The Forbidden Universe (58 page)

Panopolis
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pansophic college
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panspermia
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Paracelsus
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parapsychology (psi)
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participatory anthropic principle (PAP)
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particle physics
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Patrizi, Francesco
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Paul III, Pope
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Paul V, Pope
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Philo of Alexandria
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philosophia perennis
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photosynthesis
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physics
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Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
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and Cabala
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and Ficino
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imprisonment
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and magic
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Oration on the dignity of man
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Pinelli, Gian Vincenzo
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de Pistoia, Leonardo
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planetary motion, laws of
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see also
heliocentric theory

Plato
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Academy
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archetypes, theory of
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Plotinus
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Plutarch of Athens
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Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream
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polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
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Porphyry of Tyre
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Porta, Giovanni Battista della
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precognition
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‘primordial soup’
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prisca philosophia
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prisca sapientia
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prisca theologia
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prokaryotes
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Protestant Church
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and heliocentricity
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France
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and Hermeticism
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and Rosicrucianism
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Protestant Reformation
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Psellus
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psychokinesis
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Ptah
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Ptolemy, Earth-centred model
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punctuated equilibrium
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Pyramid Texts
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quantum evolution
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quantum theory
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quarks
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Qur’an
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Ra/Re (Atum-Ra)
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Random Event Generators (REGs)
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Rees, Martin
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relativity theory
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religion and science debate
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Renaissance
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French relocation
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Hermetic Renaissance
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interest in the magical
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and occult philosophy
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resonance
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Richelieu, Cardinal
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RNA
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Rosenkreutz, Christian
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Rosicrucianism
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alchemical philosophy
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and the Alchemical Wedding
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anti-Rosicrucian paranoia
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continuation of Hermetic reform
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foundation myth
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Fraternity of the Rose Cross
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and the Giordanisti
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in England
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in France
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in Germany
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Invisibles
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rose and cross symbolism
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Rosicrucian manifestos
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secret societies
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seeks return to primitive Christianity
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shamanism
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Royal Society

foundation
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and Freemasonry
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and intelligence-gathering activities
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motto
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Newton’s presidency
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rejects Hermetic/Rosicrucian model
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royal charter
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Rudolph II, Emperor
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Sabians
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sacred sexuality
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salvation
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Samaritans
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Santa Maria sopra Minerva
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Saqqara
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Sarpi, Paolo
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Schönborn, Christoph
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scientific atheism
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scientific method
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scientific rationalism
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scientific revolution
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scientism
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Scottish Covenanters
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senescence see ageing phenomenon

Serapeum
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Serapis cult
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sexual evolution
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sexual reproduction
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Shakespeare, William

Globe Theatre
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Hamlet
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and the heliocentric debate
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Love’s Labour’s Won
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The Tempest
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shamanism
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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Sidney, Sir Philip
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simulated universes concept
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Sixtus V, Pope
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Smolin, Lee
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Societas Christiana
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space-time curvature
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speciation
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Spencer, Herbert
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stars
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Stobaeus
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Stoker, Bram
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string theory
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subconscious mind
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Sufism
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supernovae
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superstition
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Susskind, Leonard
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