Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S. Marine Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. impatiently waved his heavy swagger stick one day last week as Haitian troops dashed across a drill field in Port-au-Prince and hit the dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find...
The Empty Jar. Gnostic thought existed long before Christ, but it adapted itself so well to Christianity that the subtlest and toughest Christian minds worked overtime to combat its combination of mystery, myth and spiritual snob appeal. When orthodox Christianity triumphed at last, the writings of the Gnostics were suppressed...
Part of the Gnostic's special concern seems to have been self-knowledge, an emphasis that appears at least twice in the Thomas Gospel: Jesus said: Whoever knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything . . . But the Kingdom is within you and it is without you. If...
A similar theme occurs in conjunction with a familiar biblical echo: The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of Life, and he will live.For many who are first shall become last and they shall be come a single...
Fire upon the World. Gnosticism was strongly influenced by Oriental and Greek ideas, with their circular conception of time, as opposed to Judaism's linear time. The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be. Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning so that you...