The Gnostics liked the idea of the good God sending Christ, so they thought that the ultimate deity sent one of his subordinate powers, called Christ, into the world to free people from the chains of matter. Christ, however, could have no real contact with matter, so at the baptism of Jesus of Nazareth, or thereabouts, the Christ descended into him; then at the arrest of Jesus, or thereabouts, the Christ withdrew. What was scourged and slain could not have been Christ.
The basic belief of the Gnostics was dualism. They believed that the world is ultimately divided between two cosmic forces, good and evil. In line with much Greek philosophy, they identified evil with matter. Because of this, they regarded any Creator God as wicked. Creation by a deity, they felt, was not so much impossible as it was indecent. Their own supreme being was far removed from any such tendency to “evil.”
Since the ultimate deity could have no contact with the material world, the Gnostics explained creation by a series of emanations. If we think of God as a kind of sun, these emanations would be sunbeams—extensions of his nature, yet distinct from him. These supernatural emanations (subordinate “powers”), however, were capable of producing other inferior powers until they had fashioned, as Charles Bigg, the Oxford scholar, once said, “a long chain of divine creatures, each weaker than its parent,” and came at last “to one who, while powerful enough to create, is silly enough not to see that creation is wrong.” This, according to the Gnostics, was the Creator God, the God of the Jews.
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One of the fundamental problems of the socialist states of the past was that they failed to make their own peoples the subjects of the struggle for the world revolution. Had the citizens of the socialist coun tries had much more contact with the people living in the capitalist countries, directly informed them about the achievements of socialism, and ensured that the shortcomings in their own countries were eliminated both with their help and by closely following the developments in the capitalist world, they could have weakened the influence of anti-communist propaganda on the citizens of the capitalist countries much more effectively than the propaganda tools used by the socialist states.
"he became an adept at fighting. he economised. he never wasted his strength, never tussled. he was in too quickly for that, and, if he missed, was out again too quickly. the dislike of the wolf for close quarters was his to an unusual degree. he could not endure a prolonged contact with another body. it smacked of danger. it made him frantic. he must be away, free, on his own legs, touching no living thing. it was the wild, still clinging to him, asserting itself through him. this feeling had been accentuated by the Ishmaelite life he had led from his puppyhood. danger lurked in contacts. it was the trap, ever the trap, the fear of it lurking deep in the life of him, woven into the fibre of him."
"but the god talked on softly, and ever the hand rose and fell with non−hostile pats. white fang experienced dual feelings. it was distasteful to his instinct. it restrained him, opposed the will of him toward personal liberty. and yet it was not physically painful. on the contrary, it was even pleasant, in a physical way."
".. creatures of the wild who had never yielded allegiance to man. they were the lawful prey of any dog. it was only the tame that the gods protected, and between the tame deadly strife was not permitted. the gods held the power of life and death over their subjects, and the gods were jealous of their power."
Everyone lives in the world differently. I have very good eyesight, while Sunwoo has a prescription of -5.5 dioptres. Without her glasses, my face appears as a round blur. Even with contact lenses in, her vision is still worse than mine. Whenever I saw water marks on the mirror or stains on the table, I used to grumble, ‘Why can’t she just wipe them off?’ But that was because while I saw these blemishes so clearly, Sunwoo couldn’t see them at all.
For healthy child development, according to the child's neurobiological requirements, a much longer period with the mother is necessary - ideally for a minimum of nine months until the infant reaches a stage of relative biological maturity. The sudden loss of maternal contact is, for the infant, a shock- as we know from animal studies, even those whose period of dependence is much shorter than ours.
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