cosmology
Luminaries
The light-world beings of Sethian cosmology — the twelve androgynous luminaries, expanded to seventy-two and then three hundred sixty in numerical hierarchies — the structured population of the divine realm, each ruling its own aeons and heavens; distinct from aeons (the divine archetypes themselves) in being the administrative light-orders of the pleroma.
2 passages · 2 traditions
gnosticism1
Gospel of Judas | Jesus Reveals Everything to Judas-a
“Jesus said, "[Come] and I'll teach you about the [mysteries that no] human [will] see, because there exists a great and boundless realm whose horizons no angelic generation has seen, [in] which is a [great] invisible Spirit, which no [angel…”
theosophy1
The Secret Doctrine | Page 88 (part 11)
“The seven Rishis and the fourteen Manus of the seven Manvantaras -- issue from Brahma's head; they are his "mind-born sons," and it is with them that begins the division of mankind and its races from the Heavenly man, "the Logos" (the manif…”