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Ophite or Ophitic may refer to:
Ophites, an ancient Gnostic sect in Syria and Egypt
Ophite or verd antique, a type of serpentinite building stone
Ophitic dialect, a variant of Pontic Greek
Ophitic, a type of poikilitic texture in igneous rocks
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The Ophites, also called Ophians (Greek Ὀφιανοί Ophianoi, from ὄφις ophis "snake"), were a Christian Gnostic sect depicted by Hippolytus of Rome (170–235)...
up ophite or ophitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ophite or Ophitic may refer to: Ophites, an ancient Gnostic sect in Syria and Egypt Ophite or...
The Ophite Diagrams are ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite sect of Gnosticism, who revered the serpent from the Garden of Eden as a symbol...
Our Lady of Endor Coven, also known as Ophite Cultus Sathanas, was an American Satanic cult founded by Herbert Arthur Sloane (born September 3, 1905, died...
identified Leviathan with the demon of the deadly sin envy. According to Ophite diagrams, the Leviathan encapsulates the space of the material world. The...
Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-474-2670-7. "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Basilides"...
group called the Ophite Cultus Satanas, which was created in Ohio in 1948. The Ophite Cultus Satanas was inspired by the ancient Ophite sect of Gnosticism...
to Hippolytus, the Naassenes (from Hebrew nachash, snake) were a Gnostic Ophite sect. Hippolytus condemns the group as in error, and offers a fragment of...
spiritual world, as the true, good God. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, Yaldabaoth (Yahweh) is regarded as the malevolent Demiurge and...
doctrine that the world was made by angels. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, which have many affinities with the doctrine of Valentinus, the...
Gospel of John) Naassene Fragment mentioned in Hippolytus (Ref. 5.7.2–9). Ophite Diagrams mentioned in Celsus and Origen Ptolemy's Commentary on the Gospel...
spiritual world, as the true, good God. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, Yaldabaoth (Yahweh) is regarded as the malevolent Demiurge and...
understood. The Sethians (Latin Sethoitae) are first mentioned, alongside the Ophites, in the 2nd century, by Irenaeus (who was antagonistic towards gnosticism)...
the prayers which the soul shall recite, according to the diagram of the Ophite-worshippers, when they on their return to God are stopped by the Archons...
antico, "ancient green"), also called verde antique, marmor thessalicum, or Ophite, is a serpentinite breccia popular since ancient times as a decorative facing...
of the demiurge. According to Origen's Contra Celsum, a sect called the Ophites posited the existence of seven archons, beginning with Iadabaoth or Ialdabaoth...
aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg 9: 1-19 + Plates I-II. (Ophites ruhstrati, new species, pp. 16–18 + Plate II, figures 6a, 6b, 6d). (in...
serpent, instead of being identified with Satan, is seen as a hero by the Ophites. Still other Gnostics believed that Satan's fall, however, came after the...
the Ophite heresies. The auothor in particular identifies the Naassenes, the Peratae, the Sethians, and the beliefs of a heretic, Justinus. The Ophite error...
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