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It is a balance between love of God and consumption by the fires of God. It is described as the love of a moth for the flame (you are the moth, God is the flame). Devakuth is the highest form of any love, because it is a humble holding back of oneself from the fires of God, while dancing as close as possible to the flames.
Chrysostom: When He has driven away the disease of vanity, He does well to bring in speech of contempt of riches.For there is no greater cause of desire of money than love of praise; for this men desire troops of slaves, horses accoutred in gold, and tables of silver, not for use or pleasure, but that they may be seen of many; therefore He says, Lay not up for yourselves treasure on earth.
To judge something as good or bad is to enter into the world of dualities, and this creates psychological, or spiritual, tension. Tolle interprets "Judge not, that ye be not judged" as that if you categorise something or someone negatively or positively, you affirm that its opposite polarity must also exist, and so resistance, conflict ...
Hingeliblikas – a person's spirit in the form of a moth; Hingeloom – a person's spirit in the form of an insect or a small animal; Hoidja – protector, keeper; Härjapõlvlane – leprechaun; Ilmaneitsi, Ilmatütar – Air Maiden, Sky Maiden; Ilmarine, Ilmasepp – a mythical blacksmith who forged among other things the Sun and the Moon ...
In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death.The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic [4] and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet; ancient Hebrew muth or maveth/maweth); Maltese mewt; Syriac ܡܰܘܬܳܐ (mautā); Ge'ez ሞት (mot); Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות (mwt ...
Ītzpāpalōtl [a] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a goddess in Aztec religion.. She was a striking skeletal warrior and death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh.She ruled over the paradise world of Tamōhuānchān, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created.
This is followed by a parable about anointing, the meaning of which is obscure, but may be connected with the way in which a sealed amphora meant it was full, a metaphor for knowledge − having the final "seal" in the jigsaw and one understands, but without it, the scraps of understanding that one has put together can still be easily undone ...
Moha appears in the Vedic literature, and has roots in early Vedic word mogha which means "empty, unreal, vain, useless, foolish". [6] The term, as well as the three defects concept appears in the ancient texts of Jainism and some schools of Hinduism such as Nyaya, in their respective discussion of the theory of rebirths.