• St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas of Aquinos saw Plato and Arystotel as pre-christian philosophers

• Liber philosophorum

• Structure of scientific paper:

  • introduction – preface

  • acknowledgements – thanks for help and contribution

  • contents – table of contents

  • chapters

  • summary / conclusions

  • afterword

  • bibliography (selected b. – the most important)

    • primary sources

    • secondary sources

  • footnotes

    • ibidem

  • illustrations

  • charts/tables/graphs

• multiple sclerosis

• innerds

• whitticism

• A similar approach is seen in…

• Despite (of)… or perhaps because of… he doesn’t hesitate to…

• … seem to have been conceived…

• … in such implacable and utterly neutral terms as to be totally beyond the reach of…

• conceive – understand sth as, concept

• implacable

• utterly – completely

• beyond – far outside

• Water bears = moss piglets

  • they survive everything

  • the only creatures that can survive in space

  • cryptobiosis

• Fibonacchi

  • introduced Arabic numbers to Europe

  • rabbits in ideal breeding conditions

• pidgin – language that appears in area where multiethnic society lives

• jargon – language connected with professions

• St. (King) James’ Bible – one it was based, it hasn’t changed – all of ancient forms of words

• thou art – you are

• to conjure – to call forward by means of magic (spell)

• Elysium – ancient concept of Netherworld (fields covered by flowers - asphodels – they make you forget about real world), the dwelling place of the blessed after death

• hell’s gate

  • stage element, theatrical decoration, dated back to mystery plays in medieval times (took place in church, were about Jesus’ passion), then developed into theater

  • open mouth of devil, inside there was a stage – begly jaw – teeth

  • in the background there was fire (representation)

  • This is heel nor am I out of it – Mephisto (poena damni)

• mystery play – a type of drama based on the life of Christ

• bowels – guts, intestine

• fortitude – power, strength

• circumscribe – to draw a line around sth

• God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere and nowhere – it’s not in one self-place, you can’t point a spot where hell is

• limbo – purgatory, sth in-between where creatures are purified

• Helen of Troy – why her and not another woman

• necromancy (witchcraft), hell’s gate – symbols in film “Metropolis”

• grimoires (manuals of magic), sins, spells – element appear indirectly

• New Order – pentagram

• depriving people of their humanity – concept (communism)

• Pandemonium – built of precious stones, rich, paradoxical place, very small, built in one day, devils had to shrink to get in; dwelling in hell; the capital of hell; palace built in the middle of hell

• hive – a place where bees live

• redeemer – Christ

• to redeem – to free (mankind) from sin by Christ’s death on the Cross

• redemption – deliverance from sin; salvation

• theodicy – the branch of theology concerned with defending the attributes of God against objections resulting from physical and moral evil

• unde malum? – where does evil come from?

• self-begot – born out of themselves

• horrid – horrible and disgusting

• to no avail – with no result

• to vow – to swear

• siege machine – a device that is designed to break city walls and other fortifications

• disobedience – refusing to do what sb tells you to do

• contempt – anger and hatred

• to devour – to eat up greedily

• exploitation film – low budget, low quality film; B movie

• transgression – the exceeding of boundaries or limits

• to displace – to move from the usual place

• suspense – a feeling of nervousness or excitement caused by wondering what will happen

• compulsory education – education that is required of every person

• tertiary education – education at a college or university

• black school – school where are more immigrants than native speakers

• vocational training – training for a specific job you can do immediately after completing the course

• vocation – voice from above or inner voice that you must become someone

• toddler’s class – groups 1 and 2 in Dutch elementary school

• fleece – wool on a sheep

• deity – god/goddess

• folly – stupidity

• seminal figure – a person having important new ideas and a great influence on a later work

• idiosyncratic – strange, unusual, eccentric

• pelvic thrust – movement like Elvis or Johnson used for a variety of activities, such as dance or sexual activity

• Blake founded his own mythology

• proverbs of hell – paradoxical puns

• seminal figure – comes from ‘seed to inseminate’ – impregnate other people’s minds

• you have to find God in yourself – XIX/XX century proto-nietzschean

• division in Blake’s angels and Christian ones; visions of God and angels (hypocritical)

• eidetism – power of imagination; visions of Blake 3D

• eidetic vision – the ability to observe without "prior beliefs and interpretations" influencing understanding and perception

• eidetic – exceptionally vivid and allowing detailed recall of something previously perceived; all the senses: smell, taste, hearing

• fool (esoteric) women cannot make decision – you can say truth, you are free to say anything

• Adamite – a nudist, especially a member of an early Christian sect who sought to imitate Adam; nakedness is the most holy state

• farcical –pure fool

• the origin of religion is forgotten by people

• Book of Job – Satan appears for the first time

• Jehova of the Bible is an evil creature

• restrain - to hold back from action

• Satan as a blacksmith - a person who makes horseshoes

• anvil - a heavy iron block on which metals, are hammered into desired shapes

• damast steel – highly carbonated iron, wavy design, like a sword with a hidden snake

• sinews = tendons – tissues sticking muscles to the bones

• blasphemy - the crime of assuming to oneself the rights or qualities of God

• sinewy person – muscular