Mystical Angels

The US Founding Fathers used mystical & mythological symbols to represent their beliefs. Why is this? Their beliefs, their dreams, & their intentions during the formation of our (US) government. Symbols like The All Seeing Eye, the Eagle, the Liberty Bell, the goddess symbols of Lady Freedom & the Statue of Liberty. Do these symbols & icons of history contain keys to the secret mystical teachings of ancient advanced cultures? Somewhere in those symbols there's a connection to the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, & a host of other mystical traditions. Do you know of any other mystical traditions? Also, what's the connections between America & Atlantis???

led zep's mystical symbols? do you know what each mystical sign that was printed on led zeppelin's fourth album cover, means? i'm not very confusing, am i? xD well, can you tell me? here's a pic http://www.iem.ac.ru/zeppelin/images/symbols.jpg

I want to find a pouch with mystical symbols? I'd like to get a bag for my gaming dice. I already have a perfectly good felt one, but I'd like something a bit more elaborate. What I'm looking for is a pouch embroidered with genuine arcane imagery. By 'genuine' I mean that the person who made it fully believes in its mystic power. Wards, runes, symbols of power or protection, that sort of thing - from any mystic or religious tradition. If I have to buy a bunch runestones or divining shards or what have you to get ahold of the bag, that's acceptable. Any ideas where I might get such a thing? (Preferably over the internet, as I reside far from the ancient lands where I imagine these would be more common)

Can you name a powerful and mystical set of Arabic symbols found on our money, stamps, books and scoreboards? I heard a radio talk show host talking about a stamp that was going to have a short quote from the Quran in Arabic on it. He kept railing on about not wanting that "Islamofascist" writing on an American stamp.

if they are not mystical,spiritual and deep why the mystic symbol? Capricorn are represented by unicorn in old times but now its sea-goat who is a mystical creature.according to astrology they are not deep,emotionless,robotic,not spiritual and only materialistic.then why a mystic symbol?they feel every ones needs.then how can a emotionless person can feel others need?whats your personal experience with Capricorns. also astrologers says they ave complex personality then why stereotype ? answer only if you understand my question.

Once you have cleared the last level of Assassins Creed and? are back in the real world, can you do anything else? I looked at all the mystical symbols that appear, but can't do anything else other than walk to the bedroom. I hoped there would be something more satisfying on completion.

What Hawaii Artist was chosen for the First Art Show in Space aboard the MIR Space Station? After 9-11 the same Hawaii Artist created a retro-Americana Poster of Miss Liberty riding on the back of a Bald Eagle surrounded by other mystical symbols of The United States of America. President George W. Bush has the first Artist Proof Giclee Print.

Questions about a mystical symbol? I have a pendant with a seven-pointed star. I got this pendant a long time ago from a new age gift shop. The points of the star are evenly spread. One of the points go straight up, and two of them point down. I did some research. One source said it is the Star of Babalon. Another says it's the Elfen Star. What can you guys tell me? Your expertise is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Many Blessings, BGJR.

What is the the scientifiic or mathmatical symbol for universe? NO mystical or cosmic symbols please.

what 'mystical' symbol attracts financial abundance to the user? please back up you answer with web-site or book references - and please, no non-answers - if you don't have a constructive reply, don't bother

Tree of Life Jewelry - Any Good Stuff Out There? As a pagan guy I'm looking for a Tree of Life pendant that is a nice piece of tree of life jewelry. I'm into the tree of life as a mystical symbol because it represents the many different energies that we experience through life and I find the tree of life very inspiring. I can't find a really nice tree of life pendant online. Anybody know of a good place to go?

How do those online "mystical ball" sites work? You know those sites where it shows a crystal ball and claims to read your mind? They tell you to pick a number and give you a formula to follow to find a different number. The end result matches a symbol and, if you click on the screen, you'll see the symbol you thought of. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, see this example: http://bored.com/mysticalball/index.htm ) Well, I've seen them several times and, while it was impressive the first few, the entertainment is over for me and I do not believe it's "magic" of any kind. I am very curious how the trick is done, though. Does anyone know how these things work? I think my brother and I actually just figured it out... but, I'm not positive, so I'm still looking for answers, i.e., anyone who can confirm (or deny) or guess: is it that it's only possible to get a certain set of numbers using the formula, and those special numbers all share the same symbols?

What is the significance of this symbol? Refer to this news article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070723/ap_on_re_us/history_mystery What is the significance of the symbol on the wall? The New York City building from which it was taken is has since been demolished. But the section of wall was preserved so it could be studied. And as the experts look it over, I pose this question on Yahoo Answers: Does anyone know the significance of the symbol? Is it mystical, religious or architectural?

Mystical Space Typhoon a Face-Down Dust Tornado? I was checking a ruling of a card on the UpperDeck site, and it didn't quite answer my question and I can't seem to find it in the FAQ's. Though this sounds like it should work in my head because of how the Card Speeds in Chains would work, I am not entirely sure. The only cards involved are: DUST TORNADO, and MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON, and a FACE DOWN MAGIC (No Symbol). If someone Activates Mystical Space Typhoon on their turn and targets a Face-down Dust Tornado... Can the Opponent/Owner activate Dust Tornado on something before Mystical Space Typhoon destroys it because of the Chain, or perhaps Dust Tornado can target Mystical Space Typhoon so that its secondary effect of "Set 1 Trap or Spell card from hand." happens? I ask this because I can activate Dust Tornado if it wasn't targeting it and the card it targets doesn't get flipped up or destroyed yet so I assume I can activate the Dust Tornado in a chain even if its being targeted. To be simple, What would happen in this situation? Thanks. Question answered. Though I can't find the location to say its answered... True. Perfect example. Thank you. It would definitely work otherwise Heavy Storm wouldn't be able to be Countered if I wouldn't be able to use a Selected Card. Thanks! I can't believe how dumb my question sounds to myself now... T_T Been playing since Legend of Blue eyes and I made myself sound like I have been playing for a day. I'll be kicking myself for this one forever. ^_^

danger of writing runic symbols? how would symbols be "reversed"? i looked online and found some runic symbols that i really liked, they are Peorth, Sygel, and Ken. they have descriptions of what they mean, for example Peorth means mystical knowlege and psychic links but reversed it means fear of the unknown and disappointment. and ive heard that runic symbols could be dangerous if used the wrong way. so my question is, how would i use runic symbols the wrong way and whats it mean if a rune is "reversed"? how would it be "reversed"? im only going to write these symbols on my body or something, because i like what they stand for.

virginity/symbols/mysticalthings? I use photobucket alot. It's one of my favorite website. I am a virgin and got curious about  the searches I would find on the site under virgin/virginity... yadayada. Last time I searched there were these beautiful pictures of symbols for virginity. They had like... birds or moons or raindrops or stars. Or something like that. They were very mystical. But I never saved any to my albums. I now want it as a tattoo but can no longer seem to find them as a reference for the man to draw it. Please help me. If you know what I'm talking about please let me know. there's no way to check your history or your backtrack. or if there is i can't figure out how.

o.k., lets get down to the truth hey? Do the magic mormon underkeks exist, or is it a ' distorted half truth peddled by trolls' I am sure there is a vid on you tube where some aussies pretend to be morons and buy some of the magic trolleys complete with mystical symbols on. if the vid is found and is accepted to be true, then who is committing the sin of lying? hey mormons?

What philosophical thought do you choose? - The world of symbols or (fuzzy) logic about meanings (perception about knowledge of things around us)? According to Lévy-Bruhl the primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses "mystical participation" to manipulate the world. The primitive mind doesn't address contradictions. The Western mind, by contrast, uses speculation and logic. Hilary Putnam – on meaning and reference - "Brains in a Vat". See below: Putnam hints that the brains in vat cannot have definite knowledge because the causal link between their 'thoughts' and meanings of things (around them) does not exist. The 'what' (the THAT) which exists is but mental pictures of something not real or present. Or the meaning, which exists, is but (only) images working as an unintentional 'that'- a no-existing demonstrative. P.S. Edmund Husserl considers the 'thinking thing' nonsensical to attribute ontological reality to a thing-in-itself that is distinct from the first order consciousness...

no arguments really!!!!!!! but is getting Eve outta Adams rib a symbol for something or its mystical?

What is the actual image on Rick's arm a picture of ? In Motion Picture ''The Mummy Returns' I know it is a Symbol of The Medjai, a mystical order sworn to protect what is sacred and to destroy what is profane, but I would like to see the actual image on Rick's arm.

Can the caduceus be considered a religious symbol? OK I'm just a bit curious a want to know about this. It looks mystical but it has been used for many health foundations over the years. So ... is it a religious symbol?

My friend wants to "rehabilitate" the Nazi swastika and use it as a symbol of life, right? I told him that in the name of this symbol, some of the most evil and barbaric atrocities in recorded history were commited, and that he could be putting himself in physical danger. How do I talk him out of it? For the record, he is a liberal/progressive and detests everything Hitler and his ilk stood for. he finds the swastika mystical and fascinating. I told him most people are not smart enough to dig where he's coming from and he'd best chill out with that idea.

What does the word LAO mean? I keep seeing it in books and stuff. Usually it is written diagonally down and right. Is it an ancient mystical religious symbol?

How do the mind reading stuff on the internet works really good? I went online on www.bored.com and I found this Mystical Ball thing. Let me tell you how this works: First, you how to pick any 2 numbers 1-99. The first number has to be bigger than the smaller than the other. Second, Subtract the first number from the smaller. Third put the first number and the second together. Now you use the number and subtract, from the number you got when you were subtracting. Fourth, concentrate on the symbol. Sixth, click on the crystal ball. Example: 3 and 2, 3-2=1, then 32-1=31.

does anyone have a clue what this means? http://www.byzant.com/Mystical/Symbols/Images/TriquetraSmall.jpg

am i the only one that notices the weird similarites between 'Lost' and 'Supernatural'? i know its weird but think about it After a white flash, Sam an Dean Winchesters found they'd been mysteriously removed from a dangerous appearance by Satan. After a white flash, the "Lost" characters found they'd been thrown from a dangerous situation with bomb -- and into a new time frame. Mark Pellegrino plays a powerful "Lost" character named Jacob -- who appears to be inhabiting a human body (and may have upgraded into Sayid's body?). Mark Pellegrino plays a powerful "Supernatural" character named Lucifer -- who appears to be inhabiting a human body (and wants to upgrade to a Winchester body). Sawyer is good-hearted but can seem cynical and he likes to make wisecracks. Dean Winchester is good-hearted but can seem cynical and he likes to make wisecracks. Jack is a well-intentioned, sometimes stubborn man. Sam Winchester is a well-intentioned, sometimes stubborn man. The characters on "Lost" have lots of daddy issues. The Winchesters have lots and lots of daddy issues. The "Lost" characters often encounter mystical symbols and a mysterious sequence of numbers, which may be connected to powerful forces. The Winchesters often encounter mystical symbols and use mysterious incantations to summon powerful forces. The demonic black smoke is frequent in most Supernatural episodes The mysterious black smoke is frequent in most Lost episodes I wonder if they are actually connected.

gaasg mystical poem? inspired by jimmy page and dr. strange? mystical dr. strange floating through the fart winds hovering in the astral plane by the hoary host of haggard who let out the a ss flame? farts of other manifestations from 500 years ago existing within for long ages contemplating thy revenge under the ancient symbol a blue flame spell the fart will light and beyond the material plane in the name of rael scourge of demons may this fart keep thee away! and slash through the barrier of the known and unknown farts before the forces of good and evil in another dimension and other zones the ancient farts thy simulcharum vague portraits in the sanctum sanctorum cults of gas hovering off their feet a higher level in the astral plane under the ancient symbol of light work the signs and your calculations pass on the gasious powers entrusted in you as you grow old and weary from the powers of the past with the ring with the ancient symbol the one fart the one power do not haste do not lose and protec the power of chickn vindaloo

Wierd Feeling? Mystical help <3 ? Hey my craftnames SilverChestnut and i need help. I'm only starting out so im not the most powerful witch ..as of yet. Im having a very wierd feeling, my family historys becoming strange as i learn more and my little sister is drawing odd shapes and writting strange words to go along with them. I know theres alot of talk about 2012 but is that what this is?? The thing is i know theres a feeling there but i dont know what it is, good, bad, it doesnt even stay it goes away but then comes back agian the only thing i know for sure is theres somthing there. My sister is 9 and shes swaring odd shapes and labeled the drawings odd words. One of them looked like a very abstract picture of the world no contenetes just shapes inside a big circle she labeld it FUTUR and the Second one had a traingle in the center 3 circles around it and 3 long rectangles with circles inside them at the top as well the circles and rectangles had odd symbols in them. She called this Aoxlne. If Anyone has had the same feeling/ knows any information on this please answer! -SilverChestnut

Can anyone explain my mystical experience? (Non- Christian please)? I opened my third eye a few years ago in a group situation (Wicca) whilst doing healing work, and saw the usual very vivid symbols (one dollar bill thing, triskile...) as per typical, but I also kept seeing a pale blue light flashing out of my eyes in the mirror. Some of the group's eyes flashed red, some pale blue, and my best friend's flashed green. I also noticed 'closed' people (or those that had problems) as black hole eyed (energy draining, fear inducing), some with a black aura. This went on for some time and I still see this occasionally. This was a beautiful and happy experience for me. Please can someone help explain? (and not anyone who thinks that it is Satan's work!!!) Thanks :)

is there any symbols in the movie,"The Secret of NIMH"? Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out of the field they live in as plowing time approaches, however her son Timothy has fallen ill, and moving him could prove fatal. Mrs. Brisby visits The Great Owl, a wise creature who advises her to visit a mysterious group of rats who live beneath a rose bush on the farm. Upon visiting the rats, Brisby meets Nicodemus, the wise and mystical leader of the rats, and Justin, a friendly rat who immediately becomes attached to Mrs. Brisby. While there, she learns that her late husband, Mr. Jonathon Brisby, along with the rats, was a part of a series of experiments at a place known only as N.I.M.H. (revealed earlier in the story as the National Institute of Mental Health). The experiments performed on the mice and rats there boosted their intelligence, allowing them to read without being taught and to understand things such as complex mechanics and electricity. The rats and Mr. Brisby escaped from N.I.M.H. and came to live on the Fitzgibbon farm. The rats created a home for themselves under Mrs. Fitzgibbon's rose bush, creating an elaborate habitation of beautiful chambers, elevators, and Christmas lights. However, the rats are unhappy in their dependence on the humans, who they are stealing electricity from, and have concocted a plan to leave the farm and live independently. Because of her husband's prior relationship with the rats, they agree to help Mrs. Brisby move her home out of the path of the plow. However, the evil Jenner and his unwilling accomplice Sullivan, who wish to remain beneath the rose bush, yet plot to kill Nicodemus during the move

A question about Japanese symbols or perhaps culture or I don't know what..? I've been reading "Madame Butterfly" recently, and there are questions I'd like to ask. "She had a sword in her lap <...> It would have been very beautiful to a Japanese, to whom the sword is a soul. A golden dragon writhed about the superb scabbard. He had eyes of rubies, and held in his mouth a sphere of crystal which meant many mystical things to a Japanese." Does it really mean anything? "Then she placed the point of the weapon at that nearly nerveless spot in the neck known to every Japanese, and began to press it slowly inward." Does such a spot really exist? Where is it and why is it nerveless? And..is it still known to every Japanese? I mean, are the traditions of "dying with Honour when one can no longer live with Honour" still taught and do they play some role in Japanese life? I know I'm being chaotic, but I really want to know. Thank you :)

What store can I find these at? Silly bandz- Art fest,Glitter glow, Basic Loony bandz-Vampire Rubba Bands-Mystical, Dog, Symbol Please tell me so I can get them before christmas rush begins!

what tattoo should I get behind my ear? I am an Aquarius and obsessed with the number 23 but i don't want symbols and pretty sure i don't want numbers...I don't want bugs/mystical crap/skulls I'm also a twin and a lesbian...offensive answers will be reported. please only serious answers, I already have two tattoos so i know what i'm doing, i have some designs for big ones but just want another small one to tide me over hehe cheers guys : )

All the answers are preserved in Kabbalah? Kabbalah has sacred geometry that describes the structure of the universe. You have the chakras, the flower of life, and all those other symbols. Kabblah presents the true reality of existence. Kabblah seems entirely scientific to me with the different energies and such. I also believe Kabbalah is the collection of all the other practices of the ancient secret orders. The secret orders studied the true realities of the universe by studying stories that metaphorically and symbollically explained the universe in order to be the only ones to understand the true reality so they can only benefit from the secret practices that rise them into higher consciousness. So I believe we should study Kabblah and the other secret order in order to understand the universe. I believe the knowledge given to our ancestors was taken away by the nobility so that only the nobility can benefit from higher consciousness and power. So since then they preserved this knowledge through the secret orders and hid it from us. They then used that knowledge to take over civilizations one by one. NOw they control the world. We should get to know this knowledge and we should be able to evolve into higher consciousness. They only gave us part of the knowledge in Kabblah and the other mystical religions. ITs only a start to start learning the mystical religions.

Another Weird Dream? Could someone help me interpret this dream: I wake up in my bed and clearly see smoke coming through to my room drom the hall.When i get up to check it out, nuns come from my brother's room(which has no entry point).After they all go downstairs, i follow and notice blood spattered all over the wall.When i get downstairs and enter my ATV room there are the same nuns(they are nuns and so obviously also female) performing really strange rituals in the middle of the room, while chanting.There was blood on the wall still, but now most were fashioned into mystical looking symbols.I woke up.

Do you believe that the 6th commandment was mistranslated? Should we even be killing animals? Various "Translations" of the 6th Commandment 'Thou shalt not kill any living thing,' for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man taketh it away. ~Jesus, Gospel of the Holy Twelve, (earliest known recorded words of Jesus) "Thou shalt not kill." ~Exodus 20:13 Authorized version of King James "You shall not murder." ~New International Version The exact Hebrew wording of this biblical phrase is lo tirtzack. One of the greatest scholars of Hebrew/English linguistics (in the Twentieth Century) -Dr. Reuben Alcalay - has written in his mammoth book the Complete Hebrew /English Dictionary that "tirtzach" refers to "any kind of killing whatsoever." The word "lo," as you might suspect, means "thou shalt not." Many Bible scholars persist with the theory that Christ ate animal flesh, obviously swayed in their opinions by personal habits. The desire to accede to prejudice and uphold existing tradition has been a human characteristic for many centuries, but truth appears now even more important as man exerts his independence in so many aspects of life. Respected Bible scholar Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore has researched the frequent use of the word "meat" in the New Testament Gospels. He traced its meaning to the original Greek. His findings were first published in World Forum of Autumn, 1947. He reveals that the nineteen Gospel references to "meat" should have been more accurately translated thus Greek word, number of references and actual meaning. Broma 4 "Food" Brosis 4 "The act of eating" Phago 3 "to eat" Brosimos 1 "That which is eaten" Trophe 6 "Nourishment" Prosphagon 1 "Anything to eat" Thus, the Authorized Version of John 21:5, .'Have ye any meat?" is incorrect. It should have been translated: "Have ye anything to eat?" "Fish" is another frequently mistranslated word in the Bible. Its reference is often not to the form of swimming life, but to the symbol by which early Christians could identify each other. It was a secret sign, needed in times of persecution, prior to official acceptance of Christianity as a state religion.The sign of the fish was a mystical symbol and conversational password. Its name deriving from the Greek word for fish, "ichthus" Much later it was represented an acrostic, composed of leading letters of the Greek phrase, "Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter"-"Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." Frequent references to fish are intended as symbolic of The Christ and have nothing to do with the act of eating a dead fish. But the symbol of the fish did not meet with Roman approval. They preferred the sign of the cross, choosing to concentrate more on the death of Christ than on His brilliant life. Perhaps this is one reason only ten percent of His life record appears in the canonical scriptures. Most of His first thirty years has been omitted. This was taken from: http://www.thenazareneway.com/thou_shalt_not_kill.htm Do you agree or disagree? Should we be killing animals? Perhaps we are really meant to be vegetarians like Adam and Eve after all? Perhaps that's God's intentions for man? If this is in fact true, I do not know how Christians can claim there is NO ERROR in the Bible. Or claim it isn't confusing or filled with contradictions. Isn't chaos a trademark of Satan? How does anyone know for sure what they are believing is correct when it comes to the Bible??

Help me choose a name for my site? I am launching a website. I will be selling natural health products. I want it to have a sort of mystical sounding name, if that makes sense. The products are vegan-friendly, kosher, halal and I want to reach out to people from different cultures and languages. So if you know any mythological, poetic, esoteric symbols, etc. that would sound good for a website name, let me know!

Rate my Yu-GI-Oh! deck on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best and 1 the lowest.? Monsters: 18 Beast King Barbaros Tyrant Dragon Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord Dragonic Knight Luster Dragon Insect Knight Gemini Elf Slate Warrior Tune Warrior D.D. Warrior Lady Psychic Commander Magna Drago Junk Synchron Speed Warrior Mystic Swordsman LV2 Freqency Magician Water Spirit Charcoal Inpachi Spells: 15 Smashing Ground Lightning Vortex Premature Burial Reinforcement of the Army Synchro Boost Synchro Blast Wave Mystical Space Typhoon Symbols of Duty Monster Reincarnation Heavy Storm Swords of Revealing Light Snatch Steal Nobleman of Crossout Pot of Greed Mausoleum of the Emperor Traps: 7 Dust Tornado Magic Jammer Remote Revenge Birthright Sakuretsu Armor Divine Wrath Call of the Haunted Extra Deck: 3 Colossal Fighter Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth Junk Warrior Suggestions concerning possible improvements to my deck are welcome and appreciated.

