On Monday night, Zheng Qing had another 'beauty-nightmare' similar to the previous day.
After waking up the next morning, he sat on the bed with his head in his arms for a while, thinking carefully whether he had taken too many blood-replenishing pills these days, which caused substances to affect consciousness.
Originally, he wasn't so superficial.
But to be honest, superficial is indeed full of attraction, and no wonder everyone likes superficiality.
The first lesson on Tuesday morning was divination.
In this class, Professor Yi did not let everyone sit in the classroom and listen to the boring lecture notes, but took everyone to the astronomical tower and set up a brass telescope with strange shapes.
Compared with ordinary telescopes, these telescopes seem to wear thick tortoiseshell glasses.
"——Filters can help you observe stars during the day."
The divination professor took off a 'torrent glasses', pointed to the translucent brown lenses on it, and explained briefly: "This is a stargazing instrument improved by the wizard of Arennian University from Shimina, the capital of Asia Minor, using the eyes of the fire dragon. Here is a test point. The reason why Master Arennian invented this lens was to refute the Gnostic theory of "good at discerning and perception"... Does anyone know this sect?"
The moment he heard the three words "Gnostic", Zheng Qing's ears stood up. A few days ago, Thomas also mentioned this name in the illegal laboratory.
Perhaps because this term is a bit rare, none of the people present raised their hands.
Even Xiao Xiao - when the classroom atmosphere was silent for three seconds, everyone turned to look at the "Doctor", but saw him hesitating without any intention of raising his hand.
"Don't anyone know?"
Professor Yi opened his eyes wide in surprise, looked at Xiao Xiao, then looked at Zheng Qing, and asked again: "Gnostic Sect, don't you even know this?"
Still no one raised his hand.
The professor shook his head, held the brass telescope beside him, looked around, and his tone was filled with emotion: "No wonder Professor Qian complained to me a few days ago - the level of students is not as good as before - the level of students is as good as the world and the hearts of the world, as if they were only two things that were regressing in this great era of progress."
Zheng Qing didn't know which subject Professor Qian taught by Professor Yi mentioned.
But he knew he had the ability to slightly redeem the reputation for the 'nowing students'.
So, after hesitating for a few seconds, he finally hesitated and raised his hand. A relaxed exhalation came from the crowd. Professor Yi also happily pointed the boy's name.
"Student Zheng Qing?"
"I don't know much."
The boy felt the encouraging sight around him and spoke slightly crampedly: "As far as I know, the word 'Gnostic' means 'knowledge' in Greek. In the Gnostic sect, there are some spiritual knowledgers who believe in mysterious religious doctrines. They call the knowledge or consciousness acquired through personal experiences 'Green knowledge' and 'true knowledge', believing that 'Green knowledge' can free them from ignorance and present... This is a dualistic worldview that attempts to neutralize matter and spirit."
Because when Nikita and Thomas talked about this word that night on Saturday, Zheng Qinggang was cut off and was extremely sober, so he was very impressed by this word.
After returning from the school hospital, he immediately read the "Encyclopedia of the Wizarding World" and found the relevant meaning of this entry.
Thinking of the entry in the encyclopedia, Zheng Qing couldn't help but look at Xiao Xiao again - he still listened to Xiao Xiao's words about the content of "The Gospel of Judah", so he didn't think that Dr. Xiao didn't know this sect.
After a pause, he withdrew his gaze, and the thoughts that had been rolling in his mind over the past few days unconsciously came to his mouth, and he couldn't help but talk: "...Atlas Academy does not have faith in the Gnostic sect, but there is a discussion about this sect. Because many Gnostic believers use the Gospel of Judah as the theoretical basis, the records show that the debate on this gospel in Atlas Academy appears every few decades. Many people regard it as a heresy. Correspondingly, no one will doubt the appeal of this heresy. Because the logical basis of its birth is very solid - God knows everything and can do everything - Gnostic's "good at knowing and being able to distinguish" is very important for the discussion of divinity, the most important, or worst question, is the discussion of sin.
Why did God allow sin to exist?
In the eyes of many Gnostics, evil is a necessary condition for good existence. Dialectically, this view is not good, but their subsequent inferences go astray - they believe that if evil is necessary, it is also "good". Because all evil deeds show the preciousness and necessity of good, the evildoer plays a necessary role in the divine plan, so doing evil is doing good.
In the words of some Gnostics, if you don’t touch the darkness, you will never truly understand the light…”
Professor Yi finally couldn't help it, raised his hand and interrupted Zheng Qing's endless digression.
"It's OK, it's OK."
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and smiled awkwardly: "...If I didn't know, I almost thought I was having a debate class in Atlas."
A chuckle of agreement sounded on the observatory.
Zheng Qing felt a little embarrassed, lowered his head and rubbed his sleeve against his brass telescope.
"Well, first of all, I need to emphasize that the Gnostic view of good and evil is not as simple as Zheng Qing said."
In order to avoid the conflicts between the academy or misunderstandings by Zheng Qing's long speech just now, the divination professor had to patch it on the spot: "For the Gnostics, those who cannot distinguish between good and evil are truly free people, and they are also ignorant people, so they have to accept the pain of poverty, sin and injustice caused by ignorance... and the way to get rid of these pains is "spiritual knowledge"... In short, Zheng Qing spoke very well and richly, but the contents behind - to be precise, the part after his first sentence - have nothing to do with our course today.
Just as Zheng Qing said in the first sentence, the word Gnostic means "knowledge" in Greek - the meaning of "knowledge" here actually refers specifically to astrology. This means that astrology has a unique position in this sect, and the wizards of the Gnostic sect also happen to be very good at astrology. In order to fundamentally disintegrate Gnostic theory, Master Arenniao specially studied astrology and invented this lens that can observe stars during the day... The topic ends here. Today, your task is to observe the characteristics of the constellations during the day and compare them with the records observed at night before class. Everyone submits a report of more than 120 lines before get out of class... Remember what is the most important thing about looking at the astrology?"
"Look at the constellation in a direction and look at the astrological chart in the opposite direction!"
A uniform answer sounded around.
Chapter completed!