Religion
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Lynn Holden

Ibn al-Farid goes on to describe the potency of the wine: had they sprinkled therewith the dust of a dead man’s tomb, the spirit would surely have returned unto him ...
( Category: Cultural June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Larry A. Nichols & George Mather & Alvin J. Schmidt [Nichols, Larry A. & Mather, George & Schmidt, Alvin J.]

Exorcism is also still practiced in a Roman Catholic baptismal rite. But this particular exorcism is not intended to cast demons out of a possessed non-Christian. Rather, it is a ...
( Category: Dictionaries June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Mark Allan Powell [Powell, Mark Allan]

* * * Luke * * * I. Prologue (1:1–4) II. Infancy narratives (1:5–2:52) III. Narratives about John the Baptist and Jesus’s baptism and temptation (3:1–4:13) IV. Jesus in and ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias June 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Merrill C. Tenney & Zondervan [Tenney, Merrill C. & Zondervan]

Berzelus buhr-zee’luhs. KJV Apoc. form of BAR-ZILLAI (1 Esd. 5:38). Besai bee’si ( H1234, derivation uncertain). Head of a family of temple servants (NETHINIM) who returned from the EXILE with ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias June 2,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Miller, Stephen M. [Miller, Stephen M.]

Behind the Scenes of Nahum Starring Role Nahum, Judean prophet who vows that God will punish Assyria for its cruelty (1:1) Plot For centuries the Assyrian Empire, headquartered in what ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Lyman Abbott

such corruption has taken hold of him that other men say, "Do not go near him, he is so corrupt; leave him to himself;" but Christ comes and stands at ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Graves, Kersey [Graves, Kersey]

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors By Kersey Graves CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS The Master-Key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Extraordinary Revelations in History ...
( Category: New Testament March 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Marrs, Texe [Marrs, Texe]

Return to the Gods of the Zodiac? Is this what the world is coming back to? Will this worship of the hosts of heaven remain a secret preoccupation of the ...
( Category: Religion March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-16 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]

Fig. 22. MITHRAIC KRONOS (ÆON, OR INFINITE TIME). Nude leontocephalous figure standing upright on a globe; in each hand a key; four wings; thrice entwined by a serpent, the head ...
( Category: Religion February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Peter Archer [Archer, Peter]

It is particularly sinful to deliberately kill one’s self. Suicide is usually an act of desperation by a person who has no sense of the value of his or her ...
( Category: Religion January 12,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Pritchard, James B. [Pritchard, James B.]

Peace and prosperity under Jeroboam II The kingdom of Israel reached a peak of political importance and prosperity under King Jeroboam II (782-753 BC). Although little is said in 2 ...
( Category: Atlases December 31,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Margot Adler

11. Religions of Paradox and Play “LARGE PARTS of the Neo-Pagan movement started out as jokes, you know,” Robert Anton Wilson, author, Witch, and a former editor of Playboy, told ...
( Category: Paganism December 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Meyer, Marvin W. [Meyer, Marvin W.]

They embrace his head, which is rest for them, and they hold him close so that, in a manner of speaking, they have caressed his face with kisses. But they ...
( Category: Gnosticism December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Alan Dundes

Here is the first-person account: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )