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• Paper 195 - After Pentecost
  ...stern world]], the beneficiaries of [[Greek]] [[culture]], had a revered [[tradition]] of a great [[past]]. They could [[contemplate]] the [[inheritance]] of gr ...uman race embodied in the [[ethics]], [[morality]], and [[religions]] of [[Western civilization]].
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• Nature
  ...ish word ''nature'' is used, as confirmed by Guthrie, W.K.C. ''Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus'' (volume 2 of his ''History of Greek Philoso ...in [[China]] during the [[Tang Dynasty art|Tang Dynasty]] (618-907). The tradition of representing nature ''as it is'' became one of the aims of [[Chinese pai
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• Garden of Eden
  ...of Jubilees]]'', canonical in the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Church]], relates a tradition that the [[angels]] did not place Adam in the garden until his 40th day, an Finally, Jewish and Christian tradition see symbolism within the Temple, which once stood in Jerusalem and can only
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• States of Consciousness
  ...ward spiritual consciousness possible in each individual regardless of the tradition or cultural context. Individuals, not institutions, after all, experience s ...e first to succeed in injecting a dynamic language of the unconscious into Western reductionistic science. His task was to establish the conscious, rational f
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• Paper 125 - Jesus at Jerusalem
  ...those who hailed from the [[Orient|Far-Eastern]] and the remote [[Occident|Western countries]]. As a result of these [[contacts]] the lad began to entertain a ...the [[sight]] his eyes beheld—a [[spiritually]] [[impoverished]] people, [[tradition]] bound and living under the [[surveillance]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.
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• 2010-11-05-Special Session 24
  ===='''''[[Tradition]]'''''==== ...ifferent languages we speak; the language of the Urantia Book. I’m from a tradition of language of the Christian Church, but I’m aware there is a language of
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• God
  ...Müller]] and [[Joseph Campbell]], have characterised as a ''bias'' within Western [[culture]] and [[theology]]. ...speaking in English, Muslims often translate "Allah" as "God". One Islamic tradition states that Allah has 99 names, or attributes, while others say that all go
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• Talk:2021-08-09-NET PMG 11
  ...have organizations within them that are staid, archaic, and entrenched in tradition and have become calcified in their ability to transform themselves into mor ...ess possible. However, in mature democracies such as the United States and Western Europe those social institutions are laggardly—they are entrenched in mat
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• Sacrifice
  ...chered. It is possible they may have been for human consumption as was the tradition with sacrificial offerings made in Pre-Hellenic Civilization. [1] Human sacrifice still happens today as an underground practice in some [[tradition]]al religions, for example in muti killings. Human sacrifice is no longer o
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• Metaphysics
  ...''Physics'', which are now regarded as the proper branches of traditional Western metaphysics: ...sophy]]. Aristotle himself introduced the idea of matter in general to the Western world, adapting the term ''hyle'' which originally meant "lumber". Early de
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• 2002-04-01-State of the World
  JarEl: TR, George. Some [[religions]] depend much on [[tradition]] and so in our traditions, not much room is given for internal [[guidance] ...h so that he entered into the task of bringing [[Christianity]] into the [[Western World]], of which it would not have [[survived]] without the diligent promp
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• Paper 121 - The Times of Michael's Bestowal
  ...ia] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt] as well as the western terminals of the caravan routes between the [[Orient]] and the [[Occident]] ...These were a combination of Hellenic and Latin mythology, patriotism, and tradition.
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• Transformation
  ...cluding elements of the [[science]] of her day as well as both eastern and western [[esoteric]] [[thought]], Blavatsky rejected the Darwinian idea that man ev ...considered his Thelemic system of magical [[philosophy]] to be a Theurgic tradition as it emphasized the Great Work, which is essentially another form of spiri
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• Theocracy
  ...f Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Its original borders stretched from western Colorado to the southern California coast. When the Mormons arrived in the ...ere allowed but anybody was allowed to participate into. Even today, the [[tradition]] lives on as once in a while Sarbat Khalsa are called and people in large
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• 1992-09-23-Andrew & Machiventa Take Questions
  ===='''''[[Tradition]]'''''==== ...g the [[gospel]] of [[Jesus]] back to [[light]]. It is time to bring the [[western]] religion out of the [[larval]] stage that it now exists within and renew
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• Idealism
  ...dealism by Western [[philosophy]] has been different from that of East. In Western thought ''the ideal'' relates to direct [[knowledge]] of [[qualia|subjectiv ...her: "With [[Plotinus]] there even appears, probably for the first time in Western [[philosophy]], ''idealism'' that had long been current in the East even at
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• Medieval Philosophy
  After the collapse of the [[Roman empire]], Western Europe lapsed into the so-called [[Dark Ages]], and there was little [[inte Works (particularly commentaries) in the Islamic philosophical tradition were introduced in the Latin West gradually from the 11th century on, by me
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• Translation
  For the most part, current Western practices in translation are dominated by the concepts of "fidelity" and "t Adapted translation retains currency in some non-Western traditions. Thus the Indian epic, the [[Ramayana]], appears in many version
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• 2016-09-05-New Era Transition 3
  ...lection, then they come away with answers that are in agreement with their tradition or in their peer group, or in their own warped thinking—or in their wonde ...s. There is a tremendous mistaken identity between these two words in the Western civilization, that if you own more cars, a more expensive car, faster cars,
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• Mythology
  ...bout divine or heroic beings, arranged in a coherent system, passed down [[tradition]]ally, and linked to the [[spiritual]] or religious life of a [[community]] ...ythology]]. Some myths descended originally as part of an [[orality|oral]] tradition and were only later written down, and many of them exist in multiple versio
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