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Abrasax is the name the Basilidian tradition gives the ruler of the 365 heavens, and the 365 of the name is the number of the days: one heaven for each day of the year, which is the whole system inside a word. The name is carved on stones and spoken in the magical papyri as a name of power, and it survives into modern occultism in the Latin form Abraxas. It is the one isopsephy in this file whose number and doctrine are reported together by an ancient source.

Isopsephy is the Greek practice that gematria is named after and the older of the two: the Milesian system was in use by the sixth century BCE, and the practice is Pythagorean in the ancient accounts. The magical papyri use it constantly, both to compose names of power whose number matches a desired outcome and to test whether two names are equal and therefore linked. Basilides' 365 heavens, the 365 of Abrasax and the 888 of Jesus in the Sibylline Oracles are the surviving showpieces.