John D. Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian gnosticism which predates Christianity.

The Gnostics ( see Sethian, Ophites ) believed that God ( the deity worshiped by Jews, Greek Pagan philosophers and Christians ) was really an evil creator or demiurge that stood between us and some greater, more truly benevolent real deity — although there is no reason given why the higher deity is not a creator-god as well, nor why the higher deity allows the realm of the evil demiurge as flawed and unjust to continue to exist.

It was an " acoustical experiment ", where Jämsen and the new vocalist Tapio Wilska ( of Sethian and Lyijykomppania ) shared the singing duties among them.

The level set method was initially proposed to track moving interfaces by Osher and Sethian in 1988 and has spread across various imaging domains in the late nineties.

Sethian is a Finnish progressive metal band, originally formed in 1998 but whose debut album, Into the Silence, was not completed and released until 2003.

The level set method was developed in the 1980s by the American mathematicians Stanley Osher and James Sethian.

The text is thought to be from the Sethian sect of Gnostics ( the sect that viewed the biblical Seth as their hero, who was reincarnated as Jesus ).

The text is thought to be from the Sethian sect of Gnostics, the sect who view biblical Seth as their hero, who was reincarnated as Jesus.

The name of the text means The First Thought which is in Three Forms ( or The Three Forms of the First Thought ), and appears to have been rewritten at some point to incorporate Sethian beliefs, when originally it was a treatise from another Gnostic sect.

The most important Mohallas or localities of old Bhera are the Mohallah Imli Wala, Shesh Mehal, Pirachagan Mohalla, the Sethian wala Mohalla, the Sahnian wala Mohalla.

In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian creation myth, the Barbēlō is described as " the first power, the glory, Barbēlō, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation ".

The Secret Book of John ( Apocryphon of John ) is a 2nd-century AD Sethian Gnostic Christian text of secret teachings.

The Valentinian version is more overtly Christianized than the Apocryphon of John which is called the Sethian version.

It should be noted that the Nag Hammadi library Sethian text Trimorphic Protennoia identifies Gnosticism as professing Father, Son and feminine wisdom Sophia or as Professor John D. Turner denotes, God the Father, Sophia the Mother, and Logos the Son.

* Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic Literature, John D Turner, ISBN 0-7914-1338-1.

* John D Turner translations of the Sethian Nag Hammadi text and history

The hymns themselves presuppose familiarity with the generally accepted Sethian Gnostic mythical structure as presented in Zostrianos and The Apocyphon of John.

* Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic Literature John D Turner, ISBN 0-7914-1338-1.

In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.

Commonly, the Sethian cosmogonic myth describes an intended prologue to the events of Genesis and the rest of the Pentateuch, which by its emendation brings about a radical reinterpretation of the typical orthodox Jewish conception of creation, and the divine's relation to reality.

The Sethian conception of God is, by contrast, defined through negative theology exclusively: he is immovable, invisible, intangible, ineffable.

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

Six weeks later the pair broke from the Temple of Set, forming their own Sethian movement, the Sethian Liberation Movement.

The last of these seems to have undergone Sethian revision, although similar, fully Sethian texts have their own distinct perspective — maybe suggesting some Sethians were inspired by Barbeloite writings.

Fast marching method has been introduced by James A. Sethian.

It proclaims one form of Sethian Gnosticism.

* 2004: James A. Sethian

However, he is strongly supported by his crew-notably a group of smugglers and Sethian religious fanatics recruited at the little port of Shelmerston ( fictional ) in south-west England.

Sethian can be compared to For My Pain in that it is a Finnish metal supergroup.

Sethian are currently out of action due to the members being pre-occupied with recording and touring obligations in their main bands.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

According to Franz Cumont, the imagery of the tauroctony was a Graeco-Roman representation of an event in Zoroastrian cosmogony described in a 9th century AD Zoroastrian text, the Bundahishn.

Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he described theurgic observance as " ritualized cosmogony " that endowed embodied souls with the divine responsibility of creating and preserving the cosmos.

The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as " a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world ’ s great civilizations ..." as the " symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries.

Gamow produced an important cosmogony paper with his student Ralph Alpher, which was published as " The Origin of Chemical Elements " ( Physical Review, April 1, 1948 ).

Later, when Atum had become assimilated into Ra as Atum-Ra, the belief that Atum emerged from a ( blue ) lotus bud, in the Ennead cosmogony, was adopted and attached to Ra.

Mut was a title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, Naunet, in the Ogdoad cosmogony during what is called the Old Kingdom, the third through sixth dynasties, dated between 2, 686 to 2, 134 B. C.

In Egyptian mythology, Sia or Saa was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny.

Lettres sur le Christianisme ( Berlin and Hanover, 1803 ) was a controversial correspondence with Wilhelm Abraham Teller of Berlin in regard to the Mosaic cosmogony.

There was no one set Greek cosmogony, or creation myth.

Hence in Anaximanders's cosmogony, in the beginning was the sphere, out of which celestial rings were formed, and from which the stellar sphere was then composed from some of those rings.

In the Orphic cosmogony originally there was the unexpressed Thesis ( tithimi, τίθημι: put or join together ).

The ananke, often translated as ' necessity ', was the only other co-existent element or presence in Plato's cosmogony.

The cosmogony of the Jews, as recorded in Genesis, was mainly borrowed from the Babylonians.

The poem goes into detail about the Norse cosmogony and was evidently used extensively as a source document by Snorri Sturluson in the construction of the Prose Edda who quotes it.

While throughout the era of merkabah mysticism the problem of creation was not of paramount importance, the treatise Sefer Yetzirah (" Book of Creation ") represents an attempted cosmogony from within a merkabah milieu.

Fifth-century Orphic cosmogony had a " Womb of Darkness " in which the Wind lay a Cosmic Egg whence Eros was hatched, who set the universe in motion.

Orphic cosmogony was merged with biblical notions ( Tehom ) in Christian belief and inherited by alchemy and Renaissance magic.

In Zoroastrian cosmogony, Adar was the seventh of the seven creations of the material universe.

– 27 September 1715 ) was an English theologian and writer on cosmogony.

It was a speculative cosmogony, in which Burnet suggested a hollow earth with most of the water inside until Noah's Flood, at which time mountains and oceans appeared.