The Monad in early Christian gnostic writings is an adaption of concepts of the Monad Greek philosophy Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems. Overview The term monad comes from the Greek feminine noun monas nominative singular, , one unit, where the ending s in the nominative form resolves to the ending d in declension . ref Francis E. Peters Greek Philosophical Terms A Historical Lexicon 1970 p42 ref In some gnostic systems the Supreme Being is known as the Monad , the One , The Absolute Ai n teleos The Perfect on , lang grc , Bythos Depth or Profundity, lang grc , Proarch Before the Beginning, , and H Arch The Beginning, lang grc and The ineffable parent . The One is the high source of the pleroma , the region of light. The various emanations of The One are called on In Gnosticism on s. According to Theodoret s book on heresies Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium i.18 the Arab Christian Monoimus 150 210 used the term Monad to mean the highest god which created lesser deity gods , or elements similar to on In Gnosticism on s . In some versions of Christian gnosticism, especially those deriving from Valentinius , a lesser deity known as the Demiurge had a role in the creation of the material world in addition to the role of the Monad. In these forms of gnosticism, the God of the Old Testament is often considered to have been the Demiurge, not the Monad, or sometimes different passages are interpreted as referring to each. This Monad is the spirituality spiritual source of everything which emanationism emanates the pleroma , and could be contrasted to the darkness of pure matter . Historical background According to Hippolytus writer Hippolytus , this view was inspired by the Pythagoreans , for whom the first thing that came into existence was referred to as Monad Greek philosophy the Monad , which begat the dyad , which begat the number s, which begat the Point geometry point , begetting line geomet ... more details
was made by the Logos through the instrumentality of the Demiurge. Valentinianism He strives ..., bibleverse John 4 47 is the Demiurge, a petty prince, his kingdom being limited and temporary, the servants are his angels, the son is the man who belongs to the Demiurge. As he finds the ... the creator or Demiurge her watering pot is her good disposition for receiving life from the Saviour ... of the Valentinians and some earlier Gnostic sects that the father of the devil was the Demiurge ... in his system only two beings unknown to orthodox theology, the Demiurge, and apparently a second Son ... of immortality. The psychic or animal belonging to the kingdom of the Demiurge their is naturally ... do not hate Him. Their king, the Demiurge, is represented as not hostile to the Supreme, and though ... more details
Gnosticism For the village in Cambodia see Norea, Cambodia . Inline citations date October 2011 Norea is a figure in Gnosticism Gnostic cosmology. Sometimes she is said to be the Aeon Gnosticism syzygy of Adam and Eve Adam , or wife of Noah , and daughter of Adam and Eve Eve . Norea is perceived within gnostic thought as Sophia wisdom Sophia after her fall from grace. Citation needed date February 2007 For a long time, Norea was known from a summary of a book called Noria in the Panarion Against Heresies of Epiphanius of Salamis 26.1.3 9 . According to Epiphanius, the Borborites identified Norea with Pyrrha , the wife of Deucalion a Greek figure similar to Noah , because nura means fire in Syriac language Syriac . She burned Noah s Ark three times, then revealed the means of recovering stolen sparks through sexual emissions. Elsewhere 39.5.2 Epiphanius says that the Sethianism Sethians consider Horaia to be the wife of Seth . More information has been available since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945. In Hypostasis of the Archons The Hypostasis of the Archons The Reality of the Rulers , Norea is the daughter of Eve and the younger sister of Seth both are members of the pure race. The Archon Gnostic Archons archons Demon demonic rulers of the world decide to destroy the world with a Deluge myth deluge , but their leader, the evil Demiurge Gnosticism Demiurge , warns Noah to build an ark, which Norea tries to board. Noah stops her, so she blows upon the ark and sets it ablaze. The archons try to rape her, but she cries to God for help. The angel Eleleth appears and frightens the archons away before revealing her origins she is a child of God. Another Nag Hammadi text, the Thought of Norea or Ode on Norea is a first person account of Norea s plea to God. On the On the Origin of the World Nag Hammadi Origin of the World refers the reader to an Account of Oraia and the First Book of Noraia , one of which may be the same as the Book of Noria mentioned by Ep ... more details
