Abraxas

Great Archon of The

365 Spheres

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Abraxas

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas

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Abraxas (Biblical Greek: ἀβραξάς, romanized: abraxas, variant form ἀβρασάξ romanized: abrasax) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the "Great Archon" (megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (ouranoi). The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

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It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. As the initial spelling on stones was Abrasax (Αβρασαξ), the spelling of Abraxas seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and xi (Ξ) in the Latin transliteration.

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The seven letters spelling its name may represent each of the seven classic planets. The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist. There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides's teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings. Speculations have proliferated on Abraxas in recent centuries, who has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus (Fab. 183) gives Abrax Aslo Therbeeo as names of horses of the sun mentioned by 'Homerus'.[citation needed]. The passage is miserably corrupt: but it may not be accidental that the first three syllables make Abraxas. The proper form of the name is evidently Abrasax, as with the Greek writers, Hippolytus, Epiphanius, Didymus (De Trin. iii. 42), and Theodoret; also Augustine and Praedestinatus.

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The attempts to discover a derivation for the name, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, or other, have not been entirely successful:

Egyptian

Claudius Salmasius (1588-1653) thought it Egyptian, but never gave the proofs which he promised.[citation needed]
J. J. Bellermann thinks it is a compound of the Egyptian words abrak and sax, meaning "the honorable and hallowed word", or "the word is adorable".[citation needed]
Samuel Sharpe finds in it an Egyptian invocation to the Godhead, meaning "hurt me not".[citation needed]

Hebrew

Abraham Geiger sees in it a Grecized form of ha-berakhah, "the blessing", a meaning which Charles William King declares philologically untenable.[citation needed]
J. B. Passerius derives it from abh, "father", bara, "to create", and a- negative—"the uncreated Father".[citation needed]
Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is "O [God], with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy [people]", forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd (pronounced Abrakad), with the meaning "the host of the winged ones", i.e., angels. While this theory can explain the mystic word Abracadabra, the association of this phrase with Abrasax is uncertain.[citation needed]

Greek

Wendelin discovers a compound of the initial letters, amounting to 365 in numerical value, of four Hebrew and three Greek words, all written with Greek characters: ab, ben, rouach, hakadōs; sōtēria apo xylou ("Father, Son, Spirit, holy; salvation from the cross").[citation needed]
According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre's, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, "saving mankind by the holy cross".[citation needed]
Isaac de Beausobre derives Abraxas from the Greek habros and saō, "the beautiful, the glorious Savior".[citation needed]

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As an Archon

In the system described by Irenaeus, "the Unbegotten Father" is the progenitor of Nous, and Nous produced Logos, Logos produced Phronesis, Phronesis produced Sophia and Dynamis, Sophia and Dynamis produced principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create "the first heaven". They in turn originate a second series, who create a second heaven.

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The process continues in like manner until 365 heavens are in existence, the angels of the last or visible heaven being the authors of our world. "The ruler" [principem, i.e., probably ton archonta] of the 365 heavens "is Abraxas, and for this reason he contains within himself 365 numbers".

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As an Aeon

With the availability of primary sources, such as those in the Nag Hammadi library, the identity of Abrasax remains unclear. 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 in the light of the luminary Eleleth.

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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.

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As such, the role of Aeons of Eleleth, including Abraxas, Sophia, and others, pertains to this outer border of the Pleroma that encounters the ignorance of the world of Lack and interacts to rectify the error of ignorance in the world of materiality.

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As a Demon

The Catholic church later deemed Abraxas a pagan god, and ultimately branded him a demon as documented 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 to Abraxas the rule over "365 skies" and "365 virtues". In a final statement on Basilidians, de Plancy states that their view was that Jesus Christ was merely a "benevolent ghost sent on Earth by Abraxas"

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Magical Papyri

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.

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The magic papyri reflect the same ideas as the Abrasax-gems and often bear Hebraic names of God. The following example is illustrative: "I conjure you by Iaō Sabaoth Adonai Abrasax, and by the great god, Iaeō". The patriarchs are sometimes addressed as deities; for which fact many instances may be adduced.

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In the group "Iakoubia, Iaōsabaōth Adōnai Abrasax", the first name seems to be composed of Jacob and Ya. Similarly, entities considered angels in Judaism are invoked as gods alongside Abrasax: thus "I conjure you ... by the god Michaēl, by the god Souriēl, by the god Gabriēl, by the god Raphaēl, by the god Abrasax Ablathanalba Akrammachari ...".

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In text PGM V. 96-172, Abrasax is identified as part of the "true name which has been transmitted to the prophets of Israel" of the "Headless One, who created heaven and earth, who created night and day ... Osoronnophris whom none has ever seen ... awesome and invisible god with an empty spirit"; the name also includes Iaō and Adōnai.

