We held press conference outside Abraxas demanding Governor Shapiro issue an Emergency Removal Order and release the migrant youth to their families. Read our full report: paimmigrant.org/shut-down-detention
a month agoposhgothportland
Abraxas (more anciently Abrasax) is one of the darker and more bizarre names to crawl out of the religious and magical underworld of late antiquity—a mysterious cosmic power haunting Gnostic speculation and invoked on magical gems, amulets, and spells. Ancient and later accounts associate Abrasax with the 365 heavens or cosmic spheres, while the Greek numerical values of ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ themselves total 365. His grotesque magical image is difficult to forget: a human torso crowned with a rooster or monstrous animal head, writhing serpents instead of legs, and hands gripping a whip and shield, frequently surrounded by arcane divine names and magical formulas. Whatever its precise relationship to the followers of the Gnostic teacher Basilides, Abrasax became unmistakably embedded in the occult and magical world of antiquity—a secretive name of power carved into stones, worn against the flesh as an amulet, and invoked amid the hidden forces thought to govern the heavens. Which makes Arlene R. Lissner’s adoption of the name “Abraxas” for a 1973 youth treatment organization extraordinarily peculiar: we have yet to find her explanation for choosing such an obscure, heavily esoteric name for an institution devoted to troubled young people.
6 months agolindsayerin811
@joshshapiropa we demand that this human dentition camp be shut down. This is not how we treat people. We did not vote for this type of inhumanity.
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