Podcasts about Serapis

Send us a textThe Cross – Iconoclasms - The Arcane Mysteries Of Egyptian Idols - In our 4th and final study on the Pagan Idolatry of the Cross, we will cover the Egyptian connection more, iconoclasm, and Biblical ways to worship. We will also provide one last warning to the Body of Christ to forsake the evil deception of the devil. Forsake The Idols And Imagery Of Egypt International Study Bible Encyclopedia: CrossThe sign of the cross was well known in the symbolic of various ancient nations. Among the Egyptians it is said to have been the symbol of divinity and eternal life, and to have been found in the temple of Serapis. It is known either in the form of the Greek cross or in the form of the letter “T”. The Spaniards found it to be well known, as a symbol, by the Mexicans and Peruvians, perhaps signifying the four elements, or the four seasons, or the four points of the compass.Watch The Videohttps://youtu.be/JoE6MjAFmfMWebsite + PDFhttps://brotherlance.com/cross-is-pagan-idolatry/4/New IntroSupport the showBecome A SupporterJOIN US!> Main Website: https://brotherlance.com/> Free Book: http://weshallbelikehim.com/> Free Music: https://brotherlance.com/brother-lance-music/> Social - Gab: https://gab.com/BrotherLance

​BOO. BONUS. Demigods & Magicians pt2. The Staff Of Serapis.Welcome back to our Riordanverse readalong and analysis podcast!! Here's SZN17 Episode 19, where we discuss the second in the short trilogy of stories where everyone's favourite demigods and magicians cross over for some great little Greek/Egyptian heroism. It's Annabeth and Sadie's turn and they're fighting against the union of a triple ice cream cone! The girls have a much better communication style than the boys, and the Big Mother is back!! We hope you'll join us next week for more Heroes of Olympus bonus content.xx Kate & Jo::SOCIALS::Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damsnackbarpod/ (@damsnackbarpod) Send us an IrisMessage to join our community. Email us at damsnackbarpod@outlook.com All of our other social media is linked here: https://linktr.ee/damsnackbarpod Episode Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ias3T7SOBIJe-_RDgau-po_7BQqJYS0aZbZ096BKk4g/edit?usp=sharing

Website: https://chthonia.netPatreon: https://patreon.com/chthoniaMerch: https://chthoniapodcast.creator-spring.com/School: https://instituteforfemininemyth.orgBooks: https://chthonia.net/publicationsThis week's episode is on Serapis, a Graeco-Egyptian deity promoted by Ptolemy I Soter (Macedonian general who became ruler of Egypt) around the 200s BCE. Serapis is a male deity that combines elements of Hades/Pluto, Dionysus, Osiris, Apis, and Helios--and may have some connections to the Jesus myth. We certainly see how Emperor worship becomes folded into the mythology of this period, and its later influence on Christianity. As our current society is going through upheavals and changes in its worldviews, it is worth considering a syncretic deity that was worshipped at another time of upheaval.

The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd KhunIt may be that many of you have come to this lecture with the expectation of hearing about the superstitious beliefs of some ancient fire-worshippers or sun-worshippers. You may wonder why we should presume to waste an evening dilating upon the childish fancies of early peoples who could conceive of no more exalted form of deity in the universe than the physical body of our sun. Can there possibly be anything important in the study of such forms of crude fetishism?Let me disabuse your minds of any such prepossession at once. We have not invited you to hear of infantile nonsense of early child-humanity. On the contrary, it is our opinion that there is not a theme within the entire range of religious interest of such sublimity and authentic grandeur as this subject of the Sun-gods. We have come to the persuasion that this is the most important lecture that we have given or shall ever give. In it there is to be found the central thesis of all religion. We have asked you to hear an exposition of the cardinal principle of all true religion. Instead of dealing with an erratic notion of primitive barbarism, we have to present to you this evening the long-lost supreme datum of all high religion. And it is our design to show that religion in the world has drifted so far away from its original base that it no longer recognizes the very first and fundamental conception about which it was in the beginning constructed. The myth of the Sun-gods is the very heart's core of religion at its best.It is commonly supposed that religious honors were paid to the sun as a deity by a few isolated peoples or sects, such as the Parsees and the ancient Ghebers of Persia, and some African tribes. In correction of this view we are prepared to support the declaration that the worship of the Sun-god was quite universal in the ancient world. It ranged from China and India to Yucatan and Peru. The Emperor and the Mikado, as well as the Incas, and the Pharaohs were Sun-god figures. And is the belief only an empty myth? So far from being such, it is at once the highest embodiment of religious conception in the spiritual history of the race.Since the word "myth" occurs in the title, it is necessary to define it so that we may the better glimpse the nature of the subject. To the modern mind the word carries with it a derogatory implication. To reduce any construction to the status of a myth is to put it out of court and render it valueless. We regard a myth as a fiction and a falsity. To show that a theory or a belief is only a myth, is to relegate it to the world of non-reality, and dismiss it from further consideration as a thing of value.Not so with the ancients. With them (the ancients) a myth was a valuable instrumentality of knowledge. It was an intellectual, even a spiritual, tool, by the aid of which truth and wisdom could at one and the same time both be concealed from the unworthy and expressed for the worthy. The ancients rightly regarded spiritual truth and experience as being incapable of expression or impartation by means of words simply. A myth or an allegory could be made the better means of conveying subtly and with a certain added force, the truth veiled under a set form of dramatic presentation. The myth would enhance spiritual truth as a drama reinforces moral situations. It was all the more powerful in its message precisely because it was known not to be outwardly a true story. No one was caught by the literal falsity of the construction. Attention could therefore be given wholly to the hidden import, which was not obscured by the outward occurrence. The myth was known to be a fiction; therefore it deceived nobody--until the third century. But at the same time it was most ingeniously designed to instruct in the deepest of spiritual truths. It was a literary device to embalm lofty wisdom in the amber of a tradition that could be easily remembered, in the guise of a human story. It was truth incarnated in a dramatic occurrence, which was known to be untrue. Outwardly fictitious, but inwardly the substance of a mighty truth, was the myth. And as such it was the universal dress in which ancient knowledge was clothed.To indicate the universality of the Sun-god myth it is only necessary to enumerate some thirty of the chief figures known as Sun-gods amongst the nations about the Eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of Jesus. There were in Egypt, Osiris, Horus, Serapis, Hermes or Taht (Thoth), Khunsu, Atum (Aten, Adon, the Adonis or Phrygia), Iusa, Iu-sa, Iu-em-hetep; in Syria, Atis, Sabazius, Zagreus, Kybele (femine); in Assyria Tammuz; in Babylonia, Marduk and Sargon; in Persia, Mithra, Ahura-Mazda and the Zoroasters; in Greece, Orpheus, Bacchus (Dionysus), Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Jason, Prometheus; in India, Vyasa, Krishna, Buddha; in Tibet the Boddhisattvas; besides many others elsewhere.Likewise in the ancient Mystery dramas the central character was ever the Sun-god the role being enacted by the candidate for initiation in person. He went through the several initiations as himself the type and representative of the solar divinity in the field of human experience.Moreover, the Patriarchs, Prophets, Priests and Kings of Biblical lore are no less Sun-god figures. For in their several characteristics they are seen to be typical of the Christos.From the study of a mass of the ancient material the sincere and disingenuous student becomes ere long convinced of the fact that the Jesus figure of the Gospels, whether he lived historically or not (and there is much question of it even among theologians), is just another in the long list of the solar gods. They were figured by ancient poetic genius as embodiments of divine solar glory living among men, if they were not purely the mythical constructions of the allegorists.These Sun-god characters, of none of whom can it be said positively that they were living personages, were, it must be clearly noted, purely typical figures in the national epics of the several nations. They were symbols, one might say. But of what were they symbolical? That is the point of central importance. They were representative characters, summing and epitomizing in themselves the spiritual history of the human individual in his march across the field of evolving life on earth. They were the types and models of the divine potentiality pictured as coming to realization in their careers. They were the mirror held up to men, in which could be seen the possibilities locked up in man's own nature. They were type-figures, delineating the divine life that was an ever-possible realization for any devoted man. They were the symbols of an ever-coming deity, a deity that came not once historically in Judea, but that came to ever-fuller expression and liberation in the inner heart of every son of man. The solar deities were the gods that ever came, that were described as coming not once upon a time, but continuously and regularly. Their radiant divinity might be consummated by any earnest person at any time or achieved piecemeal.They were typed as ever-coming or coming regularly because they were symboled by the sun in its annual course around the zodiac of twelve signs, and the regular periodicity of this natural symbol typified the ever-continuing character of their spiritual sunlight. The ancients, in a way and to a degree almost incomprehensible to the unstudied modern, had made of the sun's annual course round the heavens a faithful reproduction of the spiritual history of the divine spirit in man. The god in us was emblemed by the sun in its course, and the sun's varied experiences, as fabulously construed, were a reflection of our own incarnational history. The sun in its movements through the signs was made the mirror of our life in spirit. To follow the yearly round of the zodiac was to epitomize graphically the whole history of human experience. Thus the inner meaning of our mortal life was endlessly repeated in the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly cycle of the sun's passage, the seven or twelve divisions of which marked the seven- or twelvefold segmentation of our spiritual history or our initiations. (They were figured at first as seven, later as twelve, when the solar gods came upon the cosmic scene.)The careers of these solar gods, then, were a type of what is occurring to every man who is dowered with the spark of divine soul within his breast. Each one of us has had or will have his festival of conception in June, his birth into the world of fleshly life in the autumn, his spiritual awakening at Christmas, and his glorious resurrection from the dead body of this life at Easter.The Christians say the Christos came once in a single character in history, Jesus of Judea, saying nothing about his coming to Everyman at all times. They present to the world the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, confusing in one historical figure two distinct characters of ancient philosophy, the Logos and the Christos, and making both historical in a human being born of woman. Suffice it to say that neither character was historical in the ancient systems. The Logos and the Christos were cosmic forces, and the erring Christians confounded these "personages" of ancient philosophy with the mundane career of the man Jesus, who was not other than one of the mythical Sun-god heroes, or national type-figures. What a travesty of truth the Christian representation has become! What a caricature the Gospels have made of the divine spiritual principle in man's life!The ancients had no "only-begotten" son because the term used in their systems, miserably mistranslated "only-begotten," was something with quite a different connotation. It was in Greek "monogenes," and in Latin "unigenitus," and was far from meaning "only-begotten." It meant that which was begotten of one parent, the father, alone, not the offspring of the union of father and mother. By the term the ancients meant to designate him who was the projection into matter of the spirit forces of life, not the final product of the union of spirit and matter, or the male and female elements. Had the early Christian Fathers known of the inner meaning of the symbolism of the Egyptian Ptah, as Khepr-Ra, who was typed by the male beetle that incubated in the ground and without union with the female transformed and regenerated himself after twenty-eight days (exactly a moon cycle) in the form of the young scarab, symbol of the new-born sun in the moon, they would have been intelligent enough to have avoided the great schisms that divided the Church into Roman and Greek Catholic bodies over the abstrusities of this very origin of the persons of the Trinity. But Egypt was farther away from Rome of the third century than it is from us, who can now read the inscriptions that were sealed from them.All this ancient scriptural data accentuates the fact that not the historical Jesus, but the spiritual Christ, or the god within the individual heart (as expounded in the lecture on Platonic Philosophy in the Bible) is the subject of the sacred writings of old, and the kernel of the whole religious ideology. Angelus Silesius has expressed this in a stanza which should be a perpetual reminder of the futility of clinging to the historical interpretation of Gospel literature.Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn; The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thyself it be set up again. And the Christian hymn, "O Jesus, thou art standing, outside the fast-closed door," gives expression to the kindred idea that while we look across the map to localize the Christos in Judea, we keep the spiritual mentor of our own lives standing without, seeking an entrance into our lives in vain.By the aid of archaic sacred books we have been enabled to trace authentically the origin of the name Jesus. And it is of great importance to present this material, because it throws a flood of clear light upon the ancient conceptions of the Messiah and the coming Son, or Sun-god. In this light the name will be seen to be a type-designation and not the personal name of an historical being.It is derived from the two letters (or numbers) which in the beginning of typology symbolized the two first elements, spirit and matter, into which the primal One Life bifurcated. They are the I (or 1) symboling the male or spirit, and the O (letter) or 0 (cipher) symboling the female or material universe. Together they represented the biune male-female deity. We have, then, the letters IO, or the number 10. As the vowels were freely interchanged, in ancient languages, the name was written either IO, IA, IE , or IU, and all these forms are found. Next the I transformed into consonantal value and became a J (as it is yet in Latin), so that we find the names JO, JA, JE and JU, from each of which many names have arisen. When the creation had combined the male and female and the two had given birth to the Son, or Logoic universe, the name was given the form of three letters, and we then find such forms as IAO, JAH, IEO, JEU, ZUE. When the universe became founded on the four cardinal points or the square of four dimensions, the name was spelled variously as IEOU, JOVE, ZEUS, JEVE, DIOS, T/HEOS, HUHI, IHUH and others. In its character as a sevenfold or seven-lettered name, it took the form of JEHOVAH, SABAOTH, DEBORAH, DELILAH, SEP/HIROT/H, MICHAEL, SOLOMON, and others of seven letters. The I permuted with l (el) or 1 (one), so that IE became LE or, inverted EL, the great Hebrew character of deity. The EL and the IAH (JAH), became the most frequent determinatives of divinity, as a host of names will testify. There are Bethel, Emanuel, Michael, Israel, Gabriel, Samuel, Abdiel, Uriel, Muriel Azazel, and many others, in which the EL is prefixed. The JAH is seen in such names as EliJAH, AbiJAH, while the IAH comes in a host of such names as Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Obediah, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Messiah, Alleluiah and more.But whence comes the "s" in Jesus's name? This is of great importance. It is derived from an Egyptian suffix written either SA, SE, SI, SU, or SAF, SEF, SIF or SUF (SAPH, SEPH, SIPH or SUPH) and meaning "the son," "heir," "prince" or successor to the father. (The F is an Egyptian ending for the masculine singular.) When the original symbol of divinity, IO or IE, JO or JE, was combined with the Egyptian suffix for the succeeding heir, SU or SA, the resultant was the name IUSA, IUSE, IUSU, or IOSE; or IESU, JESU, IUSEF, IOSEF, JOSEF. One of the many forms was JESU and another was JOSEF. The final F became sibilant at times and gave us the eventual form of JESUS. The name then meant the "divine son," and combined in the Egyptian IU the idea of the coming one. Hence JESUS was the Messiah, the coming son of the divine life. There was in Egypt for ten thousand years B.C. the character of this functionary under the name of IUSA. Later he was the Iu-em-hetep, which means "the divine son who comes with peace (hetep). But most interestingly, this last word also means seven. Hence Jesus is he who comes as the seventh principle to complete the six elementary powers of natural evolution with the gift of divine intelligence, which supplants the elementary chaos with the rulership of love and intelligence and thus brings peace into a warring situation. Hence finally, Jesus is the seventh cosmic principle, announced in all religious lore as he who comes to bring peace and good will to men. And as such he was announced in the Christian Gospels. But there was more than one Jesus or IUSA or IU before the coming of the alleged historical Jesus.Startling as are the implications of this bit of etymology, a far more amazing denouement of Bible study is the revelation that not only were there over thirty Sun-god figures in the cults of the various nations of old, but there are immediately in the Bible itself, in the Old Testament, some twenty more Sun-god characters under the very name of Jesus! Are we speaking arrant nonsense or sober truth when we make a claim which seems at first sight so unsupportable? Twenty Jesus characters in the Old Testament! Let us see. We have noted the many variant forms of the Jesus name. There are still others in the Old Testament, never suspected as being related to the name of the Christian Redeemer. There are Isaac, Esau, Jesse, Jacob, Jeshu, Joachim, Joshua, Jonah and others. All these are variant forms of the one name, which has still other forms among the Hebrews in secular life, Yusuf, Yehoshua, Yeshu, etc. Joshua, Hosea and Jesse are from this name indisputably. A few might be the subject of controversy.Furthermore, beside these that bear the original divine name, there are other Sun-god figures in the Old Testament under a wide variety of names. They are Samson (whose name means "solar"), David, Solomon, Saul (equals soul, or sol, the sun--Latin.), Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Jephtha and the like. Their actions identify them as solar representatives.Now let us see what the conception of our divinity as a Sun-god in reality meant to the sages of old, and what it should mean to us. It meant that the divinity within us, our divine soul or Self, was itself the Sun-god, or solar deity. And what does this signify in concrete terms for us? Just this; that the god within us is constituted of the imperishable essence of solar light and energy! In short, we ourselves, in our higher nature, are solar gods in potentiality! Our highest nature is an incorruptible body composed of the glorious essence of the sun's energy! The gods in the Bible were always symboled by the light or fire of the sun. We are now enlightened to see it as a description of our nature as veritable truth and fact. We are Sun-gods. Our immortal spirits within us are composed of the radiant substance of solar energy.At the very time we were first assembling the material for this lecture, there came an announcement in the daily press of a discovery by a modern physicist, Dr. George W. Crile, of the Cleveland Laboratories, which practically fixed the seal of truth upon every word we have uttered or shall utter in this lecture. It was most startlingly corroborative of our exegesis. He announced that he had discovered at the heart of every living organism a tiny nucleus of energy, all aglow, with temperatures ranging from 3000 to 6000 degrees of heat, which he called "radiogens" or "hot points." These, he said, were precisely akin to the radiant energy of solar matter. He affirmed, in short, that a tiny particle of the sun's power and radiance was lodged within the heart of every organic unit! The light and energy that has life. What would be Crile's surprise, however, if he were to be shown a sentence taken from Hargrave Jennings' old book on the Rosicrucians, written over sixty years ago: "Every man has a little spark (sun) in his own bosom?" For this was one item in the teaching of the Medieval Fire-Philosophers, and the reason they were styled such. They knew what Crile has discovered, as likewise did the ancient Bible-writers. They based their Sun-god religions upon it. Our souls are composed of the imperishable essence of solar light! We are immortal because we are Sun-gods.But many will impatiently rise to expostulate with us, and ask why, if this was the universal fundamentum of the old religions, the Bible itself does not categorically carry this message and state this central fact. Wait a moment! Who that knows this primary datum has searched the Bible to see if it has nothing to say on the point? We, too, believed the Bible was remiss in expressing this conception, until we searched with a more watchful eye. And now let us hear what the Bible says as to our solar constitution, and determine for ourselves whether it is silent on the groundwork of religion or not. Let us hear first the Psalms. "Our God is a living fire," say they; and "Our God is a consuming fire." "The Lord God is a sun," avers the same book. "I am come to send fire on earth," says Jesus, meaning he came to scatter the separated sparks of solar essence amongst mankind, a spark to each soul. In Revelation the angels scatter the fire and the incense of their seven censers over the earth, among the inhabitants. Then says John the Baptist: "I indeed baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire!" Jesus says: "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Satan was the descending Lucifer, or Light-bringer, before he was lifted up and divinized.) The fire that falls on Jeremiah's altar and many another in the Bible narrative types the deity coming to dwell with mortals. Says Jesus: "When I am in the world I am the light of the world." Again he said: "Ye are the light of the world," and "Let your light so shine that others may . . . glory your father which is in heaven." The Lord, say the Psalms, "made his angels messengers and his ministers a flame of fire." The New Testament Jesus, following the well-known Egyptian diagram of the Ankh, the solar disk with the spread wings, is described as "the sun of righteousness, risen with healing in his wings." John has Jesus saying that the condemnation of the world lay in that it rejected the light when it was sent into the world. Says Job: "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with him." Isaiah writes: "Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks; walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled." We are adjured to "Rise, shine, for thy light is come." "The Lord is my light," reiterates the Psalms. And again: "In thy light shall we see light." "Light is sown for the righteous." "We wait for light," cry the souls in the darkness of incarnation, far from their original fount of light. John declares that the Christos "was the true light" which was to come Messianically for the redemption of our lower nature. And again he declares that with the Christos "light is come into the world." No cry echoes with more resounding intensity down to this age than Paul's exhortation to our souls buried in lethal darkness: "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee!" And in Revelation there are those mighty pronouncements: in the spiritual resurrection "there shall be no more need of the sun to shine by day nor the moon by night, for the glory of the Lord did lighten it." And there is no more heartening assurance anywhere in the Bible than Jesus's statement: "Ye have light in yourselves."And these are only a gleaning from the great score of similar passages with which the Bible teems. And still folks will say they find no warrant for the Sun-god idea in the Bible!In Rome the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta was guarded by seven Vestal Virgins, chosen for purity and for psychic vision. If they permitted the fire to die out (symbolic of the light of deity dying out in the heart) the penalty upon them was death. If they violated their sexual purity, they were buried alive in the city. And from the great old Egyptian Book of the Dead we take just one passage among scores: "Lo, I come from the Lake of Flame, from the Lake of Fire, and from the field of flame, and I live." And again, from an old Book of Adam and Eve we quote a great passage in which the Lord says: "I made thee of the light, and I wished to bring out children of the light from thee." If only we had been taught by our religious teachers that our spiritual natures are woven and fabricated of solar light, we should have had a clearer apprehension of our potentialities for divine education.Supplementing all this material from the Bible and ancient scriptures, there is at hand for our supreme enlightenment one grand pronouncement from Greek Platonic philosophy which we conceive to be that lost ultimate link between science and religion. It is the truth before whose altar both science and religion can kneel at last and find themselves paying tribute to the same god,--the god of solar radiance. It is a sentence from the learned Proclus, last of the Great Platonists: "The light of the sun is the pure energy of intellect." Are we big enough to catch the mighty significance of that statement? Is it not the essence of what the modern physicist means when he talks of "mind-stuff?" The fiery radiance of the sun is already the motivating genius of intellect! Matter is itself intelligent and intelligence! Here is the basic link between all naturalism and all spirituality. Matter enshrouds and contains the soul of mind and spirit. The light of the sun is the deific flash of intellect! And the very core of our conscious being is a spark of that infinite indestructible energy of solar light. There is the "seminal soul of light" or the seed of fiery divinity (Prometheus's "fire" stolen from the gods) in each of us. It makes us a god.Armed with this unquenchable fire which is intellect, we are sent on earth to inhabit a body which is described as a watery and miry swamp. The body is nearly eighty per cent. water! It is the duty of the fiery spark to enlighten the whole dark realm of mortal life, to transmute by its alchemical power the baser dross of animal propensity into the finer motivation of love and brotherhood. This life is a purgation--Purgatory--because it is a process of burning and tempering crude animal elements into the pure gold of spiritual light. In Egyptian scriptures the twelve sons of Ra (the twelve sons of Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel) were called the "twelve saviors of the treasure of light." An Egyptian text reads: "This is the sun within us, the seminal source of light. Do not dim its luster or cause it to suffer eclipse." And another runs: "Give ye glory as to the sun; he is the chief, the only one coming from the body, the head of those who belong to the race of the sun."With this force of fire we must uplift the lower man and transmute his nature into the spiritual glow of love and intelligence. With it we must turn the water of the lower nature into the wine of spiritual force. Around it we must aggregate the refined material which we shall build into that temple of the soul, that body of the resurrection, the great garment of solar light, in which we shall rise out of the tomb of the physical corpus and ascend with the angels. This is the radiant Augoeides of the Greeks, the Sahu of the Egyptians, in which the soul wings its flight aloft like the phoenix, after rending the veil of the temple of the body. It is our garment of immortality, the seamless robe of glory, in prospect of which we groan and travail, says St. Paul, as we earnestly desire to be clothed upon with the garment of incorruption. As flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of heaven, we must fashion for our tenancy there this body of solar glory, in whose self-generated light we may live eternally, having overcome the realms of darkness, or spiritualized the body. Jesus prays the Father to grant unto him that glory that he had with him before the world was, and his prayer is fulfilled in the formation of the spirit body out of the elements of the sun.Who is this King of Glory?--says the Psalmist. And we are exhorted to lift up the aeonial gates, the age-lasting doors, to let the King of Glory enter into our realm. The King of Glory is the Sun-soul within us, raised in his final perfection in the fulness of Christly stature to the state of magnificent effulgence. The King of Glory is the immortal Sun-god, the deity in our hearts; and when at last he blazes forth in the heyday of his glory, and comes in majesty into our lives, then we behold his glory, as of the alone-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And when he appears to those still sitting in the shadow of darkness, they report that "they have seen a great light, and to those that sat in the valley of darkness did the light shine." And this light, seen ever and anon by some illuminated son of man, as he gropes in the murks of incarnation, is truly "that light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."And when that light shineth clearer and brighter unto the perfect day, then, indeed, we know of a surety that we ourselves are nucleated of that same glorious essence of combined intellect and spirit. Then we know that we ourselves are the Sun-gods, and that the ancient allegory is not a "myth," but the very essence of our own Selfhood.The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd Khunhttp://mountainman.com.au/ab_kuhn.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dwtruthwarrior.substack.com/subscribe

El Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena estará abierto durante todo el Puente de Diciembre, con un horario ampliado. El viernes 6, sábado 7 y domingo 8 de diciembre estará abierto de 10 a 18 horas, mientras que el lunes 9 de diciembre, festivo en la Región, hará lo propio de 10 a 14 horas. Además, este museo ofrece también en estas fechas actividades y rutas tematizadas en colaboración con Cartagena Puerto de Culturas.Los visitantes podrán participar el 6, 7 y 8 de diciembre en la ruta con paseo en barco Cartagena Romana y Mediterránea. La ruta comenzará en el Museo del Teatro Romano, donde se reflejó el poder de Roma para continuar por el Museo del Foro, la Pompeya española, donde se encuentran las Termas, majestuosos edificios con pinturas y lugares sagrados, como el santuario de Isis y Serapis. Esta ruta finaliza en un paseo en barco por la bahía por donde navegaron fenicios, griegos, cartagineses y romanos.El sábado 7 a las 11.30 horas se podrá participar en la actividad familiar Feliz Navidad, Bona Saturlania. En dicha actividad se conocerá cómo celebraban los romanos las fiestas de las Saturnales que coinciden en el tiempo con nuestras Navidades. A continuación se realizará el recorrido por las Salas del Museo, donde se irán descubriendo más detalles de las fiestas de mano del propio Augusto, a quien le entusiasmaba hacer regalos de lo más diversos en las Saturnales. La actividad finalizará en el Teatro Romano, donde se propondrá a los visitantes una pieza musical con instrumentos de percusión, y comprobar así la acústica de edificio. La actividad está recomendada para familias con niños.El domingo a las 11 horas comenzará la visita guiada Del Teatro al Pórtico Tras la Escena. La ruta comenzará con la visita al Museo del Teatro Romano, donde podremos disfrutar de una nueva pieza del Museo como es el panel pictórico de Marte recuperado en el pórtico del Teatro, continuará por las salas del Museo hasta llegar al magnífico Teatro Romano, al salir del monumento continuaremos hacia uno de los rincones más típicos del antiguo Barrio de Pescadores, el callejón de la Soledad, para dirigirnos a visitar los nuevos restos recuperados del pórtico occidental, financiados con fondos Next Generation.

This is the incredible two-part story of a true American hero, John Paul Jones, a man who sought nothing for himself, and all for his adopted country, for which he fought bravely throughout the American Revolution as a naval Captain, bringing honor to the fledgling American Navy.  In part one we cover his boyhood, which was spent studying naval journals and languages, with hopes of becoming a sea captain, as well as his entry into manhood after he left home in Scotland at age 13 to become a seaman.  When war with Great Britain broke out in 1775, Jones was assigned to command one of 5 ships that the new American navy placed into service to harass British shipping as well as their coastline, in return for the damage they were doing to our undefended coast in America.   The British had 1,000 ships at their disposal- many of them well-armed warships. The US had 5. John Paul Jones was the first to raise the new Stars and Stripes above an American ships. He captured over 40 British ships in his career, and brought home (or delivered to our French allies 150,000 worth of captured supplies. He was a consummate naval strategist and contributed greatly to the early growth of our navy- later earning the title "The Father of The American Navy" for his contributions.  He died in Paris, France, in 1792, was mourned by few, and nearly forgotten for over 100 years, his body, wrapped in a sheet, laying without a marker in a forgotten cemetary near Paris. When Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Assistant SECNAV in 1897 his #1 goal was to raise the power and status of our US Navy- and he began with his pledge to recover the body of the missing John Paul Jones and restore his rightful reputation to hero status. It took 6 years to locate Jone's body- but it was done- and that incredible story is told in part two. The battle between the Bonhamme Richard and the Serapis is told in detail here in part one.

John Paul Jones was a Revolutionary War hero known as the father of the U.S. Navy. Born in Scotland in 1747, Jones came to America as a merchant sailor. When the American Revolution broke out, Jones sided with the colonists and joined the Continental Navy, with his greatest victory coming from his against-all-odds defeat of the British warship Serapis in 1779. Travel to Peru and Germany with me here Check out our sister podcast the Mystery of Everything Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge COFFEE Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday, 29 April 2024   And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to set sail from there also, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest, and winter there. Acts 27:12   A more literal translation is, “And the harbor, being unsuitable to a wintering, the majority set counsel to go up thence also, if how they might be able, having arrived to Phoenix to winter – a harbor of Crete looking against southwest and against northwest” (CG).   In the previous verse, Paul's words concerning the state of the ship and the people on it were overridden by the pilot and the shipmaster. The centurion agreed with them instead. Therefore, a verse filled with rare words begins with, “And the harbor, being unsuitable.”   Luke uses an adjective found only here in the New Testament, aneuthetos. It is the negative of euthetos, or suitable. Thus, it signifies to be unsuitable. The harbor was not a proper place “to a wintering.”   It is a new noun found only here, paracheimasia. It indicates the state of spending the winter. The harbor in which they currently were positioned would face the coming winds of the wintertime and make it a less suitable place to be than an area sheltered from those same winds. As such, it next says, “the majority set counsel to go up thence also.”   Because of the less-than-ideal location, it appears that a majority vote was taken which decided that they would leave this harbor and continue to some other location more suitable for the winter months.   There are decisions that might properly be considered through a popular vote and there are those which should not be. In this case, what was popular was not what was right. A cold and bumpy time in a port is far better than a ship at the bottom of the sea. However, the majority made their voice known and that was “if how they might be able, having arrived to Phoenix.”   The fact that this terminology is used shows the impending doom from Luke's hand. A risk is being taken and Luke is giving advance notice that it will not prove to be a great choice to make.   The place where they hope to reach would be Phoinix, or Phoenix, a location found only here in Scripture. Though a bit long, Ellicott gives a great description for us to consider –   “Phenice . . . which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.—The precise meaning of the phrase is that the harbour looked, as we say, down these winds, in the direction to which they blew—i.e., that it faced the north-east and south-east, the words used being the names, not of points of the compass, but of the winds which blew from them. The harbour so described has been identified with the modern Lutro, on the east of the promontory of Kavo Muros, which looks eastward, and so corresponds to the interpretation just given of the words that describe it. The harbour is named by Ptolemy (iii. 17) as Phoenikous, and a city named Phoenix lay a few miles inland. It is still used as a harbour by Greek pirates, and was marked as such in the French admiralty charts of 1738; but, owing to the silting up of the sand, has become unsuitable for larger vessels. An inscription of the time of Nerva, of the nature of a votive tablet to Jupiter and Serapis, found near the spot, records the fact that it was erected by Epictetus, the tabularius, or agent, of the fleet to which the ship belonged, with the assistance of Dionysius of Alexandria, the pilot (the same word as that which St. Luke uses) of a ship which had as its sign (the same word as in Acts 28:4) the Isopharia. It is a natural inference from this that the Alexandrian ship (we note the Egyptian element in the dedication to Serapis, and possibly in the connection of the sign with the Pharos, or lighthouse of Alexandria) had anchored, and possibly wintered, at Phœnice, and that the tablet was a thank-offering for its preservation.”   The name Phoenix probably got its name from the palm tree, phoinix, which is indigenous to Crete. Of this location, those on the ship hoped to sail in order “to winter.”   It is another new word, paracheimazó. It is the verb form of the noun just used to describe “a wintering.” It will be seen three more times in Scripture. This location was more suitable because it was “a harbor of Crete looking against southwest and against northwest.”   This is the third and last use of the word, limén, a harbor or haven. Also, two more words found only here in Scripture are to be noted. The first is lips, signifying the southwest. It is an interesting word, coming from leibó, to pour. The reason for this name is that it is from this direction that the rains come. Therefore, it is as if the rains pour from there.   The other new word is chóros, the northwest. It is of Latin origin and signifies the area from which the winds blow.  A harbor facing these directions would be more suitable for wintering than where they currently were, even if it was dangerous to leave where they were in order to get there.   Life application: Majority votes often fail to be the best choice. Uninformed people with a strong voice can override those who are knowledgeable because the knowledgeable are often more contemplative and less vocal about matters. They are also, more often than not, in the minority. Those who don't think things through logically are aplenty in the world.   In governments that are based on the majority vote, people will often vote for things that are wholly unreasonable. This is true with committees and the like as well. Although majority votes may seem fair, it is usually best to steer away from them and allow those who are in charge to make the ultimate decisions for a matter.   These leaders may ask for a majority consideration, but then evaluate what was presented and amend or override what the majority wants. The world is not fair, but to leave decisions in the hands of the masses is not the best way of handling things. This will become evident to those on the ship in the verses ahead.   Lord God, it is so wonderful to know that You alone are in charge of the process of the redemption of man. If it were up to us, even in the least part, things would not go well. How evident this is when pastors, churches, and denominations cannot even agree on what the word “grace” means. Help us to be obedient followers of Your word in all ways and at all times, yielding ourselves to what You have decided upon for us. Amen.

