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Abraxas

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Abraxas (Gk. ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ, variant form Abrasax, ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the "Great Archon" (Gk., megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (Gk., ouranoi). [1]

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Abracadabra

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

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Abrahadabra

Abrahadabra is a word that first publicly appeared in The Book of the Law (1904), the central sacred text of Thelema.

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Abraxas (disambiguation)

Abraxas is a deity in the Gnostic faith.

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Agrippa Castor

Agrippa Castor has been identified as "the earliest recorded writer against heresy, and apparently the only one who composed a book solely devoted to the refutation of Basilides".

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Anguiped

The Anguiped is a kind of divinity that is often found on magical amulets from the Greco-Roman period, and is characterized by having serpents for legs.

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Archon

Archon (ἄρχων, árchon, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes) is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office.

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Archon (Gnosticism)

An archon, in the Gnosticism of late antiquity, was any of several servants of the Demiurge, the "creator god" that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis.

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Baphomet

Baphomet (from Medieval Latin Baphometh, Baffometi, Occitan Bafometz) is an idol of a deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions.

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Basilideans

The Basilidians or Basilideans were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century.

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Basilides

Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who taught from 117 to 138 AD, notes that to prove that the heretical sects were "later than the catholic Church," Clement of Alexandria assigns Christ's own teaching to the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius; that of the apostles, of St.

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Brading Roman Villa

Brading Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display in Brading on the Isle of Wight.

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Charmed (season 2)

The second season of Charmed, an American supernatural drama television series, began airing on September 30, 1999, on The WB.

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Christianity and sexual orientation

Christian denominations have a variety of beliefs about sexual orientation, including beliefs about same-sex sexual practices and asexuality.

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Chronos

Chronos (Χρόνος, "time",, also transliterated as Khronos or Latinised as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.

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Demian

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960.

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Demiurge

In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe.

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Dictionnaire Infernal

The Dictionnaire Infernal (Infernal Dictionary) is a book on demonology, describing demons organised in hierarchies.

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Face Off (season 4)

The fourth season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off premiered on January 15, 2013 and ended March 26, 2013.

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Heaven Sent (Scorpion Wind album)

Heaven Sent is a collaboration between Boyd Rice, Douglas P. (of Death in June) and John Murphy (of The Associates), recording under the name Scorpion Wind, released in 1996 on NER.

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Helios

Helios (Ἥλιος Hēlios; Latinized as Helius; Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology.

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Knights Templar Seal

The Grand Masters of the Knights Templar during the later 12th and the 13th century used a double-sided seal which showed a representation of The Dome of the Rock (or a circular dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) on one side, and the Order's symbol of two knights on one horse on the other side.

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Kulturhaus Abraxas

Kulturhaus Abraxas is a cultural institution of the city of Augsburg.

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Lemuria (album)

Lemuria is the eleventh full-length musical album by symphonic metal band Therion.

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List of hybrid creatures in folklore

The following is a list of hybrid entities from the folklore record grouped morphologically based on their constituent species.

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List of Relapse Records artists

The following is a list of bands, past and present, who have had recordings released on the Relapse Records label (this list includes artists on the Release Entertainment subsidiary as well as artists from the now defunct merger w/Nuclear Blast America during the 1990s).

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List of theological demons

This is a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore.

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Lugus

Lugus was a deity of the Celtic pantheon.

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Magical formula

A magical formula is generally a word whose meaning illustrates principles and degrees of understanding that are often difficult to relay using other forms of speech or writing.

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Nevill Drury

Nevill Drury (1 October 1947 – 15 October 2013) was an English-born Australian editor and publisher, as well as the author of over 40 books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, music, and anthropology.

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Nos, Book of the Resurrection

Nos: Book of the Resurrection (translated, from the Spanish Nos: Libro de la Resurrección, in collaboration with the author by Gela Jacobson) is a book by Miguel Serrano.

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Penemue

Penemue (deriv. from Heb. פְּנִימִי, penimi — "the inside") is a watcher in Enochian lore.

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Pluto (mythology)

Pluto (Latin: Plūtō; Πλούτων) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.

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Radio Beat

Radio Beat is a Czech radio station, broadcasting from Prague.

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Runic inscriptions

A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets.

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Seven rays

The seven rays is an occult concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies in both Western culture and in India since at least the sixth century BCE.

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy.

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Thetford Hoard

The Thetford Hoard (also known as the Thetford Treasure) is a hoard of Romano-British metalwork found by Arthur and Greta Brooks at Gallows Hill, near Thetford in Norfolk, England, in November 1979, and now in the British Museum.

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Wally Heider

Wally Heider (1923–1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner (Wally Heider Studios.) After a distinguished career as an engineer in the 1940s and 1950s, he was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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365 (number)

365 (three hundred sixty-five) is the natural number following 364 and preceding 366.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas

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