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( Âýèïò , the abyss) was the primal essence, among the Valentinian Gnostics, where the spirit is lost in contemplation. According to this system all existence has its ground in the self-limitation of the Buthos, which has in it a fulness of divine life that flows out in the complete series of ceons (q.v.). -Gardner, Faiths of the World, s.v. SEE GNOSTICS.