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	Bardesanes and Bardesanites
		Whether this Antoninus is merely a friend of Bardesanes or a Roman emperor and, in the latter case, which of the Antonini is meant, is matter of controversy.
		We probably possess a few of Bardesanes' hymns in the Gnostic "Acts of Thomas"; the "Hymn on the Soul"; the "Espousals of Wisdom"; the consecratory prayer at Baptism and at Holy Communion.
		To Bardesanes the sun, moon, and planets were living beings, to whom, under God, the government of this world was largely entrusted; and though man was free, he was strongly influenced for good or for evil by the constellations.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/bardesanes_and_bardesanites.html (1863 words)

	ARDESANES (Syr
		Bardesanes' Syriac name Bar Daysáa@n is explained by a story that he was born on the bank of the Daysáa@n (the river of Edessa), hence literally “Son of Daysáa@n.” This story is repeated by Ebn al-Nad^m (loc.
		Thus, in Bardesanes' system darkness is lifeless and inactive, and contact is caused by disturbances among the four lighter elements, which bring them all the way down to the boundary, thus awakening the sleeping darkness which rises and intermingles with the light elements.
		Similarly, an element of Bardesanes' system from Iranian religion not utilized by Mani appears to be the role he assigns to the wind, at once one of the light elements and the cause of the disturbance.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v3f7/v3f7a078.html (4412 words)

	Bardesanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bardesanes taught and wrote in Edessa, and from 216 in Armenia.
		Bardesanes taught that God the Father (and at the same time the cause of all things) emanated Christ the Son (who is also presented as the son) and the Spirit, Sister and Bride of Christ (identified with the moon).
		Bardesanes’ heresy persisted until the fourth century in Edessa and in the lands of Mesopotomaia.
	republika.pl /peenef2/angielski/hasla/b/bardesanes.html (599 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Whether the hymns (e.g., the hymn on the destinies of the soul) preserved in the so-called Acts of Thomas (cf.
		Eusebius, Epiphanies, and Theodoret mention also a work of Bardesanes “On Fate,” which is extant under the title “The Book of the Laws of the Countries,” though apparently revised by one of his disciples.
		It is impossible to assign to Bardesanes in the present state of knowledge the place which he occupies in Gnostic speculation.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc01.bardesanes.html (676 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 463 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We learn from Ephrem the Syrian that Bardesanes composed, in his native tongue, no fewer than one hundred and fifty Psalms elegantly versified.
		Bardesanes had^a son, Harmonius (incorrectly called Hammonius by Lumper), whom Sozomen styles a man of learning, and specially skilled in music.
		The Bardesanes mentioned by Porphyry wrote concern ing the Indian Gymnosophists.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 462 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BARDESANES, a Syrian writer, whose history is involved in partial obscurity, owing to the perplexed and somewhat contradictory notices of him that are furnished by ancient authorities.
		He was born at Edessa in Mesopotamia, and flourished in the latter half of the second century, and perhaps in the beginning of the third.
		It appears from this fragment that the charge of fatalism, preferred against Bardesanes by Augus-tin, is entirely groundless.
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	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Bardesanes
		Bardesanes (July 11, 154–c.222), also known as Bar-Daisan, was a Gnostic Christian writer and poet.
		He was able to convert the king of Edessa, Abgar IX, who established Bardesanes' version of Christianty as the state religion—which ended when Edessa was conquered by the Roman Emperor Caracalla in 216.
		His most important writing was arguably The Dialogue of Destiny, or The Book of the Laws of the Countries, which seems to be heavily influenced by gnostic teachings, Hermeticism, and Chaldean mythology and astrology (Sabazius, 1995).
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Bardesanes (365 words)

	Gnosticism - LoveToKnow 1911
		And here may best be included Bardesanes, a famous leader of a Gnostic school of the end of the 2nd century.
		But from the little we know of Bardesanes, his system bears no trace of relationship with the complicated Valentinian system, but is rather completely derived from the ordinary Gnosticism, and is distinguished from it apparently only by its more strongly dualistic character.
		The systems of Valentinus and his disciples must be considered as a further development of what we have just characterized as the popular Gnosticism, and especially of that branch of it to which the figure of Sophia is already known.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gnosticism (8172 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The father of Syriac poetry, Bardesanes (or Bar-Daisan) was born into a pagan family c.
		Bardesanes rejects the fatalism of Aristotle and the determinism of astrology.
		Bardesanes suggests that a hierarchy of dieties created the world; his cosmology may have influenced Mani.
	www2.evansville.edu /ECOLEWEB/glossary/bardesanes.html (161 words)

