McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Barbelo

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Barbelo


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one of the chief female aeons of the Gnostics, especially of the Nicolaites and the Borborians, the mother of every thing living. She lived with the father of the universe and with Christ in the eighth heaven. Hence the surname Barbelites, which was given to the Gnostics. SEE GNOSTICISM.