly body. |
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/SBL2001/Irenaeus.doc
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | A.D. The Naassenes (from Nahas, the Hebrew for serpent) were worshippers of the serpent as a symbol of wisdom, which the God of the Jews tried to hide from men. | | | Though not strictly serpent-worshippers, they recognized the serpent as symbol of the supreme emanation, Achamoth or Divine Wisdom. | | | How far these sacred diagrams were used as symbols in their liturgy, we do not know. |
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| | AW! on The Gnostics 3 - Christianity Revealed |
| | Most Ophites were nominally Christian, but they repudiated the human Jesus, as opposed to the spiritual Christ who temporarily inhabited his body and who taught the esoteric wisdom of gnosis. | | | They had the common Gnostic belief that that the soul is imprisoned in the body and the material universe, and can be saved through revealed knowledge of the soul’s transcendent origin. | | | But the Power above saw the man’s plight and put the spark of life into him to raise him up and make him live ( |
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| | 17. THE SONS OF THE SERPENT TRIBE. |
| | It is, then, in the sect of Ophites that we find the earliest forms of the "Authentic Christianity" -- or, should we say, The Authentic Tradition in Christianity -- as far as the Initiatic Tradition is concerned. | | | Most of their scripture comes down to us in an obviously Christian or Christianized form. | | | True, Gematria did not come into vogue until much later, but the Sethian Ophites regarded Seth as the Anointed One, the Messiah; and Seth, we have seen, is syncretized with Agathodaimon, by the Harranians. |
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| | Irenaeus of Lyon: 06 ON EBIONITES, ENCRATITES, OPHITES AND SETHIANS |
| | Those who are called Ebionites agree that the world was made by God; but their opinions with respect to the Lord are similar to those of Cerinthus and Carpocrates... | | | For they can neither confer sight on the blind, nor hearing on the deaf, nor chase away all sorts of demons -[none, indeed, ] except those that are sent into others by themselves, if they can even do so much as this (AH2.31.1-2). | | | Irenaeus of Lyon: 06 ON EBIONITES, ENCRATITES, OPHITES AND SETHIANS |
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| | Surfsteve's Forums - The Dracontic Form! |
| | Epiphanius says, that the 'Ophites sprung out of the Nicolaitans and Gnostics, who were so called from the serpent, which they worshiped'. | | | Moses set up a brazen serpent in the wilderness, and Christian devines have seen in this a type of Christ Jesus. | | | From this serpent, Tertuallian assets, the early sect of Christians called Ophites took their rise. |
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| | Orphites and Phibionites |
| | In their rejection of the God of the Old Testament, who gave the Ten Commandments, the Ophites flaunted their sexual freedom from the law and conventionality by extreme sexual license, a trait common to other Gnostic groups as well. | | | The regathering amounted to salvation, for all things would be gathered up into the one glorious body of Christ. | | | According to the Ophite view, the serpent of the Garden of Eden wanted Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, to eat from the tree of knowledge (gnosis) so that they would know their true identities and “be like God” (Genesis 3:5). |
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| | Patron Saints Index: Ophites |
| | Ophites were nominally Christian, but they repudiated a human Jesus, were considered heretics, and were eventually persecuted out of existence by the early Church. | | | The name comes from the Greek ophis (serpent); Ophites revered the serpent as a symbol of spirituality and wisdom, holding that the serpent in the Garden gave the secret knowledge to Adam and Eve, who were then punished by God. | | | They believed the human soul was imprisoned in the body and material world, and can be saved through gnosis, or revealed knowledge of the soul's transcendent origin. |
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V |
| | Chapter I. -The Ophites the Progenitors of Subsequent Heresies. | | | Whatever opinions, then, were entertained by those who derived the first principles (of their doctrine) from the serpent, and in process of time | | | But since I suppose that the worthless opinions of these men have been sufficiently explained, and that it has been clearly proved whose disciples are Marcus and Colarbasus, who were successors of the school of Valentinus, let us see what statement likewise Basilides advances. |
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| | Gnosticism - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The Ophites (so-named because they worshiped the serpent of Genesis as the bestower of knowledge). | | | The latter is the one usually associated with Gnosticism, and the one known to include several Christian elements. | | | A group referred to as the Ophites fall inbetween both of these strains. |
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| | The Sons of Snakes |
| | Like our Ophites, these adepts held the reptiles to their breasts and caressed them, as living symbols of the celestial image that they worshipped." | | | The Valentinians and Ophites (Sethians) "regarded Seth as the first of the race of the perfect ones, the spiritual in opposition to the material (Cain) and Abel (the psychic). | | | Seth was, no doubt, well suited to become the great prophet of the Gnostic race, various attributes of prestige being ascribed to him in apocryphal traditions about the Old Testament: image of God, heir of Adam, inventor of astronomy. |
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| | The History of the Origins of Christianity. Book VII. Marcus-Aurelius. (xi) |
| | It is from Assyria that there comes the form of this bizarre Church; but Egypt, Phrygia, Phœnicia, and the Orphic mysteries have their share in it. | | | Under the name of Nahassians, or Ophites, certain Pagan serpent-worshippers grouped themselves, whom it suited for a certain time to take the name of Christians. | | | They sometimes identified their little animals with the Christ or with the serpent which taught men the knowledge of good and evil. |