In this exploration, we address key questions about the goddess Isis: How has she evolved from ancient Egyptian deity to a symbol in modern esotericism and popular culture? What was her role in the 19th century Occult Revival and 20th-century esoteric movements like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn? How has the Fellowship of Isis influenced her modern veneration, and what is her significance in contemporary Paganism, Neo-Paganism, and New Age movements? WATCH DR HENRY'S VIDEO HERE ➡️ CONNECT & SUPPORT

Entrevistamos a Llogari Pujol Boix sobre sus investigaciones plasmadas en estos dos libros: Los cuentos de Setme l y ll. Érase una vez… Jesús, el Egipcio. Del Libro de Toth al Libro de la Vida. Setme I, es el documento egipcio que nos permite pasar de la noción universal de arquetipo único, según el cual Jesús estaría construido sobre el modelo de todos los dioses, a la noción de estructura de filiación-parentesco. De aquí se puede afirmar que su linaje es egipcio. Jesús nació, celebró la Eucaristía, y fue enterrado en el Monasterio de Saqqara en Menfis, de donde eran los monjes de Serapis, los verdaderos evangelistas. Lo histórico es el Mito. Lo Mítico es el «Jesús histórico». del rompecabezas que constituye el Nuevo Testamento, ofrece una pieza capital para comprender cómo se construyeron la vida y la obra de Jesús, a partir de su «doble», Si-Osiris: el mago egipcio encarnado para servir a la diosa Maât… camino, verdad y vida. Nada es lo que parece. Otros tres magos etíopes, actores activos del «Mal» —del desorden cósmico; en suma, del Diablo, de Seth o de Judas—, se prosternarán derrotados ante el niño Jesús, después de la Gran Batalla Mágica de Getsemaní..

Empezamos año con las experiencias personales del mundo paranormal del investigador Jorge R. Valle que fueron amplias, incluso con familiariares directos. En la segunda parte: Entrevistamos a Llogari Pujol Boix sobre sus investigaciones plasmadas en estos dos libros: Los cuentos de Setme l y ll. Érase una vez… Jesús, el Egipcio. Del Libro de Toth al Libro de la Vida. Setme I, es el documento egipcio que nos permite pasar de la noción universal de arquetipo único, según el cual Jesús estaría construido sobre el modelo de todos los dioses, a la noción de estructura de filiación-parentesco. De aquí se puede afirmar que su linaje es egipcio. Jesús nació, celebró la Eucaristía, y fue enterrado en el Monasterio de Saqqara en Menfis, de donde eran los monjes de Serapis, los verdaderos evangelistas. Lo histórico es el Mito. Lo Mítico es el «Jesús histórico». del rompecabezas que constituye el Nuevo Testamento, ofrece una pieza capital para comprender cómo se construyeron la vida y la obra de Jesús, a partir de su «doble», Si-Osiris: el mago egipcio encarnado para servir a la diosa Maât… camino, verdad y vida. Nada es lo que parece. Otros tres magos etíopes, actores activos del «Mal» —del desorden cósmico; en suma, del Diablo, de Seth o de Judas—, se prosternarán derrotados ante el niño Jesús, después de la Gran Batalla Mágica de Getsemaní.. Hablaremos de los trabajos de Llogarí Puyol. Revista digital La tortuga Avui. www.latortugaavui.com Redes: Instagram: area-hermetica-radio. Facebook grupo Secrets del Pirineu Telegram: [https://t.me/.../FSW-COI...//t.me/joinchat/FSW-COI-ZiUtQ0Aj) Ràdio Caldes 107.8 fm, Radio Granollers a la carta, por TDT para las comarcas del Vallès canal 515 y por internet: www.radiocaldes.cat y Ràdio Granollers a la carta. areahermeticaradio@gmail.com

In this episode, we explore the ancient mystery cults that flourished in the Roman Empire from the 1st to 4th centuries AD. These secretive religions, like the cults of Cybele, Isis, Mithras, and others, offered initiation, community, and promises of salvation. We'll learn about their beliefs and practices and see how they contrast with the truth and light found in Christ. Episode Overview The mystery cults appealed to people seeking meaning and belonging in the impersonal Roman society They had secret initiation rites and claimed special knowledge of the divine Examples include the cults of Cybele, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras The taurobolium was a bloody purification ritual in the cult of Cybele Christ offers what the cults could only falsely mimic - true revelation, redemption, identity, and belonging Discussion Questions Why do you think mystery cults appealed to people in the ancient Roman Empire? What longings or needs were they trying to meet? How did the secrecy, initiation rituals, and promise of special knowledge attract followers to these groups? What are some key differences between the mystery cults and the Christian faith? What makes Christianity unique? Have you ever felt drawn to a group that offered exclusive belonging or hidden knowledge? Why is our identity and adoption in Christ so much greater? How can we shine the light of Christ to those caught in the darkness and falsity of new age or secretive cultic groups today? For other questions and comments, feel free to reach out to Jared at thechurchhistoryproject@gmail.com. For more content, visit the podcast website or wherever you find your podcasts. To join The Church History Project Facebook group to engage in more discussion about released episodes and other fascinating nuggets of church history, you can visit the page ⁠here⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/church-history-project/message

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's “daughter library,” may be seen as an archetype for institutions where religion and secular knowledge come together for the reproduction of ideologies. The Serapeum, however, is by no means unique in this regard; libraries have always incorporated religious symbols and rituals into their material structures. Very little research has been conducted concerning the sociocultural and historical impact of this union of temple and information institution or how this dynamic interrelationship (even if it may now be implicit or partially concealed) stretches from the earliest Mesopotamian proto-libraries to our present academic ones. Serapis explores the role of the historical and legacy religious symbols and rituals of the academic library (referred to as the “Serapian Library”) as a powerful ideological state institution and investigates how these symbols and rituals support hegemonic structures in society. Specifically, the book examines the role of the modern secular “Serapian” academic library in its historical context as a “sacred space,” and applies the theories of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Ivan Illich, and other thinkers to explain the ramifications of the library as crypto-temple. Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/secularism

While we await The Chalice of the Gods, we're reading The Son of Sobek and The Staff of Serapis by Rick Riordan. Discussion topics may include: the power of names, Chalice of the Gods bingo, Alexander the Great, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Annabeth's state of mind.Have a square we should include on our Chalice of the Gods bingo cards? Want to contribute your own analysis? Feel like arguing? Email monsterdonutpodcast@gmail.com.Come say hi and check out the sketches Phoebe made this episode on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok! @PJOPod on all platforms.Find our new Monster Donut merch here!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/monsterdonut/explore.More information on the show can be found at https://monsterdonut.wixsite.com/podcast.THEME SONG:"The Mask of Sorokin," music and arrangement by Dan CordeGuitars - Dan CordeBass - Quinten MetkeDrums - Todd CummingsRecorded, mixed, & mastered by Todd CummingsOUTRO MUSIC:"Shadow Run," music and arrangement by Dan CordeGuitars - Dan CordeBass - Quinten MetkeDrums - Todd CummingsRecorded, mixed, & mastered by Todd Cummings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 56 features a conversation with my husband Justin and myself. This is part one of two on the topics of Hermeticism and The Kybalion, a book based around the Hermetic Principles. We start with the history of where this wisdom springs from including who Hermes Trismegistus was and some of the myths around Thoth and Hermes. We explore Marsilio Ficino's life and works, and the role he played in keeping the flame of this ancient wisdom alive. We talk about the Cult of Serapis and some similarities it has to Jesus's death and resurrection. We also discuss why we feel this information has been hidden from the masses. Towards the end, we touch on the philosophical and the technical components within Hermetics.

Boris vive de la estructura. Bueno, concretamente vive del dinero que su propia estructura le deja ganar. Tiene un lavadero y conoce a sus vecinos gracias al tipo de ropa que le llevan para dejar limpia. Como si él mismo fuera un aparato, pocas cosas lo desconectan de sus quehaceres. Tal vez el amor y el espanto sean dos de ellas. La rutina de las máquinas forma parte de la antología homónima (Contramar editora, 2016) y también abre la selección de cuentos de autores santafesinos llamada 9 nueves (Serapis, 2022), compilada por Francisco Bitar. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 📚 Qué es POR QUÉ LEER Por qué leer es un proyecto multiplataforma que promueve el placer por la lectura. La idea es contagiar las ganas de leer mediante recomendaciones, reseñas y debates. ¡Cada vez somos más! 📚 CECILIA BONA Soy periodista, productora y creadora de contenidos. Trabajé en radios como MITRE, VORTERIX y CLUB OCTUBRE. Amo leer desde pequeña, incentivada especialmente por mi mamá. En Por qué leer confluyen muchas de mis pasiones -la radio, la edición de video, la comunicación- y por eso digo que está hecho con muchísimo amor. 🎧🎙 Editó este episodio: DANY FERNÁNDEZ para Activando producciones Sus redes: https://www.instagram.com/danyrap.f/ https://www.instagram.com/activandoproducciones.proyecto/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 💰 ¿Te gustaría patrocinar POR QUÉ LEER? 📙 ALIAS BANCARIO: porqueleerok 📙 PATREON: http://bit.ly/patreonporqueleerok 📙 ALIAS MERCADO PAGO: porqueleerok 📙 PayPal: https://paypal.me/porqueleerok 💰 SUSCRIBITE A LAS MEMBRESÍAS MENSUALES Y APOYÁ EL PROYECTO $500: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia500 $1000: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia1000 $2000: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia2000 $3000: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia3000 $4000: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia4000 $5000: https://bit.ly/xqlmembresia5000 ¡Gracias por todo!

Join Lucy Blue as she discusses the ancient Red Sea Port of Berenike in Egypt with Steve Sidebotham, site co-coordinator.  Excavations at this trading hub have been conducted since the mid-90s, discovering evidence that it was connected to extensive areas of the world and was operating for around 800 years since the 3rd century BCE.  According to Steve, greed drove the extensive trade here, but success required help from the gods, and recent work has unearthed Buddhas at the Temples of Isis and Serapis. Listen to learn why headless falcons have also been found and why more remains to be discovered under the sands of the amazing site.  #maritime #archaeology #heritage #egypt #buddhas #isis #serapis #excavations 

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Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.           

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Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.          

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.         

Prophecy Radio episode #75 looks into how Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt influenced each other over the years, and how their culture, art, and religion transformed due to contact between these two great societies. (We promise it's a lot more interesting than it sounds!) As always, we also catch you up on all the latest Riordanverse news, including the death of Lance Reddick, who will be portraying Zeus in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Lastly, we continue our journey through The Kane Chronicles with The Red Pyramid chapter 2. Remember, we're keeping this discussion spoiler-free! New episodes of Prophecy Radio air weekly, and all ages are welcome to tune in. News and updates (00:06:06) Lance Reddick passed away on March 17, at the age of 60, from natural causes. Read Rick Riordan's beautiful tribute to Lance Reddick. Donations may be made to momcares.org in Baltimore, his hometown. These are the goddesses you should be worshiping this women's history month. What do your favorite gods and demigods have planned for spring break? If you can't make one of the Sun and the Star tour stops, be sure to check your local bookstores/libraries for release parties! Connecting Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt (00:14:30) Get ready to learn some stuff! Karen went full-out to teach you about this topic today. And where should we start? The beginning, of course! The Greeks held Ancient Egypt in high regard, a kingdom full of wisdom and culture. Did you know that Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics influenced the Greek alphabet? Have you ever heard of the city of Naucratis? During the Hellenistic period, the Greeks ruled Egypt, allowing the Egyptians to retain many of their practices. We love a good word of the day, so here's yours: syncretic. Apologies to all the ancient philosophers and mathematicians whose names we pronounce incorrectly. Herodotus is considered the Father of History, and he equated several of the Egyptian gods with their Greek counterparts. Some of these really do make a lot of sense. Do you remember why Serapis is so important? We are NOT endorsing the conquering of other countries, but if you have to…assimilate into their culture. Greek and Egyptian creation myths definitely contain some of the same themes. Remember when we talked about Io? Turns out she's pretty important to what we're talking about today. Don't let a god breathe on you or there could be some serious consequences. Everything really is coming full circle. Thoth and Hermes are basically the same person, and both the Egyptians and the Greeks loved them. The Egyptians weren't the only ones who influenced the Greeks, but we'll have to talk about that some other time. Sources: Oxford University Press: Ancient Greek and Egyptian interactions Medium: Egyptian influence on Ancient Greece Jstor: Egyptian influence on Ancient Greece Pantheon: Heracles Wikipedia: Ma'at Wikipedia: Ancient Egyptian creation myths Wikipedia: Ancient Egyptian creation myths Wikipedia: Isis Wikipedia: Hermes Trismegistus The Collector: The God Hermes: The Roman obsession with the Egyptian God Thoth The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid (00:54:30) This week, we're reading The Red Pyramid chapter 2. Who is Imhotep and what kind of spells can he do? Openly staring at Sadie because she looks different than Carter and their dad is so rude. The Rosetta Stone is so cool, and this week's discussion was very relevant to the chapter! Saying “regular mortals” is highly suspicious. Why does Sadie go along with Carter to lock up the curator? This book feels so interactive, and we love how we can see the hieroglyphics on the page. How is Sadie able to translate everything her dad is saying!? It's so sad that they wrecked that room in the British Museum. Is Julius really Dr. Kane's name? What is the House (capital H)? And who walked through the door!? We hope that staff wasn't important because it's gone now. Good-bye…Osiris!? Do the people from the House really want to kill the kids? Should Kristen know who the fire man is at this point!? Feedback (01:25:29) Edward has a theory for how Annabeth knew about Percy's Achilles' heel. Rowen wrote in to make sure we knew Caoimhe meant Demigods & Magicians by Rick Riordan. Rowen also asked about some more fancasting, but we're going to save that for later (so we have more time to think). Henry has a great idea for how to make the Riordanverse timeline easier to keep track of. Teddy asks what Prophecy Count we're on and what book recommendations we have. Nicolaas says we should add our dreams from last week to the Prophecy Count, but that might be a little dangerous. Thanks for listening, and tune in next time for episode 76, where we'll talk about some of the movies and TV shows from Lance Reddick's vast catalogue before tackling The Red Pyramid chapter 3. This episode's hosts are: Karen Rought and Kristen Kranz. Each episode, our Prophecy Radio hosts and their guests will keep you up to date on the latest information coming out of Camp Half-Blood, including upcoming books and adaptation news, discuss a topic of choice, and do a chapter by chapter reread of the Percy Jackson series. Follow Us: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Tumblr Listen and Subscribe: Audioboom // Apple // Spotify Feel free to leave us your questions or comments through any of these mediums! You can also email us at prophecyradiopodcast@gmail.com or visit our homepage for archives and more information about our show. Prophecy Radio is a Subjectify Media podcast production. 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Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.        

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.        

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.       

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.      

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.      

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.     

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.    

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.    

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.   

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano.  

What was religion like in Roman Britain? What pre-Roman deities persisted? Which new gods came with Romans?This lecture looks at the evidence: inscriptions, statues and figurines, carvings and all the impediments of ritual, as well as the testimony of hundreds of burials. It shows how the Romans developed the cults of native deities such as Sulis and Belatucadros, and imported their own official divinities such as Jupiter and Mercury and mystery religions such as that of Mithras.A lecture by Ronald HuttonThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/paganism-romanGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollege

Pacomio (c. 292 – 9 de mayo de 348) fue un soldado romano del siglo IV que luchó en el bando de Majencio en la Segunda Tetrarquía. Es generalmente reconocido como fundador del monacato cenobita cristiano. Las iglesias coptas celebran su festividad el 9 de mayo, y las Iglesias ortodoxa y católica el 15 o 28 de mayo. En la Iglesia luterana es recordado como un renovador de la Iglesia, junto con su contemporáneo (y también santo del desierto), san Antonio Abad el 17 de enero. Considerado padre del monacato cenobítico, se convirtió al cristianismo en el transcurso de un viaje a Alejandría, altamente impresionado por las buenas cualidades que pudo ver entre los cristianos de aquellas tierras, en especial la caridad. Fue entonces cuando decidió retirarse como ermitaño para llevar una vida de oración y austeridad, junto a uno de los templos de Serapis que por aquel entonces se hallaba en ruinas. Pacomio es conocido como uno de los Padres del yermo. Figura también en el calendario de santos luterano. 

