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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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• Thought Form
  ...n [[interpretation]] of the Tibetan concept. Its concept is related to the Western [[philosophy]] and [[practice]] of [[magick]].
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• Islam
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], [[Jesus]], and other [[prophets]]. Islamic tradition holds that Judaism and Christianity distorted the messages of these prophet ...n of rulings that touch on virtually all aspects of life and society. This tradition encompasses everything from practical matters like dietary laws and banking
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• Miniature
  ...ait_miniature portrait miniatures], which did however grow from the same [[tradition]] and at least initially use similar [[techniques]]. ...l paintings to be kept in albums, which are also called miniatures, as the Western equivalents in watercolor and other mediums are not. These include [https:/
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• Wedding
  ...emphasized [[sexual]] [[purity]]. Within the [[modern]] 'white wedding' [[tradition]], a white [[dress]] and veil are unusual [[choices]] for a woman's second ...t of religious weddings in Europe and America, but the [[origin]] of the [[tradition]] is unclear. Historians like Vicky Howard point out that belief in the "[[
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• Clown
  ...f historical performances, and it is [[difficult]] to point out a singular tradition or even a few different ones as being the primary precursors to clowns. How ...may or may not have [[influenced]] what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown]
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...osophical_tradition Western philosophical tradition] and also more broadly Western culture. By questioning the dominant [[discourses]], and trying to [[modify Derrida called his [[challenge]] to the [[assumptions]] of Western culture "deconstruction". On some occasions, Derrida referred to deconstruc
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• Hymn
  ...lms the Psalms], a collection of [[songs]] from [[Judaism]]. The Western [[tradition]] of hymnody begins with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Hymns H
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...ll as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the editorial board of the journals ''[[Religi
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• Plato
  ...oted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical [[tradition]] is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
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• 98:0 The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...istianized]. The [[ideals]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Western world] were basically [[Socratic]], and its later [[religious]] [[philosoph [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Tradition
  The word '''tradition''' comes from the [[Latin]] ''traditionem'', acc. of ''traditio'' which mea ...generation to the next, often [[oral]]ly. For example, we can speak of the tradition of sending birth announcements.
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• Opera
  ...c_Flute The Magic Flute]'' (''Die Zauberflöte''), a landmark in the German tradition.
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• Rodeo
  ...orking rodeo. It was this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy [[tradition]] of the United States and Canada. ...queros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western [[United States]], western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting event that involves hor
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• Thomas Aquinas
  ...riest]] and an immensely influential [[philosopher]] and theologian in the tradition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism scholasticism], within whic ...ather of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomism Thomism]. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_
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• 195:0 After Pentecost
  ...stern world]], the beneficiaries of [[Greek]] [[culture]], had a revered [[tradition]] of a great [[past]]. They could [[contemplate]] the [[inheritance]] of gr ...uman race embodied in the [[ethics]], [[morality]], and [[religions]] of [[Western civilization]].
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• Esotericism
  In Western, English-speaking societies today, the term "esotericism" has come to infor A variety of past [[tradition]]s could be classified as forms of "esotericism" due to their "inner" focus
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• Genealogical
  ...s]] and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use [[oral tradition]]s, historical [[records]], [[genetic]] [[analysis]], and other [[records]] Historically, in [[Western]] [[societies]] the [[focus]] of genealogy was on the [https://en.wikipedia
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• Contemplation
  ...God.[3] As a [[technique]], theoria is [[expressed]] by the [[ascetic]] [[tradition]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm Hesychasm]. Hesychasm is [[co ==Western Christianity==
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• Sculpture
  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Western] tradition of sculpture began in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Ancient
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• Mindfulness
  ...ted from the [[Buddhist]] [[tradition]], is increasingly being employed in Western [[psychology]] to alleviate a variety of mental and [[physical]] conditions
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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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• Western Philosophy
  ...hat refers to [[philosophy|philosophical]] thinking in the [[Western world|Western or Occidental world]], as opposed to [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Orient ...ically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of [[Western culture|Western civilization]], beginning with [[Greek philosophy]] in [[ancient Greece]].
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• 125:2 Jesus and the Passover
  ...those who hailed from the [[Orient|Far-Eastern]] and the remote [[Occident|Western countries]]. As a result of these [[contacts]] the lad began to entertain a [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Auctoritas
  ...under [[Founding Fathers]]), as an alternative to an intervening [[Western tradition]] of [[absolutism]], claiming absolute authority, as from [[God]] (see [[Di
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• 195:3 Under the Roman Empire
  195:3.2 [[Rome]] overcame the [[tradition]] of [[nationalism]] by imperial [[universalism]] and for the first time in ...ld's [[history]] for a [[good]] [[religion]] to make [[progress]] in the [[Western world]]. During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first centur
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...'. Pan Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-330-48730-2., but it draws on an oracular [[tradition]] that goes back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] tim ...[integrate]] concepts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy], as steps toward modernization. By the time of the [https://en.
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• Occult
  ...h back into antiquity and which may be described as the Western esoteric [[tradition]]. Its principal ingredients have been identified as Gnosticism, the Hermet ...17th century, these kinds of [[idea]]s that are alternatively described as Western esotericism had a brief revival. Alchemy used to be common among highly imp
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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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• Duality
  ...e "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between [[goodness|good]] and [[evil]]. ...erceives a "self" that is distinct from the rest of the world. In mystic [[tradition]]s such as Zen or Sufism, a key to enlightenment is "transcending" this sor
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• Byzantine
  ...t the end of that century with the division of the empire into Eastern and Western halves under the sons of Theodosios I, Arkadios and Honorius. There is much ...anied by a cultural flowering that is here called “pre-Renaissance” (the [[tradition]]al term is “Komnenian renaissance”). Byz. took substantial steps towar
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• Philosophy
  ...470 BC–399 BC) ancient Greek philosopher credited with the foundation for Western philosophy.]]The '''history of [[philosophy]]''' is the study of philosophi ...[[Modernism|modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]], [[Western hemisphere|Western]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of ph
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