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.

The Divine Finalisation

The Divine Finalisation
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The release of Rangda threatens the future of humanity. But, what if, we could turn back time? The Divine Finalisation is the final book in The Divine Zetan Trilogy. It takes place straight after the events of The Divine Sedition. Hilda Muller witnesses Keila massacring the Terran Council leaders, when the Xeno horde attacks. Hilda Muller fights the Xenos and becomes one of few survivors from the attack on Rashidium City. Sensing the opportunity to seize power, Hilda leads the human army against the Xenos. The Terran troops force the alien invaders to retreat to the Divine Dimension. Meanwhile, Rangda influences Melchior Dorevitch to commit unspeakable atrocities against the Martian population. Inspired by Rangda, Melchior raises an army of human/Xeno mutants to help Rangda defeat her eternal enemies: the Zetans. On Eden, Metatron is grieving Keila and uses a surrogate mother to give birth to his and Keila’s daughter Sabina. Sabina turns out to be the messiah of the 29th century, as she has a special connection to the supreme deity, The True Maker. But is Sabina strong enough to face the monstrosity Rangda, whose powers are increasing every day?

The Divine Space Gods Trilogy

The Divine Space Gods Trilogy
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 432
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A series of dark comedy sci-fi novellas put together into one novel. The Divine Space Gods trilogy is parodying The Divine Zetan Trilogy by the same author. The whole Divine Space Gods trilogy containing Abraham's Follies, Revolution for Dummies, and Rangda's Shenanigans Divine Space Gods 1: Abraham's Follies When God dies, an idiot takes his place! Divine Space Gods 2: Revolution for Dummies 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! Divine Space Gods 3: Rangda's Shenanigans When the Divine Plan is stupid, humanity's future is at risk.

Transparency and Dissimulation

Transparency and Dissimulation
Author: Verena Lobsien
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110228858

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.

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

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

Divine Space Gods III: Rangda's Shenanigans

Divine Space Gods III: Rangda's Shenanigans
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 178
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When the Divine Plan is stupid, humanity’s future is at stake. Due to an unfortunate calendar mistake, the Divine Plan faces a hiccup. Instead of giving birth to the Chosen One, the Martian Rebel Keila Eisenstein unleashes the evil Space Demon Rangda Kaliankan and her army of man-eating Xenos upon humankind. “Fortunately”, The True Maker, the supreme deity of the Milky Way Galaxy, has a plan for dealing with the new threat. To convince Keila’s ex Metatron to find a surrogate mother for his and Keila’s unborn embryo, so the Chosen One can be born and sort out the mess that the True Maker caused. Six months later, Sabina is born. Meanwhile, the new German leader, Hilda Muller realises how to save Earth from the Xeno invasion. Since the Germans haven’t won a war in a millennium, she bribes the Xeno invaders with copious quantities of German beer, which saves Earth. Because of Hilda’s grand plan, she is promoted to planetary leader. Having failed to invade Earth, Rangda comes up with a new plan. She allies with the Martian Madman Melchior Dorevitch and his cannibal army. Together they defeat Rangda’s ancient enemies the Zetans. After this, Rangda, and Melchior begins an odyssey around the Milky Way looking for the magical plot devices, the Zeto Crystals. Eventually, Rangda has all the Zeto Crystals, and Sabina, as the Chosen One, has to face Rangda. But there is an issue… Sabina hasn’t trained and doesn’t seem very keen to carry out the Divine Plan. In the end, only a miracle can save us!

Divine Space Gods: Abraham's Follies

Divine Space Gods: Abraham's Follies
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 146
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Far enough in the future for anything to be conceivable, the ridiculously wealthy and dementia-ridden villain Abraham Goldstein, is defrauded by a shrewd scientist Jack Brown into funding an implausible "secret" project to travel to heaven and meet God! Against all logic the machine end up working and Abraham finds out that the god is dead, and that Yahweh in his suicide letter was kind enough to leave the schematics for the mind control chip he used to convince Bronze Age humans that he was a god. Having these schematics Abraham sets his mind for a new project To create an artificial Bronze Age world where he can be God over it's inhabitants. Along the way he faces many highly amusing scenarios such as problem with the henchmen union, unfortunate calendar mistakes, malfunctioning orbital super weapons etc. Abraham keeps fucking up thing due to his dementia, villainy, incompetent henchmen, and general stupidity until a mentally ill woman shows up out of nowhere and puts and end to Abraham's follies!

The Divine Sedition

The Divine Sedition
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Having gained control over Eden, Keila fakes her own death to fool the Terran Council officer assigned to detain her, Rear Admiral Bjorn Muller. After faking her death, Keila decides to use Eden as her base of operations using deception to turn the Terran Council members against each other. Keila faces overwhelming odds trying to take down the overpowered Terran Council that has been dominating the solar system and oppressed the majority of humanity for over 500 years. She does, however, have one trump on hand against these overwhelming odds: Her mysterious divine connection. Her spiritual relationship is leading her on the way, and with access to the late Abraham Goldstein’s divine detector machine, Keila can unveil secrets that will help her free humanity from the oppression of the few elite plutocrats dominating all of humankind. However, with her connection comes a price. Thus, are the Zetans, controlling Keila as a puppet, indeed better than the Terran Council oppressors she seeks to replace?

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.