Relationships
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- subject_entity_id
- {'description': 'The entity initiating or holding the relationship'}
- relationship_type
- {'description': 'Typed relationship from the controlled vocabulary (see relationship_types table)'}
- object_entity_id
- {'description': 'The entity receiving or targeted by the relationship'}
- confidence
- {'description': 'high / medium / low / speculative'}
- rationale
- {'description': 'Scholarly justification for the relationship, with source citations'}
- source_id
- {'description': 'Primary source justifying this relationship'}
- period_id
- {'description': 'Historical period in which this relationship is attested (null = all periods)'}
92 rows where relationship_type = "emanates_from"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 619 | Autogenes ENT_SET_AUTOGENES | emanates_from | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | high | Autogenes is closely associated with Barbelo in Sethian emanation structures. | Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC | reviewed | |
| 623 | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | emanates_from | Monad ENT_GNO_MONAD | high | Barbelo is the first emanation/thought from the transcendent source in Sethian systems. | Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC | reviewed | |
| 634 | Bythos ENT_VAL_BYTHOS | emanates_from | Pleroma ENT_GNO_PLEROMA | high | Bythos is the primal source of the Valentinian Pleroma. | Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures SRC_LAYTON_GNOSTIC | reviewed | |
| 1324 | Youel ENT_SET_YOUEL | emanates_from | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | medium | Youel emanates from or is closely associated with Barbelo traditions in Sethian texts. | Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC | reviewed | |
| 1645 | Cybele ENT_CYBELE | emanates_from | Agdistis ENT_PHRYG_AGDISTIS | medium | In the Pessinuntine myth (Pausanias 7.17; Arnobius 5.5-7), Cybele/Matar emerges from the story of Agdistis; Agdistis represents the undifferentiated hermaphroditic divine before gender separation. Confidence medium because this relationship is expressed mythologically, not via a direct Cybele-from-Agdistis chain; the logic is: Agdistis castrated → almond tree → Attis, and Agdistis then merges with or becomes identified as Cybele in the later myth. | Roller, Lynn E. In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999) SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE | reviewed | |
| 1646 | Attis ENT_ATTIS | emanates_from | Agdistis ENT_PHRYG_AGDISTIS | high | In the Pessinuntine myth, Attis is born from the almond tree that springs from Agdistis's severed genitals; Agdistis is thus Attis's mythological origin. Pausanias 7.17.10-12; Arnobius Adversus Nationes 5.5-7; Roller (1999) pp. 141-143. | Roller, Lynn E. In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999) SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE | reviewed | |
| 2129 | Ennoia ENT_VAL_ENNOIA | emanates_from | Bythos ENT_VAL_BYTHOS | medium | In Valentinian variants that treat Ennoia as the first emission of Bythos rather than his co-eternal companion, she is the primordial Thought emitted by the Forefather before the full Pleroma unfolds. Cf. Nag Hammadi tractates; SRC_NHC. | Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC | approved | |
