07-22-2012
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Prof. Dr. Sinsi
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Karabtanos
* 1 Karabtanos (Gnostic) In the Codex Nazaraeus, the spirit of blind or animal desire, son of Spiritus (Anima Mundi or the astral light), and generator, by the astral light as mother, of seven other spirits of his own kind: pure spirit fails at creation, so that it is only when Karabtanos "consents to help his mother, that the 'Spiritus' conceives and brings forth 'Seven Figures,' and again 'Seven' and once more 'Seven' (the Seven Virtues, Seven Sins and Seven Worlds" (BCW 6:192n) He is a symbol of matter also of kama-rupas in the astral world, said to be without sense or judgment
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