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	BASILIDES - LoveToKnow Article on BASILIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides wrote an exegetical work in twenty-four books on his gospel, but which this was is not known.
		A comparison of the surviving fragments of Basilides, moreover, with the outline of his system in Irenaeus-H.ippolytus (SynLagma) shows that the account given by the Fathers of the Church is also in the highest degree untrustworthy.
		When, then, Basilides identified the highest angel of the sevep, th creator of the worlds, with the Go,d of the Jews, this is a development of the idea which did not occur until late, possibly first in the specifically Christian circles of the Gnostics.
	39.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BASILIDES.htm (1810 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Basilides
		Basilides invented prophets for himself named Barcabbas and Barcoph, and claimed to have received verbal instructions from St. Matthias the Apostle and to be a disciple of Glaucias, a disciple of St. Peter.
		According to Irenaeus, Basilides was apparently a dualist and an emanationist, and according to Hippolytus a pantheistic evolutionist.
		Seen from the viewpoint of Irenaeus, Basilides taught that Nous (Mind) was the first to be born from the Unborn Father; from Nous was born Logos (Reason); from Logos, Phronesis (Prudence); from Phronesis, Sophia (Wisdom) and Dynamis (Strength) and from Phronesis and Dynamis the Virtues, Principalities, and Archangels.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02326a.htm (2416 words)

	ART. XV. -- Buddhist Gnosticism, the System of Basilides.
		Basilides flourished at Alexandria under Hadrian (117- 138 A.D.), and is said to have been the disciple of Glaucias-- the "interpreter of S. Peter."(2) He belonged therefore to the second generation after the Apostles, and to the great age of the Gnostics (Clem.
		This theory lies at the bottom of Basilides' famous paradox--"the Martyrs suffer for their sins"--a paradox which shocked the conscience of the Church, and was utterly perverted by Basilides' followers.(2) Basilides thought no scorn of martyrdom; it had its consolations and was a good.
		With Basilides the time of Jesus' birth was determined by the conjunction of the stars, for although the stars, he holds, do not determine the destiny of man, they control the hour of his birth.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/kenn.htm (11036 words)

	Great Saints
		Basilides was one of the earliest Gnostic writers and had a copious amount of literature ascribed to him, including many gospels, a psalm book, several odes, and an exegesis on the New Testament.
		Basilides contributed a unique and personal vision of the Gnosis, the two features of which were a sophisticated cosmology of intermediate realms and beings between creation and the Unknown God, and a method of ascensional mysticism for rising through the lower spheres to the spiritual heights.
		Basilides scheme was decidedly Christian in scope, the entire process of releasing spiritual humanity from the darkness of material existence being dependent upon the descent of the Christ and the light of the gospel through the lower worlds.
	www.geocities.com /ega_church/grsts.html (3622 words)

	Basilides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides was the earliest of the Alexandrian Gnostics and flourished in the first half of the second century.
		For Basilides, belief in God meant belief in a paradoxical Absolute Negation: "God is Not-Being, even He, who made the world out of what was not; Not-Being made Not-Being." Given the utter non-existence of God, God is not even "unspeakable." He simply is Not.
		Basilides considered suffering not as something to be escaped, but rather as a blessing, the purpose of which was to turn the spiritual essence away from its entanglement in matter.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Basilides.html (202 words)

	Basilides
		Basilides again, that he may appear to have discovered something more sublime and plausible, gives an immense development to his doctrines.
		He sets forth that Nous was first born of the unborn father, that from him, again, was born Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, and from Dynamis and Sophia the powers, and principalities, and angels, whom he also calls the first; and that by them the first heaven was made.
		This difficulty presented itself to Basilides after he had utterly missed the truth, and was conceiving that, by an infinite succession of those beings that were formed from one another, he might escape such perplexity.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /basilides.html (1490 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Basilides
		Basilides was probably the first major Gnostic who viewed himself as a Christian theologian; but unlike his predecessor Simon Magus, he rejected the Old Testament.
		To Basilides, the passions were unnatural accretions which encrusted the spiritual essence due to its entanglement in matter.
		To Basilides, there were those who had the capacity for faith, the elect, who were characterized by a sense that they are somehow aliens in this world, and by a sort of "nostalgia" and longing for the transcendent.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/basilides.htm (1553 words)

	Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides began his system with a "primal octet" consisting of the "unengendered parent" or Father; Intellect (nous); the 'ordering principle' or "Word" (logos); "prudence" (phronêsis); Wisdom (sophia); Power (dunamis) (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.24.3, in Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures 1987) and "justice" and "peace" (Basilides, Fragment A, Layton).
		Indeed, Basilides goes so far as to assert that sin is the direct outcome of bodily existence, and that human suffering is the punishment either for actual sins committed, or even just for the general inclination to sin, which arises from the bodily impulses (cf.
		Marcion of Sinope, in Pontus, was a contemporary of Basilides.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/gnostic.htm (8278 words)

