Sabaoth

**Sabaoth** is one of the son of chaos, Yaldabaoth, and is one of his Archons.

## Overview

Sabaoth is one of the many archons created by Sophia's abortion, Yaldabaoth. However, unlike his father/mother, Sabaoth is a benevolent and even good entity. It is even considered the opposite of Yaldabaoth, similar to the dualism of Yesh and Ayin, but on an infinitesimally smaller scale.

## Appearance

Sabaoth's usual appearance is that of a warm colored serpent with a dragons head. This form usually has multiple heads and horns and is mostly depicted as more red. This is the form he originally used when he was birthed from Yaldabaoth, a deity with an equally terrifying form.

On Earth, during a conversation with Satanael in Mumbai, India, he appeared as a thin man, wearing a white kurta, typically Indian attire, and had long honey-colored hair and serene green eyes. In this form, he is even said to have a beauty that only angels like Michael or Gabriel would have, which has happened to him being mistaken for an angel.

## Personality

Sabaoth is practically the opposite of Yaldabaoth, being a benevolent and just entity, defending free will. In fact, due to Yaldabaoth's lies, he used to believe that Yaldabaoth was a perfectly benevolent and just person, which may have reflected in the way he sees the world. Even after he found out that Yaldabaoth was an entity contrary to everything he claimed to be, he still loves his creator and wants to save him from the corruption he suffered.

He also has a brotherly friendship with his uncle, Satanael, as they both had to band together to go against the false aeon's actions and both have similar ideas. However, when it comes to humans, Sabaoth doesn't love them like Satanael, despite wanting their good and being willing to help his uncle protect them. Sabaoth has a bit of Yaldabaoth's personality, often being a tyrant of sorts and not liking it when people go against his orders, but he's already said he can control that side of him.

## Powers and Abilities

**Concept Embodiment:** Sabaoth is a tangible representation or manifestation of an idea, abstraction, or another tangible thing. They are usually humanoid in appearance but with particular physical characteristics that take after the concept they embody along with personality traits and behavior associated with said concept. More importantly, most embodiments have some form of affinity with their concept, either with their bodies being made out of it or being empowered by it when the concept is present. They would also possess some form of control over their concept depending on the affinity between the personification and the concept itself.

**Transcendent Embodiment:** Sabaoth can become or is an embodiment on a Transcendent level, granting them transcended state of being and immense power on the concept they represent. Because of the transcended levels from their concept Sabaoth can do more and greater feats than normal embodiments, such as allowing them create more embodiments of the concept they represent.

**Divinity:** Sabaoth has divinity and divine powers granting them an immense amount of sheer power, making them a divine being by nature, a status which can be obtained a number of different ways.

**Immanence Manipulation:** Sabaoth can manipulate the immanence, the quality of being contained within, or remaining within the boundaries of something such as a person, thing, world, universe, etc. Although this does not mean Sabaoth can manipulate everything about the target, just the inherent qualities that are within their boundaries.

**Patron Deity:** As an archetype, Patron deities are "deities/gods/goddesses/spirits" who personally protect, assist and/or look after those people who believe, have faith, pray to, and worship the deity in question. Patron gods influence also extends to the cities, villages and overall areas of those who are devoted to them. This is an archetype that all divine beings can be, if they chose who to reward those in need and their devotees with blessings, favors and gifts, like granting people supernatural items or divine powers, or even granting them aid from other supernatural entities. Sometimes, the gods may ask for more then their followers can give, and if their demands/wants aren't met they may take their blessings and aid back until they are done.

**Ruler:** Sabaoth is a Ruler: a person who holds sovereignty over a specific dominion and their people, making political or non-political decisions to maintain, advance and aid their lands and people as their ruler. Whatever means they have been it supernatural, mundane or otherwise, they use it to aid in their sovereignty for themselves and/or their people it’s fundamentally depends on intentions, motives and character be it ruling fair and just or cruel and immoral both having their own set of consequences depending on the choices they make do to the responsibilities for them, their lands and their people.

**Transcendence Manipulation:** Sabaoth can manipulate the transcendence of anything, causing, removing, enhancing, infusing, etc. themselves, others, objects, powers, etc., manipulating transcendent beings, etc.

**Ultimate Power:** Sabaoth wields ultimate power; a unique and transcendent force of limitless power that dwells within them down to their core, where Sabaoth can ascend themselves and their inner power to their pinnacle as they are forever bonded and infused with such infinite power that they have the unlimited potential to do anything, as they can exceed anyone and anything in their in their respective universes by having a tremendous amount and variant kinds of abilities alongside unique energies and elements at their disposal that can classify them as the most powerful beings in existence.

