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  • The term "mystery religion" applies to a few of the numerous ... with its ritual of baptism, as a mystery religion. During the Middle ...
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  • Mystery plays, sometimes also called miracle plays (though these tended ... The Catholic church eyed mystery plays warily. Until the beginning ...
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  • largely inherited from Greek and Etruscan mystery religions, save their notable ... Mystery Religion|Dionysian Mysteries As noted above, the bacchanalia ...
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  • importantly, A Short Declaration on the Mystery of Iniquity, a critique ... in 1612, Helwys was able to publish ‘The Mystery of Iniquity’. He wrote ...
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  • and his work in the fields of comparative religion and the history of religion ... They came to represent the epitome of religion’s irrational and rational ...
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  • "Authentic Scripture of Pervading Mystery"). The emperor posthumously ... on the Authentic Scripture of Pervading Mystery") by Xu Lingfu (徐灵府 ...
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  • traditions that are far older than the mystery religions popular at the ... such as the four great cycles of English mystery plays, which devote a separate ...
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  • Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays and miracle plays ... The morality play has its roots in the miracle and mystery plays of ...
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  • Eliphas Lévi, in Le Grand Arcane ("The Great Mystery," ... 7. Kokabeel: Taught the mystery of the Stars. 8. Penemue: Taught writing. ...
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  • == Mystery religion == Osiris|Mystery Religion|Serapis development of Egyptian/Hellenistic mystery religion. Though this role is ...
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  • the large bead before each decade. A new mystery is meditated upon at each ... certain virtues, or fruits, with each mystery. (The following list ...
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  • in Ephesus. Philostratus keeps up the mystery of his hero's life ... There is also a mystery surrounding Apollonius' death. Some reported ...
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  • associated with Orpheus (and with the mystery religion bearing his name) suggest ... figure of Orpheus was also central to mystery religion (specifically in what ...
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  • machupicchu-inca.com/nazca-lines-mystery.html Nazca Lines Mysteries: ... sources played a dominant role in Nazca religion and economy from ancient ...
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  • known example of a "locked room" mystery, with Daniel in the role ... Using a detective technique that would later be repeated in many mystery ...
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  • entitled "Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas," as well ... of the site are also somewhat of a mystery. The inhabitants left the ...
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  • Kenosis therefore is a paradox and a mystery since "emptying oneself ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: religion 131583110 ...
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  • role of Demeter in the pan-Hellenic Mystery Religion (discussed below), worship ... was as a goddess of the Elusinian mystery religion. In this capacity, her ...
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  • culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics, and ethics ... civilization's existence, the main religion was polytheistic and had ...
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  • The Treasure of Rennes-le-Château, a Mystery Solved (Sutton Publishing ... of The Treasure of Rennes-le-Château, A Mystery Solved (2003, 2005) has ...
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  • various aspects of the classical Greek religion (albeit to a lesser extent ... in Lemnos. The adherents of this mystery religion claimed that their founders ...
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  • Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction ... novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery set in a fourteenth century ...
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  • Stephen Wilk. Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon (Oxford University ... * Harrison, Jane E. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 1922 ...
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  • | religion = Jewish | footnotes = }} Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E ... of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young ...
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  • priests, and parish priests administer the mystery of confirmation to newborn ... Orthodox Churches (Introduction to Religion). Cambridge University Press ...
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  • type of philosophy of life. The wonder and mystery of life shaped his thoughts ... Category:Philosophy and religion 32010043 ...
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  • to rites similar to those of other mystery cults in which the subject ... remained ignorant of Islam as a religion and of its internal divisions ...
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  • I will speak to the Lord concerning the mystery of truth: 'In this ... drawing the Lord out on another mystery spoken of in the traditional ...
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  • become the body and blood of Christ is a mystery. The Eastern tradition does ... Presence in an official document entitled This Holy Mystery. ...
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  • churches, it is understood that the mystery of confession and repentance ... of Mutual Forgiveness does not replace the Mystery of Confession and Absolution ...
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  • and practices as a syncretism of certain mystery religions such as Mithraism ... Monster," the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the ...
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  • chambers. In the Hypogeum, the Osiris mystery rituals were practiced. ... cia_hitech03.htm "The Abydos Mystery."] 1996. Retrieved ...