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"Osoronnophris" represents Egyptian Wsir Wn-nfr, "Osiris the Perfect Being". Another identification with Osiris is made in PGM VII. 643-51: "you are not wine, but the guts of Osiris, the guts of ... Ablanathanalba Akrammachamarei Eee, who has been stationed over necessity, Iakoub Ia Iaō Sabaōth Adōnai Abrasax."[18] PGM VIII. 1-63, on the other hand, identifies Abrasax as a name of "Hermes" (i.e. Thoth).

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Here the numerological properties of the name are invoked, with its seven letters corresponding to the seven planets and its isopsephic value of 365 corresponding to the days of the year. Thoth is also identified with Abrasax in PGM LXXIX. 1-7: "I am the soul of darkness, Abrasax, the eternal one, Michaēl, but my true name is Thōouth, Thōouth."

Therion - Abraxas (video nicely put together recommended)

Lyrics

Eros and Thanatos are branches on the same old tree

Rooted in the soil of shadow and light

If God was separated from the dark twin, the Devil

Could he ever know the soul of mankind?

We want a new god called Abraxas!

Enter the Pleroma and see that nothingness is all

And you must destroy a world to be born

Alpha and Omega are the beginning and the end

United in the shape of Abraxas

Darkness and the light

Sermones ad Mortous, empty fullness

Abraxas, your words is a riddle to be solved

You bear the mark of Cain

And you are fighting like a bird

(To) free you from the egg, the egg is all the world

The Sermon to the Dead

A gospel to another life

Hear the words of Cain, the sinner and the saint

The grave is a flower

And you are dying to be born

Baptized by fire and you will slough your skin

The sign of Abraxas

The circle of the solar year

Deep in the winter you'll see the sun be born.

Absu - Abraxas Connexus

Lyrics

Vitriol = Abraxas = Xnoubis = Meithras

Visita = Sun = Heart = Gold

Interiora = Moon = Brow = Silver

Terrae = Mercury = Crown = Mercury

Rectificando = Jupiter = Navel = Tin

Invenies = Mars = Sacral = Iron

Occultum = Venus = Throat = Copper

Lapidem = Saturn = Base = Lead

By the sevenfold process, V.I.T.R.I.O.L reigns

No one can distress its southern point

By the evidence, nature delivered two

No one can disrupt their dual symmetry

Stare towards the heart – stare at the stone

Your eye unveiled – your nucleus

Writhe on the mace – skim on the throne

Your vessel sealed – your inmost light

They are mercurial, active, both close at hand

It is balance of the hidden stone

One must never know more than the other

It is of knowledge: Prima Materia

Saturn follows lead – Abraxas of draught

Eye of Asaru

Seventh is the root – Vitriolistic base

The triad and the position of Stone

Saturn follows lead – Abraxas of draught

Seed of Asaru

Seventh is the root – Vitriolistic base

The formulary of Tria Prima

Heart of bullion – the golden sun

The silver moon with distinct brow

Crown of the crown – thee – Mercury

Jupiter’s tin knifed in navel

Ironed by the rouge, sacral Mars

Throat of Venus glazed with copper

Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth; Coptic: ⲒⲀⲖⲦⲀⲂⲀⲰⲐ, Latin: Ialdabaoth), is a malevolent God and creator of the material world in various Gnostic sects and movements, sometimes represented as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. He is identified as the Demiurge and false god who keeps the souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the material universe.

Pictures Videos Music and Additional Reading

Abraxas from Infernal Dictionary, 6th Edition, 1863, with descriptions of Abraxas as having a "rooster's head, dragon's feet and a whip in his hand", and a "king's head and snakes in lieu of feet"

Enigma - Abraxas (Music)

Abraxas

Source: https://www.gnosticwarrior.com/abraxas.html

The God Abraxas (Abrasax, Abraxis and Latin-Afipacrdl) comes to us from ancient Egypt and Greece. He is associated with the early beginnings of Gnosticism which would later influence many of the first Gnostics who had gone on to form the various Abrahamic religions such as Judaism and Christianity. The meaning of Abraxas in the languages of Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Old Irish/Celtic can be found in the secrets of occult numerology.

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The first form of the word comes to us from the second century with the words Abrac, or Abracar; a name which Basilides, an early Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt had given to God, who he said was the author of three hundred and sixty-five.

In the system of Basilides, being there applied to the “Great Archon” who rules the 365 spheres; the 7 letters spelling Abraxas, and 7 stars often found on Gnostic gems represent each of the 7 classic planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

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Sir Godfrey Higgins, in his book the Celtic Druids, had said that the word may have come from the Druids, and he had also shown that the numerical equivalent of the spelling of the name Abraxas has seven letters that equal to three hundred and sixty-five in both the Greek and Hebrew (Phoenician) language.

