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  Graffiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historically, the term graffiti originally referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.
Thus, inscriptions made by the authors of a monument are not classed as graffiti.
In contrast to typical modern graffiti, alphabets and quotations from famous literature (especially the first line of Virgil's Aeneid) have been found scribbled on the walls of Pompeii, either for the pleasure of the writer or to impress, albeit anonymously, the passer-by with one's familiarity with letters and literature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graffiti   (6077 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism
An extraordinary prominence is given to the utterance of the vowels: alpha, epsilon, eta, iota, omicron, upsilon, omega.
The Saviour and His disciples are supposed in the midst of their sentences to have broken out in an interminable gibberish of only vowels; magic spells have come down to us consisting of vowels by the fourscore; on amulets the seven vowels, repeated according to all sorts of artifices, form a very common inscription.
Heracleon called the source of all being Anthropos, instead of Bythos, and rejected the immortality of the soul -- meaning, probably, the merely psychic element.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06592a.htm   (10663 words)

  
 The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Magic and Ritual
As is true of all the instruments, there is no exact pattern for the magic ring.
The shape and choice of inscription depends on its use, and the personality of its maker.
It can give you inner peace and self-confidence, personal magnetism, the power to attain your goals in life, and most important of all, a true understanding of yourself and your place in the universe.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /subjects.php?gen_sbj=Magic+and+Ritual   (12194 words)

  
 Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy, Happiness, Progress and the Vanity of the Philosopher: Library of Economics and Liberty
To this constancy we owe all the greatest, and noblest efforts of intellect.
To this constancy we owe the immortal mind of a Newton.
The cuneiform inscription in the logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
www.econlib.org /library/Columns/y2005/PeartLevymalthus.html   (3669 words)

  
 Epicureanism - ReligionFacts
The works of Philodemus, a 1st-century BC Epicurean, discovered at Herculaneum, and a large 2nd-century inscription in Lycia, have further added to our knowledge of Epicurus and his teaching.
Epicurus taught a materialistic view of the universe: the whole of nature consists of matter and space.
But he regarded them as made of atoms like everything else (immortal because their bodies do not dissolve) and living in a happy, detached society out of contact with humans.
www.religionfacts.com /a-z-religion-index/epicureanism.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Book of Protection, being a collection of charms. Translated by Hermann Gollancz
The tablet bearing an inscription of 9 and 15, a plan of which is here given;, is considered the most ancient of its sort, and is therefore denominated, "The seal of Solomon".
Square tablets, or signets, were fabricated, with inscriptions having allusion to each of the planets; and in process of time similar articles were produced, to suit an infinite variety of purposes, all widely different from the sacred one for which such things were first invented,'
O holy God, holy Mighty One, holy Immortal: O our Lord, have pity upon us: O our Lord, receive thou our petition: O our Lord, be gracious unto this thy servant who bears these writs.
www.esotericarchives.com /gollancz/protect.htm   (12920 words)

  
 Plato [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
In the early transitional dialogue, the Meno, Plato has Socrates introduce the Orphic and Pythagorean idea that souls are immortal and existed before our births.
Several arguments for the immortality of the soul, and the idea that souls are reincarnated into different life forms, are also featured in Plato's Phaedo (which also includes the famous scene in which Socrates drinks the hemlock and utters his last words).
Stylometry has tended to count the Phaedo among the early dialogues, whereas analysis of philosophical content has tended to place it at the beginning of the middle period.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/plato.htm   (7918 words)

  
 Dog Lovers Bookshop: Children's Books
Good+ condition, in poor dust jacket (small inscription on free endpaper; chips and tears, but Irish setter on the front is unaffected) in Mylar.
Immortal story of a cabinetmaker's dog who joins the circus.
Good condition (inscription on free endpaper; spine lightly sunned).
www.dogbooks.com /kids.htm   (6118 words)

  
 Heads on the Disk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
47 For the scribal use of "bald", see Sir Alan Gardiner: "Egyptian Grammar", Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, first published 1927, edition consulted 1982, page 450, sign D 3 = three locks of hair, used with a negation particularly to indicate portions "missing" from a copied inscription.
, the sun god Apollo had the surnames "Phoebus" = "the brilliant" and "Chrysocomes" = "of the golden locks", and this immortal never allowed his long hair to be touched by a razor.
He and the other sun god Helios were both frequently pictured with a radiant crown of hair
www.recoveredscience.com /Phaistosebook07.htm   (1576 words)

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