| 2439 | Nous ENT_VAL_NOUS | emanates_from | Bythos ENT_VAL_BYTHOS | high | Irenaeus AH I.1.1: Bythos, after an immense period of silence with Sige, resolves to emit the beginning of all things. He projects Nous (also called Monogenes, Only-begotten, Father, and Beginning of all things) as his first emission. Nous alone among the aeons is able to comprehend the Father's immeasurable greatness. Nous is the first and highest visible expression of Bythos's inner being, paired with Aletheia (Truth). The emanation of Nous from Bythos is the first act of the divine self-disclosure within the Valentinian Pleroma. | Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002) SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2440 | Aletheia ENT_VAL_ALETHEIA | emanates_from | Sige ENT_VAL_SIGE | high | Irenaeus AH I.1.1-2: Sige (Silence), the feminine principle paired with Bythos, is the "womb" of the first divine emission — Nous+Aletheia. Aletheia (Truth) is the feminine counterpart of Nous in the first Ogdoad syzygy. She is the divine Truth that is immediately disclosed when the Father's Mind is revealed: Nous and Aletheia together constitute the first self-manifestation of the divine pair Bythos+Sige. | Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002) SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2531 | Keter ENT_JM_KETER | emanates_from | Ein Sof ENT_JM_EIN_SOF | high | Keter is the first emanation of the hidden Ein Sof. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2532 | Hokhmah ENT_JM_HOKHMAH | emanates_from | Keter ENT_JM_KETER | high | Hokhmah proceeds from Keter as the first active potency. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2533 | Binah ENT_JM_BINAH | emanates_from | Hokhmah ENT_JM_HOKHMAH | high | Binah receives and gives form to the flash of Hokhmah. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2534 | Chesed ENT_JM_CHESED | emanates_from | Binah ENT_JM_BINAH | high | Chesed proceeds from the supernal triad into the emotive Sefirot. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2535 | Gevurah ENT_JM_GEVURAH | emanates_from | Chesed ENT_JM_CHESED | high | Gevurah arises as the restraining counterpoise to Chesed. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2536 | Tiferet ENT_JM_TIFERET | emanates_from | Gevurah ENT_JM_GEVURAH | high | Tiferet harmonises Chesed and Gevurah at the centre of the tree. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2537 | Netzach ENT_JM_NETZACH | emanates_from | Tiferet ENT_JM_TIFERET | high | Netzach flows from Tiferet down the right pillar. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2538 | Hod ENT_JM_HOD | emanates_from | Netzach ENT_JM_NETZACH | high | Hod is paired with Netzach in the lower triad. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2539 | Yesod ENT_JM_YESOD | emanates_from | Hod ENT_JM_HOD | high | Yesod gathers the flow of the upper Sefirot. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2540 | Malkhut ENT_JM_MALKHUT | emanates_from | Yesod ENT_JM_YESOD | high | Malkhut receives the divine flow (shefa) through Yesod. | Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH | reviewed | Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL |
| 2570 | Prognosis ENT_SET_PROGNOSIS | emanates_from | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | high | Foreknowledge is granted to Barbelo as her aeon. | Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John), NHC II,1 / III,1 / IV,1 and BG 8502,2; c. 2nd c. CE, Egypt SRC_APOCRYPHON_JOHN | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2571 | Aphtharsia ENT_SET_APHTHARSIA | emanates_from | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | high | Incorruptibility stands forth as one of Barbelo's aeons. | Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John), NHC II,1 / III,1 / IV,1 and BG 8502,2; c. 2nd c. CE, Egypt SRC_APOCRYPHON_JOHN | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2572 | Aionia Zoe ENT_SET_AIONIA_ZOE | emanates_from | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | high | Eternal Life stands forth as one of Barbelo's aeons. | Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John), NHC II,1 / III,1 / IV,1 and BG 8502,2; c. 2nd c. CE, Egypt SRC_APOCRYPHON_JOHN | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2595 | Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH | emanates_from | Sophia ENT_GNO_SOPHIA | high | Sophia brings forth Yaldabaoth alone, without her consort or the Spirit's consent; he is her malformed offspring. | Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John), NHC II,1 / III,1 / IV,1 and BG 8502,2; c. 2nd c. CE, Egypt SRC_APOCRYPHON_JOHN | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2604 | First Mystery ENT_PS_FIRST_MYSTERY | emanates_from | Monad ENT_GNO_MONAD | high | The First Mystery is the manifest face of the Ineffable (the Monad/One). | Pistis Sophia (Askew Codex), c. 3rd-4th c. CE, Egypt SRC_PISTIS_SOPHIA | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2609 | Jeu ENT_PS_JEU | emanates_from | First Mystery ENT_PS_FIRST_MYSTERY | medium | Jeu is produced from the First Mystery to arrange the light-world. | The (Two) Books of Jeu (Bruce Codex), c. 3rd-4th c. CE, Egypt SRC_BOOKS_OF_JEU | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2629 | Great Archon ENT_BAS_GREAT_ARCHON | emanates_from | Unbegotten Father ENT_BAS_UNBEGOTTEN | medium | The Great Archon arises from the cosmic seed sown by the non-existent Father. | Hippolytus of Rome, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium (Philosophumena), c. 225-235 CE SRC_HIPPOLYTUS_REF | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2684 | Enthymesis ENT_VAL_ENTHYMESIS | emanates_from | Sophia ENT_GNO_SOPHIA | high | Enthymesis is the formless passion-offspring of Sophia's desire to grasp the Father. | Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002) SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2694 | Spiritual Seed ENT_VAL_SPIRITUAL_SEED | emanates_from | Achamoth ENT_VAL_ACHAMOTH | high | Achamoth, beholding the Saviour and his angels, conceives and sows the spiritual seed. | Einar Thomassen, The Spiritual Seed: The Church of the "Valentinians" (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 60; Brill, 2006) SRC_THOMASSEN_SEED | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2697 | Psychic ENT_VAL_PSYCHIC | emanates_from | Epistrophe ENT_VAL_EPISTROPHE | high | The psychic substance arises from Achamoth's conversion (epistrophe). | Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002) SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2698 | Hylic ENT_VAL_HYLIC | emanates_from | Lype ENT_VAL_LYPE | high | The material substance arises from Achamoth's passions of grief, fear, and perplexity. | Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), c. 180 CE; ed. Rousseau & Doutreleau, SC 263-264, 293-294, 210-211 (Cerf, 1979-2002) SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2703 | Psychic Christ ENT_VAL_PSYCHIC_CHRIST | emanates_from | Demiurge ENT_GNO_DEMIURGE | high | In the Western school the Saviour's psychic body is furnished by the Demiurge. | Hippolytus of Rome, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium (Philosophumena), c. 225-235 CE SRC_HIPPOLYTUS_REF | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2706 | Angels of the Savior ENT_VAL_ANGELS_SAVIOR | emanates_from | Soter ENT_VAL_SOTER | high | The angels accompany the Saviour out of the Pleroma. | Clement of Alexandria, Stromata and Excerpta ex Theodoto, c. 195-205 CE SRC_CLEMENT_STROM | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2733 | Protennoia ENT_SET_PROTENNOIA | emanates_from | Monad ENT_GNO_MONAD | high | Protennoia is the First Thought of the invisible One. | Marvin