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  • Mlechha (Yavana or "western") religion, some of whom worshiped ... ystery_of_shambhala_part_one.html Mystery of Shambhala] in New Dawn ...
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  • Tad Wise, Blessings on the Wind: The Mystery and Meaning of Tibetan Prayer ... to a particular deity. In Tibetan religion, deities represent aspects ...
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  • was the keystone of human society, religion, morality, and decorum drawing ... by the emergence of chthonic "Mystery Cults" and law, whose ...
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  • Those belonging to a particular religion may define themselves against ... Thus, sometimes a religion's position on the question of how ...
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  • *Kingsley, Peter. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles ... Category:Philosophy and religion 26077453 ...
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  • Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras, was a mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire, particularly ...
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  • Doctrine Can Be Properly Call'd a Mystery. After having formulated ... for establishing institutionalized religion. Later works of special ...
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  • theologian and apologist, debater, and mystery writer. He was a columnist ... in the early 1930s by the Anglo-American mystery writer John Dickson Carr. ...
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  • meant to invoke divine presence. Each religion has its own sacraments that ... (Anglican Church) Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article XXV: ...
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  • to their founders demonstrate that each religion has been rightly guided ... commemorated as the "First Joyful Mystery" each time the rosary ...
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  • to focus his attention on philosophy and religion. Although Berdyaev was a ... Here we can see the influence of religion in Berdyaev’s philosophy ...
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  • relative seclusion added an element of mystery to his philosophical reputation ... but that it could possibly be attained through religion. ...
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  • * Pardoe, Rosemary and Darrell. The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope ... * Stanford, Peter. The She-Pope. A Quest for the truth behind the ...
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  • remains a popular introduction to comparative religion. to only these values loses the beauty and mystery of faith that nourishes ...
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  • is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion." Crichton has commented ... called "Environmentalism as a religion" (Radical environmentalism ...
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  • ===The Book of Job: Evil as a mystery of faith=== The theodicy of the ... The British philosopher of religion John Hick is not interested in ...
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  • months of the year—thus explaining the mystery of the sun's diminishing ... a feature of the calendar by the Jewish religion during the Babylonian exile ...
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  • knowledge, as well as aspects of Egyptian religion, became the common property ... Osiris spread and aspects of Egyptian Mystery religion may have influenced ...
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  • always held a long standing tradition of mystery and belief in the supernatural ... investigations into the Loch Ness mystery, some privately funded and ...
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  • topic have concerned various schools of religion. The disagreement many Christians ... #"but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom ...
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  • months of the year—thus explaining the mystery of the sun's diminishing ... a relatively late myth, historians of religion see it as part of the general ...
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  • region was returning to its indigenous religion, bastions of Christian thought ... invited them, if infidels, to embrace the mystery of the faith or if they ...
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  • that the people of Çatalhöyük had a religion that was rich in symbolism ... == Religion == [[Image:Goddess-catal-huyuk.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Enthroned ...
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  • point that the Hellenization of Egyptian religion began. While some scholars ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...
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  • in the Mesopotamian/Persian tradition of mystery symbolism. ... * Griffith, Sidney H. Faith adoring the mystery: reading the Bible ...
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  • an important role in ancient Egyptian religion and cosmology. Most of the ... have shrouded the sources of the Nile in mystery for millennia. Though six ...
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  • and myths of shamanism influenced the mystery cults and led to Daoist ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:philosophers 133277082 ...
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  • #If anyone… attempts thus to introduce into the mystery of Christ ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:Christianity ...
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  • non-monastic origin and tributary of this Mystery Rite to the Mahasiddha tradition ... Joanne et.al., 1998. "Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern ...
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  • a syncretism of previous myths and mystery religions that were prevalent ... Another prominent mystery religion that was widespread in the Roman ...
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  • Selfhood of the Buddha himself—a mystery which no words can adequately ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Nirvana|82460774} ...
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  • I looked down on the world of mankind, by command of the First Mystery ... Category:philosophy and religion category:religion 96763023 ...
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  • main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... the consequences of beliefs, James found religion to be quite beneficial to ...
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  • to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual ... the occult tradition and inspired by the mystery of this "College of ...
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  • wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," is a Neopagan religion ... Gardnerian Wicca was an initiatory mystery religion, admission to which ...
