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
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 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