Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt [1] who taught from 117 to 138 AD, [* 1] and claimed to have inherited his teachings …

Basilides (flourished 2nd century ad, Alexandria) was a scholar and teacher, who founded a school of Gnosticism known as the Basilidians. He probably was a pupil of Menander in …

The Basilidians or Basilideans / ˌ b æ s ɪ ˈ l ɪ d i ə n z, ˌ b æ z-/ were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century. Basilides claimed to have been taught his doctrines …

Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized spiritual realities and promoted a complex …

Basilides (Βασιλείδης), the founder of one of the semi-Christian sects, commonly called Gnostic, which sprang up in the early part of the 2nd cent. 1. Biography. —He called himself a disciple …

Information on Basilides. Irenaeus gives the following account of the doctrines of Basilides in Against Heresies, Book I, Chapter 24, sections 3-7. 3. Basilides again, that he may appear to …

May 23, 2018 · A Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria, who claimed to have received his esoteric doctrines from Glaucias, a disciple of the apostle Peter. Basilides recognized one …

It is a phrase of Basilides: "God is Not-Being, even He, who made the world out of what was not; Not-Being made Not-Being." Basilides distinctly rejected both emanation and the eternity of …

Basilides invented prophets for himself named Barcabbas and Barcoph, and claimed to have received verbal instructions from St. Matthias the Apostle and to be a disciple of Glaucias, a …

Basilides, the earliest of the Alexandrian Gnostics; he was a native of Alexandria and flourished under the Emperors Adrian and Antoninus Pius, about 120-140. S...