	Part 2: The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
		Bardesanes was converted to Gnosticism, or Christian theosophy, in 179 C.E., and he persuaded his friend the prince to convert with him.
		He accused Bardesanes of being a heretic and sophist, a greedy sheep-dog in league with the wolves, and a cunning dissembler practicing deceit with his songs.
		It may have been reasonable for Bardesanes to set the protagonist of his Gnostic romance, Didymus Judas Thomas, in India, as he was a student of Indian philosophy.
	www.hamsa.org /02.htm (3391 words)

	Bar Daisan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bar Daisan (154 - 222), also latinized as Bardesanes, was an Aramean scholar and founder of the heretical Bardesanites, and an outstanding scientist, scholar, astrologist, philosopher and poet, also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.
		The followers of Bardesanes of Mesopotamia, the Bardesanites were a sect of the 2nd century, deemed heretical and added other notions to their beliefs.
		A certain Marinus, a follower of Bardesanes and a dualist, who is refuted in the "Dialogue of Adamantius", held the doctrine of a two-fold primeval being; for the devil, according to him is not created by God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bar_Daisan (2499 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Bardesanes
		Bardesanes was born in Edessa to Persian parents, and obtained an excellent Persian/Greek education at the court of Edessa.
		Bardesanes wrote 150 hymns in Syriac, only a few scraps of the words of these hymns survive, but Ephraim plagiarized the music of Bardesanes for his own hymns.
		Most modern scholars have abandoned the theory that Bardesanes was the author of that masterpiece of religious poetry, the "Hymn of the Pearl," also known as "The Hymn of the Soul" or "The Hymn of the Robe of Glory", which was included in the apocryphal Acts of Judas Thomas.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/bardesanes.htm (1019 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		Probably he accepted the common Christian faith with some modifications and exercised freedom on speculative doctrines, which were not yet clearly developed in the Syrian church of that period.
		But it is equally possible that Bardesanes was the author and Harmonius the editor, or that both were hymnists.
		He shares with Bardesanes (as already remarked) the honor of being the father of Syrian hymnology.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xiii.xv.html (1369 words)

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		The absence of the Edessene native son Bardesanes is easily explained and is balanced by the inclusion of the gnostic Valentinus, whose influence penetrated both East and West and whom Hippolytus (Her.
		Bardesanes had already been treated previously, and this entire section about the heretics was introduced by a comparison of Rabbula with Joshua (192.3 ff.): as Joshua found the land of Canaan full of the thorny undergrowth of paganism, so Rabbula found the Edessene region completely overgrown by the thicket of sins.
		As has been said, it is out of the question that Bardesanes could have adopted the gospel used by the Marcionites; but it is equally unlikely that there was a special "Gospel of Bardesanes," of which we scarcely hear anything, and never anything of value.
	www.biblicalstudies.ru /Books/Bauer2.html (16591 words)

	Bardesanes
		The author, however, is not Bardesanes but his disciple Philip, although Bardesanes is the chief speaker in the dialogue, who answers the questions and problems of his followers regarding the characters of men and the position of the stars.
		According to Ephrem the Syrian Bardesanes is the creator of Syrian hymnody, because he composed one hundred and fifty hymns in order to spread his doctrine.
		Bardesanes was born in 154 CE, became a Christian c.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /bardesanes.html (415 words)

	Great Saints
		The story that is ascribed to him of the fashioning of the first man is identical to that found in the Origin of the World, the Hypostasis of the Archons, the Apocryphon of John and other treatises contained in the Nag Hammadi collection of Gnostic writings.
		Bardesanes was born at Edessa in Syria of a rich and noble family on July 11, 155 CE.
		During his life Bardesanes was considered a respected and orthodox leader within the Christian Church of his day.
	www.geocities.com /ega_church/grsts.html (3622 words)

	Excite - Search: Bardesanes
		Bardesanes as one of the Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
		Bardesanes was a pioneer of the Christian faith in Syria who embarked on missionary work after his...
		Bar Daisan (154 - 222), also latinized as Bardesanes, was a Assyrian gnostic, founder of the heretical...
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	Palm Tree Garden Gnostic Forum / Look what I just won!
		In 1826 he was called to Leipsic as professor of theology and preacher, and there began a vigorous campaign against the rationalism prevailing in theology and the Church.
		He was best known by his stereotyped edition of the text of the Old Testament, published by the Tauchnitz firm in Leipsic (1833), and of which hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold." (Jewishencyclopedia.com).
		There is but one saying I will speak to the Lord concerning the mystery of truth: In this have we taken our stand, and to the cosmic are we transparent.
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	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
		"Bardesan, or Bardesanes, according to one account, was born at Edessa in 154 a.d., and it is supposed that he died sometime between 224 and 230.
		Many modern critics have come to the conclusion that it was written by a scholar of Bardesanes, but that it gives us the genuine opinions and reasonings of Bardesanes.
		The question is of interest in connection with the Clementine Recognitions, which contain a large portion of the work.
	www.godrules.net /library/fathers/anf08s155.htm (681 words)

