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Pistis

Proper noun

Meaning

Pistis

(Greek mythology) A goddess personifying trust, faith and trustworthiness, corresponding to Roman Fides.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Those who translate Pistis by "Faith," are utterly wrong. The word "faith" as grace or something to be believed in through unreasoned or blind faith, is a word that dates only since Christianity. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

At the end of the war, perhaps to allay fears about its loyalty, Locris minted coins depicting a seated Rome being crowned by 'Pistis', a goddess personifying good faith and loyalty, and returned to the Roman fold. Source: Internet

Hipp. Ref. vi. 9. In Pistis Sophia Yaldabaoth has already sunk from his high estate and resides in Chaos, where, with his forty-nine demons, he tortures wicked souls in boiling rivers of pitch, and with other punishments (pp. 257, 382). Source: Internet

Pistis Sophia presents a long dialog with Jesus in the form of his answers to questions from his disciples. Source: Internet

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