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Exodus 20:2-4 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. You must not have any other god but me. You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.” The Ten Commandments are remarkable in many ways but possibly the most amazing fact is that they are so short. Since they were delivered to Moses, governments have laid down tens of millions of laws, but these ten commandments offer us the solid foundation for any society which wants to build its life in a godly and sustainable way. Whichever way you say the word, ‘commandments' don't sound jolly! They sound severe and restrictive, so we need to remind ourselves of those words with which they begin. God reminds his people that he is their saviour and was the one who led them miraculously out of Egypt. It was because of his love for them that he gave them these laws, which would ensure that they would continue to be blessed. Any loving parent will put in place very clear rules and boundaries for their children, in order to ensure that they thrive and live safely. God is no different, and has given us these foundational rules so that we can enjoy life to the full. The first two commandments demanded that the people should only worship the one true God. There were plenty of other gods on offer in Moses' time and the people knew it. The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 400 years and would have been familiar with the many gods that were worshipped in that land. The Pharaohs were believed to the sons of the sun god, Rah. Indeed, every part of life was dominated by different gods. They worshipped the River Nile and honoured Apis, the chief god of Memphis, in the form of a sacred bull. They also worshipped Serapis, who defended the land against locusts. On all sides they were offered gods they could follow but God demanded exclusive worship. Our society is also full of gods. There are not only innumerable other religions and philosophies but our material possessions, ambitions, careers, hobbies or sports can be just as demanding in calling for our commitment and devotion. But God alone deserves our worship. We need to build our homes, communities and nations on this foundation principle. If we are to build our lives on the Ten Commandments, this is where we have to begin. Question: In what ways do these first two commandments shape your life? Prayer: Lord God, help me to give you the first place in my life. Amen

Welcome to October 13, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate getting pumped up and our Nation's fighting spirit.  Today's celebration is about pumping you up! I'm not talking about your muscles, girly man, I'm talking about that under used super organ between your ears. It's estimated that we only use a small fraction of the true potential of our brains and if you need more motivation think about this. Everything you see in the world around you was created in someone's head. That means the 3 pounds of gray matter you now own was responsible for taking us out of the stone age into the age of computers and rockets. So how much heavy lifting are you doing these days? On National Train Your Brain Day get cracking! Even if it's only lifting a pencil to your favorite puzzle.  On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress formally established what would become the United States Navy. The most famous American Captain from this era was John Paul Jones. In 1779, he engaged the British 44 gun Royal Navy frigate, Serapis. With his ship burning and sinking, Jones refused to surrender and he uttered the now famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight.” And it turns out he was right! Three hours after making this declaration, the British ship surrendered to him and Jones took command. On our Navy's Birthday, we celebrate the men and women who carry on the fighting spirit of Captain Jones.   I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Background • Pergamum was the seat for the Roman Governor for the region. So, if Ephesus was like New York (Financial and commerce center), Pergamum would be like Washington DC (governing and legal center). • They had the 2nd largest library at the time (Alexandria had the largest) • In 29 AD Pergamum was the very first city to erect a temple to a Caesar (Augustus) • Those in Pergamum also worshipped the god Asclepius, who was a healing God in the form of a serpent. They also were the center for medical practice. This God's temple had a medical spa connected to it and a 3500-seat amphitheater for musical therapy. o Asclepius was given the title Soter (savior)for his “healing power”. This would have put early Christians at odds with this cult claiming Jesus was the healer and savior. • On the highest peak of the hillside around Pergamum was the temple to Zeus. It had a huge altar that looked like a throne. Smoke would rise day and night from the temple from the sacrifices being made. • On another hilltop near Zeus' temple was Athena's temple the goddess of victory. • As well there was a massive temple to the god Serapis who was also a god of healing. Today this temple is known as Red Basilica. It contained a massive 30-foot statue that the priest could make “talk” by entering the base and speaking through a pipe. NT Wright describes the impact this environment might have had on the church in Pergamum: “Many local inhabitants in the first century must have been proud of all of this. But for the little Christian community it represented a threat- and a threat with which, it seemed, the Christians were not coping particularly well.” All of these temples, smoke, talking idols, altars and more must have seemed overwhelming and intimidating to the believers here. It's no wonder Jesus describes Pergamum as the place where Satan dwells. Not only was it the governing center for the imperial cult but also a major center for false worship and some of the Christians are struggling to maintain a faithful witness in this culture. Revelation 2:12-17 Description of Jesus (v12) Antipas the Faithful Witness (V13) Balaam/Nicolaitans (v14, 15) Call to Repent (v16) Reward: Hidden manna and New name (v17) Conclusions: How to apply this to the Church today

Finally, an end. PatronsMitchel Werner, Stephanie Akers Rissa M., Michael Lazaropoloulos, Trekkiecos, Renner, WDcipher, Iwan Pastoor, Joseph Connelly, SK, Dr. Fairchild, and Devontia Bogle!Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzStockley - Sushant AdlakhaVan Hassel - Alvan Bolling IIJohnson - Damon AlumsThorpe - Russel MoreBone Tree Warrior - Graham RowatWashburton - Pacific S. ObadiahO5 Rep - Addison PeacockAbbot - David DarkeMokosh - Elissa Park____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're opening up this history books and looking backPatrons Keys, Juneyor Roebuck, Andrewy Keller, Ralphie, and Noel Kelly! Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzSt. Clair - Rissa MontanezBirdwhistle - Graham RowatCuronian - Madeleine MooreMercenary - Brandon Nguyen ____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're going exploringPatrons Aaron, Elijah Gray, PK, Adam Moore, Jarrod Perez, Damon Clarke, Tobias Q, and Jacob Strong! Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzFitzwilliam - Ben CounterFaye - Elissa ParkLeon - Alvan Bolling II ____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You ever wonder why we're out here?Patrons spacespirals, Amanda, Thermopylae, James Blanchflower, Shelby Woodberry, Moises Martinez, ThatguyNick 123, Abbey, David Borak, and Clardia Beatty! Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzO% Dissident - Damon AlumsHazel - Brandon NyugenLittle - Antoinette Berry-SnowdenStenforth - Graham Rowat ____________Script Consultant - Rissa MontanezLine Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An important interview.Patrons Damian Harris, SpamMan, Lakota M Gillispie, ShadowOfBlaze, BluJax, Noe Salinas, Daedalus_Sings, Bry Catman, Spike Milligan, Sarah C, Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzShepherd - Graham RowatJohn Medicine Weasel - Ben PeasO5 Rep - Dana Creaseman ____________Nina Sanders - Crow Tribe ConsultantLine Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nothing like working the earth under the afternoon sun. We're gonna build something beautiful here...TranscriptPatronsAmericanJon, Adrian Gutierrez, Nickverse Nick, Noe, HostessSnacks, Cody Petty, Nemo7734, Zachary Blount, Clare Brennan, Mia244, Ace Savage, Alex Abraham, William Sewell, Chris Morales, and Omega Cardi!Cast & CrewProject Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzEmile - Damon AlumsEugene - David DarkePolly - Addison PeacockDoc - Shushant AdlakhaMarklay - Ben CounterWorker - Pacific S. ObadiahCultist - Daisy McNamara____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We all have fond memories of our time at summer camp, right? Rowing, running, writing letters home! This is a summer we'll never forget...Patrons NicoleOK, Sj Rainess, Carlos F Estrada, Martin Frotvedt, TheHappy Pittie, Introverted Mermaid Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzSally - Addison PeacockBobbi - Antoinette Berry-SnowdenMaggie - Rissa MontanezPearl - Elissa Park ____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nothing weird ever happens on book tours, right?Transcript PatronsJuicy Kisses, Achim Metzel, Karen Starbucks, and DaceLovesTime!Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzLoreta - Addison PeacockGabriella - Rissa Montanez____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're going up to some old abandoned summer camp. What could possibly go wrong?PatronsAlissa VonGrimm, Dark4saken1, Nic George, Isaac Owens, PixelMan572, Troy Wilder, MasterMorning, I like your music, and Will Philbrook!Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzBecky - Antoinette Berry-SnowdenEddie - Brandon NyugenRock - Russ MoreOlivia - Madeline MooreTurtle - Erik KempEugene - David Darke____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hiking give us an opportunity to connect with nature. We're not walking up a mountain, we're going somewhere else. Transcript PatronsNick, Queen Axi, tetoris, Nathan Derby, Jez Broome, William Meringolo, The Coffeemancer, obsidiandarke, vamp, Ace Decker, Trestyn, Falt, Turner, BulletBill318, Peter Cargill, Teagan Zee, Carbon 281, Robert Andrews, Salti, petter, Dead till Friday, Tron Wild, DantePD, Lyssa Discordia, Jules, Grady, and Tamara Relota!Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzMcCoffrey - Graham RowatShelby - Elissa ParkRoman - Sushant AdlakhaHerc - Alvan Bolling II____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Reached out to a contact at the UIU. It took awhile but they were able to uncover some paper work detailing an "unusual incident" in the south Montana sector. This might be tangential information at best, but something tells me this relates to the entity we found in the cave...PatronsAmythystTalon, Kyle Runnels, Ink Sans, Carl Marshall, Perry McDaniel, Michael Carnahan, son shade, Al C, Citizen Trent, Spring Lonsdale, Matt, D1g1tal Escap3, Lucianna Lawrence, Silk, Zach Molock, Hypercoreriper, Aliigators and Crocodiles are the same thing, Nick, and Isabel McCartin!Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzPickton - Antoinette Berry-SnowdenDabrovski - Graham RowatFulton - Brandon NyugenWalter - David DarkeMaria - Madeleine MooreTancredi - Erik KempHolly - Damon Alums____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Agent Gallio has been reactivated. Gallio is to look into a series of disturbances affecting the southern Montana sector. Of course, nothing is as simple as it seems. What starts as a quick spelunking expedition turns into an inter-departmental nightmare of archived files. Turns out this anomaly has been in the present sector for over a century... Patrons Kerchooooooo, Not Fully Housebroken, Redacted, Zemilia, Colin J Naron, Donald Dowen, The Rains, Eike Peers, Cardinal, Gregory Aquilio, The Free Minecraft State of Kharn, Ezra Asquith, Wolverstone, Samuel Mayerhofer, Monica Sheakley, Justin Rictor, Lord Rancid, Himbeerfalter, Joey Bingaman, Joseph Petris, Taryn & Charlie, Henry Prestige, Mayrose Larkin, ATD, Jayme Piche, Josh Welker, Barret Sardoff, and Voikoira Cast & Crew:Project Serapis was written by Ben CounterGallio - Jon GrilzAbbot - David DarkeUrbanek - Russ MoreLynch - Erik KempWeiss - Ben CounterLopez - Rissa MontanezO5 Rep - Elissa Park ____________Line Editor - Daisy McNamaraSound Designer - Dana CreasemanMusic by Tom Rory ParsonsShowrunner - Pacific S. ObadiahProducers - Tom Owen & Brad MiskaPresented by Bloody Disgustingwww.Bloody-Disgusting.com www.SCParchives.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scp_pod Twitter: https://twitter.com/scp_pod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scppod Discord: https://discord.gg/yW5BVPFgzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Paul Jones circles around the British Isles, in search of targets to attack.  Frustrated by his slow ship and disobedient officers and crew, Jones fears his mission will end in failure.  then, he encounters the British warship Serapis. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard: A Reconstruction of the Ship and an Account of the Battle With H.M.S. Serapis, by Jean Boudriot & David H. Roberts. Online Recommendation of the Week: The Navy of the American Revolution: Its Administration, Its Policy and Its Achievements, by Charles Oscar Paullin: https://archive.org/details/navyofamericanre00paul Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy  ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast    

Welcome to October 13, 2021 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate digging up history and our Nation's fighting spirit.  In 1676, a giant leg bone was unearthed in England. Scientists didn't know what it was, or where it came from, but they examined it and decided that it had come from—a giant. They were partially right. While they were envisioning a human-like, fairytale giant, it was actually from a giant lizard that would later come to be known as a dinosaur. Specifically, a Megalosaurus. But no one realized that until nearly 150 years later, when scientist Richard Owen pieced it all together. Today we use fossils to better understand the history of our planet and the evolution of life on it. On National Fossil Day, dig up some cool facts on these links to the past that teach us from the dust. On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress formally established what would become the United States Navy. The most famous American Captain from this era was John Paul Jones. In 1779, he engaged the British 44 gun Royal Navy frigate, Serapis. With his ship burning and sinking, Jones refused to surrender and he uttered the now famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight.” And it turns out he was right! Three hours after making this declaration, the British ship surrendered to him and Jones took command. On our Navy's Birthday, we celebrate the men and women who carry on the fighting spirit of Captain Jones.   I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not All Fossils Give Up Their Stories Right Away. Welcome to October 13, 2021 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate digging up history and our Nation's fighting spirit.  In 1676, a giant leg bone was unearthed in England. Scientists didn't know what it was, or where it came from, but they examined it and decided that it had come from—a giant. They were partially right. While they were envisioning a human-like, fairytale giant, it was actually from a giant lizard that would later come to be known as a dinosaur. Specifically, a Megalosaurus. But no one realized that until nearly 150 years later, when scientist Richard Owen pieced it all together. Today we use fossils to better understand the history of our planet and the evolution of life on it. On National Fossil Day, dig up some cool facts on these links to the past that teach us from the dust. On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress formally established what would become the United States Navy.  The most famous American Captain from this era was John Paul Jones.  In 1779, he engaged the British 44 gun Royal Navy frigate, Serapis.  With his ship burning and sinking, Jones refused to surrender and he uttered the now famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight.”  And it turns out he was right!  Three hours after making this declaration, the British ship surrendered to him and Jones took command. On our Navy's Birthday, we celebrate the men and women who carry on the fighting spirit of Captain Jones.   I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson.  Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day.

Drawn by the prospects of providing service to the Ptolemaic government in either the bureaucracy or the army, or perhaps seeking to settle and farm some of the most productive land in the world, tens of thousands of Greeks would immigrate to Egypt in pursuit of a better life. Thanks to the abundant papyrological record, we are able to get an intimate look into the lives and careers of those who now to called Egypt home: those such as the deeply religious devotee of Serapis named Ptolemaeus, or Kleon, the hard-pressed chief engineer of the Fayyum reclamation project of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Show Links Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/061-ptolemaic-egypt-greeks-in-an-egyptian-land/) Episode 061 Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/061-ptolemaic-egypt-greeks-in-an-egyptian-land-transcript.pdf) Two Friends Talk History Podcast Buzzsprout (https://twofriendstalkhistory.buzzsprout.com/) Website (www.archaeoartist.com) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

How did we end up here? Where was all the outcry? Why was the church silent when it should of been sounding the alarm? Because it's bearing the fruit that comes from its foreign roots! We have inherited a term foreign to Israel, a term widely used by and for Pagan worshippers. The term "Christos" is Greek, and is defined as meaning "anointed." Although it is treated as a translation for the Hebrew word "Moshiach," its use in the Greek language is derived from a completely different application. As early as 200 BCE, there were Pagan worshippers of Serapis that called themselves "Christians." It's time to get back to our Hebrew roots and stand for righteousness and stop the syncretism in these last days!