Hey plz rate my yugioh deck? This is a dark deck: Monsters: Mad dog of darkness The calculator Beast of Talwar Obsidian Dragon Despair From the Dark A man with wdjat Baron of the Fiend sword Breaker the magical warrior Dark Magician X2 Gravitic Orb Red eyes Black Dragon Dark Effigy Swift Gaia the fierce knight Dark ruler Ha Des Dark eradicator warlock Dark assailant Spells: Reasoning Hammer shot tribute to the doomed change of heart X2 mystical space typhoon Symbols of duty Misfortune Different dimention capsule sword fo the deep seated axe of dispair Block attack Synchro Boost Infinite cards Traps: Exchange of the spirit Begone, Knave! Draning shield Negate attack Minaturize Scrap- Iron Scarecrow Spellbinding circle This is not ment for totaments i just need some more ideas of what to add. Thanks :)

Rate my redisigned deck? Extra Deck: Armityle, the Chaos Phantom Master of Oz Monsters: Cloudian - Poision Cloud Barrier Statue of the Abyss Jarai Gumo Moisture Creature Krebons Buster Blader Throwstoone Unit Big Koala Raging Flame Sprite Super Conductor Tyranno Summoned Skull x3 Des Kangaroo Stardust Dragon/Assaultmode Wall Shadow Labyrinth Wall Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon Exiled Force Spell Cards: Symbols of Duty Mystical Wind Typhoon Chain Summoning Spell Calling Junk Barrage Dragged Down into the Grave Card Destruction Phantasmal Martrys Dark Energy Magical Labyrinth Ballista of Rampart Smashing Polymerization Mystical Space Typhoon Branch Domino Effect Monster Reincarnation Block Attack Domino Effect Trap Cards Spellbinding Circle Tower of Babel Waboku Ordeal of a Traveller Sakuretsu Armor Trap Hole Birthright Spacegate Dust Tornado Scrap-Iron Scarecrow Chain Healing Call of the Haunted My deck also includes Uria, Hamon and Raviel My deck also includes Uria, Hamon and Raviel and Assaultmode Activate and Stardust Dragon and Assaultmode Activate and Stardust Dragon

Please rate my Beatdown Deck.? K, so I really wanna PWN my friends but I need some help cause I get destroyed every time we play. Could you guys please not only rate but give suggestions and ideas to help me out. I'm a total N00B :( Monsters:24 Man-Eater Bug Kuriboh Gladiator Beast Andal Alien Shock trooper The White Stone of Legend Luster Dragon #2 Dark Blade Exiled Force Destiny Hero - Defender Dark Ruler Ha Des Armed Sea Hunter Elemental Hero Clayman Evocator Chevalier 4 - Starred Ladybug of Doom Blue - Eyes White Dragon The Six Samurai - Zanji Mystical Elf Elemental Hero Neo Alius 7 Coloured Fish Wall of Illusion Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Spell Striker B.E.S Big Core MK - 2 Spell Cards: 11 Symbols of Duty Mystical Space Typhoon Supremacy Berry Fissure Junk Barrage Nightmare's Steel Cage Fighting Spirit Ekibyo Drakmord Offerings to The Doomed Double Summon Lightning Vortex Trap Cards: 15 Negate Attack Call of The Haunted Spellbinding Circle Counter Counter Raigeki Break Sakuretsu Armor Dark Bribe Trap Hole Enchanted Javelin Waboku Magic Jammer Defense Draw Just Desserts Torrential Tribute Kunai with Chain

can someone build me a good yugioh deck? ok well i have a killer deck built, but it has way too many cards. so what i need is a good deck that includes at least 2 earthbound immortals, and meets the 40-60 card requirement. Monsters: kuriboh x2 twin-headed wolf dark effigy x3 earthbound immortal ccapac apu invader of darkness sangan des kangaroo infernity necromancer rapid-fire magician mystic tomato earthbound immortal wiraqocha rasca getsu fuhma swift gaia the fierce knight zero gardna earthbound immortal aslla piscu gravekeeper's commandant gravekeeper's assailant umbral soul harpie queen gravekeeper's guard archfiend soldier newdoria blackwing-fane the steel chain earthbound immortal chacu challhua blackwing-kalut the moon shadow opticlops renge, gatekeeper of dark world x2 marrionette mite x2 blackwing-bora the spear drillago earthbound immortal uru earthbound immortal ccarayhua la jinn the mystical genie of the lamp reptilianne medusa reptilianne scylla darksea float hunter dragon kryuel ritual raven x2 giant germ breaker the magical warrior gravekeeper's spy dark blade earthbound immortal cusillu dark jeroid regenerating mummy Tuners: Nettles tuned magician synchros: black rose dragon spells: stray lambs x2 ekibyo drakmord remove trap x2 yami x3 forest harpie's hunting ground swords of revealing lighht reptilianne spawn necrovalley symbols of duty mystical space typhoon x2 ribbon of rebirth sword of deep-seated goblin theif mystic plasma zone gift of the martyr lightning vortex dian keto the cure master mountain malevolent nuzzler heavy storm field barrier traps: waboku x3 blasting the ruins shadow spell magic cylinder x2 earthbound wave sakuretsu armor miracle locus trap stun damage translation x2 fake trap bottomless trap hole physical double soul resurrection cemetary bomb shining silver force fiend's hand mirror enchanted javelin coffin seller just desserts update: i don't actually need earthbound immortals it would just help cz i got some handy support cards...but yea the deck MUST INCLUDE BLACK ROSE DRAGON AND THE TWO TUNERS

Rate my yugioh Deck? SYNCHRO MONSTERS: JUNK WARRIOR GAIA KNIGHT, THE FORCE OF EARTH COLOSSAL FIGHTER MONSTERS: WATER SPIRIT CHARCOAL INPACHI COPYCAT MYSTIC TOMATO MAGNA DRAGO ZURE, KNIGHT OF THE DARK WORLD RENGE, GATEKEEPER OF DARK WORLD GYROID FREQUENCY MAGICIAN SPEED WARRIOR SPIRAL SERPENT MARAUDING CAPTAIN TUNE WARRIOR SONIC CHICK CYBERDARK HORN CYBER DRAGON ELEMENTAL HERO NEOS DARK BLADE AXE RAIDER JUNK SYNCHRON WOODBORG INPACHI LUSTER DRAGON SPELLS: RUSH RECKELESSLY LIGHTNING VORTEX SMASHING GROUND SYMBOLS OF DUTY MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON THE WARRIOR RETURNING ALIVE SYNCHRONIZED REALM DOUBLE SUMMON MONSTER REBORN SYNCHRO BOOST POT OF GREED SYNCHRO BLAST WAVE TRAPS: TRAP HOLE BIRTHRIGHT SHADOW SPELL SCRAP-IRON SCARECROW SPIRIT BARRIER COMPULSORY EVACUATION DEVICE ASTRAL BARRIER MINIATURIZE THREATENING ROAR NEGATE ATTACK SAKURETSU ARMOR BACK UP SOLDIER MAGIC CYLINDER im also getting starduts dragon saturday...the deck is basically a starter deck but with added cards..wat do u think?

How does this deck look? ? It was initially the 5D's Starter Deck but I changed some of the cards. Total: 50 Extra Deck: 3 Junk Warrior Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth Colossal Fighter Monster Cards: 20 Frequency Magician Silent Strider Marauding Captain Exiled Force Zure, Knight of Dark World Gonogo Dark Resonator Spiral Serpent Seiyaryu Shield Warrior Junk Synchron Speed Warrior Jutte Fighter Ghost Gardna Tune Warrior Dark Blade Copycat Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Skull-Mark Ladybug Charcoal Inpachi Spells: 14 Monster Reincarnation Synchro Boost Fighting Spirit Twister Double Summon Lightning Vortex Synchro Blast Wave Battle Tuned The Warrior Returning Alive Dangerous Machine Type-6 Symbols of Duty Mystical Space Typhoon Monster Reborn Smashing Ground Traps: 13 Defense Draw Metalmorph Michizure Karma Cut Birthright Spellbinding Circle Miniaturize Trap Hole Draining Shield Sakuretsu Armor Threatening Roar Trap Jammer Scrap-Iron Scarecrow Please give me any suggestions you have and rate 1 to 10.

Rate my yugioh deck(can u also think of a possible name for the deck)? Well yea i dont know because it is just a deck and yes it only has 36 cards or so and i plan on adding more okay i have: Monsters: The Six Samurai-Zanji Abaki X2 Power Invader Genex Controller Marshmallon Lyna the light charmer Informer Spider Changer Synchron Dragonic Knight X-Saber Pashuul The Wicked Dreadroot Reptilianne Naga,Servant,Scylla,Viper XX-Saber Emmersblade Spore Wattfox Archfiend of Glifer Black Potan Spells: Axe of Despair Black Pendant Lightning Vortex Symbols of Duty Mystical Space Typhoon Monster Reincarnation Traps X2 Sakuretsu Armor Limit Impulse Guard Mines Trap Jammer Compulsory Evacuation Device Extra Deck Collosal Fighter Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste

i need help with my deck(yu gi oh)? the deck is not complete im still trying to see what cards to try and get i just need someones opion monsters: d.d warrior lady copycat exiled force x2 van'dalgyon the dark dragon lord super condictor tranno magician of faith kyxoo the ghost destoyer d.d survivorx2 tyrant dragon d.d assailant dark blade axe raider magic: double summon symbols of duty mystical space typhoon enemy controller the warrior returning alive lighting vortex mage power monster reincarnation brain control trap trap hole magic cylinder sakuretsu armor divine wrath torrential tribute bottomless trap hole seven tools of the bandit right now my deck has no flow but as i said im still building it and trying to see what to base it on

were methods used by each religion different ? for example... Buddhist method is enlightenment... understanding of self, so they teaches meditation Christianity method is love... supposedly one can reach spiritual status with love alone (how one can understand and love without understanding of self is not mentioned in the bible however) Pythagoras The method were: 1) that at its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature 2) that philosophy can be used for spiritual purification 3) that the Soul can rise to union with the Divine 4) that certain symbols have a mystical significance 5) that all brothers of the Order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy please let me know if you have other opinion ?

why pythagorean as religion extinct ? Pythagoras of Samos (560BC - 480BC) "Through Vibration comes Motion Through Motion comes Color Through Color comes Tone" The beliefs that Pythagoras held were: 1) that at its deepest level, reality is mathematical in nature 2) that philosophy can be used for spiritual purification 3) that the Soul can rise to union with the Divine 4) that certain symbols have a mystical significance 5) that all brothers of the Order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy Pythagoras was the first to call the heavens a universe and the earth round. That the Soul was immortal, and that it changes from one body to another. The Pythagorean Brotherhood was one of the worlds earliest unpriestly cooperative scientific societies, if not the first, and that its members invented the multiplication table, and raised important scientific problems which were solved 15 centuries later. http://9waysmysteryschool.tripod.com/sacredsoundtools/id13.html cult ? most likely that he was Buddhist ? Although Pythagoras arrived in India too late to come into personal contact with the Buddha, he was greatly influenced by his teachings. He went to India a student, he left it as a teacher, and even to this day he is known in that country as Pitar Guru, and as Yavanacharya, the Ionian Teacher.

It is true that Windows has hidden messages? GNU/Linux also has such subliminal messages? The symbol of the GNU (gnu animal) has a mystical meaning?

Please rate my deck to battle my friends with? Fusion Monsters- 1.Five-Headed Dragon (getting polymerization soon) Monsters- 1.Gravi-Crush Dragon 2.Fusion Devourer 3.Sabersaurus 4.Black Tyranno 5.Black Stego 6.Sea Serpent Warrior Of Darkness 7.Spear Dragon 8.Luster Dragon #2 9. White-Horned Dragon 10.2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 11.Super Conductor Tyranno 12.Terrorking Salmon 13.Copycat 14.Summoned Skull 15.Red-Eyes B. Dragon 16.2 Luster Dragon 17.Mystical Elf 18.Dark Blade 19.Alien Shocktrooper 20.Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon 21.Drillroid Spell- 1.Jurassic World 2.Monster Reincarnation 3.2 Lightning Vortex 4.Mystical Space Typhoon 5.Symbols Of Duty 6.Rush Recklessly 7.Magical Mallet 8.Dian Keto The Cure Master 9.Swords Of Revealing Light 10.Fissure Magic- 1.Card Destruction Trap- 1.Birthright 2.Hidden Book Of Spell 3.Spellbinding Circle 4.Hunting Instinct 5.Cemetary Bomb 6.Dragons rage 7.Dust Tornado 8.Divine Wrath 9.Jar Of Greed 10.Seismic shockwave if you can please tell me what cards i need to take out or add

Tips for my Gemini Deck? Fusion Deck 3 - Superalloy Beast Raptinus Monsters - 23 1 - Cthonian Emporer Dragon 1 - Graschopper 2 - Elemental Hero Neos Alius 1 - Gemini Lancer 2 - Ancient Gear Knight 1 - Goggle Golem 2 - Dawnbreak Gardna 2 - Dark Valkria 3 - Blazewing Butterfly 1 - Mysterious Puppeteer 1 - Marshmallon 2 - Gemini Summoner 1 - Future Samurai 1 - Infinity Dark 1 - Sangan 1 - Doom Shaman Spells - 19 3 - Double Summon 2 - Unleash Your Power! 2 - Swing Of Memories 1 - Future Fusion 1 - Dragon's Mirror 2 - Lightning Vortex 1 - Monster Reborn 1 - Magical Mallet 1 - Mystical Space Typhoon 1 - Symbols Of Duty 1 - Pot Of Avarice 1 - Hand Destruction 1 - Swords Of Revealing Light 1 - Axe Of Despair Traps - 11 2 - Birthright 2 - Gemini Trap Hole 2 - Justi-Break 1 - Ultimate Offering 1 - Wall Of Revealing Light 1 - Mirror Force 2 - Threatening Roar Total Cards - 53

Can anyone Rate my Alien Deck? Monster 3 Alien Grey 3 Alien Stocktrooper 3 Alien Warrior 2 Alien Hypno 1 Alien Telepath 1 Alien Hunter 1 Alien Mother 2 Cosmic Horror Gangi'el 1 Bitelon Spell 2 Otherworld - The "A" Zone 2 "A" Cell Breeding Device 1 "A" Cell Scatter Burst 1 Brain Control 1 Heavy Storm 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 1 Symbols of Duty 1 Hammer Shot 1 Pot of Avarice Trap 3 Snake Whistle 2 Brainwashing Beam 2 Detonator Circle "A" 1 Cell Explosion Virus 1 Crop Circles 1 Raigeki Break 1 Sakuretsu Armor 1 Magic Cylinder

What is soma, as referred to in Hindu texts? I've heard soma is a hallucinogenic fungus, or plant. Is it true the priests used soma? Is soma actually a symbol for something else more mystical? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Can someone rate my Yu gi oh deck? I have a somewhat warrior/synchro deck and i would like someone to give my tips on it and rate it. Monsters: (16) Gorz the Emissary of Darkness Giant Rat Dark Blade Axe Raider Magna Drago Junk Synchron WoodBorg Inpachi UFO Turtle Marauding Captain Exiled Force Sonic Chick Despair From The Dark Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Speed Warrior Charcoal Inpachi Spiral Serpent Synchros: Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth Junk Warrior Colossal Fighter Traps: (12) Threatening Roar Shift Divine Wrath Scrap-Iron Scarecrow Miniaturize Just Desserts (x2) Spellbinding Circle Call of the Haunted Compulsory Evacuation Device Trap Hole Defense Draw Spells: (12) Twister Monster Reborn Lightning Vortex Double Summon Giant Trunade The Warrior Returning Alive Synchro Blast Wave Mystical Space Typhoon Swords of Revealing Light Smashing Ground Synchro Boost Symbols of Duty If someone can recommend good cards for this deck. I would gratefully apreciate it.

Can you rate my Yu-Gi-Oh! deck? Okay, I need help on my Gemini/Warrior deck. Any advice to make it better? Extra Deck(3) Stardust Dragon Power Tool Dragon Iron Chain Dragon Monsters(24) Phoenix Gearfried x3 Evocator Chevalier x3 Featherizer x2 Freed the Matchless General x2 Gemini Summoner x2 Marauding Captain x2 Blazewing Butterfly x2 Gemini Soldier x2 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness x1 Knight of Red Lotus x1 Dark Valkyria x1 Card Trooper x1 Tuned Magician x1 D.D. Warrior Lady x1 Spells(16) Supervise x3 Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade x2 Hidden Armory x2 Double Summon x2 Swing of Memories x2 Symbols of Duty x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x1 Swords of Revealing Light x1 Reinforcement of the Army x1 Unleash your Power! x1 Traps(7) Dark Bribe x2 Sakuretsu Armour x2 Jutsi - Break x2 Gemini Trap Hole x1 So please help with this deck. Oh and don't tell me to choose either Warrior or Gemini cause I'll just ignore it. Thanks. C'mon answer I NEED HELP NOW!!!! cmon any more suggestions?

Rate my yu gi oh deck.? Monsters x1 CB Emerald Tortoise x1 CB Cobalt Eagle x1 CB Topaz Tiger x1 CB Amber Mammoth x1 CB Amethyst Cat x1 Small Piece Golem x2 Dharc the Dark Charmer x1 Emes the Infinity x1 Arcana Force XVIII - The Moon x1 Scanner x1 Spiral Serpent x1 Gladiator Beast Darius x1 Cyber Ouroboros x1 Jutte Fighter x1 Psychic Snail x1 Big piece Golem x1 Medium Piece Golem x1 Spell Reactor .RE x1 Trap Reactor .Y FI x1 Earth Effigy x1 Summon Reactor . SK x1 Divine Knight Ishzark x1 Castle Gate Synchro Monsters x1 Stardust Dragon x1 Goyo Guardian x1 Gaia Knight the Force of Earth x1 Colossal Fighter Spells x1 Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins x1 Symbols of Duty x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x1 Lightning Vortex x1 Fighting Spirit x1 Crystal Promise x1 Acidic Dounpour x1 Cup of Ace x1 Gladiator Beast's Battle Archfiend Shield x1 Rush Recklessly x1 Double Summon Traps x1 Scrap - Iron Scarecrow x1 Defence Draw x1 Sakuretsu Armour x1 Trap Hole x1 Lucky Chance x1 Birthright x1 Time Machine x1 Last Resort x1 Kunai with Chain Rate it out of 10 plz

Spiritually speaking, what the is most beautiful language? or set of symbols to write spiritual dialogue in? Hindi (Indian), Hebrew, Tibetan? or other? Which language evokes a sense of the mystical best?

Rate my Gemini deck please and suggest what to add and take away.? Monsters \ 1 gemini summoner 1 dd warrior 2 marauding captains 1 featherizer 2 future samari 3 skilled dark magicians 1 gemini soldier 1 evocater chevalier 1 dark valkyria 1 obnoxious celtic gardian 1 freed the matchless general 1 exiled force 1 spell striker1 field commander raz 1 dd warior lady 1 dark magician 2 blaze wing butterflies 1 phoenix gearfried TRaps: 1 bottomless trap hole 1 soul ressurection 1 birthright 1 gemini trap hole 1 call of the haunted 3 sakurestu armors 1 torrential tribute 1 dark bribe and 1 kunai with chain Spells: 1 rienforcement of the army 1 burden of the mighty 1 lightning vortex 1 heavy storm 1 dicine sword - pheonix blade 1 double summon 1 silent doom 2 tribute to the dooms 1 unleash your power 1 supervise 1 symbols of duty 1 mystical space typhoon 1 lightning blade total cards are 48

double D symbol? :my girlfriend found a ring that was burried any they are to D's back to back, and they are her initals. ever since she found this ring weird things have been happening and shes told me things that i have never told her and no way that she could have found out. we have seen this symbol in a mystical book a few times in pictures but it never says what it means and i would really like to know and if u know plz answer or IM me at papichulo9193 on aim thank you

The montauk monster? I recently read an article on aol about a creature called a montauk monster. It says on the article that this mystical creature is a symbol for the apocalypse. What is this animal exactly? Why are there so many unknown beasts showing up? Are these creatures really a symbol that the world is coming to an end?

what do you think about my aunts deck? monsters cyber dragon cybernatic cyclopean cyber dinosaur cyber kirin*3 heavy mech support platform armored cybern*2 cyber ouroboros proto cybr dragon cyber gymnast cannon soldrier gadget soldier dark catapulter roulette barrel summon reactor sk electric virus *2 cannon soldier mk-2 diven dragon-excelion cyber ogre spells spell shattering arrow ookazi red medicine shrink mystical space typhoon domino effect symbols of duty the relliable guardian fisuer overload fusion machine duplication photon generrator unit liner accalaraor de-spell traps sakuratsu armor soul demolition magic jammer karma cut compuslery evacuation device summon limit dust tornado

Can You help me make a new Dragon Deck? Here is my original:? Monsters: 20 Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon - SD1-EN001 Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon - MOV-EN001 Red-Eyes Black Dragon x2 - SDJ-001 Blue-Eyes White Dragon x3 - SKE-001 Masked Dragon x2 - SD1-EN009 Dragon Piper - DB2-EN040 Spirit Ryu - SKE-023 Luster Dragon x3 - YSD-EN005 Armed Dragon LV3 x2 - SOD-EN013 Armed Dragon LV5 - SD1-EN014 Snipe Hunter - SDRL - EN018 Red Eyes B. Chick x2 - SOD-EN017 Element Dragon x2 - SOD-EN023 Spells: 12 Polymerization - SDJ-036 Stamping Destruction x2 - LOD-046 Creature Swap - DP04-EN018 Mystical Space Typhoon - SD10-EN024 Symbols Of Duty - 5DS1-EN030 Monster Reborn - SYE-029 Mausoleum of The Emperor - POTD-EN047 Smashing Ground - IOC-093 Future Fusion - DP04-EN023 Cold Wave - PSV-062 Megamorph - SKE-037 Traps: 8 Ultimate Offering - SDJ-047 Dragon Capure Jar - LOB-045 Dragon's Rage x3 - LOD-048 Draining Shield - AST-054 A Hero Emerges - IOC-104 Sakretsu Armor - SDDE-EN033 DNA Surgery - PSV-026 Soul Rope - LODT-ENSE2 Fusions: 2 Five-Headed Dragon - SD09-ENSS1 Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon - JMP-EN005 I hope you can help

Rate my deck out of 10. Plz? Cards: 43 Monsters: 21 Gravi-Crush Dragon D. D. Survivor Frostosaurus Raging Flame Spirite Mystic Clown Sabersaurus Ryu-Kishin Powered Wall of Illusion Element Saurus Sangan Emissary of the Afterlife Dark Jeroid Volcanic Rat Pitch-Black Warwolf Kuriboh Man-Eater Bug Wood Inpachi UFO Turtle Man-Eaten Treasure Chest Summoned Skull Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive Spells: 11 Reload Mystic Plasma Zone Dian Keto the Cure Master Dark Foactory of Mass Production Card Destruction Malevolent Nuzzler Amulet of Ambition Mystical Space Typhoon Heavy Storm Symbols of Duty Lightning Vortex Traps: 11 Mind Haxorz Negate Attack Dust Tornado Enchanted Javelin Waboku Shadow Spell Seven Tools of the Bandit Raigeki Break No Entry!! Sakurustu Armor Magic Jammer Extra Deck: NONE I have Dark Hole and Magician of Faith. I don't use them in my deck. I call this a Dark Deck because I have lots of Dark monsters and the Mystic Plasma Zone to support them. I actually call it Symbols of Duty Deck. I use my normal monsters to summon my opponent's monster.

Could someone correct my translation in UK-English? It's for exam.Thanks a lot!? Imagine that you are answering the final question from very popular quiz…and the last question is...Which is the fastest growing plant on this planet having almost the same strength as the steel? Hmmm…Maybe you cannot bring to your mind the answer quickly. Ok…But when you will hear some other amazing facts about it, you will probably remember it. The correct answer is – bamboo. A brief introduction: bamboo is a woody perennial evergreen plant that is actually part of the true grass family. There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth. Bamboo can be found all over the world in varied climates, from the cold mountainous regions to the hot tropical areas. They can be found in North and South America, throughout East Asia, northern Australia, and southern Africa. Although they can grow to towering heights – ranging from miniatures to 60 meters, bamboo is not actually considered a tree. Bamboo along with being one of the tallest grasses in the world is also the fastest growing plant in the world, capable of growing up to 1 meter per day! In addition to these characteristics, bamboo also boasts incredible environmental benefits. Despite its lowly reputation, bamboo may be the strongest stuff on the planet. Its growth pattern makes it easily accessible in a minimal amount of time. Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945. A grove of bamboo returns 35 percent more oxygen into the air than an equivalent stand of trees. By taking in more carbon dioxide and emitting more oxygen bamboo naturally battles global warming and climate change. Bamboo does it year around because it is an evergreen. Fuel made from bamboo would have a neutral carbon dioxide impact because any fuel made and burned from bamboo will release the same amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that was consumed by the bamboo while it was growing. In an age ridden with fuel wars, and an ever-declining ozone layer, natural products like bamboo have taken a front scene in the international energy crises, primarily for production of renewable ethanol and diesel. Bamboo is exquisite component of landscape design. Its anti-erosion properties create an effective watershed, stitching the soil together along fragile river banks, deforested areas, and in places prone to earthquakes and mud slides. Another important benefit of bamboo cultivation is that it helps sustain China’s endangered panda population. Giant pandas usually eat only the four or five kinds that grow in their habitat of southwestern China. Bamboo is strong–it’s one of the strongest building materials in the world. Yet despite its strength, when made into clothing, bamboo is softer than the softest cotton and smoother than the smoothest silk. The bamboo fiber is eco-friendly, without any chemical additives. It takes 150 grams of chemical fertilizers to produce one cotton t-shirt. In contrast, bamboo requires very little water because it is 300 percent more absorbent than cotton and it requires no harmful pesticides or insecticides. In addition, growing bamboo actually enriches the soil with nutrients while growing cotton depletes it. More importantly, bamboo fiber is a unique biodegradable textile material. As a natural cellulose fiber, bamboo fabric can be 100% biodegraded in soil by microorganisms and sunlight. The decomposition process does not cause any pollution in the environment. What other about bamboo? Thomas Edison also successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb. In Limon, Costa Rica, only the bamboo houses from the National Bamboo Project stood after their violent earthquake in 1992. It is interesting also that...bamboo furniture is light, durable, and affordable…bamboo shoots provide nutrition for million of people worldwide. In Japan, the antioxidant properties of pulverized bamboo bark prevents bacterial growth and it’s used a natural food preservative….current research point to bamboo's potential in a number of medicinal uses, especially in cure of some types of venereal diseases and cancers…bamboo is a mystical plant as a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, endurance, luck and compromise. Throughout Asia, bamboo has for centuries been integral to religions ceremonies, art, music and daily life. With time and dedicated research, perhaps our future will be a bit brighter due to the widespread use of bamboo. We will be not surprised to see a bamboo plantation pop up in a field near us!

