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182 pages of results. 241. The Mark Of The Beast [Journals] [Kronos]
... of their own times. The long trail of these abandoned interpretations is an interesting one in itself, winding through the explanations of such scholars as the Mathers (who needlessly alarmed late 17th century Massachusetts with their chiliastic [millenarian] prophecies) and littered with such discarded candidates for the Beast of the Apocalypse as Hitler. With such an age-worn tradition behind us, surely it is permitted to scrutinize the puzzle once again, in terms of the new developments in 1985 and 1986. Revelation 13:1 states that John saw a wild beast ascending out of the sea. Revelation 17:15 explains that this emerging from the sea means from among the nations. This seems to suggest ...
242. Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba: A Critique of Velikovsky's Identification and an Alternative View [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 28-9). Furthermore, while Hatshepsut's Punt-reliefs depict a sea voyage to a coastal region, and no overland journey (as will be explained in detail below), the Bible, in contrast, speaks of an overland journey by camel-caravan, and makes no reference to a sea voyage. Velikovsky has to rely on late rabbinical writings for a tradition that the Queen of Sheba made part of her journey by sea. The Bible's own silence is telling, in view of the writer's obvious interest in Solomon's maritime contacts (1 Kings 9:26-8; 10:11-12, 22). (iii) Sheba in Arabia The gifts and the camels mentioned in the biblical account are perhaps ...
243. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Two [Books]
... and reads as follows: "As for those that tell us that Typhon was seven days flying from the battle upon the back of an ass, and having narrowly escaped with his life, afterwards begat two sons called Hierosolymus and Judaeus, they are manifestly attempting, as is shown by the very matter, to wrest into this fable the traditions of the Jews; ' Now this is all rather vague, but basically Typhon (or Seth) is fleeing from Egypt after his battle with Horus (= Jupiter, according to WIC p.174). He escapes on an ass - an animal which is sacred to him- and lives to beget two sons, Hierosolymus and ...
244. Early History of the Israelite People by TL Thompson [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that the returning exiles were themselves transportees and largely non-Israelite. He claims transportation and resettlement was practised not only by the Assyrians and Babylonians but was a policy continued by the Persians. They made use of a defunct cult of Yahweh and turned it into a regional variation of the imperial deity, Ahura Mazda. In the later development of written tradition the transportees came to understand themselves as the population of a long lost Israel, a view actively encouraged by the Persians. Thompson obviously sees similarities in the deities of Yahweh and Ahura Mazda but it doesn't occur to him they may derive from the same physical manifestation in the heavens. We should note however that in the mid first millennium ...
... continually suffered agony, whereas the pagans had their actual, physical Hades, not far deep down in the earth, where the souls remained mostly in a state of suspended animation. The idea that men's souls were consumed by never-ending fire deep in the bosom of the earth was certainly derived from the legends of the Titans or Giants who were traditionally buried alive at Tartarus or were hurled deep under rocks and stones as at Phlegm in Thrace; or, again, thrown into the depths near Tartessus or Gades, where fires raged eternally; or, once again, like the Rephaim or Giants of Hebrew dogma who were buried deep in Sheol or Hell, also in a region of ...
246. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ancient writers may be explained by their having seen a sky different from what was seen in his time. He defined science as learned ignorance, ' because it is impossible to formulate an exact, eternal, and absolute description of the physical universe. The position of Copernicus (1475-1543) was relatively conservative in that he combined heliocentrism with the traditional conception of circular movements (around the sun) and of a limited universe bounded by the sphere of the fixed stars. The opposition to Copernicus was determined by the realization that by giving mathematical structure to the heliocentric theory he lent support to the subversion of metaphysics that had been associated with it by Nicholas of Cusa. Questioning of the ...
247. The Literature of the Bible (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... of writings which are neither historical nor mythological in any strict sense. The Jewish religious beliefs have gone through a very peculiar process of sublimation in the course of which a divine glamour was thrown over all the hard facts', till faith developed out of a religion of experience a religion of revelation. This necessitated frequent re-editing of the holy traditions, in which it was the great endeavour of the editors to clear away early, crude traits; and, as a result, the foundations of the Jewish religion have come down to us in an entirely corrupted form. We cannot deny that this very form, with its emphasis on the moral grandeur of the World-Shaper and World-Keeper, ...
248. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... Xipe Totec is likewise endowed with a shining garment. "Put on thy disguising, the golden garment," he is lauded, "clothe thyself with it." [9 ] That the lightning garment in all these instances was really viewed, and believed to have been, a physical but luminous phenomenon is clear when compared with other traditions. Thus, for instance, the aegis, or goat-skin, that Athena stripped off Pallas was said to exhibit the ability to generate lightning. [10] And in Bern, Switzerland, it is said that "one should hold a linen cloth with three tips underneath the edge of the roof to avert lightning during a thunderstorm. ...
249. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop No. 6 (June 1979) Home | Issue Contents Letter Sir, In my article Angels and Catastrophism' Part II (WORKSHOP 4, p.8 ) I suggested that Biblical references to personal encounters with angels should be interpreted as accounts of extra-terrestrial or super-terrestrial intervention. I pointed out that traditional interpretations involving angelic activity were likely to be invalid to the extent that they projected either modern sophisticated ideas onto these past events or more usually that they projected Greek philosophical ideas onto them. Mr. Hartington, in his letter concerning my article (WORKSHOP 5) expressed the conviction that I was likely to be equally guilty of projecting the ideas of a ...
250. Comets, Polular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology [Journals] [Aeon]
... his potential rivals slain in an orgy of blood and deceit. That such beliefs persisted well into modern times is confirmed by Shakespeare's famous passage: "When beggars die there are no comets seen; the Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." In the book under review, a historian of science takes a look at the peculiar traditions surrounding comets and shows that they played a significant and hitherto largely overlooked role in the development of modern scientific astronomy under the likes of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley. The following quote aptly summarizes Genuth's thesis: "It is often said that Newton and Halley were instrumental in sweeping aside superstitious' comet-lore when they mathematically demonstrated that comets traveled ...
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