A typical censer is a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense, often on small legs. In many cultures, burning incense has spiritual and religious connotations, and this influences the design and decoration of the censer. Designs vary from simple, earthenware bowls to intricately carved silver or gold vessels. In the Roman Catholic church a censer is often called a thurible, and used during important offices (benedictions, processions, important masses). A common design for a thurible is a metal container, about the s ...

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Censer: An incense burner. Traditionally, a censer is a metal container, filled with incense, that is swung on the end of a chain.

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CENSER: An incense burner.

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In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtecuhtli (also Huehueteotl, "old god") was the personification of life after death, warmth in cold, light in darkness and food during famine. He was usually depicted with a red or yellow face and a censer on his head. His wife was Chalchiuhtlicue. At the end of the Aztec century (52 years), the gods were thought to be able to end their covenant with humanity. Feasts were held in honor of Xiuhtecuhtli to keep his favors, and human sacrifices were burned after removing their heart.

A thurible is a metal censer suspended from chains, in which incense is burned during church services. It is used in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglo-Catholic, Old Catholic and other churches. In Catholic and Anglican churches, the altar server who carries the thurible is called the thurifer. The workings of a thurible are quite simple. Heated charcoal is inside the actual metal censer. Incense, sometimes of many different varieties is placed upon the charcoal by the priest. This may be done several times duri ...

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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Abihu - father of Him; i.e., "worshipper of God", the second of the sons of Aaron (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2; 26:60; 1 Chr. 6:3). Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest's office (Ex. 28:1). With his father and elder brother he accompanied the seventy elders part of the way up the mount with Moses (Ex. 24:1,9). On one occasion he and Nadab his brother offered incense in their censers filled with "s

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The Most Holy Place also known as the Holiest of Holies, or Holy of Holies, in Hebrew: Qodesh HaQodashim (Biblical: קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים Qṓḏeš HaqQŏḏāšîm), is a location within the inner Tabernacle in the time of Moses. In the Book of Exodus it is referred to as the most holy (Exodus 26:33), and the most holy place (Exodus 26:34) ...

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• Most Holy Place - Utilization
• Most Holy Place - Sanctuary
• Most Holy Place - Description
• Most Holy Place - Modern location
• Most Holy Place - In Jewish synagogues
• Most Holy Place - Mormon perspective

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Incense is a preparation of aromatic plant matter, often with the addition of essential oils extracted from plant or animal sources, intended to release fragrant smoke for religious, therapeutic, or aesthetic purposes as it smolders. In the past, Chinese and Japanese society used incense as a time keeping device in the form of incense clocks. Incense - Forms and use of incense. Incense is available in numerous forms and degree of processing. However incense can generally be separated into direct burning< ...

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• Incense - Forms and use of incense
• Incense - Direct burning
• Incense - Indirect burning
• Incense - Manufacturing
• Incense - Fragrant materials
• Incense - Combustible incense base
• Incense - Mixture properties
• Incense - Forming incense
• Incense - Religious and ethnic use of incense
• Incense - Biblical use
• Incense - Christianity
• Incense - Buddhism Shinto and Japan
• Incense - Paganism
• Incense - Criticism of incense
• Incense - Health risk
• Incense - Strong smell
• Incense - Flammability

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The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew ba-midbar במדבר, i.e., "in the desert." In the Septuagint version it is called Arithmoi ("Numbers"), and this name is now the usual title of the book. It is so called because it contains a record of the numbering of the people in the wilderness of Sinai (1-4), and of their numbering afterwards on the plain of Moab (26). This book is of special historical interest as furnishing us with details as to the route of the Israelit ...

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• Book of Numbers - Summary
• Book of Numbers - Chapter 1
• Book of Numbers - Chapter 2
• Book of Numbers - Chapter 3
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 4-6
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 7-9
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 10-12
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 13-14
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 15-17
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 18-19
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 20-21
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 22-24
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 25-27
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 28-29
• Book of Numbers - Chapters 30-32
• Book of Numbers - Chapter 33-36

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Aaron (אַהֲרֹן, a word meaning "bearer of martyrs" in Hebrew (perhaps also, or instead, related to the Egyptian "Aha Rw," "Warrior Lion"), Standard Hebrew Aharon, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAhărōn), was one of two brothers who play a unique part in the history of the Hebrew people. He was the elder son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi; Moses, the other son, being three years younger, and Miriam, their sister, several years older (Exodus 2:4; Exodus 6:16 ff.; Numbers 33:39). Aaron was the great-grandson o ...

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• Aaron - Becomes priest of Israel
• Aaron - Rebellion of Korah
• Aaron - Death
• Aaron - Typical signification in apocryphal and rabbinical literature
• Aaron - Moses and Aaron compared
• Aaron - Death of Aaron
• Aaron - Genetics
• Aaron - According to the documentary hypothesis
• Aaron - In the Qur’an

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Censor was the name of two magistrates of high rank in the Roman Republic. Their office was called censura. From early in the Republic, they were responsible for maintaining the census, which was a register of Roman citizens and of their property, and to supervise publice morality and certain aspects of finance. Censor - Creation of the rank. The census was first established by Servius Tullius, the fifth king of Rome. After the expulsion of the kings it was taken by the consuls until 443 BC. I ...

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• Censor - Creation of the rank
• Censor - Election
• Censor - Attributes
• Censor - Abolition
• Censor - Duties
• Censor - Census
• Censor - Regimen morum
• Censor - Administration of the finances of the state
• Censor - Lustrum

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Censer - An incense burner.

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CENSER - an item, usually of metal, used for burning incense.

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CENSER:

1) A heat-proof container in which incense is smoldered; an incense burner or any similar object.

2) Symbol of the element Air. see BRAZIER

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Censer

A container in which incense is smoldered or burned. It symbolises the element of air. Often a censer is used during ritual to "cense" an area, generally by moving the censer around the area and especially around the circle as a means of purification.

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CENSER: A heat-proof container in which incense is burned. It is associated with the element air.

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An incense burner or heatproof container for burning incense
and magickal offerings.

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Vrubel was born into a lawyer's family and graduated from the Law Faculty of St Petersburg University in 1880. Next year he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under direction of Pavel Tchistyakov. Even in his earliest works, he exhibited striking talent for drawing and highly idiosyncratic outlook. Although he still relished academic monumentality, he would later develop a penchant for fr ...

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BRAZIER: a thurible or incense burner. Usually ceramic or metal and often designed to be suspended or swung by a chain; usually ornate. The Brazier is often partly filled with sand so that incense sticks may be inserted or charcoal briquettes placed inside to burn. Catholics call this a Censer.

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CAULDRON - Three legged cooking vessel, considered by some traditions to be a one of the tools of the Witch. May be used as a vessel to prepare brews and potions, as well as a censer. Placed in circle or on an altar to represent the womb of the goddess.

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