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INDEX
Mary’s Room, 53–54
masbuta . See baptism
Masbuta (film), 337
masks, 173
mathematics, 259–61
matrix, 20 ; reality and, 19–21, 49–50
Matrix, The (film), 19–20, 20
Matthew, 140, 154; Gospel of, 112,
265–66, 325
maturation, 179–80, 192
Max Cohen (fictional character), 259–61,
260 , 292–94, 293
McCoy (fictional character), 226
Mead, G. R. S., 349
media, 287–88
Medusa, 301, 301
Melchisedek, 323
melothesia (limb assignment), 169–70
memorization, 320–21
memory, 201–2; in Dark City , 160–61; in
religious buffer, 58–60
Menander, 103, 149–50
Mercury, 43
Meryl (fictional character), 51
Mesos, 323
metaphors, 47, 49
Metatron, 107–8, 117, 134, 134
Mête, 323
Michael, 39, 211, 301 , 301–2
migraines, 259–61, 293
migration, 14–15
Milky Way, 201, 220
mind. See nous
Miriai, 329–31
Miriam, 332–33, 340
missionaries, 112–13
Mithras, 43–44, 44 , 45 ; Christianity and,
209–10
Mongolian shamans, 40–41
Montanism, 158–59
Mormonism, 312
Morpheus, 49–50
mortality, 202, 245–46. See also death
Mosaic law, 114–15, 121, 145, 150
Moses, 93, 99, 120; as false prophet, 327;
Jesus and, 112, 114, 145, 242; serpent
of, 208; YHWH and, 34, 36
Mother God, 96–97, 101–3, 182, 247
Mr. Johnson (fictional character), 296–97
multiworlds, 12, 17, 39
muô (close, shut), 39
mysteries ( mysteria ), 38–39; Eleusinian,
171–75, 172 , 174 , 271; Persephone in,
171–72, 206–7, 218. See also initiations
mystical knowledge, 274–75
Naassenes, 216–17; Hermes and, 218–19;
initiations of, 218–21; star gate of,
220–21
Nag Hammadi, Egypt, 2
Nag Hammadi collection, 2, 223, 233,
244, 317, 349
names: of God, 54–55, 213–16, 248; of
Jesus, 248; of Jeu, 318–19; of star rulers,
318
narcissism, 84
Nathanael, 147
nazoraean (secret knowledge guardian,
possessor), 330
Nazoreaens, 330–31
Neo (fictional character), 19, 20 , 21, 49–50
Nephthys, 56–57
networks, 284–89
neuroscientists, 193
New Age, 341–42; counterculture of, 343;
culture in, 344–45; diversity in, 344;
God in, 343; history and, 344; holism
in, 343–44; sociology in, 344; transcendent
in, 343; transgression of, 343
New Agers, 16–18, 21
New Testament, 104, 110–11, 140
Noachide laws, 113
Noah, 33, 113, 327
Nolan, Christopher, 78
norms. See convention
nous (mind), 30–31, 86; of Hermetics,
84–85; of humans, 61–63; of Jesus,
123–24; pneuma as, 62–64; powers
and, 135–37
Numenius, 211
Nun, 55–56
Nut, 56–57
obedience, 32–33
Ôêeaêôiot-Ieou, 313
Ogdoad, 55, 86