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  • to tell me used to take me to a world of mystery. It was the same feeling ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion 174895976 ...
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  • She spent many hours contemplating the mystery of the Eucharist, which ... Category:religion Category:biography 174293509 ...
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  • among "foreign gods" in Greek Religion (1985, section III.3,4) ... Cybele was associated with the mystery religion concerning her son ...
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  • Grail was an initiatory "Hyperborean mystery" and also "a symbolic ... Category:philosophy and religion 154222894 ...
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  • of the Incarnation prove the truth of the mystery. Did the course of nature ... on the status of the doctrine as a "Mystery," something known by ...
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  • *Merkur, Dan. The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the ... Category:philosophy and religion 128922754 ...
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  • god as fertility deity connected with the mystery religions; Oeneus, which ... worship of the god (especially through the Mystery Religions). ...
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  • ity/0480Barabbas.php#Barabbas The Mystery of Barabbas] Christianity ... Category:religion Category:Christianity 210354027 ...
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  • Horus, a major god of the Egyptian mystery religion, was born of the virgin ... silence (he was struck dumb) adds to the mystery of her pregnancy. After ...
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  • used as a forum to ridicule anyone's religion", and also saying, ... reviews of their surrealistic TV film Magical Mystery Tour. ...
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  • Ibn Ezra produced works on Biblical exegesis, religion, philosophy ... The Book of the Secrets of the Law, The Mystery of the Form of the Letters ...
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  • declaring Buddhism as the empire's religion and establishing Buddhist ... Rishabh Dev, known as the father of Jain religion. The city displays evidence ...
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  • of Jews by Hadrian, who now saw the religion itself as incompatible with ... *Reznick, Leibel. The Mystery of Bar Kokhba: Northvale: J.Aronson ...
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  • life-giving force called Wa-kon-tah, the great mystery spirit or great power. Children of the earth do not understand the mystery of Wa-kon-tah until ...
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  • In many of these churches, the Sacred Mystery of Chrismation (Confirmation ... Category:philosophy and religion 153366123 ...
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  • the lack of (an accepted monotheistic) religion, becoming somewhat analogous ... Though Christianity and Greco-Roman religion initially existed in ...
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  • mysticism, Kaballah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Theurgy ... Order," a continental Rosicrucian mystery school into which Mackenzie ...
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  • from mainstream Christianity. The religion was developed in response ... 1917 when Russell's book The Finished Mystery (listed as Volume VII of ...
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  • " are obscure and shrouded in mystery. The most popular theory ... Catharism was, above all, a populist religion and the numbers of those ...
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  • Category:Religion Automatic writing is the process or product of writing ... prairieghosts.com/pearl.html "The Mystery of Patience Worth." ...
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  • Timothy Wallace-Murphy, Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-Château And ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 218177209 ...
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  • was Hardy's frank treatment of sex, religion and his disregard for the ... to certain aspects of marriage, religion or Victorian morality and ...
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  • #039;s nuclear program, but his death remains a mystery. == Timeline of achievements Anderson, 1975. == *1909 Birth in Bombay *1916 Enrolled at ...
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  • * Schonfield, Hugh J. Essene Odyssey Mystery of the True Teacher and ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion Category:History ...
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  • terms with race, poverty, and fundamental religion, other than in sentimental ... #039;Connor's best-known writing on religion, writing, and the South ...
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  • ten years, from circa 553-543—remains a mystery. One theory is that he was ... * Beard, Mary, and John A. North. Pagan Priests: Religion and Power ...
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  • With the imposition of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman ... Roll Back the Stone: Celebrating the Mystery of Lent and Easter Through ...
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  • has proven pivotal in unraveling the mystery, and many Yoruba language ... Empire often used the military to spread religion, a movement illustrated ...
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  • head of state was endowed with the "mystery of authority” (勢 shì ... nonchalance, surrounding himself with mystery so that his words are revered ...
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  • Pegler lampooned, "Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kansas…. The Missing Persons Bureau ...
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  • * Johnson, William Stacy. The Mystery of God: Karl Barth and the Postmodern ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Biography 28829480 ...
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  • details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, certain biographical elements ... "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion edited by Mircea Eliade ...
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  • by the results, for the Catholic religion has been preserved ever ... saint of stable-boys is something of a mystery. It may be that he has been ...
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