Could you, please correct my text in UK-English? Thanks a lot!? It takes 150 grams of chemical fertilizers to produce one cotton t-shirt. In contrast, bamboo requires very little water because it is 300 percent more absorbent than cotton and it requires no harmful pesticides or insecticides. In addition, growing bamboo actually enriches the soil with nutrients while growing cotton depletes it. More importantly, bamboo fiber is a unique biodegradable textile material. As a natural cellulose fiber, bamboo fabric can be 100% biodegraded in soil by microorganisms and sunlight. The decomposition process does not cause any pollution in the environment. What other about bamboo? Thomas Edison also successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb. In Limon, Costa Rica, only the bamboo houses from the National Bamboo Project stood after their violent earthquake in 1992. It is interesting also that...bamboo furniture is light, durable, and affordable…bamboo shoots provide nutrition for million of people worldwide. In Japan, the antioxidant properties of pulverized bamboo bark prevents bacterial growth and it’s used a natural food preservative….current research point to bamboo's potential in a number of medicinal uses, especially in cure of some types of venereal diseases and cancers…bamboo is a mystical plant as a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, endurance, luck and compromise. Throughout Asia, bamboo has for centuries been integral to religions ceremonies, art, music and daily life. With time and dedicated research, perhaps our future will be a bit brighter due to the widespread use of bamboo. We will be not surprised to see a bamboo plantation pop up in a field near us!

What can you tell me about King David's Son Solomon? Seeing Stars* First Publication: Jewish Free Press, November 20, 1997, pp. 6-7. Bibliography: J. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Garden City, 1985. N. H. Glatzer, Franz Rosenzweig, His Life and Thought, New York, 1961. G. Scholem, Kabbalah, New York, 1974. G. Sholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays, New York, 1971. J. Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition, New York, 1970. What pictorial symbol would you choose to represent Judaism? If you were living in ancient times, it would probably be an image connected with Israel's most revered religious shrine, the Jerusalem Temple. Thus, when we survey the ornamentation on coins and funeral memorials from the Second Commonwealth era, we encounter representations of the Temple gates, incense-burners or musical instruments, and an occasional lulav and etrog. It was the seven-branched candelabrum that would emerge as the most widely accepted image of Jewish faith and peoplehood. Conspicuously absent from the above list is the six-pointed star that is now referred to as the Magen David, the "shield of David." Indeed, our ubiquitous Magen David has only a dubious claim to authenticity as a Jewish symbol. It was not until well into the medieval era that anyone would have dreamed of associating it with Judaism--and the nature of that association was not necessarily a favourable or complimentary one. The earliest known incarnations of the star of David are not found in Jewish sources, but in Christian and Muslim traditions, albeit in works that borrowed freely from Hebrew prototypes. In those sources, the shield is not associated with King David, but with his son Solomon. And the star in question has five points, not six. According to a popular legend related by Josephus Flavius and in the Talmud, Solomon was able to exercise control over the demonic realms by means of a magical ring. The legends about King Solomon's ring were elaborated in extensive detail in "the Testament of Solomon," a Greek pseudepigraphic work of undetermined date. Several versions of this work contain precise descriptions of the ring, and in some of them it is described as a "pentalpha," a star composed of five interlaced A's. The pentalpha reappears in several Byzantine amulets. Stories about the "seal of Solomon" were also mentioned by Arabic writers, and through them they became known to Jews. The twelfth-century Karaite scholar Judah Hadassi was apparently the first to allude to this magical sign by its alternative name, the "shield of David," a usage that might have originated in the Qur'an's depiction of David as a fashioner of armour. For the most part, references to the shields of Solomon and David, and their use in occult practices, are found in non-Jewish sources, and they frequently reinforce the medieval stereotypes of a Jewish predilection for sorcery. This is not to say that Jews were totally removed from the practice of the magic. Like everyone else in those times, our medieval ancestors made ample use of protective amulets and mezuzahs, etc. Variations on the star shape--including the six-pointed kind--appeared with some frequency in those contexts. However there was nothing uniquely Jewish in such superstitions. The earliest known appearance of the Magen David as a specifically Jewish icon was on the official emblem of the Prague Jewish community in the seventeenth century. By then the shield's association with King David had became sufficiently established for it to serve as a symbol of national pride. In the eyes of many gentiles, it presumably confirmed their suspicions that Jews were generally involved in the dark arts. In truth however, it was the Christian adepts of alchemy and the occult who were most likely to draw upon Hebrew images, real or imagined, in order to lend their work an aura of authoritative mystery. This tendency gave rise to a widespread impression among outsiders that the Kabbalah was primarily a system of magic. Nonetheless, the popularity of the Magen David spread rapidly over the subsequent years. The Jews of Vienna adopted it in 1655 to symbolize their own community, and following their expulsion in 1755 they bore it to their new homes in other central European towns. It did not take long for it to achieve immense popularity as a motif of synagogue ornamentation. Of course in the eyes of Jews, the figure of King David has a special significance as the paradigm of national glory and the ancestor of the Messiah. In the latter part of the seventeenth century this motif was cultivated by the devotees of the mystical messiah Shabbetai Zvi, and the Shield of David would appear as a secret sign on amulets produced by the faithful, particularly after it had gone underground. Thus there is no small measure of irony in the fact that, when nineteenth-century Jews were looking for a recognizable trademark to serve as the equivalent of the cross or crescent, their choice was a symbol whose associations with Judaism owed more to anti-Jewish stereotyping than to any meaningful links with our national or religious values. However such is the vigour of symbols that, whatever their original purpose, they can be infused with profound and inspiring meaning. For Jewish nationalists, this occurred when the Zionist movement positioned it at the centre of their new national flag. In the domain of the spirit, the imagery of the six-pointed star stimulated Franz Rosenzweig to formulate a brilliant religious philosophy in which the realms of God, Humanity and the World are linked together through the religious axes of Creation, Revelation and Redemption. Notwithstanding these development, my overall feeling is that the Magen David makes a poor choice of symbol. It has no tangible roots in Jewish tradition, and even evokes some themes that are antithetical to healthy Jewish values. Let me therefore take this opportunity to issue a call to my readers to forgo the Star of David in favour of more authentic Jewish images the next time you are in the market for an item of jewelry or a wedding invitation. Perhaps the change can be accomplished if enough of us rally behind its banner--a banner that will, of course, display a menorah and not a Magen David.

Please tell me how good my Yu-Gi-Oh deck is? 4 star or lower Ghost Gardna Psychic Commander Evocator Chevalier Infernity Necromancer Reptilianne Scylla Level Eater Future Samurai Psychic Snail Max Warrior 2x Blazewing Butterfly Gemini Summoner Exiled Force Dark Valkyria 5 star and higher Turret Warrior Freed The Matchless General Phoenix Gearfried Prime Material Falcon Gigastone Omega Divine Dragon Aquabizzare Traps Battle Mania Sakuretsu Armor Kunai With Chain Dark Bribe Gemini Trap Hole Gemini Booster Half Or Nothing Justi-Break Birthright Spells Symbols Of Duty Double Summon Mystical Space Typhoon Supervise Spiritual Forest Reptilianne Poison Insect Neglect Burden Of The Mighty Swing Of Memories Fusion Deck Reptilianne Hydra D.3.S. Frog Majestic Star Dragon And yes I know that I dont currently have the pieces in my deck to summon my fusion monsters but I just wanted your opinion on them. Thank You Guys and of course Ladies.

Yugioh deck out of 10? Ok ive had one year experiance of playing and have not played for a while so i had to buy all new cards. Here is my current deck as of now. Traps: Divine wrath Crap-Iron Scarecrow Bottomless trap hole Sakuretsu armour x2 Miniaturize Trap hole Torrential Tribute Spell Binding Circle Karma Cut Spell: Big Bang Shot Sychro Boost Brain Control Noble man of crossout Lightning vortex x2 Smashing Ground Symbols of duty Monster Reincarnation Mystical Space typhoon Monsters 4stars and below: Copycat Garoth Lightsworn Warrior E-Hero Captain Gold Gladiator Beast Andal Gonogo Physic Snail x3 Magna Dragon Shield Warrior Sonic Chick Dark Blade Renge , Gatekeeper of darkworld Charcoal Impachi Armored Cybern Monsters 5stars and above: Magna Slash dragon Blue eyes white dragon Woodborg impachi Spiral Serpent Cards i am getting and need to add (please tell me which ones to change for what): BATTLE FOOTBALLER x3 SYSTEM DOWN spell LUCKY IRON AXE spell NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE GREAT MAJU GARZETT please rate it for me and tell me cards i should get and which ones i should change for the ones i have coming via mail thanks in advance luke I will probably swap the pschic snails for 1x Grand Mole 2x Battle footballers as i can stall longer with 2.1 then with 1.9 and sacrifice them anyway for higher monsters as i would with the psychic snails and with system down i will keep it in the back of miniturize incase i know im versing a machine deck. And with Maju Garzett i will probably alt him for a weaker 1 sacrifice monster

Is my deck of tournament status? I would like to play tornament however i dont know if its worth it as of now. Can you please tell me how to improve my deck and which boosters/cards to buy to fix it. Traps: Divine wrath Scrap-Iron Scarecrow Bottomless trap hole Sakuretsu armour x2 Miniaturize Trap hole Torrential Tribute Spell Binding Circle Karma Cut Spell: Big Bang Shot Sychro Boost Brain Control Noble man of crossout Lightning vortex x2 Smashing Ground Symbols of duty Monster Reincarnation Mystical Space typhoon Monsters 4stars and below: Copycat Garoth Lightsworn Warrior E-Hero Captain Gold Gladiator Beast Andal Gonogo Physic Snail x3 Magna Dragon Shield Warrior Sonic Chick Dark Blade Renge , Gatekeeper of darkworld Charcoal Impachi Armored Cybern Monsters 5stars and above: Magna Slash dragon Blue eyes white dragon Woodborg impachi Spiral Serpent Cards i am getting and need to add (please tell me which ones to change for what): BATTLE FOOTBALLER x3 SYSTEM DOWN spell LUCKY IRON AXE spell NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE GREAT MAJU GARZETT I will probably swap the pschic snails for 1x Grand Mole 2x Battle footballers as i can stall longer with 2.1 then with 1.9 and sacrifice them anyway for higher monsters as i would with the psychic snails and with system down i will keep it in the back of miniturize incase i know im versing a machine deck. And with Maju Garzett i will probably alt him for a weaker 1 sacrifice monster I can beet a good yubel deck with Poseidon etc in it and lots of other good cards (he prints all his cards so they are the best in the game). Thanks in advance luke :) Im actually not running to a theme im trying to do a beet down thing really with some defence to help me stall

help with a yugioh deck? see if i should change. take out cards or add some cards to help with other cards. i have.. spell and trap cards: 1x dust tornado 1x magic cylinder 3x magic jammer 1x chain energy 2x change of hearts 1x tornado 2x twisters 2x premature burial 3x monster reborn 1x symbol of duty 3x mystical space typhoon 1x dark magic attack monster cards: 1x ancient gear beast 1x ancient gear engineer 1x ancient gear soldier 1x ancient gear golem 2x pitch black warwolf 3x magician of faith 3x man eater bug 1x guardian angel joan 1x dark magician 1x mystic swordsman LV2 1x dark blade 1x samsara kaiser 1x great maju garzett 1x horus the black flame dragon LV6 1x gemini elf 1x gilford the lighitning 1x mask of darkness 1x dark eradicator warlock 1x skilled dark magician

