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René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz (born René Adolphe Schwaller December 30, 1887 – December 7, 1961), was a French Egyptologist and mystic who popularized the idea of sacred geometry in ancient Egypt during his study of the art and architecture of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt, and his subsequent book The Temple In Man. [1] Many of de Lubiscz ...
The Dendera Temple complex (Ancient Egyptian: Iunet or Tantere; the 19th-century English spelling in most sources, including Belzoni, was Tentyra; also spelled Denderah[1]) is located about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) south-east of Dendera, Egypt. It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes of ancient Egypt.
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית-הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן, romanized: Bēṯ ham-Mīqdāš hā-Rīšōn, lit. 'First House of the Sanctum'), was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE. Its description is largely based on ...
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek - Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. The All and Everything trilogy also includes Meetings with Remarkable Men (first published in 1963) and Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am ...
Abomination of desolation. Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BCE) " Abomination of desolation " [a] is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made. [1]
Box office. $333.1 million. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on a story by George Lucas. It is the second installment in the Indiana Jones film series, and a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. [1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers [2] and Indian leopards. [3] One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths.
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. [1] Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [2] the text features a prophecy rooted in Jewish history, as well as a portrayal of the end times that is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus. [1]