Editing Abraxas (section)

=== As an aeon ===
With the availability of primary sources, such as those in the [[Nag Hammadi library]], the identity of Abraxas remains unclear. The ''Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit'', for instance, refers to Abraxas as an [[Aeon (Gnosticism)|Aeon]] dwelling with [[Sophia (wisdom)|Sophia]] and other Aeons of the [[Pleroma]] in the light of the luminary [[Eleleth]]. In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries (Spiritual Lights) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues. As such, the role of Aeons of Eleleth, including Abraxas, Sophia, and others, pertains to this outer border of the Pleroma that encounters the ignorance of the world of Lack and interacts to rectify the error of ignorance in the world of materiality.

In the Apocalypse of Adam, Abrasax is sent along with [[Sablo]] and [[Gamaliel]] to bring some of the Gnostic people "out of the fire and the wrath, and take them above the aeons and the rulers of the powers, and take them away [...] of life [...] and take them away [...] aeons [...] dwelling place of the great [...] there, with the holy angels and the aeons. The men will be like those angels, for they are not strangers to them."<ref name="ApocAdamMacRae">{{cite web |last1=MacRae |first1=George W. (trans) |title=The Apocalypse of Adam |url=http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/adam.html |website=The Gnostic Society Library |publisher=[[Gnostic Society]] |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>