But what of the name's origin? It is likely, as an etymologist posited in 1891, that Abraxas belongs "to no known pronunciation" but fairly some "mystic jargon," possibly spoils its origin "from some understood divine sense." Yet scholars, of course, investigate for a source. State are speculatory shreds of mark out which suggest that Abraxas is a combination of two Egyptian words, abrak and sax, meaning "the totally and hallowed word" or "the word is obliging." Abrak is "found in the Bible as a greeting to Joseph by the Egyptians upon his accession to mess power." Abraxas appears in "an Egyptian prayer to the Godhead, meaning injure me not.'" Older scholars suggest a Hebrew origin of the word, positing "a Grecized form of ha-berakhah, 'the blessing,'" at the same time as endlessly others conclusion a ransack from the Greek habros and sac, "the pleasant, the high-ranking Rescuer." The name has appeared in the ancient Hebrew/Aramaic mystical treatises The Get of Raziel and The Sword of Moses, and in post-Talmudic Jewish incantation texts,[10] as well as in Persian mythology.[11]
An interesting place of Abraxas is found in a papyrus from deferred antiquity (possibly from Hellenized Egypt, even though its undistorted origin is unspecified). The papyrus contains "magical recipes, invocations, and incantations," and tells of a baboon disembarking the Sun make and proclaiming: "Thou art the originate of the year ABRAXAS." This request causes God to chortle seven era, and with the crest chortle the "stateliness [of light] shone among the whole window."[12]
The Basilideans, a Gnostic cabal founded in the 2nd century CE by Basilides of Alexandria, worshipped Abraxas as the "incomparable and prehistoric designer" deity, "with all the unbounded emanations."[13] The god Abraxas unites the opposites, through good and evil,[14] the one and the oodles.[15] He is "symbolized as a thorny creature, with the form of a worldly qualities and the head of a pullet, and with each of his legs packed in a serpent."[16] His name is actually a arithmetic formula: in Greek, the lettering add up to 365, the days of the year[17] and the originate of eons[18] (cycles of setting up).
"That a name so sacredly wary, so strong in its influence, necessary be preserved by mystic societies among the oodles ages... is big,"[19] action Moses W. Redding, a scholar of secret societies. Redding suggests that just in Freemasonry has this "Divine Rumor" been "alleged in due respect."[21]
Annemarie Schimmel, The Magical of Crowd (1993)
Gene Wolfe, Pursue and Batter (1994)
Carl Jung, the third words of the Seven Sermons to the Unfeeling (1917)
Anna Franklin, Midsummer: Magical Partying of the Summer Solstice (2002)
Harnaek, Ueber dal gnostische Buch Pistil-Sophia, quoted in Philip Schaff, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Priestly Culture, Vol. I
Philip Schaff, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Priestly Culture, Vol. I
Moses W. Redding, The Illustrated Records of Freemasonry (2004)
Philip Schaff, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Priestly Culture, Vol. I
Ibid.
[10] Moshe Idel, Jewish Fascination and Superstition: A Examination in Folk Spirituality (2004)
[11] Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God (2003)
[12] Marie-Louise Von Franz, Age group Tradition (1972)
[13] Zecharia Sitchin, The Immeasurable Mishmash (1998)
[14] Gustave Flaubert, The Charm of Saint Anthony (1874), translated by Lafcadio Hearn
[15] Tracy R. Twyman, The Merovingian Mythos and the Magical of Rennes-le-Chateau (2004)
[16] Marc Ian Barasch, Curative Thoughts (2001)
[17] Male Palmer Group, The Unsigned Wisdom of All Ages (1928)
[18] John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (2003)
[19] Carl Lindahl, Medieval Folklore: A Direct to Tradition, Legends, Tales, Coaching, and Background (2002)
[20] The Illustrated Records of Freemasonry (2004)
[21] Ibid.
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