"The Mandeans reject Jesus as the Christ and are hostile towards him. Clearly, this indicates they were created as a rebellion against Orthodox Christianity as the other Gnostic sects. They believe that god is a hermaphrodite, that John the Baptist was the true messiah"
https://anointingpower.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/gnosticism-the-so-called-knowledge/
"She is the first thought, the image of the spirit. She became the universal womb, for she precedes everything,
the mother-father,
the first human,
the holy spirit,
the triple male,
the triple power,
the androgynous one with three names,
the eternal realm among the invisible beings,
the first to come forth."
"This is the father’s realm of five. It is:
the first human, the image of the invisible spirit, that is, forethought, which is Barbelo, and thought,
along with foreknowledge,
incorruptibility,
life eternal,
truth.
This is the androgynous realm of five, which is the realm of ten, which is the father."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-meyer.html
"Now, when Pistis Sophia wanted to cause the thing that had no spirit to be formed into a likeness and rule over matter and over all its powers, a ruler first appeared out of the waters, lionlike in appearance, androgynous, with great authority within himself but ignorant of whence he came into being.
When Pistis Sophia saw him moving in the depth of the waters, she said to him, “Youth, pass over here,” which is interpreted as “Yaldabaoth.”"
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/origin-Barnstone.html
"A veil exists between the world above and the realms below, and shadow came into being beneath the veil. That shadow became matter, and that shadow was projected apart. And what she had created came to be in matter, like an aborted fetus. It assumed a shape molded out of shadow, and became an arrogant beast resembling a lion. It was androgynous, as I have already said, because it derived from matter.
“Opening his eyes he saw a vast quantity of endless matter, and he turned arrogant, saying, ‘I am god, and there is no one but me.’
“When he said this, he sinned against all. And a voice came from above the realm of absolute power, saying, ‘You are wrong, Samael,’ that is, god of the blind."
"This ruler, by being androgynous, made himself a vast realm, an endless precinct. And he contemplated creating offspring for himself, and created seven offspring, androgynous like their parent.
“And he said to his offspring, ‘I am the god of all.’
“Zoe the daughter of Pistis Sophia shouted, saying to him, ‘You are wrong, Sakla’ (for which the alternate name is Yaldabaoth)."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Hypostas-Barnstone.html