	Bardesanes - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BARDESANES [Bardesanes], 154?-222?, Christian philosopher and poet of Syria, missionary among the Armenians.
		Conflicting traditions report him both as defender of the faith against various Gnostic sects and as a heretic and founder of Bardesanism.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bardesan.html (160 words)

	Part 3: The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
		In hoary British tradition, Gog and Magog are two giants of Cornwall who were slain by Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of London, but the author of the Teaching is probably referring to Prophet Ezekiel and the land of Magog from whence Gog would come, which lay somewhere to the north of Israel.
		This opinion, held by some Gnostics and apparently by St. Thomas too, was presented to the Edessene public by Bardesanes in the form of an engaging miracle romance.
		Bardesanes was a theologian not a geographer, and the latter discipline was made to serve the former—just as it is made to do today by interested Catholic scholars.
	www.hamsa.org /03.htm (2805 words)

	ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY
		The first native Syrian ecclesiastical author of any importance, Aphraates the "Persian" sage (that is, he lived in or came from the Sassanid kingdom) dealt with Marcion, Valentinus, and Mani in his third treatise,[54] which according to his own account was written in 336-37.
		as the gospel of Bardesanes is first of all the general observation that for a Syrian living among Syrians, the most obvious [[ET 31]] thing to do would be to obtain that Syriac book, the recent appearance of which in Mesopotamia could not have been unknown to Bardesanes because of his connections and his sophistication.
		It was much better than having no gospel at all in the language of the people, in spite of its being tainted with the approval of Bardesanes -- possibly the Palûtians knew nothing of Tatian, since the name of a human author seldom remains attached to such gospel compilations, by their very nature.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Resources/Bauer/bauer01.htm (15293 words)

	Bardesanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bardesanes was a Christian poet from the Syrian city-state of Edessa (now called Urfa, or Sanliurfa, in southern Turkey).
		It is likely that he was a Gnostic philosopher--perhaps the last major teacher to attempt to disseminate Gnosticism within the ordinary Christian community--but, at the same time, there is considerable question whether he was a Gnostic at all.
		Other influences on the thought of Bardesanes include Hermeticism, Chaldean mythology, and astrology.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Bardesanes.html (83 words)

	Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to its Foes: Bardesanes
		WE will now treat of Bardesanes, "the last of the Gnostics," as Hilgenfeld calls him, and so bring to an end these rough sketches of the Christian theosophists, which we have endeavoured to reconstruct from the disfigured scraps of the originals preserved in Patristic literature.
		Bardesanes, or Bar-daisan (so called from the river Daisan (the Leaper), on the banks of which he was born), was born at Edessa, on July 11th, 155
		When Caracalla dethroned the Abgar Bar-Manu in 216, Bardesanes made manful defence of the Christian faith before the representative of the Roman Emperor, so that even Epiphanius is compelled to call him "almost a confessor."
	www.sacred-texts.com /gno/fff/fff57.htm (2049 words)

	Iranica.com - HYMN OF THE PEARL
		HYMN OF THE PEARL, or Hymn of the Soul, a Syriac poem, of which an early Greek translation also exists, composed probably in the third century C.E. in the region of Edessa (q.v.; modern Urfa, in southeastern Turkey), in an environment strongly influenced by the Parthians.
		The strongly Iranian flavor of the Hymn itself argues for Edessene origins: the city at that time was called "Daughter of the Parthians" and had close political links to Arsacid Armenia, where Bardesanes took refuge for the remainder of his life after the Roman conquest of the city.
		The itinerary of the princely hero of the Hymn would have been just as familiar to an Iranian or Armenian listener as the story line itself, for it is a virtual gazetteer of northwestern Iran and Mesopotamia; and the vocabulary of the hymn is itself replete with evocative Parthian loanwords.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v12f6/v12f6026.html (1340 words)

	PALMER: The Influence of Ephraim the Syrian
		For our purposes it is not vital to assess the debt of Ephraim to Bardesanes (Bar Dayson) and his son, Harmonios, or that of these earlier Syriac poets to the Greeks.
		But it was through Ephraim that the forms of Syriac poetry came to influence those of Greek poetry, not through Bardesanes and Harmonios.
		Bardesanes may have invented stanzaic poetry, but Romanos derived his models from Ephraim.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol2No1/HV2N1Palmer.html (8385 words)

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