The Divine Dissimulation

The Divine Dissimulation
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 280
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the distant future, the wealthy villain Abraham Goldstein funds a top-secret project to travel to the divine dimension and meet the god of his people. Upon reaching the divine dimension he finds out that God is dead. He also finds the technology necessary to take gods place and become a god in the eyes of men. Many years later Abraham and his group of angels, a group of genetically engineered super soldiers, rule Eden; a world terraformed to simulate the holy land during the Bronze Age. They rule with terror and fear following the ancient laws, until one day when an accident turns Abraham’s closest angel Lucifer against him, an event that plants the seed of Abraham’s destruction. Meanwhile an ancient force is conspiring in the background to make its return to our world.

Transparency and Dissimulation

Transparency and Dissimulation
Author: Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 311022884X

Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least, Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century England. As part of a "new", contextually aware, aesthetics, it seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures - such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech - are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements. What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes, revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way it helps to resist the easy answers - in religion, science, or the fashions of libertine love.

Ten Random and Very Short Stories

Ten Random and Very Short Stories
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This anthology contains ten random short stories. Some are funny, some are chilling and most of them are plain weird: Contains the Following stories. 100 Tinder Dates. A Fairy-Tale Wedding. A High-Level Tennis Match! Curiosity Saved the Cat. Mayor of Mayonnaise Manor Money Laundering in the Laundromat. Murder on the Ghan. The First Human Clone. The Mayor of Mayonnaise Manor. The Quest to Find Pachamama's Veil.

Five Random and Very Short Stories

Five Random and Very Short Stories
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 18
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This anthology contains five random short stories. Some are funny, some are chilling and most of them are plain weird: Contains the Following stories. Christmas Mayhem Eternity Can Wait Martin Puther's mission in China. Serendipity Saved the Arsonist. The Masked Menace

Sabina's Expedition to Stop the Apocalypse

Sabina's Expedition to Stop the Apocalypse
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 91
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After many ordeals, Sabina faces her nemesis, Rangda. But will Sabina overcome the evil that she tries to stop? Having stopped Pierre Beaumont's evil scheme, Sabina and Alex are recuperating in Hawaii. Peace doesn't last for long though, as the mysterious Martin Al-Sham re-emerges. Martin's associates kidnap Alex, to force Sabina to help him with a dangerous expedition. Martin reveals that he has found a way to re-energise the Zeto Crystal and that he needs Sabina to fulfil her destiny. Together they travel to Kiribati. First, they must scale an active volcano to re-energise the crystal. Then Sabina must swim down to the Sunken Pyramid of Kiribati, to enter the portal to the Divine Dimension. Eventually, Sabina reaches Rangda. But will she be able to carry out her mission, or will she become the very evil that she tried to stop?

Sabina's Quest to Open the Portal in the Sun Pyramid

Sabina's Quest to Open the Portal in the Sun Pyramid
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 103
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Having secured the Zeto Crystal, Sabina must choose between love and duty. Sabina’s Quest to Open the Portal takes place straight after the ending of Sabina’s Pursuit of the Holy Grail. Mentally and physically scarred from her ordeal in Israel, Sabina finds solace in the handsome and empathetic Alexander O’Neill, and she experiences romantic love for the first time. With the Zeto Crystal de-energised Sabina focuses on her relationship with Alex and raising funds for charity. Life is good for Sabina until one day when a new enemy emerges, which forces her to go to Mexico on the brink of civil war and face the difficult choice between love and duty.

