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Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:01 pm
by Secret Alias
Re: Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:09 pm
by Ben C. Smith
In 1981 A. J. Welburn wrote an article about reconstructing the Ophite Diagram, and he came up with this complicated thing:
- Ophite Diagram.jpg (89.18 KiB) Viewed 1812 times
I do not feel competent to comment on it, though.
Re: Is This What the Essence of the Ophite Diagram Looked Like?
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:16 pm
by Secret Alias
Me neither. I just saw the Pythagorean diagram (above) and thought it had a lot of the elements - the 'dividing line,' the small circle etc. The small circle goes around a tetrad which was taken by the neo-Platonists to be the Demiurge who is the Son of the Christian understanding. The cross is there too. Since all the gnostic groups venerated the tetrad it's presence at the center of the diagram is significant.
