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It solved one problem and created another A phonetic writing system makes a great deal of sense while learning how sounds work. But most nineteenth-century Utah settler
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Mormon mysticism is a useful descriptive phrase for aspects of Latter-day Saint religion concerned with visions, sacred knowledge, personal revelation, divine potential and the eternal relationship between human beings and God. It is not the name of a single official sc
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Gnosis is the Greek word for knowledge, but in several late antique religious texts it means more than learning facts. It can refer to recognition of one’s divine origin, knowledge of God, or insight that enables return from ignorance and estrangement. Modern readers of
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Why repeat a banishing ritual when no particular danger is present? In the Golden Dawn’s system, the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram establishes the conditions in which subsequent ceremonial work is meant to take place..
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The alphabet at a glance This chart follows the 38-letter order used in the 1868–69 printed books, followed by the two additional letters OI/OY and EW found in some oth
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Mithraism was a mystery religion of the Roman imperial period centred on the god Mithras. Its worshippers met in small temple rooms called mithraea, used images of Mithras killing a bull and participated in a graded religious community. The cult spread across Roman prov
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Martinism is the name applied to several connected currents of Western Christian esotericism rooted in the teachings of Martinez de Pasqually, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. Later initiatory Martinist orders revived aspects of that inheritance
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The familiar Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram has four main parts: the Qabalistic Cross, a circuit of four pentagrams, the archangelic invocation and a concluding Qabalistic Cross. A quiet room and enough space to turn.
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Stop trying to recognise whole English words At first, treat each Deseret letter as a sound. Point to one character, make its sound aloud, then move to the next. A word
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Poimandres is the opening treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum and one of the clearest places to begin reading ancient Hermetic thought. Its narrator, Hermes, encounters a revelation of cosmic origin, humanity’s place in nature, and the possibility of coming to know God. T
