Sentences with phrase «of esoteric knowledge»

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.

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.

This book, The Stairway To Freedom, was dictated from the spirit world by The Great White Brotherhood and is a complete primer of esoteric knowledge covering virtually every aspect of a human being's development whilst here in incarnation and also will see him through his life in the spiritual realms as one progresses towards God.It covers a large gamut of seemingly unrelated topics covering: • Sexuality, • The birth process, • How life develops and is controlled by archangels, • What is God and what God's Power is, • What our auras are, • How we can develop spirituality, • Diet, • Organising one's daily routine and a host of other topics.The book cleverly weaves all these, apparently, disparate elements into a cohesive whole so that the student can have a firm grasp on the way that...

«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.

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.

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As the startup world is esoteric to many, it is required to have discussions, to steer clear of doubts and to give innovation and knowledge a room to grow.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

The historical experience of the technocracy by the people is not esoteric and abstract knowledge, but it is concrete and bodily experience of the people, individually and collectively.

Here the emphasis shifts from the literal, esoteric understanding of the texts to «direct» and unmediated knowledge of God notionally explicating the contents of the Qur» an.

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.

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.

The sad consequence of gnosticism is that its etherealized piety and its demand for esoteric knowledge make it largely irrelevant to human history.

At the heart of Gnosticism there is this necessity for special and esoteric knowledge.

containing the essentials of how to safely sequence a vinyasa class, and takes this knowledge further by giving you the insights necessary to sequence in accord with the more esoteric and energetic principles that fuel yoga's transformational power.

In a less esoteric sense, the film is arguably the first major studio release since Carnal Knowledge to attempt a dysfunctional comedy about fucking that's so frank and unapologetic in regards to the destructive prurience of the male gaze.

According to this point of view, certification is necessary to ensure teacher quality, because teaching, like other professions (law, medicine, the sciences, and so forth), requires mastery of an esoteric body of substantive and pedagogical knowledge that can not be obtained without undergoing a rigorous training program.

Or was it because I was caught up in the translation, fascinated by the idea of esoteric secrets, and here I was going to meet someone with inside knowledge about a secret society?

I was sending emails to one of my publishers to explain what was basic knowledge to me (because of KBoards) but esoteric to them, as it turned out.

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.

Underlying the esoteric titles of these papers are years of study, critical thinking and hard work to unearth new precious nuggets of knowledge that advance science another step forward.

And of course, most people are busy, and cramming more and more knowledge of increasingly esoteric loyalty programs into your head will eventually reach a point of diminishing returns.

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 associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Gander's work involves a questioning of language and knowledge; a reinvention of the modes of appearance and creation of an artwork.

But «The Encyclopaedic Palace» is about many other things besides — esoteric collections and vagrant archives, the limits to knowledge, the relationship of images to objects, not to mention a crazed kind of figuration.

An admitted art catalogue junkie, his breadth of knowledge in this esoteric field is clearly evident.

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.

Newcombe is about to launch his own carbon finance startup, but he warns that «betting on an individual company requires knowledge of the regulatory climate as well as its ability to manage that risk, which is esoteric.»

It will then once again what it once was, an esoteric area of scientific knowledge of little or no interest to those not involved in it.

Here we will discuss the macroeconomic trends driving the real estate industry, and arm you with the knowledge of where to find value in both the primary market and in esoteric alternatives advancing in smaller pockets of the real estate industry.