… bizarre manner in which divine and demonic identities feature in some forms of Gnosticism, probably from an Alexandrian background: The chief archon seduced Eve and he begot two sons: Elohim, who has a bear face and Yave, who has a cat face. (Apocryphon of John II, 1, 24) Likewi…

…e writes in terms sufficiently vague for others to interpret his inspiration as Gnostic insights or channeling. In any case, Tolkien's statements on inspiration are used by individuals engaged in Tolkien spirituality to legitimate their views concerning the scriptural sta- tus of…

…ly embarrassing, subjective, and resistant to the This article was submitted to gnostic” (Abbate, 2004, p. 514). This means that our actual involvement with music is mainly Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, “experienced” rather than being solely “reasoned” and “interpreted” (Reybr…

… he is a dark one, and this explains the presence in Hip- Hop of imagery out of Gnostic theology. In the scene titled “Alan’s Final Solution,” for example, the Captain asks, “What is the name shared by the Zoroastrian Creator God of Light and a popular cat?”47 Known for the absol…

… historian, but a dogmatist and tradition opponent, who was displeased with the Gnostics’ claim to possess authentic images of Christ. In any case, he considered all image worship—he calls this “coronare” [to coronate] and “proponere,” [to display] i.e., practices that play a rol…

…uenced by C. W. King (1818-1888), an expert on gemstones who wrote a book about Gnosticism. Other sources cited in Blavatsky’s discussions of Kabbalah include the early-modern Christian Hebraist and Kabbalist, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689), and the nineteenth-century …

…med theory? It may seem that way, 8 Third, the fact that a number of apocryphal Gnostic works also bear Peter’s name is used to reject Petrine authorship of Second Peter. In his commentary Bauckham includes a list of such works: Apocalypse of Peter, the Gospel Peter, the Kerygma …

……………………………………………………….…92. Paola Puppo, A particular class of engraved gems: the gnostic-magical gems of Luni (La Spezia)………………..93. Matthias Recke, Private heroes? Iconographic studies on gems and stamp-seals from Archaic and Classical Cyprus with a special focus on the warrior i…

…Enchiridion of Epictetus. From a philosophical perspective, discussions against gnostic and Manichean dualism became particularly heated from the fourth century onwards, particularly in the Latin world (St. Augustine), but do not seem to have taken place in the Hellenistic world …

…oir aussi Z. Mazur, « ‘Those who ascend to the sanctuaries of the temples’: the Gnostic context of Plotinus’ Firts Treatise, 1.6 [1], On Beauty », dans Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancien World. Essays in Honour of John D. Turner, éd. K. Corrigan – T. Rasimus, Leyden, 2013,…

… move from what Carolyn Abbate refers to as a drastic (event-based) rather than gnostic (knowledge-based) treatment of music performance: the shift from an analytical treatment of music to one that is an ephemeral, changeable and site-specific act (a drastic reading), where diffe…

… of terms σåμβολον and τåπος in Origen’s treatise Contra Celsum. The Christian, Gnostic and pagan types of symbolism are distinguished as they are introduced by Origen and his opponent. Each type has its specific understanding of symbol in the ontological area, which then is proje…

…ining cau- encouraged to arrive at a fuller understanding of Jesus, in tiously agnostic, shows sympathies toward the position that whom they also already believe, so that they might become John, the son of Zebedee, is the author of the fourth Gospel. more effective witnesses. Far…

… 50 On this setting as used in the early Coptic apocrypha, often designated as ‘Gnostic’, see, e.g., Rudolph 1968; Perkins 1980. Such dialogues can sometimes also take place prior to the resurrection, as is the case in the Investiture of the Archangel Michael. 51 E.g., the use of…

…e . Indeed, the correct reading in this passage has gilyon in the singular; the gnostic writings (which were sometimes called gilyonim also), however, were many; and had reference to these been intended here the plural would have been used. However, the 3rd century Aramaic writin…