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Old 03-28-2013, 05:56 AM   #1
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[Isis parallels in Catholicism and Orthodoxy which I see has been censored from wikipedia, unsurprisingly given the aggressive Christian hostility to discussion of the origins of their myths among Egyptian demons.
One must be careful to accept lines about Catholicism by Historians who really do not know:
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Historian Will Durant wrote that "Early Christians sometimes worshipped before the statues of Isis suckling the infant Horus, seeing in them another form of the ancient and noble myth by which woman (i.e., the female principle), creating all things, becomes at last the Mother of God." [16] Though the Virgin Mary is not worshipped (she is venerated) in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, her role as a merciful mother figure has parallels with the figure of Isis. [15]
Perpetual also means that she always was, together with the son from the beginning as the einai of the son. This is made known in the lineage of Luke where sonship goes via all the ancients right back to God.

I mean for him to say ". . . woman (i.e. the female principle), creating all things, becomes at last the Mother of God," is totally wrong as woman principle, wherein she is made manifest but is not principle. She is the nurture of nature, I fully accept, but is not part of the creating force. Period. IOW, there is no stand about her either positive or negative, but is the einai of what came to be.

Let's be reminded here that She is 100% woman and so not human and therefore without sin, or what the word sin implies for them, and so has no stand to make with nothing to say.

In "Tay John" the Native Indians presented her as not being able to speak as her mouth was always filled with dust, mud or snow following behind them rip-snorting away. But notice that they never denied her either.

We just say that she is not privy to our voice-box with no box herself, and so just does not even exist for us . . . until she makes herself known in due course by what is known as glossolalia, still in absense of her input as non-sensical syllables that in due course becomes, or should become neologic verbiage that they call "interpretation" wherein "logos" is actualized as in I AM.

Very primitive, I know, and we put a fancy garment in her to express what She is all about, which moreover is what we are all about as she is the leading edge of us made manifest and so the higher that we carry Her is the higher that we will be, down the road perhaps, as the rainbow that we see today in our dream to live, and let me now take you to Buddhism to say the same:

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In her skullcup (kapala), she pulverizes illusions and returns them to their original state - a mere play of light, a rainbow of energy, shimmering in empty space.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairatmya

So why go second hand as borrowed when the gown she wears is Catholic all the way?
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I wonder if you are aware that this is exactly the explanation Creationists and Hollow Earthers give when they try to account for why it is their "evidence" and their views are rejected by the scientific community.

Thanks for showing your crank colours.

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I certainly am not familar with Ancient Egyptian language but see and image here that I can present. And agree with Jeffrey here, for sure I do, as these are those Iconoclasts still banging away at eternal images of reality as Flat Earther themselves, I would call them, who insist that the world is round even though they stand on their singular Blank Slate and will defend that without end and finally must look at the stars to see the heavens, while the plural of the heavens is also in the mind of man . . . but not on the human side, I say.

We call this 'other side' our soul, or einai, that some of us even deny as not an organ that we can touch and see, and therefore, obviously, does not exist.

The flip side of this is that to the same extent that we know our soul do we know ourself and so than, if ever we do know ourself we will no longer have a soul but are the singular self, and their 'she' is the Rock upon we stand.

Here is a poem on that:

If he had know
unstructured
space is a deluge
and stocked his life house-boat
with all the animals
. . . even the wolves,
he might have floated

But obstinate he stated,
the land is solid and
stamped,
watching his foot sink
down through stone
up to the knee.


King of Kings here means to have vacated our singular mind (Tabula Rasa) and moved into the Upper Room where those walls that heretofore imprisoned us are gone, and there be King only to crown her Queen of all.

Here is a noetic line on that by Zamjatin in "WE."

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"Oh, to the deuce of knowledge. Your much-heralded knowledge is but a form of cowardice. It's a fact! Yes, you want to encircle the infinite with a wall, and you fear to cast a glance behind the wall. Yes, sir! And if ever you should glance beyond the wall, you will be dazzled and close your eyes -- yes--"
So here is those walls again that Plato called Cave and it is only in such darkness that stars are seen.
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Can you supply concrete texts in modern accepted translations that would support this view?
This is answered in Freethinkaluva's linked post in the paragraph above the one you quoted, where the Pyramid Text sources for Isis as Virgin are provided, as well as the citations from the 2003 Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament translating hwnt as virgin and citing ancient Egyptian inscriptions with Isis saying 'I am the great virgin', as well as the hieroglyphs showing Isis-Meri. This is all explained in DM Murdock's excellent book, Christ in Egypt.
Freethinkaluva does not even engage with the issue. He casually asserts that h.wnt means "virgin" in spite of the informed comments Jeffrey has produced that indicate otherwise. Christ in Egypt does seem to realize that there is an issue with the translation, but dismisses it as "hair splitting."
Sure all hair splitting semantics maybe, but crucial to understand is that She is the womb inside the leading edge of creation for which the Intelligent Design is built inside species who's Virgin Womb She is to receive the new because there are no duplicates in nature.