as created through an intermediary being demiurge rather than directly by God . In most of the systems, this demiurge was seen as imperfect, in others even as evil. Different gnostic schools sometimes identified the demiurge as Adam Kadmon , Ahriman , El deity El , Saklas , Samael , Satan , Choronzon ... God or demiurge , which is an illusion and a later emanation from the single monad or source. This second ... worker false God or God of the masses , used in the Platonist tradition. ref name na demiurge cite web title Demiurge publisher Catholic Encyclopedia url http www.newadvent.org cathen 04707b.htm accessdate 2009 02 12 ref br The gnostic demiurge bears resemblance to figures in Plato s Timaeus ... of the Psyche psychology psyche bears a resemblance to descriptions of the demiurge as being in the shape ... 02 12 ref wherein a text existed describing the demiurge as a lion faced serpent . ref name apocryphon ... Society Library accessdate 2009 02 12 ref br Elsewhere, this figure is called Demiurge Ialdabaoth ... case he is correspondingly malevolent. br The demiurge typically creates a group of co actors named ... align left The demiurge is blind because of his power and his ignorance and his arrogance he said, with his ... bringing about a progressive corruption resulting in the eventual emergence of Ptahil, a demiurge who ... of the demiurge is mitigated his creation of a flawed materiality is not due to any moral failing ..., and he cited the demiurge as creating the material world. Unlike the Gnostics, Cerinthus taught Christians to observe the Jewish law his demiurge was holy, not lowly and he taught the Second Coming. His ... beings such as Jesus Christ , Sophia wisdom Sophia , and the Demiurge usually share the same general ... without her partner, resulting in the production of the Demiurge Greek lit. public builder , ref name newad demi cite web title Demiurge publisher Catholic encyclopedia url http www.newadvent.org cathen ..., referred to as archons. The demiurge is responsible for the creation of mankind, by create he traps ... more details
. Ariel has been called an ancient name for the leontomorphic Gnostic Demiurge Creator God ... over the Earth, giving a strong foundation for Ariel s association with the Demiurge. It is possible that the name itself was even adopted from the Demiurge s Zoroastrian counterpart Ahriman ... more details
Yao or YAO may refer to Two separate, unrelated ethnic groups the Yao people East Africa waYao people of south central Africa Yao people , ethnic group in China and Southeast Asia The name of the demiurge in Gnosticism Gnostic scripture Yao, Chad , a town in Chad Yao language , a Bantu language spoken by the waYao people in Africa Yao languages , or Mien, of China Yao, Osaka , a city in Japan Related Yao Airport Yao ruler , a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor traditional , pinyin y o, leaf Yao surname , the transliteration of Chinese family names , , and Yao , Yo is Japanese s surname Yao , the term for the marks used in the preparation of trigrams and hexagrams in I Ching that is also the basis for Radical 89 Kangxi radical 89 Yao, a character in Mulan media Yao graph , a Glossary of graph theory Subgraphs subgraph that guarantees Connectivity graph theory connectivity Yao, an American English interjection similar in use to yo , which is most popular in the northeastern United States YAO Yaound Airport , IATA code YAO Yunnan Astronomical Observatory , in east suburb of Kunming, Yunnan, China See also Yau disambiguation Yaw disambiguation disambiguation ca Yao de Yao Begriffskl rung eo YAO fr Yao it YAO he nl Yao no Yao nn Yao pl Yao pt Yao ru sh Yao sv Yao tl Yao uk ... more details