Meyer (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts (HarperOne, 2007) SRC_NAG_HAMMADI_SCRIPTURES | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2735 | Triple-Powered One ENT_SET_TRIPLE_POWER | emanates_from | Monad ENT_GNO_MONAD | high | The Triple-Powered One is the power of the invisible One/Spirit. | Dylan M. Burns, Apocalypse of an Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) SRC_BURNS_ALIEN_GOD | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2736 | Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO | emanates_from | Triple-Powered One ENT_SET_TRIPLE_POWER | medium | The Barbelo aeon unfolds from the Triple-Powered One in the Platonizing treatises. | Dylan M. Burns, Apocalypse of an Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) SRC_BURNS_ALIEN_GOD | reviewed | Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH |
| 2748 | Spenta Mainyu ENT_ZOR_SPENTA_MAINYU | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Spenta Mainyu is the Bounteous Spirit of Ahura Mazda. | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 2827 | Friend of the Lights ENT_MANICH_FRIEND_LIGHTS | emanates_from | Father of Greatness ENT_MANICH_FATHER_GREATNESS | high | The Friend of the Lights is evoked by the Father in the second creation. | Manichaean Kephalaia SRC_MANICHAEAN_KEPHALAIA | reviewed | |
| 2828 | Great Builder ENT_MANICH_GREAT_BUILDER | emanates_from | Friend of the Lights ENT_MANICH_FRIEND_LIGHTS | high | The Friend of the Lights calls forth the Great Builder. | Manichaean Kephalaia SRC_MANICHAEAN_KEPHALAIA | reviewed | |
| 2834 | Third Messenger ENT_MANICH_THIRD_MESSENGER | emanates_from | Father of Greatness ENT_MANICH_FATHER_GREATNESS | high | The Third Messenger is evoked by the Father in the third creation. | Manichaean Kephalaia SRC_MANICHAEAN_KEPHALAIA | reviewed | |
| 2837 | Call and Answer ENT_MANICH_CALL_ANSWER | emanates_from | Living Spirit ENT_MANICH_LIVING_SPIRIT | high | The Call and Answer are sent by the Living Spirit to the fallen Primal Man. | Manichaean Psalm Book SRC_MANICHAEAN_PSALM_BOOK | reviewed | |
| 2849 | The Twin ENT_MANICH_TWIN | emanates_from | Light Mind ENT_MANICH_LIGHT_MIND | medium | The Twin is sent from the Light-Nous (the Paraclete) to Mani. | The Cologne Mani Codex (CMC), Greek, on the life and revelations of Mani, c. 5th c. CE SRC_CMC | reviewed | |
| 2885 | Yawar Ziwa ENT_MAN_YAWAR_ZIWA | emanates_from | Hayyi Rabbi ENT_MAN_HAYYI_RABBI | medium | Yawar Ziwa proceeds from the Great Life. | Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA | reviewed | |
| 2891 | Adam Kasia ENT_MAN_ADAM_KASIA | emanates_from | World of Light ENT_MAN_WORLD_LIGHT | medium | The hidden Adam is the light-soul descended from the World of Light. | Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA | reviewed | |
| 2928 | Holy Spirit ENT_CHR_HOLY_SPIRIT | emanates_from | God the Father ENT_CHR_GOD_FATHER | high | The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (Nicene Creed). | The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, 325/381 CE SRC_NICENE_CREED | reviewed | |
| 2942 | Demiurge ENT_HER_DEMIURGE | emanates_from | Nous ENT_HER_NOUS | high | The Demiurge is the second Mind brought forth by the first Nous (CH I.9). | Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM | reviewed | |
| 2947 | Hecate (Chaldean) ENT_HER_HECATE_CHALDEAN | emanates_from | Paternal Intellect ENT_HER_PATERNAL_INTELLECT | high | The cosmic Hecate proceeds as the Power between the first Father and the second Intellect. | The Chaldean Oracles (ed. R. Majercik / E. des Places), c. 2nd c. CE SRC_CHALDEAN_ORACLES | reviewed | |
| 2949 | World Soul ENT_HER_WORLD_SOUL | emanates_from | Hecate (Chaldean) ENT_HER_HECATE_CHALDEAN | medium | In the Chaldean system souls flow from the cosmic Hecate, the source of the World Soul. | The Chaldean Oracles (ed. R. Majercik / E. des Places), c. 2nd c. CE SRC_CHALDEAN_ORACLES | reviewed | |
| 2950 | Iynges ENT_HER_IYNGES | emanates_from | Paternal Intellect ENT_HER_PATERNAL_INTELLECT | high | The Iynges are the thoughts of the Father (Chaldean Oracles fr. 77). | The Chaldean Oracles (ed. R. Majercik / E. des Places), c. 2nd c. CE SRC_CHALDEAN_ORACLES | reviewed | |
| 2953 | Henads ENT_HER_HENADS | emanates_from | The One ENT_HER_THE_ONE | high | The henads are the first divine multiplicity proceeding from the One (Proclus, ET 113ff). | Proclus, The Elements of Theology (Stoicheiosis Theologike), c. 5th c. CE SRC_PROCLUS_ELEMENTS | reviewed | |
| 2954 | World Soul ENT_HER_WORLD_SOUL | emanates_from | Nous ENT_HER_NOUS | high | The World Soul proceeds from Intellect, the third from the second hypostasis (Plotinus). | Plotinus, Enneads (ed. Porphyry), c. 270 CE SRC_PLOTINUS_ENNEADS | reviewed | |
| 2955 | Personal Daimon ENT_HER_PERSONAL_DAIMON | emanates_from | Encosmic Gods ENT_HER_ENCOSMIC_GODS | medium | The personal daimon is allotted to each soul from the cosmic order (De Myst. IX.6). | Iamblichus, De Mysteriis SRC_IAMBLICHUS_DE_MYSTERIIS | reviewed | |
| 3082 | Uncreated Light ENT_ORTH_UNCREATED_LIGHT | emanates_from | God the Father ENT_CHR_GOD_FATHER | high | The uncreated light is the divine energies that proceed from God (Palamas). | Gregory Palamas, Triads in Defence of the Holy Hesychasts, c. 1338-1341 SRC_PALAMAS_TRIADS | reviewed | |
| 3102 | Kav ENT_JM_KAV | emanates_from | Ein Sof ENT_JM_EIN_SOF | high | The Kav is the ray of the Infinite Light re-entering the vacated space. | Hayyim Vital, Etz Hayyim (the Tree of Life), c. 1573 (the systematic exposition of Isaac Luria's teaching) SRC_ETZ_HAYYIM | reviewed | |
| 3103 | Adam Kadmon ENT_JM_ADAM_KADMON | emanates_from | Kav ENT_JM_KAV | high | Adam Kadmon is the first emanation projected through the Kav into the vacated space. | Hayyim Vital, Etz Hayyim (the Tree of Life), c. 1573 (the systematic exposition of Isaac Luria's teaching) SRC_ETZ_HAYYIM | reviewed | |
| 3109 | Beriah ENT_JM_BERIAH | emanates_from | Atziluth ENT_JM_ATZILUTH | high | Beriah proceeds from Atziluth in the descent of the worlds. | Zohar SRC_ZOHAR | reviewed | |
| 3110 | Yetzirah ENT_JM_YETZIRAH | emanates_from | Beriah ENT_JM_BERIAH | high | Yetzirah proceeds from Beriah. | Zohar SRC_ZOHAR | reviewed | |
| 3111 | Assiah ENT_JM_ASSIAH | emanates_from | Yetzirah ENT_JM_YETZIRAH | high | Assiah proceeds from Yetzirah, the lowest of the four worlds. | Zohar SRC_ZOHAR | reviewed | |
| 3176 | The Celestial Hierarchy ENT_DIO_CELESTIAL_HIERARCHY | emanates_from | The Thearchy (Godhead) ENT_DIO_THEARCHY | high | The whole hierarchy proceeds from the superessential Thearchy. | Pseudo-Dionysius, Celestial Hierarchy SRC_PSEUDO_DIONYSIUS_CELESTIAL_HIERARCHY | reviewed | |
| 3177 | First Celestial Triad (Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones) ENT_DIO_FIRST_TRIAD | emanates_from | The Thearchy (Godhead) ENT_DIO_THEARCHY | high | The first triad is illuminated immediately by God. | Pseudo-Dionysius, Celestial Hierarchy SRC_PSEUDO_DIONYSIUS_CELESTIAL_HIERARCHY | reviewed | |
| 3194 | Procession and Return (Proodos and Epistrophe) ENT_DIO_PROCESSION_RETURN | emanates_from | The Good (Agathon) ENT_DIO_THE_GOOD | high | All things proceed (proodos) from the Good and return (epistrophe) to it. | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, On the Divine Names (Peri theion onomaton), c. 500 CE (trans. J. Parker, The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, 1897) SRC_PSEUDO_DIONYSIUS_DIVINE_NAMES | reviewed | |
