final Flashcards
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The sacred feminine is not a part of the judeochristian creation myth
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God creates the world and rules it alone
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In genesis cosmology (“let there be light”)…
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God is primary to, and distinct from, his creation
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Yahweh was created
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1750BCE at the dawn of the Iron Age, by the hebrews
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Yahweh is no mother goddess, he is…
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A masculine, tribal warrior deity, transcendent from creation
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Yahweh instructs his people to make no graven image of him
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The sacred is no longing found in nature, the sacred is found in the mind
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In goddess culture
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The divine shines forth in the beauty of nature bc mother goddess is in nature
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In patriarchal religion
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The divine draws wag from nature, god is alien to creation
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The iron hebrews were a nomadic tribe from the desert hell bent to
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Conquer the land of Canaan and steal the fertile Jordan river valley from settled farmers
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The Hebrew conquest of Canaan lies behind
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The story of Cain and Abel
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As Judaism matures
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The image and character of Yahweh softens
Result: the ethical temper of the father is mollified by the compassion of the mother
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What is sophia’s ultimate fate in both Judaism and Christianity
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She gets repressed, stamped down, and put under gods thumb
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The presence of the scared feminine is hidden in the Old Testament
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The hebrews turn her into a wicked sea monster
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The scared feminine is demonized in patriarchy sky today culture
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In fact, there is no word for goddess in the entire Hebrew language
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Who is adams first and second wives
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First: Lilith
Second: eve
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Why do eve and Lilith shape an image depicting women as evil
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Nature becomes evil
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Iron Age deity culture
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Divine is up there, alien to creation
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Mother goddess culture
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Nature herself is divine
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Goddess culture
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No shame or evil is connected with sexuality
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The blessed Virgin Mary is
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Antiseptic, sanitized, incorporeal version of the mother goddess
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How did the cult to the Virgin Mary come about
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They made Mary into an almost spiritual being
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How did the church cut off Mary’s connection to the body?
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Church fathers created doctrines that severed Mary from having anything to do with the body whatsoever
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What is the doctrine of the assumption (literally)
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Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven
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What is the doctrine of the assumption (metaphorically)
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You don’t have to leave your body to achieve union with the divine
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Who was the mother of Mary
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St. Anne
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St. Anne represents
A connection to the body and nature
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Does Mary really save us
Mary set the bar so high that Christian women have no choice but to associate with the evil eve
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Judeo Christian role models for women
Mary, eve, or Lilith
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Witches are not
Ugly hags
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St bright and st Patrick
If you can’t christianize it, then demonize it and drive it out
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The malleus maleficarum
Comprehensive with hunter’s handbook
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The papal bull issued by pope innocent VII authorized
The two Dominicans to punish, imprison, and correct
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The inquisition was a papal judicial institution to combat heresy
The use of torture to obtain confessions
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Factors leading to the mass persecution of witches during the burning times
Malleus maleficarum, the papal bulls authorizing torture, the inquisition, the general atmosphere of prejudice and hostility against goddess culture
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The most infamous hunt in American history
Salem witch trials - 140 imprisoned, 19 hanged, 1 crushed to death
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Lesson to be learned from the Salem witch trials
Honesty is the best policy
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Wiccans believe
The mother goddess is the world
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Three ways to practice witchcraft
As a solitary witch, as a hereditary witch, and as a coven of witches
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A spell to a witch
Connects one’s intention to the creative force that abides in the universe
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Wheel of the year
Witch’s sabbath coordinate the earthly cycle of life with the cosmic cycle of life
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Ostrava was the Teutonic goddess of spring
Easter
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May 1
Pagan holiday of Beltane, named after belos the god of fire
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The highest witches sabbath
Samhain aka Halloween
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What is the mother goddess
She out of whom all life
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Solar masculine sky deities symbolize
Consciousness, the mind, human reason
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Lunar, feminine earth deities symbolize
