Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 من الصفحات The sensitive mind and the rugged individualist are portrayed in the literature of antiquity by two brothers, the first-born and the second-born. The mind is the father of two sons. One side of us is conservative, cautious; the other side is radical and adventurous. A part of us is content with the status quo; another part of us seeks change and improvement. The mind perceives first with the outer five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Those perceptions are recorded and processed for future use, and thus the mind has five inner senses, the second-born son. In the Old and New Testaments this concept is expressed through several pairs of brothers. Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin, Aaron and Moses, John and Jesus are all characters created to illustrate the mind's journey. The eastern Mediterranean became a marketplace for the exchange of ideas that had their provenance not just in Athens or Alexandria, but made their way westward from India and China well over 2,000 years ago. The lunar calendar and the appearance of the full moon was not just vital to agriculture in Mesopotamia; it spawned metaphors that illustrated the mind at its brightest. Abraham, for example, Hebrew for "father is high," was a moon god who symbolized the full moon, i. e., the moon straight up or high. "Father" is high because the mind is the father of two sons. Obviously, many concepts evolved independently, but migration and commerce exported and imported more than just figs and wine. Adam and Eve, the male and female of Genesis, are reflected in the yang and the yin of Taoism in ancient China. Elizabeth, Mary and Jesus are a variation of Demeter, Persephone and Dionysus. Thinkers over the ages have struggled to come to terms with the rough and tumble of daily life. Some have even suggested that life begins in some faraway place after death. Others have tried to find the way to live now and die later. |
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... kingdom of priests , and an holy nation.163 Throw caution to the wind , do something against your better judgment , defy your own premonitions , and you may pay dearly . Wisdom is not to be taken lightly and you must not doubt it if it ...
... love toward this undying principle . It is the 278 Ruth 4:12 279 Encyclopedia Britannica XX , page 888d 280 Encyclopedia Britannica XXI , page 123 281 Encyclopedia Britannica XXI , page 450 supreme ruler in the kingdom of your mind . It ...
... kingdom of your mind . It renews itself in every thought your mind generates . The metaphor of Naomi and Ruth is of course told in a slightly different script through Elizabeth and Mary in the New Testament , and thus Jesus is often ...
... kingdom of Israel . Its citizens are carried away captive to the outermost reaches of Mesopotamia 284 Encyclopedia Britannica , Volume XIV , page 862 , Eleventh Edition until , descending like a deus ex machina , King 113 The Prophets.
... out of Egypt , and delivered you out of the hand of Egypt , and out of the hand of the Egyptians , and out of the hand of all kingdoms , and of them that oppressed you.285 285 I Samuel 10:18 You know this , but your stamina fails you . 118.