Mystery Babylon

Gnosis

• fuse paganism with Christianity
  • Cathars
• Abraxas
  • human body clothed in Roman soldier's garb wielding a battle-ax
    • man
    • tunic
      • need for struggle
    • arms protection and power given by the dedication to the Gnosis
    • club or whip
      • power
  • left hand carried elliptical shield
    • IAO
    • SABOATH
      
    • wisdom
  • head is cock with open beak
    • rising of the morning sun
      • cock crows at sunrise
    • intelligence
  • twin serpents as leg
    • nous
      • insight
      • logos
        • primordial knowing
  • 365
• the all-power
  • invisible
  • pantheism
  • can be contacted by mankind
  • Apotheosis
    • he himself is god
• two principles
  • good
  • evil
• Ophite Branch
  • glorify serpent
• Basilides
  • Jesus did not die on the cross
• Cainites
  • the destroyers
    • destroy all that belongs to the world
      • matter and material things inferior
• Valentinus
  • matter
    • more evil than good
    • all matter will eventually be destroyed by fire
  • man must be purified by mental concentration
  • after death man will rejoin that from which he has been severed
    • will be unified with those whom he loves
      • in the Great Intelligence
• Mandaeans
  • Iraq
  • initiation
  • ecstasy
  • rituals similar to Freemasons
• Freemasonic G
  • exoterically God
  • esoterically Gnosticism
  • square
    • silence
    • profundity
    • intelligence
    • truth