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  2. Merkabah mysticism - Wikipedia

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    The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב ‎ r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.

  3. Because I could not stop for Death - Wikipedia

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    The poem was published under the title "The Chariot". It is composed in six quatrains in common metre. Stanzas 1, 2, 4, and 6 employ end rhyme in their second and fourth lines, but some of these are only close rhyme or eye rhyme. In the third stanza, there is no end rhyme, but "ring" in line 2 rhymes with "gazing" and "setting" in lines 3 and 4 ...

  4. Plato's theory of soul - Wikipedia

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    In his treatise The Republic, and also with the chariot allegory in Phaedrus, Plato asserted that the three parts of the psyche also correspond to the three classes of society (viz. the rulers, the military, and the ordinary citizens). [10] The function of the epithymetikon is to produce and seek pleasure.

  5. Ezekiel 1 - Wikipedia

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    Ezekiel's "chariot vision", by Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650). Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. [25] "Living creatures": New Oxford Annotated Bible identified these as "Cherubim" (10:15, 20), although "uncharacteristically …

  6. Hercules and the Wagoner - Wikipedia

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    Evidence that the advice on which they close is old and probably of proverbial origin is provided by its appearance in ancient Greek tragedies, of which only fragments now remain. In the Philoctetes (c. 409 BCE) of Sophocles appear the lines, "No good e'er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act."

  7. Life of Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    Chapters 33–41 narrate, with great richness of liturgical detail, the funeral of Adam. A chariot of light, borne by four bright eagles with Seraphim and angels, arrives where Adam's body lies. The seven heavens are opened and Seth explains to his mother who are the two fearful figures in mourning: the sun and the moon, deprived of their light ...

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  9. Helios - Wikipedia

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    Helios' journey on a chariot during the day and travel with a boat in the ocean at night possibly reflects the Egyptian sun god Ra sailing across the skies in a barque to be reborn at dawn each morning anew; additionally, both gods, being associated with the sun, were seen as the "Eye of Heaven". [23]