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Yaldabaoth

(Yaltabaoth, Ialdabaoth, Jaldabaoth, "yalda baoth") From the Aramaic language, meaning "begetter of the Heavens". A name corresponding to the Demiurge meaning Child-lord. The chief Archon, according to the "Apocryphon of John". ("Jung and the Lost Gospels", Hoeller, Quest, 1994, p. 141.) Also equated with Saklas, and Samael. ("Trimorphic Protennoia".)

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