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The sacred feminine is not a part of the judeochristian creation myth

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God creates the world and rules it alone

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In genesis cosmology (“let there be light”)…

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God is primary to, and distinct from, his creation

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Yahweh was created

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1750BCE at the dawn of the Iron Age, by the hebrews

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Yahweh is no mother goddess, he is…

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A masculine, tribal warrior deity, transcendent from creation

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Yahweh instructs his people to make no graven image of him

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The sacred is no longing found in nature, the sacred is found in the mind

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In goddess culture

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The divine shines forth in the beauty of nature bc mother goddess is in nature

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In patriarchal religion

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The divine draws wag from nature, god is alien to creation

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The iron hebrews were a nomadic tribe from the desert hell bent to

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Conquer the land of Canaan and steal the fertile Jordan river valley from settled farmers

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The Hebrew conquest of Canaan lies behind

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The story of Cain and Abel

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As Judaism matures

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The image and character of Yahweh softens
Result: the ethical temper of the father is mollified by the compassion of the mother

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What is sophia’s ultimate fate in both Judaism and Christianity

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She gets repressed, stamped down, and put under gods thumb

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The presence of the scared feminine is hidden in the Old Testament

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The hebrews turn her into a wicked sea monster

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The scared feminine is demonized in patriarchy sky today culture

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In fact, there is no word for goddess in the entire Hebrew language

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Who is adams first and second wives

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First: Lilith
Second: eve

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Why do eve and Lilith shape an image depicting women as evil

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Nature becomes evil

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Iron Age deity culture

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Divine is up there, alien to creation

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Mother goddess culture

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Nature herself is divine

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Goddess culture

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No shame or evil is connected with sexuality

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The blessed Virgin Mary is

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Antiseptic, sanitized, incorporeal version of the mother goddess

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How did the cult to the Virgin Mary come about

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They made Mary into an almost spiritual being

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How did the church cut off Mary’s connection to the body?

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Church fathers created doctrines that severed Mary from having anything to do with the body whatsoever

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What is the doctrine of the assumption (literally)

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Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven

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What is the doctrine of the assumption (metaphorically)

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You don’t have to leave your body to achieve union with the divine

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Who was the mother of Mary

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St. Anne

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St. Anne represents

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A connection to the body and nature

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Does Mary really save us

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Mary set the bar so high that Christian women have no choice but to associate with the evil eve

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Judeo Christian role models for women

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Mary, eve, or Lilith

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Witches are not

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Ugly hags

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St bright and st Patrick

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If you can’t christianize it, then demonize it and drive it out

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30
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The malleus maleficarum

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Comprehensive with hunter’s handbook

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The papal bull issued by pope innocent VII authorized

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The two Dominicans to punish, imprison, and correct

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The inquisition was a papal judicial institution to combat heresy

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The use of torture to obtain confessions

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Factors leading to the mass persecution of witches during the burning times

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Malleus maleficarum, the papal bulls authorizing torture, the inquisition, the general atmosphere of prejudice and hostility against goddess culture

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The most infamous hunt in American history

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Salem witch trials - 140 imprisoned, 19 hanged, 1 crushed to death

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Lesson to be learned from the Salem witch trials

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Honesty is the best policy

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36
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Wiccans believe

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The mother goddess is the world

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37
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Three ways to practice witchcraft

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As a solitary witch, as a hereditary witch, and as a coven of witches

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38
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A spell to a witch

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Connects one’s intention to the creative force that abides in the universe

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Wheel of the year

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Witch’s sabbath coordinate the earthly cycle of life with the cosmic cycle of life

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Ostrava was the Teutonic goddess of spring

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Easter

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May 1

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Pagan holiday of Beltane, named after belos the god of fire

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42
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The highest witches sabbath

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Samhain aka Halloween

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43
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What is the mother goddess

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She out of whom all life

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44
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Solar masculine sky deities symbolize

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Consciousness, the mind, human reason

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45
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Lunar, feminine earth deities symbolize

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Nature, the body, instincts

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46
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How did Jesus the man become god

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Today - The divine realm and the mortal realm are separate
Classical age - the divine realm and the mortal realm were overlapping

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Three ways to become divine in the classical age

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  1. Exaltation
  2. Acclamation
  3. Incarnation
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48
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Two people in antiquity known as the son of god

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Roman emperor Caesar Augustus and Jesus

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49
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Romans citizens worshipped both sons of god

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Caesar publicly, Jesus privately

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50
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The early mystery religion of Christianity

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Took place in secret and was confined to a closed set of initiatives

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51
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Did Jesus think he was a god

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No he thought he was a messiah

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52
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The Hebrew term messiah translated to Greek as

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Christ

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53
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Jesus saw himself not as a public messiah

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But a spiritual messiah

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54
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Jesus never publicly proclaimed he was the messiah