| 3210 | The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy ENT_DIO_ECCLESIASTICAL_HIERARCHY | emanates_from | The Thearchy (Godhead) ENT_DIO_THEARCHY | high | The ecclesiastical hierarchy also proceeds from the one Thearchy. | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy (Peri tes ekklesiastikes hierarchias), c. 500 CE (trans. J. Parker, 1897) SRC_PSEUDO_DIONYSIUS_ECCLESIASTICAL_HIERARCHY | reviewed | |
| 3873 | Asman ENT_ZOR_ASMAN | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Yazata of the sky, a creation of Ahura Mazda | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 3874 | Chista ENT_ZOR_CHISTA | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Yazata of religious insight, a creation of Ahura Mazda | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 3875 | Drvaspa ENT_ZOR_DRVASPA | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Yazata guarding cattle and horses, created by Ahura Mazda | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 3877 | Haoma ENT_ZOR_HAOMA | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Deified sacred plant and priest-god, a yazata | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 3878 | Nairyosangha ENT_ZOR_NAIRYOSANGHA | emanates_from | Ahura Mazda ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | high | Messenger yazata created by Ahura Mazda | Avesta SRC_AVESTA | reviewed | |
| 6451 | Mother of Life ENT_MANICH_MOTHER_LIFE | emanates_from | Father of Greatness ENT_MANICH_FATHER_GREATNESS | high | First Evocation: the Father of Greatness evokes the Mother of Life. Standard three-evocation cosmogony in the Kephalaia and Theodore bar Konai's summary. | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6452 | Primal Man ENT_MANICH_PRIMAL_MAN | emanates_from | Mother of Life ENT_MANICH_MOTHER_LIFE | high | The Mother of Life evokes Primal Man (Ohrmazd) as the Father's warrior against Darkness; second link of the First Creation chain. | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6454 | Living Spirit ENT_MANICH_LIVING_SPIRIT | emanates_from | Mother of Life ENT_MANICH_MOTHER_LIFE | high | Second Creation: in response to Primal Man's prayer the Father (with the Mother of Life) evokes the Living Spirit to descend and rescue him. Lieu. | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6456 | Maiden of Light ENT_MANICH_MAIDEN_LIGHT | emanates_from | Third Messenger ENT_MANICH_THIRD_MESSENGER | high | The Maiden of Light is evoked with the Third Messenger and displayed to the archons to release the Light through the seduction of the rulers. Theodore bar Konai. | Manichaean Kephalaia SRC_MANICHAEAN_KEPHALAIA | reviewed | |
| 6457 | Column of Glory ENT_MANICH_COLUMN_GLORY | emanates_from | Third Messenger ENT_MANICH_THIRD_MESSENGER | medium | The Column of Glory, ascending channel of liberated Light, is established within the third-creation apparatus deployed by the Third Messenger. Kephalaia. | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6458 | Jesus Splendour ENT_MANICH_JESUS_SPLENDOUR | emanates_from | Third Messenger ENT_MANICH_THIRD_MESSENGER | medium | Jesus the Splendour is sent in the wake of the Third Messenger to awaken Adam and reveal gnosis; among the later Evocations of the saving sequence. Lieu; Kephalaia. | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6459 | Light Mind ENT_MANICH_LIGHT_MIND | emanates_from | Jesus Splendour ENT_MANICH_JESUS_SPLENDOUR | medium | The Light Mind (the Great Nous) proceeds from Jesus the Splendour to organize the Church and indwell the elect. Kephalaia ch. 38 ('On the Light Mind'). | Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM | reviewed | |
