ogdoad造句

• Beneath the Ogdoad is the Hebdomad presided over by its own archon.
• Rather than an ogdoad, a trinity is affirmed.
• In the system of Valentinus again the names Ogdoad and Hebdomad occur in the same signification.
• The earliest Gnostic systems included a theory of seven heavens and a supercelestial region called the Ogdoad.
• Alex . ( vii . 20 sqq . ), Ogdoad and Hebdomad are merely names of place.
• The Valentinian Secundus divided the Ogdoad into a right-hand and a left-hand Tetrad ( Iren.
• Divine triads, tetrads, and ogdoads in Gnostic thought often are closely related to Neo-Pythagorean arithmology.
• In one place ( p . 238 ) the names Ogdoad and Hebdomad seem to be given to the archons themselves.
• Within the context of the stories, Atum is the son of the entity known as the Ogdoad, the primordial gods of ancient Egypt.
• The first eight of these Aeons, corresponding to generations one through four below, are referred to as the " Ogdoad ."
• The text was found among those included in The Nag Hammadi Library, in Ogdoad, and how the destiny of man is affected by these primeval happenings.
• At the highest point of the Kosmos presides the great archon, ruling over the Ogdoad, or ethereal region, which is described as reaching down to the moon.
• In any case an Ogdoad 7 + 1 would have been inconsistent with a theory an essential part of which was the coupling its characters in pairs, male and female.
• In his cosmogonic depiction of the universe, Ptolemy referred to an extensive system of aeons that emanated from a Ogdoad of the Pleroma based on the prologue of John's gospel.
• Like the other concepts in the Ogdoad, his male form was often depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed human, and his female form as a snake or snake-headed human.
• The energies released by Demogorge gave birth to the next generation of demons ( pantheons of gods that currently populate the Marvel Universe-Atum himself is said to have a connection to some of them, such as the Egyptian Ennead and Ogdoad.
• The text also focuses heavily on Sobek's central role in creation as a manifestation of Ra, as he is said to have risen from the primal waters of Lake Moeris, not unlike the Ogdoad in the traditional creation myth of Hermopolis.
• But was it not just possible that couched in the obscure mix of mathematics, physics and Egyptian mysticism ( " ogdoad parity " refers to four pairs of gods with names like Darkness, Absence and Endlessness ) there lay an important insight?
• In the language of these sects the word hebdomad not only denotes the seven archons, but is also a name of place, denoting the heavenly regions over which the seven archons presided; while Ogdoad denotes the supercelestial regions which lay above their control.
• In the language of these sects the word Hebdomad not only denotes the seven archons, but is also a name of place, denoting the heavenly regions over which the seven archons presided; while " Ogdoad " denotes the supercelestial regions which lay above their control.