This symbol is used in paganism, witchcraft, freemasonry and Gnosticism. It represents to pagans the 4 elements of the material universe, plus spirit, and also man, representing the 4 limbs and head.

First Gnostic writers taught that there was one supreme godhead, called the Monad. This god was distant from mortals. Eventually a number of semi-divine beings emerged from the monad, known as Aeons.

The label “Gnosticism” is a fuzzy one, describing diverse sects and ideas in the ancient world. This chart summarizes those elements within various Gnostic groups that the majority of ...

In Sophian Gnosticism, she's viewed as a spiritual master, a close disciple to whom Jesus pours out the fullness of the light, or the Christos, and she becomes a Christ-bearer (messiah) also.

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