Religions themselves were places of interpretation, since no human being can assert the definitive meaning of a religious text 宗教本身就是做诠释的地方,因为无人能断言可对宗教经文作绝对肯定的解释。 MultiUn The truth is, most ancient religious texts explain little about how God loves us or how...
Toward the end of the last century, I sat in a circle of religious environmentalists in a California wilderness. Each of us wore a mask we had made to represent a species or element of the nonhuman world: bear, eagle, butterfly, elephant, whale, mountain, river, redwood, maple leaf, ...
According to the grimoire, one has to draw a magical circle, and stand inside it. A magical triangle must be drawn right outside the circle. The conjurer must wear the sigil of the demon that they are trying to summon. It must also place the sigil of that particular demon inside the t...
Trinitarian faith describes a God who is not solitary and alone, a God who is not an object which we can stand apart from and observe. The Trinity is an event of relationships: not three separate entities in isolation and independence from one another, but a union of subjects who are eter...
him back even to Lebanon, and Im’a Brahim had no other name than mother of Brahim even my own father lost his, went from Hussein Hamode Subh’ to Sam Hamod. There is something lost in the blood, something lost down to the bone ...
meaning to know that Mr. Adirubasamy was a family friend of Mr. Patel's, "One of my father's earliest business contacts was Francis Adirubasamy. He became a good friend of the family. I called him Mamaji, mama being the Tamil word for uncle and ji being a suffix used in India ...
During the late 1920s and early 1930s Ludwig Wittgenstein met with some members of the Vienna Circle to discuss philosophical issues. A few of these discussions touched on religious questions. Moritz Schlick took the view that religion belonged to a childhood phase of humanity and would, ...
Mr. Death—calling him “slack” (meaning lazy and slow), and mocking his scythe as shamefully dull. Herbert’s health was poor when this was written (he would die at 40), and his jibe may have been the black humor of a dying man:With such a failing body, how come I’m still ...
All these different shades of meaning resonate with Advent’s urgent cry to “wake up!”Wake upto the reality of a broken, troubled and violent world.Wake upto our own participation and complicity in a human history that is radically out of sync with divine intention.Wake upto our inability ...
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