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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Gnosis"”.
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La tradición en la Gnosis Valentiniana y en la Iglesia Prenicena
… verdadera tradición reclamada por la gnosis. Éste no era otro que el axioma pagano de la impermeabilidad de las naturalezas, es decir, la incapacidad de que las propiedades de una pasaran a otra, axioma que reducía el misterio divino, más allá de las hábiles formulaciones míticas de la …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
… This thesis proposes is a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan that creates a space of meditation, reflection, and communion with the knowledge of God employing the theoretical ideas found in the "Gospel of Thomas". The site, located in Inwood Hill Park on the extreme northern end of …
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Metaphysische Sehnsucht und existentielle Verzweiflung : kabbalistische Motivik und Gnosis ohne Erlösung in Erzählungen Franz Kafkas
Ausgehend von der für Franz Kafkas Texte so charakteristischen Mélange aus Orientierungslosigkeit, Schuldgefühlen und Verzweiflung beschäftigt sich die Verfasserin mit dem Aufdecken möglicher Wurzeln der sogar sprichwörtlich gewordenen 'kafkaesken' Weltsicht. Wichtig sind dabei vor allem die …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… for 'saving' themselves through the gnosis of self-discovery, the gnosis that emphasized living with and in the presence of God. The Hermetic discourse is well documented in the history discipline by such scholars as Lynn Thorndike, Frances Yates, and D. P. Walker. Yet, in the …
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The development of number processing and its relation to other parietal functions in early childhood
… parietal cortex (quantity manipulation, finger gnosis, visuo-spatial memory and grasping abilities) and occipito-temporal cortex (face and object processing), in order to investigate their contributions to the acquisition of formal arithmetic in the first year of schooling. We tested …
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La psicoterapia centrada en el cliente de Carl Rogers como modelo de orientación educativa: paralelismos con el pensamiento gnóstico
… lectura, y sus verdaderos antecedentes. La gnosis de todos los tiempos es, por lo tanto, el `canon¿ sobre el que nos basamos en esta investigación para situar la forma de este autor de entender al hombre y la vida en general. Para ello se establecen y desarrollan las dos partes de lo que más …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… humanism that ceaselessly quests for "Gnosis" in all literature.
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Die erotiek as sosio-psigologiese projeksie in die literatuur en literatuurondersoek, met spesiale verwysing na betreklik hedendaagse Afrikaanse letterkunde
… in 'n post-koïtale melancholie deurdring tot die gnosis dat die waarheid/ heling/verlossing diep in sy skeppende self lê.
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Sonic Knowledge Production in Archaeoacoustics: Echoes of elsewhere?
… figuration. In introducing a theory of aural gnosis to address alternative modalities of knowing through sound and listening, my thesis explores whether echoes can indicate an “elsewhere” of possibilities for the notion of knowledge itself.
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GLASS SHOULDERS
… is my attempt to show Self-realization as a gnosis of healing. This is a tale of freedom of psyche.</p>
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… beyond normal space that is analogical space. Gnosis is the key to heaven (and hell); we have but to find out how the mystics and poets turned the key to enter there ourselves. In this study, I will use the new, but ever-widening, theoretical school of Gnostic Criticism in order to make an …
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Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature
… occult circles is called esoteric knowledge or “gnosis”. One of the purposes of this thesis is to demonstrate how “seeking God by strange ways” in fin de siècle literature is a spiritual rite of passage to locate God in man and involves “lifting the veil” between this world and the spiritual …
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Investigation of the immunological differences between granulocytes from healthy donors and breast cancer patients, with respect to the cancer testis antigen, CTCFL
… it as an attractive biomarker for cancers dia gnosis/prognosis and therapy target. Interestingly, CTCFL was also detected in PMNs obtained from breast cancer patients while being undetectable in the PMN’s of healthy donors. Again this supports the prospect of using this protein as a biomarker …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… non-rational alternatives to the attainment of gnosis. The Three Impostors, the second of Machen's Keynotes volumes, with its plot of conspiracies and dark secrets not only suggests Machen's interest in the criminal underworld and involvement with the ritual magic groups of the late-nineteenth …
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Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). These five …