How many of you can't read this? The Unthinkable Thought "Jesus said, 'It is to those who are worthy of my Mysteries that I tell my Mysteries.'" The Gospel of Thomas On the site where the Vatican now stands there once stood a Pagan temple. Here Pagan priests observed sacred ceremonies which early Christians found so disturbing that they tried to erase all evidence of them ever having been practised. What were these shocking Pagan rites? Gruesome sacrifices or obscene orgies perhaps. This is what we have been led to believe. But the truth is far stranger than this fiction. Where today the gathered faithful revere their Lord Jesus Christ, the ancients worshipped another godman who, like Jesus, had been miraculously born on 25 December before three shepherds. In this ancient sanctuary Pagan congregations once glorified a Pagan redeemer who, like lesus, was said to have ascended to heaven and to have promised to come again at the end of time to judge the quick and the dead. On the same spot where the Pope celebrates the Catholic mass, Pagan priests also celebrated a symbolic meal of bread and wine in memory of their saviour who, just like Tesus, had declared: "He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation." When we began to uncover such extraordinary similarities between the story of Jesus and Pagan myth we were stunned. We had been brought up in a culture which portrays Paganism and Christianity as entirely antagonistic religious perspectives. How could such astonishing resemblances be explained? We were intrigued and began to search further. The more we looked, the more resemblances we found. To account for the wealth of evidence we were unearthing we felt compelled to completely review our understanding of the relationship between Paganism and Christianity, to question beliefs that we previously regarded as unquestionable and to imagine possibilities which at first seemed impossible. Some readers will find our conclusions shocking and others heretical, but for us they are merely the simplest and most obvious way of accounting for the evidence we have amassed. We have become convinced that the story of Jesus is not the biography of an historical Messiah, but a myth based on perennial Pagan stories. Christianity was not a new and unique revelation but actually a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery religion. This is what we have called 'the Jesus Mysteries Thesis.' It may sound farfetched at first, just as it did initially to us. There is, after all, a great deal of unsubstantiated nonsense written about the 'real' Jesus, so any revolutionary theory should be approached with a healthy dose of scepticism. But although this book makes extraordinary claims, it is not just entertaining fantasy or sensational speculation. It is firmly based upon the available historical sources and the latest scholarly research. Whilst we hope to have made it accessible to the general reader, we have also included copious notes giving sources, references and greater detail for those who wish to analyse our arguments more thoroughly. Although still radical and challenging today, many of the ideas we explore are actually far from new. As long ago as the Renaissance, mystics and scholars saw the origins of christianity in the ancient Egyptian religion. Visionary scholars at the turn of the nineteenth century also made com-paxable conjectures to our own. In recent decades, modern academics have repeatedly pointed towards the possibilities we consider. Yet few have dared to boldly state the obvious conclusions which we have drawn. Why? Because to do so is taboo. For 2,000 years the West has been dominated by the idea that Christianity is sacred and unique, whilst Paganism is primitive and the work of the Devil. To even consider that they could be parts of the same tradition has been simply unthinkable. Therefore, although the true origins of Christianity have been obvious all along, few have been able to see them, because to do so requires a radical break with the conditioning of our culture. Our contribution has been to dare to think the unthinkable and to present our conclusions in a popular book rather than some dry academic tome. This is certainly not the last word on this complex subject, but we hope it may be a significant call for a complete reappraisal of the origins of Christianity. THE PAGAN MYSTERIES In Greek tragedies the chorus reveals the fate of the protagonists before the play begins. Sometimes it is easier to understand the journey if one is already aware of the destination and the terrain to be covered. Before diving deeper into detail, therefore, we would like to retrace our process of discovery and so provide a brief overview of the book. We had shared an obsession with world mysticism all our lives which recently had led us to explore spirituality in the ancient world. Popular understanding inevtitably lags a long way behind the cutting edge of scholarly research and, like most people, we initially had an inaccurate and out-dated view of Paganism. We had been taught to imagine a primitive superstition which indulged in idol worship and bloody sacrifice, and dry philosophers wearing togas stumbling blindly towards what we today call 'science.' We were familiar with various Greek myths which showed the partisan and capricious nature of the Olympian gods and goddesses. All in all, Paganism seemed primitive and fundamentally alien. After many years of study, however, our understanding has been transformed. Pagan spirituality was actually the sophisticated product of a highly developed culture. The state religions, such as the Greek worship of the Olympian gods, were little more than outer pomp and ceremony. The real spirituality of the people expressed itself through the vibrant and mystical 'Mystery religions.' At first underground and heretical movements, these Mysteries spread and flourished throughout the ancient Mediterranean, inspiring the greatest minds of the Pagan world, who regarded them as the very source of civilization. Each Mystery tradition had exoteric Outer Mysteries, consisting of myths which were common knowledge and rituals which were open to anyone who wanted to participate. There were also esoteric Inner Mysteries, which were a sacred secret only known to those who had undergone a powerful process of initiation. Initiates of the Inner Mysteries had the mystical meaning of the rituals and myths of the Outer Mysteries revealed to them, a process which brought about personal transformation and spiritual enlightenment. The philosophers of the ancient world were the spiritual masters of the Inner Mysteries. They were mystics and miracle-workers, more comparable to Hindu gurus than dusty academics. The great Greek philosopher Pythagoras, for example, is remembered today for his mathematical theorem, but few people picture him as he actually was a flamboyant sage who was believed to be able to miraculously still the winds and raise the dead. At the heart of the Mysteries were myths concerning a dying and resurrecting godman, who was known by many different names. In Egyp he was Osiris, in Greece Dionysus, in Asia Minor Attis, in Syria Adonis, in Italy Bacchus, in Persia Mithras. Fundamentally all these godmen are the same mythical being. As was the practice from as early as the third century BCE, in this book we will use the combined name "Osiris-Dionysus" to denote his universal and composite nature, and his particular names when referring to a specific Mystery tradition. From the fifth century BCE philosophers such as Xenophanes and Empedocles had ridiculed taking the stories of the gods and goddesses literally. They viewed them as allegories of human spiritual experience. The myths of Osiris-Dionysus should not be understood as just intriguing tales, therefore, but as a symbolic language which encodes the mystical teachings of the Inner Mysteries. Because of this, although the details were developed and adapted over time by different cultures, the myth of Osiris-Dionysus has remained essentially the same. The various myths of the different godmen of the Mysteries share what the great mythologist Joseph Campbell called 'the same anatomy', just as every human is physically unique yet it is possible to talk of the general anatomy of the human body, so with these different myths it is possible to see both their uniqueness and fundamental sameness. A helpful comparison may be the relationship between Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Bernstein's West Side Story. One is a sixteenth-century English tragedy about wealthy Italian families, whilst the other is a twentieth-century American musical about street gangs. On the face of it they look very different, yet they are essentially the same story. Similarly, the tales told about the godmen of the Pagan Mysteries are essentially the same, although they take different forms. The more we studied the various versions of the myth of Osiris-Dionysus, the more it became obvious that the story of Jesus had all the characteristics of this perennial tale. Event by event, we found we were able to construct Jesus' supposed biography from mythic motifs previousl3 relating to Osiris-Dionysus: - Osiris-Dionysus is God made flesh, the saviour and 'Son of God'. - His father is God and his mother is a mortal virgin. - He is born in a cave or humble cowshed on 25 December before three shepherds. - He offers his followers the chance to be born again through the rites ot baptism. - He miraculously turns water into wine at a marriage ceremony. - He rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people wave palm leaves to honour him. - He dies at Eastertime as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. - After his death he descends to hell, then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory. - His followers await his return as the judge during the Last Days. - His death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal of bread and wine which symbolize his body and blood. These are just some of the motifs shared between the tales of Osiris-Dionysus and the 'biography' of Jesus. Why are these remarkable similarities not common knowledge? Because, as we were to discover later, the early Roman Church did everything in its power to prevent us perceiving them. It systematically destroyed Pagan sacred literature in a brutal programme of eradicating the Mysteries -- a task it performed so completely that today Paganism is regarded as a 'dead' religion. Although surprising to us now, to writers of the first few centuries CE these similarities between the new Christian religion and the ancient Mysteries were extremely obvious. Pagan critics of Christianity, such as the satirist Celsus, complained that this recent religion was nothing more than a pale reflection of their own ancient teachings. Early 'Church fathers,' such as Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Irenaeus, were understandably disturbed and resorted to the desperate claim that these similarities were the result of 'diabolical mimicry.' Using one of the most absurd arguments ever advanced, they accused the Devil of 'plagiarism by anticipation,' of deviously copying the true story of Jesus before it had actually happened in an attempt to mislead the gullible! These Church fathers struck us as no less devious than the Devil they hoped to incriminate. Other Christian commentators have claimed that the myths of the Mysteries were like pre-echoes of the literal coming of Jesus, somewhat like premonitions or prophecies. This is a more generous version of the'diabolical mimicry' theory, but seemed no less ridiculous to us. There was nothing other than cultural prejudice to make us see the Jesus story as the literal culmination of its many mythical precursors. Viewed impartially, it appeared to be just another version of the same basic story. The obvious explanation is that as early Christianity became the dominant power in the previously Pagan world, popular motifs from Pagan mythology became grafted onto the biography of Jesus. This is a possibility that is even put forward by many Christian theologians. The virgin birth, for example, is often regarded as an extraneous later addition that should not be understood literally. Such motifs were 'borrowed' from Paganism in the same way that Pagan festivals were adopted as Christian saints' days. This theory is common amongst those who go looking for the 'real' Jesus hidden under the weight of accumulated mythological debris. Attractive as it appears at first, to us this explanarion seemed inadequate.We had collated such a comprehensive body of similarities that there remained hardly any significant elements in the biography of Jesus that we did not find prefigured by the Mysteries. On top of this, we discovered that even Jesus' teachings were not original, but had been anticipated by the Pagan sages! If there was a 'real' Jesus somewhere underneath all this, we would have to acknowledge that we could know absolutely nothing about him, for all that remained for us was later Pagan accretions! Such a position seemed absurd. Surely there was a more elegant solution to this conundrum. THE GNOSTICS Whilst we were puzzling over these discoveries, we began to question the received picture of the early Church and have a look at the evidence for ourselves. We discovered that far from being the united congregation of saints and martyrs that traditiona! history would have us believe, the early Christian community was actually made up of a whole spectrum of different groups. These can be broadly categorized into two different schools. On the one hand there were those we will call 'Literalists', because what defines them is that they take the Jesus story as a literal account of historical events. It was this school of Christianity that was adopted by the Roman Empire in the fourth century CE, becoming Roman Catholicism and all its subsequent offshoots. On the other hand, however, there were also radically diffejent Christians known as 'Gnostics.' These forgotten Christians were later persecuted out of existence by the Literalist Roman Church with such thoroughness that until recently we knew little about them except through the writings of their detractors. Only a handful of original Gnostic texts survived, none of which were published before the nineteenth century. This situation changed dramatically, however, with a remarkable discovery in 1945 when an Arab peasant stumbled upon a whole library of Gnostic gospels hidden in a cave near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. This gave scholars access to many texts which were in wide circulation amongst early Christians, but which were deliberately excluded from the canon of the New Testament -- gospels attributed to Thomas and Philip, texts recording the acts of Peter and the 12 disciples, apocalypses attributed to Paul and James, and so on. It seemed to us extraordinary that a whole library of early Christian documents could be discovered, containing what purport to be the teachings of Christ and his disciples, and yet so few modem followers of Jesus should even know of their existence. Why hasn't every Christian rushed out to read these newly discovered words of the Master? What keeps them confined to the small number of gospels selected for inclusion in the New Testament? It seems that even though 2,000 years have passed since the Gnostics were purged, during which time the Roman Church has split into Protestantism and thousands of other alternative groups, the Gnostics are still not regarded as a legitimate voice of Christianity. Those who do explore the Gnostic gospels discover a form of Christianity quite alien to the religion with which they are familiar. We found ourselves studying strange esoteric tracts with titles such as Hypostasis of the Archons and The Thought of Norea. It felt as if we were in an episode of Star Trek -- and in a way we were. The Gnostics truly were 'psychonauts' who boldly explored the final frontiers of inner space, searching for the origins and meaning of life. These people were mystics and creative free-thinkers. It was obvious to us why they were so hated by the bishops of the Literalist Church hierarchy. To Literalists, the Gnostics were dangerous heretics. In volumes of anti-Gnostic works -- an unintentional testimony to the power and influence of Gnosticism within early Christianity -- they painted them as Christians who had 'gone native.' They claimed they had become contaminated by the Paganism that surrounded them and had abandoned the purity of the true faith. The Gnostics, on the other hand, saw themselves as the authentic Christian tradition and the orthodox bishops as an 'imitation church.' They claimed to know the secret Inner Mysteries of Christianity which the Literslists did not possess. As we explored the beliefs and practices of the Gnostics we became convinced that the Literalists had at least been right about one thing: the Gnostics were little different from Pagans. Like the philosophers of the Pagan Mysteries, they believed in reincarnation, honoured the goddess Sophia, and were immersed in the mystical Greek philosophy of Plato. 'Gnostics' means 'Knowers', a name they acquired because, like the initiates of the Pagan Mysteries, they believed that their secret teachings had the power to impart 'Gnosis' -- direct experiential 'Knowledge of God.' Just as the goal of a Pagan initiate was to become a god, so for the Gnostics the goal of the Christian initiate was to become a Christ. What particularly struck us was that the Gnostics were not concerned with the historical Jesus. They viewed the Jesus story in the same way that the Pagan philosophers viewed the myths of Osiris-Dionysus -- as an allegory which encoded secret mystical teachings. This insight crystallized for us a remarkable possibility. Perhaps the explanation for the similarities between Pagan myths and the biography of Jesus had been staring us in the face the whole time, but we had been so caught up with traditional ways of thinking that we had been unable to see it. THE JESUS MYSTERIES THESIS The traditional version of history bequeathed to us by the authorities of the Roman Church is that Christianity developed from the teachings of a Jewish Messiah and that Gnosticism was a later deviation. What would happen, we wondered if the picture were reversed and Gnosticism viewed as the authentic Christianity, just as the Gnostics themselves claimed? Could it be that orthodox Christianity was a later deviation from Gnosticism and that Gnosticism was a synthesis of Judaism and the Pagan Mystery religion? This was the beginning of the Jesus Mysteries Thesis. Boldly stated, the picture that emerged for us was as follows. We knew that most ancient Mediterranean cultures had adopted the ancient Mysteries, adapting them to their own national tastes and creating their own version of the myth of the dying and resurrecting godman. Perhaps some of the Jews had likewise adopted the Pagan Mysteries and created their own version of the Mysteries which we now know as Gnosticism. Perhaps initiates of the Jewish Mysteries had adapted the potent symbolism of the Osiris-Dionysus myths into a myth of their own, the hero of which was the Jewish dying and ~surreeting godman Jesus. If this was so, then the Jesus story was not a biography at all but a consciously crafted vehicle for encoded spiritual teachings created by Jewish Gnostics. As in the Pagan Mysteries, initiation into the Inner Mysteries would reveal the myth's allegorical meaning. Perhaps those uninitiated into the Inner Mysteries had mistakenly come to regard the Jesus myth as historical fact and in this way Literalist Christianity had been created. Perhaps the Inner Mysteries of Christianity, which the Gnostics taught but which the Literalists denied existed, revealed that the Jesus story was not a factual account of God's one and only visit to planet Earth, but a mystical teaching story designed to help each one of us become a Christ. The Jesus story does have all the hallmarks of a myth, so could it be that that is exactly what it is? After all, no one has read the newly discovered Gnostic gospels and taken their fantastic stories as literally true; they are readily seen as myths. It is only familiarity and cultural prejudice which prevent us from seeing tlae New Testament gospels in the same light. If those gospels had also been lost to us and only recently discovered, who would read these tales for the first time and believe they were historical accounts of a man born of a virgin, who had walked on water and returned from the dead? Why should we consider the stories of Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Attis, Mithras and the other Pagan Mystery saviours as fables, yet come across essentially the same story told in a Jewish context and believe it to be the biography of a carpenter from Bethlehem? We had both been raised as Christians and were surprised to find that, despite years of open-minded spiritual exploration, it still felt somehow dangerous to even dare think such thoughts. Early indoctrination reaches very deep. We were in effect saying that Jesus was a Pagan god and that Christianity was a heretical product of Paganism! It seemed outrageous. Yet this theory explained the similarities between the stories of Osiris-Dionysus and Jesus Christ in a simple and elegant way. They are parts of one developing mythos. The Jesus Mysteries Thesis answered many puzzling questions, yet it also opened up new dilemmas. Isn't there indisputable historical evidence for the existence of Jesus the man? And how could Gnosticism be the original Christianity when St Paul, the earliest Christian we know about, is so vociferously anti-Gnostic? And is it really credible that such an insular and anti-Pagan people as the Jews could have adopted the Pagan Mysteries? And how could it have happened that a consciously created myth came to be believed as history? And if Gnosticism represents genuine Christianity, why was it Literalist Christianity that came to dominate the world as the most influential religion of all time? All of these difficult questions would have to be satisfactorily answered before we could wholeheartedly accept such a radical theory as the Jesus Mysteries Thesis. THE GREAT COVER UP Our new account of the origins of Christianity only seemed improbable because it contradicted the received view. As we pushed further with our research, the traditional picture began to completely unravel all around us. We found ourselves embroiled in a world of schism and power straggles, of forged documents and false identities, of letters that had been edited and added to, and of the wholesale destruction of historical evidence. We focused forensically on the few facts we could be confident of, as if we were detectives on the verge of cracking a sensational 'whodunnit', or perhaps more accurately as if we were uncovering an ancient and unacknowledged miscarriage of justice. For, time and again, when we critically examined what genuine evidence remained, we found that the history of Christianity bqueathed to us by the Roman Church was a gross distortion of the truth. Actually the evidence completely endorsed the Jesus Mysteries Thesis! It was becoming increasingly obvious that we had been deliberately deceived, that the Gnostics were indeed the original Christians, and that their anarchic mysticism had been hijacked by an authoritarian institution which had created from it a dogmatic religion - and then brutally enforced the greatest cover-up in history. One of the major players in this cover-up operation was a character called Eusebius, who, at the beginning of the fourth century, compiled from legends, fabrications and his own imagination the only early history of Christianity that still exists today. All subsequent histories have been forced to base themselves on Eusebins' dubious claims, because there has been little other information to draw on. All those with a different perspective on Christianity were branded as heretics and eradicated. In this way falsehoods compiled in the fourth century have come down to us as established facts. Eusebius was employed by the Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of the Empire and gave Literalist Christianity the power it needed to begin the final eradication of Paganism and Gnosticism. Constantine wanted 'one God, one religion' to consolidate his claim of 'one Empire, one Emperor.' He oversaw the creation of the Nicene creed -- the article of faith repeated in churches to this day -- and christians who refused to assent to this creed were banished from the Empire or otherwise silenced. This 'Christian' Emperor then returned home from Nicaea and had his wife suffocated and his son murdered. He deliberately remained unbaptized until his deathbed so that he could continue his atrocities and still receive forgiveness of sins and a guaranteed place in heaven by being baptized at the last moment. Although he had his 'spin doctor' Eusebius compose a suitably obsequious biography for him, he was actually a monster -- just like many Roman Emperors before him. Is it really at all surprising that a 'history' of the origins of Christianity created by an employee in the service of a Roman tyrant should turn out to be a pack of lies? Elaine PageIs, one of the foremost academic authorities on early Christianity, writes: "It is the winners who write history -- their way. No wonder, then, that the traditional accounts of the origins of Christianity first defined the terms (naming themselves "orthodox" and their opponents "heretics"); then they proceeded to demonstrate -- at least to their own satisfaction -- that their triumph was historically inevitable, or, in religious terms, "guided by the Holy Spirit." But the discoveries [of the Gnostic gospels] at Nag Hammadi reopen fundamental questions." History is indeed written by the victors. The creation of an appropriate history has always been part of the arsenal of political manipulation. The Roman Church created a history of the triumph of Literalist Christianity in much the same partisan way that, two millennia later, Hollywood created tales of 'cowboys and Indians' to relate 'how the West was won' not 'how the West was lost.' History is not simply related, it is created. Ideally, the motivation is to explain historical evidence and come to an accurate understanding of how the present has been created by the past. All too often, however, it is simply to glorify and justify the status quo. Such histories conceal as much as they reveal. To dare to question a received history is not easy. It is difficult to believe that something which you have been told is true from childhood could actually be a product of falsification and fantasy. It must have been hard for those Russians brought up on tales of kindly 'Uncle Joe' Stalin to accept that he was actually responsible for the deaths of millions. It must have strained credibility when those opposing his regime claimed that he had in fact murdered many of the heroes of the Russian revolution. It must have seemed ridiculous when they asserted that he had even had the images of his rivals removed from photographs and completely fabricated historical events. Yet all these things are true. It is easy to believe that something must be true because everyone else believes it. But the truth often only comes to light by daring to question the unquestionable, by doubting notions which are so commonly believed that they are taken for granted. The Jesus Mysteries Thesis is the product of such an openness of mind. When it first occurred to us, it seemed absurd and impossible. Now it seems obvious and ordinary. The Vatican was constructed upon the site of an ancient Pagan sanctuary because the new is always built upon the old. In the same way Christianity itself has as its foundations the Pagan spirituality that preceded it. What is more plausible than to posit the gradual evolution of spiritual ideas, with Christianity emerging from the ancient Pagan Mysteries in a seamless historical continuum? It is only because the conventional history has been so widely believed for so long that this idea could be seen as heretical and shocking. RECOVERING MYSTICAL CHRISTIANITY As the final pieces of the puzzle were falling into place, we came across a small picture tucked away in the appendices of an old academic book. It was a drawing of a third-century CE amulet. We have used it as the cover of this book. It shows a crucified figure which most people would immediately recognize as Jesus. Yet the Greek words name the figure 'Orpheus Bacchus,' one of the pseudonyms of Osiris-Dionysus. To the author of the book in which we found the picture, this amulet was an anomaly. Who could it have possibly belonged to? Was it a crucified Pagan deity or some sort of Gnostic synthesis of Paganism and Christianity? Either way it was deeply puzzling. For us, however, this amulet was perfectly understandable. It was an unexpected confirmation of the Jesus Mysteries Thesis. The image could be that of either Jesus or Osiris-Dionysus. To the initiated, these were both names for essentially the same figure. The 'chance' discovery of this amulet made us feel as though the universe itself was encouraging us to make our findings public. In different ways the Jesus Mysteries Thesis has been proposed by mystics and scholars for centuries, but has always ended up being ignored. It now felt like an idea whose moment had come. We did, however, have misgivings about writing this book. We knew that it would inevitably upset certain Christians, something which we had no desire to do. Certainly it has been hard to be constantly surrounded by lies and injustices without experiencing a certain amount of outrage at the negative misrepresentation of the Gnostics, and to have become aware of the great riches of Pagan culture without feeling grief that they were so wantonly destroyed. Yet we do not have some sort of anti-Christian agenda. Far from it. Those who have read our other works will know that our interest is not in further division, but in acknowledging the unity that lies at the heart of all spiritual traditions -- and this present book is no exception. Early Literalist Christians mistakenly believed that the Jesus story was different from other stories of Osiris-Dionysus because Jesus alone had been an historical rather than a mythical figure. This has left Christians feeling that their faith is in opposition to all others -- which it is not. We hope that by understanding its true origins in the ongoing evolution of a universal human spirituality, Christianity may be able to free itself from this self-imposed isolation. Whilst the Jesus Mysteries Thesis clearly rewrites history, we do not see it as undermining the Christian faith, but as suggesting that Christianity is in fact richer than we previously imagined. The Jesus story is a perennial myth with the power to impart the saving Gnosis which can transform each one of us into a Christ, not merely a history of events that happened to someone else 2,000 years ago. Belief in the Jesus story was originally the first step in Christian spirituality -- the Outer Mysteries. Its significance was to be explained by an enlightened teacher when the seeker was spiritually ripe. These Inner Mysteries imparted a mystical Knowledge of God beyond mere belief in dogmas. Although many inspired Christian mystics throughout history have intuitively seen through to this deeper symbolic level of understanding, as a culture we have inherited only the Outer Mysteries of Christianity. We have kept the form, but lost the inner meaning. Our hope is that this book can play some small part in reclaiming the true mystical Christian inheritance. The Pagan Mysteries "Blest is the happy man Who knows the Mysteries the gods ordain, And sanctifies his life, Joins soul with soul in mystic unity, And, by due ritual made pure Enters the ecstasy of mountain solitudes; Who observes the mystic rites Made lawful by the Great Mother; Who crowns his head with ivy, And shakes his wand in worship ot Dionysus." Euripides Paganism is a 'dead' religion -- or more accurately an 'exterminated' religion· It did not simply fade away into oblivion. It was actively suppressed and annihilated, its temples and shrines desecrated and demolished, and its great sacred books thrown onto bonfires. No living lineage has been left to explain its ancient beliefs. So, the Pagan worldview has to be reconstructed from the archaeological evidence and texts that have survived, like some giant metaphysical jigsaw puzzle. 'Pagan' was originally a derogatory term meaning 'country-dweller,' used by Christians to infer that the spirituality of the ancients was some primitive rural superstition. But this is not true. Paganism was the spirituality which inspired the unequalled magnificence of the Giza pyramids, the exquisite architecture of the Parthenon, the legendary sculptures of Phideas, the powerful plays of Euripides and Sophocles, and the sublime philosophy of Socrates and Plato. Pagan civilization built vast libraries to house hundreds of thousands of works of literary and scientific genius. Its natural philosophers speculated that human beings had evolved from animals. Its astronomers knew the Earth was a sphere which, along with the planets, revolves around the sun. They had even estimated its circumference to within one degree of accuracy? The ancient Pagan world sustained a population not matched again in Europe until the eighteenth century. In Greece, Pagan culture gave birth to the concepts of democracy, rational philosophy, public libraries, theatre and the Olympic Games, creating a blueprint for our modern world. What was the spirituality that inspired these momentous cultural achievements? Most people associate Paganism with either rustic witchcraft or the myths of the gods of Olympus as recorded by Hesiod and Homer. Pagan spirituality did indeed embrace both. The country people practised their traditional shamanic nature worship to maintain the fertility of the land and the city authorities propped up formal state religions, such as the worship of the Olympian gods, to maintain the power of the status quo. It was, however, a third, more mystical, expression of the Pagan spirit which inspired the great minds of the ancient world. The thinkers, artists and innovators of antiquity were initiates of various religions known as 'Mysteries.' These remarkable men and women held the Mysteries to be the heart and soul of their culture. The Greek historian Zosimos writes that without the Mysteries "life for the Greeks would be unlivable" for "the sacred Mysteries hold the whole human race together." The eminent Roman statesman Cicero enthuses: "These Mysteries have brought us from rustic savagery to a cultivated and refined civilisation. The rites of the Mysteries are called "initiations" and in truth we have learned trom them the first principles of life. We have gained the understanding not only to live happily but also to die with better hope." Unlike the traditional rituals of the official state religions, which were designed to aid social cohesion, the mysteries were an individualistic form of.spirituality which offered mystical visions and personal enlightenment. Initiates underwent a secret process of initiation which profoundly trans-r formed their state of consciousness. The poet Pindar reveals that an initiate into the Mysteries "knows the end of life and its God-given beginning." Lucius Apuleius, a poet-philosopher, writes of his experience of initiation as a spiritual rebirth which he celebrated as his birthday, an experience for which he felt a "debt of gratitude" that he "could never hope to repay." Plato, the most influential philosopher of all time, relates: "We beheld the beatific visions and were initiated into the Mystery which may be truly called blessed, celebrated by us in a state of innocence. We beheld calm, happy, simple, eternal visions, resplendent in pure light." The great Pagan philosophers were the enlightened masters of the Mysteries. Although they are often portrayed today as dry 'academic' intellectuals, they were actually enigmatic 'gurus.' Empedocles, like his master Pythagoras, was a charismatic miracle-worker. Socrates was an eccentric mystic prone to being suddenly overcome by states of rapture during which his friends would discover him staring off into space for hours. Heraclitus was asked by the citizens of Ephesus to become a lawmaker, but turned the offer down so that he could continue playing with the children in the temple. Anaxagoras shocked ordinary citizens by completely abandoning his farm to fully devote his life to "the higher philosophy." Diogenes owned nothing and lived in a jar at the entrance of a temple. The inspired playwright Euripides wrote his greatest tragedies during solitary retreats in an isolated cave. All of these idiosyncratic sages were steeped in the mysticism of the Mysteries, which they expressed in their philosophy. Olympiodorus, a follower of Plato, tells us that his master paraphrased the Mysteries everywhere. The works of Heraclitus were renowned even in ancient times for being obscure and impenetrable, yet Diogenes explains that they are crystal clear to an initiate of the Mysteries. Of studying Heraclitus he writes: "It is a hard road to follow, filled with darkness and gloom; but if an initiate leads you on the way, it becomes brighter than the radiance of the sun." At the heart of Pagan philosophy is an understanding that all things are One. The Mysteries aimed at awakening within the initiate a sublime experience of this Oneness. Sallustius declares: "Every initiation aims at uniting us with the World and with the Deity." Plotinus describes the initiate transcending his limited sense of himself as a separate ego and experiencing mystical union with God: "As if borne away, or possessed by a god, he attains to solitude in untroubled stillness, nowhere deflected in his being and unbusied with self, utterly at rest and become very rest. He does not converse with a statue or image but with Godhead itself. And this is no object of vision, but another mode of seeing, a detachment from self, a simplification and surrender of self, a yearning for contact, and a stillness and meditation directed towards transformation. Whoever sees himself in this way has attained likeness to God; let him abandon himself and find the end of his journeying ." No wonder the initiate Sopatros poertcally mused, "I came out of the Mystery Hall feeling like a stranger to myself." THE SACRED SPECTACLE AT ELEUSIS What were these ancient Mysteries that could inspire such reverent awe and heartfelt appreciation? The Mystery religion was practised for thousands of years, during which time it spread throughout the ancient worid, taking on many different forms. Some were frenzied and others meditative. Some involved bloody animal sacrifice, while others were presided over by strict vegetarians, At certain moments in history the Mysteries were openly practised by whole populations and were endorsed, or at least tolerated, by the state. At other times they were a small-scale and secretive affair, for fear of persecution by unsympathetic authorities. Central toall of these forms qf the Mysteries, however, was the myth of a dying and resurrecting godman. The Greek Mysteries celebrated at Eleusis in honour of the Great Mother goddess and the godman Dionysus were the most famous of all the Mystery cults. The sanctuary of Eleusis was finally destroyed by bands of fanatical Christian monks in 396 CE, but up until this tragic act of vandalism the Mysteries had been celebrated there for over 11 centuries. At the height of their popularity people were coming from all over the then known world to be initiated: men and women, rich and poor, slaves and emperors -- even a Brahmin priest from India. Each year some 30,000 Athenian citizens embarked on a 30-kilometre barefoot pilgrimage to the sacred site of Eleusis on the coast to celebrate the autumn Mysteries of Dionysus. For days they would have been preparing for this important religious event by fasting, offering sacrifices and undergoing ritual purification. As those about to be initiated danced along the 'Sacred Way' to Eleusis, accompanied by the frenzied beat of cymbals and tambourines, they were accosted by masked men who abused and insulted them, while others beat them with sticks. At the head of the procession was carried the statue of Dionysus himself, leading them ever onward. After ritual naked bathing in the sea and other purification ceremonies the crowd reached the great doors of the Telesterion, a huge purpose-built initiation hall. Only the chosen few who were already initiated or about to be initiated into the secret Mysteries could enter here. What awesome ceremony was held behind these closed doors that touched the great philosophers, artists, statesmen and scientists of the ancient world so deeply? All initiates were sworn to secrecy and held the Mysteries so sacred that they kept this oath. From large numbers of hints and clues, however, we know that they witnessed a sublime theatrical spectacle. They were awed by sounds and dazzled by lights. They were bathed in the blaze of a huge fire and trembled to the nerve-shattering reverberations of a mighty gong. The Hierophant, the high priest of the Mysteries, was quite literally a 'showman' who orchestrated a terrifyingly transformative dramatic reenactment of sacred myth. He himself was dressed as the central character - the godman Dionysus. A modern scholar writes: "A Mystery Religion was thus a divine drama which portrayed before the wondering eyes of the privileged observers the story of the struggles, sufferings, and victory of a patron deity, the travail of nature in which life ultimately triumphs over death, and joy is born of pain. The whole ritual of the Mysteries aimed especially at quickening the emotional life. No means of exciting the emotions was neglected in the passion-play, either by way of inducing careful predispositions or of supplying external stimulus. Tense mental anticipations heightened by a period of abstinence, hushed silences, imposing processions and elaborate pageantry, music loud and violent or soft and enthralling, delirious dances, the drinking of spirituous liquors, physical macerations, alternations of dense darkness and dazzling light, the sight of gorgeous ceremonial vestments, the handling of holy emblems, auto-suggestion and the promptings of the Hierophant -- these and many secrets of emotional exaltation were in vogue." This dramatization of the myth of Dionysus is the origin of tragedy and theatre. But the initiates were not a passive audience. They were participants who shared in the passion of the godman whose death and rebirth symbolically represented the death and spiritual rebirth of each one of them. As a modern authority explains: "Dionysus was the god of the most blessed ecstasy and the most enraptured love. But he was also the persecuted god, the suffering and dying god, and all whom he loved, all who attended him, had to share his tragic fate." By witnessing the awesome tragedy of Dionysus, the initiates at Eleusis shared in his suffering, death and resurrection, and so experienced a spiritual purification known as 'catharsis.' The Mysteries did not offer religious dogmas to simply be believed, but a myth to be entered into. Initiation was not about learning something, but about experiencing an altered state of awareness. Plutarch, a Pagan high priest, confesses that those who had been initiated could produce no proof of the beliefs that they acquired. Aristotle maintains, "It is not necessary for the initiated to learn anything, but to receive impressions and to be put in a certain frame of mind." The philosopher Produs talks of the Mysteries as evoking a "sympathy of the soul with the ritual in a way that is unintelligible to us and divine, so that some of the initiates axe stricken with panic, being filled with divine awe; others assimilate themselves to the holy symbols, leave their own identity, become at home with the gods, affd experience divine possession." Why did the myth enacted by the Mysteries have such a profound effect? ENCODED SECRET TEACHINGS In antiquity the word mythos did not mean something 'untrue't as it does ( for us today. Superficially a myth was an entertaining story, but to the initiated it was a sacred code that contained profound spiritual teachings. Plato comments, "It looks as if those also who established rites of initiation for us were no fools, but that there is a hidden meaning in their teachings." He explains that it is "those who have given their lives to true philosophy" who will grasp the "hidden meaning" encoded in the Mystery myths, and so become completely identified with the godman in an experience of mystical enlightenment. The ancient philosophers were not so foolish as to believe that the Mystery myths were literally true, but wise enough to recognize that they were an easy introduction to the profound mystical philosophy at the heart of the Mysteries. Sallustius writes: "To wish to teach all men the truth of the gods causes the foolish to despise, because they cannot learn, and the good to be slothful, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the former from despising philosophy and compels the latter to study it." It was the role of the priests and philosophers of the Mysteries to decode the hidden depths of spiritual meaning contained within the Mystery myths. Heliodorus, a priest of the Mysteries, explains: "Philosophers and theologians do not disclose the meanings embedded in these stories to laymen but simply give them preliminary instruction in the form of a myth. But those who have reached the higher grades of the Mysteries they initiate into clear knowledge in the privacy of the holy shrine, in the light cast by the blazing torch of truth." The Mysteries were divided into various levels of initiation, which led an initiate step by step through ever deepening levels of understanding. The number of levels of initiation varied in different Mystery traditions, but essentially the initiate was led from the Outer Mysteries, in which the myths were understood superficially as religious stories, to the Inner Mysteries, in which the myths were revealed as spiritual allegories. First the initiate was ritually purified. Then they were taught the secret teachings on a one-to-one basis. The highest stage was when the initiate understood the true meaning of the teachings and finally experienced what Theon of Smyrna calls "friendship and interior communion with God." THE INTERNATIONAL MYSTERIES The Mysteries dominated the Pagan world. No other deity is represented on the monuments of ancient Greece and Italy as much as Dionysus, godman of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He is a deity with many names: Iacchos, Bassareus, Bromios, Euios, Sabazius, Zagreus, Yhyoneus, Lenaios, Eleuthereus, and so the list goes on. But these are just some of his Greek names! The godman is an omnipresent mythic figure throughout the ancient Mediterranean, known in different ways by many cultures. Five centuries before the birth of Christ, the Greek historian Herodotus, known as 'the father of history', discovered this when he travelled to Egypt. On the shores of a sacred lake in the Nile delta he witnessed an enormous festival, held every year, in which the Egyptians performed a dramatic spectacle before "tens of thousands of men and women," representing the death and resurrection of Osiris. Herodotus was an initiate into the Greek Mysteries and recognized that what he calls "the Passion of Osiris" was the very same drama that initiates saw enacted before them at Eleusis as the Passion of Dionysus. The Egyptian myth of Osiris is the primal myth of the Mystery godman and reaches back to prehistory. His story is so ancient that it can be found in pyramid texts written over 4,500 years ago! In travelling to Egypt Herodotus was following in the footsteps of another great Greek. Before 670 BCE Egypt had been a closed country, in the manner of Tibet, or Japan more recently, but in this year she opened her borders and one of the first Greeks who travelled there in search of ancient wisdom was Pythagoras. History remembers Pythagoras as the first 'scientist' of the Western world, but although it is true that he brought back many mathmatical theories to Greece from Egypt, to his contemporaries he would have seemed anything but 'scientific' in the modern sense. A wandering charismatic sage dressed in white robes and crowned with a gold coronet, Pythagoras was part scientist, part priest and part magician. He spent 22 years in the temples of Egypt, becoming an initiate of the ancient Egyptian Mysteries. On returning to Greece he began to preach the wisdom he had learned, performing miracles, raising the dead and giving oracles. Inspired by Pythagoras, his disciples created a Greek Mystery religion modelled on the Egyptian Mysteries. They took the indigenous wine god Dionysus, who was a minor deity all but ignored by Hesiod and Homer, and transformed him into a Greek version of the mighty Egyptian Osiris, godman of the Mysteries. This initiated a religious and cultural revolution that was to transform Athens into the centre of the civilized world. The followers of Pythagoras were models of virtue and learning, regarded as puritans by their neighbours. Strict vegetarians, they preached non-violence towards all living things and shunned the temple cults that practised the sacrifice of animals. This made it impossible for them to participate in the traditional Olympian religion of Athens. Forced to live on the fringes of acceptability, they often organized themselves into communities that shared all possessions in common, leaving them free to devote themselves to their mystical studies of mathematics, music, astronomy and philosophy. Nevertheless, the Mystery religion spread quickly amongst the ordinary people and within a few generations the Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris, now the Mysteries of Dionysus, inspired the glory of Classical Athens. In the same way that Osiris was synthesized by the Greeks with their indigenous god Dionysus to create the Greek Mysteries, other Mediterranean cultures which adopted the Mystery religion also transformed one of their indigenous deities into the dying and resurrecting Mystery godman. So, the deity who was known as Osiris in Egypt and became Dionysus in Greece was called Attis in Asia Minor, Adonis in Syria, Bacchus in Italy, Mithras in Persia, and so on. His forms were many, but essentially he was the same perennial figure, whose collective identity was referred to as Osiris-Dionysus. Because the ancients recognized that all the various Mystery godmen were essentially the same mythic being, elements from different myths and rites were continually combined and recombined to create new forms of the Mysteries. In Alexandria, for example, a charismatic sage called Timotheus consciously fused Osiris and Dionysus to produce a new deity for the city callled Serapis. He also gave an elaborate account of the myth of the Mystery godman Attis. Lucius Apuleius received his initiation into theMysteries from a high priest named after the Persian godman Mithras. Coins were minted with Dionysus represented on one side and Mithras on the other? One modern authority tells us that "possessed by the knowledge of his own secret rites," the initiate of the Mysteries "found no difficulty in conforming to any religion in vogue." Like the Christian religion which superseded it, the Mysteries reached across national boundaries, offering a spirituality which was relevant to all human beings, regardless of their racial origins or social status. Even as early as the fifth century CE philosophers such as Diogenes and Socrates called themselves "cosmopolitans' -- "citizens of the cosmos" -- rather than of any particular country or culture, which is testimony to the international nature of the Mysteries. One modern scholar, commenting on the merging and combining of different mystery traditions, writes: "This went a long way towards weaning the minds of men from the idea of separate gods from the different nations, and towards teaching them that all national and local deities were but different forms of one great Power. But for the rise of Christianity and other religions, there can be little doubt but that the whole of the Graeco-Roman deities would continually have merged into Dionysus." OSIRIS-DIONYSUS AND JESUS CHRIST Osiris-Dionysus had such universal appeal because he was seen as an 'Everyman' figure who symbolically represented each initiate. Through understanding the allegorical myth of the Mystery godman, initiates could become aware that, like Osiris-Dionysus, they were also 'God made flesh.' They too were immortal Spirit trapped within a physical body. Through sharing in the death of Osiris-Dionysus initiates symbolically 'died' to their lower earthly nature. Through sharing in his resurrection they were spiritually reborn and experienced their eternal and divine essence. This was the profound mystical teaching that the myth of Osiris-Dionysus encoded for those initiated into the Inner Mysteries, the truth of which initiates directly experienced for themselves. Writing of the Egyptian Mystery godman Osiris, Sir Wallis Budge, who was keeper of antiquities in the British Museum, explains: "The Egyptians of every period in which they are known to us believed that Osiris was of divine origin, that he suffered death and mutilation at the hands of the power of evil, that after great struggle with these powers he rose again, that he became henceforth the king of the underworld and judge of the dead, and that because he had conquered death the righteous might also conquer death. "He represented to men the idea of a man who was both God and man, and he typified to the Egyptians in all ages the being who by reason of his sufferings and death as a man could sympathise with them in their own sickness and death. The idea of his human personality also satisfied their cravings and yearnings for communion with a being who, though he was partly divine, yet had much in common with themselves. Originally they looked upon Osiris as a man who lived on the earth as they lived, who ate and drank, who suffered a cruel death, who by help of certain gods triumphed over death, and attained unto everlasting life. But what Osiris did they could also do." These are the key motifs that characterize the myths of all the Mystery godmen. What Budge writes of Osiris could equally be said of Dionysus, Attis, Adonis, Mithras and the rest. It also describes the Jewish dying and resurrecting godman Jesus Christ. Like Osiris-Dionysus, he is also God Incarnate and God of the Resurrection. He also promises his followers spiritual rebirth through sharing in his divine Passion. CONCLUSION The Mysteries were clearly an extremely powerful force in the ancient world. Let's review what we've discovered about them: - The Pagan Mysteries inspired the greatest minds of the ancient world. - They were practised in different forms by nearly every culture in the Mediterranean. - They comprised Outer Mysteries which were open to all and secret Inner Mysteries known only to those who had undergone a powerful process of mystical initiation. - At the heart of the Mysteries was the myth of a dying and resurrecting godman - Osiris-Dionysus. - The Inner Mysteries revealed the myths of Osiris-Dionysus to be spiritual allegories encoding spiritual teachings. The question which intrigued us was whether the Mysteries could have somehow influenced and shaped what we have inherited as the "biography" of Jesus? Unlike the various Pagan Mystery godmen, Jesus is traditionally viewed as an historical rather than a mythical figure, literally a man who was an incarnation of God, who suffered, died and resurrected to bring salvation to all humankind. But could these elements of the Jesus story actually be mythical stories inherited from the Pagan Mysteries? We began investigating the myths of Osiris-Dionysus more closely, searching for resemblances with the Jesus story. We were not prepared for the overwhelming number of similarities that we uncovered. Diabolical Mimicry "Having heard it proclaimed through the prophets that the Christ was to come and that the ungodly among men were to be punished by fire, the wicked spirits put forward many to be called Sons of God, under the impression that they would be able to produce in men the idea that the things that were said with regard to Christ were merely marvellous tales, like the things that were said by the poets." Justin Martyr Although the remarkable similarities between the myths of Osiris-Dionysus agd the supposed "biography" of Jesus Christ are generally unknown today, in the first few centuries CE they were obvious to Pagans and Christians alike. The Pagan philosopher and satirist Celsus criticized Christians for tryingto pass off the Jesus story as a new revelation when it was actually an inferior imitation of Pagan myths. He asks: "Are these distinctive happenings unique to the Christians -- and if so, how are they unique? Or are ours to be accounted myths and theirs believed? What reasons do the Christians give for the distinctiveness of their beliefs? In truth there is nothing at all unusual about what the Christians believe, except that they believe it to the exclusion of more comprehensive truths about God." The early Christians were painfully aware of such criticisms. How could Pagan myths which predated Christianity by hundreds of years have so much in common with the biography of the one and only saviour Jesus? Desperate to come up with an explanation, the Church fathers resorted to one of the most absurd theories ever advanced. From the time of Justin Martyr in the second century onwards, they declared that the Devil had plagiarized Christianity by anticipation in order to lead people astray? Knowing that the true Son of God was to literally come and walk the Earth, the Devil had copied the story of his life in advance of it happening and created the myths of Osiris-Dionysus. The Church father Tertullian writes of the Devil's "diabolical mimicry" in creating the Mysteries of Mithras: "The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptises his believers and promises forgiveness of sins from the Sacred Fount, and thereby initiates them into the religion of Mithras. Thus he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copies certain things of those that be Divine." Studying the myths of the Mysteries it becomes obvious why these early Christians resorted to such a desperate explanation. Although no single Pagan myth completely parallels the story of Jesus, the mythic motifs which make up the story of the Jewish godman had already existed for centuries in the various stories told of Osiris-Dionysus and his greatest prophets. Let's make a journey through the 'biography' of Jesus and explore some of these extraordinary similarities. SON OF GOD Despite Christianity's claim that Jesus is the "only begotten Son of God." Osiris-Dionysus, in all his many forms, is also hailed as the Son of God. Jesus is the Son of God, yet equal with the Father. Dionysus is the "Son of Zeus, in his full nature God, most terrible, although most gentle to mankind." Jesus is "Very God of Very God." Dionysus is "Lord God of God born." Jesus is God in human form. St John writes of Jesus as "the Word made flesh." St. Paul explains that "God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh? Dionysus was also known as Bacchus, hence the title of Euripides' play The Bacchae, in which Dionysus is the central character. In this play, Dionysus explains that he has veiled his "Godhead in a mortal shape" in order to make it "manifest to mortal men.. He tells his disciples, "That is why I have changed my immortal form and taken the likeness of man." Like Jesus, in many of his myths the Pagan godman is born of a mortal virgin mother. In Asia Minor, Attis' mother is the virgin Cybele. In Syria, Adonis' virgin mother is called Myrrh. In Alexandria, Aion is born of the virgin Kore. In Greece, Dionysus is born of a mortal virgin Semele who wishes to see Zeus in all his glory and is mysteriously impregnated by one of his bolts of lightning. It was a popular tradition, recorded in the most quoted non-canonical text of early Christianity, that Jesus spent only seven months in Mary's womb. The Pagan historian Diodorus relates that Dionysus' mother Semele likewise was said to have also had only a seven-month pregnancy. Justin Martyr acknowledges the similarities between Jesus' virgin birth and Pagan mythology, writing: "In saying that the Word was born for us without sexual union as Jesus Christ our teacher, we introduce nothing beyond what is said of those called the Sons of Zeus." Nowhere was the myth of the 'Son of God' more developed than in Egypt, the ancient home of the Mysteries. Even the Christian Lactantius acknowledged that the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus had "arrived in some way at the truth, for on God the Father he had said everything, and on the Son." In Egypt, the Pharaoh had for thousands of years been regarded as an embodiment of the godman Osiris and praised in hymns as the Son of God. As an eminent Egyptologist writes, "Every Pharaoh had to be the Son of God and a human mother in order that he should be the Incarnate God, the Giver of Fertility to his country and people." In many legends the great prophets of Osiris-Dionysus are also portrayed as saviours and sons of God. Pythagoras was said to be the son of Apollo and a mortal woman called Parthenis, whose name derives from the word parthenos, meaning "virgin." Plato was also posthumously believed to be the son of Apollo. Philostratus relates in his biography of Apollonius that the great Pagan sage was regarded as the "Son of Zeus." Empedocles was thought to be a godman and saviour who had come down to this world to help confused souls, becoming "like a madman, calling out to people at the top of his voice and urging them to reject this realm and what is in it and go back to their own original, sublime, and noble word." Mythic motifs from the Mysteries even became associated with Roman Emperors who, for political reasons, cultivated legends about their divine nature which would link them to Osiris-Dionysus. Julius Caesar, who did not himself even believe in personal immortality, was hailed as "God made manifest, the common saviour of human life." His successor, Augustus, was likewise the "saviour of the universal human race." and even the tyrannical Nero is addressed on an altar piece as "God the deliverer for ever." In 40 BCE, drawing on Mystery myths, the Roman poet and initiate Virgil wrote a mystical 'prophesy' that a virgin would give birth to a divine child. In the fourth century CE Literalist Christians would claim that it foretold the coming of ]esus, but at the time this myth was interpreted as referring to Augustus, said to be the "Son of Apollo," preordained to rule the Earth and bring peace and prosperity. In his biography of Augustus, Suetonius offers a cluster of 'signs' that indicated the Emperor's divine nature. One modern authority writes: &am

