Sabaoth = Saklas = Samael = Satan = Demiurge

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Giuseppe
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Sabaoth = Saklas = Samael = Satan = Demiurge

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And Zoe (Life), the daughter of Pistis Sophia, cried out and said to him, "You are mistaken, Sakla!" – for which the alternative name is Yaltabaoth.

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/hypostas.html

Hence Saklas is the name of the fallen demiurge.

So Book of Enoch 6:
1It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful.

2And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.

3Then their leader Samyaza said to them; I fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise;

https://reluctant-messenger.com/1enoch0 ... #Chapter06

Hence the talmudic legend of the fallen angel Samael who also entered the serpent to make Eve disobey.

Lastly, Samael becomes Satan, as in John 8:44, where he is identified again with the demiurge (so April DeConick).
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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