The Spirits' Book

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After this is a section on necromancy, involving magic circles and calling upon the aforementioned four kings, names of God, and different saints to constrain a called spirit. [16] The instructions on necromancy are followed by a means of finding hidden treasure that is similar to the method used by Edward Kelley, with spells to bind the spirit guarding the treasure. [17] Following this is yet another means of summoning King Leraje, [18] and then similar instructions to summon a spirit named Baron, and a spell named "an experiment of Rome," and spells to find lost items, steal items, see spirits (involving the invocation of King Arthur), and enchanting hazel rods. [19] The Goetia of Dr Rudd; Thomas Rudd, Ed. Stephen Skinner & David Rankine; 2007, Golden Hoard Press. pp. 20, 34-37, 101

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Fr. Andrew: Yeah, right, sure! I mean, Mt. Hermon, we’re going to talk about the divine council over and over and over and over again on this show. So what does Mt. Hermon have to do with all of that then. In a nutshell. I know. Fr. Stephen:“Lord of Spirits” is one of several titles that’s ascribed to God in the Enochic literature, which is the various books of Enoch as well as other books like the Apocalypse of Abraham and the Book of Jubilees and a few other texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Lord of Spirits” is mostly used in the second portion of 1 Enoch, or the Book of Enoch, which is called the Book of Parables. The reason it’s used there is that it’s a title for God that describes his relationship with the other spiritual beings whom he created. It’s a way of referring to God in relationship to the heavenly hosts, the divine council, some of these other concepts that we’re going to be talking about a lot, not only in this episode, but in a bunch of episodes, and I’m sure in people’s questions. Fr. Stephen: It’s basically the belief that matter and energy and their co-relationships and interactions are all that exists. Fr. Andrew: Yeah, that’s a good question! I know you asked that to Fr. Stephen, but could I just begin to take a shot at this, if you don’t mind?

This is talking about the relationship between God and heavenly sons of God. It says, “Who in the skies,” so that’s kind of hard to make be humans of any kind. The Spirits’ Book ” was published in 1857 and marks the official birth of Spiritism , a spiritualist philosophy. It is the result of extensive research by Allan Kardec and others on a series of seemingly unexplained phenomena taking place during the 1850s in Paris — and a significant milestone in the field of human thought as it more clearly unveiles the relationship between the physical and spiritual realities.

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Fr. Andrew: Right, so we sing, right in the anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, we sing what in Latin is called the Sanctus: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. So this is one of those things we’re talking about here now: this is one of those things that’s right there, a core piece of our liturgical tradition—I mean, it is right there at the heart of the Divine Liturgy—we call God the Lord Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. It’s there, and it doesn’t just mean that he’s got a lot of angels available to him—we’re going to be talking about all of that—but he is Lord of hosts. Fr. Andrew: I know we’re going to get into it in a future discussion, but, if I remember correctly, part of why this is important in this case is that in that time and place, a woman displaying her glorious hair openly was regarded as essentially a thing to do to attract men. Doubly inappropriate for church, but as to why that is considered attractive to men in that time and place we’re going to have to save it for a future episode. It’s going to blow your mind when you hear it, though, folks.Contents [ ] Legends of the Garou: Communion [ ] Introduction: Animism [ ] Chapter One: History [ ] Chapter 3 (Return from Corporeal Life to Spirit Life) is about disincarnation ( the death of the Physical Body).

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Across four long English novels, such emphasis on the power and pleasure of books would risk being thought a gesture to conservative views on education or a diversion from more pressing societal issues. But in Spanish history, the fate of literature has consistently been a test of the severity of legislative and ecclesiastical politics. So the concealed libraries and hunted-for publications in the quartet represent Spain’s shameful piles of books that were burned, redacted, banned or hidden in secret stores because of the moral policing of kings, cardinals and dictators. Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil; ed. Joseph H. Peterson; Weiser Books, Maine; 2001. p. xiii One last note on this question—hopefully that’s thorough enough—one last note on this question, because I think it’s important. What we mean when we say that there is one true God, what it means to be a true God, because I think what we hear as modern American Christians, when you hear “true God” is: “Oh, he’s the one that exists, and the other ones are fake.” Fr. Andrew: It’s not about people, right. You can’t just read this as being about sort of theosis, because it’s “in the heavens.” Chapter 5 (Considerations on the Plurality of Existences) is an essay by Kardec meant to clarify the doctrine of the previous chapter.

To create “The Spirits’ Book”, Professor Rivail gathered and sorted through large amounts of information coming from different mediums. His genius lay in the creation of a scientific approach to validate this new information: he created “blind” experiments in which various groups throughout Europe would submit answers to questions he posed them. If similar answers to the same questions were given by different groups (which did not know each other), then they were likely to be true. Put another way, if the information could be “blindly” replicated, it was likely to be correct.

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Fr. Stephen: I think it may even be our next show in a fortnight. We’re going to go deeper into this, but this is a big part of what’s going on when the Fathers talk about theosis and talk about us becoming gods. That’s directly connected to the idea in the New Testament of Christ exercising his rule and authority through the saints in glory, that they rule and reign with him and share in his dominion. But we’ll get more into that. Fr. Stephen: Right, so the term elohim is used to apply to him. The biblical author is not saying that the Prophet Samuel was another person of the Trinity or that he was a polytheist and the Prophet Samuel now lived on Mount Olympus or something. [Laughter] That’s not what he’s going for. The word is just flexible to include that.

The Star of Bethlehem has long been seen as a sign of Christ’s birth, but was it just an astronomical event such as one might observe with a telescope?… And now the one that will be most controversial, that I kind of warned you about, but we’re going to go there. [Laughter] This is in Exodus 21:1-6, which is in the context of laws governing slavery—so not controversial at all, this passage in the Torah. This particular rule that’s being made in the first six verses of Exodus [21] is for a situation where someone has been in a period of indentured servitude, so they’ve been working for and part of a household for some period of time to pay off a debt. They come to the end of their term of service, but they like the household and the family and they want to stay on. There were strict rules about how long you could keep someone in slavery and all of these things that are outlined in the rest of the chapter. If a person voluntarily says, “I rather like being the tutor or nanny for your children and I want to stay. I feel like I’m part of the family,” there was a provision to do that. And, as we read Zafón’s novel, his characters are reading hundreds more, real and imagined. The quartet’s umbrella title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, refers to a focal location: a secret labyrinthine library in Barcelona, where cherished and threatened texts are protected, and from which visitors are allowed to take away one title. Fr. Stephen: Right, and especially when it’s disambiguated as “the great King above all gods.” It’s not that they don’t exist; it’s that he’s their king. What’s going on here is a couple of things. The first is that the word “god” is just being used to refer to spiritual beings. It’s hard to reflect in English. We usually do that by using a capital letter for God and then a lowercase god or gods for these other beings. But the reason for that—and the Fathers actually, when they talk about the word, the Greek word theos and what it means, they really get into the idea that it’s kind of a verbal idea, even though it’s a noun. Fr. Stephen: We’ll see. I am not to “um, actually” you. Go ahead. Now that I put that tension out there.