rate my decks people? These are my Yugioh Decks: Union and Mill. Union: Monsters: Normal: 2 V-Tiger Jet 1 X-Head Cannon (Need more) 1 Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness 3 Dark Blade 1 Nin-Ken Dog 1 Summoned Skull 1 Gene-Warped Warwolf Effect: Sangan Union: 1 Heavy Mech Support Platform 2 W-Wing Catapult 2 Y-Dragon Head 2 Z-Metal Tank 1 Kiryu 1 Pitch-Dark Dragon Fusion: 2 VW - Tiger Catapult 1 XYZ - Dragon Cannon 1 VWXYZ - Dragon Catapult Cannon Spells: 1 Swing of Memories 1 Symbols of Duty 1 Monster Reborn 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 3 Frontline Base 1 Magical Mallet 1 Nobleman of Crossout 3 Reload 1 Card Trader Traps: 1 Return from the Different Dimension 2 Roll Out! 1 Magic Jammer 1 Formation Union 1 Needle Ceiling 1 Limit Reverse Mill Deck: Monsters: Normal: 1 Labyrinth Wall 1 Giant Soldier of Stone 1 Charcoal Inpachi 1 Skull dog Marron 1 Island Turtle 1 Soul TIger Effect: Dark Scorpion Burglars 1 Dark Scorpion - Gorg The Strong 1 Cliff the Trap Remover 1 Aztekipede, the Worm Warrior 1 Doom Dozer 2 Man-Eater Bug 1 Chainsaw Insect 1 Needle Worm 2 Destiny Hero - Defender 1 Morphing Jar 3 The Bistro Butcher 1 Sangan 1 Wall of Illusion 1 Hiro's Shadow Scout 1 Dark Cat with White Tail 1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole Spells: 1 Different Dimension Capsule 1 Smashing Ground 2 Mausoleum of The Emperor 1 Scapegoat 1 Shrink 1 Card Destruction 1 Monster Reborn 1 Fissure 1 Nobleman of Crossour 2 Hand Destruction 1 Swords of Revealing Light 1 Heavy Storm 1 Book of Taiyou 2 Book of Moon Traps: 1 Null and Void' 1 Simultaneous Loss 1 Negate Attack 1 The Transmigration Prophecy 1 The Gift of Greed 1 Shadow Spell 1 Compulsory Evacuation Device 1 Introduction to Gallantry 1 Michizure 1 Dust tornado These are my Decks, and i would really like to know what cards i can put in to really improve them. for anyone who will only say "cut it to 40" or something like that, Dont. These are 2 different decks. Please give me an idea of what an IDEAL Mill deck and an IDEAL union Deck Look Like.

Rate/Fix my Yugioh deck? MONSTERS [3]Jerry Beans Man [3]Hunter Dragon [3]Mad Lobster [3]Sonic Duck [3]Tune Warrior [2]Gene-Warped Warwolf [1]Snipe Hunter SPELLS [3]Amulet of Ambition [3]Mage Power [3]Enchanting Fitting Room [3]Heart of the Underdog [1]Level Limit - Area B TRAPS [3]Solemn Judgment [3]Dark Bribe [2]Magic Drain [1]Ultimate Offering [1]Gravity Bind Side Deck MONSTERS [1]Neo-Spacian Grand Mole SPELLS [3]Symbols of Duty [1]Monster Reborn [1]Mystical Space Typhoon [1]Giant Trunade [1]Heavy Storm [1]Brain Control TRAPS [3]Compulsory Evacuation Device [3]Skill Drain Extra Deck [3]Stardust Dragon [2]Thought Ruler Archfiend [1]Colossal Fighter [1]Red Dragon Archfiend [1]Dark Dive Bomber [1]Black Rose Dragon [3]Goyo Guardian [3]Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth Yes here it is, this is Jerry Beans Man Synchro. haha JBM owns your mothers face. So any suggestions or ratings? Advanced players only and please don't suggest anything over level 3, unless it has a really good effect that will help me out a lot. Don't be jealous just because Jerry Beans Man owns your mothers faces people. =] haha David you make me laugh. I have Symbols of Duty and Monster Reborn to synchro summon my higher level monsters. Your Colossal Fighter won't last long with all my equip spells and negation, plus a simple Compulsory and it's adios. This deck works amazingly and can beat the likes of Tele-DAD, LS, GB and everything else I have thrown at it. I'm almost 100% sure it can beat any deck you have. Please learn to play the game before you start talking down to me, okay? This deck is major Snipe abuse. I get insane ammounts of draw and can end up with about 10 or 11 cards in my hand at 1 time. Meaning I have pleanty to discard to clear a field. I don't really like Night's End, he's too much work to remove a few cards from the grave. As for Area B and G-Bind, that's why I have Snipe, MST, Trunade, and heavy Storm. So I can stall when i need to and then let loose. Tributting hasn't been a problem for me, even against Monarchs what with G-Bind, Area B, Solemn, Compulsory and Skill Drain. LS isn't hard to kill at all. lol Skill Drain, MST, Solemn, Dark Bribe, Grand Mole, and Compulsory worked just as well against LS as it does any other deck. Plus Light Spiral isn't played. Thanks for the rating and suggestions. =]

what do you think of my effect/defense deck/.? well i made a defense deck, and it looks pretty good, all my monsters have good effects for my type of deck, so could you guys tell me whats bad about it and tell me what cards to take out, it follows tourdament rules by the way. i have a few attack monsters to suprise people when i dule them, because they'll think that i got a defense deck when they see most of it and then blue eyes is on the field and they werent expecting that and shit. Monsters (25) blue eyes white dragon despair from the dark dark magician spiral serpent raging earth hade-hade labyrinth wall mystical elf D.D. Assailant Roulette Barrel D.D. Warrior lady x3 invader of the throne swarm of locusts gora turtle cyber gymnast night assailant dancing fairy gravekeepers guard obnoxious celtic guard swarm of scarabs sprit reaper ghost gardna shiled warrior spell (13) smashing ground monster reborn hammer shot mystical space typhoon scapegoat wave motion cannon lighting vortex symbols of duty nobleman of crossout mystik wok toll swords of revealing light messenger of peace traps (20) too many i know acid trap hole magic jammer x2 dust tornadox2 sakurestsu armor x2 sprit barrier blast with chain defense drawx2 (better than waboku) solemn wishes shadow spell magic drain torrential tribute ordeal of a traveler curse of royal confusion chaff compulsory evacuation device rageki break im having trouble taking cards out i wana make it down around 45-50 cards but still have a tanked defense, help me out and know the effects of my cards before you judge them

Rate/Fix my Gemini deck? please help my gemini deck Monsters: Blazewing Butterfly x2 Elemental hero Neos Alius x2 Future Samurai x2 Grasschopper Dawnbreak Gardna Gemini Lancer Vanity's Fiend Magical Reflect Slime Goggle Golem x2 Ancient Gear Knight Cthonian Emperor Dragon Doom Shaman Phantom Dragonray Bronto Mysterious Puppeteer Kuriboh Prime Material Dragon Superalloy Beast Raptinus x3 Spells: Double Summon x3 Unleash Your Power! Symbols of duty Swords of Revealing Light Polymerization Mystical Space Typhoon Monster Reborn Creature Swap Axe of Despair Swing of Memories x2 Riryoku Traps: Ultimate Offering x2 Gemini Trap Hole x2 Justi-Break x2 Solemn Wishes Sakuretsu Armor Mirror Force Mask of Restrict Metalmorph i'm tired of losing to gladiator beasts, dragons, and six samurais so please help Advanced Format only

Rate this Yu-gi-oh wind deck? Monsters Birdface Cloudian- Eye of Typhoon Destruction Cyclone Dragon Dwelling in the Cave Familiar-Possessed Wynn Harpie's Brother (2) Harpie Lady 1 (3) Harpie Queen (3) Lucky Pied Piper (2) Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird (2) Roc from Valley of Haze Silpheed Slate Warrior (2) Sonic Duck (3) Stealth Bird (2) Swift Birdman Joe (2) Whirlwind Prodigy (2) Spells Amulet of Ambition (2) Axe of Despair Dark Factory of Mass Production Harpie's Hunting Ground Heavy Storm Lightning Vortex (2) Magical Mallet Misfortune Mystical Space Typhoon Rising Air Current Rush Recklessly Shrink Symbols of Duty Traps Call of the Haunted Cemetary Bomb Dark Coffin Draining Shield Dust Tornado (2) Hysteric Party (2) Icarus Attack (2) Magic Drain Sakuretsu Armor (2) Trap Jammer (2) Total of 60 cards. Features multiple strategies.

