女神殿

gnostic



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諾斯替教徒

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–adjective Also, gnostical. 
1. pertaining to knowledge.
2. possessing knowledge, esp. esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters.
3. (initial capital letter) pertaining to or characteristic of the Gnostics.

–noun 
4. (initial capital letter) a member of any of certain sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead.


 　
Chateau Puivert (the Ninth Gate) is called The Devil's Tower. It was used by the Cathars to defend themselves during the Albigensian crusades in the 13th century. The Cathars were gnostic Christians but Pope Innocent III considered them to be devil worshippers.

Albigensian
清潔教教徒的

Albigenses
–plural 
noun members of a Catharistic sect in the south of France that arose in the 11th century and was exterminated in the 13th century by a crusade (Albigensian Crusade) and the Inquisition. 


sophism
solipsism
Gallo has limited himself to the most proudly [solipsistic] subjects.
And that anguished [solipsism] seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject. 
"Kicking and Screaming" [strikes] a cheerfully solipsistic note. Chris Eigeman, the handsome young [curmudgeon],
discursive
agnostic
Finch, as an intellient, attractive [agnostic], [conveys] a romantic attachment for Hepburn
eclecticism
his music can be maddeningly inconsistent because of this eclecticism
One of the most inventive and [eclectic] figures to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution
and the director ably captures the film's eclectic European [settings]
Umlaut