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He proclaimed it privately to his disciples

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55
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The gospel of John portrays Jesus proclaiming

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He was divine

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The author of the gospel of John probably was not the apostle

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It is beyond’s the talents of a simple fisherman

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57
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How did early Christian’s come to believe Jesus was god

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Belief in the resurrection

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58
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No one can prove Jesus appeared in a locked room after his death

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But scholars can prove people believe Jesus made a post resurrection appearance

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The resurrection might be fiction

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But belief in the resurrection is a fact

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60
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Visions of the resurrected Jesus let to

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Faith in the resurrected Jesus

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Faith in the risen Jesus propelled a

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Mass movement that spread through the Roman Empire

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At the council of Nicaea, Jesus was declared

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Not only the son of god, but god himself

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Christian materialists believed Jesus was

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A man, but not god

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Christian spiritualists believed Jesus was

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God, but not a man

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Gnostic Christians believed Jesus was

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One part human, one part divine

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The council of Nicaea determined Jesus was

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Both true god and true man
A human body died on the cross
A glorified body rose at resurrection

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Three doctrines of the council of Nicaea

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  1. Jesus is divine
  2. Jesus is infinite
  3. Jesus is consubstantial
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68
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Gnostic Christianity flourished during what centuries

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2nd and 3rd

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The secret type of spiritual knowledge (gnosis) states

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You are a soul trapped in a body, your destiny is to get out of this body and return to your pure, original divine state

70
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Who delivers gnosis to humanity

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Jesus

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Gnostic Christianity is based on

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Platonic philosophy

72
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The nag hammadi library

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A treasure trove of secret Christian knowledge

73
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Reading these gnostic texts, one gets the impression that

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Gnostic Christians we’re not heretics, but sincerely devout Christian’s who led strictly ascetic lives

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Theme of nag hammadi

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Forms change. Essence remains.

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What is the most famous Gnostic text

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The gospel of Thomas

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What are the five Gnostic gospels

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Gospel of Thomas, gospel of Phillip, gospel of the Egyptians, gospel of Mary, gospel of truth

77
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Four gospels in the New Testament

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Mathew, mark, Luke and John

78
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The gospel of Phillip proclaims

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One needs to experience the resurrection before one dies

79
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Revelatory dialogue

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A conversation between Jesus and a disciple that occurs in that special time post resurrection and pre ascension

80
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According to Gnostic Christian cosmology

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Jesus is not the supreme grand uptime, he is lesser deity, created by one

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How is the Gnostic creation myth vastly different from the creation myth in genesis

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God does not create the world, an inferior manufactures a defective world

82
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Council of Constantinople

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Jesus is not only true god and true man, but he’s true spirit too

83
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Thanks to Gnosticism

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The Roman Catholic godhead is a holy trinity

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Because of the council of Constantinople, Gnosticism

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Ran out f gas and was gone by the 5th century

85
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People who feel the tug of Gnosticism, feel

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Isolated from society and a sense of salvation from within

86
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Cinderella is a symbol of

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Love

87
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Two Gnostic themes of Cinderella

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  1. The sounds ignorance of true herself and the need for rescue
  2. The immanence of the divine in nature
88
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Augustine’s platonic worldview was

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Very successful and dominated Christian thought from the 4-12th centuries

89
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Augustine was a

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Theologian and philosopher

90
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Augustine used the platonic worldview to create a

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Christian worldview - created the first true system of Christian philosophy

91
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Metaphysics

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What is really real are the forms

92
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Humanity

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A human being is a soul trapped in a body

93
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Morality

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We need to get as far away from our bodies and their desires as possible

94
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The virtues life includes the constant practice of these four habits

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Prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice

95
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What does Augustine hold to live a virtuous life

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Gods grace

96
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Augustine believes we know what we know because of god, this is

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Knowledge

97
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Evil is

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A negotiation, a lack of good that should be there

98
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Augustine’s view on politics

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The church is above the state

99
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Evaluation of Augustine

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He created the first system of Christian philosophy, and valued afterlife. But he diminished his interest in life and placed a negative view on the human body.

