Loewak opens astrology section
I am planning to build several different sections to Loewak, as announced earlier. Last weeks I have been busy building a new and hopefully useful/entertaining astrology section for this site. The section focusses on flirting techniques and character descriptions for… Continue reading
Magical books
I recently called Joshua Ray Stephens book ‘The Moth or the Flame’ a ‘magical’ book. In a mail he asked me if I meant what I was saying, but of course I didn’t define what I meant with ‘magical’. Perhaps… Continue reading
Carpocrates vs Nietzsche
Carpocrates has the honour of being one of the more interesting of the heretics. He is viewed as a ’saint’ by those who hold to modern Gnosticism. He is from very early times. Both Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria have a lot to say against Carpocrates, which would put him likely in the middle second century, part of the main wave of Gnosticism. His was a very logical theology, given his presuppositions. His presuppositions were more Platonic than Christian, and they lead him to an interesting place.
Carpocrates had a theory that involved reincarnation, but in the Carpocratian sense reincarnation was not an evolutionary, soul-growing opportunity such as it is presented in most Hindu and some Buddhist variants of the idea. No, Carpocrates claimed that reincarnation… Continue reading
Books
Coming soon (May 2013) - WWW - The Collected Works of Martinus Benders
"I can already say it's a masterpiece.
A hallucinogenic, possibly explosive mix of brilliant poetry, bizar inventions and clownish attacks on the entire world of literature'" Alexis de Roode
"My Latino girlfriend sees me read, giggle, and read on frantically and said: you look like someone being attacked by a butterfly' - No Zero
"I am grinning like a boy touching his first breasts. Its the personal touch that does the trick' - Mark Opfer-Rutting
"Martinus Benders reveals himself as a masterful satirist. It's, through all of its layers, an extraordinarily lurid book. Willem Thies
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