Sabaoth, and Zoe

Mr Cheese · Jul 1, 2009

Sabaoth is a term that is specific to the writings of those who practiced the Secret Christianity. The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, contain the a reference to Sabaoth, and in the same document is a sequencing description for the trilogy in the Monadic system. This makes it possible for anyone who knew enough about the Monadic system to have put it together, and applied it. Its only possible and as of yet there is no proof anyone in history since the 4th century knew the study of the Monad.

However there are indications that Benjamin Franklin, and Gottfried Leibnitz, did in fact know the secret, and kept it. Leibnitz (Leibniz), did coin the phrase Monadology for modern science. His work explaining the Monad would have made the early Gnostic Alexandrians fall down laughing. That may in fact be what these men intended, and they kept the secret of the Monadology, just that a secret.
In the time of Franklin and Leibnitz, the Church would have put them to death if it had connected them with the heresies described by Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Tertullian, regarding the study of the Gnostic secrets. Possession of The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, might also be very looked down upon by the Church at the time. It was very dangerous. But in France, there were secret societies that may have actually kept real secrets.

The Oracles, are certainly occult writing, but Sabaoth connects the text to Sethian Christians. It is very difficult to say how much they knew in regard to the connection to the Secret Christianity.

There are four major Nag Hammadi texts that contain an explanation of Sabaoth, Hypostasis of the Archons, On the Origen of the World, The testimony of Truth, and the Apocryphon of John.

To make it short Sabaoth represents the evil side of duality. Zoe represents, the good. This is another allegory for yin and yang. In this case, Sabaoth, or evil comes in seven forms, and this proves out when you study the Monadology. The Gospel of Mary, contains the template form, the Seven Forms of Wrath. At least in the Gnostic scripture Sabaoth represents the seven set master template of all evil like

Thus, when the prime parent of chaos saw his son Sabaoth and the glory that he was in, and perceived that he was greatest of all the authorities of chaos, he envied him. And having become wrathful, he engendered Death out of his death: and he (viz., Death) was established over the sixth heaven, <for> Sabaoth had been snatched up from there. And thus the number of the six authorities of chaos was achieved. Then Death, being androgynous, mingled with his (own) nature and begot seven androgynous offspring. These are the names of the male ones: Jealousy, Wrath, Tears, Sighing, Suffering, Lamentation, Bitter Weeping. And these are the names of the female ones: Wrath, Pain, Lust, Sighing, Curse, Bitterness, Quarrelsomeness. They had intercourse with one another, and each one begot seven, so that they amount to forty-nine androgynous demons. Their names and their effects you will find in the Book of Solomon.

And in the presence of these, Zoe, who was with Sabaoth, created seven good androgynous forces. These are the names of the male ones: the Unenvious, the Blessed, the Joyful, the True, the Unbegrudging, the Beloved, the Trustworthy. Also, as regards the female ones, these are their names: Peace, Gladness, Rejoicing, Blessedness, Truth, Love, Faith (Pistis). And from these are many good and innocent spirits. Their influences and their effects you will find in the Configurations of the Fate of Heaven That Is Beneath the Twelve. (Origin of the World.)

It is important to understand the above passages are about what is called the psychic aeon. This denotes that mans mind works like heavens, This is because of the power of duality in the form of Sabaoth, i.e. seven parts came out of the heavens and into the mind of men. I have models for most of the words below in sets of seven parts(Seven Gnostic Demons.)

Next the psychic aeon. It is a small one, which is mixed with bodies, by begetting in the souls (and) defiling (them). For the first defilement of the creation found strength. And it begot every work: many works of wrath, anger, envy, malice, hatred, slander, contempt and war, lying and evil counsels, sorrows and pleasures, basenesses and defilements, falsehoods and diseases, evil judgments that they decree according to their desires. (On the Concept of Our Great Power, NHL, Codex VI.)

The Sethians explain the androgyny, and gender through the term Barbelo. In other words when Sabaoth and Zoe combined to become duality, i.e. yin and yang, the sexual energy of this bond took the form of Barbelo. The Chinese equivalent of this energy is called Jin (Chen). This is the energy which makes Monadic sets subject to the power of duality, like good/evil, offense/defense, and other types of duality, not all opposites.

