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Esoteric band - Current members. Greg Chandler - Vocals, Guitar (1992-) Steve Peters - Guitar (1994-) Gordon Bicknell - Guitar (1992-) Mark Bodossian - Bass (2003-) Olivier Goyet - Keyboards (2003-) Esoteric band - Former members. Darren - Drums (1992-1994) Stuart - Guitar (1992-1994) Simon - Guitar (1992-1997) Bryan Beck - Bass (1992-2002)

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Aaron Donahue can be thought of as a pantheist. He believes in a God that is the sum of all that is. He also states that mankind should worship no Gods apart from themselves and, in his words, the divinity within each person. Lucifer has been interpreted as the Nietzschean superman/overman ubermensch, who is the pinnacle of evolution in Naturalist philosophy. However, Donahue states that Lucifer is an actual entity or r ...

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Pantheist. One who identifies God with Nature and vice versa. Pantheism is often objected to by people and regarded as reprehensible. But how can a philosopher regard Deity as infinite, omnipresent and eternal unless Nature is an aspect of IT, and IT informs every atom in Nature?

 
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PANTHEISTIC: the belief, meaning to see the Divine as everywhere & in everything. Sometimes explained as PANTHEISM is believing that 'God' & Nature are the SAME thing.

 
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Anu (Sanskrit). An "atom", a title of Brahma, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe. A hint at the pantheistic nature of the god.

 
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Paul Carus, Ph. D. (1852‑1919) was a German-American editor, born at Ilsenburg, Germany, and educated at the universities of Strassburg and Tübingen. Afterward he emigrated to the United States and established himself in Chicago, where he became editor of the Open Court and the Monist. The eclectic Paul Carus is immortalized by the Carus Foundation, the Carus Lectures, and the American Philosophical Association. Carus considered himself a theologian rather than philosopher, however. He referred to himself as "an atheist who loved God." As a Pantheist he referred to su ...

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ACTEON
A Hunter who chanced to see the chaste goddess, Diana, nude in her midnight bath. Diana, being also the bright light of the full Moon (as Hecate is the dark of the moon) and its nearly hallucinative brilliance, he was immediately struck by anamnesis and "remembered" the naked omnipotence of pantheistic divinity in all creatures, including himself - so that, in this amazing illumination, he literally became one with everything, including the stag he had been chasing, whereupon his own dogs (not being in on the revelation) tore him apart.
 
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Mythical giants of Arabian pre-Islamic history.
 

 
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BRUNO, GIORDANO
A Dominican monk, absolute pantheist and an early promoter of unbridled sexual freedom. Best known for his work on the art of memory, which was essential for scholars in the 16th Century. Briefly, it consisted of using architecture, classical literature, religions ritual, etc., as vast mnemonic devices. Bruno''s heady and bizarre occult ideas soon outdistanced his practical appeal and had him defrocked and on the run. Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600. Aleister Crowley claimed that Bruno was one of his former incarnations.
 

 
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Neo-platonism. Lit.,"The new Platonism" or Platonic School. An eclectic pantheistic school of philosophy founded in Alexandria by Ammonius Saccas, of which his disciple Plotinus was the head (A.D. 189-270). It sought to reconcile Platonic teachings and the Aristotelean system with oriental Theosophy. Its chief occupation was pure spiritual philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism. Theurgy was introduced towards its later years. It was the ultimate effort of high intelligences to check the ever-increasing ignorant superstition and blind faith of the times; the last product of Greek philosophy, which was finally crushed and put to death by brute force.

 
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PANTHEISM: The belief in many deities who are really one because they are all merely aspects of the single creative life source. Celtic Paganism is pantheistic.

 
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Paradigm Shift
Refers to a shift in world views. The so-called "new paradigm" (new model orform) is pantheistic (all is God) and monastic (all is one).

 
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Extra-Cosmic. Outside of Kosmos or Nature; a nonsensical word invented to assert the existence of a personal god, independent of, or out side, Nature per se, in opposition to the Pantheistic idea that the whole Kosmos is animated or informed with the Spirit of Deity, Nature being but the garment, and matter the illusive shadow, of the real unseen Presence.

 
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PANTHEISM: Belief in many deities who are really on because they are all merely aspects of the single creative life source. Paganism is pantheistic.

 
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Hermetic. Any doctrine or writing connected with the esoteric teachings of Hermes, who, whether as the Egyptian Thoth or the Greek Hermes, was the God of Wisdom with the Ancients, and, according to Plato, "discovered numbers, geometry, astronomy and letters".
 
Though mostly considered as spurious, nevertheless the Hermetic writings were highly prized by St. Augustine, Lactantius, Cyril and others. In the words of Mr. J. Bonwick, "
 
They are more or less touched up by the Platonic philosophers among the early Christians (such as Origen and Clemens Alexandrinus) who sought to substantiate their Christian arguments by appeals to these heathen and revered writings, though they could not resist the temptation of making them say a little too much.
 
Though represented by some clever and interested writers as teaching pure monotheism, the Hermetic or Trismegistic books are, nevertheless, purely pantheistic. The Deity referred to in them is defined by Paul as that in which "we live, and move and have our being" - notwithstanding the "in Him" of the translators.

 
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