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Naassenes
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Naassenes. A
Gnostic sect similar to, if not identical with, the
Ophites (q.v.).
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From the Antequera-Olvera Ophite, Malaga, Spain
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...basic volcanic rocks known as ophites, a general term for diabases...been altered to uralite. The ophites in Malaga are found as dikes...2). (Figure 2 omitted) Ophite outcrops are relatively common...Because of its hardness, ophite has occasionally been mined...
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Blue quartz from the Antequera-Olvera ophite, Malaga, Spain.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...basic volcanic rocks known as ophites, a general term for diabases...been altered to uralite. The ophites in Malaga are found as dikes...ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED]. Ophite outcrops are relatively common...Because of its hardness, ophite has occasionally been mined...
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Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking; rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence.(Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 551 words
; ...mythmaking; rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence. Rasimus, Tuomas. BRILL 2009 355...literature that certain early church leaders called Ophite--snake people. He argues that this Ophite evidence is essential for understanding Sethianism...
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Ammonite fossil portrayed on an ancient Greek countermarked coin.(Research)(Author abstract)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...pseudonym Orpheus) referred to ophites as a vocal stone in which...With such activation the ophite served as protection from...markings resembling snakes ophites. More specifically, his Augustean ophites were rocks with markings that...
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Third Corinthians: Reclaiming Paul for Christian Orthodoxy
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...aimed. It could not have been written exclusively to refute the Marcionites, but an allusion to the serpent suggests that the Ophites may have been included. H. suggests that the nature of the false teachings targeted reflects an early stage in the development...
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Lux Humana, Lux Aeterna: Essays on Biblical and Related Themes in Honor of Lars Aejmelaeus
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...364-73); Outi Leppa, "Believers and Unbelievers in 2 Corinthians 6:14-15" (pp. 374-90); Tuomas Rasimus, "Ophite Myth of Adam and the Corinthians Situation" (pp. 391-414); Minna Laine, "Gnosis, Love and Resurrection: Interpretation...
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IRST $26,000 4 YO UP FM, 1 M 1 Mustang Cali 2-1 4 RegalPlaytime 5-1 1a [Derived Headline]
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 1/20/2008; ; 515 words
; ...Walker's Cay 20-1 6 Another Foose 7-5 FOURTH $45,000 3 YO F, MSW, 1 1/16 M 1 Sonic Sound 12-1 5 Chanced 3-1 2 Ophite 9-2 6 Vladimira 15-1 3 Crane Bay 2-1 7 SweetVendetta 6-1 4 Ambidaxtrous 6-1 8 Bajan Rihanna 30-1 FIFTH $23,000...
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FIRST $27,000 3 YO UP, 6 F 1 Wild Vicar 9-2 6 Gregson 8-1 2 Golden Man [Derived Headline]
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 12/30/2007; ; 602 words
; ...6 Fleet Valid 4-1 3 Santa's Gold 15-1 7 ChiefOperator 15-1 4 Man Above 6-1 FOURTH $46,000 2 YO F, MSW, 6 F 1 Ophite 10-1 9 ChicksAreBttr 12-1 2 Crane Bay 7-2 10 SwepttheSrs 15-1 3 Staid 9-2 11 StarlingRtrn 30-1 4 Hook's Inca 15...
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SERIES SCHISM 2: THIRD GNOSTIC CRISIS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...threat to Catholicism and therefore brutally suppressed. Some of the early Gnostic sects, such as the Nicolaitans and the Ophites, did not bother much with the Demiurge, whom they thought was in charge of matter. Since matter was sharply opposed to spirit...
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$33,000 3 YO, 6 F 1 Golden Tablet 5-2 4 Frndslkths 4-1 1a Tuffend 5-2 [Derived Headline]
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 2/14/2008; ; 535 words
; ...Sonic Sound 12-1 2 ApprovedbyMom 12-1 8 DeposetheCat 12-1 3 SweetVendetta 9-2 9 Aunt Alma 50-1 4 Wife Support 6-1 10 Ophite 5-2 5 Gullible Gal 5-1 FIFTH $23,000 4 YO UP, 1 M 70 Y 1 Bildans Lad 30-1 5 Southack 12-1 2 Bruce Tickets 5-1...
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Ophites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ophites [Gr.,=believers in the serpent...other writers opposed to Gnosticism . The Ophites carried to extremes the teaching of Marcion...and the God of the New Testament. The Ophites held that the Old Testament villains were...
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Naasenes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Naasenes (Heb., naḥash ; a gnostic sect): see OPHITES .
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Basilidians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...x2014; and possessed two allegorical statues, male and female. The doctrine had many points of resemblance to that of the Ophites and the Jewish Kabala. Sources: Legge, Francis. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity from 333 B.C. to 330 A.D...
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Gnosticism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...have derived some of their mysteries and rites from Isis worship, and used theurgic incantations, symbols, and signs. The Ophites also adapted Egyptian rites, and, as their name indicates, these included serpent symbolism, an actual serpent being the...
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ophidian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...xF3;phis , ophid- serpent; see -IAN . The comb. form of óphis (used in scientific terms) is ophi(o)- . So ophite XVII. — L. ophītēs — Gr. ophĺ̄tēs serpentine.
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