Quotes About Ancient

I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

They were sisters to my kind," he said. They were female sex demons and very powerful beings, some of whom had incited an ancient war between the demon realm and the Nephilim.

unusual in the Roman period.2 In the eyes of many of that time, early Christianity was odd, bizarre, in some ways even dangerous. For one thing, it did not fit what "religion" was for people then. Indicative of this, Roman-era critics designated it as a perverse "superstition." Yet the very features of early Christianity that made it odd and objectionable in the ancient Roman setting have become now unquestioned assumptions about religion in much of the modern world.

When we consider the extracanonical texts of ancient Jewish tradition, the divine Spirit is most often associated with prophecy.8 This is the case in texts from a Palestinian provenance (e.g., Jub. 25:14; 31:12; 1 En. 91:1; 1QS 8:15-16)

No hay fuerza más poderosa y antigua que la del corazón.

es algo tan importante, tan antiguo e irrevocable como la sucesión de los días y las noches.

So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very air around us bound by chains.

In the time of Philotimus, a notable Greek physician several centuries BCE, sufferers complaining of a light head were instructed to wear a lead helmet in hopes of a cure. Chrysippus of Cnidus, a contemporary, believed that people with depression should eat more cauliflower while carefully avoiding basil because it could incite someone to insanity.

Basically a large hourglass, the sand clock had been in use since Egyptian times;

Dates are given in the Julian calendar, in effect since the time of Julius Caesar.

but they found only a primitive structure sheltering two hundred gravesites.

marked the first time that Pigafetta tested his firsthand experiences against the claims of ancient writers, in this case Pliny

Sex magick existed before Crowley. It is quite ancient, having been observed by Gnostic and Tantric practitioners, and later by the pagan (indigenous) pre-Christian peoples of Europe.

In the ancient Armenian texts, which include the book 'Merkhavat,' there are references to the 'Sarmoung Society.' This society is described as a well-known occult school that according to tradition, dates from 2,500 B.C.E. The school is said to have fared in Mesopotamia up until the sixth or seventh century, C.E. Attributed to the school were many great occult mysteries.

Ancient and modern psychonauts (people who use natural psychedelic plants and mushrooms for spiritual purposes) have known about the Aeons for thousands of years. They design life-forms (for more information on this practice, consult the works of Rudolf Joseph Laurence Steiner). Their spiritual purpose in originating genetic life-forms is for the purpose of uttering an infinity of Divine Expressions. The Aeons created the Human Genome.

Marduk may be able to be revived. He may already be revived, for the reader may recall that it was precisely Father Enki who revived Inanna previously. Therefore, the technology was available, and possibly Enki revived Marduk.

The brain is a mirror that reflects the One Mind. The mirror is a sacred object. For verily we are the mirror reflections of The Ancient Holy One. In looking at your mirror reflection you see The Only One.

Your brain is a mirror that reflects the One Mind. The mirror is a sacred object. For verily we are the mirror reflections of the Ancient Holy One. In looking at your mirror reflection you see The Only One.

The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how we enjoy today's movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, reenactment of wars, or life during the Renaissance. We are living in a virtual reality universe, a video game created by a civilization 1,000 to 100,000 years older than us. And they themselves are also simulations (virtual reality). These levels of hierarchies can extend to a vast degree above us, creating levels of gods or spirits.

Gnosticism, as we refer to it here, is not primarily a system of beliefs based on the set of writings found at Nag Hammadi or on the teachings of various groups during the early centuries of Christianity. They are the secret teachings of wisdom passed down through the ages.

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

Dinausors were big ; likewise, their bones. (Dinosaures furent grands ; - De même, leurs ossements.)

At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing health, riches, and wisdom; the infallibility of which has been for generations verified by the enormous fortunes constantly amassed by chimney-sweepers and other persons who get up early and go to bed betimes.