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...y Ghosts ... Fire Walking ... the Grim Reaper ... Witch Smellers ... Human Sacrifice ... Holy Mud ... Dervishes ... Sacred Mushrooms ... the Dance of Death ... Snake Handlers ... Sin Eaters ... Demonic Possession ... the Antichrist ... Golems ... the Temple of Rats ... Stoning the Devil ... Weeping Statues ... the Wandering Jew ... Incorruptible Bodies ... Ritual Crucifixi...

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...yptian Crocodile Worship Christian Snake Handlers The Rope to Heaven The Scapegoat Gods in Human Form Devil Worship The Sex Slaves of Paradise Animal Sacrifice Human Sacrifice Self Mummification Zombies Incorruptible Bodies The Firebird Sacred Mushrooms Demonic Possession Towers of Silence The Ghost Dance Temple Virgins Chinese Dragons Baron Samedi The ...

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...s is THE CHURCH. Besides these living tongues and patient witnesses who were removed by death, it was necessary moreover to have a standing record w... ...nd his active temptations wholly at an end, men will still be in the flesh and heirs of death, during the whole period of the millennial kingdom. An... ...to take regular arms against an opinion which will be strong and struggling to the very death. But not purposing to supplement the deficiencies of ... ...at agony of sorrow described in the twelfth chapter of Zechariah, and in their apparent death preparatory to their great resurrection. I know not wha... ...o doubt, to be manifested to the whole world of mankind, and for the profit also of the animal and elemental creatures. That which could not be writ... ... Spirit, which Christ planteth in all them who believe. The law of the flesh, or of the animal, or natural man, which the apostle Paul so oft declar... ...ious damps and exhalations? Are not the elements possessed with Satan’s malice, and the animals, and the dust of the ground, and every thing within t... ... fallen system of things, from the invisible and immaterial soul through the regions of animal life and vegetable life, and through the inanimate cre... ...s: —a priest, in all that pertained to the worship of his Creator: —and a king over the animal, the vegetable, and the elemental Coming of Messiah ...

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... own good is a cancerous cell. Such a selfish act eventually leads to the death of the entire organism. At the levels of inanimate, vegetative, and a... ...ent to it. If we left the baby to grow in the woods, it would imitate the animals and grow like an animal. With the exception of a few instincts and... ...peaks of things that seemingly happen in our world: stories about people, animals, trees and flowers, mountains and hills. However, in truth, it tel... ...age. What did they do? They each took his sword and fought one another to death. Indeed, half the world died there by the sword. Chapters of Rabbi ... ... text from The Zohar (in Hebrew) from the portion, Aharei Mot [After the Death]. First comes the original text of The Zohar, which is almost entire... ...ve in our senses or develop tools to perceive. Also, when we examine other animals, we see that their perception of reality is different from ours. B... ...nsation of physical life. our body is no different than that of any other animal; hence, this kind of perception is defined 72 uNloCkiNg the Zohar ... ...een inner and outer Kelim is a human phenomenon that doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom. When a lion eats a zebra, it doesn’t hate it, and the zebr... ...ng us to see the whole of reality without any boundaries between life and death, to understand and to feel everything, to be filled with light. To a...

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...Birth, education, job, marriage, kids, family and at the end…death! Is this the standard cycle of life to be followed? What is the ultimate goal of life? Why do we have to take birth? The human body that we have got…should do the duty of being humane. There should be humanity in life. ...

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...Birth, education, job, marriage, kids, family and at the end…death! Is this the standard cycle of life to be followed? What is the ultimate goal of life? Why do we have to take birth? The human body that we have got…should do the duty of being humane. There should be humanity in life. ...

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....................................................56 A Communal Society Among Animals ........................................... 57 Interdependenc... ...her Western developed countries, suicides are the second most common cause of death among chil- dren and youth. 3 Many among those who work in the ... ...here the will to exist is greater than in the vegetative. For the most part, animals live in groups, packs. They are very mobile and must constantl... ...le and must constantly roam in search of food and suitable living conditions. Animals eat other animals or other plants, and relate to them as a sou... ...e is Everything 35 sations and emotions, and lends a unique character to each animal. Every animal senses its environment on a personal level, bring... ...he beneficial, and moves farther away from the detrimental. The life cycle of animals is also individual. Each lives and dies in its own time, unlik... ...bjugate the whole body to themselves. In simple terms, cancer cells induce the death of the body through acts of egoism. They operate in this manner... ...es not bring them any benefit. Actually, the truth is to the contrary, as the death of the body means the death of its assassins, too. The manner i... ...o their own demise. Thus, when egoism nurtures itself, it leads everything to death, including itself. Egois- tic behavior and general inattentivenes...

