Now, among the last of the angels, those who made this world, he places the God of the Jews latest, that is, the God of the Law and of the Prophets, whom he denies to be a God, but affirms to be an angel. He affirms that there is a supreme Deity, by name Abraxas, by whom was created Mind, which in Greek he calls Nous that thence sprang the Word that of Him issued Providence, Virtue, and Wisdom that out of these subsequently were made Principalities, powers, and Angels that there ensued infinite issues and processions of angels that by these angels 365 heavens were formed, and the world, in honour of Abraxas, whose name, if computed, has in itself this number. Of Abraxas or even the.Īfterwards broke out the heretic Basilides. The sigil for the qliphotic Genii associated with Tzaddi shows the face of a man a king or even an alien being as this also has. Basilides also claims that it was Simon, not Christ, who was crucified.ĭark fiction for dark times. It was Abraxas, not this Jewish God, who sent Christ in ghost form, not as a flesh and blood human. One of these angels, who created this world, became known as the God of the Jews however, Basilides considers him to be an angel, not a God. Out of these, Abraxas is said to have created the Principalities, Powers and Angels, and the 365 heavens. His name is found on gems and amulets, and is associated with the word “abracadabra.” Tertullian’s Description of AbraxasĪccording to the Appendix of Tertullian’s De praescriptione haereticorum (On the prescription of heretics), the second-century heretic Basilides claimed that Abraxas is the supreme Deity who created Mind (Greek: Nous), Word, Providence, Virtue and Wisdom. According to Gustav Davidson (1994), Abraxas is considered the Supreme Unknown in gnostic theogony and the source of 365 emanations in Persian mythology.
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