Roman Catholics

Like other Lutheran Spirituals such as Arndt, Franckenherg speaks in Pauline terms of the old natural and carnal man, who must be put off and crucified. Antichrist is the Reason of the Old Blind Fleshly Birth. The theological arguments aimed against the Roman Catholics are based on reason and on individual interpretations of the Scriptures. Their exponents have to be awakened to the guidance of the spirit, the Mind of Christ and to Christ himself within you. ... 

Michelspacher s four mirrors in the Cabala (1615—16) may have originated in Dee s optical magic in the Propaedeumaia Aphoristica (1558). He employs these ideas in a polemical manner to defend Paracelsians against Roman Catholics and Lutherans. The essence of Michelspacher s political position is displayed in the fourth engraving of the Cabala,... 

The earliest recorded attempts at organ transplant date back thousands of years.1 More than a few apocryphal descriptions exist from ancient Egypt, China, India, and Rome documenting experimentation with transplantation. For example, an Indian text from the second century bc describes a procedure for nasal reconstruction surgery with the use of autografted skin. Also, Roman Catholic lore has saints Damian and Cosmas replacing the gangrenous leg of a man with the leg of a recently deceased man in the third century ad.1... 

In this article, we will examine the frontispiece of the manuscript of a hymn by the Spanish composer Cristobal Galan (c. 1620-1684), entitled Si del alma las alas veloces (Valladolid Cathedral ms. 40/8). It consists of three nested squares framing the title, and two ink-drawn symbols above and below the title. Examined together with the lyrics, these elements reveal a syncretism of hermetic, alchemical images and words in an orthodox Roman Catholic devotional piece... 

Vincent Rillieux freely acknowledged his family. Norbert was baptized by a Roman Catholic priest in St. Louis Cathedral, where blacks and whites knelt side by side to pray. The child s birth was registered in City Hall in a mixture of French and English as Norbert Rillieux, quadroon libre, natural son of Vincent Rillieux and Constance Vivant. The words, quadroon libre, stipulated that Norbert was a free African American with more white ancestry than black. 

Nowhere did he mention the touchy subjects of Freemasonry and alchemy. He portrayed himself as a devout Roman Catholic his mission had always been to manufacture medicines and elixirs that would reduce pain, heal the ill, and extend human life. Jeannes trump card, the diabolical seance, he persuasively dismissed as a harmless experiment in mesmerism, a piece of parlor play that had nothing whatsoever to do with diamonds. As for the mysterious sources of his wealth, he reported the truth, that bankers in Switzerland and Lyons had given him generous drafts in gratitude for his healing services. 

One interviewee had this to say about religion My childhood preference was Baptist. This preference was socially driven because most people whom I knew attended the Baptist church. However, I no longer consider that a preference. Another interviewee asserts I have been a member of almost every conceivable traditional religion. I have now decoupled from traditional religion. One interviewee identified himself as a non-practicing Roman Catholic, while another commented, I am a Protestant and that is about as much of a distinction as I make. Some interviewees were ambivalent about traditional religions. Another interviewee reported this transformation ... 

Though Paracelsus scorned religious authority, once describing Martin Luther and the Pope as two whores discussing chastity, he remained a Roman Catholic, if a somewhat unorthodox one. He supported the Church on the question of Christian unity and upheld much of Catholic dogma. He differed from the Church on several points, however. For example, he maintained that both heaven and... 

In order to create a big Navy, Henry VIII of England needed money which he got by confiscating the properties of Roman Catholic Churches and Monasteries. This money permitted him to create a Navy, which at the time of Henry s death (1547) amounted to 53 ships, all equipped with bronze cannons. With the... 

Names of nationalities, races, and religions African-American, Roman Catholic, French, Canadian... 

Incidentally, scientists who believe in God or a reality beyond nature are much more common than popular media stories lead one to believe— there is no reason to think that the figure of 90 percent of the general population that believes in God is much different for scientists. Ken Miller, whose argument from imperfection I analyzed in the last chapter, is like myself a Roman Catholic, and he makes the point in public talks that belief in evolution is quite compatible with his religious views. I agree with him that they are compatible.4 The compatibility or lack of compatibility, however, is irrelevant to the scientific question of whether Darwinian evolution of biochemical systems is true.)... 

Since 1970 the number of graduate chemistry departments with no women faculty has dropped to fewer than ten institutions. Some, especially private and Roman Catholic ones, have been helped in the last decade with grants from the Clare Booth Luce Foundation that was established in the mid-1980s. 

Mexican mushroom ceremonies are conducted by shamans, usually women, and are held for purposes of treating illness, solving problems, foreseeing the future in visions, and putting people in contact with the supernatural world. They take place at night, hy candlelight, and today are curious blends of shamanism and Roman Catholic ritual. 

Some Indians in Mexico have used peyote since before recorded history, making long pilgrimages to the desert to collect it, then eating it in elaborate ceremonies. When the Spanish conquered Mexico, the Roman Catholic Church tried to stamp out peyote use, calling it sinful and diabolic, but to no avail. In the late 1800s the use of peyote spread northward to Indians in the United States, who invented new rituals around it. As it moved north, peyote became even more popular Indians of the midwest-... 

Here Spinoza, like the Cartesians, can be seen as a victim of the intolerance of the hard-line Calvinists. The Voetians had to accept, because of the law, that dissenting churches had the freedom to practice their beliefs and that Roman Catholic services, as long as attendances were not too large, could still be held... 

Swammerdam also mentioned the Bible of Nature concerning his friend Steno, who converted to the Roman Catholic religion. He wrote to Thevenot I wish he [Steno] were stiU hke he was when he sought God in the Bible of Nature then he would not be so opiniated in his religion and he would love all men. ... 

During my first year at Emory, I went to a different place of worship almost every Sunday and read about different Protestant Sects, the Roman Catholic Church, the Muslim religion. Buddhism, and the religions of... 

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