An encyclopaedia of occultism : a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism and mysticism (1920)
Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955 · London : George Routledge & sons, ltd. · leaf 218
is said that the Grecian mysteries, theEleusinian and Cabiric, for instance, were celebrated by the-Gnostic sects down to a late date. They were looked uponas heretics and sorcerers by the Church, and were thevictims of relentless peisecution. In Persia also they were-put to death, but some… … GNOSTIC GEMS Talismans, magical charms, and invocations of the Gnostic sect. Illustrative of themysteries of the Gnostics: it shows Abraxas, the chief Deity, in his manifestations. \ face p. 181 Gnosticism 185 God astrology, medicines and magic. This sect was anathema- to the Church, and its later…
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