| 6475 | Manda d-Hayyi ENT_MAN_MANDA_D_HAYYI | emanates_from | Hayyi Rabbi ENT_MAN_HAYYI_RABBI | high | In Mandaean theology Manda d-Hayyi ('Knowledge of Life'), the chief revealer-savior, proceeds from Hayyi Rabbi (the Great Life); the Ginza Rba and Drower's account present him as the messenger emanated by the supreme Life. Source: SRC_GINZA_RBA; SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS. | E. S. Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS | reviewed | |
| 6476 | Uthras ENT_MAN_UTHRAS | emanates_from | Hayyi Rabbi ENT_MAN_HAYYI_RABBI | high | The uthras (lightworld beings) collectively emanate from the Great Life Hayyi Rabbi, source of the World of Light's luminous beings. Source: SRC_GINZA_RBA; SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS. | Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA | reviewed | |
| 6477 | Mana Rabba ENT_MAN_MANA_RABBA | emanates_from | Hayyi Rabbi ENT_MAN_HAYYI_RABBI | medium | Mana Rabba ('Great Mind/Treasure'), the supreme principle/first being, is treated in Mandaean cosmogony as proceeding from or co-extensive with the Great Life Hayyi Rabbi at the head of the World of Light. Source: SRC_GINZA_RBA; SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS. | E. S. Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS | reviewed | |
| 6506 | Zurvan daregho-chvadhata ENT_ZOR_ZURVAN_DAREGHO | emanates_from | Zurvan akarana ENT_ZOR_ZURVAN_AKARANA | medium | In the Zurvanite cosmology Finite Time (daregho-chvadhata), the 9,000/12,000-year cycle within which the cosmic battle unfolds, is carved out of / issues from Boundless Time (akarana) so that the conflict may reach resolution (Zaehner, Zurvan, 1955, pp. 219ff.). | R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma (1955) SRC_ZAEHNER_ZURVAN | reviewed | |
| 6515 | The Heptad (Haft Sirr / Seven Mysteries) ENT_YAZ_HEPTAD | emanates_from | Xwede ENT_YAZ_XWEDE | high | Xwede, the remote creator, brings forth and delegates the world to the Heptad (Kreyenbroek). | Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Yezidism: Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM | reviewed | |
| 6516 | Tawusi Melek (Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel) ENT_YAZ_TAWUSI_MELEK | emanates_from | Xwede ENT_YAZ_XWEDE | high | Tawusi Melek is the foremost emanation/vicegerent of Xwede (Spat, Kreyenbroek). | Eszter Spat, The Yezidis (London: Saqi, 2005) SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS | reviewed | |
| 6532 | Al-Nafs al-Kulliyya (the Universal Soul) ENT_DRZ_AL_NAFS | emanates_from | Al-Aql al-Kulli (the Universal Intellect) ENT_DRZ_AL_AQL | high | In Druze cosmology the Universal Soul emanates from the Universal Intellect. | Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin, The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith and Society (Brill, 1984) SRC_ABU_IZZEDDIN_DRUZES | reviewed | |
| 6533 | Al-Kalima (the Word) ENT_DRZ_AL_KALIMA | emanates_from | Al-Nafs al-Kulliyya (the Universal Soul) ENT_DRZ_AL_NAFS | high | The Word emanates from the Universal Soul in the descending hierarchy of luminaries. | Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin, The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith and Society (Brill, 1984) SRC_ABU_IZZEDDIN_DRUZES | reviewed | |
| 6534 | Al-Sabiq (the Preceder / Right Wing) ENT_DRZ_AL_SABIQ | emanates_from | Al-Kalima (the Word) ENT_DRZ_AL_KALIMA | high | The Preceder emanates from the Word. | Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin, The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith and Society (Brill, 1984) SRC_ABU_IZZEDDIN_DRUZES | reviewed | |
