Cyclopædia
Assuming gnostics is required, the following 7 results were found.
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ABRACADABRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABRACADABRA
'Tis added, that moft of the Fathers ascribe the Fable of the God GREEK, to Basilides and his Followers, a Branch of Gnostics. See BASILIDIANS. The Gnostics, 'tis known, suppofed wondersul Virtues in Numbers ; and accordingly, this same Abraxas, or...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ANTITACTAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTITACTAE
or Antitactici, in Antiquity, a kind of Gnostics, who owned that God, the Creator of the Universe, was good and just; but asserted withal, that one of his Creatures had created Evil, and had engaged us to follow it, in order to set us in opposition to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology
Particles, &c. Maronite, Jacobite, Thomæan, &c. Armenian, Cophti, Solitary, &c.---- Sects, and Heresies ; as Manichees, Gnostics, Arians, &c. Ebionites, Nestorians, Millenaries, Quartodecimans, &c. Montanists, Socinians, Arminians, &c. Presbyterians,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Particles, &c. Maronite, Jacobite, Thomæan, &c. Armenian, Cophti, Solitary, &c.---- Sects, and Heresies ; as Manichees, Gnostics, Arians, &c. Ebionites, Nestorians, Millenaries, Quartodecimans, &c. Montanists, Socinians, Arminians, &c. Presbyterians,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AEONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEON
Inventor of these aeons; which were afterwards brought to Perfection by Valentinus, who acknowledged thirty of them. See Gnostics, Valentinians, etc. AEON
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ÆONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆON
Inventor of these aeons; which were afterwards brought to Perfection by Valentinus, who acknowledged thirty of them. See GNOSTICS, VALENTINIANS, etc. ÆON
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS
of another, they might also be justified by the Will of another. The Anabaptists adopted several other Dogmata from the Gnostics, etc., touching the Incarnation, etc. But those who now retain the Name, have abandoned the greatest Part thereof; and in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified