Abraxas
Shape : a fat-bellied character with the head of a king, a dragon's tail, and serpents instead of legs. He also carries a whip in his hand. He is often featured with the head of a cock.
Rank : the ruler of all the 365 heavens (Basilides of Egypt)
Origin : Gnostic. Express the unspeakable name of the Supreme Being and to symbolize its solar power.
Magic : The seven letters of his name signify the seven creative powers, or the seven planetary angels, recognized by the ancients. In numerology, the value of the letters in Abraxas adds up to three hundred and sixty-five, the number of days (365) and powers of the year, and the three hundred and sixty-five spirits occupying the heavens. The name Abraxas seems also to have been the origin of the word 'abracadabra,' a magic spell said to be of very great power.
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"Abraxas is the god whom it is difficult to know. His power is the very greatest, because man does not perceive it. Man sees the summum bonuum (supreme good) of the sun, and also the infinum malum (endless evil) of the devil, but Abraxas he does not see, for he is indefinable life itself, which is the mother of good and evil alike.
[Abraxas] is truly the terrible one... the sun and also the eternally gaping abyss of emptiness...magnificent even as the lion at the very moment when he strikes his prey down. His beauty is like the beauty of a spring morn... He is the monster of the underworld... He is the bright light of day and the deepest night of madness... He is the mightiest manifest being, and in him creation becomes frightened of itself..."
(Carl Jung, quoted in Stuart Holroyd's The Elements of Gnosticism, p.114, pub. 1994)
A rumor's not a rumor that doesn't die...
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Beware of Abraxas..it could be you best friend
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