• The Sethians (Greek: Σηθιανοί) were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century AD, along with Valentinianism and Basilideanism...
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    American visual and musical artist, author and the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM), which she founded in 2002. Zeena was raised...
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    James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Group [1] at the United States...
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    Tapio Wilska (redirect from Sethian (band))
    (born 19 September 1969) is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll and is the current...
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  • In Sethian Gnosticism, a luminary is an angel-like being (or heavenly dwelling place in the Apocryphon of John). Four luminaries are typically listed...
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  • argues that many neoplatonic concepts and ideas are ultimately derived from Sethian Gnosticism during the third century in Lower Egypt, and that Plotinus himself...
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    Tama drums, Paiste cymbals and Pro-Mark sticks. He was in a side-project, Sethian, which is now completely dormant because of band members being busy with...
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    Later Sethian texts continue to interact with Platonism. Sethian texts such as Zostrianos and Allogenes draw on the imagery of older Sethian texts, but...
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    gospel itself is 3rd century. Documents with a Sethian influence (like the Gospel of Judas, or outright Sethian like Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians) can be...
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  • In Sethian Gnosticism, Astaphaios is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Yao...
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    Sethi Mohallah (Urdu: سیٹھی محلہ), sometimes called Sethian Mohallah, is an old and traditionally arranged neighbourhood in the old city of Peshawar,...
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    Abel and his (one) sister. In the Apocryphon of John, a work belonging to Sethian Gnosticism, Abel is the offspring of Yaldaboath and Eve, who is placed...
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  • graduated with a Ph.D. in August 2010. His doctoral thesis, The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic background of Plotinus' mysticism, was supervised by Michael Sells...
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    In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, not knot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop...
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    by connecting with the World of Light and for forgiveness of sins. The Sethian baptismal rite is known as the Five Seals, in which the initiate is immersed...
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  • Thought of Norea (category Sethian texts)
    The Thought of Norea is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the second of three treatises in Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi library texts, taking up pages 27–29...
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    The fast marching method is a numerical method created by James Sethian for solving boundary value problems of the Eikonal equation: | ∇ u ( x ) | = 1...
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  • Hypostasis of the Archons (category Sethian texts)
    based around knowledge. Sethian Gnostics considered themselves the descendants of Seth, one of the sons of Adam and Eve. Sethian religious texts depict...
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    Gnostic disposition.: 123  The sect is named after its leader Elkesai. The Sethians were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century...
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    scriptures, states that Shem was the first being on Earth. Unlike traditional Sethian literature, Seth is not seen as the father of the followers of Gnosticism...
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  • In Sethian Gnosticism, Kalyptos ("the Hidden One") is one of the three emanations of Barbelo (along with Protophanes and Autogenes according to Zostrianos)...
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  • Gnosticism Manichaeism Paulicianism Priscillianism Naassenes Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism Iconoclasm Luciferianism Macedonianism Marcionism Melchisedechians...
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  • Trimorphic Protennoia (category Sethian texts)
    Trimorphic Protennoia or Three Forms of First Thought is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The only surviving copy comes from the...
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  • Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, which have many affinities with the doctrine of Valentinus...
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    Mandaeism (section Sethians)
    Mandaean texts and Sethian Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library. Birger A. Pearson also compares the "Five Seals" of Sethianism, which he believes...
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    forgiveness of sins. While some scholars consider the Five Seals mentioned in Sethian Gnostic texts, to be literary symbolism rather than an actual religious...
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  • Yesseus Mazareus Yessedekeus (category Sethianism)
    In Sethian Gnostic texts, Yesseus Mazareus Yessedekeus is the personification of the Living Water. He is mentioned in the Nag Hammadi tractates of the...
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  • In Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao (Ἰαω) is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being...
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  • In Sethian Gnosticism, Autogenes (Meaning "Self-Born One" in Greek) is an emanation or son of Barbelo (along with Kalyptos and Protophanes according to...
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    Tuomas Rasimus Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence BRILL 2009 ISBN 9789047426707 p. 68 Kurt...
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