Encyclopedia - Ophites: Encyclopedia - Ophites
The Ophites is a blanket term for numerous gnostic sects in Syria and Egypt about 100 A.D. The common trait was that these sects would gi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ophites: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ophites
OPHITES (From ophis, "serpent.") A Gnostic sect believing that Christ was the incarnation of the serpent of paradise. Since ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ophites: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ophites
Ophites One of the earliest Gnostic sects, flourishing in Egypt in the 2nd century and using as their sacred symbol the serpent (ophis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nehushtan: Encyclopedia - Nehushtan
Nehushtan was a staff of copper and brass. Nehushtan - Serpent staff. The staff was a serpent on a pole which Moses made in the wilderne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basilideans: Encyclopedia - Basilideans
The Basilideans were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century. Basilides claimed to have been taught his doct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borborites: Encyclopedia - Borborites
According to Epiphanius of Salamis book Panarion/Adversus Haereses chapter xxv, xxvi and Theodorets Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scapolite: Encyclopedia - Scapolite
Scapolite (Gr. asairos, rod, stone), is a group of rock-forming silicate minerals composed of aluminium, calcium and sodium silicate with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Garden Of Eden: Encyclopedia - Garden Of Eden
Garden of Eden, from Hebrew Gan Eden, גן עדן is the location of the story told in Genesis 2 and 3—part of the creation belief of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve: Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve
According to the Book of Genesis in Judaism's Torah, the Christian Bible and Islam's Qur'an, Adam was the first man created by God. At Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha
The category of New Testament apocrypha reminds the modern reader of the wide range of responses that were engendered in interpreting the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia - Heresy
Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Worship: Encyclopedia - Animal Worship
Animal worship is an ill-defined term, covering facts ranging from the worship of the real divine animal, commonly conceived as a "god-bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satanism: Encyclopedia - Satanism
LaVeyan Satanism | Luciferianism | Religious Satanism | Sat/Tan Satanism | Setianism | Traditional satanism Church of Satan | First Chur...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ophites: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Ophites
Ophites (Ancient Greek). A Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt, and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism, or Gnosis (Wisdom, Knowledge), kn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nehushtan: Encyclopedia Ii - Nehushtan - Serpent Staff
The staff was a serpent on a pole which Moses made in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4–9) in obedience to God's directions. At the time, th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sethianites, Sethiotai, Sethians, Sethites: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sethianites, Sethiotai, Sethians, Sethites
Sethianites Also Sethiotai, Sethians, Sethites.   A branch of the Gnostics Ophites, who regarded Seth, the son of Adam, as the f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nerig: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nerig
Nerig (Gnostic) The planetary genius of Mars, according to the Ophite Gnostic scheme.   (See also: Nerig , Mysticism, Mysticis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adunai: Theosophy Dictionary On Adunai
Adunai (Gnostic) Used by the Ophites and Nazarenes in connection with Iurbo. "Iurbo and Adunai, according to the Ophites, are nam...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Agathodemon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Agathodemon
Agathodemon (Ancient Greek). The beneficent, good Spirit as contrasted with the bad one, Kakodemon. The "Brazen Serpent" of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Basilidean: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Basilidean
BASILIDEAN: A Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria, who claimed to have received his esoteric doctrines from Glaucus, a dis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nebu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nebu
Nebu (Gnostic-Hebrew) The planetary genius of Mercury in the Ophite Gnostic scheme. The Codex Nazaraeus states that Nebu is "a fa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iurbo Adonai: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Iurbo Adonai
Iurbo Adonai (Gnostic) Also Iurbo Adunai. Term for Iao-Jehovah, whom the Gnostic Ophites regarded as an emanation of Ildabaoth, the so...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iurbo Aduna?: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iurbo Aduna?