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...allow the green-lands of Earth. No global famine will starve us to painful death. No global war will use its awful weapons to eradicate all living bei... ...t those wild kisses at the 14 back seat of the car when she was 17; still death will be the loss of all our material possessions ... No one could tak... ...eople. Until, one day , he found out he was seriously ill and exhausted to death. Well, he lay down in his neat bed and began to wait for the end pea... ...ith a pure peaceful radiance. There were luminous flowers and trees and animals here; and luminous people and cities and rivers ; and mountains and... ...ss, love. How does this centre work? The following experiment with a test animal tells us. Into the pleasure-centre of the test animal an electrode i... ...e the pleasure-centre is activated by a specific electric current. And the animal experiences real pleasure. The electric current is switched on by a ... ...s real pleasure. The electric current is switched on by a button which the animal is trained to press. Thus, the animal may activate its own pleasure-... ...ts own pleasure-centre whenever it likes. And it likes it pretty much. The animal soon starts to activate its pleasure-experience time and time again,... ...g that existed. And the little man said to himself, “So this is how sudden death was!” And the soul of the man soared up into the Light; abandoning hi...

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...ing for breath. The fine pow- der, working quickly, seared his vocal cords, his lungs. His death would be a silent one. The powder, lethal when inhal... ...s brutally slain before his eyes, screamed with anguish and raced forward to avenge their deaths. From the life- less hands of one of the soldiers he... ...magic and wonder of one of earth’s longest-lived and most accomplished civilizations. His death had hit her hard. Alex wiped away a tear, “I know yo... ...tled not far from the main city, established on the plains to the west of the river. Wild animals abounded, crops were plenty, and the people were w... ...been sincere,” her husband said and kissed the top of her head. “But, ever since Father’s death two years ago, I have noticed that the two of them h... ...ecome increasingly closed and withdrawn from the rest of the family. I can only think his death must have hit them hard, but I can- not help but worr... ...g over it. This shows that to be the case. And you know that in Ancient Egypt, showing an animal, particularly a lion, in this fashion indicated it ... ...he storm is over now. There is nothing more to worry about.” Odai’s eyes searched the big animal, looking for signs of injury or illness, but found ... ... soldiers through the dense woods behind the Palace. The terrain is treacherous and wild animals abound. Besides, I have a feeling Alaj is not looki...

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...rities. In consequence, Rashbi was tried in absentia and was sentenced to death. The Roman emperor sent men in search of him, but to their disappoin... ...st day of Passover) of the year 160 CE, and was buried in Meron. With his death, the soul of a giant Kabbalist completed its task in our world. Rashb... ...nues: And the Creator answered further (the letter Tav): “The word MaveT (death) ends with you. And since these are your properties, you are not sui... ...s to the worlds BYA, also shines upon the impure forces, and the angel of death receives the strength to destroy all that lives. This state is desig... ... itself and all its inhabitants, except man, are robots operated by their animal nature, rather than creatures with free will, in the spiritual worl... ... by their spiritual nature. Upon being born in our world, man, too, is an animal without freedom to act against his egoistic desire to receive pleas... ...d his son Elazar are angels (spiritual forces, similar to robots or draft animals in our world), whose task is to help the souls to ascend from one ... ...ignifies a person tearing away a part of his inner 249 THE DONKEY DRIVER animal egoism for the sake of drawing closer to the Creator. This is what b... ... uninitiated why altruism is the property of a lion, while a dog, a loyal animal, is the root of egoism and impurity). It is therefore said that whe...

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...t though so many terrible sentences have been verified upon the Jews, since the death of Messiah, there has never been taken from them, nor is there... ...o memory all that happened to this grateful people in the first years after the death of Messiah. So far was God from avenging the death of his Son,... ...te generosity, was offered in the first instance all the precious fruit of that death, whereof they themselves had all the blame. The servants who w... ...dicted by Jeremiah (chap. xxix.) having been accomplished, the king who, by the death of Darius, had just seated himself on the throne of the empire,... ...law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonm... ...ood reason primitive) are found at every step clear and palpable remains of sea animals, not only on the surface of the earth, or a little beneath it... ... been accepted of God before he had a temple in Jerusalem. Do the sacrifices of animals deserve the illustrious name of ‘sacrifices of righteousness...

