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• Tragedy
  ...role historically in the self-definition of [[Western civilization]]. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to in
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• 195:4 The European Dark Ages
  ...e [[individual]] was almost lost before the overshadowing [[authority]], [[tradition]], and [[dictation]] of the church. A new spiritual menace arose in the [[c ...ough the long night of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_civilization Western civilization] and was still functioning as a [[moral]] [[influence]] in the
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• Lament
  ...the spontaneous lament of women chanters in the [[creation]] of the [[oral tradition]] that resulted in the Iliad[4] The [[material]] of lament, the "sound of t # Margaret Alexiou, Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge University Press) 1974
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• 96:2 The Semitic Peoples
  ...were a superior and well-[[organized]] group of mixed Semites who held the western section of [[Palestine]], along the [[Mediterranean]] coast. Racially the [ [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Monk
  The term monk is [[generic]] and in some religious or philosophical [[tradition]]s it therefore may be considered interchangeable with other terms such as ...the rest of [[society]], or someone celibate/[[focus]]ed on God alone. The Western rule giver Benedict of Nursia understood it as [[meaning]] the latter, name
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• Silence
  ...disinterest, or any number of other emotions. Because of this, people in Western cultures feel uneasy when one party is silent and will usually try their be ...use silence during times of uncertainty or anger in the way most people in Western cultures would be vocal. The goal is to observe and anticipate what the ot
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• Pantheism
  ...stinguished pantheist in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy]. He [[argued]] that since substance is completely self-sufficie ...], especially the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Brahmanism Vedic] [[tradition]] of Indian philosophy, pantheism is part of a rejection of [[polytheism]].
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• Pathology
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age] and in Western Europe during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance Italia ...[[systems]]. Although the medical practice of pathology grew out of the [[tradition]] of investigative pathology, most modern pathologists do not perform origi
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• Storyteller
  ...[[memory]] and then passed from [[generation]] to generation. However, in Western, literate societies, written and televised [[media]] has largely surpassed ...changes]] and [[adaptations]] during this [[process]]. When and where oral tradition was pushed back in favor of [[print]] media, the literary [[idea]] of the [
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• 1997-08-27-How He Taught
  ...assist the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Western_Mind western mind] on [[focus]]ing and redirecting his thought to find [[God]] within hi ...ssist those who have questions of the great beyond. I have come from the [[tradition]] that believed in the [[concept]] of past lives, taught [[reincarnation]].
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• Elite
  ...of selection for elite education can be seen in the [[Occident|Western]] [[tradition]] as well, for example in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9cole
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• 2001-12-23-About The Master
  ===='''''[[Tradition]]''''', '''''[[Islam]]''''', '''''[[Christianity]]'''''==== ...here will be many, many Muslims who will break free of the shackles of the tradition that holds them down. They will still be Muslims, but they will [[embrace]]
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• Last Judgment
  ...d by a great part of Christian mainstream churches; the Esoteric Christian tradition—composed, among others, by the Essenes and Rosicrucians—the Spiritualis ...of my God and he shall go no more out". However, this western [[esoteric]] tradition states—like those who have had a [[near-death experience]]—that after t
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• 2013-12-23-Celebrating Special Dates
  ...just as important as December 31st, and so are all other days of the year. Western Christians have marked these dates as special, while other cultures and rel [[Category: Tradition]]
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• The Helianx Proposition/page 72
  circulating around the Western world for the last 40,000 years have spoken of Noe's intervention Over time, an endless [[oral tradition]] had further simplified the story,
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• Falun Gong
  ...]]" based on the teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movemen ...ia.org/wiki/Taiji_(philosophy) Taiji] ([[yin-yang]]) symbols of the Daoist tradition.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_gong]
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• Oral Tradition
  ...]] of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]''. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of [[culture|cultural]] material through vocal The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of [[oral history]], which is the
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• Maitreya
  Maitreya is sometimes represented seated on a [[throne]] Western-style, and [[venerated]] both in Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna [https://en. Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in the Buddhist [[tradition]] is to appear on [[Earth]], achieve complete [[enlightenment]], and teach
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• Compassion
  ...merous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious [[tradition]]s as among the greatest of [[virtue]]s. ...]] is that of [[ahimsa]]. The exact definition of ahimsa varies from one [[tradition]] to another. Ahimsa is a [[Sanskrit]] [[word]] which can be translated mos
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• 94:1 The Salem Teachings in Vedic India
  ...] [[invaders]] from the north and west. At this time only the northern and western portions of the [[peninsula]] had been extensively permeated by the [https: [[Category: Tradition]]
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