IntroductionWell we are now four chapters into the gospel of John and we have arrived at the story of the woman at the well. And one of the things we’ve tried to mention now a few times is that this book is written for a very specific reason. And because he’s got a purpose, he’s being very selective.We have to keep in mind that there are many things that could have been included in the book of John that are not there. Let me illustrate this way.Have you ever noticed that Mt, Mk, Lk, John and Acts are all about the same length? Why is that? Because it’s what fits on standard length scroll. You have to cut it off somewhere. It’s got to fit in a book.You get little hints of this cutting all over the gospels. In fact, it seems that there are entire volumes of Jesus life that are purposely not mentioned.You remember in Matthew chapter 12 we read of Jesus healing a man with a whithered hand. That act begins to attract huge crowds and attention from the religious elite. So he withdraws into a more desolate place. And there’s this passing comment.That about makes you gasp in amazement as you read along! John, why not write about that! That sounds like really INTERESTING stuff and really important HISTORICAL data. True. But, John’s point isn’t primarily to record history or keep you interested.None of these HISTORICAL, REALLY INTERESTING miracles are recorded. Why? Because his primary purpose pushes out these secondary purposes.When the editor comes to John and says, “We have too much material. John, you are going to have to choose between the healing crusade of Jesus where he heals hundreds and that conversation Jesus had with that woman at the water-cooler.” John says, “Let’s go with the water cooler-convo.”By all accounts, this is a curious inclusion. There’s no great miracle displayed in the story. Jesus does demonstrates his ability to know the secret details of this woman’s personal life but there’s not healing, no altering of physics in any impressive way.John had thousands of stories to choose from and he chose this. Why? Because, this story illustrates his POINT - HERE IT IS: Jesus is the Christ. Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus is God. Jesus is that long awaited Savior of the world. And this story about a thirsty woman next to a well of water profoundly demonstrates not only THAT he is the SAVIOR but it demonstrates HOW he SAVES.Last week Ryan so helpfully began this narrative and today we get to finish it.ReviewThis entire narrative is about thirst.It starts with physical thirst. Jesus needs water and so does this woman he meets at the well. They both are thirsty. How much more human can you get than that?But very quickly it moves from physical thirst to soul thirst when Jesus asks this woman for a cup of water. You see,He was a man. She was a woman.He was educated. She was not.He was a Jew. She was a Samaritan.He was socially respected. She was socially disrespected.He was morally impeccable. She was morally reprehensible.What this simple request revealed is that as far as the culture was concerned there was a barrier between them.There was racial barrier.There was gender barrier.There was political barrier.There was educational barrier.There was moral barrier.Every culture has these barriers - walls that prevent unity. These walls don’t exist without reason. These barriers are erected to protect values.You see, there’s always this nagging concern - If too many of these type of people flood our social circles, the things we care about are going to be diluted. And it’s a real concern. The things we’ve worked so hard to build are going to be torn down by people who don’t care about them. The minority will become the majority and the tides will turn a new direction. And over time what happens is that the people you fear are seen as a disease. They are unclean. And what do we do with diseased people? We should know. We quarantine them.Here was a woman that for all practical purposes, needed to be socially quarantined because her immorality was contagious. She was a MORAL-19 leper. She was a threat to the health of the community. And she knew that she was perceived that way. That’s why she came to the well alone at high noon in the heat of the day. She had a social disease.So by asking for a drink this reality was exposed. Jesus says, "I see by the way you respond to me, there is a need here larger than thirst. Listen, I can fix the disease in you. I’ve got something that your soul needs as intensely as your body needs water. I have something that is as satisfying to your soul as water is to your parched mouth.You have a longing for love. I can see it in you.You have a longing for value and being accepted. You’re wearing it on your sleeve.You have a longing for real life,You have a longing for eternal life. I see that in your eyes.All the deepest longings of your soul and your heart can be satisfied with the water I give you.She says, really? Yes. Well, then give it to me. Okay, I will. But first, go call your husband. Why does he say that?Jesus wants to get personal. She has a sickness. In order to solve the disease the physician has to get close.He has to touch you.He has to invade your space.You have to expose to him the wounded part of you that you are embarrassed to show any other person.If you want him to heal you, your going to have to trust him.Do you see what Jesus is trying to do. He’s trying to get close to the sickness. But it confuses her because she’s learned how people respond to her when they find out she’s sick. Her whole life she’s been conditioned to believe that when people discover who she really is they will recoil in fear of being contaminated. She’s learned to hide, to disguise who she is, to project an image of herself because she doesn’t want her repulsiveness to be discovered.But this is what makes Jesus a Savior. He wants to touch our sickness.That’s so counterintuitive to us. We can only go from health to sickness.If we touch a leper, we get leprosy.If we touch a dead body, we become unclean.If we touch a sinner, we pick up their sin.If you think about the things that are unclean in the Bible, many of them are unclean because proximity to this thing leads to death. We can’t beat death. So if you can’t fight it, then RUN!That’s what we do. But that’s not what the Savior of the world does. Jesus reverses that.If Jesus touches a leper, he is made clean. If Jesus touches a dead body it rises. If Jesus touches a sinner he is forgiven. He fixes the problem. He spreads health.But - AND THIS IS THE KICKER - in order to heal, he has to touch. He has to get close. He has to look at what you’ve been hiding. That’s what’s behind this whole business of asking about the husband and then revealing the five husbands.There’s a soul injury there that is sensitive. Let me see that area. He’s asking her to let him do his healing work but she’s nervous. I don’t usually let people get that close to me. I’ve had bad experiences with that.And she backs away. Ah, I see you are a prophet. She deflects. Maybe you can solve this debate that we’ve had here about worship. The Samaritans say we should worship here. The Jews say we should worship here. She’s deflecting. She doesn’t want to get personal. Jesus isn’t interested in this kind of chit-chat. He wants to get personal, "You want to talk about temples? Fine, I’ll tell you about temples. I’ve come to make all temples obsolete." Let’s get back to the point. What you really need is me.Jesus constantly able to drive to an individuals biggest need, greatest sin, lack of hope, despair, guilt, need. He’s offering himself. He’s offering living water. He says, "I am Messiah and I can meet the deepest needs of your soul."You want to be forgiven. I will forgive you.You want acceptance. I will accept you.You want love. I will love you.You want to live. I can make you live forever.That’s what he means by living water. These deep soul needs of the heart and the real life needs of the body totally and completely fulfilled by Jesus Christ, the author of love and giver of life. What you need is the gift of God. You need water that springs up to eternal life.Jesus reaches across all those barriers to this woman. And she receives it. It’s an amazing story.The ContinuationSo our text today is a continuation of this. So this woman receives Jesus as Messiah. She receives the living water. And she goes ballistic. In a moment she is changed. She runs into town a changed woman gushing emotion and praise.Why? Because she’s tasted of the living waters! Imagine you are in the brink of death because you are so thirsty. Your tongue is a chunk of dry leather in your mouth. Someone hands you a gallon of water. Can you imagine just having one sip and handing it back?This woman has waited her entire life for these needs of our soul to be met. She’s worked hard to find satisfaction and she ends up parched. Every other promise of satisfaction, she’s had to earn. She’s had to work for it. And she worked hard and it failed her. But here’s a gift. She did nothing. She’s just gushing. The Spirit of God is in her. This well inside her is overflowing. And she’s drinking and drinking and the water is sweet and plentiful.Now the narrative is very careful to give us very specific time markers. We have already been told that the disciples were sent into the town by Jesus to get some food. The text is very clear that Jesus has this entire interchange in the absence of the disciples. And they return from getting food right as Jesus is finishing up. In fact, we are told the exact moment.So from the perspective of the disciples, they left and Jesus was alone. They return and they saw Jesus finishing up this conversation, this women so excited, run back into town. They were thinking to themselves, well that is strange? They didn’t really know what happened. They marveled at the fact he was talking to a woman. But they were accustomed to marveling at Jesus so they just kept their mouths shut. They have become accustomed to the flexibility of Jesus to deal with different types of people.Now look what happens next. They are standing around with their subway sandwich bags. Okay Thomas had the flatbread combo. Here’s some for Jesus. And Jesus just seemed pre-occupied. He wasn’t eating. Maybe he was praying. Maybe he was reading.Now they had just traveled some distance and they know how they are feeling. You know that feeling when the blood sugar drops. Man, the body needs fuel. He’s going to get tired. He’s going to collapse in exhaustion. They get concerned for Jesus.The disciples of course are doing what anyone would have done here. They are just interacting and thinking on the plane of physical hunger. They are thinking in terms of body. But Jesus is thinking in terms of body and soul.This is not the first time he’s heard someone say to him, “You look hungry. Eat.” Those words must have sounded awfully familiar. Remember the 40 day fast just weeks earlier. This is not his first rodeo. When he was deep into that 40 day fast, starving to the brink of human physical limits, the tempter came to him and said, Matthew 4:3-4, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread."Satan said to Jesus, “Jesus eat. Jesus feed yourself. What’s the harm in doing that?”But he answered, “It is written,”‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’"Why did Jesus respond this way to Satan? His point here is not that we can live without bread. Of course we need to eat. His point is that there is something more important than bread. Think about this temptation at its core. It’s a daily temptation for all of us: making the concerns of earth more important than the concerns of heaven.Jesus responds to Satan by saying, there is a higher priority than food. That’s saying something since food is a pretty high priority.I mean it’s one of the 3 basic ingredients of survival: Food, water, shelter. Jesus says, “Nope. That’s wrong.” Word of God, Food, Water, Shelter. That’s the order.In the same way that water meets a need completely different than food. So the Word of God meets a totally different need than both food and water.Food can never feed the soul. Ingesting God’s words feeds the soul which is the highest priority. Of course I’m hungry. But there’s something more important at stake here. I’ve got other food to eat. What is that food in specific?There’s a very specific type of food that Jesus is referencing here. Let’s find out. We have three points here.What is the food?How do I get the food?What happens when I eat the food?Here’s the answer Jesus gives.So the food he’s referencing is doing God’s will.Doing God’s will satisfies a hunger we have in our soul. Most of us ascent to that reality but we have no clue how true it really is. That’s why God gave the disciples this analogy. *Jesus says, “Do you feel how hungry you are disciples.* Do you feel that drop in blood sugar?” Do you have the craving for food? You know that the second you eat that food, you will feel better right? Food is the cure for physical hunger. Doing God’s will is the cure for soul hunger.The difference between the cure for physical hunger and the cure for soul hunger is that with physical hunger we are experts at identifying the cure.A pizza hut pizza, a rack of ribs, a turkey dinner. Any one of those will do the trick. We know how to cure physical hunger.But with soul hunger we get confused. We think that money, or changed situations or changed relationships will satisfy the hunger - but it doesn’t. It’s like biting into a bagel and tasting air. That was a strange experience. So God gave us hunger as a gift to understand the relationship between our soul’s hunger and the cure for our soul’s hunger.The cure for hungry souls, the food for hungry souls, is obedience to the father.Are you starving for purpose? Then open up your Bible and start obeying what it says. His Word is bread. His commands obeyed are like meals for your soul. You can’t find purpose any other way. Do you realize that? Your food is to do the will of God.Are you starving to have your life mean something? Then open up your Bible and eat. Eat God’s Words. Let it fill you. It’s the key!Are you starving? Then open up your Bible and eat. Not just read it, but obey it.Why am I lonely? Why am I struggling with depression? Why do I lack purpose? Do you see the metaphor. The Words of God are food for your soul. You silence the hunger by doing the will of God.If every word that comes out of the mouth of God is the total food option, then that gets broken down into meals. There’s a meal that’s before Jesus and his disciples right now. There’s a specific word of God that needs to be obeyed right now. What is it?So the meal here is to do the work of bringing people to Christ. God has a job for them to do. There is a harvest of souls right in front of them. It’s ripe for harvest. God’s will, and hence our spiritual food, is to do that work of harvesting souls for the kingdom. That’s PRIORITY #1.When a farmer looks at a field yet to be harvested, he’s got to ignore his physical hunger. He has to work all day; he skips two full meals, pulling in those tractor trailers spilling over the side rails with grain - that satisfies the soul even though the stomach is barking at him.If you know anything about farming communities when harvest comes, everybody stops everything. Schools shut down. The harvest is on and it’s work around the clock to take advantage of this narrow window of opportunity. They work before the sun rises till after the sun sets. They skip meals. Why? Because if they don’t work really hard RIGHT NOW, they will loose the harvest. The grain will fall over and rot into the ground. The sugar beats will spoil and mold. The rains will come and the tractors won’t be able to get into the fields to harvest the potatoes.I’ll eat soon enough. I need to work now.This is what Jesus is saying. Do you see all that grain out there? All we have to do is harvest it. It’s ripe. Let’s get to work. “Yes, I’m hungry, but this is no time for a feast. That time is coming soon enough. We’ve got work to do.”Now, just pause for a moment here. He says, "Lift up your eyes." You can imagine Jesus sweeping his hand across the landscape. What are there eyes resting on? Samaria filled with Samaritans. The crop is Samaritans. Jesus is turning their eyes to see that those whom they despise are in fact the target of God’s redeeming love.My food Jesus says, my work as Savior is satisfy the thirst of the people here in Samaria.Our food is to do the will of the father. Okay, that’s what it is. How do I get it?How do we get the food? There’s one work to focus in on here. LABOR. We get the food by working, toiling, laboring. We don’t get the food by just sitting around. This kind of obedience to the will of the father takes work.And it’s important to make a distinction between the WORK required to drink the living waters and the WORK required reap the harvest.Jesus has just finished teaching this woman about living waters springing up to eternal life. To be clear. That takes no work.Now, most people CERTAINLY TRY to work and earn and labor for this kind of life. Most people work to try to earn a reputation, earn money, earn a standing, earn success. They WORK really really HARD. They WORK their fingers down to the bone trying to quench the thirst of the soul.Jesus tells this woman. Stop working. Just receive the gift of life. You don’t have to earn these waters. You don’t have to work for these waters. These waters are a GIFT of God. They satisfy deeply. They will never disappoint. Don’t work. Come thirsty. Drink deeply. It’s free. Receive the gift. Jesus is the fountain of living waters and its free and never ending. That’s the spiritual drink. NO WORK REQUIRED to drink.But that doesn’t mean there is no work. What is the work? We work to get people to the well. The real food, the real work, the real toil, the real sweat is saving people from spiritual dehydration by leading them to the fountain of living water.Our work is not to get these living waters. Our work is to give the living water.Most people toil their entire lives to find living water thinking that when they find it they will finally be able to rest.Christians receive the living waters and rest and out of that rest they toil so that others can find rest.That’s what Jesus is saying. My food is to do the will of him who sent me. My food (my work) is to quench thirsty souls.Food and water are two totally different needs. You need both of them to be satisfied don’t you. You can be right next to an artisian well and die of starvation and vice versa. We need both.We can be satisfied with the living waters of Jesus Christ. But that does not satisfy the hunger to accomplish the mission of God.If your entire infantry is dying of thirst and you have the key to a well, sure you personally want a drink, and you could open that well up and drink but you can’t rest until they’ve all had a drink. You can’t just lock the well back up and say, “I’m satisfied” and watch everyone else die of thirst.This is what Jesus is talking about. He has a compassion for those who are thirsty. He has a hunger to see that thirst quenched.So feed your hunger by eating, by doing the will of God. By reaping. By doing the work of harvesting. By laboring. You have a hunger in you to see people saved don’t you?I know you do because you are a Christian. You’ve tasted the living waters. I know you want others to taste what you have found. You want others to taste and see that the Lord is good.You are satisfied because you have tasted and others you love have tasted. IT is when we all eat and drink that we are finally satisfied in community. It’s the difference between enjoying a vacation by yourself and enjoying a vacation with family or friends. 3/4 of the enjoyment of a vacation is reveling in a wonderful experience together, in community. That’s what worship is!What does soul satisfaction look like? It looks like the woman we see in verse 39. Someone who has both DRANK the living waters and has EATEN of the bread of doing the will of God. This woman is fully satisfied.Now we get to finish the story. So this woman runs back into town. And we are given no details here, but we can easily imagine it. This is a small town. Small towns are all the same. Everybody is into everybody’s business because, after all, that’s the only thing to do in small towns.So she goes back into the town and look at what happens.Do you see what happened? This woman had drank of the living waters. And she was so thrilled. You see what this woman realized and what the whole town realized was that Jesus was Messiah because he came to SAVE by SATISFYING.There are two levels of belief described in this section here. The first is they believed because of the woman’s testimony. Now let me point out something rather amazing about this.This paragraph references this woman’s testimony. This is a legal term. In the court system, describe for me the end goal of having a witness provide a testimony? The goal is for that testimony to be believed. Okay, so if that’s the goal, what are the characteristics of a good witness and a good testimony? You need a witness who is reliable, respected, educated, truthful. This woman had a reputation for none of these things. in a court of law, this is like the worst possible witness you could chose. And yet it’s this woman’s testimony that resulted in the belief of many? People chose to believe her. Why should anyone believe this woman’s testimony?There is an answer here. There’s one very narrow example where being unreliable, disrespcted, uneducated, being a liar, being a moral failure helps your case not hurts it. You know when that is?It’s when you change. If you are trying to sell a weight loss product. Who do you commission - the formerly fat or the formerly skinny? When a person completely changes, you know something happened. It grabs your attention. You know how hard it is to change, how rare it is, and when someone dramatically changes, you believe some power was at work. The more messed up, the more powerful the testimony becomes. These people looked at this woman and said, "I believe that some power is at work here." I don’t know what living waters are but whatever they are she tasted em. She’s got what I want. I believe living waters exist based on what I see in her.Now you want to know why this is good news for us. The way you provide testimony to the power of Jesus is not by showing how good you are, how moral you can be, how exemplary your family is, it’s by showing how bad you were. It’s by showing the ways in which Jesus changed you.I used to be insecure and that manifested itself in jealousy, lashing out in anger, bullying people, hiding, whatever…. but now Christ has saved me from all that! I’m free, free, forever amen. Come join the song of all the redeemed.I used to love money and now I couldn’t care less about money. I just love God and his people. Do you see how Christ rescued me!I used to love power and influence and all I cared about was people respecting me. Now all I care about is God getting glory and respect. I’ve been saved from that pathetic condition!Do you see how powerful it is to testify. Now it says that they believed. We can call this level one belief. What is it? It’s the type of belief where you can’t argue with the evidence. You say, “I’m not sure what happened, but I TOTALLY believe that some power changed her. I believe that. I can’t deny it.” They believe enough to pursue it themselves.And then level two belief happens. Level two belief happens at the end of the paragraph.It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. We believe because we have EXPERIENCED it ourselves. Do you know this is the goal of evangelism?We don’t change people. We just want to get them close enough to Jesus that they experience him themselves. It’s our mission statement. We glorify God by pointing the AFFECTIONS of all peoples to the ALL-SATISFYING person of Jesus Christ.This passage concludes by identifying Jesus as the Savior of the World. Interestingly, this was a common title in the first century.Greek deities were ascribed the same title: not only Zeus, but Asclepius the god of healing, various gods of the mystery cults, and others.Even the Roman emperors were called savior; Hadrian (AD 117–138) was called the ‘savior of the world.’It didn’t have a universal meaning. So here’s what these Samaritans are confessing. Zeus claims to be savior of the world. Serapis claims to be savior of the world. Even the emperor claims the title.But, INDEED, Jesus is the Savior of the world. They PERSONALLY experienced his saving power. Listen we are all in a quest for satisfaction. God has made you with spiritual hunger and thirst that cannot be satisfied. And we look all over the place for this kind of thing.This is the problem. And this is the solution.Ultimately for everyone who experiences Jesus as Savior experiences him as saving them not from Rome, not political salvation, financial salvation, social salvation.Jesus Christ saves your soul. He satisfies. Our theme for the year is Life in His Love.Jesus saves us because as we are loved, we experience life!