Rate my Yugioh Deck? Please rate my Normal Deck and any opinion on how i can make it better Monsters x20 Blue-Eyes White Dragon x2 Spiral Serpent x1 Frostasaurus x3 Summon Skull x2 Gemni Elf x3 Vorse Raider x3 Gene Warped War wolf x3 Gladiator Beast Andel x3 Spells x9 Non-Spellcasting Area x3 Symbols of Duty x2 Ancient Rules x2 Lightning Vortex x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x1 Traps x11 Skill Drain x3 Cry Havoc! x2 Secrets of the Gallant x2 Birth Right x1 Raigeki Break x1 Michizure x1 Ultimate Offering x1

can you help me with this deck, it needs serious help? Okay so this deck is really good except it has twice the amount of spells im supposed to. Right now it has 56 cards. (way to many) this deck is a combination of a normal skill drain and dark skill drain, to make a skill drain deck composed of mostly dark normal monsters. This means you can get the power of normal monsters and the speed of dark monsters in the same deck, but i have too many spells. monsters: summoned skull x3 tri horned dragon vorse raider x3 mad dog of darkness x3 doom shamon x2 (geminis are good because they count as normal monsters until summoned twice) archfiend soldier x3 dark valkyria gene warped warewolf mask of darkness a cat of ill omen gorz the emissionary of darkness spells allure of darkness x3 ancient rules x3 (can bring out all tributes in this deck , excluding gemini monsters) heart of the underdog symbols of duty x2 monster reborn lightning vortex giant trunade mystical space typhoon soul exchange pot of avarice x2 brain controll book of moon x2 traps justi break x2 threatening roar x2 solemn judgement x2 torrential tribute pheonix wing wind blast bottemless trap hole x2 skill drain x3 common charity x3

Can you tell me if is this a good deck? okay i just thought of this so i haven't actually put cards together and tried it out. monsters: summoned skull x3 tri horned dragon vorse raider x3 mad dog of darkness x3 doom shamon x2 (geminis are good because they count as normal monsters until summoned twice) archfiend soldier x3 dark valkyria gene warped warewolf mask of darkness a cat of ill omen gorz the emissionary of darkness spells allure of darkness x3 ancient rules x3 (can bring out all tributes in this deck , including gemini monsters) heart of the underdog symbols of duty x2 monster reborn lightning vortex giant trunade mystical space typhoon soul exchange pot of avarice x2 brain controll book of moon x2 traps justi break x2 threatening roar x2 solemn judgement x2 torrential tribute pheonix wing wind blast bottemless trap hole x2 skill drain x2 i know there are way too many spells and that traps and monsters are iffy. also with 2 common chairity trap cards

fix and rate my easy come easy go deck? monsters-21 man-eater bug-2 opticlops-2 archfiend soldier wall of illusion giant rat chiron the mage tactical espionage expert hane-hane zure,knight of dark world luster dragom #2 medusa worm blue eyes white dragon luster dragon swift gia the fierce kight gemini elf brain jacker summond skull karate man bombardment beetle magic-12 malvolent nuzzler-2 soul exchange rush recklessly mystical space typhoon lucky iron axe heavy storm heart of clear water symbols of duty nobleman of crossout last mill hammer shot traps-9 bottomless shifting sand seven tools of the bandit royal surrender magic jammer blasting fuse shadow spell trap hole karma cut waboku

gemini deck yugioh rate and fix? Monsters 3x Gemini Summoner 3x Blazewing Butterfly 2x Future Samurai 2x Infinity Dark 2x Ancient Gear Knight 2x Gemini Lancer 1x Magical Reflect Slime 1x Aquarian Alessa 2x Cthonian Emperor Dragon 1x Dark Valkyria 2x Dawnbreak Gardna 2x Goggle Golem 1x Grasschopper Spells/Magic 1x Shrink 1x Monster Reborn 1x Card Trader 1x Swords of Revealing Light 1x Nobleman of Crossout 1x Symbols of Duty 1x Lightning Vortex 1x Heavy Storm 1x Phalanx Pike 1x Mystical Space Typhoon Traps 1x Magic Cylinder 2x Gemini Trap Hole 2x Birthright 1x Raigeki Break

In a nutshell is this how Satanism got started? Anton LaVey decided to start fresh with a whole new religion so he got rid of all of the Christian ideas about there being a god and Devil, angels and demons. Heaven and hell, good and evil, as well as other silly white light mystical stuff about karma and a spiritual realm and supernatural beings and goddesses, etc. He threw all of that out because that is what you do with garbage you throw it in the trash. So with a clean blank slate to start a real and new religion he wanted his to be based on reality. After all since all spiritual religions and ideas of gods are all created by humans than shouldn’t there be a religion based on the humans who created all of these things to begin with? The reality of the human animal and the reality of nature. So he put together a religion that would teach how all humans are born with their own opinions, views, different behaviors and reactions to things, different drives and desires, feelings and emotions, their own thoughts and ideas and instincts, etc. Also how we all have our own abilities and talents that differ from others. He also showed that since we are all born different that everyone has their own ideas about what is good and what is evil. He also showed how as human that like all other animals we live in a cosmos that comes from nature, belongs to nature and shall return to nature as there are NO supernatural beings at all within the reality of nature. Satanism also teaches that since this is our only life that we need to live it to the fullest and do everything to make our lives happy, but within the boundaries of the law as Satanism is big on being responsible and law and order. Satanism also teaches people to respect and protect animals and children from harm and to never force anyone into doing something that is against their will. Anton LaVey also knew that most humans have a need for fantasy and emotions and dogma. And so as an option only he created rituals for those who needed them to use as an outlet to release any emotions that might be bothering you so that you could live a healthy and happy life again which is the whole point of Satanism to begin with. These rituals unlike other religions are based on reality and not superstition or the supernatural or of worship like rituals of other religions. So with Rituals you can use symbols and trappings to help release any emotions until you reach a state of catharsis. Then of course if you want something you can act to make it happen without the hindering and stress of the negative emotions. The reason Satan is used as the symbol is because it means the Adversary and Satanists are the adversarys to all spiritual doctrines that hamper your happiness and instincts in life as well as being opposed to herd mentality. Have your own mind and think for yourself instead of letting others tell you what to think and how to act and what to wear, etc like a sheep being led This is a brief summery of what I have read so far, so does this sound right? Frau: Thanks. I knew I would get the usual christian insanity. Nice to see there are some good people on here Fireball: as usual you make no sense at all Yeah I know sorry i didnt break it up more. I am at work so i had to hurry There is no such thing as Spiritual Satanism. Real Satanism is about reality. Anyone into spiritual stuff is a christian NOT a Satanist

Since people keep asking about Satanism here is a brief summery, what do you think? Anton LaVey decided to start fresh with a whole new religion so he got rid of all of the Christian ideas about there being a god and Devil, angels and demons. Heaven and hell, good and evil, as well as other silly white light mystical stuff about karma and a spiritual realm and supernatural beings and goddesses, etc. He threw all of that out because that is what you do with garbage you throw it in the trash. So with a clean blank slate to start a real and new religion he wanted his to be based on reality. After all since all spiritual religions and ideas of gods are all created by humans than shouldn’t there be a religion based on the humans who created all of these things to begin with? The reality of the human animal and the reality of nature. So he put together a religion that would teach how all humans are born with their own opinions, views, different behaviors and reactions to things, different drives and desires, feelings and emotions, their own thoughts and ideas and instincts, etc. Also how we all have our own abilities and talents that differ from others. He also showed that since we are all born different that everyone has their own ideas about what is good and what is evil. He also showed how as human that like all other animals we live in a cosmos that comes from nature, belongs to nature and shall return to nature as there are NO supernatural beings at all within the reality of nature. Satanism also teaches that since this is our only life that we need to live it to the fullest and do everything to make our lives happy, but within the boundaries of the law as Satanism is big on being responsible and law and order. Satanism also teaches people to respect and protect animals and children from harm and to never force anyone into doing something that is against their will. Anton LaVey also knew that most humans have a need for fantasy and emotions and dogma. And so as an option only he created rituals for those who needed them to use as an outlet to release any emotions that might be bothering you so that you could live a healthy and happy life again which is the whole point of Satanism to begin with. These rituals unlike other religions are based on reality and not superstition or the supernatural or of worship like rituals of other religions. So with Rituals you can use symbols and trappings to help release any emotions until you reach a state of catharsis. Then of course if you want something you can act to make it happen without the hindering and stress of the negative emotions. The reason Satan is used as the symbol is because it means the Adversary and Satanists are the adversarys to all spiritual doctrines that hamper your happiness and instincts in life as well as being opposed to herd mentality. Have your own mind and think for yourself instead of letting others tell you what to think and how to act and what to wear, etc like a sheep being led That is a short summery, so does that help you folks? Thank you Maiden of Artumus Yeah I had to cram a lot in because I was running out of room and being at work I could not proof read as much as I normaly do so i aopologize for that thanks Zon Moy Sue L: if you knew how to read I explained that, but christians cannot think and I do not expect them to. Thank you MetalChick you are correct. LaVey is real Satanism. That so called Joy of Satan is fake childish christian garbage for assholes and children who are retarded. They are christians NOT Satanists and every one knows it Thank you Alfred, and thanks for informing us about the Joy of Satan group, which has nothing to do with Satanism as you said.

Ive been building a Yugioh deck for a while and i want to know how good it is can some1 rate it for me? SPELLS: 13 fissure double summon heavy storm white dragon ritual smashing ground soul exchange mystical space typhoon tribute to the doomed monster reborn brain control hammer shot nobleman of crossout symbols of duty TRAP: 10 a hero emerges sakuretsu armor raigeki break battle mania karma cut draining shield trap hole torrential tribute shadow spell magic cylinder MONSTERS: 27 giant orc man-eater bug d.d. warrior lady mask of darkness zombryra the dark old vindictive magician beserk gorilla paladin of white dragon d.d warrior mirage dragon gladiator beast andal hane-hane invader of the throne mysterious guard gemini elf neo-spacian grand mole swarm of locusts diskblade rider big piece golem destiny hero-dasher cyber dragon cyber-tech aligator goblin attack force wall of illusion blue-eyes white dragon evil hero malicious edge black tyranno

rate my new yugioh deck PLZ? Synchro Monsters: Gaia Knight, THe Force On Earth Junk Warrior Colossal Fighter Tuner Monsters: Junk Synchron Frequency Magician Tune Warrior Water Spirit Magna Drago Normal Monsters: Copycat Speed Warrior Charcoal Inpachi Marauding Capitan Dark Blade Elemental Hero Sparkman Elemental Hero Wildheart Spirit Reaper Giant Soldier of Stone Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Exiled Force Axe Raider Montage Dragon Spells: Ribbon of Rebirth Symbols of Duty Creature Swap Cold Wave Synchro Blast Wave Synchro Boost Spell Shattering Arrow Shrink Mystical Space Typhoon Double Summon Lightning Vortex The Warrior Returning Alive Traps: Draining Shield Scrap-Iron Scarecrow An Unfortunate Report Spellbinding Circle Bottomless Trap Hole Trap Hole Backup Soldier Sakuretsu Armor Negate Attack Unlimited Offering

Rate My Yu-Gi-Oh Deck ( new one )? ok so i got a new deck and it happens to be a syncro deck, i dumped my zombie deck and i hope this one is a little better rate on scale of 1-10 btw i did get the 5d starter deck! Synchro Monsters: Gaia Knight, THe Force On Earth Junk Warrior Colossal Fighter Tuner Monsters: Junk Synchron Frequency Magician Tune Warrior Water Spirit Magna Drago Normal Monsters: Copycat Speed Warrior Charcoal Inpachi Marauding Capitan Dark Blade Elemental Hero Sparkman Elemental Hero Wildheart Spirit Reaper Giant Soldier of Stone Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Exiled Force Axe Raider Montage Dragon Spells: Ribbon of Rebirth Symbols of Duty Creature Swap Cold Wave Synchro Blast Wave Synchro Boost Spell Shattering Arrow Shrink Mystical Space Typhoon Double Summon Lightning Vortex The Warrior Returning Alive Traps: Draining Shield Scrap-Iron Scarecrow An Unfortunate Report Spellbinding Circle Bottomless Trap Hole Trap Hole Backup Soldier Sakuretsu Armor Negate Attack Unlimited Offering please rate nicley!!!!

Rate my Yu-Gi-Oh Deck PLZ!!? Synchro Monsters: Gaia Knight, THe Force On Earth Junk Warrior Colossal Fighter Tuner Monsters: Junk Synchron Frequency Magician Tune Warrior Water Spirit Magna Drago Normal Monsters: Copycat Speed Warrior Charcoal Inpachi Marauding Capitan Dark Blade Elemental Hero Sparkman Elemental Hero Wildheart Spirit Reaper Giant Soldier of Stone Renge, Gatekeeper of Dark World Exiled Force Axe Raider Montage Dragon Spells: Ribbon of Rebirth Symbols of Duty Creature Swap Cold Wave Synchro Blast Wave Synchro Boost Spell Shattering Arrow Shrink Mystical Space Typhoon Double Summon Lightning Vortex The Warrior Returning Alive Traps: Draining Shield Scrap-Iron Scarecrow An Unfortunate Report Spellbinding Circle Bottomless Trap Hole Trap Hole Backup Soldier Sakuretsu Armor Negate Attack Unlimited Offering

Why do Jews and Freemasons lie to Christians and Gentiles? The Uncensored Talmud of Babylonia states: Szaaloth-Utszabot The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the goyim [non-Jew] asks if our books contain anything against them." Schabbouth Hag (6d): Jews may swear falsely by the use of subterfuge wording. Many researchers who check out Talmud quotes often run into Jews who make claims that the Talmud quotes are either misinterpreted or completely fake. Should we be surprised that Jews lie about the racist and anti-Christian statements in the Talmud in lieu of the above Talmud citation? Absolutely not. They are commanded to mislead and lie to Christians when a Christian asks if the Talmud contains anything against them. Further, the Jewish Kabbalah, the esoteric mystical side of Judaism that is the foundation for Freemasonry, states this: Zohar (1, 160a): Jews MUST ALWAYS try to deceive Christians. "The heirs of the Pharisees often deny the existence of the Talmud passages here cited, in order to brazenly claim that such passages are the 'fabrications of anti-semites.'" - Michael Hoffman II "Judaism's Strange gods," p.72 "In 1994, Rabbi Tzvi Marx, director of Applied Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, made a remarkable admission concerning how Jewish rabbis in the past have issued two sets of texts: the authentic Talmudic texts with which they instruct their own youth in the Talmud schools (yeshiviot) and "censured and amended" versions which they disseminate to gullible non-Jews for public consumption." Michael Hoffman II, "Judaism's Strange gods," pg.71 Freemasonry, a Jewish front created to seduce Christians and their leaders also orders the same command of lying for its members. "Grand Sovereign Freemason Commander," Albert Pike writes: "Masonry...conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead." Again, many well seeking researchers, have tried to find out prominent members of the Masonic lodge including, Jehovah's Witness founder, Charles Taze Russell, Evangelist Billy Graham, Evangelist Robert Schuller, and many others, only to be flately denied by the Masons who are ordered to lie to protect the identity of the composition of their membership. Many fail to realize that Freemasons take blood oaths and swear to uphold the secrets of the rites, rituals, and membership composition. Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is, in fact, the Cabalistic elements in Freemasonry that act as the main driving force in the envenomed and aggressive opposition of the latter to Christianity, and its never-flagging efforts for the undermining and destruction of the Christian organization of society. (Mgr. Dillon, The War of Anti-Christ with the Church, p. 20). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How often have I heard the Freemasons lament the dominance of the Jews...Ever since the Revolution the Jews have taken possession of the Masonic lodges more and more completely: and their dominance is now unquestioned. The Cabala rules as mistress in the inner lodges; and the Jewish spirit dominates the lower grades...In the mind of Satan the synagogue has an all important part to play...The great enemy counts on the Jews to govern Masonry as he counts on Masonry to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ (Christianity)." (L'Abbá Emmanuel Barbier, Infiltrations Maáoniques, quoted in Dictionaire Apologetique de la Foi Catholique, Gustave Gautherot; He was the Professor for the History of the Revolution in the Institute Catholique de Paris, and author of several works on different phases of the modern anti-Christian movement on which he is generally recognized as one of the best authorities). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This intimate connection between the two powers (Freemasonry and Cabalistic Judaism) (writes R. Lambelin) is becoming so evident that there is no longer any attempt made to deny it. The Jewish lodges of B'nai B'rith, which originated in the English-speaking countries, have swarmed all over Europe, and even into Asia; and they assume the leadership of control in the whole Masonic organization. Under cover of Theosophy a new religion, which is specifically Jewish, though enveloped in a nebulous mist that obscures its character, is bidding fair to take the place of the traditional Christian belief which it flatters, and insensibly destroys." (Les Victoires d'Israel, pp. 211-212; Freemasonry and The Anti-Christian Movement, Edward Cahill, p. 92). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There will burst forth one fine evening one of these formidable crises which will shake the earth and which occult societies have long prepared for Christian society, and then perhaps will suddenly appear in open day, throughout the entire world, all the militia, all the fraternal and unknown sects of the Cabala. The ignorance, the carelessness in which we live, of their sinister existence, their affinities, and their immense ramifications will in no way prevent them from recognizing each other, and under the banner of no matter what universal alliance, giving each other the kiss of Peace, they will hasten to gather together under one Chief..." (Le Juif, Le Judaisme et La Judaisation des Peuples ChrÇtiens, Gougenot des Mousseaux (1869); The Trail of the Serpent, Miss Stoddard, p. 318). "The real chiefs of this immense association of Freemasonry (the few within the innermost circles of initiation), who must not be confounded with the nominal leaders or figure-heads, are mostly Jews, and live in close and intimate alliance with the militant members of Judaism, those, namely, who are the leaders of the Cabalistic section. This älite of the Masonic association, these real chiefs, who are known to so few even of the initiated, and whom even these few know only under assumed names (noms de guerre) carry on their activities in secret dependence (which they find very lucrative for themselves) upon the Cabalistic Jews." (Le Juif, la Judaisme, et la Judaisation des Peuples ChrÇtiens (Paris, 1869), p. 340). How long are we as a society going to allow those who are associated with Freemasonry (including secret societies like skull and bones, etc) rule us? It has not been proven false. Proove it. and i am not anti-semetic. I am ati=being controlled by jews/freemasons/christians/muslims/anybody. i am not anti-semetic, i am anti-being controlled by jews / freemasons / muslims / bhuddists / christians / anybody. you know you can't call someone antisemetic the second they say the word jew. I wouldn't call you anti-Muslim if you said that they were lying to us and trying to kill us. yes, many christians are freemason, but they are not privy to the secrets of this secret society until they are initiated to a higher level. Each level you learn a little bit more. 33rd degree masons believe that lucifer is more powerful than god, and this is who they serve. just because something was learned a long time ago does not make it rubbish. it has NOT been disproven and it should be taken seriously until it is. Kadnil, i am not talking about all jews. i am only talking about orthodox jews, who follow the teachings of the kabbalah "MarkS", go read some books, then come back here and ask me again. "Mark S" Yes, i said "controlled by." The reason i say that is that about half of our presidents have been FREEMASONS, and most of the others that were not were related to Freemasonry one way or another, such as Bush, being a member of "Skull and bones," or "the Ordder of Death." Most of the Presidents since the 20th century have spent time at the Bohemian Club discussing policy in "riverside chats" and then participating in a mock human sacrifice ritual. These are the same people that control what i can own, where i can go, and what i can do. Call me a racist, and censor me. That is controlling language and controlling information. That in itself is controlling.

Is the Cross for Christians- Do you believe that Christ died on a Hindu Symbol? You may assume that Christians were the first to use the cross. The Encyclopedia Americana, however, speaks of “its ancient usage by both Hindus and Buddhists in India and China, and by the Persians, Assyrians, and Babylonians.” Similarly, Chambers’s Encyclopedia, (1969 edition) says that the cross “was an emblem to which religious and mystical meanings were attached long before the Christian era.” Indeed, there is no evidence that early Christians used the cross in their worship. During the early days of Christianity, it was the pagan Romans who used the cross! Says The Companion Bible: “These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god . . . and are first seen on a coin of Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.C., and then on a coin struck by Caesar’s heir (Augustus), 20 B.C.” The Roman nature-god Bacchus was at times represented with a headband containing a number of crosses. Do Not Ignore the Facts.... In case you did not Know.... In 312 C.E., Constantine, ruling the area now known as France and Britain, headed out to war against his brother-in-law, Maxentius, of Italy. En route he reportedly saw a vision—a cross on which were the words “Hoc vince,” meaning, “By this conquer.” After his victory, Constantine made the cross the standard of his armies. When Christianity later became the state religion of the Roman Empire, the cross became the symbol of the church. Those are the Facts...Look it Up. Believing that Jesus died and rose from the grave is FACT..believing that Jesus died on a Cross is not Correct. This is evident here... (2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.

Will this deck keep me alive or even give my victroy in a tournement? Is there anything i should change or take out, please help? Simorgh, Bird of Divinity Sonic Shooter Harpies brother x2 Harpie lady Slate Warrior Flying Kamakiri #1 Harpie Lady Sisters Bladefly Birdface Silpheed Lady Ninja Yae Roc from the Valley of Haze Harpie Lady 1 Harpie Lady 2 Harpie Lady 3 x2 Swift Birdman Joe Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon Harpie Queen Cyber Harpie Total: 21 Black Pendent x2 Mystical Space Typhoon Elegant Egotist Reload Harpies' Hunting Ground x2 Triangle Ecstasy Spark Lightning Vortex Mystical Space Typhoon Rising air Current Double Spell Premature Barrier Symbol of Heritage Total:17 Hysteric Party Aqua Chorus Dust Tornado Call Of The Haunted Magic Jammer Shadow Spell Mirror Wall x2 Sakuretsu Armor Ninjitsu Art of Transformation Icarus Total:11

What does the cross actually mean? The symbol of the cross, or something like it, has seemingly been used throughout human history to express mythical and religious thought: celtic crosses, ankhs, the crucifix, swastikas, sun crosses. The symbol recurs again and again in mystical thought. It continues to be widespread today, and would appear to hold deep significance for our species, in some manner or another. If we can get past the sado-masochistic, death-cult mumbo jumbo about it being an instrument of tortuous execution that the body of a prophet was nailed to, then what does, or could the crucifix actually mean? I am fully aware of the difference between the crucifix and the cross. this is why I have used the terms SEPARATELY. I asked for opinions, if all you have is "read a symbological dictionary" then you have clearly not read my question.

what can i add to my yugioh deck to make it better? normal monsters: spiral serpent summoned skull luster dragon #2 judge man mr. volcano alien shocktrooper luster dragon sea serpent warrior of darkness 7 colored fish harpie's brother the dragon dwelling in the cave renge, gatekeeper of the dark world effect monsters: magna-slash dragon big eye witch of the black forest nimble momonga princess of tsurugi (x2) mask of darkness golem sentry gravekeeper's curse medusa worm (x2) hane-hane man-eater bug (x2) old vindictive magician magician of faith spirit reaper (x2) spell: soul release change of heart restructer revolution ookazi dian keto the cure master swords of revealing light monster reborn symbols of duty black pendant malevolent nuzzler offerings to the doomed spell shattering arrow mystical space typhoon (x2) giant trunade trap: birthright trap hole bottomless trap hole sakuretsu armor (x2) divine wrath disappear minor goblin official just desserts (x2) magic cylinder the spell absorbing life scrap-iron scarecrow dust tornado (x2)

Laura Mallory and the Occult?

Yugioh deck? beat down deck Monsters (24) 1 skilled dark magician 1 dark blade 2 alien shocktrooper 1 cyber gymnist 3 goggle golem 1 possessed dark soul 1 mad dog of darkness 1 dd warrior lady 1 red eyes black dragon 1 blue eyes white dragon 1 harpies brother 1 red eyes black chick 1 jinzo 1 spear dragon 1 wicked eraser 1 skull dog marron 1 sand moth 1 luster dragon 1 roullette barrel 1 magna slash dragon 1 buster blader Magic Cards (15) 1 mage power 1 gravity axe grarl 1 summoners art 1 magical mallet 1 toll 1 mystical space typhoon 1 fairy meteor crush 1 heavy storm 1 premature burial 1 tribute to the doomed 2 de spell 1 swords of revealing light 1 riryoku 1 symbols of duty Trap Cards(9) 1 spell shield type b 1 magic cylinder 1 sakerstsu armor 1 needle ceiling 1 call of the haunted 1 mirror force 1 trap hole 1 trap reclamation 1 dust tornado tell me what you think of this deck and what i shoudl take out and put in

testing123?

Catholics,what do you make of THIS? 666, The Number of the Beast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Note that according to verse 17, there are three different characteristics that distinguish the beast: his mark (of authority) his name the number of his name (666). It might be argued by some that 666 must be applied to one man's name, and that this will then help identify him as the antichrist. I would offer the following verse to show that 666 need not apply solely to a man's name: Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. The same Greek word translated as name (onoma: G3686) that appears in Revelation 13:17-18 is also used in chapter 19:16, so clearly the word can also apply to a title, and not just one man's name. Now, we are told that it takes a certain understanding and wisdom to discern just how this number is actually applied. Based on the fact that 666 can apply to a title, below are several words and phrases that have been put forth over the centuries as probable solutions to the enigma of 666. GREEK The numeric equivalents of Greek letters can also be found in the Encyclopedia Britannica under "Languages of the World", Table 8. The ancient Greek word for "the Latin speaking man" is LATEINOS L = 30 lambda A = 1 alpha T = 300 tau E = 5 epsilon I = 10 iota N = 50 nu O = 70 omicron S = 200 sigma ------------ 666 NOTE: Latin is the official language of the R oman Catholic Church. Church Documents are usually published first in Latin, and then translated from the Latin into other languages. The association of "Lateinos" with 666 was first suggested by Irenæus (ca. 130-202 A.D.) who proposed in his Against Heresies that it might be the name of the fourth kingdom in Daniel 7:7. Then also Lateinos has the number six hundred and sixty-six; and it is a very probable [solution], this being the name of the last kingdom [of the four seen by Daniel]. For the Latins are they who at present bear rule: I will not, however, make any boast over this [coincidence]. Source: Against Heresies, by Irenæus, Book 5, chapter 30, paragraph 3. St. Irenaeus biography online at the New Advent Catholic web site. The ancient Greek for "The Latin Kingdom" is HE LATINE BASILEIA BASILEIA is Strong's # G932 The ancient Greek for "Italian Church" is ITALIKA EKKLESIA EKKLESIA is Strong's # G1577 And in ancient Greek the word APOSTATES And in ancien nt Greek the word for "tradition" PARADOSIS Strong's # G3862 H = 0 (transliterated) E = 8 eta L = 30 lambda A = 1 alpha T = 300 tau I = 10 iota N = 50 nu E = 8 eta B = 2 beta A = 1 alpha S = 200 sigma I = 10 iota L = 30 lambda E = 5 epsilon I = 10 iota A = 1 alpha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 666 I = 10 iota T = 300 tau A = 1 alpha L = 30 lambda I = 10 iota K = 20 kappa A = 1 alpha E = 5 epsilon K = 20 kappa K = 20 kappa L = 30 lambda E = 8 eta S = 200 sigma I = 10 iota A = 1 alpha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 666 A = 1 alpha P = 80 pi O = 70 omicron ST = 6 stigma* A = 1 alpha T = 300 tau E =

Most Baptists believe something to the effect that? "The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming" (Southern Baptist "Faith and Message," June 14, 2000). Was it not in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread that the disciples might catch a fleeting, nearly mystical, glimpse of the Risen Lord (Luke 24:30-31)? Was Paul lying when he told us that when we partake of the Eucharist, we are partaking of the substantial and quite material presence of Christ Himself: "The blessing-cup, which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ; and the loaf of bread which we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ" (1 Cor. 10:16)? Does Paul say anything about the Eucharist being a mere symbolic act? Or does he use stark and clearly simple language that suggests a sharing in the material body and blood of Christ? Do not Paul and the three Synoptic Gospels use equally clear and simple language when they record the words of consecration, "this IS my body"? Is not the simplest, clearest interpretation of the Bible usually the best? Was Paul misleading us when he severely warned that, "anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup, because a person who eats or drinks without recognizing the body is eating and drinking his own condemnation" (1 Cor. 11:27-29)? Does Paul say that we are profaning a symbol, or are we are actually profaning the body of Christ? Does Paul not go on to say that partaking of the Lord's Supper without recognizing that body, upon self-examination, is itself to eat and drink condemnation unto oneself?

