Christianity spread

Barclay, R. The inner life of the religious societies of the commonwealth considered pricipally with reference to the influence of church organization on the spread of Christianity. London Hodder and Stoughton, 1876. xxxi, 700 p. 

The use of peyote was basic to pre-Columbian religious practices, and it spread throughout many Central American tribes to those north of Mexico, in spite of the Christian missionaries who discouraged its use. Hostility toward highs from mushrooms and other plants grew as LSD appeared on the drug scene. 

A second figure influential in the spread of a Christian peyotism was the half-Comanche Quanah Parker, a chief who in 1884 became deathly ill. 

Quanab Parker (1839-1911) contributed greatly to spread of the highly ritualized Christian practices associated with peyote. He insisted that women not be restricted from these ceremonies. 

During the Middle Ages, as alchemy began to spread through Christian Europe, the Philosopher s Stone came to be equated with the Holy Grail and Christ himself. Wolfram von Eschenbach, in his Arthurian epic Parzival, describes the Grail not as a cup or chalice, as is traditional, but as a stone beyond price, the stone which the builders rejected, but which has become the corner stone . 

By around 30 B.C.E., the Roman legions had swept the world and the last of the Egyptian Ptolemies had fallen to Roman rule. During this insurgence, a very large part of the Great Library was destroyed by fire. Initially, Rome was tolerant of Egyptian ways. In fact, the worship of Isis spread well into the Roman world with temples in Rome itself. As the early Roman Emperors became converted to Christianity, this level of tolerance dropped off. 

For several centuries, a peyote cult existed among the Aztecs in Mexico, which later spread to many Native North American tribes. By 1880, a religion that combined Christian beliefs with the Native American use of the peyote cactus had developed in southwestern United States, primarily among Native Americans. The followers of this religion believe that the cactus is divinely endowed to shape each person s hfe. Currently, the only people in the United States who are legally permitted to use peyote are members of the Native American Church—and then only in their rehgious rites. 

The 3D CFD computer code FLAGS (Flame Acceleration Simulator) developed at the Christian-Michelson Institute in Bergen, Norway, is able to handle complete chemical processing plants down to the level of piping. The code treats spreading and combustion of flammable gases and determines concentration distributions and the impact on structures from explosions. Its main application is the prediction of explosion effects in offshore geometries [118]. 

Mr. Allegro told the Sunday Mirror yesterday Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth. When the secrets of the cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folk tales. This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament. They are a literary device to spread the rites and rules of mushroom worship to the faithful. ... 

For a millenium, after the conversion of Constantine s mother, thinking in the western world was dominated by the spread of Christianity, orchestrated by the philosopher-saints, Augustinus and Thomas Aquinas. Their main concern was to align the Ptolemaic system, Aristotelian philosophy and the practice of astrology with their holy scriptures. 

As the empire weakened, the faster was the progress of this Christian religion. The degeneracy of the ancient conquerors of the world spread... 

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