Gnosticism The Apocalypse of Adam discovered in 1946 as part of the Nag Hammadi library codex V.5 is a Gnosticism Gnostic work written in Coptic language Coptic . It has no necessary references to Christianity and it is accordingly debated whether it is a Christian Gnostic work or an example of Jew ish Gnosticism. It proclaims one form of Sethian Gnosticism. Adam and Eve Adam in his 700th year tells Seth how he learned a word of knowledge of the eternal God from Eve and that he and Eve were indeed more powerful than their supposed creator. But that knowledge was lost in the fall when the subcreator the demiurge separated Adam and Eve. Adam relates how three mysterious strangers brought about Seth s begetting and so a preservation of this knowledge. Adam then prophecies at length attempts of the subcreator god to destroy mankind, including the prophecy of the great Deluge mythology Deluge and of attempted destruction by fire but an Illuminator will come in the end. When the Illuminator comes, thirteen kingdoms proclaim thirteen different standard but conflicting birth legends about the Illuminator, but only the generation without a king proclaims the truth. Non Gnostic last words of Adam to Seth are found in Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan , the Life of Adam and Eve and the Testament of Adam . Further reading Translation by George W. McRae and Douglas M. Parrott from The Nag Hammadi Library , revised edition. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1990 ISBN 0 06 066935 7 External links http www.gnosis.org naghamm adam.html Gnostic Society Nag Hammadi Library http www.pseudepigrapha.com pseudepigrapha adam.htm Pseudepigrapha http www.meta religion.com World Religions Christianity Other Books Nag Hammadi apocalypse of adam.htm Metareligion http alge.anart.no projects free books apocrypha Apocalypse of Adam.pdf Free Books Apocrypha PDF version Category Sethian texts Category Adam and Eve Category Old Testament Apocrypha Adam, Apocalypse of Category Coptic literature de Apoka ... more details
Gnosticism Original research date October 2008 The Cainites , or Cainians , were a gnosticism Gnostic and Antinomianism Antinomian sect who were known to worship Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge YHWH Jehovah , the deity of the Tanakh or Old Testament , who was identified by many groups of gnostics as evil . They venerated Cain, on the basis that by creating murder Cain allowed men to deny it, and thus have a greater chance at redemption from Original Sin . The sect following was relatively small. They were mentioned by Tertullian and Irenaeus as existing in the eastern Roman Empire during the 2nd century. One of their purported religious texts was the Gospel of Judas . Source texts on the Cainites Irenaeus , On the Detection and Overthrow of the So Called Gnosis Against Heresies 1.31.1 2 Epiphanius of Salamis , Panarion 38 Hippolytus writer Hippolytus , Against Heresies 8 Pseudo Tertullian , Against All Heresies 7 Tertullian , On Baptism 1. Other meanings Cainites is a term used by some adherents of Christian Identity groups to disparage Jew s. Cainites is an alternate transliteration for Kenites . Cainite theology is discussed in the 1919 Hermann Hesse novel, Demian . In popular culture The Cainites are referred to in issue 22 May 1990 of The Sandman Vertigo Sandman , a comic published by DC Comics and written by Neil Gaiman . The description of the sect is inconsistent with this entry s description. In White Wolf, Inc. s Vampire The Masquerade universe also known as the World of Darkness storyline, Cainites is another name for Vampires i.e. those descended from Cain the first vampire . The description of the sect is inconsistent with this entry s description. The book Demian , by Hermann Hesse , extensively draws upon the beliefs of the Cainite sect. The eponymous character Max Demian even convinces the protagonist Emil Sinclair that Christianity had misunderstood Cain s virtue over Abel s. See also Sethians Other sources http www.newadvent.org cathen 0314 ... more details
Italic title for the Max Frisch novel Homo Faber novel Homo faber Latin for Man the Creator in reference to homo sapiens meaning wise man is a philosophical concept articulated by Hannah Arendt and Max Scheler that refers to humans as controlling the environment through tools. Henri Bergson also referred to the concept in The Creative Evolution 1907 , defining intelligence , in its original sense, as the faculty to create artificial objects, in particular tools to make tools, and to indefinitely variate its makings. In Latin literature, Appius Claudius Caecus uses this term in his Sententi , referring to the ability of man to control his destiny and what surrounds him Homo faber suae quisque fortunae Every man is the artifex of his destiny . In anthropology , Homo faber , as the working man , is confronted with Homo ludens , the playing man , who is concerned with amusements, humor, and leisure. Homo faber can be also used in opposition or juxtaposition to Demiurge deus faber God the Creator , an archetype of which are the various Vulcan mythology gods of the forge . Homo Faber novel Homo Faber is the title of an influential novel by the Swiss author Max