John the Baptist

I shall not know if you have pardoned me. lean only hope that you do. I go to my death in the hope of resurrection in the world to come. Almighty Jesu have you and yours in his safe keeping, most beloved sister, and God send you such health and happiness as the world can provide, knowing that it is but a grain of sand, by comparison to the joy of Heaven which by God s grace awaits us all. Written at Pontefract on the eve of the Nativity of John the Baptist and knowing the hour of my death. 

Pinkham, Mark Amaru. Guardians of the Holy Grail The Knights Templar, John the Baptist and the Water of Life. Adventures Unlimited, 2004. 341p. ISBN 1931882282 Includes "Alchemy the Mystery of the Black Madonna"... 

Crucifixion (unknown author) Church of St John the Baptist in Hlucfn 1540 1560 Rabbit glue [42]... 

The plant with the pretty yellow flowers was christened St. John s wort because it begins to bloom around June 24, the purported birthday of St. John the Baptist. Until a couple of years ago, Hypericum perforatum grew on our roadsides in virtual obscurity, but today preparations made from the plant jostle for our attention on the shelves of pharmacies and health food stores. Relieves insomnia, neuralgia and nervous tension, one label boldly declares, while another sedately promises to make you feel your best. Sounds intriguing. 

Joe Karabinos met Ann Kolbas at Easter, 1942, at St. John The Baptist Church in Akron. They were married in that church on September 7, 1942 they had four daughters and three sons. Ann s parents, Mary and John Kolbas (also of Slovak origin), now retired, still live in Akron. 

This chapter deals overall with psychotherapeutic medications for mental illnesses, but that does not mean alternative interventions do not exist. One example is the herb St. John s wort (sometimes spelled St. Johnswort). The word wort means plant, and this particular yellow-flowered plant carries the Latin name Hypericum perforatum. Also called goatweed, hypericum, and Klamath weed, St. John s wort grows wild in the western United States and throughout Europe. Its peak blooming period is late June, around the time of the traditional birthday of John the Baptist (June 24), thus the name of the plant. 

The chronicles of the county contain numerous references to the name Bourne. As early as 1315, a John de la Bourne was chaplain to the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Lichfield in 1548, John and William Bourne jointly held the lease of the prebend of Congreve in the collegiate church of Penkridge. In 1654, Richard Bourne was established in Cannock by the Church Commissioners to preach the gospel at a salary of 100 per annum. 

Hypericum is a perennial aromatic shrub with bright yellow flowers that bloom from June to September (Wincor and Gutierrez, 1997). The flowers are said to be at their brightest and most abundant around June 24th, the day traditionally believed to be the birthday of John the Baptist. The plant is native to Europe and can also be found in the United States and Canada. It grows in the dry ground of fields, roadsides, and woods. 

Two other groups of Sabians also lived in Mesopotamia. These were the Soba, or Syriac Semites of Northern Mesopotamia, and the Subbhas who moved from Harran to Southern Mesopotamia. The Sabians also include the Mandaeans that followed John the Baptist and the Nazarenes. ... 

The only other Salome is the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. Salome performed the dance of the seven veils, which is the lunar mystery of the seven days that the moon takes to remove her veils. In return for her dance of the Mysteries, Salome requested the head of John the Baptist. This is the sign of a sacrifice to a divinity. While this Salome is not mentioned by name in the biblical texts, Josephus does make mention of her. The Romans later exiled Herod Antipas to Vienne in France for his execution of John the Baptist. 

In Egypt, early Christians identified John the Baptist with the Chaldean God Oannes. They believed he appeared regularly in the Persian Gulf to renew the revelation to the faithful. 

Pan is the anthropomorphic or archetypal image of the evolution of the Spirit of Man. The waters of Pan are therefore an agent of evolution or regeneration. John the Baptist conducted his baptism rituals in the Jordan and even today people of some religions return there to immerse themselves in its waters for extraordinarily long periods, even to the point of almost drowning. 

The Italians have a saying that one should eat cherries only before St. John the Baptist s Day. Why ... 

Figure 2.15 Saint John the Baptist by da Vinci. (With permission. Drawn by Michael Sikes.)...

The dyestuff, which is also called scarlet or carmine, may be obtained from the dried female kermes scale-insects (various species, e.g. Kermes ver-milio and Kermococcus ilicis L.) by extraction with ethanol (Fig. 2.19). Ker-mesic acid serves as an ant repellent to these insects living on Kermes oaks Quercus coccifera) in the Mediterranean. [50] The Polish cochineal (Por-phyrophora polonica L.), which lives on the roots of a member of the carnation family (Perennial knawel, Scleranthusperennis), was first mentioned in 812 in Charlemagne s Capitulare. It was also known as Saint John s blood , because harvesting began by tradition on the feast-day of St John the Baptist (June 24) (Fig. 2.20). 

Locust bean gum has a stracture that is very similar to that of guar gum, but it has a different ratio of D-marmose and D-galactose (about 3.5 1). Traditional interpretation says that St. John the Baptist survived in the desert by eating locust... 

That was geological, but Blood Falls is biological. It shows that life in an extreme environment eats some pretty strange food—like John the Baptist eating locusts and honey in the wilderness—and outputs blood-red iron as waste. 

Adv.Haer. 1. 21.2. According to Irenaeus, Valentinians traced the first or psychic baptism to John the Baptist, who brought a water-baptism for the remission of sins, while the second or pneumatic baptism had been initiated by Christ who baptized with the holy spirit. For a detailed analysis of Valentinian dcitoXuxpcocTi , see Nicola Denzey Lewis, Apo-lutrosis as Ritual and Sacrament Determining a Ritual Context for Death in Second-century Valentinianism, / CS 17/4 (2009) 525-561. 

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