Short entry describes the life of the 2nd century Gnostic Christian educator of Alexandria.

Learn about the teachings of Basilides through the only extant accounts of his theology, the anti-Gnostic works of Hippolytus and Irenaeus.

T. Apiryon furnishes this biography of the 2nd century Christian Gnostic of Alexandria and his "heretical" theology.

Examines the esoteric theology of the 2nd century Christian Gnostic of Alexandria.

Gnostic Society Library provides texts attributed to Basilides by the patristic writers Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria and Origen.