Rate/Fix my Warrior Synchro deck!? Monsters (20) Dark Blade x1 Exiled Force x2 Frequency Magician x1 Junk Synchron x1 Marauding Captain x3 Tune Warrior x1 Sonic Chick x1 Woodborg Inpachi x1 Copycat x1 Mystic Tomato x1 Cyber Dragon x1 Charcoal Inpachi x1 Magna Draco x1 Familiar Knight x1 Speed Warrior x1 Spell (11) Reinforcement of the Army x2 Symbols of Duty x1 Lightning Vortex x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x1 The Warrior Returning Alive x1 Synchro Blast Wave x1 Synchronized Realm x1 Monster Reincarnation x1 Double Summon x1 Synchro Boost x1 Traps (9) Sakuretsu Armor x1 Miniaturize x1 Seven Tools of the Bandit x1 Birthright x1 Divine Wrath x1 Threatening Roar x1 Scrap-Iron Scarecrow x1 Backup Soldier x1 Embodiment of Apophis x1 Extra Deck (3) Junk Warrior x1 Gaia Knigh, The Force of Earth x1 Colossal Fighter x1 I PLAY TOURNAMENT RULES

can you rate my yugioh dragon deck? monsters barrel dragon red-eyes b. dragon armed dragon LV3 x3 armed dragon LV5 x3 masked dragon x2 mirage dragon element dragon petit dragon winged dragon, guardian of the fortress #1 Luster dragon Blue-eyes white dragon Luster dragon #2 twin-headed fire dragon koumori dragon winged kuriboh spells mystical space typhoon swords of concealing light hammer shot dark hole magical mallet black pendant rush recklessly tribute to the doomed symbol of heritage monster reborn traps dust tornado call of the haunted enchanted javelin waboku magic drain gift of the mystical elf trap hole chain burst a hero emerges Xing Zhen Hu

my giga plant deck pleeez fix and rate? monsters 12 3 gigaplant 3 lonefire blossom 3 blaze wing butterfly 3 grasschopper spells 27 3 double summon 3 lighting vortex 3 card of safe return 3 swing of memories 1 monster reborn 1 premature burial 3 reasoning 1 giant trunade 1 mystical space typhoon 1 heavy storm 3 polymerization 1 future fusion 1 symbol of heritage 1 my body as a shield Traps 1 Ultimate offering Fusion deck 3 Super alloy beast raptinus

JESUS LIVED IN INDIA -with PROOF? Yes Jesus lived in India. You have got the right information. At the time of Jesus there were two major currents or sects within Judaism: the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Pharisees were extremely concerned with strict external observance of their interpretation of the Mosaic Law, ritual worship, and theology. The Sadducees, on the other hand, were very little concerned with any of these and tended toward a kind of genteel agnosticism. Today these two groups might be compared with the Orthodox and the Reformed branches of Judaism respectively. There was also a third sect which both was and was not part of Judaism. They were the Essenes, whose very name means "the Outsiders."1 Whether they chose this name for themselves or whether it was applied to them by the disdainful Pharisees and Sadducees is not known. But that they were incongruent (even incompatible) to the normal life of Israel at that time is certainly known. Their claims about their very existence was a controversial matter. For the Essenes averred that Moses had created them as a secret fraternity within Judaism, with Aaron and his descendents at their head. The prophet Jeremiah was a Master of the Essenes, and it was in his lifetime that they ceased to be a secret society and became a public entity. From that time many of the Essenes began living in communities. Isaiah and Saint John the Baptist were also Masters of the Essenes. Their purpose was to follow a totally esoteric religious philosophy and practice that was derived from the Egyptian Mysteries. As the grandson of the Pharaoh, Moses had been an initiate of those Mysteries and destined to ultimately become the head of the Egyptian religion.2 These Mysteries were themselves derived from the religion of India: Sanatana-or Arya-Dharma.3 Because of this the Essenes had always maintained some form of contact and interchange with India-a fact that galled their fellow Israelites. Regarding this, Alfred Edersheim, in his nineteenth century classic The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, wrote: "Their fundamental tendency was quite other than that of Pharisaism, and strongly tinged with Eastern elements." The reality of this contact with India is shown in the Zohar (2:188a-b), a compilation of ancient Jewish mystical traditions and the major text of the Jewish Kabbalah. It contains the following incident regarding the knowledge of an illumined Rabbi concerning the religion of India and the Vedic4 religious rite known as the Sandhya, which is an offering of prayers at dawn and sunset for enlightenment. "Rabbi Yose and Rabbi Hiyya were walking on the road. While they were walking, night fell; they sat down. While they were sitting, morning began to shine; they rose and walked on. Rabbi Hiyya said, 'See, the face of the East, how it shines! Now all the children of the East [in India], who dwell in the mountains of light [the Himalayas], are bowing down to this light, which shines on behalf of the sun before it comes forth, and they are worshipping it....Now you might say: 'This worship is in vain!' but since ancient, primordial days they have discovered wisdom through it." Their contact and interchange with Indian religion-Brahminical practices in particular-were manifested in several ways among the Essenes: 1) They practiced strict non-violence. 2) They were absolute vegetarians and would not touch alcohol in any form. Nor would they eat any food cooked by a non-Essene. (Edersheim says: "Its adherents would have perished of hunger rather than join in the meals of the outside world.") 3) They refused to wear anything of animal origin, such as leather or wool, usually making their clothes of linen. 4) They rejected animal sacrifice, insisting that the Torah had not originally ordered animal sacrifice, but that its text had been corrupted-in regard to that and many other practices as well. Their assertion was certainly corroborated by passages in the scriptures such as: "Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?"5 "To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord:...I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats."6 "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices."7 The quotations from Isaiah are particularly relevant since he was himself the Master of the Essenes. It was the Essenes' contention that the "animals" originally offered in sacrifice were symbolic effigies of animals that represented the particular failing or fault from which the offerer wished to be freed. (Appollonius of Tyana taught this same thing in relation to the ancient Greek sacrifices, and urged a return to that form. Long before that, in India dough effigies were offered in "sacrifice."8) In the Essene practice, each person molded the effigies with his own hands, while praying and concentrating deeply on the traits he wished to have corrected, feeling that it was being transferred into the image. The effigies were made of five substances: powdered frankincense, flour, water, olive oil, and salt. When these had dried, they were taken to the tabernacle whose altar was a metal structure with a grating over the top and hot coals within. The effigies were laid upon this grating and burnt by the intense heat. As they burned, through the force of the heat the olive oil and frankincense liquefied and boiled or seeped upward. This fragrant liquid was called "the blood" of the sacrifice. It was this with which Moses consecrated the tabernacle, its equipment, and the priests,9 not animal blood. And it was just such a "lamb" whose "blood" was sprinkled on the doorposts in Egypt.10 For the Passover observance, the Essenes would bake a lamb effigy using the same ingredients-except for the frankincense they would substitute honey and cinnamon. (Or, lacking honey, they would use a kind of raisin syrup.) This was the only paschal lamb acceptable to them-and therefore to Jesus and His Apostles. Consequently, the Essenes refused to worship in Jerusalem, but maintained their own tabernacle on Mount Carmel. They did not have an actual building on Mount Carmel, but a tent-tabernacle made according to the original directions given to Moses on Mount Sinai. They considered the Jerusalem temple unacceptable because it was a stone structure built according to Greco-Roman style rather than the simple and humble tabernacle form given to Moses-a form that symbolized both the physical and psychic makeup of the human being. Further, the Jerusalem temple was built by Herod who, completely subservient to Rome, disdained Judaism and practiced a kind of Roman agnostic piety. Because of this the temple was ritually unclean in their estimation. They placated the Jerusalem Temple priests by sending them large donations of money. On occasion they gave useful animals to the Temple in Jerusalem, but only with the condition that they would be allowed to live out their natural span of life. 5) They interpreted the Torah and other Hebrew scriptures in an almost exclusively spiritual, symbolic, and metaphysical manner (as did the Alexandrian Jewish philosopher Philo). They also had esoteric writings of their own which they would not allow non-Essenes to see. But even more objectionable to the other Hebrews was their study and acceptance of "alien" scriptures-the holy books of other religions-so much so that an official condemnation was made of this practice. In contrast to all those around them, the Essenes held a universal, eclectic view of religion. 6) Celibacy was prized by them, being often observed even in marriage, and many of them led monastic lives of total renunciation. 7) They considered their male and female members-all of whom were literate-to be spiritual equals, and both sexes were prophets and teachers among them. This, too, was the practice in Hinduism at that time, women also wearing the sacred thread. 8) They denied the doctrine of the physical resurrection of the dead at the end of time, which was held by some Pharisees-who usually believed in reincarnation-and later became a tenet of Mediterranean Christianity. 9) They believed in reincarnation and the law of karma and the ultimate reunion of the soul with God. This is clearly indicated by the Apostles asking Jesus about a blind man: "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?"11 10) They believed that the sun was a divine manifestation, imparting spiritual powers to both body and mind. They faced the rising and setting sun and recited prayers of worship, refusing, upon rising in the morning, to speak a single word until the conclusion of those prayers. They did not consider the sun was a god, but a symbol of the One God of Light and Life. It was, though, felt that appropriate prayers directed toward the sun would evoke a divine response. (See Jesus' words to the king of Kashmir as recorded in the Bhavishya Maha Purana that are given later on.) 11) They believed in both divination and the powers of prophecy. 12) They believed in the power of occult formulas, or mantras,12 as well as esoteric rituals, and practiced theurgy (spiritual "magic") with them. 13) They believed in astrology, cast horoscopes, and made "magical" amulets of plants and gems according to astrological aspects. They also believed that angels had taught Moses the practice of herbalism. 14) They believed that miraculous cures were natural extensions of authentic spiritual life. 15) They would wear only white clothes13 as a sign that they worshipped God Who is Light and were clothed by Him in light. This so provoked the other Israelites that praying in white clothing was prohibited by the Pharisees and Sadducees, and laws were drafted accordingly. (The Mishnah begins with such a prohibition.) 16) They observed the identical rules of purity (shuddhi) as the Brahmins in India at that time, especially in the matter of bathing frequently. 17) They practiced the strictest adherence to truthfulness.14 It should also be noted that most of these Brahminical practices were observed by Buddhists as well, so it is not out of place to consider that the Essenes-and Jesus and His disciples-possessed the qualities of both Hindu and Buddhist religion. From all this we can see why Edersheim states that "In respect of doctrine, life, and worship, it [the Essene community] really stood outside Judaism." As a result of these differences from ordinary Judaism, the Essenes lived totally apart from their fellow Hebrews, usually in separate communities or in communal houses in the towns and cities. (The supposed "communal experiment" in the book of Acts15 was really a continuation of the Essene way of life. The Last Supper took place in just such an Essene "house.") The History of Isha Messiah-Jesus the Christ16 Among the Essenes of Israel at the threshold of the Christian Era, none were better known or respected than Joachim and Anna of Nazareth. Joachim was noted for his great piety, wealth, and charity. The richest man in Israel, his practice was to divide his increase into thirds, giving one third to the temples of Carmel and Jerusalem and one third to the poor, keeping only one third for himself. Anna was renowned as a prophetess and teacher among the Essenes. Their daughter Mary [Miryam], Who had been conceived miraculously beneath the Holy of Holies of the Temple, had passed thirteen years of Her life as a Temple Virgin until her espousal to Joseph of Nazareth. Before their marriage was performed, She was discovered to have conceived supernaturally, and in time She gave birth to a Son in a cave of Bethlehem. His given name was Jesus (Yeshua in Aramaic and Yahoshua in Hebrew). This Son of Miryam was as miraculous as His Mother, and astounding wonders were worked and manifested daily in His life-for the preservation of which His parents took Him into Egypt for some years where they lived with the various Essene communities there. But before that flight, when the Child had been about three years old, sages from India17 had come to pay Him homage and to establish a link of communication with Him, for His destiny was to live most of His life with them in the land of Eternal Dharma before returning to Israel as a messenger of the very illumination that had originally been at the heart of the Essene order. Through the intermediary of merchants and travellers both to and from India, contact was maintained with their destined Disciple. At the age of twelve, during the passover observances on Mount Carmel (not in Jerusalem), Jesus petitioned the elders of the Essenes for initiation-something bestowed only on adults after careful instruction and scrutiny. Because of His well-known supernatural character, the elders examined Him before all those present. Not only could He answer all their questions perfectly, when the examination was ended He began to examine them, putting to them questions and statements that were utterly beyond their comprehension. In this way He demonstrated that the Essene order had nothing whatever to teach Him, and that there was no need for Him to undergo any initiation or instruction from them. Upon His return to Nazareth preparations were begun for His journeying into India to formally become a disciple of those Masters who had come to Him nine years before. The necessary preliminaries took something more than a year, but sometime between the age of thirteen or fourteen,18 Jesus of Nazareth set forth on a spiritual pilgrimage that would transform Jesus the Nazarene into Isha the Lord, the Teacher of Dharma and Messiah of Israel. The spiritual training of Jesus In the Himalayan fastnesses Jesus was instructed in yoga and the highest spiritual life, receiving the spiritual name "Isha," which means Lord, Master, or Ruler, a descriptive title often applied to God, as in the Isha Upanishad. Isha is also a particular title of Shiva.19 The worship of Shiva centered in the form of the natural elliptical stone known as the Shiva Linga (Symbol of Shiva) was a part of the spiritual heritage of Jesus, for His ancestor Abraham, the father of the Hebrew nation, was a worshipper of that form. The Linga which he worshipped is today enshrined in Mecca within the Kaaba. The stone, which is black in color, is said to have been given to Abraham by the Archangel Gabriel, who instructed him in its worship. Such worship did not end with Abraham, but was practiced by his grandson Jacob, as is shown in the twenty-eighth chapter of Genesis. Unwittingly, because of the dark, Jacob used a Shiva Linga for a pillow and consequently had a vision of Shiva standing above the Linga which was symbolically seen as a ladder to heaven by means of which devas (shining ones) were coming and going. Recalling the devotion of Abraham and Isaac, Shiva spoke to Jacob and blessed him to be an ancestor of the Messiah. Upon awakening, Jacob declared that God was in that place though he had not realized it. The light of dawn revealed to him that his pillow had been a Shiva Linga, so he set it upright and worshipped it with an oil bath, as is traditional in the worship of Shiva, naming it (not the place) Bethel: the Dwelling of God. (In another account in the thirty-fifth chapter, it is said that Jacob "poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon." This, too, is traditional, both milk and honey-which Shiva promised Moses would flow abundantly in Israel-being poured over the Linga as offerings.) From thenceforth that place became a place of pilgrimage and worship of Shiva in the form of the Linga stone. Later Jacob had another vision of Shiva, Who told him: "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me."20 A perusal of the Old Testament will reveal that Bethel was the spiritual center for the descendants of Jacob, even above Jerusalem. Although this tradition of Shiva [Linga] worship has faded from the memory of the Jews and Christians, in the nineteenth century it was evidenced in the life of the stigmatic Anna Catherine Emmerich, an Augustinian Roman Catholic nun. On several occasions when she was deathly ill, angelic beings brought her crystal Shiva Lingas which they had her worship by pouring water over them. When she drank that water she would be perfectly cured. Furthermore, on major Christian holy days she would have out-of-body experience in which she would be taken to Hardwar, a city sacred to Shiva in the foothills of the Himalayas, and from there to Mount Kailash, the traditional abode of Shiva, which she said was the spiritual heart of the world. Isha's life in India For the next few years the Himalayas became Jesus' well-travelled home. During part of that time Jesus meditated in a cave north of the present-day city of Rishikesh, one of the most sacred locales of India, and also on the banks of the Ganges in the holy city of Hardwar. In the years He spent in the Himalayas, He attained the supreme heights of spiritual realization. Having attained perfect inner wisdom in the Himalayas, Jesus journeyed to the Gangetic plain to engage in the formal study that would prepare Him for the public teaching of Sanatana Dharma both in India and in the countries between India and Israel as well as in Israel itself. First he went to live in Benares, the spiritual heart of India, the city most consecrated to the worship of Shiva and the major center of Vedic learning in all of India. During His time in the Himalayas, Jesus' endeavors had been centered almost exclusively on the practice of yoga. In Benares Jesus engaged in intense study of the spiritual teachings embodied in the Vedic scriptures-especially the books of spiritual philosophy known as the Upanishads. He then journeyed to the sacred city of Jagannath Puri, which at that time was a great center of the worship of Shiva, second only to Benares. In Puri Jesus officially adopted the monastic life and lived some time as a member of the Govardhan Math,21 the monastery founded three centuries before His birth by the foremost philosopher-saint of India known as Adi Shankaracharya.22 There He perfected the synthesis of yoga, philosophy, and renunciation, and eventually began to publicly teach the Eternal Knowledge. As a teacher Jesus was as popular as He was proficient in teaching, and gained great notoriety among all levels of society. However, because He insisted that all men should learn and be taught the meaning of the Vedas and their allied scriptures and began teaching the "lower" castes accordingly, as well as teaching that all could attain spiritual perfection without the intermediary of external, ritualized religion, He incurred the hatred of many religious "professionals" in Puri who began to plot His death. Since "His hour was not yet come,"23 He left Puri and returned to the Himalayas where He again spent quite some time in meditation, preparing Himself for His return to Israel. He also lived in various Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan region, studying the wisdom of the Buddha. Before beginning the long journey westward, instructions were given Him regarding His mission in the West and the way messages could be sent between Jesus and His Indian teachers. Jesus was aware of the form and purpose of His life and death from His very birth, but it was the Indian Masters who made everything clear to Him regarding them. They promised Jesus that He would be sent a container of Himalayan Balsam to be poured upon His head by a close disciple as a sign that His death was imminent, even "at the door." When Saint Mary Magdalene performed this action in Bethany, Jesus understood the unspoken message, saying: "She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying."241 Return to the West Jesus then set forth on His return journey to Israel with the blessings of the Masters to thenceforth be a Dharmacharya,25 a missionary of Arya Dharma to the Mediterranean world, which at that time was "the West." All along His way, Jesus taught those who were drawn to His spiritual magnetism and who sought His counsel in the divine life. He promised that after some years He would be sending them one of His disciples who would give them even more knowledge and benefit. Arriving in Israel, Jesus went directly to the Jordan where his cousin John, the Master of the Essenes, was baptizing. There His Christhood was revealed to John and those who had "the eyes to see and the ears to hear."26 In this way His brief mission to Israel was begun. Its progress and conclusion are well known, so we need not recount it here except to rectify one point after the next section. Misunderstanding becomes a religion Throughout the Gospels we see that the disciples of Jesus consistently misunderstood his speaking of higher spiritual matters. When he spoke of the sword of wisdom they showed him swords of metal to assure him they were well equipped.27 When he warned them against the "leaven" of the Scribes and Pharisees they thought he was complaining that they did not have any bread.28 Is it any wonder, then that he said to them: "Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? How is it that ye do not understand?"29 Even in the moment of his final departure from them, their words showed that they still believed the kingdom of God was an earthly political entity and not the realm of spirit.30 This being so, the Gospels themselves must be approached with grave caution and with the awareness that Jesus was not the creator of a new religion, but a messenger of the Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Religion he had learned in India. As a priest of the Saint Thomas Christian Church of South India once commented to me: "You cannot understand the teachings of Jesus if you do not know the scriptures of India." And if you do know the scriptures of India you can see where-however well-intentioned they may have been-the authors of the Gospels often completely missed the point and garbled the words and ideas they heard from Jesus, even attributing to him incidents from the life of Buddha (such as the Widow's Mite) and mistaking his quotations from the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Dhammapada for doctrines original to him. For example, the opening verse of the Gospel of John, which has been cited through the centuries as proof of the unique character and mission of Jesus, is really a paraphrase of the Vedic verse: "In the beginning was Prajapati, with Him was the Word, and the Word was truly the Supreme Brahman."31 Having confused Christ with Jesus, things could only go downhill for them and their followers until the true Gospel of Christ was buried beneath two millennia of confusion and theological debris. Return to India-not ascension It is generally supposed that at the end of His ministry in Israel Jesus ascended into heaven. But Saint Matthew and Saint John, the two Evangelists that were eye-witnesses of His departure, do not even mention such a thing, for they knew that He went to India after departing from them. Saint Mark and Saint Luke, who were not there, simply speak of Jesus being taken up into the heavens. The truth is that He departed into India, though it is not unlikely that He did rise up and "fly" there. This form of travel is not unknown to the Indian yogis. That Jesus did not leave the world at the age of thirty-three was written about by Saint Irenaeus of Lyon in the second century. He claimed that Jesus lived to be fifty or more years old before leaving the earth, though he also said that Jesus was crucified at the age of thirty-three. This would mean that Jesus lived twenty years after the crucifixion. This assertion of Saint Irenaeus has puzzled Christian scholars for centuries, but if we put it together with other traditions it becomes comprehensible. Basilides of Alexandria, Mani of Persia, and Julian the Emperor said that Jesus had gone to India after His crucifixion. Some Buddhist historical records about Jesus A contemporary written record of the life and teachings of Jesus in India was discovered in 1887 by the Russian traveler Nicholas Notovitch during his wanderings in Ladakh. He had it translated from the Tibetan text (the original, kept in the Marbour monastery near Lhasa, was in Pali) and, despite intense opposition from Christians in Russia and Europe, published it in his book The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ.32 As would be expected, the authenticity of Notovitch's book was attacked33 and various articles written claiming that the monks of the Himis monastery, where Notovitch had found the manuscript, told investigators that they knew nothing of Notovitch or the text. But both Swami Abhedananda and Swami Trigunatitananda-direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna34 and preachers of Vedanta35 in America-went at separate times to the Himis monastery. The monks there not only assured them that Notovitch had spent some time in the monastery as he claimed, they also showed them the manuscript-part of which they translated for Swami Abhedananda, who knew from having read Notovitch's book that it was indeed the same writing found in The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. Subsequently, Abhedananda had the English translation of Notovitch's text printed in India where the Christian authorities had until then prohibited both its publication or its importation and sale. Swami Trigunatitananda not only saw the manuscript in Himis, he also was shown two paintings of Jesus. One was a depiction of His conversation with the Samaritan Woman at the well. The other was of Jesus meditating in the Himalayan forest surrounded by wild beasts that were tamed by His very presence. A copy made from his description is reproduced on the cover of this booklet. Later, Dr. Nicholas Roerich, the renowned scholar, philosopher, artist, and explorer, traveled in Ladakh and also was shown the manuscript and assured by the monks that Jesus had indeed lived in several Buddhist monasteries during His "lost years." He wrote about his own viewing of the scrolls in his book The Heart of Asia. In 1921 the Himis monastery was visited by Henrietta Merrick who, in her book In the World's Attic tells of learning about the records of Jesus' life that were kept there. She wrote: "In Leh is the legend of Jesus who is called Issa, and the Monastery at Himis holds precious documents fifteen hundred years old which tell of the days that he passed in Leh where he was joyously received and where he preached." In 1939 Elizabeth Caspari visited the Himis monastery. The Abbot showed her some scrolls, which he allowed her to examine, saying: "These books say your Jesus was here." Robert Ravicz, a former professor of anthropology at California State University at Northridge, visited Himis in 1975. A Ladakh physician he met there spoke of Jesus' having been there during His "lost years." In the late 1970s Edward Noack, author of Amidst Ice and Nomads in High Asia, and his wife visited the Himis monastery. A monk there told him: "There are manuscripts in our library that describe the journey of Jesus to the East." Toward the end of this century the diaries of a Moravian Missionary, Karl Marx, were discovered in which he writes of Notovitch and his finding of scrolls about "Saint Issa." (Marx's diaries are kept in the Moravian Mission museum. The pages about Notovitch and the scrolls have "disappeared" and their existence is now denied in an attempt to discredit Notovitch, but before their disappearance they were photographed by a European researcher and have been made public.) From all this testimony we see that Jesus studied the Buddhist Dharma as well as the Hindu Dharma during His life in India. Notovitch also claimed that the Vatican Library had sixty-three manuscripts from India, China, Egypt, and Arabia-all giving information about Jesus' life. In 1812, Meer Izzut-oolah, a Persian, was sent to Ladakh and central Asia by the East India Company. Though religion was not his mission, he observed much and subsequently wrote in his book Travels in Central Asia: "They keep sculptured representations of departed saints, prophets and lamas in their temples for contemplation. Some of these figures are said to represent a certain prophet who is living in the heavens, which would appear to point to Jesus Christ." When Swami Abhedananda was in the Himis monastery doing his research on the records of Jesus life in India he was told by the abbot that Jesus had not departed from the earth at the time His Apostles saw Him ascend, but that He had returned to India where he lived with the Himalayan yogis for many years. The Nathanamavali The Bengali educator and patriot, Bipin Chandra Pal, published an autobiographical sketch in which he revealed that Vijay Krishna Goswami, a renowned saint of Bengal and a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, told him about spending time in the Aravalli mountains with a group of extraordinary ascetic monk-yogis known as Nath Yogis. The monks spoke to him about Isha Nath, whom they looked upon as one of the great teachers of their order. When Vijay Krishna expressed interest in this venerable guru, they read his life as recorded in one of their sacred books, the Nathanamavali.36 It was the life of Him Whom the Goswami knew as Jesus the Christ! Here is the relevant portion of that book: "Isha Natha came to India at the age of fourteen. After this he returned to his own country and began preaching. Soon after, his brutish and materialistic countrymen conspired against him and had him crucified. After crucifixion, or perhaps even before it, Isha Natha entered samadhi by means of yoga.37 "Seeing him thus, the Jews presumed he was dead, and buried him in a tomb. At that very moment however, one of his gurus, the great Chetan Natha, happened to be in profound meditation in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, and he saw in a vision the tortures which Isha Natha was undergoing. He therefore made his body lighter than air and passed over to the land of Israel. "The day of his arrival was marked with thunder and lightning, for the gods were angry with the Jews, and the whole world trembled. When Chetan Natha arrived, he took the body of Isha Natha from the tomb, woke him from his samadhi, and later led him off to the sacred land of the Aryans. Isha Natha then established an ashram in the lower regions of the Himalayas and he established the cult of the lingam there."38 This assertion is supported by two relics of Jesus which are presently found in Kashmir. One is His staff, which is kept in the monastery of Aish-Muqan and is made accessible to the public in times of public catastrophe such as floods or epidemics. The other is the Stone of Moses-a Shiva linga that had belonged to Moses and which Jesus brought to Kashmir. This linga is kept in the Shiva temple at Bijbehara in Kashmir. One hundred and eight pounds in weight, if eleven people put one finger on the stone and recite "Ka" over and over, it will rise three feet or so into the air and remain suspended as long as the recitation continues.39 "Shiva" means one who is auspicious and gives blessings and happiness. In ancient Sanskrit the word ka means to please and to satisfy-that which Shiva does for His worshippers. The Bhavishya Maha Purana One ancient book of Kashmiri history, the Bhavishya Maha Purana, gives the following account of the meeting of a king of Kashmir with Jesus sometime after the middle of the first century: "When the king of the Sakas came to the Himalayas, he saw a dignified person of golden complexion wearing a long white robe. Astonished to see this foreigner, he asked, 'Who are you?' The dignified person replied in a pleasant manner: 'Know me as Son of God [Isha Putram], or Born of a Virgin [Kumarigarbhasangbhawam]. Being given to truth and penances, I preached the Dharma to the mlecchas....O King, I hail from a land far away, where there is no truth, and evil knows no limits. I appeared in the country of the mlecchas as Isha Masiha [Jesus Messiah] and I suffered at their hands. For I said unto them, '"Remove all mental and bodily impurities. Remember the Name of our Lord God. Meditate upon Him Whose abode is in the center of the sun."'40 There in the land of mleccha darkness, I taught love, truth, and purity of heart. I asked human beings to serve the Lord. But I suffered at the hands of the wicked and the guilty. In truth, O King, all power rests with the Lord, Who is in the center of the sun. And the elements, and the cosmos, and the sun, and God Himself, are forever. Perfect, pure, and blissful, God is always in my heart. Thus my Name has been established as Isha Masiha.' After having heard the pious words from the lips of this distinguished person, the king felt peaceful, made obeisance to him, and returned."41 The word mleccha is a powerfully derogatory term meaning one who is unclean, barbaric and abhorrent, an alien to all that is good and true. A mleccha is execrable on all levels of his being. The fact that Jesus would refer the Israelites themselves as "mlecchas" and Israel as "the land of the mlecchas...where there is no truth, and evil knows no limits...the land of mleccha darkness" indicates that He in no way identified with either the people or the religion of Israel. He was fully a Sanatana Dharmi-follower of the Eternal Dharma. Another Kashmiri history, the Rajatarangini, written in 1148 A.D., says that a great saint named Issana lived at Issabar on the bank of Dal Lake and had many disciples, one of which he raised from the dead. When teaching in Israel, Jesus told the people: "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,"42 speaking of His Indian disciples. For when Jesus came to the Jordan at the beginning of His ministry, He had spent more years of His life in India than in Israel. And He returned there for the remainder of His life, because in all things He was a Son of India-the Christ of India.43 This is the cave north of Rishikesh in which Sri Isha lived for some time. In the last century both Swami Rama Tirtha and Swami (Papa) Ramdas lived there (at separate times), and had visions of Isha meditating there, though they had no prior knowledge of His having lived there.