Nature, the body, instincts
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How did Jesus the man become god
Today - The divine realm and the mortal realm are separate
Classical age - the divine realm and the mortal realm were overlapping
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Three ways to become divine in the classical age
1. Exaltation
2. Acclamation
3. Incarnation
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Two people in antiquity known as the son of god
Roman emperor Caesar Augustus and Jesus
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Romans citizens worshipped both sons of god
Caesar publicly, Jesus privately
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The early mystery religion of Christianity
Took place in secret and was confined to a closed set of initiatives
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Did Jesus think he was a god
No he thought he was a messiah
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The Hebrew term messiah translated to Greek as
Christ
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Jesus saw himself not as a public messiah
But a spiritual messiah
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Jesus never publicly proclaimed he was the messiah
He proclaimed it privately to his disciples
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The gospel of John portrays Jesus proclaiming
He was divine
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The author of the gospel of John probably was not the apostle
It is beyond’s the talents of a simple fisherman
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How did early Christian’s come to believe Jesus was god
Belief in the resurrection
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No one can prove Jesus appeared in a locked room after his death
But scholars can prove people believe Jesus made a post resurrection appearance
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The resurrection might be fiction
But belief in the resurrection is a fact
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Visions of the resurrected Jesus let to
Faith in the resurrected Jesus
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Faith in the risen Jesus propelled a
Mass movement that spread through the Roman Empire
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At the council of Nicaea, Jesus was declared
Not only the son of god, but god himself
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Christian materialists believed Jesus was
A man, but not god
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Christian spiritualists believed Jesus was
God, but not a man
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Gnostic Christians believed Jesus was
One part human, one part divine
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The council of Nicaea determined Jesus was
Both true god and true man
A human body died on the cross
A glorified body rose at resurrection
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Three doctrines of the council of Nicaea
1. Jesus is divine
2. Jesus is infinite
3. Jesus is consubstantial
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Gnostic Christianity flourished during what centuries
2nd and 3rd
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The secret type of spiritual knowledge (gnosis) states
You are a soul trapped in a body, your destiny is to get out of this body and return to your pure, original divine state
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Who delivers gnosis to humanity
Jesus
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Gnostic Christianity is based on
Platonic philosophy
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The nag hammadi library
A treasure trove of secret Christian knowledge
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Reading these gnostic texts, one gets the impression that
Gnostic Christians we’re not heretics, but sincerely devout Christian’s who led strictly ascetic lives
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Theme of nag hammadi
Forms change. Essence remains.
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What is the most famous Gnostic text
The gospel of Thomas
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What are the five Gnostic gospels
Gospel of Thomas, gospel of Phillip, gospel of the Egyptians, gospel of Mary, gospel of truth
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Four gospels in the New Testament
Mathew, mark, Luke and John
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The gospel of Phillip proclaims
One needs to experience the resurrection before one dies
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Revelatory dialogue
A conversation between Jesus and a disciple that occurs in that special time post resurrection and pre ascension
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According to Gnostic Christian cosmology
Jesus is not the supreme grand uptime, he is lesser deity, created by one
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How is the Gnostic creation myth vastly different from the creation myth in genesis
God does not create the world, an inferior manufactures a defective world
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Council of Constantinople
Jesus is not only true god and true man, but he’s true spirit too
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Thanks to Gnosticism
The Roman Catholic godhead is a holy trinity
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Because of the council of Constantinople, Gnosticism
Ran out f gas and was gone by the 5th century
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People who feel the tug of Gnosticism, feel
Isolated from society and a sense of salvation from within
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Cinderella is a symbol of
Love
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Two Gnostic themes of Cinderella
1. The sounds ignorance of true herself and the need for rescue
2. The immanence of the divine in nature
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Augustine’s platonic worldview was
Very successful and dominated Christian thought from the 4-12th centuries
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Augustine was a
Theologian and philosopher
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Augustine used the platonic worldview to create a
Christian worldview - created the first true system of Christian philosophy
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Metaphysics
What is really real are the forms
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Humanity
A human being is a soul trapped in a body
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Morality
We need to get as far away from our bodies and their desires as possible
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The virtues life includes the constant practice of these four habits
Prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice
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What does Augustine hold to live a virtuous life
Gods grace
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Augustine believes we know what we know because of god, this is
Knowledge
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Evil is
A negotiation, a lack of good that should be there
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Augustine’s view on politics
The church is above the state
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Evaluation of Augustine
He created the first system of Christian philosophy, and valued afterlife. But he diminished his interest in life and placed a negative view on the human body.
