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• Oath
  ...romise]] calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers [[sacred]], usually God, as a witness to the binding [[nature]] of the promise or th ...r head a [[book]] of [[scripture]] or a sacred object, thus indicating the sacred [[witness]] through their [[action]]: such an oath is called corporal. Howe
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• Scripture
  ...', [https://www.wordwebonline.com/en/RELIGIOUSTEXT Definiton of "religious text"] which scholars can apply even to mythological and ritual texts from ancie ...that the first definition of the word "scripture" is in reference to "the sacred writings of the Old and New Testaments or both together."] and was applied,
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• 2010-05-02-Apples, Oranges, and Violence
  ...ext. So don’t you, any of you, commence calling the Urantia Book a sacred text or a holy book! “That which is sacred to you is the Spark of God which indwells you, not a book, and yet for many
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• Homily
  ...ain]] the literal, and evolve the [[spiritual]], [[meaning]] of the Sacred Text. The latter, as a rule, is the more important; but if, as in the case of Or
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• Becoming a Transducer
  ...logies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crys ...ate find their most crystalized form in the "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. These models come into play in t
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• Helen Schucman
  ...f the Church. The "spirit" that channeled through Mrs. Schucman wrote that Sacred Scripture was in error in teaching us that sin separates us from [[God]], a
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• Revelation
  ...or spiritually inspired in origin. Monotheistic religions often view their sacred texts as the "Word of God," often feeling that the texts are inspired by Go
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• Oahspe
  <blockquote>A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Ambassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens on the Earth for t ...group of people. Newbrough claimed that the [[book]] was not a [[sacred]] text per se, but rather a [[history]] of religions going back 24,000 years; Newb
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• Sutras
  *2: one of the [[discourses]] of the [[Buddha]] that constitute the basic text of Buddhist [[scripture]] ...m leaves sewn together with thread. This distinguishes them from the older sacred [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedas], which until recently were only
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• 2010-09-15-Fifth Epochal Revelation
  ...ned soon after the establishment of time-space creatures that evolution is sacred, must be guarded, nurtured, never strained or pushed. You are most vulnera ...ou with a readable whole. In short, in our labors of creating the overall Text, we gave you what you gave us, to the greatest extend.
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• Secular
  ...s]] in those [[world views]]. Saying a [[prayer]] derived from religious [[text]] or [[doctrine]], [[worshipping]] through the [[context]] of a [[religion]
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• Rishi
  ...the holy [[poets]] or sages believed to have composed the hymns and other sacred [[writings]] forming the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedas]. ..., ''rishikas'' in [[sanskrit]]. According to the late Vedic Sarvanukramani text, there were as many as 20 women among the [[authors]] of the [https://en.wi
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• Sanskrit
  ...s well as scientific, technical, Hindu philosophical and Hindu religious [[text]]s. Today, Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in ...''saṃskṛtā vāk'' "the cultured language" has by definition always been a "sacred" and "sophisticated" language, used for religious and learned [[discourse]]
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• Music of the spheres
  ...], and [[music]] is through ''musica universalis''. Kepler regarded this [[text]] as the most important work of his [[career]], and the fifth part, concern
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• 2007-11-08-Disparate Realities And The Notion Of Pre-existence
  “As your Urantia text clearly points out; the birth of a star and its demise are simultaneous eve ...re being a presence of either your ancestors, or your descendants, in that sacred realm. Your world, a thousand years from now, is an observable reality on P
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• Yahweh
  ...the [[Old Testament]], representing the most likely vocalization of the ‘[[sacred]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tetragrammaton’ '''''YHWH'''''] ...he ‘sacred tetragrammaton’) having come to be considered by the Jews too [[sacred]] for [[utterance]], was pointed in the [[Old Testament]] by the [https://e
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• Yogini Cult and Temples
  ...death. The Jnanarnava Tantra similarly tells us that a person transmitting sacred and secret knowledge to one who is uninitiated, will become food for the Yo ...references are found, on analysis, to be highly enlightening. The tantric text Kaulajnananirnaya which belongs to a school that calls itself Yogini Kaula
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• Chants
  Chanting (e.g., [[mantra]], sacred [[text]], the name of [[God]]/Spirit, etc.) is a commonly used [[spiritual]] [[pra
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• Hermeneutics
  ...y or modern hermeneutics encompasses not just issues involving the written text, but everything in the interpretative [[process]]. This includes verbal and ...ginal [[audience]], and therefore the reader determines the meaning of the text.[5]
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• 1995-07-09-Living Truth, Oklahoma Conference
  ...[[mountain]] of [[the Father]]'s love for each of you. And each path is [[sacred]], and as each sojourner turns to see the path he has covered, he sees a gr ...nse of [[sublime]] [[oneness]] with God. The [[Urantia book]] has been the text to give you this illuminated, this [[glorified]] and true [[perspective]] o
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