Spirituality-Religions
Ancient Religions
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The power of oil, the anointing oil, the magic of oil.... Oil was revered in early Semitic cultures.
Interesting treatise on the origins and alchemical substance of the the eternal flame, placed on many graves throughout the world.
Human history is a seemingly endless succession of bloody conflicts and devastating turmoil. Yet, inexplicably, in the light of astonishing intellectual and technological advancement, Man's progress has been halted in one crucial area: he still indulges the primitive beast within and makes war upon his neighbors.
The lady mystic traces the progress of the soul.
The Kiowa sun dance is the prerogative of the individual who owns the sacred image, the tai'me. He deputes the ancillary offices where he sees fit, although there is a well-defined tendency for them to be hereditary.
Ms. Besant teaches about Consciousness, Duty, and Sacrifice.
What adventures await our 'soul' -- our 'being' after we die? Related by a soul, already on the other side....
Just outside Rome there was an underground temple of the Persian God Mithra. Well, at midnight, the first minute of December twenty-fifth, you would have seen that temple all lit up with candles, and priests in white garments at the altar, and boys burning incense; exactly as you will see in a Roman Catholic church at midnight on December twenty-fourth in our own time. And the worshippers of Mithra would have told you that Mithra was a good God who had come from heaven to be born as a man and redeem men from their sins; and he was born in a dark cave or stable on December twenty-fifth.
Peyote, the mystical 'weed' of the American Indians in the Southwest. This is an early observation by the US government of the Indian usage of this 'path to the spiritual.'
Was Phallic worship representing the creation aspect of mankind?
How much influence did the Roman religions' soothsayers have on early Christianity?
Again this master teacher in few words, adeptly explains the Three Paths or Three Margas; Karma, Jnana, and Bhakti (Action, Wisdom, Devotion).
Studies into the ancient religions of Greece, Babylon, India, and Rome. Elements and Dieties in the Phallic Faiths and Worship
A look at the differences between the Babylonian religion and that of Judaism.