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- noun Plural form of
hylic .
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Examples
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This book is an ironically effective pointer to the preponderance of hylics among the fiction-reading public!
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This book is an ironically effective pointer to the preponderance of hylics among the fiction-reading public!
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And this is the traditional Gnostic truth which it proves: the human race is composed of three kinds of people: pneumatics, who are awakened and live from their true identities; psychics, who live in an ego world of convention and morality; and hylics, who are basically monkeys running around in human form.
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And this is the traditional Gnostic truth which it proves: the human race is composed of three kinds of people: pneumatics, who are awakened and live from their true identities; psychics, who live in an ego world of convention and morality; and hylics, who are basically monkeys running around in human form.
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The other Gnostics divided mankind into two classes: those capable of salvation, or the pneumatics, or Gnostics, and those who perish in the final destruction of material existence, or the hylics.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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