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With a mixture of paranoia and passion, the teachings rail against Judaism and Christianity and complain of oppression by nonbelievers, evil "Luciferians," whom they say will be "plowed under" in the apocalypse. Only those vessels prepared to receive the word will be fortunate enough to ascend when the time comes. Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox. Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom Level Above Human appointed a representative to preach the Kingdom of God to earthlings. This being inhabited the container called Jesus (also known...
...weirdly adulterated Christianity. Then came a whiff of Gnosticism, the old heresy that regarded the body as a burden from which the fretful soul longs to be freed. From the time of St. Paul, some elements of Christianity have indulged an impulse to subjugate the body. But like Judaism and Islam, it ultimately teaches reverence for life and rejects suicide as a shortcut to heaven...
...charms has hardly been the historical rule. The two ancient peoples who probably contributed most to the heavenly notion both started out imagining a gray, undifferentiated afterlife, called Hades by the Greco-Roman culture and Sheol by the Jews. By 600 B.C., bodily resurrection had been incorporated into Judaism: the book of Ezekiel describes a field of dry bones, which at God's bidding "came together, bone to bone" and lived again. The motif recurred in the later books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes in combination with a nationalistically tinged Messianism or the re-establishment of a paradise located...
Islam inherited older traditions of heaven from Judaism and Christianity, including the hierarchy of angels and the seven tiers of paradise. But Muslims have a specific plan of paradise in mind, based on the stories of the Prophet's miraculous night journey to heaven. Rising into the skies on the Buraq, a fantastic creature often described as part woman, part horse, part peacock, Muhammad meets Adam, who resides in the lowest heaven, and Jesus, who is only in the fourth level. Abraham welcomes him in the seventh heaven before the Prophet is ushered into paradise for his encounter with...
...context of the greater visibility of Jews and Jewish themes in the United States today, Rich praised Rosovsky Hall, Hillel's new building on Mt. Auburn St., as a measure of the change in attitudes toward Judaism on campus...