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Abraxas (Greek: variant form Abrasax) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, used relative to the "Great Archon" (Greek: megas archon), the princeps of the 365 spheres (Greek: ouranoi).

Gnosticism (Ancient Greek: gnostikos, "having knowledge") is a modern nomenclature for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in the closely intermingled Jewish-Christian sociocultural environment that existed in the first and second century AD. Basilides was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who taught from 117 to 138 AD, and claimed to have inherited his teachings from the Apostle Saint Matthias. Matthias, who died circa 80 AD, according to the Acts of the Apostles, was the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and Judas' subsequent death.




A print from Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (Band 2,2 page 358 ff plaque 144) with different images of Abraxas

The word Abraxas is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also informally entitled the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians (which is a quite distinct work from the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians)and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, which resulted in them becoming known as 'Abraxas stones', and were objects employed as amulets or charms.



Amulets and seals bearing the figure of Abraxas were popular in the 2nd century, and were also displayed in the 13th century in some of the seals of the devout Knights Templar. Despite all the connotations for good Abraxas had by the medieval era been demoted to demon status. I exercise my entitlement to form a completely different opinion, as many leaders, nations and factions in the modern world appear to be exhibiting the same savage behavioural barbarism as if humankind were still in walking that Medieval earth. In this context Abraxas comes across as a thoroughly good person.

As the initial spelling on stones was "Abrasax", the spelling of "Abraxas" seen today which likely originates from the confusion between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration. The seven letters spelling its name may represent each of the seven classic planets. There is a school of research which believes that the word may be related to Abracadabra, although that is perhaps the most romantic among other explanations that exist.

There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides's teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, massively important in the development of mainstream Christian and Jewish faiths, as well as modern magical and esoteric writings. During the past 150 years speculation on the nature of Abraxas has proliferated, with claim and counterclaim that mythology relates to both an Egyptian god and a demon.

973-eht-namuh-973.com’s prominent number and numeric patterns extraction aspect, is also contained in the scholarly descriptive definitions of Abraxas.

Abraxas as an Archon (a Greek word that means one of the nine chief magistrates of ancient Athens, circa1650s, from Greek arkhon "ruler, commander, chief, captain,"). The name occurs in the Refutation of all Heresies (vii. 26) by Hippolytus, who appears in these chapters to have followed the Exegetica of Basilides. After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, Hyppolitis adds that the Basilidians embrace a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several 'stages' of the upper world (diastemata), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that "their great archon" is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year; i.e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek alphabet letters used to spell the Latin alphabet version ABRASAX according to the rules of isopsephy (The practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number) is 365.

An archon, in the Gnosticism of late antiquity, described any one of several servants of the Demiurge, the "creator god" that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis (knowledge and learning). An ideology which I have to say has appealed to me in later years, learning to that leads to doing good aamong humankind.

Abraxas as a god: Epiphanius bishop of Salamis, who appears to partially follow Irenaeus, partly the lost Compendium of Hippolytus, affords Abraxas greater distinction as "the power above all, and First Principle," "the cause and first archetype" of all things; and mentions that the Basilidians referred to 365 as the number of parts (mele) in the human body, as well as of days in the year.

Abraxas as an Aeon: Aeon a power existing from eternity; an emanation or phase of the supreme deity. Here there is a lack of clarity. The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, for instance, refers to Abrasax as an Aeon dwelling with Sophia and other Aeons of the Pleroma (totality of divine powers) in the light of the Gnostic angel luminary Eleleth. In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries (Spiritual Lights) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues. As such, the role of Aeons of Eleleth, including Abraxas, Sophia, and others, relates to this outer border of the Pleroma which directly faces the ignorance of the world of Lack and with which the Aeons interact to rectify the error of ignorance in this world of materialism.

Abraxas as a demon: The Catholic church later decoupled and deemed Abraxas a pagan god, ultimately branding him a demon. Abraxas is documented as such in J. Collin de Plancy's Infernal Dictionary. Abraxas (or Abracax) is labeled the "supreme God" of the Basilidians, whom he describes as "heretics of the second century." He further indicated the Basilidians attributed Abraxas with the power to rule over "365 skies" and "365 virtues". In a final condemnation of Basilidians, de Plancy states without substantiating evidence that their view was that Jesus Christ was merely a "benevolent ghost sent down to Earth by Abracax. Today a broadening school of thought actively encourages the intertwining of ancient natural world paganism with longstanding monotheistic religions rapidly losing their faithful, as a more practical blend of 'do good' doctrine. This intertwining between pagan and monotheistic religious beliefs was seen as perfect balance in the second century, perfect and sensible enough for the value of 365 to cascade down the centuries.




Abraxas. Egyptian-Roman amulet, 100-400



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