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• Irony
  '''Irony''' (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία ''eironeía'', meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned i Ancient Greek [[drama]] was especially characterized by tragic irony because the audience
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• 2018-04-26-You As a Spiritual/Creative Being
  ...re italicized statement: "And there was something strangely alike in Greek philosophy and many of the teachings of Jesus. They had a common goal--both aimed at t
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• Chapter 3/Amnesia Factor
  From the Greek Agape it is learned that this is a Divine Love "Science, philosophy, and religion," I reflected; "Three different
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• Monotheism
  In [[theology]], '''monotheism''' (from Greek μόνος "only" and θεός "[[God]]") is the belief that only one god ...2 Theos] meaning "God". The compound μονοθεισμός is current only in Modern Greek. There is a single attestation of μονόθεον in a Byzantine hymn (''C
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• Scientific Method
  [[Isaac Newton]] (1687, 1713, 1726). "[4] Rules for the study of [[natural philosophy]]", ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'', Third edition. Th ...h there is very wide agreement in the [[scientific community]] and among [[Philosophy of science|philosophers of science]], each of which are subject only to mar
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• Heresy
  ..., and [[Christians]] (see Acts 5:17, 24:5, 24:14, 26:5, 28:22). Neither in Greek nor in Hellenistic Jewish usage does the word have a negative, derogatory s ...ily to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostics gnostics] but also to [[Greek]] and [[Jewish]] "sects." (The older meaning of "doctrinal opinion, receive
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• Paper 95 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
  ...ligion Egypt] fostered the most thoroughly blended type of [[religious]] [[philosophy]] to be found on [[Urantia]], and from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N ..., and this [[concept]] thoroughly colored the later appearing [[Hebrew]] [[philosophy]]. This [[noble]] teacher believed that [[God-consciousness]] was the deter
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• Translation
  ...tion)—as contrasted with "paraphrase" ("a saying in other words," from the Greek "paraphrasis").[3] "Metaphrase" corresponds, in one of the more recent term ...incomprehensible references are in fact Aramaic puns which do not work in Greek.
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• Evolution
  ..., including the Greek philosopher [[Empedocles]], the [[History of Western philosophy|Roman philosopher]] [[Lucretius]], the [[Islamic science|Arab biologist]] [ ...d in even more distant disciplines such as [[psychology]], [[medicine]], [[philosophy]] and [[computer science]].
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• 2004-08-21-Morontia Energetic Mind Expansion
  ...y "Persephone", the [[Archangel]]. As you may realize from the [[Mythology|Greek legends]], Persephone was taken by Hades and drawn into the underworld to b ...se questions are meant to be addressed to every individual, no matter what philosophy or religion or tenets of belief they wish to live by in their life. This ma
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• Information
  As a final note, the ancient Greek word for ''form'' was eidos, and this word was famously used in a technical [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion
  86:1.6 This notion of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solom ...[[philosophy]] of [[human]] [[existence]] was later [[reflected]] in the [[Greek]] [[viewpoint]]. The [[Greeks]] themselves believed in three souls; the veg
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• Paper 96 - Yahweh - God of the Hebrews
  ...zedek]] [[concept]] of [[Deity]] was unlike that of the [[evolutionary]] [[philosophy]] of inclusion, subordination, and exclusion; it was based exclusively on [ ...urally]] it has borrowed freely from the [[religion]], [[morality]], and [[philosophy]] of the entire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levant]. It is throug
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• Star Visitor Spirituality: A Synopsis
  ...ist and cultural anthropologist with graduate training in spirituality and philosophy. This database comes from in-depth debriefings of more than 180 experiencer ...he first chapter of the Gospel of John. There John spoke about "the Word" [Greek: logos], (God). The Word is equivalent to the Principle which makes things
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• Mysticism
  '''Mysticism''' (from the Greek μυστικός, an initiate of a [[mystery religion]], μυστήρια ...uism]], being an ancient religion and a rather broad 'all-paths' embracing philosophy, has many mystical branches. <!--Hindu variants, etc?-->
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• Creation
  ...[universe]], or about how [[reality]] came to be. The word comes from the Greek ''κοσμογονία'' (or ''κοσμογενία''), from ''κόσμος ...c cosmogony are subject to two separate limitations. One is based in the [[philosophy]] of [[science]] and the epistemological constraints of science itself, esp
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• Self Esteem
  ...teem and the advantages of more humility since at least the development of Greek tragedy, which typically showed the results of hubris. ...opensity and tendency to [[ego]] rating as innate, he has claimed that the philosophy of self-esteem in the last [[analysis]] is both unrealistic, illogical and
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• Prayer
  ...ayer is intended to train a person to [[focus]] on the recipient through [[philosophy]] and [[intellectual]] contemplation, that prayer is intended to enable a p ...''Typology of Prayer'' which lists six types of prayer: primitive, ritual, Greek cultural, philosophical, mystical and prophetic. (Christian theology ISBN 0
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• History of the Concept of Mind, v.1-Chap.4
  *by Paul S. McDonald, Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia. *Contents: Ancient Hebrew and Homeric Greek life-force; Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic thought; From the New Testamen
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• Sovereignty
  ''[[Basileus]]'' is the Greek [[concept]] for "Sovereign", which designs who has the ''[[auctoritas]]'', * [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sovereignty/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry]
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