Saturday, March 03, 2007

Biblical references to cubits

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How to make altars, arks, temples, and boats: The ancient measure of the cubit appears often in the Old Testament; usually as construction a...
Monday, November 27, 2006

James Bruce finds the Lost Book of Enoch

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LEFT: Where Bruce wandered: up the Nile to Ethiopia: This wealthy genius of exploration and science - a six feet four inch, red-headed Scots...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Angels with ropes in the Lost Book of Enoch

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LEFT: Bruce James, who re-discovered three copies of the The Lost Book of Enoch from Ethiopia in some time between 1768 and 1773. The Lost...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Buddha and the 49 days

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BELOW: The coming of the Holy Spirit in a 15th century illuminated manuscript. This image may relate to the fact that some Churches were de...

Dalai Lama's science challenge for Buddha-date

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In a teaching given in London, 1988, the Dalai Lama said "I personally feel it is quite disgraceful that nobody, not even among Buddhis...

Diagram of perfection: Mandala of Vajradhatu, Tibet. 14C

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Mandala of Vajradhatu One of the earliest mandalas to appear in Tibet during the Chidar (the Later Diffusion) A Nepalese artist Central Tib...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Sacred string and bent knee in 14C Tibet mandala

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The recurrent "temple-builders tools" imagery appears in the Mandala of Bhutadamara 'byung-po 'dul-byed-kyi dkyil-'kho...
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A Yantra with a sacred string of copper wire

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Remembering that "Yantra" means, in essence, 'diagram of a machine", one can consider the Digansa Yantra. In the middle ...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Rgveda, the oldest of the Vedas - before 1200 BCE

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Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. The Vedic form of Sanskrit is an early descendant of Proto-I...

Vedas: hidden know-how or spiritual guides?

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Some believe that the Vedas were transmitted orally for up to 8000 years. Most Western and a few Indian commentators see this as an exaggera...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Sacred object: The thunderbolt diamond

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Vajrasattva holds the vajra in his right hand and a bell in his left hand. Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond and...

Indian temple rituals similar to Ark of the Covenant

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The 5,000-year old history of the tribes of Israel, recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible, describe the era of Cheops, King of Egypt. T...

Indian temples open to the rising sun in the east

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Shukavak N. Dasa says "The operative rule underlying most of Hindu culture is that the light of the sun was used as a symbol for knowle...