This model enables Evolution because the Thousand Year Reign is hers as president in the TOL from where she nurtures human's down below via Eve, remember? who is our pleasure by day and by night, as a vivid Eve is fun to entertain (as valliant Casca now) while outsider to the TOL (banned from Eden).

This chain of command is shown in Gen 3:15, and if to this chain of command we add that the Thousand Year Reign may seem long, but that is precisely what give stability to mankind as a race on who's behalf a Dogmatic Constitution is in force so they not only will survive but can prosper and bloom on the way up.

Beyond that is She the womb of the Universe God (Bramha) and needs the son to be self identified as man to be the top of our pyramid, of knowledge, to be sure, since that is what she is all about, which in turn makes her the basis for Omniscince wherein the Universal Womb is seen and hence Trees can Walk Like Men.
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Wait, so the woman who had a kid with her brother is being held up by someone as an example of virginal purity?

I'm thinking that the people who compared Isis to Mary didn't really know a whole lot about Egyptian religion.

Exactly

Quote mining at its finest! to try and make connections that are not really there.

If the foundation of these myths were in fact Egyptian, it would be obvious, one would not have to do mental gymnastics to play "connect the dot's".

The NT was influenced by the OT for the majority of the NT mythology, and that is not to say that the NT was not influenced partially by Hellenistic mythology and other mythology that was in that geographic location.

The major mistake being made is "slight of hand" trading the word "influence" for "historical foundation"
The foundation for Mary is not historic as the womb of the Universe in Nature, from where she is and always will be the primary for everything we do, and yes, that includes murder too as the opposite to what She stands for.
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Exactly

Quote mining at its finest! to try and make connections that are not really there.

If the foundation of these myths were in fact Egyptian, it would be obvious, one would not have to do mental gymnastics to play "connect the dot's".

The NT was influenced by the OT for the majority of the NT mythology, and that is not to say that the NT was not influenced partially by Hellenistic mythology and other mythology that was in that geographic location.

The major mistake being made is "slight of hand" trading the word "influence" for "historical foundation"
The foundation for Mary is not historic as the womb of the Universe in Nature, from where she is and always will be the primary for everything we do, and yes, that includes murder too as the opposite to what She stands for.
Please don't get into this deep, you'll run off topic quickly.


Your right that the dogma surrounding Mary isn't historical. It never was part of the original legend. But that doesn't stop the uneducated from trying to make claims that effect the historicity of the real foundation of the legend that doesn't have anything to do with later added dogma.



That's another problem, people who are dishonest in their attempt focus on the mythology and later added dogma. Not the original legend itself.

As a example, the birth of Dec 25'th was later added dogma by Christian sects. Then dishonest bloggers try and make a historical connection, falsely attributing this later dogma as being tied to a historical core to the legends.
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It does not seem as if Clement's Egyptian Church accepted the idea that Mary was a virgin before Jesus's birth....
You appear to be completely in error. I do not understand how you have managed to mis-understand the fundamentals of the writings atrributed to Clement regarding the matter that Jesus was the product of a Virgin.

Please examine Clement's Paedagogus 1
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...... But the Lord Christ, the fruit of the Virgin, did not pronounce the breasts of women blessed, nor selected them to give nourishment; but when the kind and loving Father had rained down the Word, Himself became spiritual nourishment to the good. O mystic marvel! The universal Father is one, and one the universal Word; and the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere, and one is the only virgin mother...
Nice lines, and here She is again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairatmya

Perpetual because she is the womb of every living thing with a soul like no other can be found (for which there is no plural In Greek for the word einai), to deliver here tomorrow on Easter Sunday the very substance of the Seventh day that shatters all preconceived ideas as seen by humans down below.

Of course we could have called her Josephine but She'd still be home in Rome because woman proper has no name as the essence of Her man made known [genus identified] by the Son that is always spelled 'on' from 'to on' made worthy in I AM [by the timeless Seventh day in motion now as both Lord God and God].