Throughout the three centuries of Ptolemaic control over Egypt, their dynasty can be best described as having a split identity. Ruling from Alexandria, the new intellectual and cultural capital of the Greek-speaking world, the Ptolemies were very much Hellenistic kings and queens. But Egypt was an ancient land, and they needed to come to terms with the pharaonic tradition that had dominated Egyptian life for the better part of 3,000 years. As the longest reigning dynasty in Egyptian history, the Ptolemies adopted the role and iconography of the pharaoh to great success. They were also capable of developing new ways to project their power, whether through the establishment and promotion of royal cults and new deities like Serapis, or incorporating the image of splendor and abundance as part of their propaganda. In this episode, we will see how the Ptolemies successfully legitimized their rule in the eyes of both Greeks and Egyptians alike. Show Links Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/058-ptolemaic-egypt-two-lands-two-peoples-one-ruler/) Episode 058 Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/058-ptolemaic-egypt-two-lands-two-peoples-one-ruler-pdf.pdf) Pontifacts: Podbean (https://pontifacts.podbean.com/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/pontifactspod?s=20) iTunes (https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1387540364?ls=1&mt=2) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

Abby Battis, the curator at Historic Beverly, tells us about their great exhibit on The Story of the Revolution--a 2-volume history of the Revolution by Massachusetts Senator, and historian Henry Cabot Lodge, illustrated with original paintings now on display for the first time since 1898! We discuss F.C. Yohn's paintings, "The Fight at Concord Bridge" and "The Battle of Brandywine," and Carlton T. Chapman's "Bonhomme Richard defeats the Serapis."

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THE PASSOVER is a milestone in world history. It's a defining moment in the creation of Israel, and thus, a key event in the natural and spiritual history of the world.

We discuss the connection between the Passover and another event of primary importance, the crucifixion of Jesus. We also discuss the cross-pollination of the pantheons of the Amorites (Canaanites) and Egyptians, and why it's so difficult to draw one-to-one connections between the plagues of Egypt and the Egyptian pantheon. Some of the gods linked to specific plagues (such as Serapis, who's connected by some to the plague of locusts) weren't even worshiped in Egypt until centuries after the Exodus.

THE PASSOVER is a milestone in world history. It’s a defining moment in the creation of Israel, and thus, a key event in the natural and spiritual history of the world. We discuss the connection between the Passover and another event of primary importance, the crucifixion of Jesus. We also discuss the cross-pollination of the pantheons of the Amorites (Canaanites) and Egyptians, and why it’s so difficult to draw one-to-one connections between the plagues of Egypt and the Egyptian pantheon. Some of the gods linked to specific plagues (such as Serapis, who’s connected by some to the plague of locusts) weren’t even worshiped in Egypt until centuries after the Exodus. Here is a link to the paper by Dr. Douglas Petrovich that Derek mentioned, Amenhotep II and the Historicity of the Exodus-Pharaoh. Join us in Israel next year! We will lead another tour through the Holy Land April 18-May 1, 2021, with an optional four-day extension to Mount Nebo, Wadi Rum, and Petra in Jordan. For more information, log on to www.SkyWatchinIsrael.com. Our latest book Veneration is now available for Amazon's Kindle e-book reader! Click here and find out why readers rate Veneration 4.7 out of 5, describing it as "a must read" that "opens up…the Bible's hidden mysteries." Download these studies directly to your phone, tablet, or iPod! Get our free mobile app for iOS and Android. Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are on the main page at www.GilbertHouse.org. Sharon's last novel Realms of Fire is available for Amazon's Kindle e-book reader! The print edition should be available this week. For more information, see Sharon's website, www.sharonkgilbert.com, or www.TheRedwingSaga.com. Click here for the complete archive of our New Testament Bible studies to date, and click here for the Old Testament studies to date. Or go to www.spreaker.com/show/gilbert-house-fellowship for all of the audio.

This week our guest is JAR contributor Louis Arthur Norton. While the infantry battles of the American Revolution typically garner most of the attention, this week a naval battle takes center stage. In 1779 two ships met in combat off the coast of Flamborough Head, England, and the resulting engagement stands as a defining moment in revolutionary naval history. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

