Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (31 page)

Tantra, 84

Teachings of Silvanus, The,
101

Temple of Jerusalem, 40

Temple of Jerusalem, destruction of:

by Babylonian army, 26–27, 41

as prophesied by Jesus, 9–10, 113, 184
n

by Roman army, 8, 10, 11, 16, 60

Tentyra, 157

Tertullian, 45–46, 103–4, 119, 122, 129–32, 134, 176–77

on Christians as Roman subjects, 120–21

Revelation as inspiration to, 120, 131, 160

on Roman law, 130

on Roman religion, 130–31

Theodore, abbot of Nag Hammadi, 159, 167

Third Reich, 38

throne of God, 4, 17

Thunder, Perfect Mind, 76, 96–99, 176

Thyatira, 49, 193
n

Tiamat, 24, 25

Titus, emperor of Rome, 11, 16, 82

Titus (Paul’s convert), 56

Torah, 44, 59, 83, 191
n

Trajan, emperor of Rome, 61–62, 116

tree of knowledge, cross equated with, 151

Trimorphic Protennoia, 99–100

Tripartite Tractate, 153

True Doctrine, The
(Celsus), 118–19, 210
n

Truth, Gospel of, 93, 151, 153, 156, 176

Trypho, 107

Turkey, 11

United States:

Christians in, 37–38, 179
n

Revelation imagery in, 1–2, 179
n

universalist vision, as excluded by Christianity, 128–29, 176

Uriel, 77–80

Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James), 73–74

Venus (Aphrodite), 12

Vespasian, emperor of Rome, 16, 82

Vesuvius, eruption of, 20–21, 33

via negativa,
96

war against evil,
see
evil, cosmic war against

war in heaven, 5, 22, 182
n,
186
n
–87
n

Wolfson, Elliot, 74

woman “clothed with the sun,” 5, 22–23, 30

children of, 23, 24

as Israel, 30, 181
n

as Mary, 30, 181
n

messiah as child of, 5, 188
n

women, in Egyptian monastic movement, 148

Word (
logos
), 127

Yeats, William Butler, 1

Youel, 95–96

Zechariah, prophet, 69

Zeus, 97

Pergamum temple of, 11–12, 47, 48

Zion, 82

Zostrianos, 74