Basilidean

English

Alternative forms

• Basilidian

Noun

Basilidean (plural Basilideans)

1. A member of a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century.

Adjective

Basilidean (comparative more Basilidean, superlative most Basilidean)

1. Of or relating to the Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria.
   • 1982, Stephan A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead:

     In the Second Sermon Jung is concerned with the existence of a primal dichotomy within the psyche, a dichotomy which is united by a mysterious reconciling power of existential activity, named by Jung on the Basilidean model as Abraxas.