abraxas, n.All

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠love and love's murder, the saint and his betrayer.

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing exotic: it is the love of man, the speech of man, the appearance and the shadow of man.

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dominus mundi, lord of the physical world, a world-creator of ambivalent nature — the dark antithesis in the depths to the divine child in the winged egg above.

Abraxas (n.) gives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us LIFE, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil — a power greatest because man does not see it, since in his eyes its warring opposites cancel out.

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mightiest created being, in whom creation is afraid of itself: the son's horror of the mother and the mother's love for the son, the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens — deceptive reality.

Abraxas (n.) speaks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the hallowed and accursed word that is at once life and death, producing truth and lying, good and evil, in the same word and the same act — splendid as the lion in the instant he strikes, beautiful as a spring day.

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to be feared, not sought — he will find you, like Eros: worship him and you increase his power over you; the more you free yourself from him, the closer you come to death, since he is the life of the universe.

Abraxas (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the God mankind forgot: effectiveness itself, which joins God and devil and stands above both — improbable probability, that which takes unreal effect; force, duration, change.