Those working on repentance and the refusal of inherited evil
Symbols
ThroneChariotFour faced cherubimSeven
Mythology Summary
Sabaoth is the son of Yaldabaoth in the Hypostasis of the Archons (Nag Hammadi II,4) and On the Origin of the World (II,5): he repents of his father's work, condemns him, and is taken up by Pistis Sophia and enthroned above the archons in the seventh heaven, where the other rulers envy him. In On the Origin of the World he builds himself a great throne-chariot with four-faced cherubim and a multitude of angels, and is called a god of the powers. The name is the Hebrew 'Lord of Hosts' (tseva'ot), a title of the God of Israel reused by the gnostics for a redeemed archon, and it also appears on the magical gems beside Abrasax and IAO.
Modern Practice
The figure is studied rather than worshipped: a myth of repentance inside a system that otherwise treats the rulers as unredeemable, and modern readers use him for the refusal of an inherited evil and for the possibility of turning. The texts give no cult and no offerings.