| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
 | | The Elcesaites said: "In [en] the name of the great and highest God and in the name of his Son, the great King". |
 | | (I, xxi, 3) we find the formula: "In the name that was hidden from every divinity and lordship and truth, which [name] Jesus the Nazarene has put on in the regions of light" and several other formulae, which were sometimes pronounced in Hebrew or Aramaid. |
 | | The Mandaeans said: "The name of the Life and the name of the Manda d'Haye is named over thee". |
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