Ophite Diagrams

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The Ophite Diagrams are ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite gnostic sect, who worshipped the serpent from the Garden of Eden. They also viewed the Old Testament god as the evil god Yaltabaoth.

Celsus described them as ten separate circles, circumscribed by one circle, the world-soul, Leviathan, divided by a thick black line, Tartarus, together with a square, with words said at the gates of Paradise. Further to this, the Ophites were said by Celsus to add the sayings of prophets, and circles upon circles, with some things written within the two great cosmological circles representing god the father, and god the son.

[edit] See also

• The Ophite Diagrams at The Gnostic Society