Since we've mentioned Gnosticism, Hermeticism and Christianity as religious and philosohical currents in Alexanria in the first centuries CE...
It's also worth mentioning that Hermeticism became a big influence during the Italian Renaissance. Manuscripts were acquired by Cosimo Da Medici...
It seems extremely unlikely they were, or indeed, that such terms even formed a part of their vocabulary. This is another example of the way in...
'We' is utterly irrelevant in this context. I found this information in my studies of the Cathars. If you want to read about them, I suggest 'The...
When you say the inquisition was 'used on us' what do you mean? You didn't live in the 13th c. And if you don't like 'the intelligentsia' would...
This is irrelevant. The Cathars, so far as we know, used only one book of the Bible, the Gospel of John. That doesn't mention anything about...
That reads like gobbledegook.
Sorry but I should have be more clear. The spiritualist church folks weren't hippies. They were pretty much straight laced. That's partly why I...
My only experience with anything resembling this was when I once went to a spiritualist church after being invited by a woman I knew. I thought it...
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that.
This is just another attack Chritianty thread. Get bored with the whole thing after a time.
That all seems fair enough to me. I think that really, each one has their own unique path. That can be following a religion or not, depending on...
Once again you display the limited nature of your knowledge with the claim that this applies to 'all religions'. It doesn't apply to Taoism,...
Ah, reality!. Seems you, like all of us limited humans, only see a very narrow slice. Your slice seems narrower than many I come across. However,...
There are over 2 billion Christians in the world, and you're saying each and every one is bad? No accounting for the fact that many of them may...
Love & peace sounds good to me.
You're right I think abut the origin of some of the Arthurian stuff. There's also the welsh Arthur though, who seems to have a different origin....
He should replace Shakespeare as Britain's 'national bard':dizzy:
Tolkien loved the Finnish language according to his son Christopher. I'm sure he was influenced as you say by a wide range of north European...
I think anyone who was informed at all about the GnostIcs of antiquity or their medieval successors would have the same problem, as Greatest I...
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