Learning the Monad was a way that early Gnostics learned to control chaos, and evil. They learned to use the Monad as a multi-purpose, and multi-applicable heuristic device. They saw the separation of man from the Pleromic state as highly flawed, and not connected with the natural flow of the Monadic forces. They found plugging into this flow as useful as the Chinese and others who knew how to use the flow of Chi, or the Monadic template.

Sabaoth, and Zoe, represent forces of duality that are in the natural flow of Wisdom, known to those who studied the Books of Solomon, and Books of Zoroaster. The extant document. The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, describes the Monadic sequence as follows

25. The Monad first existed, and the Paternal Monad still subsists.
26. When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated.
27. And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections,
to govern all things and to order everything not ordered.
28. The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose
Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided.
29. The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind.

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30. The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad.
31. All things are supplied from the bosom of this Triad.
32. All things are governed and subsist in this Triad
33. For thou must know that all things bow before the Three Supernals.
34. From thence floweth forth the Form of the Triad, being preexistent; not the
first Essence, but that whereby all things are measured.
35. And there appeared in it Virtue and Wisdom, and multiscient Truth.
36. For in each World shineth the Triad, over which the Monad ruleth.”
This is an example of medieval occult writing. If you don’t know that the Monadology is almost mechanically exact to Ba Gua Science, this description above is likely to confuse you, which is part of its purpose. If you understand the Monadology, this passage makes perfect sense, and that is probably also a built-in feature of occult writing. It means what it says, but you have to know the underlying philosophy that supports the statement in line with the model. The right model.

The above passage merely counts to three in a system that goes up to much larger sets. If you do not understand that the term “Sabaoth” as a template for seven types, then the meaning is probably lost. It is an underlying philosophy you have to know first to really understand the references to it in occult writing. The Nag Hammadi texts have many of these hidden references to the Monadic system. Sabaoth has equivalent names in the Gnostic collections.
For a brief video explanation of the Monadic system, see….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DN0_PEJAE

“The Hypostasis of the Archons,” also known as the “Reality of the Rulers,” contains a description of Sabaoth, and Zoe, which somewhat mirrors what is said in the “Origin of the World.” Sabaoth is mentioned in the “Testimony of Truth,” however the passage is highly damaged and relates only that Sabaoth has powers.

In the “The Apocryphon of John,” Sabaoth is in a mixed context. The Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John) Sabaoth in the context of the ”Secret Book,” is put into a matrix with other supposed powers which are governed by the same flows of energy which form the basic Monadic template. John’s book describes an organization of heaven and earth in the context of what emanates out the the abyss, or ”great void.” This seems to in fact be an influence of the Zoroastrians, who are referenced in the longer versions of the ”Secret Book.”

The text, “Zostrianos,” is a Zoroastrian text found in the Nag Hammadi, but this text mentions Seth and Autogenes, which is another name for the powers of duality like Sabaoth, and Zoe. This may suggest that Zoroastrians who converted to Sethianism, later converted to Jesus as the Monad, or that is to say, Christianity.
Zoe, is often associated with Eve, and in context Sabaoth and Zoe, are a duality like Adam and Eve, but the Gnostic texts do not look at creation in the same context as the mainstream Orthodoxy.

The Sethians saw the creation of man a separation from the perfection of the Pleromic state. They saw the creation of man as a mistake, and saw man in the hylic state as flawed.
The study of the Monad, and Sabaoth were ways to learn to apply the powers of duality and relate to the Word, or virtual ‘Mind of Heaven’ in the form of the natural flow of Wisdom. This natural flow was sought after in the study of Gnosis and contact with this power is referenced as the epinnoia. Sabaoth and Zoe, are the equivalent powers mentioned in other Sethian texts, that mention, autogenes, monogenes, Sophia, Seth, and associated powers which emanate from the emptiness, or void. This void is called in regard to Jesus as ”Silence.” In the Sethian use of the Monad, Jesus Wisdom serves as the Word, or like in the ”Gospel of John,” the ”Word was God.”

