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Tag Archives: Gnosticism
one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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science of fictions of zimzum
Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged aline kominsky, Bob Dylan, David Mairowitz, Drama of Works, Franz Kafka, Frederick Crews, Gershom Scholem, Gnosticism, Greil Marcus, peter kuper, Puppet Kafka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Crumb, Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold
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down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading
GNOSTIC SHINDIG WITH THE DODGY MONK
Grigori Yefimovitch Rasputin is one of the most mysterious, notorious and disputed figures in modern history. Who was this man who seemingly had strange powers and a mysterious influence over others; with eyes that many claimed changed colors when they … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexandra Fedorovna, badassoftheweek.com, Benny Maslov, Boney M, Book of Enoch, Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Gnostic Bible, Gnosticism, Grigori Rasputin, Leon Trotsky, Olga Lokhtina, Pares, Prince Felix Yussupov, Rasputin, Sergei Witte, Sir Bernard Pares, Ted Neely, William Blake
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