plz help with Gigaplant Swarm deck? i have just know about this type and love it mainly because it is so cheap so tell me what changes i could make to make even more tournament worthy and help on side deck mainly against macro decks and dad. thinking about take out cyber dragons but wat shoud i replace them with no mirror force plz plus i don't like the otk one with the mass driver and gigaplant loop here it is: 3 Gigaplant 3 Lonefire Blossom 1 Lord Poison 1 Blazewing Butterfly 2 UFO Turtle 1 Snipe Hunter 1 Sangan 1 spirit reaper 2 cyber dragon 1 Metal Armored Bug 1 Prime Material dragon 1 Morphing Jar 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 3 Card of Safe Return 2 Swing of Memories 1 Premature Burial 2 Lightning Vortex 1 Monster Reborn 1 Furture Fusion 1 Heavy Storm 1 Brain Control 2 symbols of heritage 2 dust tornado 1 torrential tribute 2 Threatening Roar 3 raigeki break thx oh forgot fusion deck 3 Superalloy Beast Raptinus

Rate my yugioh dragon deck !!!!!!!!? hey heres my dragon deck plz rate 0/10 fusion deck/five headed dragon,b. skull dragon ,blue eyes ultimate dragon,dragon master knight, monsters,blue eyes white dragon x 3, black luster soliderx 2, blue eyes toon(and toon world), mirage dragons x3, blue eyes shining, red eyes darkness, red eyes black dragon x 2, luster dragons x 3 , amored dragons lv3,5,7,10, divine dragon ragnarok x 2, divine dragon-excellion x 2, mased dragons x2, lord of D, summoned skull, winged dragon,guardian of the fortress#1, spear dragon, element dragon, traps , magic chinder x 2 , drianing shield x2, the dragons bead, gravity bind, sakuretsu amour, magican arm shield, return from the diffrent dimension dragons rage interdimensional matter transporter spellbinding circle negate attack x 2 dust tornadesx3 spells symbol of heritagex2 diffrent dimension capsule 3x polymerization mystical space typoonx2 fusion gate 3x premature buial

Does YHWH have a special place in hell for those that made themselves gods? Bread and wine are ancient GODLY symbols. " Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High." - Genesis 14:18 The beginning of understanding is, as always, with the name first. The word "Malki-Tzedek," is two separate Hebrew words which mean king, and right or just. The two words together mean king of righteousness (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary #4428, 6664, 4442). Melchizedek was directly appointed by YAHWEH to be King of Righteousness and King of Salem. In Hebrew, Salem means peaceful. Jerusalem means founded in peace, (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary #3389). Most Biblical scholars believe it means that he was King of the area we know today as Jerusalem (Ps.76:1-2). Jerusalem is the Holy City of the Bible, no other holy book of any other religion mentions Jerusalem. Melchizedek was the Priest of the most high GOD. He was the first messianic 'like' figure recorded to occupy the area known today as Jerusalem. He also had the rare title of King-Priest, which will be used in the future by the prophesied Messiah (Ps.ch.110). The Melchizedek Order is important to the Messianic church because Yahshua is the High Priest of the ancient Rites according to the order "Malki-Tzedek," or in English, Melchizedek, Hebrews 6:20. This mysterious order, first mentioned in Genesis 14:18, and is referenced eight times in the Bible (Gen.14:18-20; Ps.110:4; Heb.5:6,10, 6:20, 7:11, 17, 21). Coincidently, eight is the Biblical number of new beginnings (1Pet.3:20; Gen.17:12; 1Sam.16:1-12). *BEWARE: Melchizedek is a Sacred Order not of this world. The earthly Believers are a peculiar treasure, kings and priests in training for this Heavenly Order (Exo.19:5-6; 1Pet.2:9). No mere mortal can change this Order, nor can anyone take this honor to himself (Heb.5:4). In other words once you get your "wings," then you will become part of this Heavenly Order - but not until then. From the book The Mystical Rites of our CREATOR

Could someone tell me how to improve my zombie summon deck? MONSTERS: (23) Pyramid Turtle (x3) Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower (x2) King Of The Skull Servants Skull Servant (x3) The Lady In Wight (x3) Return Zombie Fear From The Dark Zombie Master Ryu Kokki Despair From The Dark Vampire's Curse Vampire Lord Vampire Genesis Spear Cretin Dark Crusader MAGICS: (14) Swing Of Memories Shrink Symbols Of Duty Enemy Controller The Shallow Grave Dark Eruption Foolish Burial Card Of Safe Return Premature Burial Call Of The Mummy Book Of Life Lightning Vortex Mystical Space Typhoon Creature Swap TRAPS:(11) Tutan Mask Draining Shield Call Of The Haunted Torrential Tribute Acid Trap Hole Bottomless Trap Hole Deck Devestation Virus Judgement Of Anubis Shadow Spell Black Horn Of Heaven Sakuretsu Armor I need a deck of 40 cards so please help me sort out the ones I dont need and the ones I do need or need to get =) Actually I think its called a Zombie Swarm Deck Ok I got rid of the magics and traps I dont need, same with the monsters but I cant afford 1 Il Blud, nevermind 2 and where does one get a goblin zombie?

Have you ever bought an Edgar Cayce Past Life reading from astrology.com? I did 2 years ago. I didn't know much about astrology back then. but it was so true. I am looking over it now and wow, the best $10 spent in my life: On the resourceful side, Eugene, Neptune is the dream dimension which enhances your intuition and urges toward spirituality and mysticism. As Mercury is the mental realm of thought and communication, the merging of your experiences in these two realms of awareness gives you a very intuitive mode of thinking and communicating. You are naturally able to communicate -- with your inner self and with others -- in terms of dream symbols, for instance, and are far more receptive than average to communications and contacts involving the spiritual world. From Neptune, itself a higher octave of ever-creative Venus, you have natural abilities in music, drama and poetry, especially as applied to mystical, mysterious and romantic themes. You could also do well in writing and lecturing about dreams, mysticism, prayer and spiritual healing. So true. I'm great at writing and talking about spiritual healings. "On the more challenging side, Eugene, Neptune is the realm of illusion, and combined with logical, rational Mercury, in your very sensitive thought processes and reactions you are likely to experience difficulties in separating what is truly logical and rational from fantasy and illusion. In other words, at times you tend to live in a visionary dream world in which your mental processes appear to be blurred or weakened by a diffusion of energy. This in turn calls for a greater need to exercise your will toward stronger mental concentration. Recommended are meditation accompanied by yoga breathing and posture, guided imagery and visualization exercises which help in focusing your mind sharply." Hahaha that's why I am called naive. "As you are extremely impressionable and sensitive, alcohol and drugs in any form should be avoided. For the same reason very special care should be taken in opening your psychic senses. Your impressionability and intuitive sensitivity at such times could so overpower your rational mental forces that you might be liable to obsession or possession. Warnings are also needed in the area of deception, as this planetary aspect between Neptune and Mercury can bring difficulties in being deceived by others, as well as deceiving yourself. Absolute honesty with yourself and others at all times, together with a close monitoring of your actions in light of your personal spiritual ideals, would be invaluable." OH YES!!! I learned that the hard way. When I was opening my psychic senses, hell broke loose. I did go into obsession and possesions. OCD. Psychotic disorders. Neptune and Uranus are the most intuitive planets. This is only like 4%. Such a great reading. By the way, its based on astrology. What I just did is copied the aspect of mine Mercury Conjucts Neptune. Both Capricorn. But its abut aspects not signs. That answers my old question; what makes a person spiritual. Well one of the examples at least.

Was Jesus Crist an initiated of Reiki? --What the bible said? Similarities between the Healing of Jesus and Reiki by William Lee Rand John 14-12: "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me, can do the same miracles I have done, and even greater things than these will you do." One of the outstanding aspects of Jesus' life was the miracles he worked. According to the Bible, Jesus walked on water, fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fishes, changed water to wine and raised people from the dead. However, the most meaningful of his miracles were the healings he performed. These healings include: paralysis, lameness, fever, catalepsy, hemorrhage, skin disease, mental disorders, spirit possession, deafness and blindness. Many of these healings were accomplished by the laying on of hands. This is indicated frequently in the New Testament, Luke 4:40 states: "When the Sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hand on each one, he healed them." In Matthew 8:14-15, Jesus uses touch to heal Peter's mother-in-law of a fever. In Mark 1:40-42 Jesus uses his hands to heal a man with leprosy. This is also mentioned in Luke 5:12-13. Matthew 20:29-34 describes how Jesus healed two blind men by touching their eyes and in Mark 8:22-25 Jesus uses his hands to heal another blind man. In Mark 7:32 35 he uses touch to heal a man who is deaf and can't speak. In Luke 7:12-15, Jesus raises a dead man by touching his coffin and in Luke 8:49-55 Jesus uses touch to return a dead girl to life. There are many similarities between the laying on of hands healing Jesus did and the practice of Reiki. One important similarity is the fact that Jesus could pass the power to heal on to others which is similar to the Reiki attunement process. We read in Luke 9:1-2 that Jesus gave his twelve disciples power to drive out all demons and to cure diseases. We do not know by what process Jesus gave healing power to his disciples, but the fact that he was able to pass it on to them indicates an important similarity with Reiki. Another aspect of Jesus' healing practice that is similar to Reiki relates to faith. While faith was required for many of the healings he performed, it appears that the healings Jesus did with his hands did not require faith. Mark 6:5-6 states: "He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith." So, in spite of the fact that they did not believe, Jesus was still able to use laying on of hands to heal. This is one of the important aspects of Reiki: It does not require faith on the part of those receiving a treatment in order for the Reiki to work. The fact that Jesus had secret teachings he gave only to those who he had given healing power is clearly indicated in Matthew 13:10-11 and Mark 4:10-12 & 34. Secret knowledge is also part of the Reiki teachings in that the symbols as well as the process of doing attunements are traditionally kept secret and only made available to those who take a Reiki class. It is not known whether Jesus was born with the ability to heal through touch or if this was something he acquired. His activities between age twelve and thirty are not mentioned in the Bible. It has been suggested by several researchers that during this time Jesus traveled to the East and was schooled in many of the mystical teachings of India, Tibet and China. If this is so, it is possible that Jesus was initiated into a healing technique, during this time. On the other hand, it is possible that Jesus was taught directly by God or the Holy Spirit or simply had these abilities from birth. There is some good information indicating that the healing methods of Jesus were preserved by the Church of the East and passed on by it's missionaries who traveled along the Silk Road and other trade routes to India, Tibet and China. It is possible that this information on healing could have been incorporated into the religious teachings of the East and therefore could have been the original source of the Reiki techniques that were used by Dr. Usui. The early followers of Jesus' teachings were made up of several groups. One such group was the Gnostics. They practiced laying on of hands and professed to have a secret knowledge that had been passed on to them by Jesus and his disciples. The Gnostics were made up of many smaller groups some of which were known as the Docetists, the Marcionites, and the Carpocratians. They were united by their core beliefs which included: a personal experience of Jesus or the "kingdom of heaven within," their freedom and lack of rules, guidelines or creeds and their reliance on inspiration and inner guidance. Their existence is attested to by the Gnostic gospels which are part of the Nag Hamadi Library which was discovered in Egypt in 1959. The fact that Jesus had additional teachings not recorded in the Bible is attested to in a letter written in the second century AD by the early Church father, Clement of Alexandria. In Clement's letter, he spoke of a secret gospel of Mark which was based on the normal canonical one but with additions for special followers of Jesus, referred to as "those who were being perfected" and "those who are being initiated into the great mysteries." When Christianity became organized after the second century, its teachings were centered around faith and the official teachings of the church, rather than healing or "good works" and inner guidance as practiced by the Gnostics. At this time, those promoting the organization of the church began subduing and banishing those Gnostics who would not conform to the authority of the newly developing Church. In addition they tried to destroy the Gnostic gospels. With the elimination of the Gnostics and the establishment of the Official Christian Church, the practice of laying on hands by lay Christians was strongly discouraged. Jesus possessed great confidence in his ability and was able to heal in an instantaneous way with spectacular results. It is clear that he had perfected many skills and used them in conjunction to get the results he created. Clearly the Bible indicates that he did healing by laying on hands and also indicated that we could do the same. The teachings of Jesus, as well as the example he set are a great inspiration for us

Rate my remade of Elemental Hero deck? Effect Monsters: 2 King of Swamp 1 Bubbleman 1 Necroshade 2 Wildheart 1 Bladedge 1 Marshmallon 1 Morphing Jar 1 Stratos 1 Penguin Soldier 1 Grand Mole Normal Monsters: 1 Neos 2 Sparkman 2 Burstinatrix 2 Clayman 2 Avian Magic: 2 Emergency Call 1 Rightous Justice 1 Oversoul 1 Mystical Space Typhoon 1 Swords of R 1 Pot of Avarice 3 Polymerization 2 Miracle Fusion 1 Mage Power 1 Symbols of duty 1 Future Fusion 1 Skyscraper 1 Skyscraper 2 Traps: 1 Justi-Break (until I get Mirror Force) 1 Torrential Tribute 2 Sakuretsu Armor 2 Ordeal of a Traveler Fusions: 1 UFOroid Fighter 1 Shining Flare Wingman 1 Shining Phoenix Enforcer 1 Flame Wingman 1 Phoenix Enforcer 1 Thunder Giant 1 Rampart Blaster 1 Tempest 1 Electrum 1 Plasma Vice 1 Steam Healer 1 Mariner 2 Darkbright 2 Necriod Shaman 3 Wildedge 3 Wildwingman I switched Neos for Sangan I took out 1 Ordeal of traveler Changes: - 1 Neos - 1 penguin soldier +1 Swift gaia the fierce knight +1 Sangan - 2 ordeal of a traveler + 1 Astral Barrier + 1 Spirit Barrier

My research paper.....good or bad? Pythagorean Theorem Pythagoras (569-500 B.C.E.) was born on the island of Samos in Greece, and did much traveling through Egypt, learning, among other things, mathematics. Not much more is known of his early years. Pythagoras gained his famous status by founding a group, the Brotherhood of Pythagoreans, which was devoted to the study of mathematics. The group was almost cult-like in that it had symbols, rituals and prayers. In addition, Pythagoras believed that "Number rules the universe,” and the Pythagoreans gave numerical values to many objects and ideas. These numerical values, in turn, were endowed with mystical and spiritual qualities. Legend has it that upon completion of his famous theorem, Pythagoras sacrificed 100 oxen. Although he is credited with the discovery of the famous theorem, it is not possible to tell if Pythagoras is the actual author. The Pythagoreans wrote many geometric proofs, but it is difficult to ascertain who proved what, as the group wanted to keep their findings secret. Unfortunately, this vow of secrecy prevented an important mathematical idea from being made public. The Pythagoreans had discovered irrational numbers! If we take an isosceles right triangle with legs of measure 1, the hypotenuse will measure sqrt 2. But this number cannot be expressed as a length that can be measured with a ruler divided into fractional parts, and that deeply disturbed the Pythagoreans, who believed that "All is number." They called these numbers "alogon," which means "unutterable." So shocked were the Pythagoreans by these numbers, they put to death a member who dared to mention their existence to the public. It would be 200 years later that the Greek mathematician Eudoxus developed a way to deal with these unutterable numbers. How to use the Pythagorean theorem in real life? Well you can use it in Air Force, if you’re a weatherman. When the clouds were relatively low, you used a high intensity light (like an aircraft landing light) to find the exact height. You set the light 500 feet away and turned it on. You could see where it hit the clouds fairly easily. Then you had a protractor connected to a small telescope. You looked at where the light hit the cloud and a string hanging from the center of the protractor told you what the angle was that we were looking at. By using trig you could find how high the cloud was and how far away it was. Using Pythagorean theorem we you could check your work. A little more about Pythagorean Theorem back when Pythagoras solved this himself, there were no traditional measures or rules and him and his mathematical society came up with it after seeing that the 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 which they were able to prove easily, from there this theorem was formulated. And here for further understanding of Pythagorean Theorem. Pythagorean is (a squared) + (b squared) = (c squared). When in a right triangle, C is the hypotenuse, which is the longest side of the triangle that is opposite the right angle. So this equation is used to find the different sides of the triangle. A and B are the other two sides, just for the information. So if a triangle’s two non-hypotenuse sides were 3 and 4, you could plug them in like this: (3 squared) + (4 squared) = (c squared) 9 + 1 = c^2 25 = c^2 And 5 would be your answer! J Block 4 December 10, 2008

rate my gemini/synchro deck? 3x chthonian emperor dragon 2x magna drago 2x blazewing butterfly 1x sangan 1x snipe hunter 1x morphing jar 2x dark valkyria 3x masked dragon 2x magical merchant 3x swing of memories 1x nobleman crossout 2x dragons mirror 1x united we stand 2x lightning vortex 1x enemy controller 1x heavy storm 1x mystical space typhoon 1x brain control 1x creature swap 1x scapegoat 1x future fusion 1x monster reborn 1x symbols of duty 2x solemn judgment 1x mirror force 1x birthright 1x torrential tribute fusion deck 3x superalloy beast raptinus 3x 5 headed dragon synchros 2x stardust dragon 2x red dragon archfiend sidedeck smashing ground 2 royal decree blazewing card destruction 2x hand destruction 2 luster dragons 2 cold wave 2 dust tornado twin headed behemoth in side