Juan el Bautista (en griego ??????? ? ?????????, Ioann?s ho baptist?s o ??????? ? ????????, Ioann?s ho baptiz?n;conocido como profeta Yahya en el Corán), o simplemente el Bautista o san Juan, fue un predicador ambulante judío coetáneo de Jesús de Nazaret, nacido a finales del siglo I a.C.1 Es venerado como un importante personaje religiosoen el cristianismo, el islam y la fe bahá'í. Está considerado un profeta por todas estas confesiones y varias ramas del cristianismo le han proclamado santo. Es considerado un personaje muy importante en el mandeísmo, pero no su fundador. Juan usaba el bautismo como sacramento central de su movimiento mesiánico. La mayoría de los académicos está de acuerdo en que Juan bautizó a Jesús.1617 Algunos estudiosos creen que Jesús fue discípulo de Juan181920 y varios evangelios cuentan que algunos de los seguidores de Jesús habían sido antes discípulos de Juan. Juan el Bautista también fue mencionado por el historiador judío Flavio Josefo. Algunos expertos mantienen que Juan estaba influenciado por los esenios, una secta con algunas características ascéticas que esperaba un apocalipsis y practicaba rituales muy relacionados con el bautismo24 aunque no hay evidencias que apoyen esta hipótesis.2 Según el Nuevo Testamento, Juan anticipó a una figura mesiánica mayor que él mismo,26 y el que vino fue Jesús. Los cristianos hablan de Juan como si fuera el precursor de Jesús,27 por haber anunciado su venida. Juan también tiene elementos en común con el profeta Elías.2829 En el Evangelio de Marcos El Evangelio de Marcos presenta a Juan el cumplidor de una profecía de Isaías (que, en realidad, es una compilación de frases del Segundo Isaías, del Libro de Malaquías y del Libro del Éxodo).30 Esta profecía hablaba de un mensajero que iba por delante y de una voz que clama en el desierto. Dice que Juan usaba un manto hecho de pelo de camello y que se alimentaba de saltamontes y de miel silvestre. Juan proclamaba el bautismo del arrepentido para el perdón de los pecados. Según Marcos, Juan decía que vendría otro después de él que no bautizaría con agua, sino con el Espíritu Santo. Jesús acudió a Juan y fue bautizado por él en el río Jordán. Según Marcos, el hecho ocurrió así: En aquellos días, Jesús llegó desde Nazaret de Galilea y fue bautizado por Juan en el Jordán. Y al salir del agua, vio que los cielos se abrían y que el Espíritu Santo descendía sobre él como una paloma; y una voz desde el cielo dijo: «Tú eres mi hijo querido, mi predilecto». Marcos 1:9-11 Posteriormente, se narra la muerte de Juan. El tetrarca Herodes Antipas, al escuchar historias de Jesús, piensa que Juan el Bautista ha resucitado de los muertos. Posteriormente, Marcos explica que Juan condenó a Herodes Antipas por casarse con Herodías, la ex-mujer de su hermano (al que llama Felipe). Herodías pedía su ejecución, pero Herodes Antipas se entretenía escuchando sus historias y era reacio a hacerlo porque le temía, ya que era un hombre «recto y sagrado». El relato narra posteriormente que la hija de Herodías danzó ante Antipas, lo que le complació tanto que le ofreció que escogiera cualquier cosa como premio. La hija preguntó a su madre, la cual le dijo que pidiera la cabeza de Juan el Bautista. Aunque reacio, Antipas ordenó la decapitación de Juan, y su cabeza le fue entregada a la chica en un plato. Los discípulos de Juan tomaron el cuerpo y lo enterraron en una tumba (Marcos 6:17-29). Cabeza de san Juan Bautista. José de Ribera. 1644. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid. Este pasaje presenta varios problemas. El Evangelio de Marcos identifica erróneamente a Herodes Antipas como un «rey»,31 cuando era un tetrarca, y llama Filipo al ex-marido de Herodías cuando se sabe se llamaba Herodes Boeto (también conocido como Herodes el Joven).32 Además, otros textos hablan de «la hija de Herodes, Herodías». Muchos académicos creen que esto último es lo correcto y que fue corregido en versiones posteriores del texto de Marcos y los evangelios de Mateo y Lucas.323334 Flavio Josefo dice que Herodías tenía una hija llamada Salomé. Los académicos han especulado sobre el origen de esta historia. Muestra signos de haber sido compuesta en arameo, que era un idioma que Marcos aparentemente no hablaba, por lo que puede haberla sacado de alguna fuente palestina.35 Hay diversas opiniones sobre la cantidad de material histórico que contiene.36 Muchos académicos han considerado que la historia del arresto, la ejecución y el entierro de Juan puede haberse elaborado para relacionarla con el destino de Jesús.37 En el Evangelio de Mateo El relato del Evangelio de Mateo contiene la profecía de Isaías,38 y la información del Libro de Malaquías y del Libro del Éxodo es mencionada por el propio Jesús más adelante.39 La descripción de Juan se toma directamente del Evangelio de Marcos: «un manto hecho de pelo de camello, un cinturón de cuero en la cintura, y se alimentaba de saltamontes y miel silvestre», junto con el anuncio de que el que vendría posteriormente bautizaría con el Espíritu Santo «y el fuego» (Mateo 3:1-12). A diferencia de Marcos, Mateo describe a Juan como crítico con los fariseos y saduceos y aparece predicando que «el reino de los cielos se acerca» y un «juicio venidero». Mateo abrevia la historia de la decapitación de Juan y añade dos elementos: que Herodes Antipas quería ver muerto a Juan y que Jesús fue informado de este hecho por sus discípulos.40 Mateo no se centra en Herodes Antipas, sino en Juan como el precursor de Jesús. Aunque Marcos habla de que Herodes Antipas mató a Juan a regañadientes y por la insistencia de Herodías, Mateo dice que Herodes Antipas quería ver muerto a Juan.41 En su evangelio, Jesús dice: «De cierto os digo: Entre los que nacen de mujer no se ha levantado otro mayor que Juan el Bautista; pero el más pequeño en el reino de los cielos, mayor es que él» Mateo 11:11 En el Evangelio de Lucas y en los Hechos de los Apóstoles Juan y Jesús de niños en un cuadro de Murillo. Según Lucas sus madres eran parientes. El Evangelio de Lucas narra la milagrosa concepción de Isabel, que era estéril (Lucas 1:7-9), esposa de Zacarías, ambos ancianos y sin hijos. Puede que este evangelio defina a Isabel como estéril por haber pasado ya la menopausia.4243 Según el relato de Lucas, el ángel Gabriel le anticipó el nacimiento de Juan a Zacarías mientras que este ejercía de sacerdote en el Templo de Jerusalén. Zacarías es descrito como un sacedote de la casa de Abías e Isabel es descrita como descendiente de Aarón (Lucas 1:5). Esto impica que ambos cónyuges eran descendientes de Aarón.44 Los católicos, los anglicanos y los luteranos celebran la natividad de Juan el Bautista el 24 de junio, seis meses antes de la Navidad. En tiempos de Herodes, rey de Judea, había un sacerdote llamado Zacarías, de la clase sacerdotal de Abías. Su mujer, llamada Isabel, era descendiente de Aarón. Ambos eran justos a los ojos de Dios y seguían en forma irreprochable todos los mandamientos y preceptos del Señor. Pero no tenían hijos, porque Isabel era estéril; y los dos eran de edad avanzada. Un día en que su clase estaba de turno y Zacarías ejercía la función sacerdotal delante de Dios, le tocó en suerte, según la costumbre litúrgica, entrar en el Santuario del Señor para quemar el incienso. Toda la asamblea del pueblo permanecía afuera, en oración, mientras se ofrecía el incienso. Entonces se le apareció el ángel del Señor, de pie, a la derecha del altar del incienso. Al verlo, Zacarías quedó desconcertado y tuvo miedo. Pero el ángel le dijo: «No temas, Zacarías; tu súplica ha sido escuchada. Isabel, tu esposa, te dará un hijo al que llamarás Juan. Él será para ti un motivo de gozo y de alegría, y muchos se alegrarán de su nacimiento, porque será grande a los ojos del Señor. No beberá vino ni bebida alcohólica; estará lleno del Espíritu Santo desde el seno de su madre, y hará que muchos israelitas vuelvan al Señor, su Dios. Precederá al Señor con el espíritu y el poder de Elías, para reconciliar a los padres con sus hijos y atraer a los rebeldes a la sabiduría de los justos, preparando así al Señor un Pueblo bien dispuesto». Pero Zacarías dijo al ángel: «¿Cómo puedo estar seguro de esto? Porque yo soy anciano y mi esposa es de edad avanzada». El ángel le respondió: «Yo soy Gabriel, el que está delante de Dios, y he sido enviado para hablarte y anunciarte esta buena noticia. Te quedarás mudo, sin poder hablar hasta el día en que sucedan estas cosas, por no haber creído en mis palabras, que se cumplirán a su debido tiempo». Lucas 1:5-20 Zacarías permaneció mudo hasta el día de la circuncisión, cuando recuperó el habla tras escribir en una tabla «Su nombre es Juan». Lucas dice que María, madre de Jesús, e Isabel, eran parientes. No obstante, no se menciona ninguna relación familiar entre Juan y Jesús en los otros evangelios y Raymond Edward Brown la define como de «historicidad dudosa».46 Geza Vermes ha dicho que es «sin duda una creación artificial de Lucas».47 Las similitudes con la historia del nacimiento de Samuel en el Antiguo Testamento sugieren que Lucas podría haber tomado la historia de la anunciación de Jesús y la de Juan de la historia de Samuel. Según Lucas, Juan comenzó a predicar y a bautizar en el desierto: [...] el año decimoquinto del imperio del emperador Tiberio, cuando Poncio Pilato gobernaba Judea, cuando Herodes era tetrarca de Galilea, su hermano Filipo tetrarca de Iturea y Traconítide, y Lisanias tetrarca de Abilene, en tiempo de los sumos sacerdotes Anás y Caifás Lucas 3:1-3 Tiberio sucedió a Augusto el 19 de agosto del año 767 (año 14 d. C.) de la fundación de Roma. Lucas pudo contabilizar los años siguiendo el calendario sirio que inicia el año el 1 de octubre, o bien el calendario romano que comienza en marzo, por lo cual no se sabe si tuvo en cuenta el primer año de la sucesión. Así, la fecha aproximada del inicio de la actividad del Bautista estaría en torno del año 28 de la era común. El de Lucas es el único evangelio donde Juan enseña explícitamente la caridad, bautiza a recaudadores de impuestos y da consejos a los soldados. El texto menciona brevemente que Juan fue arrestado y que, posteriormente, fue decapitado por Herodes, pero omite la historia de la petición de la hijastra. En el libro de los Hechos de los Apóstoles, que seguramente fue escrito por Lucas, se dice que algunos discípulos de Juan pasaron a ser discípulos de Jesús (Hechos 18:24 y Hechos 19:6), algo que no mencionan los evangelios con la excepción de Andrés, hermano de Pedro (Juan 1:35-42). En el Evangelio de Juan Juan Evangelista describe a Juan el Bautista como «un hombre enviado por Dios» que «no era la luz» pero que «vino como testigo para dar testimonio de la luz, de manera que a través de él todos creyeran» (Juan 1:6-8). Juan Bautista negaba claramente ser el Cristo, Elías o «el profeta», y en lugar de eso se definía a sí mismo como «la voz que clama en el desierto». Tras el análisis literal, es evidente que Juan es el «testigo y confesor por excelencia», sobre todo si se compara con figuras como la de Nicodemo. El bautismo de Jesús se da a entender, pero no se narra. Se narra que se vio «al espíritu bajar del cielo como una paloma y descansar sobre él». Juan el Bautista anuncia explícitamente que Jesús es el único que «bautiza en el Espíritu Santo», que es el «Hijo de Dios» y «el Cordero de Dios». El Evangelio de Juan informa de que los discípulos de Jesús fueron bautizados y que hubo un debate entre algunos discípulos de Juan y otros judíos sobre la purificación (Juan 3:22-36). En este debate Juan el Bautista argumentaba que Jesús «debe crecer» que él debería «dismimuir» (Juan 3:30) su relevancia. Este evangelio dice que, posteriormente, los discípulos de Jesús bautizaron a más gente que los discípulos de Juan. Posteriormente, el evangelio dice que Jesús veía a Juan como «una lámpara encendida y brillante», y que «estaban destinados a regocijarse durante un tiempo en esa luz» (Juan 5:35). Análisis comparativo Libro de Isaías Aunque para el Evangelio de Marcos la llegada de Juan el Bautista implica el cumplimiento de una profecía de Isaías, las palabras citadas son un conjunto de frases del Segundo Isaías, del Libro de Malaquías y del Libro del Éxodo. Las palabras citadas son las siguientes: Mira, envío por delante a mi mensajero para que te prepare el camino Una voz clama en el desierto Preparen el camino del Señor Enderecen sus senderos Mateo y Lucas omiten la primera parte de la cita.30 El bautismo de Jesús San Juan Bautizando a Cristo en el Jordán, por Francisco de Goya, 1780. Los evangelios difieren en los detalles del bautismo. En los de Marcos y Lucas, Jesús ve el cielo abierto y oye una voz que le aborda personalmente diciendo «Tú eres mi hijo querido, mi predilecto». Ellos no aclaran si los demás vieron y escucharon esto. En Mateo, la voz del cielo no se dirige personalmente a Jesús, y dice: «Este es mi hijo amado, mi predilecto» (Mateo 3:17). En el Evangelio de Juan, Juan el Bautista ve bajar una paloma y da testimonio de esto como prueba de la condición mesiánica de Jesús. Conocimientos de Juan acerca de Jesús La concepción que Juan tiene de Jesús varía dependiendo del evangelio. En el de Marcos, Juan predica la llegada de un líder, pero no da señales de que Jesús sea ese líder. En el de Mateo, no obstante, Juan reconoce inmediatamente a Jesús y se cuestiona si está capacitado para bautizarle. Tanto en Mateo como en Lucas, Juan pregunta: «¿Eres tú el que va a venir o debemos esperar a otro?». En el de Lucas, Juan es familiar de Jesús y ambos nacimientos fueron profetizados por el ángel Gabriel. Según Juan Evangelista, Juan el Bautista contempló al Espíritu Santo descendiendo con forma de paloma y predicó explítamente que Jesús es el Hijo de Dios. Juan y Elías Los evangelios varían en sus descripciones de la relación de Juan con Elías. Mateo y Marcos describen la ropa de Juan de forma que recuerda a la descripción de Elías en 2 Reyes 1:8, quien también llevaba ropa de pelo y un cinturón de cuero. En el Evangelio de Mateo, Jesús enseña explícitamente que Juan es el «Elías que había de venir» (Mateo 11:14 y Mateo 17:11-13); muchos teólogos cristianos ha dicho que esto quiere decir que Juan es el sucesor de Elías. En el Evangelio de Juan, Juan el Bautista niega ser Elías explícitamente.51 En el relato de la anunciación realizado por Lucas, se le aparece un ángel a Zacarías, padre de Juan, que le dice que su hijo «convertirá a muchos de los hijos de Israel al Señor su Dios» y que tendrá «el espíritu y el poder de Elías» (Lucas 1:16-17). En el Evangelio de Juan, se presenta a Juan el Bautista diciendo: Respondió Juan: -No puede el hombre recibir nada si no se lo concede el cielo. Ustedes son testigos de que dije: Yo no soy el Mesías, sino que me han enviado por delante de él. Quien se lleva a la novia es el novio. El amigo del novio que está escuchando se alegra de oír la voz del novio. Por eso mi gozo es perfecto. Él debe crecer y yo disminuir. Juan 3:27-31 Quien viene de arriba está por encima de todos. Quien viene de la tierra es terreno y habla de cosas terrenas. Quien viene de cielo está por encima de todos. Él atestigua lo que ha visto y oído, y nadie acepta su testimonio. Quien acepta su testimonio certifica que Dios es veraz. El enviado de Dios habla de las cosas divinas, porque Dios le da el Espíritu sin medida. El Padre ama al Hijo y todo lo pone en sus manos. Quien cree en el Hijo tiene vida eterna. Quien no cree al Hijo no verá la vida, porque la ira de Dios permanece sobre él. Juan 3:31-36 La diferencia entre el ministerio general de los esenios y el de Juan estriba en que aquellos enfatizaban en el estudio de la Ley y, en general, de las Sagradas Escrituras, y Juan en la predicación y bautismo para la conversión del pueblo. Según los evangelios, bautizó también a Jesús de Nazaret en el río Jordán (Lucas 3:21-22, Marcos 1:9-11) y lo reconoció como el Mesías (Juan 1:25-34, Mateo 3:13-17). [...] parece que Juan el Bautista y tal vez también Jesús y su familia fueron cercanos a esta comunidad. En cualquier caso, en los manuscritos de Qumrán hay múltiples puntos de contacto con el mensaje cristiano. No puede descartarse que Juan el Bautista viviera un tiempo en esta comunidad y haya recibido en ella, en parte, su formación religiosa Benedicto XVI Según Flavio Josefo Existe información sobre Juan el Bautista en Antigüedades judías (libro XVIII, capítulo 5, 2) de Flavio Josefo (37-100). Esta viene a confirmar que Juan fue decapitado por orden de Herodes Antipas, indicando que esto tuvo lugar en la fortaleza de Maqueronte. En la actualidad, algunos de los judíos piensan que la destrucción del ejército de Herodes vino de Dios, y que fue muy justa, como un castigo por lo que hizo en contra de Juan, que fue llamado el Bautista: porque Herodes mató a quien era un buen hombre y comandaba la ira de los judíos, hubo justicia por ambas partes, y piedad hacia Dios, y así se iba al bautismo; para que el lavado [con agua] fuese aceptable para él, si se hacía uso de ella, no para quitar algunos pecados, sino para la purificación del cuerpo, en el caso de que el alma se haya purificado de antemano con la justicia. Ahora, cuando otros llegaban en tropel alrededor suya, porque estaban gratamente complacidos al oír sus palabras, Herodes, que estaba asustado por la gran influencia que tenía sobre el pueblo para ponerlo de su parte e iniciar una rebelión (porque ellos estaban dispuestos a hacer cualquier cosa que él les aconsejase) pensó que lo mejor era llevarlo a la muerte, para evitar cualquier daño que pudiera causar, y que lo le trajera dificultades, y ahorrarse a un hombre que podía hacer que ocurrieran y que se arrepintiera cuando fuera demasiado tarde. En consecuencia, fue enviado como prisionero, lejos del temperamento suspicaz de Herodes, a Maqueronte, el castillo antes mencionado, y allí fue condenado a muerte. Ahora los judíos opinaban que este ejército fue enviado como castigo a Herodes, y que es un signo del desagrado que Dios siente hacia él.52 La primera referencia conocida a este pasaje se puede encontrar en el siglo III, cuando fue citada por Orígenes en la obra Contra Celsum. De acuerdo con este pasaje, la ejecución de Juan fue la culpa de una derrota que Herodes sufrió en torno al año 36 d.C. Hay divergencias entre este pasaje y las narraciones bíblicas. De acuerdo con este pasaje el bautismo de Juan para aquellas almas que ya se hayan «purificado anteriormente por la rectitud» es para la purificación del cuerpo, y no para el perdón de los pecados, como se dice en Marcos 1:4. El académico experto en temas bíblicos John Dominic Crossan diferencia a Juan y a Jesús en la narración de Josefo: «Juan tenía un monopolio, pero Jesús tenía una franquicia». «Al bautizarse —escribe Crossan— se iba solamente con Juan; para parar el movimiento solo necesitabas parar a Juan (por lo que su movimiento terminó con su muerte). Sin embargo, Jesús invitaba a todos a ir y a ver cómo él sus compañeros aceptaban el reino de Dios, para entrar y vivir en él. En el caso de Jesús, la praxis comunal no era solamente suya, sino que podía sobrevivir sin él, a diferencia del movimiento de Juan».53 Reliquias La mezquita Nabi Yahya, en Sebastia, cerca de Nablús. Tradicionalmente se ha dicho que san Juan Bautista está enterrado en la mezquita de Nabi Yahya, en Sebastia (Palestina), y se mencionó que sus reliquias eran veneradas ahí en el siglo IV. Rufino de Aquilea y Teodoreto de Ciro escribieron que el santuario fue profanado bajo el reinado de Juliano el Apóstata, alrededor del 362, y que sus huesos fueron parcialmente quemados. Parte de las reliquias rescatadas fueron llevadas a Jerusalén y, posteriormente, a Alejandría, donde el 27 de mayo del 395 se colocaron en una nueva basílica construida sobre un templo de Serapis. La tumba de Sebastia siguió siendo visitada por peregrinos y san Jerónimo mencionó que allí se producían milagros. Capilla de Juan el Bautista en la mezquita de los Omeyas de Damasco. El destino de la cabeza de san Juan el Bautista es difícil de determinar. Nicéforo Calixto54 y Simón Metafraste dicen que Herodías la enterró en la fortaleza de Maqueronte (la fortaleza donde, según Josefo, había sido ejecutado). Otros autores dicen que fue enterrada en el Palacio de Herodes de Jerusalén, donde fue encontrada en el reinado de Constantino I y llevada en secreto a Emesa, donde se escondió. El lugar donde se ocultó fue desconocido durante años, hasta que se descubrió en el 453. No obstante, el paño de la decapitación de Juan se conserva en la Catedral de Aquisgrán. La Iglesia ortodoxa dice que son ellos los que poseen las reliquias de san Juan Bautista en un monasterio del Bajo Egipto, entre El Cairo y Alejandría. Es posible, con el permiso de los monjes, ver la tumba donde, supuestamente, están sus restos. Varios lugares afirman o han afirmado poseer la cabeza cortada de Juan el Bautista. El lugar oficial de la Iglesia católica es la capilla de san Juan Bautista (Nabi Yahya en árabe) de la Mezquita de los Omeyas de Damasco;55 El lugar fue visitado por el papa Juan Pablo II en 2001, que «hizo una pausa de un minuto para meditar en silencio ante la tumba de san Juan Bautista».56 No obstante, antes de creerse que estaba ahí la Iglesia católica también la ha situado en la iglesia de San Silvestro in Capite de Roma;57 en la Catedral de Amiens (a donde, supuestamente, había sido llevada por los templarios); y en algún lugar indeterminado de la ciudad turca de Antioquía. Otras tradiciones suponen que estaba en la Residencia de Múnich, Alemania (que fue la residencia oficial de los gobernantes de la casa de Wittelsbach de Baviera desde 1385 a 1918);57 o incluso en la iglesia parroquial de Tenterden, Kent, donde se conservó hasta la Reforma Protestante. Hay tradiciones de que la mano derecha del santo, con la que bautizó a Jesús se encuentra en el monasterio ortodoxo de Cetinje, en Montenegro; en el Palacio de Topkapi de Estambul; y en el skete rumano del Presursor en el monte Athos. Hay tradiciones de que la mano izquierda del santo se encuentra en la Iglesia apostólica armenia de San Juan en Hugli-Chuchura, Bengala Occidental, donde anualmente, en el «Día Chuchura», en enero, bendice a los fieles de Calcuta.58 Hay manuscritos del siglo XI y del XVI descubiertos en 1969 que dicen que una cripta del monasterio de San Macario el Grande en Scetes, Egipto,59 guarda reliquias de san Juan Bautista. También se dice que hay reliquias suyas en la catedral del monasterio de San Juan Bautista, en Gandzasar, Nagorno Karabaj. Hay otra tradición en la ciudad de Halifax, en Yorkshire del Oeste, Reino Unido, que tiene la cabeza de Juan en su escudo de armas. Una leyenda que aparece en la obra Britannia de William Camden, del siglo XVI, dice que el nombre de la ciudad (halig, sagrado, y fax, cara) hace referencia a que los primeros religiosos que se asentaron en la zona trajeron consigo la cabeza de Juan el Bautista.60 En 2010 se descubrieron algunos huesos en las ruinas de la iglesia del monasterio de San Juan el Precursor en la isla búlgara de San Iván, en el Mar Negro. Dos años después, tras un análisis de ADN y de datación por radiocarbono, se probó que los huesos pertenecían a un hombre de Oriente Medio que vivió en el siglo I a.C., por lo que pudieron haber pertenecido a Juan el Bautista.6162 En la actualidad, los restos se encuentran en un relicario en la iglesia de San Cirilo y Metodio, en Sozopol.6163 Su figura en las religiones Cristianismo Iglesia parroquial de San Juan Bautista. Masatepe, Nicaragua. Los cristianos creen que Juan tuvo un papel específico encomendado por Dios para que fuera precursor de Jesús, que era el mesías anunciado. Los evangelios canónicos mencionan este papel. En Lucas 1:17 el papel de Juan es el de "reconciliar a los padres con los hijos y a los rebeldes con la sabiduría de los honrados" para preparar "para el Señor un pueblo bien dispuesto". En Lucas Lucas 1:76 se dice que caminaría "delante del Señor, preparándole el camino". En Lucas 1:77 se dice que Juan estaba para anunciar "a su pueblo la salvación por el perdón de los pecados". Hay varios pasajes del Antiguo Testamento que son considerados profecías sobre Juan el Bautista por los cristianos. Entre estos está Malaquías 3:1, que dice: Miren, yo envío mi mensajero a parar el camino delante de mí. De pronto entrará en el santuario el Señor que buscan; el mensajero de la alianza que tanto desean, mírenlo entrar - dice el Señor Todopoderoso Y también Malaquías 3:23-24, que dice: Y yo les enviaré al profeta Elías antes de que llegue el día del Señor, grande y terrible: reconciliará a padres con hijos, a hijos con padres y así no vendré yo a exterminar la Tierra Los judíos de la época de Jesús esperaban que Elías viniera antes del Mesías. De hecho, algunos judíos modernos siguen esperando la venida de Elías, así como la Copa de Elías en el Séder de Pésaj. Por eso en Mateo 17:10-13 se dice: Los discípulos le preguntaron: -¿Por qué dicen los letrados que primero tiene que venir Elías? Jesús respondió: -Elías tiene que venir a restablecer nuevamente el orden de todas las cosas. Pero les aseguro que Elías ya vino, no lo reconocieron y lo maltrataron. Del mismo modo el Hijo del Hombre va a sufrir en manos de ellos. Entonces comprendieron los discípulos que se refería a Juan el Bautista Estos pasajes se aplican a san Juan Bautista en los evangelios sinópticos (Mateo 3:3, Marcos 1:2, Marcos 1:3 y Lucas 1:16-17) pero es el Evangelio de Mateo el que identifica a Juan el Bautista como el sucesor espiritual de Elías (Mateo 11:14 y Mateo 17:13) ya que los evangelios de Marcos y Lucas no lo dicen. El Evangelio de Juan dice que Juan el Bautista negó que él fuera Elías (Juan 1:19-23): Este es el testimonio de Juan, cuando los judíos [le] enviaron desde Jerusalén sacerdotes y levitas a preguntarle quién era. Él confesó y no negó; confesó que no era el Mesías. Le preguntaron: -Entonces, ¿eres Elías? Respondió: -No lo soy. -¿Eres el profeta? Respondió: -No. Le dijeron: -¿Quién eres? Tenemos que llevar una respuesta a quienes nos enviaron; ¿qué dices de ti? Respondió: -Yo soy la voz que clama en el desierto: Enderecen el camino del Señor, según dice el profeta Elías. Los primeros judeocristianos En el primer judaísmo cristiano (gnóstico, de acuerdo con Epifanio de Salamina en su Panarion, parte 30) los ebionitas sostenían que Juan, Jesús y Santiago (todos ellos venerados) eran vegetarianos.646566676869 Epifanio de Salamina escribió que los ebionitas habían modificado el Evangelio de Mateo (creando el conocido como Evangelio de los ebionitas) para cambiar la palabra "saltamontes" por "pasteles de miel" o "de maná". Iglesia católica La Iglesia católica conmemora a san Juan Bautista en dos días: el 24 de junio su natividad y el 29 de agosto su decapitación. Algunos católicos sostienen que Juan el Bautista estaba libre de pecado, aunque esto nunca ha sido parte de la doctrina, como sí lo es el inmaculismo de María. En su Tratado sobre la oración, santa Catalina de Siena incluye un breve episodio sobre la lucha contra el diablo, que trataba de atraerla con la vanidad y la adulación. Hablando en primera persona, santa Catalina de Siena responde al diablo con las siguientes palabras: [...] para tu humillación, y tú respondiste al diablo con estas palabras: "¡Miserable de mí! Juan Bautista nunca pecó y fue santificado en el vientre de su madre. Y yo he cometido tantos pecados [...]" Catalina de Siena. Tratado sobre la oración. Iglesia ortodoxa oriental Los fieles de la Iglesia ortodoxa oriental creen que Juan era el último de los profetas del Antiguo Testamento, por lo que sirve como puente entre ese período de la revelación y la Nueva Alianza. También enseñan que, tras su muerte, Juan descendió al Hades y allí, predicó de nuevo que el Mesías Jesús iba a venir, por lo que fue el precursor de Cristo en la muerte como lo había sido en vida. Los templos ortodoxos suelen tener una figura de san Juan Bautista en un lugar de honor en el iconostasio, y se menciona con frecuencia en los Servicios Divinos. Todos los martes del año están dedicados a su memoria. La Iglesia ortodoxa oriental conmemora a san Juan el Precursor en seis días de fiesta diferentes, que se enumeran aquí en el orden en el que se producen durante el año de esta Iglesia (que comienza el 1 de septiembre): 23 de septiembre: Concepción de san Juan el Precursor. 7 de enero: La Sinaxis de san Juan el Precursor. Este es el principal día festivo, que va justo después de la teofanía del 6 de enero (el 7 de enero también se conmemora el traspaso de la reliquia de la mano derecha de Juan el Bautista desde Antioquía a Constantinopla en el 956). 24 de febrero: Primer y segundo encuentro de la cabeza de san Juan el Precursor. 25 de mayo: Tercer encuentro de la cabeza de san Juan el Precursor. 24 de junio: Natividad de san Juan el Precursor. 29 de agosto: La decapitación de San Juan el Precursor. Además, la Iglesia ortodoxa y la Iglesia luterana conmemoran a Zacarías, padre de Juan, el 5 de septiembre en tanto que la Iglesia católica lo hace el 23 de septiembre. Isabel, madre de Juan, es conmemorada el 5 de septiembre en la Iglesia ortodoxa y anglicana, y el 5 de noviembre en la Iglesia católica y luterana. La Iglesia ortodoxa rusa conmemora el 12 de octubre el traspaso de la mano derecha del Precursor de Malta a Gatchina (1799). Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días (mormones) La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días enseña que su revelación moderna confirma el relato bíblico de Juan y también aporta nuevos elementos de su predicación. De acuerdo con esta creencia, cuando Juan tenía ocho años "el ángel del Señor le ordenó" que "derrocase el reino de los judíos" y que preparase al pueblo para el Señor. Los mormones también creen que "él fue bautizado cuando todavía era un niño".73 Joseph Smith dijo: "Vayamos a los tiempos del Nuevo Testamento donde muchos alababan al Señor y a sus apóstoles. Comenzaremos con Juan el Bautista. Cuando Herodes sacó su edicto para destruir a los niños pequeños, Juan era unos seis meses mayor que Jesús, y fue objetivo de este decreto infernal, y Zacarías le dijo a su madre que le llevará a las montañas, donde se crio a base de saltamontes y miel silvestre. Cuando su padre se negó a revelar su escondite, y siendo el sumo sacerdote que oficia en el templo de ese año, fue ejecutado por orden de Herodes, entre la entrada y el altar, como dijo Jesús." La Iglesia mormona enseña que Juan el bautista se apareció en la orilla del río Susquehanna, cerca del municipio de Harmony, condado de Susquehanna, Pensilvania, como un resucitado a Joseph Smith y a Oliver Cowdery el 15 de mayo de 1829 y les ordenó el ministerio arónico. De acuerdo con la doctrina mormona, el ministerio de Juan había trabajado en tres puntos: él era el último de los profetas bajo las normas de Moisés; él era el primero de los profetas del Nuevo Testamento; y él fue enviado para confirmar el ministerio arónico en nuestros días. Los mormones creen que el ministerio de Juan fue profetizado a dos profetas cuyas enseñanzas están incluidas en el Libro de Mormón: Lehi78 y su hijo Nephi. Islam Juan también es venerado como profeta en el islam, donde es llamado Ya?y? ibn Zakar?y? (???? ?? ?????), que significa "Juan, hijo de Zacarías". Los musulmanes creen que él revelaba la palabra de Dios y que fue un profeta que anunció la venida de Jesús. Su padre, Zacarías, también se considera profeta en el islam y la tradición islámica mantiene que Juan fue uno de los profetas que Mahoma conoció en la noche de Mi'raj82 en su ascensión a los Siete Cielos. Se dice que conoció a Juan y a Jesús en el segundo cielo, donde, tras saludarlo, ascendió con un arcángel hasta el tercer cielo. La historia de Juan también se cuenta durante la migración de refugiados musulmanes a Abisinia.83 Según el Corán, Dios le dio paz a Juan el día que nació y el día que murió. Mandeísmo Los mandeos consideran a Juan el Bautista su principal profeta, y tiene un importante papel en algunos de sus escritos, incluidos el Ginza Rba y el Draša D-Iahia (El libro mandeo de Juan). Los mandeos consideran a Juan como el único mesías verdadero y son contrarios a Jesús. Las escrituras mandeas dicen: «Si el carpintero [Jesús] se unió a Dios, ¿a quién se une el que se une al carpintero?». Bahaísmo El bahaísmo (o fe Bahá'í) considera a a Juan un profeta de Dios que, al igual que otros profetas, fue enviado para promover el conocimiento de Dios, para fomentar la unidad entre los pueblos del mundo y para mostrar a la gente la forma de vida correcta. Hay muchas citas en las escritos de Bahá'u'lláh, fundador de la fe Bahá'í, en las que menciona a Juan el Bautista. En su carta al papa Pío IX, Bahá'u'lláh escribió: ¡Oh, seguidores del hijo! Nosotros hemos enviado a Juan de nuevo entre vosotros, y Él, ciertamente, clama en el desierto de Bayán: ¡Oh, pueblos del mundo! ¡Limpiad vuestros ojos! ¡El día en que podréis contemplar al Prometido y arcercaros a Él se acerca a la noche! ¡Oh, seguidores del Evangelio! ¡Preparad el camino! ¡El Día del advenimiento del Señor Glorioso está a mano! Preparáos para entrar en el Reino. Así ha sido ordenado por Dios, el que da comienzo al alba.88 El bahaísmo considera a Juan un profeta menor.13 Bahá'u'lláh decía que su propio precursor, el Báb, era un regreso espiritual de Juan el Bautista. Bahá'u'lláh se refería a Báb como "Mi Precursor", que es el apodo que los cristianos le dan a Juan el Bautista.89 Sin embargo, el bahaísmo cree que Báb era un profeta mayor (Manifestación de Dios) y, por consiguiente, que estaba dotado de un estatus superior al de Juan el Bautista. Santo patrón San Juan el Bautista es el santo patrón de Jordania.90 Una isla caribeña, llamada Borinquén por los nativos, fue bautizada como San Juan por Cristóbal Colón el 19 de noviembre de 1493 cuando el Almirante navegaba hacia la isla de La Española en su segundo viaje a América.91 En el siglo XVI, Juan Ponce de León fundó la ciudad de Puerto Rico en la isla de San Juan. La ciudad terminó dando nombre a la isla, y la capital pasó a llamarse San Juan de Puerto Rico. En el escudo de la isla está la frase en latín "Joannes Est Nomen Eius" (Juan es su nombre), que aparece en Lucas 6:13. Así mismo, san Juan Bautista es patrón de decenas de municipios y provincias de España (por ejemplo, Salobreña, Badajoz, Chiclana de la Frontera, Albacete, Telde y Arucas, en Gran Canaria, San Juan de la Rambla, Arafo y Arico en Tenerife) e Hispanoamérica. Dentro de las fiestas de San Juan españolas, pueden destacarse las hogueras de San Juan, muy populares en Alicante y La Coruña. También es el santo patrón de la Provincia de Quebec y la de Terranova y Labrador, así como de las ciudades canadienses de San Juan de Terranova (Saint John of Newfoundland) (1497) y de Saint John de Nuevo Brunswick (1604). En Escocia, es patrón de Perth, que a menudo es conocida como Ciudad de San Juan de Perth (St. John's Toun of Perth). La iglesia medieval de la ciudad tiene la advocación de San Juan y el equipo de fútbol local se llama St Johnstone F.C.. También es patrón de Oporto, Portugal, donde la noche de san Juan (del 24 al 24 de junio) tiene lugar uno de los festivales urbanos más conocidos de Europa, la Festa de São João.92 También es patrón de las ciudades italianas de Florencia y Génova. Así mismo, es patrón de Malta y de la localidad de Xewkija, en la isla maltesa de Gozo. Es titular de muchas órdenes y hermandades, como la orden de caballeros hospitalarios de San Juan de Jerusalén. Así mismo, es patrón de la Policía Municipal de Madrid.93 Por la tradición católica española, es patrón de varias ciudades de Filipinas, como Calamba (La Laguna), Calumpit (Bulacán), Balayán (Batangas), Lian (Batangas) y San Juan (Gran Manila). Muchas fiestas filipinas celebran esta festividad con baños multitudinarios. La iglesia de Quiapo de Manila está dedicada a san Juan. También es patrón de la diócesis católica de Charleston, que abarca a toda Carolina del Sur, en Estados Unidos. En México, es patrón de la diócesis de la catedral de Tuxtepec, en el estado de Oaxaca. En España es el patrón de la Provincia Eclesiástica de Mérida-Badajoz y de la ciudad de Badajoz. Y Patrón de la Guardia Real. EN EL CINE: Año Película Director Actores 1953 Salomé William Dieterle Alan Badel 1961 Rey de Reyes Nicholas Ray Robert Ryan 1964 El Evangelio según San Mateo Pier Paolo Pasolini Mario Socrate 1965 La historia más grande jamás contada George Stevens Charlton Heston 1977 Jesús de Nazareth Franco Zeffirelli Michael York 1988 La última tentación de Cristo Martin Scorsese Andre Gregory 2000 Gli amici di Gesù-Maria Maddalena Raffaele Mertes Benjamin Sadler Juan el Bautista, https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juan_el_Bautista&oldid=118249280 (consultado por última vez septiembre 17, 2019).

