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The human spine is made of 33 individual bones or vertebrae.
The djed is one of the more ancient and commonly found symbols in ancient Egyptian religion. It is a pillar-like symbol representing stability. It is commonly understood to represent his spine.
In the Pythagorean system, 33 is the highest of the three master numbers which do not get reduced to a single number.
In the sums of powers, the sum of three cubes (a3 + b3+ c3) is 33.
33 is the largest number that is not a sum of distinct triangular numbers.
Water boils at 33 degrees according to the temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton.
The word amen has a value of 33 in simple English gematria: (a=1)+(m=13)+(e=5)+(n=14) = 33.
Arsenic a.k.a. The Poison of Kings has an atomic number of 33. Its alchemical symbol looks like a partially formed Star of David.
Jesus was 33 years old when he was crucified and resurrected.
Islamic prayer beads are generally arranged in 3 sets of 33 for a total of 99 beads corresponding to the 99 Attributes of Allah.
The second level of heaven in Buddhism is named Trāyastriṃśa from the numeral trayastriṃśat meaning "33" and can be translated in English as "belonging to the thirty-three devas/gods".
The divine name Elohim appears 33 times in the story of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis.
There are 33 deities in the Vedic or ancient Hinduism religion.
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Tree in Muckross Abbey - one of major ecclesiastical sites found in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It was founded in 1448 as a Franciscan friary for Observantine Franciscans by Donal McCarthy Mor.
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Commonwealth games opening ceremony just having a totally normal one
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Locus of control - "is the degree to which people believe that they, as opposed to external forces (beyond their influence), have control over the outcome of events in their lives."
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Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648) is an interesting starting point to explore renaissance world views
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"Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!"
The motto of the Knights Templar which means “Not to us, O Lord, but to your name from ‘glory.” The Knights Templar were merchant bankers that established the modern banking system. The Templar in England reestablished themselves as the Order of the Garter several decades after they were disbanded.
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Epistemic disobedience now! Questioned epistemic authority, especially in science
(image source) #Science #Politics #Religion #KM #Culture #Cryptocracy
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Abraxas - a Gnostic Supreme Deity or Demiurge who rules the 365th (highest and final) aeon, or sphere, ascending to the unknowable God. Basilides claimed Abraxas to be both Egyptian god & demon.
Related more recently: 'Solve Et Coagula' like the Baphomet represents the Process of the Alchemical Great Work, the Synthesis of All Opposing Forces - To Analysis & Synthesis, the True Path to All Knowledge.
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The abandonment of magic made possible the upsurge of technology?
“It was the abandonment of magic which made possible the upsurge of technology, not the other way round. Indeed, as Max Weber stressed, magic was potentially ‘one of the most serious obstructions to the rationalisation of economic life’. The technological primacy of Western civilization, it can be argued, owes a sizeable debt to the fact that in Europe recourse to magic was to prove less ineradicable than in other parts of the world”. - Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Max Weber in the Realm of Enchantment - By J.J.Storm
"Weber is not the actual source of the notion of science as anti-magic. He also did not argue for the movement of thought from magic to religion to science often mistakenly attributed to him. Finally, “the disenchantment of the world” does not mean the complete extirpation of belief in magic or spirits."
Art: Kings’ Fairy Tale, 1909, by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Kawaii Lucifer
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The bullshitters guide to enlightenment
The bullshitter will spend a lot of time talking about doing something using many fancy words and exotic rituals. He will sell you the illusion of a much "better" reality that seems impossibly hard to attain, except if you follow the ways of the bullshitter. He will promise prosperity, clarity and enlightenment - and yet only deliver confusion and bullshit, to keep the ponzi scheme going.
#Mindful #Narrative #Religion #Economics #Comedy #Culture #Ideas
