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OPHİTE DİYAGRAMLARI - İNGİLİZCE TERCÜME
Celsus' Description of the Ophite Diagrams (according to Origen)
Estimated Range of Dating: 130-160 A.D.
Short excerpts of text from Origen Contra Celsus Book 6,
Chapter 24 to 38:] Celsus says there is a diagram consisting of ten
[or seven] separate circles, circumscribed by one circle which is
said to be the world-soul and is called Leviathan. The diagram is
divided by a thick black line, which is called Gehenna, or in Greek
Tartarus. The "seal" is that of the one who imposes it, who is called
Father, the one sealed is called Youth and Son, and he responds,
"I have been anointed with the white chrism from the tree of life".
There are seven angels, who delivered the seal; they stand on both
sides of the soul set it free from the body; and there are other
angels of light who are called Archontics. The Archon of the so-called
Archontics is the accursed god of the Jews, who makes rain and thunder.
He is the Demiurge of this world, the God of Moses described in his
creation narrative. Of the Seven archontic demons, the first is
lion-shaped; the second is a bull; the third is amphibious and hisses
horribly; the fourth is in the form of an eagle ; the fifth has the
appearance of a bear, the sixth, that of a dog ; and the seventh, that
of an ass named Thaphabaoth or Onoel.
They add still further matters; the sayings of prophets, and circles
upon circles, and emanations of the earthly church and of circumcision,
and the power emanating from a certain virgin Prunikos, and a living
soul, and a Heaven slain that it may live, and earth slain with a
sword, and many slain that they might live, and death stopped in Heaven,
when the world's sin dies, and a narrow way back, and doors opening
automatically. Everywhere there is the Tree of Life and a resurrection
of flesh of the tree.
Origen's Description of the Ophite Diagrams
[Short excerpts of text from Origen Contra Celsus Book 6,
Chapter 24 to 38:] In this diagram are the greater and the smaller
circle. On their diameters is inscribed "Father" and "Son." Between
the greater, in which the smaller lies, and another circle, consisting
of two circles, the outer yellow and the inner dark blue, is the
barrier, shaped like a two-edged axe. Above it is a small circle,
smaller than the larger of those already mentioned, with "love"
written on it.
The Ophite Diagram (Hypothetical Reconstruction):
(Based on the reconstruction in: A. H. B. Logan, The Gnostics:
Identifying an Early Christian Cult, 2006, p 42)
(RESİM: MAS/DİAGRAM)
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