Breaking the Code
Mark 13 and its parallels drew together the strands of previous Temple-warnings, and that it solemnly predicted, in language drawn not least from Jeremiah and Daniel, that the Temple would be destroyed by foreign armies, and that this event should be seen as the outpouring of YHWH’s wrath upon his recalcitrant people. The last state of the house wo
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What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
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the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. 2I looked, and there was a figure that looked like a human being;[20] below what appeared to be its loins it was fire, and above the loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming amber. 3It stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up bet
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