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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Though he is termed the "Primitive Man", Ennoia, who is like the Egyptian Pymander, the "Power of the Thought Divine", the first intelligible manifestation of the Divine Spirit in material form, he is like the "Only-Begotten" Son of the "Unknown Father", of all other nations. He is the emblem of the first appearance of the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"The Gnostic Ophites taught the doctrine of Emanations, so hateful to the defenders of the unity in the trinity, and vice versa. The Unknown Deity with them had no name; but his first female emanation was called Bythos or Depth. It answered to the Shekinah of the kabalists, the "Veil" which conceals the "Wisdom" in [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"If, leaving for the present the prominent founders of Christian sects, we now turn to that of the Ophites, which assumed a definite form about the time of Marcion and the Basilideans, we may find in it the reason for the heresies of all others. Like all other Gnostics, they rejected the Mosaic Bible entirely. [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness, (humanity, kindness), and softened." (CICERO: de Legibus, ii., 14) "Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the sun. Soma, a Life Ocean spread through All, thou fillest creative the Sun with beams." (Rig-Veda, [...]