Simulacra, in ancient Egypt, were paintings and statuettes of slaves, persons, animals, and sometimes other beings that were placed in tombs.
Istorum simulacra sinu sensata facultas
Interno comprensa tenet, quae visus ab ipsis
Abstraxit rebus clare constante figura.
¶ Complexu numquam vasto sunt apta locatis
Exiguis, neque parva nimis maiora receptant.
In it's obsession with simulacra and coded messages, as well as its almost libertarian hatred of traditional authority and the corresponding emphasis on spiritual autonomy, gnosticism anticipates cyberculture.
Simulacra and Simulation, French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that our "postmodern" culture is a world of signs that have made a fundamental break from referring to "reality."
The Praxis of Alain Badiou ...
Dick, The Simulacra (1964)[91]
Despite his relative obscurity and lack of influence within the academy today, ...
Mundane things, O Tatios, are not then themselves real, but the simulacra of Reality, and not all are even such; some are but illusion and error, O Tatios, fantastic appearances, mere phantoms.
[ New comers in the astral world always look through the astral simulacra of eyes, because accustomed to turn their attention outwards in that way, just as they move their legs for walking. Both are unnecessary.
These are not brethren; they are simulacra - "antic figures which a juggler dances" '[84]. Later he referred to the paper again: 'Of course I must not say what I think really - that it is an incoherent and slovenly paper.
 See also: Mater, Philo, Aries, Magic, Anima
  
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