Tag: origins
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How Did God Get Started?
from bu.edu: One day in the Middle East about four thousand years ago, an elderly but still rather astonishingly spry gentleman took his son for a walk up a hill. The young man carried on his back some wood that his father had told him they would use at the top to make an altar,…
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The Maestro and the Boy: The Kindness of Manly P. Hall
from newtopiamagazine.wordpress.com: The net is a wonderful resource, a worldwide flea market, a massive if haphazard library of Alexandria, offering insights from every culture, and cult on planet Earth, and many that claim to be extraterrestrial. But the Internet offers more misinformation than fact. Out of context illustrations and quotations are used by careless researchers…
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Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
from patheos.com: Where did the Magi come from? The usual answer is from Persia. They are identified with a caste of Zoroastrian astrologers and philosophers known to be active in Persia from the sixth century BC. The term “magi” is derived from the Greek magos which in turn was derived from the Persian term for…
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The Great Beast and the Occult Origins of the Great War
from jwmt.org: On Tuesday, May 9th, 1910, a curious group of seekers gathered on a secluded Dorsetshire estate to evoke Bartzabel, the spirit of Mars. They included Aleister Crowley, newly infamous after the “Rosicrucian” lawsuit with Mathers, his magickal apprentice Victor Neuburg and his new love interest Leila Waddell, and the person apparently requesting the…
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Ancient Deity Drawing May Shed Light on Rise of Andean Religion
from scientificamerican.com: A painted gourd fragment recovered from Peru has added an interesting piece to the archaeological puzzle of where and how religion evolved in pre-Columbian Andean society. Estimated to be more than 4,000 years old, the artifact may be the earliest representation of one of the principal gods in primitive South American religion. The…
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Aesthetic Occultism: A New Terminology
from victorianweb.org: Christianity was dealt blows from all sides in the nineteenth century, altering forever the common system of Biblical image and terminology that people used to communicate. During earlier parts of the century, as industrializing cities grew faster than parishes, Anglicans were unable to supply churches and clerics quickly enough to minister to workers…
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Massacre of Innocence
from www.revisionisthistory.org: In focusing on the subject of abortion, much has been contended from a medical and social perspective. But when we pull the lid off and look at abortion from a spiritual perspective, the implications are far more profound and staggering. The Bible tells us: “Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but…
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Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan
from boingboing.net: There is no other 1960s intellectual figure whom Timothy Leary came to admire more than Marshall McLuhan. He considered McLuhan’s famous statement – “The medium is the message” — the most important cultural insight of the ‘60s, a decade saturated with insightful and lasting one-liners, some of the most famous coming from Leary’s…
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Where Did Christianity Really Come From?
from newdawnmagazine.com: This article is a brief examination of the nature and historical roots of the Qumran community that lived and worked on the western shore of the Dead Sea around 150 BCE to 68 CE and the connections that may be discerned between it and the preaching of John the Baptist, the ministry of…
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Ancient Sun Worship
from reviewofreligions.org: Divinely revealed religions across the world point to a single omnipotent deity. Even traditional faiths and mythology seem to point to the worship of a single deity in their origins. However, we can also observe polytheistic traditions that seem to have evolved from an erosion of monotheism. Man’s nature still yearned for the…