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Abraxas (Page 2)
The mystical deity also captured the imagination of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who features him significantly in a modern gnostic sermon called "Seven Sermons to the Dead":
"Abraxas is the god whom it is difficult to know. His power is the very greatest, because man does not perceive it. Man sees the summum bonuum (supreme good) of the sun, and also the infinum malum (endless evil) of the devil, but Abraxas he does not see, for he is indefinable life itself, which is the mother of good and evil alike.
[Abraxas] is truly the terrible one... the sun and also the eternally gaping abyss of emptiness...magnificent even as the lion at the very moment when he strikes his prey down. His beauty is like the beauty of a spring morn... He is the monster of the underworld... He is the bright light of day and the deepest night of madness... He is the mightiest manifest being, and in him creation becomes frightened of itself..." (Carl Jung, quoted in Stuart Holroyd's The Elements of Gnosticism)
To Jung, Abraxas represented the polymorphous world spirit which permeates or even encompass the very fabric of existence:
"[Abraxas] is... a thousand-armed ployp, coiled knot of winged serpents... the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning... the lord of toads and frogs, which live in the water... abundance that seeketh union with emptiness." (Carl Jung, quoted in The Gnostic Jung, Ed. Robert Segal)
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Sources: (1) Jung, Carl G., The Gnostic Jung, Princeton University Press; (2) de Plancy, Colin, Dictionnaire Infernal, Editions; (3) Dictionary of the Occult, Caxton Publishing; (4) Budge, E. A. Wallis, Amulets and Talismans, Carol Publishing Corporation; (5) Holroyd, Stuart, The Elements of Gnosticism, Element Books; (6) Turner, Patricia and Coulter, Charles R., Dictionary of Ancient Deities, Oxford University Press; (7) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group.
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