![]() Arbraxas is also the name of a Garth Nix novel and character. It is the second volume in the four-volume series The Book of the New Sun. Apparently a gnostic archon, and whose letters, when converted to numbers, means 365. The Claw of the Conciliator is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1981. p.406Įpopt: One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system, or more specifically, an initiate in the Elusinian Mysteries, one who has attended the epopteia (final initiation rite).Ībraxas: A word inscribed on amulets or talismans in Europe, Northern Africa, and Asia Minor, from the 2nd century B.C. Those who, like the Mother, have learned to enter the same state while waking live surrounded by their own lives, even as the Abraxas perceives all time as an eternal instant. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind us? In sleep the mind is encircled by it's time, which is why we so often hear the voices of the dead there, and receive intelligence of things to come. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. The Claw of the Conciliator is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1981. ![]()
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