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| | OPHITES - LoveToKnow Article on OPHITES |
| | The Ophite system had its Trinity: (I) the Universal God, the First Man, (2) his conception (~vvoia), the Second Man, (3) a female Holy Spirit. | | | From her the Third Man (Christ) was begotten by the First and Second. | | | There are some resemblances to the Valentinian system, but whereas the great Archon sins in ignorance, Ialdabaoth sins against knowledge; there is also less of Greek philosophy in the Ophite system. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/O/OP/OPHITES.htm
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| | The Light & the Dark: Volume VIII - summary |
| | The Ophites and the sects related to it, the Ophians, the Cainites, and the Archontics, are all plainly dualistic. | | | It is impossible to shortly describe the complicated mythology of the Ophites: suffices it to say that there is fight between Light and Darkness, between Good and Evil. | | | The patron of the Ophite sect is the snake, an animal that is supposed to be possessed of a supernatural Knowledge. |
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| | O :: The 3 Heads of the Elephant :: Sebastián Salado Web Page |
| | The Ophites worshipped to the “snake”, because she taught Adam that if he ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and of evil he would elevate immensely his to Be, by the knowledge and the wisdom that thus would acquire. | | | The phrase of the ophite Necromancer that tries to control to the upper worlds by the mere power of its earthly will. | | | The “snake” or Kundalini is at the same time good and evil, depending on the type of the process of elevation that his energy be carried out by means of. |
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| | OPHITES |
| | OPHITES, a sect of Gnostics who regarded the serpent as a benefactor of the race in having persuaded Eve to eat of the tree of the _knowledge_ of good and evil in disregard, or rather in defiance, of the warning of the God of the Jews. | | | ophitess, ophitse, ophies, ophtes, ophite, ohpites, ophittes, opphites, opites, ophiets, ophhites, ophties, opihtes, phites, ophiites, ophitees, pohites, ophits, oophites, ohites. |
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| | Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Per-Pi, Theosophical U Press |
| | King states that the Ophites were the descendants of the Bacchic Mystae, basing this on the fact that coins of the period bear the Bacchic serpent, which is represented as raising himself out of the sacred coffer, while the reverse side of the coin shows two serpents entwined around torches (Gnostics and Their Remains 225). | | | Per-Pi Peratae (Latin) Peratai (Greek) One of the Gnostic bodies or associations, the Naaseni or Ophites, the "Serpent Gnostics," so called because of the mystical prominence of the serpent symbol in their rites and observances. | | | Peregrinations of the Monad Used mainly for the post-mortem states and conditions of the spiritual monad plus its movements in and through the solar system guided by certain dominating spiritual-psychological factors, both in the monad itself and in the solar system. |
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| | Ophites |
| | Alternately known as the Naasenites, they were a Gnostic movement linked to Judaism in late antiquity. | | | Article "Ophites" created on 10 July 2004; last modified on 10 July 2004 (Revision 1). |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ophites |
| | Ophites (Greek ophis, “serpent”), a group of Gnostic sects that flourished in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century ad. | | | Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework. |
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III |
| | Enough it is for us that this heresy of the Nicolaitans has been condemned by the Apocalypse of the Lord with the weightiest authority attaching to a sentence, in saying "Because this thou holdest, thou hatest the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I too hate." | | | To these are added those heretics likewise who are called Ophites: |
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| | Footnotes |
| | The Ophites engrafted Phrygian Judaism, and the Valentinians Gentilism, upon Christianity; the former not rejecting the speculations and mysteries of Asiatic paganism, and the latter availing themselves of the cabalistic corruptions of Judaism. | | | The Jndaistic element soon became prominent in successive phases of Valentinianism, which produced a fusion of the sects of the old Gnostics and of Simon. | | | we have an authentic delineation of the primitive Ophites. |
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http://www.tparents.org/Library/Religion/Christian/Fathers/anf-05/footnote/fn13.htm
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| | Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion: Song of the Ophites |
| | Oh thou Holy and Secret Wisdom, having blessed grape and grain, bestow upon us life and joy. | | | Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion: Song of the Ophites |
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| | Estopanyà (Estopiñán), Ribagorça (Ribagorza), Huesca, Aragón, Spain |
| | Several Lower Jurassic-Upper Triassic outcrops of tholeite dolerites (ophites) near the village of Estopanyà (Estopiñán) and in the road to Canelles dam. | | | The above list contains all mineral locality references listed on mindat.org. |
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| | Herpbreeder.dk |
| | Paris, xvi + 780 S. Günther, A. Second report on collections of Indian Reptiles obtained by the British Museum. | | | Günther, C.A.L.G. Description of Ophites japonicus, a new snake from Japan. |
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| | Search Results for "Gnostic" |
| | ...Ophites, (o´fits) (KEY) [Gr.,=believers in the serpent], group of Gnostic sects notorious for extreme cultism and inverted morality. |
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