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...uch concepts as “the next world,” “souls,” “reincarnation,” and “life and death.” How can we, novices, experience such perceptions? How can we discov... ...bundant in the books of Kabbalah? Indeed, if you take the body of a small animal, whose only task is to nourish itself so it may exist in this world... ...portant thing in this whole diverse reality is the sensation given to the animals—that each of them feels its own existence. And the most important ... ...thout any difference in their form, but only in their substance. Thus, an animal or a rock in this world is a corporeal matter, and its correspondin... ...imal or a rock in this world is a corporeal matter, and its corresponding animal or rock in the Higher World is a spiritual matter, occupying no pla... ... T u d e n T dressing in a human body. Afterwards, when the body dies, the death does not apply to it, since a spiritual object is a simple object. I... ... apply to it, since a spiritual object is a simple object. In their view, death is but a separation of the elements comprising the object. This is p... ...is is possible with physical objects, comprised of several elements which death disintegrates. But the spiritual soul, which is an utterly simple obj... ...of corporeal occurrences within the body. And man’s pre-eminence over all animals is that our minds are developed to such an extent that all the body...

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.... We must know that by attaining Lishma, one puts the evil inclination to death. The evil inclination is the will to receive, and acquiring the will... ... receive from being able to do anything. This is considered putting it to death. Since it has been removed from its office, and it has nothing more... ...e, when it is revoked from its function, this is considered putting it to death. When one contemplates “What profit hath man of all his labor wherei... ...ust always remain in deficit, since filling the will to receive is actual death. The reason is, as we have said above, that creation was primarily f... ...amples on with one’s feet. 4. Innumerable, that there are small with large animals, meaning whether one has small vitality, or whether he has great ... ...e from Above.” And the “egg” means that it is lifeless, although a living animal emerges from it. But in the meantime, no life is seen in it. And th... ...glory of the Lord endure for ever.” Because he has come to a state of the animal 258 Shamati of the Yaar (forest), from the word Iro (his town), it... ...e a single creature and the individual plants are specific organs of that animal. Similarly, in spirituality there are people who have already acqui... ...that they already work with the will to bestow. Animate: We see that each animal has its own characteristic; they are not confined to the environmen...

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.................................................. 146 The Ego’s Inevitable Death ..................................................................147... ...ham, no- - ticed that all these forces obeyed the same rules of birth and death, budding and withering. To discover what those rules were, he began ... ...alem. Kabbalists who continued to teach despite the ruin were tortured to death, and Rabbi Akiva would become one of these victims. He continued to ... ... authorities. The Romans tried Rashbi in his absence and sentenced him to death. But to execute Rashbi, they had to seize him first. The Roman emper... ...l in our world is the least broken (egoistic); plants are more egoistic, animals are more egoistic than plants, and humans are the most egoistic of... ...n the scale is the speaking (human) level, which feeds on both plants and animals, and some minerals. The spiritual level isn’t a separate level in i... ... the smallest level of desires. Following the still, came vegetation, then animals, representing the animate level of desires, and finally hu- - mans... ...vy—the ego’s most treacherous and harmful trait—our egoism puts itself to death, just as cancer destroys its host organism until it, too, dies along...

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...r studying him as a naturalist studies the result of instinct in the lower animals, had come to understand the deep mute wisdom of his slightest actio... ...bleed, I should die, I should suffer no more, but now I suffer and look at death with dry eyes. From henceforth you are my son’s father; he has no rel... ...hem! Grandet, I confide my son to you in dying, and I look at the means of death with less pain as I think that you will be to him a father. He loved ... ...—to his. I send him to you that you may tell him in some fitting way of my death, of his future fate. Be a father to him, but a good father. Do not te... ...f-dog, whose bark was so strangled that he seemed to have laryngitis. This animal, noted for his ferocity, recognized no one but Nanon; the two untuto... ...ng the young man could not mistake. “What is it you mean, uncle? Since the death of my poor mother”—at these words his voice softened—”no other sor- r... ...e nephew. Grandet was not at all troubled at having to tell Charles of the death of his father; but he did feel a sort of 66 Eugenie Grandet compassi... ... is feared, a punishment expected,—a feeling so natural that even domestic animals possess it, and whine at the slightest pain of punishment, though t...

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...t not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death. 18 And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us... ...aps we die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. 5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, y... ...so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother’s death. Chapter 25 And Abraham married another wife named Ce- tura: 2 Who bo... ...children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife. 11 And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living... ...le, saying: 11 He that shall touch this man’s wife, shall surely be put to death. 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundr... ...to Moses and Aaron, saying: 2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth. 3 Whats... ...od: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect. 11 In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweet- ness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor. ... ...- ture. 20 On the other side, the ames wasted not the esh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was ap...

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...Every human being is living a life but how much humanity does he have? Birth, education, job, marriage, kids, family and at the end…death! Is this the standard cycle of life to be followed? What is the ultimate goal of such a life? Why do we have to take birth? What do we want? The human body that we have got…should do the duty of being humane. There s...

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...with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a god. But Crossroads itself is imperiled. Hidd...

