...itionary Force, eventually rising to the rank of Captain and served during World War I. Spencer was a charismatic and eloquent man, who could feel great emp
...y, music, art and poetry, the disillusioned and jaded Spencer wandered the world and became something of a hedonist, turning to the baser methods of gratifi
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...tian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the '''Old Religion'''. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it
===Wicca as a magical religion===
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...ell as wife and sister of [[Zeus]]. Many of the older temples in the Greek world belonged to her.
*Burkert Walter, ''Greek Religion'' 1985.
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...ore the Second Coming was apparently popular enough in the early Christian world to be denounced in the Gospel of John:
...the same story, which was regarded there as a great proof of the Christian religion (Matthew Paris, "Chron. Majora", ed. Luard, London, 1880, v. 340-341). The
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Scholars of religion hold that people in the time of the [[Hebrew Bible]] had beliefs and supers
...arly [[Israelite]] views about the [[creation (theology)|creation]] of the world and of humanity are derived from the mythology and folklore of the surround
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...es of the year when the spiritual world may make contact with the physical world and when magic level is at its peak.
It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Irel
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Each culture has its own particular body of concepts dealing with [[magic]], religion, benevolent and harmful [[spirit]]s, and ritual; and these ideas do not fin
...own doctrines, though this has become less common, at least in the Western world. According to some religious doctrines, all forms of magic are labeled witc
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...empirical perception, or a belief that a ''true'' human perception of the world trancends logical reasoning or intellectual comprehension.
...nerally to various mystical sects within [[Christianity]]. While [[Eastern religion]]s tend to find the concept of mysticism redundant, non-traditional knowled
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...dic religion|Vedic]] traditions and also other branches of [[Indo-European religion|Indo-European mythologies]] show, the notion of demon has existed for many
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*Burkert, Walter, 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Harvard University Press)
*Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, 1994. ''The World of Classical Myth''. (Carolina Academic Press)
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...wing their powers from demonic sources in exchange for their souls. In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', a warlock is a cloth-wearing spellcasting character class.
...', the warlock represents the "flower" of the Lotus Clan. The Lotus Clan's religion centers on three brothers that tend the Yin side of the Tree of Life, the T
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...d salted it for the righteous, for if the Leviathans were to procreate the world could not stand before them."
...s he sits and judges the world. The third three hours God feeds the entire world... the fourth three hour period God plays with the Leviathan as it is writt
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A symbol is usually recognized only within some specific culture, religion, or discipline, but a few hundred symbols are now recognized internationall
...some in the people, some in the king, some in the audience. Man lives in a world of diffuse powers and possibilites and therefore creates symbolates to desc
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...geddon]], God's final defeat of Satan, and the restoration of peace to the world.
...magery and metaphor, which detail the chronology of God's judgement on the world.
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...e supreme governess of the borders between the normal world and the spirit world.
...fe, [[Hades]] honored Hecate by making her a permanent guest in the spirit world, allowing her to come and go as she wished.
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...rview with the Vampire, when Louis, the main character, returns to the New World, he witnesses sunrises by way of film. Two films he sees are both directed
...l stamina, a preference to only go out at night, an aversion to discussing religion and far greater strength than her body suggests.
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...ce in that philosophy's questions cannot be answered empirically, and from religion in that philosophy allows no place for faith or revelation. However, these
Informally, a "philosophy" may refer to a general [[world view]] or to a specific [[ethic]] or [[belief]].
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...ed evil family, perpetually operates as a cause of the destruction of this world.[1] In the Kalki Purana, he is portrayed as a demon and the source of all e
...of Kali, who promotes all kinds of irreligious activities, came into this world.”[18] Thus, Kali simply came into being because the prosperity brought by
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Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by [[demon]]s and the [[s
...am haba (the world to come)|Olam Habah]] (''heb.'' עולם הבא; ''lit.'' "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to [[Heaven]]). This is also mentioned
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*[[Béla Kiss]] - escaped justice in the confusion of World War I
*[["Wild Bill" Hickman]] - killed in the name of religion (many of his alleged exploits are disputed)
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...who had acted under the influence of the sadistic Brady. She had turned to religion and had taken a humanities degree with the Open University. A small group o
* The World's Most Infamous Murders. ISBN 0-425-10887-2.
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...tter around them like bats. Only libations of blood offered to them in the world of the living can reawaken in them for a time the sensations of humanity (c
...ved the underworld, the unseen realm to which the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth.
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==Death (angels) in religion==
.... xi.). When the soul forsakes the body its voice goes from one end of the world to the other, but is not heard (Gen. R. vi. 7; Ex. R. v. 9.
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...n 2006. Mummies of humans and other animals have been found throughout the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and a
...ime, the beliefs of those who buried Ginger could have resembled the later religion to some extent.
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It is also possible these similarities between Christianity and Dionysiac religion are all only representations of the same common religious.
...s]] was the first saviour, and all soteriology in the region borrowed this religion, directly and indirectly, including Mithraism and Christianity, from an Osi
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Sightings of shadow people have been reported all over the world. They are a recurring topic of the late-night talk radio show Coast-to-Coas
...ons make no scientific pretense whatever, and lie more within the realm of religion and the [[occult]].
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...At the beginning of 2001, Allahabad was the focus for this largest of the world's gatherings. It is one of four spots where Garuda is believed to have res
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==Angels in Zoroastrian Religion==
...f supernatural beings in the [[Babylonian and Assyrian religion|Babylonian religion]], and perhaps even by the [[angelology]] of [[Zoroastrianism]] (it is not,
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...presence of this enigmatic god, who silently will lead them away from this world and to the gates of the next.
...ressing the relation it has to be superior, as the latter, to the inferior world.
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...d by members of a Hebrew pantheon and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details of which was later edited out from the Torah, and that
...and demand allegiance), and that this bloodline has been in control of the world from the days of Sumer to today.
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...to demons), was a mighty prince of angels in heaven. Samael came into the world with woman, that is, with Eve, so that he was created and is not eternal. L
...reference to Gen. 3, as the father of all lies, who brought death into the world; he is apparently mentioned also in Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 21:27, and the
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...heaven, along with a third of the heavenly host, and came to reside on the world.
...ds, rosy Lucifer turns his late fires, and with slow steed leaves an alien world, until the fiery father's orb be full replenished and he forbid his sister
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*Jane Ellen Harrison, ''Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion'' 1903. Chapter VI, "The Maiden-Trinities"
* Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, ''The World of Classical Myth'', 1994.
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...everal of the apocalyptic works seem to show that the ideas of the Persian religion have had a bearing upon Jewish theological modes of thought, so do the conc
*''Terranigma'' as Asmodeus, the disease that ravaged the surface world.
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...near early Christian graves as a representation of the divine Light of the World.
...eir Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the four kings of the created world - the lion (king of the jungle), the eagle (king of the air), the bull (kin
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...chose evil will be purified and all will be reunited in the new perfected world. Accordingly, humans are urged to align themselves with Ormazd and his [[Ya
==Concept of the devil in world religions==
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...ones" were actually dinosaur fossils, which are common in this part of the world.
...ges of two griffins drinking from a flaming cup were common in the Persian religion, Zorastrianism.
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...shiyuki, and Tanaka, Yuki (1996). ''Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II.'' ISBN 0813327172.</ref> A more recent example is of leaked stories
...wai tribe of southeastern Papua is one of the last surviving tribes in the world said to engage in cannibalism. In many wars in Africa, cannibalism is said
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...ls). If they exist, these may well have the ability to affect the physical world.
5. Fairley, John; Welfare, Simon (1984). Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 0002166798. Pages 28-31
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...his lifetime, and was famously, although dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World."
...ded into homosexual activities in which he played a passive role (“Magical World of AC”, King, Francis, page 5).
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...yclopedia'' (1908) enjoined: "Superstition ought not to be confounded with religion, however much their history may be interwoven, nor magic, however white it
...raged them to "carry on their important work." [http://washingtontimes.com/world/20051015-112314-1869r.htm] [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch
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...the first great work of the Renaissance, and one of the greatest works of world literature.
...out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem).
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...' relates that the Van Frey was the lord of ''[[Álfheim]]r'' (meaning "elf-world"), the home of the light-elves. ''[[Lokasenna]]'' relates that a large grou
Some speculate that Vanir and elves belong to an earlier Nordic Bronze Age religion of Scandinavia, and were later replaced by the Æsir as main gods. Others (
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