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- noun Plural form of
syzygy .
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(known as syzygies) occured before or after solar maximum.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Valentinianism they form antithetic pairs or "syzygies" (syzygoi);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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But it is not so with the “pororoca,” that species of eddy which for three days in the height of the syzygies raises the waters of the
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The first series of beings, the aeons, were thirty in number, representing fifteen syzygies or pairs sexually complementary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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In the Valentinian syzygies and in the Marcosian system we meet in the fourth
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The metaphysical relation between these two gods troubled Marcion little; of divine emanation, aeons, syzygies, eternally opposed principles of good and evil, he knows nothing.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Sophia produces the world by a successive evolution of syzygies, the female in each case preceding the male but being finally overcome by him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Greek soil, Gnosticism, slightly changing its barbarous and Seminitic terminology and giving its "emanatons" and "syzygies" Greek names, sounded somewhat like neo-Platonism, thought it was strongly repudiated by Plotinus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The more fantastic elements and elaborate genealogies and syzygies of æons of the later Gnosis are still absent in these systems.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The syzygies are characteristic of the Valentinian teaching, and the symbolism of marriage plays an important part in the “system” of all the Valentinians.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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