| 6535 | Al-Tali (the Follower / Left Wing) ENT_DRZ_AL_TALI | emanates_from | Al-Sabiq (the Preceder / Right Wing) ENT_DRZ_AL_SABIQ | high | The Follower emanates from the Preceder, completing the five ranks. | Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin, The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith and Society (Brill, 1984) SRC_ABU_IZZEDDIN_DRUZES | reviewed | |
| 6566 | Mazhariyya (chain of manifestation) ENT_YRS_MAZHARIYYA | emanates_from | Divine Essence (Dhat / Haqq) ENT_YRS_DIVINE_ESSENCE | medium | The doctrine of mazhariyya describes how successive manifestations issue from the hidden Divine Essence (Mir-Hosseini). | Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Inner Truth and Outer History: The Two Worlds of the Ahl-i Haqq of Kurdistan (IJMES 1994) SRC_MIRHOSSEINI_AHLEHAQQ | reviewed | |
| 6580 | al-Ism (the Name) ENT_ALW_ISM | emanates_from | al-Ma'na (the Meaning) ENT_ALW_MANA | high | Nusayri emanationist cosmology: the Name (Ism) is emanated from the Meaning (Ma'na) (Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002). | Heinz Halm, Die islamische Gnosis: Die extreme Schia und die 'Alawiten (Zurich/Munich: Artemis, 1982) SRC_HALM_GNOSIS | reviewed | |
| 6581 | al-Bab (the Gate) ENT_ALW_BAB | emanates_from | al-Ism (the Name) ENT_ALW_ISM | high | The Gate (Bab) is emanated from the Name (Ism), completing the descending triad (Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002). | Heinz Halm, Die islamische Gnosis: Die extreme Schia und die 'Alawiten (Zurich/Munich: Artemis, 1982) SRC_HALM_GNOSIS | reviewed | |
| 6582 | The Aytam / Five Incomparable Ones (al-Aytam al-Khamsa) ENT_ALW_MUQADDASIYYA | emanates_from | al-Bab (the Gate) ENT_ALW_BAB | medium | The five Aytam are attested as emanated below the Bab in the Nusayri cosmic hierarchy (Bar-Asher & Kofsky 2002). | Meir M. Bar-Asher and Aryeh Kofsky, The Nusayri-'Alawi Religion: An Enquiry into its Theology and Liturgy (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 1; Leiden: Brill, 2002) SRC_BAR_ASHER_KOFSKY | reviewed | |
| 6846 | The Glory (Kavod / the divine Light) ENT_SAM_GLORY | emanates_from | Shema (the One God of the Samaritans) ENT_SAM_SHEMA | medium | The Glory is God's own manifest presence/Light proceeding from the one God. | Memar Marqah (Tibat Marqe), 4th-c. Samaritan Aramaic theological treatise attributed to Marqah, ed./trans. J. Macdonald (BZAW 84, 1963) SRC_MEMAR_MARQAH | reviewed | |
| 6981 | Covenant (Bahá'í) ENT_BAH_COVENANT | emanates_from | Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Husayn-Alí Núrí) ENT_BAH_BAHAULLAH | high | The Bahá'í Covenant derives its authority from Bahá'u'lláh's appointment of successors (replaces an incorrect reception_of). | Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book), Bahá'í World Centre edition SRC_BAHAI_KITAB_AQDAS | reviewed | |
| 7609 | The Horned God ENT_WIC_HORNED_GOD | emanates_from | The Dryghtyn (the One) ENT_WIC_DRYGHTYN | medium | In Wiccan theology the God and Goddess emanate from the impersonal Dryghtyn / the One. | Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale, 1978) SRC_VALIENTE_WFT | reviewed | |
| 7610 | The Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) ENT_WIC_TRIPLE_GODDESS | emanates_from | The Dryghtyn (the One) ENT_WIC_DRYGHTYN | medium | The Goddess is understood within the tradition as a manifestation emanating from the supreme Dryghtyn. | Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale, 1978) SRC_VALIENTE_WFT | reviewed | |
| 7906 | The Lwa ENT_VOD_LWA | emanates_from | Bondye ENT_VOD_BONDYE | high | The lwa serve and mediate the remote creator Bondye, who is their ultimate source (Métraux; Murphy). | Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT | reviewed |
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