Frisch , published in 1957. The book was made into the film Voyager film Voyager , starring Sam Shepard and Julie Delpy . Homo Faber was one of the five IB Middle Years Programme IBMYP areas of interaction, before it was replaced with Human Ingenuity . Homo Faber is also the title of a short poem by Frank Bidart that is included in his collection Desire 1997 . See also List of alternative names for the human species External links http www.gradesaver.com classicnotes titles faber Study guide about the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch Category Anthropology Category Philosophical concepts Category Intelligence Category Latin philosophical phrases Category Humans philosophy stub bg Homo faber de Homo faber Anthropologie es Homo faber eo Homo faber fr Homo faber philosophie gl Homo faber ko nl Homo faber pl Homo f ... more details
Refimprove date June 2010 Hylic from Greek lang grc hyl matter is the opposite of psychic from Greek lang grc psych soul . In the gnostic view, hylics , also called Somatics from Gk lang grc s ma body , were the lowest order of the three types of human . The other two were the psychics and the pneumatic Gnosticism pneumatics from Gk lang grc pneuma spirit, breath . So humanity comprised matter bound beings, matter dwelling spirits and the matter free or immaterial, souls. Somatics were deemed completely bound to matter. Matter, the material world, was seen as evil in the gnostic world view. The material world was created by a demiurge , in some instances a blind, mad God, in others an army of rebellious angel s as a trap for the spiritual Simon Magus Myth of Simon and Helen Ennoia . The duty of spiritual man was to escape the material world by the aid of the hidden knowledge gnosis ref cite book last Freke first Timothy title Jesus and the Lost Goddess The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians year 2001 publisher Three Rivers Press isbn 9781400045945 ref . Somatics were human in form, but since their entire focus was on the material world, such as eating, sleeping, mating, creature comforts, they were seen as doomed. The pneumatic saw himself as escaping the doom of the material world via the secret knowledge. Somatics were thought to be incapable of understanding. For consideration of these dynamics see for example, The Gospel of Judas , believed to be a gnostic text, where Jesus is posited as a Pneumatic and the other disciples, non gnostics, as Somatics. References Reflist Category Gnosticism Reli stub ... more details
of the intuitive and or instinctual. The nous in Hellenistic philosophy is the term for the demiurge ... also the activities of the spirit and or demiurge. This strand of thought, in vilifing the Creator the demiurge in Plato s Timaeus dialogue Timaeus and the nous activity including gnosis is shown ... with Hellenistic non Christian philosophy which uses the term demiurge to mean nous as well as Greek ... more details
called the Demiurge comics Demiurge spread his essence over the Earth, at a time when life was starting ... into demons. Worried that they might menace the organic life forms, Gaea summoned Demiurge comics the Demiurge and mated with it, to give birth to her first son, the sun god Atum comics Atum , who ... more details
Wisakedjak W sakedj k in Algonquin language Algonquin , W hsakec hkw in Cree and Wiisagejaak in Oji Cree language Oji cree is the Crane bird Crane Manitou found in northern Algonquian peoples Algonquian mythology , similar to the trickster god Nanabozho in Ojibwa Anishinaabe traditional beliefs Aadizookaan aadizookaanan sacred stories and Iktomi Inktonme in Assiniboine people Assiniboine myth. He is generally portrayed as being responsible for a great flood which destroyed the world originally made by the creator god Creator , as well as the one who created the current world with magic, either on his own or with powers given to him by the Creator for that specific purpose. His name is subject to many variant spellings, including Weesack kachack , Wisagatcak , Wis kay tchach , Wissaketchak , Woesack ootchacht , and undoubtedly others. It was sometimes Anglicisation Anglicized as Whiskey Jack , which became an alternate name for the Gray Jay . In fiction Wisakedjak is a character in the book American Gods by Neil Gaiman , where he is frequently referred to as Whiskey Jack as a corruption of the name. ref http www.frowl.org gods gods.html wis ref The character also appears in Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway and The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint . Elijah Weesageechak