Ophite Diagrams
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Ophite Diagrams
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The Ophite Diagrams are ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite sect of Gnosticism, who revered the serpent from the Garden of Eden as a symbol of wisdom, which the malevolent Demiurge tried to hide from Adam and Eve. Celsus and his opponent Origen both describe the diagrams, though not in the same way. Celsus describes them as ten separate circles, circumscribed by one circle, the world-soul, Leviathan, divided by a thick black line, Tartarus, together with a square, with words said at
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Esoteric diagrams used by the Ophites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophite_Diagrams
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2023-04-01T08:38:48Z
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