Blood and Treasure Episode 5 I had the pleasure of speaking to co-creator, Stephen Scaia, this past week.  At the end of this review, you can listen to the interview as we discuss what is was like shooting on location and live tweeting the episodes!  I also had the opportunity to speak to Blood and […] The post Blood and Treasure Episode 5 and Interview w/ Stephen Scaia! appeared first on So Many Shows!.

As soon as tonight's all new episode of Blood & Treasure is over, join Mike from PopCultureReview as he welcomes Stephen Scaia LIVE on air to break down the episode, the behind the scenes info we need, and what we can expect next for this exciting Summer action-adventure series! Blood & Treasure's all new episode, "The Brotherhood of Serapis," airs Tuesday at 10pm (ET) and Mike and Stephen will be speaking at 11pm (ET)!! Join us as we talk B&T Hot Takes! 

As soon as tonight's all new episode of Blood & Treasure is over, join Mike from PopCultureReview as he welcomes Stephen Scaia LIVE on air to break down the episode, the behind the scenes info we need, and what we can expect next for this exciting Summer action-adventure series! Blood & Treasure's all new episode, "The Brotherhood of Serapis," airs Tuesday at 10pm (ET) and Mike and Stephen will be speaking at 11pm (ET)!! Join us as we talk B&T Hot Takes! 

This week we continue our discussion on the 7 Ascended Masters and the 7 Rays around the presence of God. This week we speak of the White Ray of Ascension. As always, we will tap into the Akashic Records for guidance. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theakashicpodcast/message

In this episode we look at the second part of the "Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies" section in Manly Hall's occult, esoteric masterpiece The Secret Teachings of All Ages. If you have the small Penguin-Tarcher Readers Edition of the book it starts on pg. 53, in the big version of the book it is XXV. This section covers more about Mystery Schools and Ancient Secret Societies. In particular, early pagan and Christian Gnosticism, the Gnostic Gospels, Abraxas, the Egytian Mysteries of Asar-Hapi or Serapis, Isis and Osiris, and the Odinic Mysteries are explored. Join us for a great show! Hosted by Jason Napolitano, author of If You Can Worry, You Can Meditate (available on Amazon and at CosmicEye.org) and Co-Hosted by Chris Sheridan author of Spirit in the Sky (available now on ChrisSheridan.com.) The Cosmic Eye show is a weekly metaphysical podcast where each week we talk about important spiritual books and ideas to help listeners positively transform their lives. We investigate spiritual, esoteric, and occult wisdom on a wide variety of figures such as Manly Hall, C.G. Jung, Israel Regardie, Crowley, Jordan Peterson, Alan Watts, Marie Louise Von Franz, Pythagoras, Paul Foster Case, Vivekananda, Yogananda, and others. As well as subjects such as Meditation, Yoga, Psychology, Mythology, Magick, New Thought, Men's Studies, Poetry, Art, Initiation, Ritual, Shamanism, and Folk traditions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cosmiceye/support

In this episode we continue exploring the reign of Pope Theophilus, the events of the destruction of the Temple of Serapis, and the battle of the Frigidus river. Announcing Joyful.gifts. The best way to do gifts! Visit Joyful gifts to start today! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historyofthecopts/support

Gedanken zu Serapis, einem ägyptischen Gott. Informationen über die Bedeutung von Serapis in der ägyptischen Mythologie, im ägyptischen Götterhimmel. Welche Bedeutung hat Gott Serapis vielleicht sogar in der heutigen Zeit?

DR. ALIM EL-BEY WILL GO INTO THE MANY INTERPRETATION OF THE CHRIST FIGURE... HISTORICAL OR MYTHICAL? JESUS, SERAPIS, APOLLONIUS OF TYANA,  OR STORIES DATED BACK FROM THE TALES OF HERU (ASAR)? IF SO, WHAT DOES ALL THIS SYMBOLISM MEAN? IS IT EXOTERIC OR ESOTERIC. IS IT JUST MERE ASTRO-THEOLOGY OR IS IT META-PHYSICAL? COME AND JOIN DR. ALIM EL-BEY ON THIS FASCINATING JOURNEY!

As the journey to the Exodus continues, God steps into the ring with a pantheon of Egyptian gods. Yahweh proves His supremacy via a series of stunning plagues, each aimed at a particular Egyptian deity. These miraculous displays reveal a God who consistently proves His worthiness, consistency, and reliability in the context of culture.

Chapter 10 – Part 3: “The Accuracy and Collection of the New Testament” Modern skeptics challenge that the New Testament is not an assembly of the true Scriptures, but reflect the spoils of victory for one group of beliefs that triumphed over others. The Nicene Creed, written during the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, expresses core orthodox beliefs that were based upon Old Testament writings. It is an affirmation of the teaching of the earliest doctrine in the Church. As the earliest church grew the apostles and the leaders recognized that the return of Jesus was not as imminent as they initially thought they started putting into writing their recollections and teachings. All of these writings became important as the church moved from the time of the apostles and faced heretical teachings. Key Words Orthodox, Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea, Trinity, “one-ness’ of God, singularity, Arius, “Lost Scriptures”, “victors’ views”, “in the form of God”, “emptied himself”, “apostolic church”, “first generation church”, Thessalonians, false prophets, “syncretism”, Ptolemy I, Serapis, Historia Augusta

Alexandria was one of the major cities of the Roman empire, and one that would have appealed to Julian.  It was founded by Alexander the Great, who was one of Julian's heroes.   It was also the centre of a major pagan cult, that of Serapis.  (If you are wondering who Serapis was, he was created by the Greek founders of Alexandria as an amalgam of Greek and Egyptian elements so as to appeal to both ethnic groups.  Cynical manipulation of religion for political purposes has a long history.)  And the intellectual achievements of the Alexandrians rivaled those of Athens.  Basically it was his kind of place, or rather it would have been had it not also been an important centre of Christian thought as well.  

Who is the Ascended Master Serapis Bey? What is the ascension? What is the path of the ascension? What do people have to do to ascend? What does karma and dharma have to do with the ascension? "Serapis Bey's teaching is a practical initiation on the path of purity so that we can understand how we may earn our ascension in this life on any one of the seven rays of the Christ. Serapis says: "The future is what you make it, even as the present is what you made it. If you do not like it, God has provided a way for you to change it, and the way is through the acceptance of the currents of the ascension flame." Link to transcript More from Inner Perspectives: A Guidebook for the Spiritual Journey: Table of Contents List of Interview Questions Glossary of Ascended Master Terminology Buy the Inner Perspectives book Buy Dossier On The Ascension: The Story of the Soul's Acceleration into Higher Consciousness on the Path of Initiation by Serapis Bey. 216 pages. Buy The Masters and Their Retreats by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. 506 pages Buy Lords of the Seven Rays by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. 602 pages. See us on YouTube About The Summit Lighthouse For more than 50 years, The Summit Lighthouse has been publishing the Teachings of the Ascended Masters--the mystics and sages of East and West who graduated from earth’s schoolroom and attained union with God. Created to meet the needs of spiritual seekers for the Aquarian Age, it provides opportunities and support for a unique spiritual path which embraces all faiths and nationalities. It offers opportunities to share with like-minded friends at various levels of affiliation. The Teachings of the Ascended Masters are available in 27 languages. Contact us for a catalog of books, audios, videos, CDs and DVDs, and information about workshops, seminars, conferences, online courses, book study groups and local centers. TSLinfo@SummitLighthouse.org USA: 1-800-245-5445 International: 406-848-9500 The Summit Lighthouse 63 Summit Way Gardiner, MT USA 59030-9314

What does the flame in the heart have to do with the Aquarian age path? How do you unlock the potential of God within? What are the seven rays? What do the seven rays have to do with the Path? What are the qualities, retreats and colors of the rays? Who are the chohans of the rays? "In order to accelerate the consciousness of God within us and to magnetize the flame of the ascension, each of us as a disciple must attain to a certain mastery on each of the seven rays." Link to transcript More from Inner Perspectives: A Guidebook for the Spiritual Journey: Table of Contents List of Interview Questions Glossary of Ascended Master Terminology Buy the Inner Perspectives book Buy The Masters And Their Retreats by Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet See us on YouTube About The Summit Lighthouse For more than 50 years, The Summit Lighthouse has been publishing the Teachings of the Ascended Masters--the mystics and sages of East and West who graduated from earth’s schoolroom and attained union with God. Created to meet the needs of spiritual seekers for the Aquarian Age, it provides opportunities and support for a unique spiritual path which embraces all faiths and nationalities. It offers opportunities to share with like-minded friends at various levels of affiliation. The Teachings of the Ascended Masters are available in 27 languages. Contact us for a catalog of books, audios, videos, CDs and DVDs, and information about workshops, seminars, conferences, online courses, book study groups and local centers. TSLinfo@SummitLighthouse.org USA: 1-800-245-5445 International: 406-848-9500 The Summit Lighthouse 63 Summit Way Gardiner, MT USA 59030-9314