Augoeides is an obscure term meaning "luminous body" and thought to refer to the planets. Robert Lomas associates the term with the Higher Self or soul of the individual.Lomas, Robert. The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation.
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Sung claims to have supernatural powers such as the ability to appear anywhere at anytime (fēnshēn body-double manifestations) ), possessing divine healing powers and calls himself Yuzhou Guangmingti (宇宙光明體; lit. Cosmic Luminous Body).
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Among the many followers of Manicheaism was the young Augustine, who later wrote, "I thought that you, Lord God and Truth, were like a luminous body of immense size, and myself a bit of that body."Bruce Watson, Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age. Bloomsbury, 2016, p 30. When he converted to Christianity in 386 CE, Augustine denounced Manicheaism.
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The opera was re-worked both before and after its 2011 premiere. The first recording of the piece, from the Met production, was released on Nonesuch Records in 2014. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Commissioning Club, Cantus, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Alfred P. and Ann M. Moore commissioned Luminous Body, also a collaboration with librettist Craig Lucas. The piece premiered on September 9, 2011.
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Although Descartes was incorrect about the relative speeds, he was correct in assuming that light behaved like a wave and in concluding that refraction could be explained by the speed of light in different media. Descartes is not the first to use the mechanical analogies but because he clearly asserts that light is only a mechanical property of the luminous body and the transmitting medium, Descartes' theory of light is regarded as the start of modern physical optics.
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René Descartes (1596–1650) held that light was a mechanical property of the luminous body, rejecting the "forms" of Ibn al-Haytham and Witelo as well as the "species" of Bacon, Grosseteste, and Kepler.Theories of light, from Descartes to Newton A.I. Sabra CUP Archive,1981 p. 48 In 1637 he published a theory of the refraction of light that assumed, incorrectly, that light travelled faster in a denser medium than in a less dense medium. Descartes arrived at this conclusion by analogy with the behaviour of sound waves.
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Not long afterwards, the creatures began to eat greedily, and due to the huge amount of the mud substance they could feed on it for a very long time. As they ate and ate, their luminous body began to be coated by the mud substance, formed a coarser body, then suddenly, the sun and moon were seen, so were the stars, and also Night and Day began on Earth. The logical explanation of this was that the creatures were the self-illuminating, so blinding and luminous that they didn't notice the Sun. The Earth was covered in their light.
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Cavallo published his account of the phenomenon in v. 74 of the Philosophical Transactions : > Some flashes of lambent light, much like the aurora borealis, were first > observed on the northern part of the heavens, which were soon perceived to > proceed from a roundish luminous body, whose apparent diameter equaled half > that of the moon, and almost stationary in the same point of the heavens > [...] This ball at first appeared of a faint bluish light, perhaps from > appearing just kindled, or from its appearing through the haziness; but it > gradually increased its light, and soon began to move, at first ascending > above the horizon in an oblique direction towards the east. Its course in > this direction was very short, perhaps of five or six degrees; after which > it directed its course towards the east [...] Its light was prodigious. > Every object appeared very distinct; the whole face of the country, in that > beautiful prospect before the terrace, being instantly illuminated.
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