abraxas


The term used by Basilideans in the second century,for the Supreme God . They believed that Jesus Christ had emerged from the Abraxas phantom while he was on Earth. They believe that the name contained great mysteries, because it contains the seven Greek letters when calculated numerically equal to the number 365 the number of days in the year. It was also believed that Abraxas command 365 gods for every virtue, and thus a virtue for each day of the year.

However, the elderly mythologists place Abraxas among the gods of Egypt, while some demonologists to be invoked the head of a cock (Phoebus) or of a lion (Ra or Mithras), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents. The mystic word abracadabra is derived from the name. Many of the stones and pieces of precious stones was volatile with his symbolic signs, such as the existence of the human body, birds-Assad, and snakes as limbs, which were worn as amulets by Basilideans. Also, the veil is a favorite number 365.

Knowledge later in the codes and adopted in many societies devoted to the magic of chemistry. It is likely, therefore, that most abraxas stones kabbalistic symbols in the Middle Ages was Talismans

الجمعة، 26 يونيو 2009

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