Iurbo Aduna?. A Gnostic term, or the compound name for Iao Jehovah, whom the Ophites regarded as an emanation of their Ilda-Baoth, the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ophis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ophis
Ophis (Greek) Serpent; used by the Gnostic Ophites for Chnouphis, the Agathodaimon (good serpent), emblem of wisdom and of the unendin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Peratae, Peratai: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Peratae, Peratai
Peratae (Latin) Peratai (Greek) One of the Gnostic bodies or associations, the Naaseni or Ophites, the "Serpent Gnostics," s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Raphael, Repha'el: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Raphael, Repha'el
Raphael repha'el (Hebrew) [from rapha' to knit together, compose by joining, repair and mend, cure, heal + 'el divinity]   The bu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naasenians, Naassenes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Naasenians, Naassenes
Naasenians, Naassenes [from Hebrew nahash serpent]   A Gnostic school of the Ophites [from Greek ophis serpent], which regarded t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hivim, Hiwwiyim: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hivim, Hiwwiyim
Hivim hiwwiyim (Hebrew) (from hawah to live, breathe)   Plural of hivi (hiwwi), which mystically signifies a serpent; likewise on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hiuen-tsang: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hiuen-tsang
Hivim hiwwiyim (Hebrew) (from hawah to live, breathe)   Plural of hivi (hiwwi), which mystically signifies a serpent; likewise on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Betylos, Baetylus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Betylos, Baetylus
Betylos, Baetylus (Latin) (from Greek baitylos meteoric stone)   Also betylus, baetyl, betyles. In Classical antiquity a stone, e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hivim, Chivim: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hivim, Chivim
Hivim or Chivim (Hebrew, Jewish).   Whence the Hivites who, according to some Roman Catholic commentators, descend from Heth, so...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Python: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Python
Python (Greek) The serpent slain by Apollo, who was therefore called Pythius. At one time the world was covered with temples to the su...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Michael, Micha'el: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Michael, Micha'el
Michael micha'el (Hebrew) Who is as God; one of the seven archangels, in the Old Testament one of the chiefs of the heavenly host, reg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Stone, Stones: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Stone, Stones
Stone, Stones There is available numerous testimony as to animated stones, speaking stones, etc. There is the Christ-stone, which foll...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mano: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mano
Mano (Gnost.). The Lord of Light. Rex Lucis, in the Codex Nazareus. He is the Second "Life" of the second or manifested trin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Serpent: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Serpent
Serpent One of the most fundamental and prolific symbols of the mystery-language. Its most basic meaning is of the eternal, alternatin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mano: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mano
Mano (Gnostic) In the Codex Nazaraeus, chief scripture of the Nazarene Gnostics, the chief of the aeons, the King of Splendor, from wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnostic Sects
(Note: It is a matter of controversy if these sects had a real succession of ideas or communion with each other, or if they more or less ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ialdabaoth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ialdabaoth
Ialdabaoth (Gnostic) (from Shem ilda + baoth)   Child from the egg (of Chaos); the spirit of matter, the chief of the lower 'eloh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnostic Sects
(Note: It is a matter of controversy if these sects had a real succession of ideas or communion with each other, or if they more or less ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Garden Of Eden: Encyclopedia Ii - Garden Of Eden - Eden As Paradise
The word "paradise" (PaRDeS, PRDS, hebr.) used as a synonym for the Garden of Eden is a Persian word, which describes a walled orchard ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve: Encyclopedia Ii - Adam And Eve - Cultural Influence
Early Renaissance artists used the theme of Adam and Eve as a way to represent female and male nudes. Later, the nudity was objected to b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Gnostic Esoterica
In the modern era, many Gnostic texts have been uncovered, especially from the Nag Hammadi library. Some texts take the form of an expoun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve: Encyclopedia Ii - Adam And Eve - Interpretation Of Names
Adam—אָדָם in Standard Hebrew, ʾĀḏām in Tiberian Hebrew, آدم (ʾĀdam) in Arabic, አዳም ('Adam) in Geez (Ethiopic), an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serpent Symbolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Serpent Symbolism - Mythology
There was a serpent that was an Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean god of wisdom, who was always, quite naturally, an earth symbol. In Egypt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Sayings Gospels
One or two texts take the form of sets of brief logia—sayings and very short parables—which are not embedded in a connected narrative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Passion Gospels
A number of Gospels are concerned specifically with the Passion (i.e. Jesus' death, and Resurrection): The Gospel of Peter The Gospel of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy - Contemporary Heresy
Today, heresy can be without a religious context as the holding of ideas that are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo in any ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Garden Of Eden: Encyclopedia Ii - Garden Of Eden - Geography
The Book of Genesis contains little information on the garden itself. It was home to both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Acts Of The Apostles
Several texts concern themselves with the subsequent lives of the apostles: Works said to be written by Leucius Charinus (known as the Le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Infancy Gospels
The paucity of information about the childhood of Jesus in the canonical Gospels led to a hunger of early Christians for more detail abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Testament Apocrypha: Encyclopedia Ii - New Testament Apocrypha - Judeo-christian Gospels
The sects within the early church that retained a strong allegiance to Judaism, upholding Jewish law, used a Gospel specific to themselve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Etymology
The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνώσις), referring to the idea that there is special esoteric ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Background And Origins Of Gnosticism