100
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Thomas Aquinas’ masterwork

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Summa theologica

101
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Aquinas based his worldview on

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Aristotle

102
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Aristotle rejected what

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Plato’s forms

103
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Aristotle thought a human being was

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A more compact unit than a soul trapped in a body

104
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Substance is subdivided into

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Matter and form

105
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Thomas took Aristotle’s substance)accidents and called it

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Essence

106
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Aquinas added what to essence

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Existence

107
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Existence

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By which a thing is real, not merely possible

108
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To Aquinas, a human being is

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An essence endowed with existence

109
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For Thomas Aquinas, what is really real

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That which exists

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Thomas Aquinas equates existence with

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God

111
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Gods essence is

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Existence

112
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How did Aquinas make it possible for a Christian to be an Aristotelian

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He took Aristotle’s view of humanity, and he called that an essence

113
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How do we know what we know

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The process of abstraction

114
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Our intellect has two parts

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Active and passive

115
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Active intellect

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Abstracts universal meaning out of an object

116
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Aquinas calls the active intellect the

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Agent intellect

117
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According to Aquinas, the human substantial form is

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The soul

118
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Aquinas held that the soul was both

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Subsistent and incorruptible

119
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Any organized being is

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Subsistent

120
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The human substantial form is

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Subsistent

121
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The soul acts independently of matter for three reasons

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  1. The soul can understand matter
  2. The soul is reflectively self aware
  3. The soul can hold universal concepts
122
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To Aquinas, the goal of human existence is

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Union with god

123
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In the five proofs, Aquinas attempts to

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Describe what is meant by god

124
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The five proofs

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  1. The unmoved mover
  2. The uncaused cause
  3. The necessary being
  4. The perfect cause
  5. The final cause
125
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The problem with the ontological argument

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You can’t think something into existence
You can’t argue from thoughts to being

126
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It’s a good argument IF

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It stays confined to the logical order

127
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Thomas distinguishes four types of laws:

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Eternal law
Divine law
Natural law
Civil law

128
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What type of law is most important

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The natural law

129
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Teilhard de chardin

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French priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher, and writer

130
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Chardin theorized that

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Matter was striving to be divine

131
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In chardins worldview

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The universe is a hierarchy of concentric circles

132
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Four spheres of chardin

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Geosphere (intimate matter), biosphere (life circle), noosphere (mind circle), omega point (Christosphere)

133
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The agent of the culminating process of evolution is

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One love

134
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The omega point is

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The goal and purpose of all life

135
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The endless cycle of reincarnation of the soul is determined by its

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Karma

136
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What does unpanishad mean

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Sitting close to, near

137
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The upanishads posit a

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World soul and an individual soul

138
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What is samsara

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The endless cycle of death and rebirth

139
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What is karma

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Doctrine of long term cause and effect

140
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What is moksha

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Release from the karmic cycle of death and rebirth

141
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What is yoga

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Linking, joint together (Brahman and atman)

142
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What are the five types of yoga

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Karma yoga - path of action
Jnana yoga - path of philosophical discrimination
Bhakti yoga - path of devotion
Raja yoga - royal path
Tantric yoga - secret path

143
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What is shramana

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Wandering ascetic

144
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Who is mahavira

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Founder of Jainism

145
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What is the Jain path

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Extreme asceticism

146
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Hinduism says

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Do any of the five types of yoga

147
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Jainism says

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Collect no karma at all, good or bad

148
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Buddhism says

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Take the eightfold path of morality, meditation, and wisdom

149
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Why did the Buddha experience a virgin birth

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Virgin birth is a metaphor for a birth of the spiritual life

150
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What were the four great sights

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Old age, sickness, death, salvation

151
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What were the three temptations of the Buddha

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Fear, desire, shame

152
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What is enlightenment

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A no dual awareness of reality

153
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Buddhism and Hinduism share doctrines of

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Karma, samsara, and moksha

154
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What is the Hindu conception of the soul

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Atman

155
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What is the Buddhist conception of the soul

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An-atman

156
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What is really real for Buddha

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Change

157
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Usdhist philosphy says a human being is

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A temporary aggregate of five skandas that comes together and birth and unravel at death

158
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What are the five skandas

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Physical body, feelings, perceptions habitual mental dispositions, consciousness

159
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If there is no permanent soul in Buddhism, to what does karma adhere

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The fourth skandha, habitual mental disposition

160
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What are the six realms of existence on the Bahia chakra

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Humans, gods, anti gods, hungry ghosts, demons, wild animals

161
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What is the best existential state

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Humanity

162
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What is the worst existential state

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Wild animals

163
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What are the three kleshas

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Pig of ignorance, cock of desire, snake of fear

164
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Why are the kleshas important

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Remove them, and you enter nirvana
Employ them, and you suffer in samsara

165
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Hinduism advocates yoga, Buddhism advocates what

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The eightfold path

166
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What are the four noble truths

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  1. All of life is suffering
  2. Desire causes suffering
  3. Stop desire and you stop suffering
  4. Stop desire by following the eightfold path
167
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What statement did Buddha make in his first truth

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All life is suffering

168
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The eightfold path boils down to what three things

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Morality, meditation, wisdom

169
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What are the five precepts

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Don’t kill, steal, lie. Don’t misuse sexuality. Don’t use drugs or alcohol.

170
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The eightfold path is what

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A practical guide

171
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Buddhas view on what’s important in life

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Suffering and how to escape it

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What did the historical Buddha teach

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The path to Buddhism

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