Practical Christianity

Important truths relating to spiritual and practical Christianity selected from several eminent spiritual writers. With divers extracts from a treatise, intitled, The way to Christ, written by Jacob Behmen. Published by a gentleman retired from business. London Printed in the year M DCC LXIX, 1769. 134, 92, 120, 50p. 

Egyptians purportedly practiced distillation around 1000—2000 BC by heating wine and making a product called arden spidts. China and India are also said to have carried out distillation in the pre-Christian era. The Chinese reportedly made a distilled beverage from nee beer around 800 BC. The Arabs learned about distillation from the Egyptians and developed an apparatus in the form of a closed heated container that was called an alembic. 

In a manner comparable to Christian eschatology, alchemical literature insisted on its own purificatory rituals that involved the preliminary torture, death and dismemberment of the prima materia. The canonical Catholic depiction of Christ s sacrificed body was a primary source for sixteenth and seventeenth century illustrations of the tortured body in anatomical and alchemical publications. In eflfect, the practice of Paracelsian alchemical medicine and surgery had a sacramental connotation, since the physician acted on the human body in the same manner as God worked on the great universal Macrocosmic Body. In like manner, the Paracelsian physician introduced the universal panacea, a liquid form of the philosopher s stone, into the alchemical alembic that was the Microcosmic human body. This alchemical medicine was permeated with the starry virtues of the heavens and the grace of Christ s Spirit, redeeming the body and soul of the patient by granting him not only an extended life on earth, but even eternal salvation. 

The Secret Stream Collects All of Steiner s Discussions of Rosicrucianism, Which Answer Questions Such As Who Were the Rosicrucians What Is Alchemy What Is the Rosicrucian Path What Is the Difference Between Rosicrucianism and Mysticism And What Does It Mean for Today Topics Include the Tao and the Rose Cross The History and Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz The Nature of Rosicrucian Practice and Experience The Meaning of The Chymical Wedding and Goethe s Rosicrucian Poem "The Mysteries," the Text of Which Is Included. Rosicrucian Meditation Is Also Discussed, Including How to Meditate on the Rose Cross Itself. 

Godwin, Joscelyn, Christian Chanel and John Patrick Deveney, eds.The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor historical and initiatic documents of an order of practical occultism. Red WheelAVeiser, 2000 464p. 

Murray BE, Hodel-Christian SL Bacterial resistance Theoretical and practical considerations, mutations to antibiotic resistance, characterization of R plasmid, and detection of plasmid-specific genes in Lorian V (ed) Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine, ed 4. Baltimore, Williams Wilkins, 1996. 

This heretofore closely-guarded secret of esoteric practice—the exteriorization—is also one of the meanings of the Rosicrucian (Christian-Qabalah) pledge to perform all practical work in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world. This means that the alchemical procedure is undertaken within the inner bodies, as well, of course, as in those objective Temples of Ingathering in the Worlds Above. 

According to Rossiter (1982), young white male scientists were seen as the salvation of the scientific enterprise in the 1920s and 1930s. She asserts that white women, African Americans, and Jewish scientists seeking industrial jobs were the victims of highly discriminatory employment practices. Rossiter contends that even when the advertisement did not include the phrase male Christians only it was common knowledge that only they need apply. 

One notable characteristic of religious practice in the United States is the almost completely separate worship practices of African Americans and whites (Schaefer, 2000). According to Lincoln and Mamiya (1990), a black sacred cosmos emerged historically that cut across denominational lines. They posit that regardless of denomination a qualitatively different cultural form of Christian expressions is found in most black churches. Moreover, the authors contend that there has always been a small sector of unchurched black people - young African American males or maverick types determined to resist the powerful social control of black churches in the small rural towns and in urban areas. One interviewee cautiously stated ... 

Toxicological Risk Assessment of Chemicals a practical guide / Elsa Nielsen, Grete Ostergaard, and John Christian Larsen, p. cm. 

Hermetic philosophy became a major influence on all Western magical practices and mystical traditions. Neoplatonism, alchemy, Gnosticism, Kabalah, Sufism, mystical Christianity, and occultism are included in this influence. There are seven basic concepts that make up this view. 

In spite of the fact that magical practices were incorporated into Christian ritual and belief, early Christian theologians began to define magic as heretical and separate from religion. As the Catholic Church came to dominate Western culture in the Middle Ages, this view became the accepted norm. The practice of magic, however, did not stop. 

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