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Secret Teachings of All Ages
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Ficha de leitura de 'Hall, Manly P.. Secret Teachings of All Ages'. Disponível no CD 'Sacred Texts'.
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Estátuas, deuses e ritos: 'the wise recognized in these marble statues only symbolic concretions of great abstract truths'. (...) 'Few of the early cults actually worshiped anthropomorphic deities, although their symbolism might lead one to believe they did. They were moralistic rather than religionistic; philosophic rather than theologic. (...) They taught man (...) most of all, to view a worthy life as the most acceptable sacrifice to God'.
Mysteries as "Sacred dramas performed at stated periods. (...) under the veil of mystery, sought to illustrate the sublimest truths of religion, morality, and virtue, and impress them on the hearts of their disciples.
'lead the people to see the shadow of the deity, in the beauty, magnificence, and splendor of the universe'
'man has worshiped and revered things as symbolic of the invisible, omnipresent, indescribable Thing, concerning which he could discover practically nothing'
Os druidas
was the mistletoe (viscum album) sacred as symbolic of the universal medicine, or panacea
A ordem dos Druidas. 'The second division was that of Bard (Beirdd). Its members were robed in sky-blue, to represent harmony and truth, and to them was assigned the labor of memorizing, at least in part, the twenty thousand verses of Druidic sacred poetry.'
'The candidate was buried in a coffin, as symbolic of the death of the Sun God. The supreme test, however, was being sent out to sea in an open boat. While undergoing this ordeal, many lost their lives. (...) The few who passed this third degree were said to have been "born again," and were instructed in the secret and hidden truths which the Druid priests had preserved from antiquity'.
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