- Demiurge by Abraham Hansen
Subordinate god who shapes and arranges the physical world. In his dialogue Timaeus, Plato...
- Basilides by Julia Bell
Fl. 120–145, Gnostic teacher of Alexandria. He wrote Exegitica (his personal gospel with 24 books...
- Mandaeanism by Cody Turner
Ancient Middle Eastern Gnostic sect surviving in Iraq and southwestern Iran. Like other dualistic...
- Iamblichus by Frank Adams
D. C.330, Syrian philosopher, a leading exponent of Neoplatonism. A pupil of Porphyry, he was...
- Ophite by Roman Coleman
Member of any of several Gnostic sects that flourished in the Roman empire in the 2nd century AD...