	A Beggar At The Table » 2005 » August
		Basilides is another of the “lost in the mists” heretics who is known primarily for his own twist on Docetism.
		Basilides, from Egypt, is best known for being, as far as we can tell, the first to venture the heretical hypothesis later adopted, in modified form, by Islam and some other groups, that Jesus Himself was not crucified, but that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in the place of Christ.
		Basilides’ system did kind of explain some of the language used in the psalms of the councils of the gods and such (if by way of misinterpretation), but the big con is that it is completely constructed.
	qaz1.bannerland.org /wordpress?m=200508 (2941 words)

	Excerpts from the Writings of Basilides
		{Basilides, in Book 23 of his "Commentaries," speaks of those who suffer punishment as martyrs, with the following words:} I believe that all who experience the so-called tribulations must have committed sins other than what they realize, and so have been brought to this good end.
		Through the kindness of that which leads each one of them about, they are actually accused of an extraneous set of charges so they might not have to suffer as confessed criminals convicted of crimes, nor be reviles as adulterers or murderers, but rather might suffer because they are disposed by nature to be Christian.
		That is (Paul means), before I came into this body, I lived in the kind of body that is not subject to the law: the body of a domestic animal or a bird.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/basilide.htm (693 words)

	End of Times.net
		According to Irenaeus, Basilides, a historian from Alexandria, insisted in his writings between 130 and 150 CE that Jesus had not been crucified.
		Basilides even wrote that Jesus watched as Simon of Cyrene was being crucified, and that he then moved away and was raised alive into the presence of God.
		Basilides wrote a new "Bible," in which the gospels were corrected in the light of the information he had received from Glaucius.
	www.endoftimes.net /articles_01.html (1177 words)

	The Hochey in Gheorgheni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides Tibor, under the name U.A.R. On january 1st, 1949 the team - composed by players Almási Szilveszter, Balog Zoltán, Dobribán Gábor, Kémenes Ármin, Gál Ödön, Giacomuzzi Béla, György László and Lázár Alfréd lead by prof.
		Basilides Tibor and Dobribán Árpád sen. - has played their first match in Miercurea Ciuc with the junior team.
		Basilides Csaba was formed the senior team and registred in the National Championship.
	www.nextra.ro /clients/progym/eng/historry.htm (439 words)

	Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Basilides
		Basilides was a scholar of the 2nd century C.E. who knew the Hebrew and Christian scriptures as well as being knowledgeable in Egyptian and Greek thought.
		But he also received what was to become a secret tradition named after him, based on knowledge passed to him from an early interpreter of the Apostle Peter.
		Basilides wrote psalms, odes, and commentaries on the Gospels.
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /term.php?id=3282 (147 words)

	Basilides
		Basilides was "an Alexandrian scholar writing between A.D. 120 and 130.
		Basilides was conversant with both Hebrew scriptures and Christian Gospels.
		In addition to psalms and odes, Basilides wrote commentaries on the Gospels and also compiled a "gospel" for his own sect; only fragments of these writings have been preserved.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/gnosis/basilides.html (802 words)

	Supernatural Religion - Pt 2 Ch 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides also claimed to have received from a certain Matthias the report of private discourses which he had heard from the Saviour for his special instruction.
		The remark, made at the beginning of the third century, that the followers of Basilides believed that the actual events of the life of Jesus occurred in the way in which they have been written in the Gospels, is no proof that either they or Basilides used or admitted the authority of our Gospels.
		The fact probably is that Hippolytus derived his views of the doctrines of Basilides from the writings of his later followers, and from them made the quotations which are attributed to the founder of the school.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~freethought/cassels/sr/p2c06.htm (6337 words)

	Excite - Search: Basilides
		Basilides was a pupil of an alleged interpreter of St. Peter, Glaucias by name,...
		BASILIDES, one of the most conspicuous exponents of Gnosticism, was living at Alexandria probably as early as the first decades of the 2nd century.
		Basilides was a soldier of the guard of the prefect of...
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	The Church Fathers Volume 5
		Basilides, therefore, and Isidorus, the true son and disciple of Basilides, say that Matthias(4) communicated to them secret discourses, which, I being specially instructed, he heard from the Saviour.
		For the Archon has generated, according to Basilides, a son; and the soul as an operation and completion, Aristotle asserts to be an entelecheia of a natural organic hotly.
		These, then, are the legends which likewise Basilides details after his sojourn in Egypt;(2) and being instructed by the (sages of this country) in so great a system of wisdom, (the heretic) produced fruits of this description.
	www.catholicfirst.com /TheFaith/ChurchFathers/Volume05/refutation05.cfm (10015 words)

