Sentences with phrase «esoteric knowledge»

The sad consequence of gnosticism is that its etherealized piety and its demand for esoteric knowledge make it largely irrelevant to human history.
From pump and dump groups to insiders trading on esoteric knowledge, market manipulation is rampant within the cryptocurrency space.
This is just a new kind of gnosticism with its own esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated who desire to escape the tangible realities of this fleshy world and ascend to the unsullied heights of theological thought.
In Squid Empire, Danna Staaf turns esoteric knowledge about the evolution of cephalopods into a page - turning read for all audiences.
Over the ages, a rich treasury of powerful esoteric knowledge has been discovered, yet remains largely unknown to the Western world.
«While this has solved a long - standing scientific argument about which cell types can lead to invasive skin tumours, it is far more than just a piece of esoteric knowledge,» adds Professor Simons.
If those Forex guys are as rich and successful as they profess to be, wouldn't they be better served keeping that esoteric knowledge to themselves rather than offloading it to the masses for $ 100 a month?
What gives him confidence in his conviction is not any esoteric knowledge of the mysterious God which has been revealed to him, but the testimony of the Bible and of the community of faith to the great company of people who in their own day believed they heard the Word of the same God and sought to obey.
Another way to escape from history is to follow the gnostic path of dreaming up some radically other world, to which we «essentially» belong by virtue of an esoteric knowledge or «gnosis,» membership in which therefore keeps us from having to dwell fully within the messiness of historical existence.
At the heart of Gnosticism there is this necessity for special and esoteric knowledge.
The problem can be solved without any external subject knowledge.The animal etc. (just an example) that is part of a question is just to throw off «average» students and no esoteric knowledge is required to solve the problem.
More a study guide than a story, this is the kind of book that kids love to memorize and then use to impress friends with their esoteric knowledge.
Need to find out some esoteric knowledge for your book?
Peyote and other entheogens» meditative, medical, and spiritual effects have in recent years been held responsible for the esoteric knowledge of ancient civilizations such as the Aztecs and Mayans.
Through a wide range of media, Hull explores the dynamics of the cult of personality, the plausibility of esoteric knowledge, notions of orientalism, charismatic icons, diagrams and mysticism.
In what could be seen as a laboratory that cross-references science and esoteric knowledge, Ödlund opens up a holistic world where detailed studies of natural phenomena can be seen from very different perspectives.
Yet, as has often been the case with mythic and heroic titles bestowed upon Abstract Expressionist paintings after completion, the Knights of Pythias cover now suggests a volume of esoteric knowledge — or perhaps invokes the loose confraternity of New York School painters who, by the late 1940s, had achieved widespread recognition.
This hybridity is the culmination of the postmodern pursuit that began with the Situationists in France and the Independent Group in England in the late 1950s, who sought a model of critical culture that would not require a disinterested aesthetic purity or esoteric knowledge.
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