These personified attributes of Deity, in the theory of Basilides, were the [Greek: Πρωτόγονος] or _First-born_, [Greek: Νου̃ς][_Nous_ or _Mind_]: from it emanates [Greek: Λογος] [_Logos_, or THE WORD] from it [Greek: Φρόνησις]: [_Phronesis, Intellect_]: from it [Greek: Σοφια] [_Sophia, Wisdom_]: from it [Greek: Δύναμις] [_Dunamis, Power_]: and from it [Greek: Δικαιοσύνη] [_Dikaiosune, Righteousness_]: to which latter the Jews gave the name of [Greek: Ειρηνη] [_Eirene, Peace_, or _Calm_], the essential characteristics of Divinity, and harmonious effect of all His perfections. The whole number of successive emanations was 365, expressed by the Gnostics, in Greek letters, by the mystic word [Greek: ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ] [_Abraxas_]; designating God as manifested, or the aggregate of his manifestations; but not the Supreme and Secret God Himself. These three hundred and sixty-five Intelligences compose altogether the Fullness or _Plenitude_ [[Greek: Πληρωμα]] of the Divine Emanations. With the Ophites, a sect of the Gnostics, there were seven inferior spirits [inferior to Ialdabaoth, the Demiourgos or Actual Creator]: _Michaël, Surièl, Raphaël, Gabriel, Thauthabaoth, Erataoth_, and _Athaniel_, the genii of the stars called the Bull, the Dog, the Lion, the Bear, the Serpent, the Eagle, and the Ass that formerly figured in the constellation Cancer, and symbolized respectively by those animals; as _Ialdabaoth, Iao, Adonaï, Eloï, Oraï_, and _Astaphaï_ were the genii of Saturn, the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury. The WORD appears in all these creeds. It is the _Ormuzd_ of Zoroaster, the _Ainsoph_ of the Kabalah, the _Nous_ of Platonism and Philonism, and the _Sophia_ or _Demiourgos_ of the Gnostics. And all these creeds, while admitting these different manifestations of the Supreme Being, held that His identity was immutable and permanent. That was Plato's distinction between the Being always the same [Greek: τό όυ] and the perpetual flow of things incessantly changing, the Genesis. The belief in dualism in some shape, was universal. Those who held that everything emanated from God, aspired to God, and re-entered into God, believed that, among those emanations were two adverse Principles, of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil. This prevailed in Central Asia and in Syria; while in Egypt it assumed the form of Greek speculation. In the former, a second Intellectual Principle was admitted, active in its Empire of Darkness, audacious against the Empire of Light. So the Persians and Sabeans understood it. In Egypt, this second Principle was Matter, as the word was used by the Platonic School, with its sad attributes, Vacuity, Darkness, and Death. In their theory, matter could be animated only by the low communication of a principle of divine life. It resists the influences that would spiritualize it. That resisting Power is Satan, the rebellious Matter, Matter that does not partake of God.