The Followers of Abraxas: The Gnostic Students & Zevist Origins

author: High Priest Zevios Metathronos

In the beginning of what we refer to as "Christianity," there were numerous sects which modern academic scholarship has decided to classify, in an "all-in-one package," under the label of "Gnosticism."

The beliefs of most of these sects are either not known, or survive only in fragments. While certain of these texts do indeed sound as if they are repackaged Judaism, other sects have an even more cryptic history, which leads many researchers to deny these groups a "common origin."

The central Daemon followed by the major Gnostic sects was Abraxas. Yet, the origins of what is referred to as "Gnostic" faiths, and specifically the sects that worshiped Abrasax, are nothing else but spiritual knowledge based on Pagan Mithraism.

"In addition, Abraxas was associated with the Mithraic mystery religion of Persian origin, the chief rival of Christianity in Rome in its first 400 years. As did Gnosticism, Mithraism featured a complex astrology and numerology. Numerical values of Mithra's and Abraxas' names each total 365." - The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Abrasax section.

Many of these early Christian "cults" did not even accept "Christ" as a historically existing character, but rather as a symbolic Solar Myth, nor did they treat anything in Christianity as literal history.

To them, "Christianity" was just a Solar Mythology like so many others, which they explained through their own image and symbolic analysis.

As the "Original" Christian Church wanted to remove any sort of postulation of anything spiritual, they decided to destroy these people completely and replace everything with foul materialistic nonsense about a "Savior" who was from "Israel." This led the Christian Orthodox Church of the early 2nd-century church to kill most of them, or destroy their writings entirely.

Due to this massacre against the Gnostic sects that followed Abrasax, we know few things about them, with what remains being centered around the slander Christians directed against them. From the few things we know, we cannot be certain that these accounts are true.

The hate of Judaic Christians against the "Gnostics" was so great that they said they were "worse than Pagans." To note, the "Irenaeus" spoken about here is actually whom Christians refer to today as "Saint Irenaeus," a great persecutor of everything spiritual and one of the first Christian bandits and destroyers of wisdom.

"As spokesman for the church of God, Irenaeus insists that those he calls heretics stand outside the church. All who reject his version of Christian truth are "false persons, evil seducers, and hypocrites" who "speak to the multitude about those in the church, whom they call catholic, or ecclesiastical." Irenaeus says he longs to "convert them to the church of God" - since he considers them apostates, worse than pagans."^{[1, p 106]}

"This campaign against heresy involved an involuntary admission of its persuasive power; yet the bishops prevailed. By the time of the Emperor Constantine's conversion, when Christianity became an officially approved religion in the fourth century, Christian bishops, previously victimized by the police, now commanded them. Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed."^{[2, p 106]}

The origins of the "thoughts" of many of these "heretic sects" were actually Neoplatonic thoughts, and we could not easily dismiss the possibility that these sects were in fact worshiping the Daemons in disguise, a reality understood by the early "Church Fathers" such as Irenaeus, who focused on destroying them all. Part of this destruction is why this "Irenaeus" named below was eventually crowned as a Saint of the Early Christian Church.

Further on these sects of occultists: "These men, moreover, practise magic, and use images, incantations, invocations, and every other kind of curious art. Coining also certain names as if they were those of the angels, they proclaim some of these as belonging to the first, and others to the second heaven; and then they strive to set forth the names, principles, angels, and powers of the 365 imagined heavens." as read in Adversus hæreses, I. xxiv. 5; cf. Epiph. Haer. 69 D; Philastr. Suer. 32

Do note that both of these "sects" of "Valentinus" and "Basilides" mentioned below were among the first to be hated and exterminated, despite the fact that they tried to call themselves "Christians" to avoid persecution, or by holding some superficially Christian beliefs that were evidently only a cover to practice the occult. The Gnostic sects were hundreds, with many simply being of Abrahamic ideology, or following confused ideologies between Christianity and Paganism.

"A still more remarkable parallel to the later Neoplatonism is afforded by the Christian Gnostics of Alexandria, especially Valentinus and the followers of Basilides. Like the Neoplatonists, the Basilidians believed, not in an emanation from the Godhead, but in a dynamic manifestation of its activity. The same is true of Valentinus, who also placed an unnameable being at the apex of his system, and regarded matter, not as a second principle, but as a product of the one divine principle. It must be added that the dependence of Basilides and Valentinus on Zeno and Plato is beyond dispute."

Further, the footnote of the above mentions: "The dogmas of the Basilidians, as given by Hippolytus, read almost like passages from Neoplatonic works."

To really understand how much of our history has been perverted, or how much has been lost, we have to delve deeper to discover the reality about the Daemon Abrasax. In regards to Abraxas himself, he ended up as an "Evil Demon," as with all the other Pagan Gods who helped and instructed humanity.

"Gnostic name for the demigod who rules the 365th (highest and final) aeon, or sphere, ascending to the unknowable God. Christian demonologists put Abraxas in the ranks of DEMONS. […] The Gnostic Abraxas created the material world and also had demonic qualities. He is the supreme power of being, in whom light and darkness are both united and transcended. Orthodox Christians viewed Abraxas as a demon. In turn, Abraxas became a favorite deity of heretical sects of the Middle Ages."^[4]

This page should give homage to the disciples of Abraxas, who died and were slandered for his sake, all for wanting to follow the Divine and become partakers of Daemonic knowledge. You will not be forgotten.