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A thought for each day of the year from the mystic Christian, Emanuel Swedenborg. Breathe in the deeper, mystical meanings of the religion of Christians.
WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALISM? In light of the
A kind of mysterious veil hangs over the manner in which spiritual needs were satisfied during the older civilisations by those who sought a deeper religious life and fuller knowledge than the popular religions offered. If we inquire how these needs were satisfied, we find ourselves led into the dim twilight of the mysteries, and the individual seeking them disappears for a time from our observation.
Did the mystery religions of the ancient world influence the New Testament and Christianity? What similarities and disparities exist? Were the connections a plot of the church or merely the people coming out of the pagan religions carrying with them the traditions and habits into their new Christianity.
Words are SPOKEN as rewards from those we love, or used as weapons to cause hurt. Words inspire us. They form an atomic link of spirit to the very Presence of God. They evoke the very presence of evil. They can bring either miracles or mayhem, love or lust, health or sickness, gratification or utter despair.
It always befuddles my mind how modern Christians can take a half verse out of the Bible, regarding induced miscarriages and create an entire anti-abortion movement from it. YET, with the hundreds of references and condemnations of usury - money changing in the Bible, Christians ignore and disobey, with intent, all the scriptures regarding usury and the money changers.
Several interesting essays, including the Time Machine and the Bible...
The manscript (letter) is held in protective custody by Freemasons in Germany.
A Christian spiritual, and mystical look at the mythology of Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden.
The extraordinary character of the story here published, which some peculiar circumstances have fortunately, I think, put into my hands, will excite a curiosity as vivid as the incidents of the narratives are themselves astonishing and unprecedented. To satisfy, as far as I can, a few natural inquiries which must be elicited by its publication, I beg to explain how this unusual posthumous paper came into my possession.
In 1881, an Irish clergyman, Rev. G. J. Ouseley, claimed to have discovered the Original Gospel from which the present Four Gospels were derived. He claimed this original gospel "was hidden by some of the Essene Community for safety from the hands of the corrupters, and is now for the first time translated from the Aramaic."
From one of the greatest Christian thinkers and Christian mystics since the time of Christ. Today's preachers show utter ignorance when compared to masterful knowledge and thoughts of Emanuel Swedenborg.
According to Christianity and other religions, marriage IS the solution to the sex problem. But is it? or better - why is it not being the solution? This is a Christian book looking at the problem and offers a biblical type solution. While perhaps this is not the answer for many, it offers a good look at what most of us expected marriage and sex to be.
It is always an interesting footnote to history that most major religions of today and of antiquity have a link back to Egypt, the Plains of Gizeh, and/or the Great Pyramid. Whether it be that link of Jesus to Egypt, the Jews and Egypt, or August Caesar, there has indeed been a connection and correlation between these and Egypt.