	BASILIDES - Online Information article about BASILIDES
		It is there-fore only with caution that we can use them to supplement our knowledge of the true Basilides.
		combination probably point to the fact that the purely mythical figure of a god-saviour (Heros) was connected first by Basilides with Jesus of Nazareth.
		Whether Basilides himself had already given this magic tendency to Gnosticism cannot be decided.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BASILIDES.html (1566 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Basilides
		Basilides' (circa 117-138) was an early Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt.
		Twentieth-century psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote the famous Seven Sermons to the Dead under the pen-name "Basilides of Alexandria." The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges was interested in Irenaeus's account of Basilides's Gnostic doctrine and wrote an essay on the subject: "A Vindication of the False Basilides" (1932).
		Basilides is also mentioned in Borges's short story "Three Versions of Judas" (1944).
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Basilides (207 words)

	Basilides, Carpocrates, Valentinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Basilides apparently claimed to have received teachings handed down from the Apostles Peter and Matthew (interestingly, Matthew or Levi was also an important figure in the Gnostic Gospel of Mary).
		Basilides is also supposed to have collected his own personal canon of Gospel writings, much as Marcion did.
		Basilides wrote extensively on the mythology of aeons and archons that forms an important part of Gnostic mytho-poetic cosmology.
	www.gnostic-church.org /triumvirate.htm (1828 words)

	The Great Schools of Christian Gnosis
		Basilides also taught the concept of a Demiurge, called the Great Ruler, who with his angels was responsible for the creation of worlds and all that is material.
		Basilides accepts the Platonist and Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation of souls and believes that each soul retains its identity from one incarnation to the next, at least to the extent that in a subsequent life it will pay for its sins of a previous one.
		Basilides was accused by Clement of Alexandria, and later Origen, of teaching the reincarnation of the soul into animal bodies.
	essenes.net /TheGreatSchoolsOfChristianGnosis.html (11720 words)

	Synaxarium: Thout 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Basilides heard this, he was saddened and he refused to return to the service of the new Emperor.
		He sent Basilides to Masrus, the Governor of the five western cities and when Masrus saw him he wondered why he had left his kingdom and his power.
		Basilides endured terrible tortures, at times on a squeezing machine with wheels, and at other times his body was combed with iron combs.
	www.mycopticchurch.com /saints/Synaxarium.asp?m=1&d=11 (660 words)

	The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers (b)
		Basilides, a famous Gnostic, was a pupil of an alleged interpreter of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, and taught at Alexandria during the reign of Hadrian (117–138).
		The oldest refutation of the teachings of Basilides, by Agrippa Castor, is lost, and we are dependent upon the later accounts of Irenæus, Clement of Alexandria, and Hippolytus.
		The Christian idea of the manifestation of God in Jesus Christ is the historical fact which Basilides subjects to his general thoughts.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc02.b.html (15738 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Tout 11
		When they saw that the Emperor had renounced the faith, they were exceedingly sorry and drew their swords and wanted to slay Diocletian, the infidel Emperor, and to return the kingdom to its rightful owner Yustus, Numerianus' son.
		Basilides endured severe tortures, on a squeezing machine (Hinbazeen) at times and at others his body was combed with iron combs.
		When he saw that Basilides remained steadfast in his faith, Masrus ordered to cut off Basilides holy head, thus he received the crown of martyrdom in the kingdom of heaven in return for the earthly kingdom which he had forsaken.
	www.copticchurch.net /classes/synex.php?month=1&day=11&sa=1 (527 words)

	Carl Jung, Alchemy and Neo-Gnosticism
		This was written ‘semi-automatically’ in 1916 by a part of himself he happened to call Basilides.
		Basilides believed that there were 365 Aeons, personifications of the emanations from the Godhead which effected the creation of matter.
		Basilides differed from other Gnostic schools in his concept of God as being essentially unknowable, an idea that can be traced to Indian sources, whose notions of MAYA and NIRVANA he also included in his philosophy."
	www.crossroad.to /Quotes/spirituality/jung.htm (1452 words)

	Hyppolitus: Refutation of All Heresies
		Basilides, therefore, and Isidorus, the true son and disciple of Basilides, say that Matthias communicated to them secret discourses, which, I being specially instructed, he heard from the Saviour.
		And that each thing, says (Basilides), has its own particular times, the Saviour is a sufficient (witness when He observes, "Mine hour is not yet come." And the Magi (afford similar testimony) when they gaze wistfully upon the (Saviour's) star.
		These, then, are the legends which likewise Basilides details after his sojourn in Egypt; and being instructed by the (sages of this country) in so great a system of wisdom, (the heretic) produced fruits of this description.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/hyp_refut7.htm (10359 words)

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