In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.

He is Demiurge and maker of man, but as a ray of light from above enters the body of man and gives him a soul, Yaldabaoth is filled with envy ; he tries to limit man's knowledge by forbidding him the fruit of knowledge in paradise.

Under the name of Nebro ( rebel ), Yaldabaoth is called an angel in the apocryphal Gospel of Judas.

The most probable derivation of the name “ Yaldabaoth ” is that given by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, “ Daughter of Chaos ,” from Hebrew yalda bahut, ילדא בהות.

But it is only the name that can be said to be specially Valentinian ; the personage intended by it corresponds more or less closely with the Yaldabaoth of the Ophites, the great Archon of Basilides, the Elohim of Justinus, etc.

Authadia ( Authades ), or Audacity, is the obvious description of Yaldabaoth, the presumptuous Demiurge, who is lion-faced as the Archon Authadia.

The story proceeds to give a version of Old Testament history, in which Yaldabaoth is represented as making a series of efforts to obtain exclusive adoration for himself, and to avenge himself on those who refused to pay it, while he is counteracted by Prunikos, who strives to enlighten mankind as to the existence of higher powers more deserving of adoration.

For as righteous souls instead of returning to him are united to Christ, Yaldabaoth is less and less able to bestow any of the Light-fluid on souls afterwards entering this world, and can only breathe into them his own animal breath.

Then Yaldabaoth who is also called Samael and Saklas, said “ let us make man in our image ” ( 15: 1-2 ).

Also, in another version Eve is created from Sophia ’ s repenting, not by Yaldabaoth and his archons.

This counterfeit spirit allows Yaltabaoth and his agents to deceive the human race, keeping them in ignorance of their true nature, and is the primary means by which Yaldabaoth keeps humanity in subjugation.

* Yaldabaoth, called also Saklas and Samael

They exhort that Moses was blind in not seeing that there was a higher God than the God of the Old Testament who was to them, an evil demiurge called Yaldabaoth.

But Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge, with the material world, will be cast into the lower depths.

In Pistis Sophia Yaldabaoth has already sunk from his high estate and resides in Chaos, where, with his forty-nine demons, he tortures wicked souls in boiling rivers of pitch, and with other punishments ( pp. 257, 382 ).

What tended most to obliterate the sevenfold distinction was the identification of the God of the Jews, the Lawgiver, with Yaldabaoth and his designation as World-creator, whereas formerly the seven planets together ruled the world.

Meanwhile a son, Yaldabaoth, born to her from her contact with the waters, having in him a certain breath of the incorruptible light left him from his mother, by means of which he works, generates from the waters a son without any mother.

But it came to pass that these sons strove for mastery with their father Yaldabaoth, whereat he suffered great affliction, and casting his despairing gaze on the dregs of matter below, he, through them, consolidated his longing and obtained a son Ophiomorphus, the serpent-formed Nous, whence come the spirit and soul, and all things of this lower world ; but whence came also oblivion, wickedness, jealousy, envy, and death.

Yaldabaoth, stretching himself over his upper heaven, had shut out from all below the knowledge that there was anything higher than himself, and having puffed up with pride at the sons whom he had begotten without help from his mother, he cried,

The story proceeds to tell that Christ, sitting on the right hand of the father Yaldabaoth, without his knowledge enriches himself with the souls of those who had known him, inflicting a corresponding loss on Yaldabaoth.

This results in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of the Yaldabaoth, a ' serpent with a lion's head '.

The archons are perhaps identical with the seven generations of Yaldabaoth.

Although Adam had a body, Yaldabaoth could not get him to move.

Then Sophia devised by means of the serpent to seduce Eve and Adam to transgress the precept of Yaldabaoth ; and Eve, accepting the advice of one who seemed a Son of God, persuaded Adam also to eat of the forbidden tree.

Different gnostic schools sometimes identified the demiurge as Adam Kadmon, Ahriman, El, Saklas, Samael, Satan, Yaldabaoth, or Yahweh.

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When the heavenly powers marvelled at this voice, Yaldabaoth, to call off their attention, exclaimed ," Let us make man after our image.

" Then the six powers formed a gigantic man, the mother Sophia having given assistance to the design, in order that by this means she might recover the Light-fluid from Yaldabaoth.

At this Yaldabaoth, being jealous, planned to despoil the man by means of a woman, and formed Eve, of whose beauty the six powers being enamoured generated sons from her, namely, the angels.

Thereupon Yaldabaoth cast Adam and Eve out of Paradise ; but the mother had secretly emptied them of the Light-fluid in order that it might not share the curse or reproach.

Sophia, apprized of the coming help, announced his advent by John, prepared the baptism of repentance, and by means of her son, Yaldabaoth, got ready a woman to receive the annunciation from Christ, in order that when he came there might be a pure and clean vessel to receive him, namely Jesus, who, being born of a virgin by divine power, was wiser, purer, and more righteous than any other man.

Then Yaldabaoth and the other princes of the Hebdomad, being angry, sought to have Jesus crucified, but Christ and Sophia did not share his passion, having withdrawn themselves into the incorruptible Aeon.

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