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Tetraktys (Tetractys) of the Decad, The Monadic Values: There is no doubt that Sethian Gnostics applied the principles of this paradigm. ”Pythagorus considered all things relative to numbers… How he conceived this process has never been satisfactorily explained.” (Bullfinch, pg. 289.) Perhaps this is
the secret….

tetraktys
Pythagorus considered the monad as the source of all things. In the case of the tetraktys of the decad, the concepts of form and structure are related in mathematical values. These values work in harmony. They are not just a list, they are a set. The first and most obvious is numerical value is the digital sequence of one through ten. ‘Monad,’ 2. Decad, 3. Triad, 4. Tetrad, 5. Pentad, 6. Hexad, 7. Heptad, 8. Ogdoad, 9. Ennead, and 10. Decad.
Digital sequencing can be done in different base values, like using base six to count on your hands. You count to five on the right hand, and the first digit of the left hand represents six, the next set the left hand finger is given the value of twelve, then eighteen, then the sequence goes up to 35, when you run out of fingers, if you have ten. Another sequencing schema is the Heaven Sequence of the Tai Chi, which is in base eight.
The Pythagorean model showing the tetraktys of the decad is in the form of a triangle, usually shown as only dots, I have placed numbers beside the dots, denoting the digital sequence. Below is a traditional explanation for this sequence, where I have made aditions to show how the Tai Chi, and this sequence
are parallel….
o Monad
o o Decad
o o o Triad
o o o o Tetrad
________________________________These triangles should be equalateral.
1.
2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10.
1.. The Tetractys represented the organization of space: {Wu Chi, Void, ”Jesus is Silence.” See; ”A Valentinian Exposition.”}
2.. the first row represented zero-dimensions (a point) {Tai Chi, yin and yang are the same.}
3.. the second row represented one-dimension (a line of two points) {Liang Yi, yin and yang are different}
4.. the third row represented two-dimensions (a plane defined by a triangle of
three points) {This is consistent with the San Ti. Man is the same as heaven and earth.}
5.. the fourth row represented three-dimensions (a triangular pyramid defined by four points) {This is consistent with the Si Xiang. This is Yin and Yang seenas two different things, or four types. This parallel to the Tai Chi does not include the Ba Gua (8 trigrams)} Wikapedia source…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetractys
This triangle represents five, or more different mathematical values, not generally recognized unless you apply the Tai Chi model with the parallel of the Tetraktys. The mathematical values are thought of more like aphorisms, or a mantra, rather than calculations in some respect. Pythagoras put everything in terms of math, and I think the statistical terms below can be adapted to both the Tai Chi and the Tetraktys of the Decad.
The digital sequence of one through ten, connotes the decad. What cannotes the the ‘tetra’ is the number four. In the case of the tetraktys of the decad, the value of four corresponds with the relative value of the mathematical concept of ‘mode.’ One through six, would make the triangle a triad, and if you add a fifth
line, 11. through, 15., to the base, the mode is a pentad. As shown above we have the tetrad. (See; ”The Table of Ten Numbers,” http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta16.htm )
The mode is the value, or set of like units that appear most frequently in a set. As can be seen in the model of the tetraktys of the decad, all three sides of the triangle contain four units. (This is looking at the triangle of dots as an icon like the Tai Chi.) In terms of the triangle there are four levels, or modes (called types in the ”Gospel of Mary,&#8221

, Level 1. is one, level two the decad, is 2. and 3., level three the triad, is 4. 5. and 6., level four the tetrad, is 7. 8. 9. and 10.
O monad
O O decad
O O O triad
O O O O tetrad
A set in most science involving polarity, is called a field or pool, which connotes a perimeter of the form, or the unified body of the set, as a whole. Mode connotes the ‘level,’ of the form and structure of the pool. Therefor tetrads, hexads, ogdoads, etc. are thought of as modes and levels, which can be
applied to fields.

Kabbalistic Tetraktys illustrating the 72 names of God and the manifestation of creation

complete text on Tetractys at: http://magdelene.wordpress.com/t-z/

Sabaoth, and Zoe

Mr Cheese

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Mr Cheese

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