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The Mark Twain Quarterly called this work of historical fiction "A 'must' book for all who take their religion seriously." [6] The book Spiritual Secrets of a Trappist Monk, originally published as You in 1957, was re-issued by Sophia Institute Press in 2000. It is one of Flanagan's most popular non-fiction books, devoted to showing that "who ...
Gardner's book Bloodline of the Holy Grail was published during 1996. [2] The book was serialized in The Daily Mail and was a best seller. [1] He used his books to propose several theories, including a belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had children, whose descendants included King Arthur and the House of Stuart. [1]
Every morning and evening the sacred incense was burned (Ex 30:7, 8; 2 Chronicles 13:11). Once a year, on the Day of Atonement , coals from the altar were taken in a censer, or fire holder, together with two handfuls of incense, into the Holy of Holies , where the incense was made to smoke before the mercy seat of the ark of the testimony ...
Sacred garnered average to good reviews from the media. 1up called it "Diablo for masochists", [9] while IGN called it "A diamond in the rough". [12] The editors of PC Gamer US presented Sacred with their "Best Roleplaying Game 2004" award. Greg Vederman of the magazine wrote that it "provides the loot addict with a deliciously strong dose of ...
Another purpose for burning the incense was to cover the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant resided, with a kind of 'smoke screen'. The reason for this was to shield the priest from the presence of God. In the Book of Exodus it says that this is where God 'will meet' with the priest. [16]
The book of Ecclesiasticus lists storax as one of the ingredients when alluding to the sacred incense of the biblical tabernacle, [36] speaking of "a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, [in antiquity Styrax was referred to as Storax] and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle".
The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum (Latin, 'Secret of secrets'), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics ...
Fulcanelli (fl. 1920s) was the name used by a French alchemist and esoteric author, whose identity is still debated. [1] The name Fulcanelli seems to be a play on words: Vulcan, the ancient Roman god of fire, plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire.