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INDEX
spirit (pneuma), 66, 102, 166, 176, 336;
God and, 11–12, 62–64; in humans,
62–65, 102; immortality of, 202–3; in
Peratics, 204–5; soul compared to,
214–15, 267, 275; trauma and, 193. See
also Holy Spirit; pneumatics
spiritual Christians, 236
spirituality, 52–54, 57–58; in America, 21;
covenant, 35–38, 121, 129–30; ecstatic,
38–44, 44 , 45 , 46–47, 193; reality and,
47, 49; religion compared to, 20–21,
49; revolution in, 70–72; servant,
22–35, 26 , 37–38
Spock (fictional character), 195, 226
Standing One, 99–100
standing prayer, 184–85
star gates, 205–8; of Jeu, 320, 328; of Justinians,
214–16; of Naassenes, 220–21
star rulers, 318–19, 322–23
stars, 43–44; Lascaux caves and, 197–99;
Milky Way, 201, 220
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (film),
195–96, 196 , 226–27
Stephen, 114–15
stories, 79, 81–82, 84
Strangers, 135–36, 160–61
strategies, 284–86
stratification, 274–75
subba (baptizers), 327
subordination, 279–80; of YHWH, 92,
265–68, 303
suffering, 24
sun, 259–61
sun god, 84; Rê, 70, 319–20
Superman (fictional character), 77–79,
78 , 96
superpowers, 100–101; of Sethians, 96–98
Sybok (fictional character), 195–96,
226–27
Sylvia (fictional character), 51–52
sympathetic mode, 186–87
syncretism, 59
tattoos, 208
Taurus, 44 , 211–12
Tchacos Codex, 349–50
Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
( Didache), 112
Tefnut, 56
Ten Commandments, 241, 292
Tertullian, 181, 254, 285, 287, 346; Antidote
for the Scorpion’s Sting , 254
tests, 27–28. See also initiations
Theodotus, 238
therapies, 165–66. See also initiations
Thomas, 1–2
Thomas Anderson (fictional character),
19, 20
Thoth, 27–28, 69, 80–81, 81
Thought (Ennoia), 96, 101, 149. See also
forethought
Three Steles of Seth, 183, 191, 225–26
Titans, 30, 268
tombstones, 253–55, 254
Torah (Old Testament), 31–32, 35–36, 99;
Apostolic Catholics and, 278, 291–92;
corruption of, 102–3, 241–42; Paul’s
Gnosticism and, 124–27; Sethians and,
90–91; Ten Commandments in, 241,
292
traditional knowledge, 275
transcendent, 4–5, 182, 224–26, 234; of
Egypt, 54–57; in New Age, 343; separation
anxiety from, 166–67
transfiguration, 41–43, 68, 80–82
transformation, 109, 115–18, 234–35
transgression, 289; authorities and,
270–71; in counterculture, 282–84;
diversity and, 273–74; elevator etiquette
and, 264; heresy and, 74–75,
263–66; media and, 287–88; of New
Age, 343; power and, 286–87, 290–91;
redefinition in, 290; of rituals, 271–72;
servants and, 279–80
transgressive scriptures, 270
translation, 2, 64, 92, 95, 118, 127; of
Gospel of John, 142–44, 160
trauma: reality of, 191–94; rituals for,
192–93
Travelers. See Peratics
Trimorphic Protennoia, 177–78, 224
Tripartite Tractate, 183, 244
true man, 60–62; God and, 266–67
Truman Burbank (fictional character),
51–52, 52 , 60, 67; truth for, 75–
76, 76