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... the satchel, with great respect, to Ulik's widow. She would recount Ulik's death, speaking in Yata. She would prostrate herself, naked and unarmed,... ...pStone had almost died by her own faith in her ability to break free of the death grip on both their peoples. Since that day he hardly ever left the... ...ilt a fire inside the cave and the cave walls came to life with pictures of animals and hunters—short, black-haired Dirt People side by side with tal... ...black-haired Dirt People side by side with tall, red-haired Masari, hunting animals together. In the beginning, Masari did not kill Dirt People. But ... ...e Masari rather than Dirt People? Ata became convinced that his companion's death had resulted from starvation, not that she had gone to feed others... ... seen it. She had felt it every time she squeezed the trigger. Her own near-death had resulted in her father's sacrilege, his living hell. She drov... ...h from the young woman, turning it. "Those are Yata stories. Each plant and animal has a different meaning." ShadowGrass's pelt ran from her neck i... ...sa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant artifacts hung about the hut. Yes, she used animal products, but no creature was so ubiquitous. Zai knew about the ... ...hobbled back to the anteroom. "Pardon my manners. I needed to check on some animalcules." "You should look at them, you know," WindTamer added. "Tin...

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...catastrophe. (The unity of yin-yang does not necessarily mean the end, or death. Death does not necessarily mean extinction. Why is it seen as a cat... ...) The Ultimate Paradox: Living is the process of dying. (“Life” and “death” have different meanings, depending on different savvies. Chinese Ti... .... Chinese Tibet is full of real stories of reincarnation.) Reciprocally: Death is the process of somebody else's life [an animal eating another one]... ...rnation.) Reciprocally: Death is the process of somebody else's life [an animal eating another one] (totally biased). 33 Exercises for readers... ...ery intention of a living thing has its cause and effect. Even in medical death, the previous cause-effect is lurking deeply in memory. This memory ... ...re not" (Heraclitus). "We die, and we do not die; human is a mixture of animal and god; all look when fortuitous when necessary" (Petre úuÛea). ... ...us monsters. You say it’s human? It's not really human. You think it’s an animal? It's not exactly an animal either. Since they graft human genes on... ...mal? It's not exactly an animal either. Since they graft human genes onto animal bodies and alter human genes with animals’ strains, this mutual gene... ...eople will forget entirely what others look like. We will all become like animals. I'm not scolding you; this prediction is a cold, hard fact. That...

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...en by Paul Alexander Bartlett over a period of several decades. After his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manu- scripts of the five nove... ... touches to the manuscripts. Now, more than a decade and a half after his death, the publication of Voices from the Past is overdue. Bartlett is kn... ...s sewn to the donkey’s pad but when F VOICES FROM THE PAST 10 the animal died he had to carry everything. Utterly disheartened, they trudged ... ...nable to countenance such hirelings. I am unable to countenance mili- tary death. Friends are still troubled by my miracle at Cana. As a group of u... ...s and throws herself at my feet, a flower clutched in her hand. What does death mean to her? Heshvan 11 Wearing dirty work clothes I was readily ... ...wn in a booth of branches, with cattle nearby. I slept and woke to their animal sounds, without dread. Someone roused the oxen, then the sheep; the... ...ve you no pity? Remember the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. We are not animals! Let her go... I repeat, let her go. Go home—all of you!” I helpe... ...dark red robes, red turbans on their heads, prodded camels, heavily laden animals. Were they Syrians? Somewhere along the way I met a blind man led... ...ey changers. The courtyard was cattleyard; waiting rooms were storerooms. Animals bellowed. I struck again at the vendors, toppling tables, hurling ...

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...tial questions. There are two primary dates in every person’s life: birth and death. What happens between them can be unique and therefore priceless... ...ith the general governance of the system of worlds and its cycles of life and death. It also states upon what factors our path in this world depends... ...give the child absolute confidence in their love and care. Humans, as well as animals and plants, multiply and then take care of their offspring’s d... ...each soul goes in and out of various bodies. For the sake of compari- son, the death of the body has absolutely no effect on the soul, just as cut ha... ... F R E E D O M O F W I L L T he concept of freedom determines our whole life. Animals in captivity usually develop ill health and may even die—a sur... ...by two reins: pleasure or pain (also defined as “happi- ness” or “suffering”). Animals have no free choice. Humankind’s advantage over an- imals is th... ...n to delight and retraction from pain is the only force that controls humans, animals, and even the vegeta- tive. All living creatures at all stages ... ...ning. B A S I C C O N C E P T S I N K A B B A L A H 42 The same occurs in the animal world: an animal’s mental ca- pacity is limited in maturity, but... ...to al- truism, our desire will keep growing all through life. Finally, at our deathbed, we discover that we failed to achieve even half of what we w...