Yaldabaoth

Proper noun

Meaning

Yaldabaoth

(Gnosticism) The name of the Demiurge or 'False God'. Created when Sophia (one of the lesser aeons) tried to emanate without her counterpart (Christ).

Examples

But Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge, with the material world, will be cast into the lower depths. 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

This Monad is the spiritual source of everything that emanates the pleroma, and could be contrasted to the dark Demiurge (Yaldabaoth) that controls matter. Source: Internet

Yaldabaoth is frequently called "the Lion-faced", leontoeides, with the body of a serpent. Source: Internet

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