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Higgins had said the word “Abracadabra” is a later corruption of the sacred Gnostic term “Abrasax”, the latter itself being a still earlier corruption of a sacred and ancient Coptic or Egyptian word: a magic formula which meant in its symbolism “Hurt me not”, and addressed the deity in its hieroglyphics as “Father.” It was generally attached to an amulet or charm and worn as a Tat (q.v.), on the breast under the garments.

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The original letters of Abraxas are a Greek name, spelled ABΣPΞ that add up to 365:

A = 1, B = 2, Σ = 200, P = 100, Ξ = 60 = 365

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The early Fathers of the Catholic Church such as Irenaeus and Epiphanius had said that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ‘Abraxas;’ and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ‘Abraxas,’ and according to Jerome (c.347–September 30, 420) who is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin, ‘Abraxas’ meant for Basilides “the greatest God” (De vir. ill. 21), “the highest God” (Dial. adv. Lucif. 23), “the Almighty God” (Comm. in Amos iii. 9), and “the Lord the Creator” (Comm. in Nah. i. 11).

C. W. King, in his Gnostics and Their Remains, says the word Abraxas is similar to the Hebrew Shemhamphorasch, a holy word, the extended name of God. In describing Abraxas, King had written:

“Bellermann considers the composite image, inscribed with the actual name Abraxas, to be a Gnostic Pantheos, representing the Supreme Being, with the Five Emanations marked out by appropriate symbols.”

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From the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, spring the two supporters, Nous and Logos, expressed in the serpents, symbols of the inner senses, and the quickening understanding; on which account the Greeks had made the serpent the attribute of Pallas. His head–that of a cock–represents Phronesis, that bird being the emblem of foresight and of vigilance. His two arms hold the symbols of Sophia and Dynamis: the shield of Wisdom and the whip of Power.”

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Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist and Modern Gnostic had written extensively on Abraxas. In his 1916 book called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, Jung called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil that combines all opposites into one Being. He said that Abraxas was a polymorphous world spirit which permeates — or even encompass — the very fabric of existence:

“[Abraxas] is… a thousand-armed ployp, coiled knot of winged serpents… the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning… the lord of toads and frogs, which live in the water… abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.”

(Carl Jung, quoted in The Gnostic Jung, Ed. Robert Segal, pp. 187-88, pub. 1992).

In the sixth creation we learn from the Targura of Palestine that Adam, as the Adamic man, was created in the image of the Lord, his maker, with 365 nerves. According to the Talmud, the human body is composed of 248 organs and 365 sinews (a total of 613 parts). In Hebrew, this translates to the 248 spiritual organs and 365 spiritual sinews (under which vague term are included, as stated above, arteries, nerves, etc.), corresponding to the 365 negative laws, and representing the 365 days of the year.

Gorath - Abraxas

Lyrics

"U aei eis aei ei

O ei ei os ei

Who exists as son

For ever and ever

U aei eis aei ei

O ei ei os ei

You are what you are,

You are who you are."

"The bird fights its way out of the egg.

The egg is the world.

Who would be born first.

Must destroy a world.

The bird flies to God.

That God's name is Abraxas"

Abraxas, the Archon.

Source of the three hundred and sixty five.

Emanations of the supreme being.

In him creation becomes frightened of itself.

Abraxas, you are the sun yet also.

The eternally gaping abyss of emptiness.

You are the bright light of day.

And the deepest night of madness.

Abraxas, you dwell in the light of the luminary Eleleth.

The last of the spiritual lights.

Counter the ignorance of the lowest heaven!

Mankind, by birth blinded by stupidity.

Can see the supreme good of the sun.

Perhaps even the endless evil of the devil.

But not Abraxas, the mother of both.

To behold summum bonuum, infinum malum.

But never, never indefinable life itself.

This is why his powers are the greatest;

Man does simply not perceive them.

"A thousand-armed ployp

Coiled knot of winged serpents

The hermaphrodite

Of the earliest beginning

The lord of toads and frogs,

Which live in the water

Abundance that seeketh

Union with emptiness."

Abraxas, by thou mind was created.

Then sprang the word.

You issued providence,

Virtue and wisdom

Abraxas, out of these you crafted.

Principalities and powers.

And three hundred sixty-five angels.

The number corresponding to your name.

Christ, the seed of Abraham sent by Abraxas.

Came in a phantasm and not in the flesh.

He did not suffer on the cross as a martyr.

For salvation has not been promised to bodies.

To behold summum bonuum, infinum malum.

But never, never indefinable life itself.

This is why his powers are the greatest;

Man does simply not perceive them.

Nestor Avalos. A gate to our Spiritual Chaos

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ABRAXAS By BANTHA MUSICA

Source: https://banthamusica.bandcamp.com/track/abraxas

Abraxas Great Archon of The 365 Spheres sigil