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In this book 'Wellness by Festivals, Customs & Beliefs' Mr
Mohapatra has revealed various rituals and traditional beliefs with
interesting incidents of God worshipping and observations followed
by all communities living in India. India is the land of great
tolerance and every Indian is allowed to worship any religion
freely. There exists one Supreme Divine who is manifested in all
the Gods and all religions of men. He is real, omnipresent and
exists in nature as well as inside the human. Rituals are followed
for psychological and physiological health, longevity, prosperity
and wealth. This book shall impart knowledge about various customs
and rituals being observed by different communities in India.
Righteousness, religion, duty, reponsibility, virtue, justice,
goodness and truth are treated as Divine law. It is a way of life
and is called as Eternal Religion. In Indian philosophy it is
believed that every act or deed must necessarily be followed by its
consequences, which are not merely of a physical character, but
also mental and moral.
"In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed
but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all
things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy,
fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as
fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And
the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to
Existence. She was the Deep. . . ."
With this dramatic, poetic recasting of the Genesis myth, Barbara
Walker begins this highly original and fascinating work, which is
both an incisive critique of patriarchal religion and a bold
proposal to establish a liberating alternative to the
Judeo-Christian myth. She envisions a religion and a spirituality
compatible with women's essential role in society and free of all
the superstition and demeaning imagery characteristic of
traditional, male-dominated religion. In place of theology she
suggests "thealogy," replacing the academic study of the God
concept with a down-to-earth "knowledge of the goddess" - a
knowledge that incorporates the scientific understanding of the
universe and recognizes the symbolic nature of religious concepts
and the psychobiological foundations of religion. Rejecting the
transcendent deity of patriarchal religion, thealogy would revere
an immanent personification of the real universe, especially of the
sacred Earth, the only source of life we know.
Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at
the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this
primal religious sensibility, which celebrated the Earth's
fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life. Women are
already rediscovering this ancient form of spirituality, Walker
shows, and redefining modern religion to conform to woman's new
appreciation of their rights and the long history of male
dominance.
First published in 1919, The Equinox: Volume III, Number I, also
known as The Blue Equinox is essential reading for students of
Thelema. Within its pages are instructions for initiates, including
Aleister Crowley's own extensive reading lists divided into
courses. The book also details the history, principles and aims of
the secret society O.T.O. and its ally the A
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