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Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth, 188
diversity: disciples and, 110–12; among
Gnostics, 66, 203, 287; of humans,
65–66; in New Age, 344; transgression
and, 273–74
divine beings, 180, 182; vowels and,
189–90. See also angels; demons
Doctor Strange, 82
Dogma (film), 107, 108 , 117, 134, 134 ; belief
in, 108–9, 128–29, 132–33; punishment
in, 125–26
Dositheus, 99–103
Draco star gate, 205–8
dramas, 172 , 172–75, 174 . See also initiations
drugs, 251
dual church, 233–36
dualism, 143–47, 156
duality, 84
earth, 56–57, 213–15, 334. See also Demeter
e-books, 10–11
eclecticism, 12, 54–55
ecstatic brain. See brain
ecstatic spirituality: discernment in,
39–42; mysteries in, 38–39; otherworld
journeys in, 41–44, 44 , 45 , 46–47;
rituals in, 40–42, 193
ecstatic states, 11, 250–51; brain and,
185–87, 186 . See also initiations
Eddie Jessup (fictional character), 163–65,
164 , 193–94
Eden (goddess), 213–15
ego, 167
Egypt, 2, 14, 182, 184, 187; ancestors in,
88; epiphany in, 70; exodus from, 208;
foreigners in, 88; Jeu in, 319; otherworld
journeys in, 69–70; pilgrims in,
68–70; Ptolemy of, 239–42; reputation
of, 68–69; servant spirituality
in, 25–28, 26 ; transcendent of, 54–57;
vowels in, 190, 249, 319
Egyptian Book of the Dead, 46, 56–57,
81 , 320
Egyptian Coffin Texts, 55–56
Egyptian solar cult. See Jeu
ekstasis , 38–39
Elchasai, 306–7, 332–33
Elchasaites, 306–7, 332
elect, 315
Eleleth, 97
Eleusinian mysteries, 171–75, 172 , 174 , 271
Elieli, 301 , 301–2
Elohim, 213–16
embalming, 27
emergent structures, 10–11
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 348
Emily (fictional character), 163, 165, 194
Emma Murdoch (fictional character), 161
emotions, 195; fear, 37–38, 132. See also
anxieties
Enlil, 24
Ennoia (Thought, first thought), 96, 101,
149
Enuma Elish, 23–24
Ephesus, 110–11
Epic of Gilgamesh, 24–25
Epimenides, 199
Epiphanius (bishop), 159, 239–40, 302
epiphany, 70
Er, 200–202
Esau, 32
etimmu (ghost), 24
Eucharist, 278–79, 303, 305; of Marcus,
249–51
Euclid (fictional character), 259
evangelists, 110
Eve, 79, 91, 93, 237–38
evil, 153, 158; God as, 142–44, 154,
222–23, 226–27, 265
exclusivity, 66, 71–72, 267–68
existential crisis, 1–2
exodus, 208
Eywa (fictional character), 230, 256–58
Ezekiel, 39–40
false prophets, 327, 331
Fates, 201
Father God, 96, 101–3, 148, 152, 205;
Sophia and, 231–32; YHWH as,
120–23, 265–66
fear, 37–38, 132
fertility god, 213, 214
Ficino, Marsilio, 348
films, 18, 337 ; Altered States , 163–65, 164 ,
193–94; Avatar , 229–31, 230 , 256–58;
Dark City , 135–38, 136 , 160–61; Dogma ,