Sabina Saves The Future: Complete Trilogy

Sabina Saves The Future: Complete Trilogy
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 177
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Being reborn in the 21st century, Sabina must stop the apocalypse from happening in the 29th century. Sabina Saves the Future is a trilogy of novellas, following the adventurous and supernaturally gifted Sabina Hines, as she travels the world and uncovers various nefarious conspiracies. Sabina’s Pursuit of the Holy Grail Sabina is a gifted 18-year-old girl living in Sydney, in the year 2037. She carries a unique secret. Sabina used to be the Chosen One, but she failed to stop the apocalypse from occurring in the year 2887. As she died, she asked The True Maker to let her be reborn in 2019 and to keep her powers. After narrowly escaping being raped by the spoiled brat Joshua Harkins, Sabina has an epiphany: That it is time for her to set out on her mission to find the Primordial Zeto Crystal, also known as the Holy Grail. Sabina's quest takes her to Jerusalem where evil men are after the Holy Grail for their own nefarious purposes. Facing the conspirators, Sabina sets out on a dangerous quest to find and purify the magical artefact, and to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. But stopping evil is not an easy task, and what sacrifices must Sabina make to reach her goal. Will Sabina be able to retain her innocence throughout the ordeal? Sabina’s Quest to Open the Portal Having secured the Zeto Crystal, Sabina must choose between love and duty. Sabina’s Quest to Open the Portal takes place straight after the ending of Sabina’s Pursuit of the Holy Grail. Mentally and physically scarred from her ordeal in Israel, Sabina finds solace in the handsome and empathetic Alexander O’Neill, and she experiences romantic love for the first time. With the Zeto Crystal de-energised Sabina focuses on her relationship with Alex and raising funds for charity. Life is good for Sabina until one day when a new enemy emerges, which forces her to go to Mexico on the brink of civil war and face the difficult choice between love and duty. Sabina’s Expedition to Stop the Apocalypse After many ordeals, Sabina faces her nemesis, Rangda. But will Sabina overcome the evil that she tries to stop? Having survived the civil war in Mexico, and having stopped Pierre Beaumont’s evil scheme, Sabina and Alex are recuperating in Hawaii. Peace doesn’t last for long though, as the mysterious Martin Al-Sham re-emerges. His associates kidnap Alex, to force Sabina to help Martin with a dangerous expedition. Martin reveals that he has found a way to re-energise the Zeto Crystal, and that he needs Sabina to fulfil her destiny. Together they travel to Kiribati. First, they must scale an active volcano, before Sabina can swim down to the Sunken Pyramid of Kiribati, where the portal to the Divine Dimension is located. Eventually, Sabina reaches Rangda, but will she be able to carry out her mission, or will she become the very evil that she tried to stop?

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Author: Jon R. Snyder
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520274636

"A major scholarly achievement, which speaks to multiple disciplines and national traditions...Snyder offers an elegant introduction to the discourse of dissimulation in the courtly world of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe, then moves beyond to make an important, original intervention on a topic that stands at the center of current debates about modernity."—Albert Ascoli, author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author "The Baroque is the time of 'Machiavellianism' in politics, ethics, and religion. It is the time of esthetics of ostentation, chiaroscuros, and monumental theatricality. Paradoxically, it is also the time when freedom of thought, the value of dissidence, questions of authenticity, debates about virtues, and practices of confessions come to the fore. Snyder brings all these issues to new life in this deft and powerful book."—Giuseppe Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

Divine Space Gods II: Revolution for Dummies

Divine Space Gods II: Revolution for Dummies
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 242
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Keila is the perfect revolutionary: Lacking things like intelligence, sanity or common sense, She has something far more important: plot armour and the telepathic help of Rangda, the evil space demon! This book is the sequel to Divine Space Gods: Abraham’s Follies and is dark comedy parody on The Divine Sedition by the same author. It’s the year 2872 and the young, beautiful, and utterly insane Keila Eisenstein is on the run from her long-time stalker, Rear Admiral Bjorn Muller. Escaping him for the umpteenth time, Keila crashes down on the asteroid colony Eden, most famous for the long running reality show “The Bronze Age Fools” Convinced that Eden is her destiny, Keila kills “The Bronze Age Fools” unwitting main star Abraham Goldstein, which forces the show to cancel. Keila then fakes her own death by deleting her social media account and instructs her lover Metatron to release a press release blaming the cancellation of the show on Bjorn Muller. Bjorn, who is convinced that Keila is dead, as he can’t imaging her willingly deleting her SpaceBook account, goes back to Earth for a holiday. The holiday is ruined as Bjorn is blamed for causing the cancellation of everyone’s favourite show! Being “dead”, Keila builds up a revolutionary movement against the ruling Terran Council. Despite her lack of intelligence or common sense, her plot armour is leading her on the way, and with the help from the evil space demon Rangda, she is poised to free humanity from the oppression of the incompetent array of villains that make up the Terran Council. But, is relying on an evil space demon to free humanity from a group of plutocratic oppressors really a good idea?

Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe

Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe
Author: George McClure
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108470270

The classical tradition -- Renaissance antihero: Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the novel -- Momus and the Reformation -- The execution of Giordano Bruno -- Milton's Lucifer -- God of modern criticks -- Momus and modernism