Wiisagejaak is a character in the book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden , where he has been nicknamed Whiskeyjack by his fellow company mates as the Anglicized version of his name. Whiskeyjack is a character in Canadian author Steven Erikson s epic fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen . He is the putative leader his rank goes up and down of the Bridgeburners , an elite unit of soldiers in the Malazan Empire. See also Glooscap Nanabozho Demiurge References reflist External links http tigerlily 1.tripod.com creeworld.html A variation of the tale Taken from the book INDIAN LEGENDS OF CANADA by Ella Elizabeth Clark ISBN 0 7710 2121 6 Category Trickster gods Category Anishinaabe mythology Categor ... more details
Plato s Dream 1756 is a short story written in the 18th century by the France French philosopher and satirist Voltaire . Along with Voltaire s 1752 short story Microm gas , Plato s Dream is considered by many to be one of the earliest works in the genre of science fiction . Plato s Dream is a pointed philosophical criticism of religious doctrine, and though it is obscured by two layers of dramatic facade a dream contained within the framework of a famous and religiously tolerated personality of classical antiquity antiquity , Voltaire s intentions are quite clear. His story recounts a little known dream attributed to Plato , in which Demiurge Demiurgos , a god like entity referred to as the eternal geometer , charges a number of lesser superbeings with the task of creating their own worlds. Demogorgon , the being which ultimately creates the planet we know as Earth , is at first quite pleased with his creation, only to find his eminently imperfect handiwork the subject of ridicule by the other beings. However, the last laugh is had at Demiurgos himself, who is humiliated after declaring himself the only being capable of creating perfection as he was obviously the creator of the imperfect lesser superbeings. See also portal Novels Gulliver s Travels Frankenstein The Last Man Utopia Novel Utopia External links http wondersmith.com scifi plato.htm Online text of Plato s Dream gutenberg No 4649 name Romans Volume 3 Micromegas Voltaire Category 1756 short stories Category French short stories Category French science fiction Category Science fiction short stories Category Works by Voltaire ... more details
her partner Aeon, resulting in the Demiurge Greek lang grc , ref Lit. half creator, occasionally ... and the Holy Spirit , to save humanity from the Demiurge. Christ then took the form of the human ... aeons the two main characters forming a syzygy and a demiurge. ref name smrttv http www.smrt tv.com ... the concepts of aeons and the demiurge, amongst other things. ref ref http sfgirl thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com ... more details
in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of the demiurge Yaldabaoth , a serpent with a lion s head . This figure is commonly known as the demiurge , after the figure in Plato s Timaeus ... begin to cohere with the events of Genesis , with the demiurge and his archontic cohorts fulfilling the role of the creator. As in Genesis , the demiurge declares himself to be the only god, and that none ..., and the nature of the creator itself, in a radically different light. The demiurge creates ... regaining the power that the demiurge had stolen. As is evident, the addition of the prologue radically ... more details
of the evil demiurge . Gnostics also referred to the demiurge as the mediator between God whom they considered ... of the demiurge in gnosticism as blind and ignorant of his origin or the monad Gnosticism monad ... that the God of the Old Testament and law was the devil or demiurge. Paul and the early church Section ... which revealed gnosis, which would help humanity escape the evil creation the world of the demiurge ... it was a reference to the teaching that the body is the work of the evil demiurge, and that death would release the divine part of a person from the demiurge s power. Gnostics also took death to be symbolic for the death of the part of a person tied to the demiurge, and the consequential resurrection ... of the demiurge as a trap. Though once again Paul never mentions an ignorant or evil creator or demiurge ... more details