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Thomas Aquinas’ masterwork
Summa theologica
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Aquinas based his worldview on
Aristotle
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Aristotle rejected what
Plato’s forms
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Aristotle thought a human being was
A more compact unit than a soul trapped in a body
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Substance is subdivided into
Matter and form
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Thomas took Aristotle’s substance)accidents and called it
Essence
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Aquinas added what to essence
Existence
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Existence
By which a thing is real, not merely possible
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To Aquinas, a human being is
An essence endowed with existence
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For Thomas Aquinas, what is really real
That which exists
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Thomas Aquinas equates existence with
God
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Gods essence is
Existence
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How did Aquinas make it possible for a Christian to be an Aristotelian
He took Aristotle’s view of humanity, and he called that an essence
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How do we know what we know
The process of abstraction
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Our intellect has two parts
Active and passive
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Active intellect
Abstracts universal meaning out of an object
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Aquinas calls the active intellect the
Agent intellect
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According to Aquinas, the human substantial form is
The soul
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Aquinas held that the soul was both
Subsistent and incorruptible
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Any organized being is
Subsistent
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The human substantial form is
Subsistent
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The soul acts independently of matter for three reasons
1. The soul can understand matter
2. The soul is reflectively self aware
3. The soul can hold universal concepts
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To Aquinas, the goal of human existence is
Union with god
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In the five proofs, Aquinas attempts to
Describe what is meant by god
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The five proofs
1. The unmoved mover
2. The uncaused cause
3. The necessary being
4. The perfect cause
5. The final cause
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The problem with the ontological argument
You can’t think something into existence
You can’t argue from thoughts to being
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It’s a good argument IF
It stays confined to the logical order
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Thomas distinguishes four types of laws:
Eternal law
Divine law
Natural law
Civil law
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What type of law is most important
The natural law
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Teilhard de chardin
French priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher, and writer
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Chardin theorized that
Matter was striving to be divine
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In chardins worldview
The universe is a hierarchy of concentric circles
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Four spheres of chardin
Geosphere (intimate matter), biosphere (life circle), noosphere (mind circle), omega point (Christosphere)
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The agent of the culminating process of evolution is
One love
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The omega point is
The goal and purpose of all life
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The endless cycle of reincarnation of the soul is determined by its
Karma
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What does unpanishad mean
Sitting close to, near
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The upanishads posit a
World soul and an individual soul
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What is samsara
The endless cycle of death and rebirth
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What is karma
Doctrine of long term cause and effect
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What is moksha
Release from the karmic cycle of death and rebirth
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What is yoga
Linking, joint together (Brahman and atman)
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What are the five types of yoga
Karma yoga - path of action
Jnana yoga - path of philosophical discrimination
Bhakti yoga - path of devotion
Raja yoga - royal path
Tantric yoga - secret path
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What is shramana
Wandering ascetic
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Who is mahavira
Founder of Jainism
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What is the Jain path
Extreme asceticism
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Hinduism says
Do any of the five types of yoga
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Jainism says
Collect no karma at all, good or bad
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Buddhism says
Take the eightfold path of morality, meditation, and wisdom
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Why did the Buddha experience a virgin birth
Virgin birth is a metaphor for a birth of the spiritual life
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What were the four great sights
Old age, sickness, death, salvation
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What were the three temptations of the Buddha
Fear, desire, shame
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What is enlightenment
A no dual awareness of reality
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Buddhism and Hinduism share doctrines of
Karma, samsara, and moksha
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What is the Hindu conception of the soul
Atman
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What is the Buddhist conception of the soul
An-atman
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What is really real for Buddha
Change
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Usdhist philosphy says a human being is
A temporary aggregate of five skandas that comes together and birth and unravel at death
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What are the five skandas
Physical body, feelings, perceptions habitual mental dispositions, consciousness
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If there is no permanent soul in Buddhism, to what does karma adhere
The fourth skandha, habitual mental disposition
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What are the six realms of existence on the Bahia chakra
Humans, gods, anti gods, hungry ghosts, demons, wild animals
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What is the best existential state
Humanity
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What is the worst existential state
Wild animals
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What are the three kleshas
Pig of ignorance, cock of desire, snake of fear
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Why are the kleshas important
Remove them, and you enter nirvana
Employ them, and you suffer in samsara
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Hinduism advocates yoga, Buddhism advocates what
The eightfold path
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What are the four noble truths
1. All of life is suffering
2. Desire causes suffering
3. Stop desire and you stop suffering
4. Stop desire by following the eightfold path
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What statement did Buddha make in his first truth
All life is suffering
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The eightfold path boils down to what three things
Morality, meditation, wisdom
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What are the five precepts
Don’t kill, steal, lie. Don’t misuse sexuality. Don’t use drugs or alcohol.
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The eightfold path is what
A practical guide
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Buddhas view on what’s important in life
Suffering and how to escape it
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What did the historical Buddha teach
The path to Buddhism
