ogdoad

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  1. A thing made up of eight parts, as a poem of eight lines, a body of eight persons, or the like.
  2. In Gnosticism: In the system of Basilides (see Basilidianism), a group of eight divine beings, namely the supreme god and the seven most direct emanations from him; according to another authority, the ethereal region where the great archon sits at the right hand of his father. It [the first sonship] embraces the seven highest genii, which in union with the great Father form the first ogdoad, the type of all the lower circles of creation. Schaff, Hist. Christ. Church, II. § 124.
  3. In the system of Valentinus, a group of eight divine beings called eons. The ogdoad, with the addition of the decad and the dodecad, makes up the sum of thirty eons called the pleroma.

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  • From that, again, it follows that the Jaina doctrine of bondage and release is untenable; according to which doctrine 'the soul, which in the state of bondage is encompassed by the ogdoad of works and sunk in the ocean of sa/m/sâra, rises when its bonds are sundered, as the gourd rises to the surface of the water when it is freed from the encumbering clay [415].' —  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
 

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  1. from Late Latin ogdoas (ogdoad-), from Greek ὀγδοάς (ὀγδοαδ-), the number eight, from ὀκτώ = English eight: see octave.
 

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