Word: godhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distance and see houses, trees, mountain peaks that are landmarks in space, so one may look out in another direction and see births, marriages, deaths that are signposts in time, stretching off dimly into the far future." It does not take much of another stretch to attach godhead to such a vision, though that was hardly Einstein's own feeling...
...jealous YHWH inspired by the religious policies of the Pharaoh Akhenaton, who reigned in Egypt from 1353 to 1336 B.C.? Closing the temples of the powerful priesthood of Amon, this royal Egyptian heretic established the state cult of a godhead embodied in the sun disk, or Aton. In Moses and Monotheism, Sigmund Freud speculated that Moses was actually an Egyptian who passed single-deity worship derived from Akhenaton to the Jews. (Was there not, he asked, an echo of Aton in Adonai?) Other scholars, like German academic Jan Assmann, author of Moses the Egyptian, believe Moses and Hebrew monotheism...
...weeping? And why were Americans weeping--we who could not care less about Britain's monarchy except in quaint memories of the literature of Kings and Queens? It may be simply that people make gods of selected celebrities and that Diana had to die to achieve godhead. Then, like Elvis, she became accessible after death; the public could leave flowers and personal messages at the gate of the Spencers' country estate, her Graceland...
...resulting void through mystic vessels. Some of them shattered--the world became broken--and fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped in every aspect of our mundane existence. It is every human's duty, through good works, prayer and mystical contemplation, to raise the sparks back up to the Godhead and repair the world. In the 18th century, the reformer Ba'al Shem Tov's populist twist on this once secret tradition--that every humble act can be a celebration of God's immanent presence--became the heart of his own ecstatic orthodoxy, Hasidism...
...Master of Balance Godhead Silo...