## History

Sabaoth, like the other archons, was emanated by Yaldabaoth from his chaotic powers. Yaldabaoth lied to his false angels and archons saying that he was the only true God, pretending to be a benevolent and just God who loves all creation, which made Sabaoth admire him from an early age, considering Yaldabaoth the greatest example of love and justice in the all universe. For thousands of years, Sabaoth lived alongside his father, going along with him on several "business trips" across the universe, and because of that, their relationship grew with, Yaldabaoth considering him her favorite son.

However, at some point he receives a visit from a woman with blond hair and tells him that she is his grandmother and warned him not to trust Yaldabaoth, because he was not what he claimed to be, she said that he was not the true God and that there was another besides Yaldabaoth, a much more powerful one and the true source of love and justice.

Sabaoth tried to get this story straight with his father, but the god of ignorance believed that his son wouldn't mind knowing the truth and would stand by him, so Yaldabaoth revealed the truth and said he hated creation, that human beings they were just a bunch of animals for him, and despite loving his followers, for him they were more like pets. Sabaoth revolted against his father and tried to defeat him, but he was easily defeated due to the immense power of the Demiurge, but then Sabaoth prayed to the true God and asked for His help, that's when God answered the Archon's prayer and gave a fraction of His infinite power to the Archon, and so he was able to defeat Yaldabaoth and escape into the universe of God.

After this event, Yaldabaoth found the angel Satanael and made him his new ally, only to suffer one more rebellion and the fallen angel become Sabaoth's ally.

## Myths and Legends

In some Gnostic writings Sabaoth is one of the sons of Ialdabaoth. According to Hypostasis of the Archons and On the Origin of the World, Sabaoth dethrones his father Ialdabaoth. In both accounts, Sabaoth repents, when he hears the voice of Sophia, condemns his father and his mother (matter) and after that is enthroned by Sophia in the seventh heaven. Some Church Father report on the other hand, that Gnostics identified Sabaoth with Ialdaboath himself.

### Name

The name Sabaoth appears in the Old Testament in reference to an army. In the First Book of Samuel, the name is used as a name of God. In Gnostic texts, the name should evidently rendered as "over all the forces (of chaos)".

### In Gnostic Sources

Sabaoth and his beneficial functions is associated with Zeus, while Ialdabaoth with Saturn and the forces of evil. After he dethrones his father, he is associated with the sphere of Saturn. Jan Zandee interprets Sabaoth's role as the opposite of Ialdabaoth. The psychics can choose between both; Ialdabaoth representing evil and Sabbaoth representing good. Sabaoth becomes the current ruler of the world and thus fulfills the role of the God of Israel.

Thrown into Tartarus, Ialdabaoth envies his son, whereupon his envy takes on shape and becomes death. From death, envy, wrath, weeping, roar, loud shouting, sobber and grief emerge. Many of these emotions seem to be related to lament during funerals. As mourning was controversial among early Christians, associated with Satan, they might intentionally display disapproval about lamenting the dead and advocates control of emotions. However, this is not explicitly spelled out and some emotions, such as anger for the rulers of darkness, are approved, thus differing from the Stoicism.

After Ialdabaoth brought death into the world, Sabaoth creates a host of cherubim, a notion also appearing in Jewish Merkabah mysticism.

### Non-Gnostic Sources

Epiphanius of Salamis, the bishop of Salamis, Cyprus at the end of the 4th century, reports that Severian Encratites (also associated with Sethians) believed Sabaoth and Ialdabaoth to be one and the same, the God of law, and therefore evil. Celsus, a 2nd-century Greek philosopher, identified Ialdabaoth with Cronus and Sabaoth and Adonai with Zeus. Origen (c. 184 – c. 253) denies the equation. That such identifications appears within Gnostic documents themselves, has not been proven.

## Quotes

*"You killed innocent humans! That makes you a murderer, no, a heartless monster! I don't care if we're archons, these people aren't your toys, you can't do what you want with them!" - Sabaoth to Yaldabaoth.*

*"I don't know how to react... I found out that my hero was actually the villain... Father, forgive me, but against you I will have to fight." - Sabaoth to Yaldabaoth.*

*"Even after you almost killed me, I still love you." - Sabaoth to Yaldabaoth.*

*"I feel the planets orbiting the stars... I see the surface of the Sun, I feel the movement of the galaxies, a raucous symphony, a musical note across the universe. Flying through infinity... Doing the impossible... I feel IN-VIN-CI-BLE!" - Sabaoth describing the power of God in his body.*

*"Even when this planet rots... And humanity disappears, every star in the universe freezes and dies... Father, I'll still have you." - Sabaoth to Yaldabaoth.*

*"Sabaoth... He's a good kid... He deserves a greater father than the... figure that was Yaldabaoth." - Satanael.*

## Trivia

* He is not to be confused with the avatar of God.