Sophia (Gnosticism)
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Sophia is a figure, along with Knowledge, among many of the early Christian knowledge theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikoi, "knowing". Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expand
A mystical depiction of Sophia from Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, Altona, 1785
Helen on the Ramparts of Troy by Frederick Leighton; an incarnation of the Ennoia in the Simonian system
Yaldabaoth
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Yaldabaoth, sometimes spelled Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth, is a malevolent god and demiurge according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. He is identi
Sophia (Gnosticism)
…these longings, matter (Greek: hylē, ὕλη) and soul (Greek: psychē, ψυχή) accidentally come into existence. The creation of the Demiurge, also known as Yaldabaoth, is also a mistake made during this exile. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless…
A depiction of Yaldabaoth as a lion-faced, serpentine deity on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures.
The donkey-headed Set depicted in the Greek Magical Papyri