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Geocentric celestial spheres; Peter Apian's Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539). All the early Gnostics of whose opinions Irenaeus gives an account, in a section probably derived from an earlier writer, agree in the doctrine that the world was made by the instrumentality of archons (angels).
The names of Nu and Naunet are written with the determiners for sky and water, and it seems clear that they represent the primordial waters.. Ḥeḥ and Ḥeuḥet have no readily identifiable determiners; according to a suggestion due to Brugsch (1885), the names are associated with a term for an undefined or unlimited number, ḥeḥ, suggesting a concept similar to the Greek aion.
Grant promoted what he termed the Typhonian or Draconian tradition of magic, [70] and wrote that Thelema was only a recent manifestation of this wider tradition. [71] In his books, he portrayed the Typhonian tradition as the world's oldest spiritual tradition, writing that it had ancient roots in Africa. [72]
Égyptien de tradition (term is a French terminus technicus), also known as Traditional Egyptian, [1] is a literary and religious hieroglyphic written language artificially cultivated in ancient Egypt from the later New Kingdom until the Greco-Roman Period (14th century BCE - 4th century CE).
[3] Hellenistic civilization fused a Hellenic core of religious belief and social organization with Persian-Babylonian ("Chaldean"), Israelite and Egyptian cultures, including their mystery cults and wisdom-traditions. Hellenistic thinkers philosophized and harmonized this polyglot mythology, cult tradition, oracular utterance, and initiatory lore.
The novel was translated into English for the first time in 2016 by Wilt Idema and Stephen H. West.In the Introduction, aimed at the non-specialist, they explain that there had been a group of tales and legends on the events of Three Kingdoms period, define the pinghua form, and call this novel a "fast-paced tale" that was to remain the most popular account of the legends for the next two ...
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De vita is an amalgam of philosophy, medicine, magic and astrology.Alongside passages explaining the immortality and divine source and nature of the soul, there are astrological charts and remedies, speeches from various Greek gods arguing with one another, philosophical digressions, medieval prescriptions for various ills, attempts at reconciling the Neoplatonism of Plotinus with Christian ...