She so is the reason why love itself can 'be' wherein there is no opposite in hate and can only radiate. It is called agape in Greek, wherein virginity is now a must (like the Papal chair from where only declarations are made to reverberate without being recipient), and once again: She is the essence of omniscience that makes the Papal chair a must if [the mind of] Christ is proclaimed to dwell among us . . . or even the word "Christian-ity' would be a farce (or is it maybe after dark?).

So true love is now defined as truth (logos) that radiates as presented by this subtle Buddha line:

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*In her skullcup (kapala), she pulverizes illusions and returns them to their original state - a mere play of light, a rainbow of energy, shimmering in empty space.
And I further think that on the slippery slope a 10 day virgin can be reduced to 10 minute virgin, that necessarily makes perpetuity a must inside a pair of opposites so even the 'shatter' can be conceived . . . or this argument would not even be here at this DB.
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Here is a complement to my earliest post (uncommented upon!):

A virgin conception was not new in the Jewish world:

a) Paul himself may have suggested it, about the (promised by God) late (and only) pregnancy of Abraham's wife, resulting in the birth of Isaac, "the son born by the power of the Spirit" (Gal 4:29).

b) According to Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE-50 CE), a popular Hellenistic Jew, scholar, theologian & philosopher:
"Tamar, when she became pregnant of divine seeds, and did not know who it was who had sown them ..." (On the Change of Names, XXIII)
"For when she [Hannah] had become pregnant, having received the divine seed ..." (On the unchangeableness of God, II)
"the angels of God went in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children unto them." (On the unchangeableness of God, I)

My whole article can be seen here

Cordially, Bernard
Except Bernard that 'Incarnation' of the 'first begotten' is here exposed and that forbids seed to sow or the word first, or only, would not belong..
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I think I see the problem here.

The academics are talking about actual virginity, the virgin intacta. They have all these facts on their side based on deep knowledge of history and language.

Acharya S and friends are talking about the [Jungian?] mystical archetype of the "virgin" which somehow morphs into the archetype for the "mother." But I can't see how this sort of analysis can be used to show that Christianity is merely warmed up (warmed over?) Egyptian religion. The patterns are too broad, and if Jung was right, there might be some sort of deep structure to religion, and every religion can be fit into this basic pattern.
True, but do not go to Jung for that who will leave you stranded soon.
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I think I see the problem here.

The academics are talking about actual virginity, the virgin intacta. They have all these facts on their side based on deep knowledge of history and language.

Acharya S and friends are talking about the [Jungian?] mystical archetype of the "virgin" which somehow morphs into the archetype for the "mother." But I can't see how this sort of analysis can be used to show that Christianity is merely warmed up (warmed over?) Egyptian religion. The patterns are too broad, and if Jung was right, there might be some sort of deep structure to religion, and every religion can be fit into this basic pattern.
And no, Eve was the mother of the living and the virgin intacta of Gen 3, opposite to who woman is the virgin perpetual here inside Eden where She is the nurture of nature and is the living water that bewildered Magdalene as Eve in that parable, who was also Martha in another parable.

So mother and woman is not the same and is where woman is the essence of mothering as a special gift from her and not the other way around.

Nothing mystical about it, just language is all it is.
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The foundation for Mary is not historic as the womb of the Universe in Nature, from where she is and always will be the primary for everything we do, and yes, that includes murder too as the opposite to what She stands for.
Please don't get into this deep, you'll run off topic quickly.


Your right that the dogma surrounding Mary isn't historical. It never was part of the original legend. But that doesn't stop the uneducated from trying to make claims that effect the historicity of the real foundation of the legend that doesn't have anything to do with later added dogma.



That's another problem, people who are dishonest in their attempt focus on the mythology and later added dogma. Not the original legend itself.

As a example, the birth of Dec 25'th was later added dogma by Christian sects. Then dishonest bloggers try and make a historical connection, falsely attributing this later dogma as being tied to a historical core to the legends.
By historic I mean 'in time' because woman (that which we call Mary) is infinite (sic) identified as water in Gen.1:1 that already 'was' to make God known so he could see and therefore speak to bring change about in what he saw as a 'formless wasteland' where darkness covered the abyss, that was real to form the void in what God saw.

Or do you think maybe Gen.1:1 is there by accident? and 'God said' is without cause? . . . and the Intelligent Design that followed in Gen.1, 2 and 3, is merely history?

And never mind the 25th because you will deny it anyway.
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