The ultimate foundational elements of gnosticism are pre-Christian. That said, the exact origins of Gnosticism are a subject of dispute a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Satanism - Non-satanic Sects
There are many groups which are commonly misconceived as Satanic. There are two common definitions of a Satanic religion: Any religion t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In The Bible - Selected Ethical Theories Contrasted With The Bible
Ethics in the Bible - Aristotle / Virtue ethics. Aristotle in his ethical works focuses on virtues--i.e. laudible characteristics which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Lifestyle
Most Gnostics practiced celibacy and asceticism, on the grounds that the pleasures of the flesh induced the subject to remain ignorant of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In The Bible - Ethical Issues
Ethics in the Bible - The Divine command theory of ethics. One familiar answer to the question of "Why is x morally right" (or wrong) i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Sources
We have two main historical sources for information on Gnosticism: critiques on Gnosticism by orthodox Christians (i.e. Heresiologies suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy - Etymology
The word "heresy" comes from the Greek αιρεσις, hairesis (from αιρεομαι, haireomai, "choose"), which means either a choice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve: Encyclopedia Ii - Adam And Eve - The Life Of Adam And Eve
Adam and Eve - Adam's creation. Adam is said, in the torah, to have been created from the dust of the earth, and in the Talmud (Tractat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Overview
The occult nature of gnostic teaching (as seen from a modern viewpoint) and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Etymology
The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνώσις), referring to the idea that there is special esoteric ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Background And Origins Of Gnosticism
The ultimate foundational elements of gnosticism are pre-Christian. That said, the exact origins of Gnosticism are a subject of dispute a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Lifestyle
Most Gnostics practiced celibacy and asceticism, on the grounds that the pleasures of the flesh induced the subject to remain ignorant of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Satanism - History
The concept of Satan has evolved over the centuries, as has Satanism. Originally in Judeo-Christian traditions, Satan was seen as a part ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Sources
We have two main historical sources for information on Gnosticism: critiques on Gnosticism by orthodox Christians (i.e. Heresiologies suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Satanism - Satanic Philosophy
LaVey's "9 Satanic Statements", a sort of philosophical outline to defining Satanism, were as follows: Satan represents indulgence inste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Nature And Structure Of Gnosticism
Gnosticism - A typological model: the main features of gnosticism. Though difficulties have arisen in offering a definitive, categorica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Matter
Some Gnostics, again in common with such Neoplatonic philosophers as Plotinus, held matter to be evil, but only as a method of depicting ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Overview
The complex nature of gnostic teaching and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools comprising Gnosticism has tradition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - History
Gnosticism - The development of the Syrian-Egyptian school. Though the notion of a direct inheritance between the schools described abo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Satanism - Types And Approaches Within Satanism
Satanism - Margolinian Satanism. This style of Satanism was created by Rev. Michael S. Margolin when he formed his "Sinagogue of Satan"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - 'gnosticism' As A Potentially Flawed Category
In 1966 in Messina, Italy, a conference was held concerning systems of gnosis. Among its several aim were the need to incept a program to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Matter
Some Gnostics, again in common with such Neoplatonic philosophers as Plotinus, held matter to be evil, but only as a method of depicting ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In The Bible - Ethics In The Bible
Ethics in the Bible - Ethics in the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible. The books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) cover a period of many ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Modern Times
Gnosticism has been treated at length by several modern authors, philosophers and psychologists: William Blake, the nineteenth century R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Theology And Cosmology
Some historians accept that there is a significant amount of Buddhist/Hindu influence in Gnostic interpretations of the Bible. The standa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adam And Eve: Encyclopedia Ii - Adam And Eve - Historicity
The sharp distinction between history and myth is relatively recent. Traditionally, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, from Nennius to Willia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Theology And Cosmology
Some historians accept that there is a significant amount of Buddhist/Hindu influence in Gnostic interpretations of the Bible. The standa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy - Religious Heresy
Heresy - Christianity. The use of the term heresy in the context of Christianity is less common today, with some notable exceptions: se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Sources
Gnosticism - Heresiologists and gnostic detractors. Prior to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 (arguably until its trans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gallus Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gallus Caesar - Gallus As Caesar
After becoming Caesar, Gallus, while traveling from Sirmium to Antioch, visited Julian at Nicomedia (Libanius Or. 18.17, Ammianus Marcell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Etymology And Philosophical Context
Gnosticism - The meaning of 'gnosis'. The word gnosticism is a modern construction, though based on an antiquated linguistic expression...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Modern Times
Gnosticism has been treated at length by several modern authors, philosophers and psychologists: William Blake, the nineteenth century R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Modern Times
Gnosticism - Scholars of gnosticism and those influenced by it. There follows a list of those figures who are known to have undertaken ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Worship: Encyclopedia Ii - Animal Worship - Animal Cults
Animal worship - Bear. The bear enjoys a large measure of respect from all cultures that come in contact with it, which shows itself in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnosticism In Pop Culture
Gnosticism has also seen something of a resurgence in popular culture in recent years. This may be related, certainly, to the sudden avai...   » Read the article

Article - Theosophy Sitemap I - O
This is a sitemap for Theosophy - O . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article