Chapter 29: The Gnosticism
For the next three days, Aang instructed Gollum like a weary dog, and had to beg Aang to keep a spell of illusion for him, so that he could maintain Bojin's appearance, and discuss business with the familiar dark wizards, and the gold gallons in Bogin's treasury were spent like a stream in exchange for a precious magical animal**, or potion material**.
the eight-eyed giant spider in the dense jungle of Kalimantan; Kemera in the Greek mountains; the black dragon soaring over the Hirchidiri Islands; the fireball dragon that inhabits the ancient lands of China; Leopard ...... in the Great Rift Valley The pups and eggs of these rare or dangerous magical animals were transported to Chen Ang's laboratory in batches.
Chen Ang casts a traceless stretching charm on a suitcase, expanding a huge space of about 500 acres for Gollum to house those magical animals, and when he sees the huge space, Gollum is deeply shocked, and another house-elf, Pino, who originally belonged to Bogin, is now in charge of taking care of these magical animals.
Pino, who completely regarded Chen Ang as his master, didn't recognize Gollum at all, and even wanted to bully him, only then did Gollum find that without the constraints of the magic contract, he couldn't control this house-elf at all, and even in terms of the application of spells, Pino was better than him a lot, and the already servile Gollum actually competed with his house-elf to be jealous, vying to please Chen Ang.
Chen Ang's recent experiments are trying to create a basilisk, legend has it that the basilisk comes from the magic egg laid by a seven-year-old rooster when Sirius is in the sky, and hatched it by a toad, Chen Ang judged that making the rooster lay eggs while Sirius was in the sky undoubtedly required a superb black magic, he tried to transform the rooster into a hen, using the power of Sirius to curse the rooster, but in the end it all failed, and the eggs laid by the rooster were completely devoid of vitality and soul breath.
The main reason is probably Sirius, which usually occurs in winter or early spring, and it is easier to use its power with the reference of the winter triangle.
It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and although Chen Ang used magic to move the location of the experiment to the Southern Hemisphere, there are still interferences in the experiment.
Chen Ang flipped through a large number of magic books on the creation of the basilisk, and found that although this magical creature seemed easy to create, there had been no record of its sightings for four hundred years, and it was probably because all the 'witnesses' had died.
But that at least illustrates the difficulty.
In the end, Chen Ang found that it was still a matter of curses, the essence of the basilisk was to use the power of Sirius to create a magical creature, and the rooster and toad were just a magical medium to create it**, in the book of Isaiah, there is a record of the basilisk: "They broke the eggs of the viper and weaved the web of the spider." The person who swallows the egg will find a poisonous lizard inside after crushing the wind egg. ”
The poisonous lizard here is the basilisk.
Since then, this miraculous creature has appeared in biblical writings, the most detailed of which is in a book written by the famous wizard Alexander Naikam in the 80s of the 12th century, but it is not included in the "poisonous lizard" but in the section "Rooster".
"Its eggs must be laid on Sirius days, fertilized by a 7-year-old rooster. The egg is easily recognizable: it is not an ordinary ovate, but spherical, without a shell, but covered with a thick layer of skin. And this egg must be incubated by a toad, which will hatch this extremely poisonous monster, a snake with the characteristics of a toad and a rooster. ”
Chen Ang believes he has found the origin of this monster, born in Israel, the Greek Abraxas, or Abraxas, or Abraxas.
This was the supreme presence in the cosmology system of the Gnosticism, an important heretical sect of early Christianity, but later due to the defeat of Gnosticism in the battle with Christian orthodoxy, Abraxas was relegated to the rank of fallen angel in the Christian orthodox scriptures. He has the head of a rooster and the lower body of a snake, and is extremely skilled in alchemy.
In the Gnostic description, Abraxas is actually synonymous with "the invisible Supreme One," that is, the creation of spirituality, a higher being than God.
Chen Ang believes that the black magic ritual of the basilisk should have originated from this mysterious sect that blended Greek philosophy, Persian Zoroastrianism, Egyptian mystical religion, Babylonian astrology, etc., and was a degraded version of this sect's attempt to trace its invisible Most High ritual, the creator of the basilisk, Helbo the Mean, after obtaining a part of the magic rituals of the Gnostic sect, in order to obtain the power of this sect, stole a trace of Abraxas's power with black magic.
The dastardly Helmpo was a Parseltongue Greek dark wizard, and Greece was the region where the Gnostics once lived.
This clumsy imitation is the basilisk.
At this time, Chen Ang had fully understood how to create a basilisk, just stealing a trace of Abraxas's power, for him, it was easy, and he discovered some secrets of ancient wizards, although wizards claimed that there was no god in the world, and the so-called Jesus was just a powerful wizard.
But it is indeed a self-evident fact that the ancient wizarding civilization originated from the occult knowledge inherited by ancient sects.
The magic of wizards is actually the knowledge of 'gods' inherited from those ancient sects, and the ancient gods are an indescribable and extremely chaotic impersonal figure, which is a coincidence with the magic that Chen Ang found in the bloodline of modern wizards.
After knowing how to create a basilisk, Chen Ang had no interest in creating a basilisk, he felt that the magical biological technology content of the basilisk was too low, and it was not as good as creating the basilisk's predecessor, the non-degraded version, the "invisible supreme" of the Gnostic sect, Abraxus.
Chen Ang plans to realize the creation of this existence in several stages, first to create a basilisk to practice hands, and then to create the Jewish angel Obaser with the body of a cockscomb, Chen Ang speculates that this angel should have the special power of death at sight, and its name abracadabra means "I bless the dead".
And the ancient Aramaic word "avadakedavra" means "everything will be destroyed"
This will be an Angel of Death, and according to the description of magic in the text, what the basilisk sees will be petrified, and everything Obadhar sees will be destroyed and will die. Because this ancient magic ritual was too incomplete, Chen Ang tried his best to collect information and complete it, and then modified and supplemented it according to what he had learned.
Focusing on the instantaneous magic of the arcane system, he focused on the divinity of Obartha, and the final creation should be a divine creature. Although O'Baser was supposed to be an angel in his person, what Chen Ang created with magic was only a symbolic creature that could only touch the boundaries of divine creatures.
And the Abraxas "invisible supreme" that Chen Ang wants to create in the end, that is, the creation of spirituality, a higher being than God, the basilisk is just the most clumsy imitation, without a billionth of power, it is too difficult to trace it with the ritual of creating the basilisk. Even the rituals of the original Gnostic Sect are elusive and elusive.
"Originally, I just wanted to create a basilisk to play with, but I didn't expect it to end up with such a big project, I can only say that creation makes people!" Chen Ang looked at the third version of the design he had revised and sighed, this is indeed a big project, and it may not be possible to complete it in fifty years given to Chen Ang, but once it is created, it will be enough to serve as the carrier of Morgoth.
Gollum looked at the design full of complex magic scripts, his face was full of shock and confusion, he couldn't understand what this design contained in it. Even if it is the ritual used to create a basilisk, after Chen Ang's improvement, the hatching will not be an ordinary basilisk.
In this regard, Gollum has no other thoughts in her heart except awe. 2k reading web