of the Platonic Demiurge from the Theaetetus dialogue Theaetetus and the World Soul a notion from ... , Numenius of Apamea , and Albinus philosopher Albinus . These treatments of the forms and of the Demiurge ... of events which followed the fall of the higher Sophia, and her offspring the Demiurge, the inferier ... of the higher Sophia, and her offspring the Demiurge, the inferior and ignorant maker of the material ... as hypostasis philosophy hypostasis reality, existence , ousia essence, substance, being , and demiurge ... of the goodness of the demiurge and of the material world. He attacked the Gnostics for their vilification ... . Plotinus accused Gnosticism of vilifying the demiurge or craftsman that shaped the material world, and so ultimately for perceiving the material world as evil, or as a prison. Plotinus set forth that the demiurge ... reason. Plotinus was critical of the gnostic derivation of the Demiurge from Wisdom as Sophia wisdom ..., appear to insist on the goodness of the world and the Demiurge. Plotinus indicated that if gnostics ... more details
Cathars by identifying Yahweh as the evil principle itself The Demiurge , lord of shadows, and ruler ... The latter is under the jurisdiction of the Demiurge, an inferior godlet whose realm is the physical planet earth. The Demiurge had created a bestial imitation of humanity in the form of proto human robots ... this entrapment within the Demiurge s cycles. They themselves take the devayana , the Way of the Gods ... name God71 Godwin 1996 71. ref Determined upon a heroic war to reclaim the Demiurge s deteriorating ... instructed the Demiurge s creations the Black, Yellow and Red races native to the planet and began ... of the Demiurge, and through this transgression Paradise was lost. Serrano refers to Genesis ... and the Demiurge and his forces of entropy. ref name God71 But Serrano claims that the Golden ... more details
kabbalistic lore and the Sephirot . It is balanced with the Demiurge and his Archons on one side and Astaroth ... conflicts affect the player characters and the world around them. Disappearance of the Demiurge One of the more central elements of the game is that the Demiurge has disappeared since just before ... to the imagination of interpretive gamemaster game masters regarding reasons for the Demiurge s disappearance ... more details
Architect of the Universe occurs in gnosticism. The Demiurge is The Great Architect of the Universe ... authorlink Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa date 1950 11 17 ref The concept of the Demiurge as a benevolent ... more details
Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image Image ThorAnnual 10.jpg 250px caption Demogorge the God Eater background on the cover of Thor Marvel Comics Thor Annual 10 1982 . br Art by Bob Hall comics Bob Hall . comic color background ff8080 character name Atum real name Atum species publisher Marvel Comics debut Thor Marvel Comics Thor Annual 10 1982 creators Alan Zelenetz alliance color background cccccc alliances God Squad comics God Squad aliases Demogorge the God Eater powers Superhuman strength, senses, stamina and durability br Energy projection br Matter absorption br Flight Atum is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics , based loosely on the Ra of Egyptian mythology . The character first appears in Thor Annual 10 1982 and was created by Alan Zelenetz and Bob Hall comics Bob Hall . Fictional character biography The entity known as the Demiurge comics Demiurge materialises as the Earth is formed, being the physical manifestation of the life that would eventually manifest on the planet. The entity seeds the Earth with fragments of its being, which in turn give rise to the Elder Gods Marvel Comics Elder Gods . This ancient pantheon includes Chthon Marvel Comics Chthon , Set Marvel Comics Set and Gaea comics Gaea the eventual mother of the Thunder God Thor Marvel Comics Thor . Gaea nurtures the delicate forms of life that are slowly emerging on Earth, while the Serpent God Set discovers murder and slaughters one of his brethren, which increases his powers as he consumes them. This sparks a full scale war, and the Elder Gods gradually devolve to match their new found hostilities, becoming Demons Marvel Comics demons as they consume each other. Fearful for the new life that could be destroyed in the demonic war, Gaea summons the Demiurge, who impregnates her with part of its essence. Gaea gives birth to Atum a golden humanoid imbued with the power of the Sun itself that emerges and attacks the Elder Gods. As Atum kills eac ... more details
& 133 and & 133 accounted for it by postulating that Jehovah was a secondary deity, a Demiurge ..., these heretics referred to the Abrahamic God variously as a Demiurge demiurgus , ref ... more details
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