hebdomad

This region is called the Hebdomad.

Pilgrim Dusmano tried to visit the several very different museums in the several days of the hebdomad.

From him the Gospel had next to pass to the Archon of the Hebdomad.

He brought the angels here under his power, and himself generated six sons, a counterpart of the Hebdomad of which his father was a member.

The mystery of the Hebdomad there unfolded (Hom.

Zaphkiel was first mentioned as one of the Hebdomad in Planes of Law (1995).

Beneath the Ogdoad is the Hebdomad presided over by its own archon.

In one place (p. 238) the names Ogdoad and Hebdomad seem to be given to the archons themselves.

The Celestial Hebdomad, rulers of the archons.

These constituted the (Gnostic) Hebdomad.

Irenaeus tells us: "the holy Hebdomad is the seven stars which they call planets" (i. 30).

The word Hebdomad occurs also in the Clementine Homilies, but its use there is quite unconnected with the teaching hitherto described.

In the system of Valentinus again the names Ogdoad and Hebdomad occur in the same signification.

The Demiurge, the Platonic creator-god, is thus identified with the perfected nous, the intellectual triad being increased to a hebdomad.

The archons and all of Celestia are ruled over by the members of the Celestial Hebdomad; the ruling council of heaven.

The archons of the Hebdomad do not desire to be worshiped themselves; instead, they guide mortals toward the worship of the deities of law and good.

In third edition, Zaphkiel appeared along with the other members of the Celestial Hebdomad in the Book of Exalted Deeds (2003).

In the game, the celestial paragons of the archons are collectively known as The Celestial Hebdomad (and sometimes "tome archons").

Again, beside the higher hebdomad of the seven archons, the Ophite system told of a lower hebdomad.

These seven pillars being interpreted of the planetary heavens, the habitation of the Sophia herself was placed above the Hebdomad in the Ogdoad (Excerpt.

The son of the Great Archon delivered the Gospel to the son of the Archon of the Hebdomad.

The order of Thrones is ruled by the Tome Archons or Hebdomad, who each rule an entire layer of Mount Celestia.

And this son in like manner another, until there were seven Archons in all, ruling the seven heavens; a Hebdomad which their mother completes into an Ogdoad.

The names of the seven princes of the Hebdomad, as given by Origen, agree completely with the list of Irenaeus (Contra Celsum 6:31).

Then Ialdabaoth and the other princes of the Hebdomad, being angry, sought to have Jesus crucified, but Christ and Sophia did not share his passion, having withdrawn themselves into the incorruptible Aeon.