Linga or Lingam (Sanskrit). A sign or a symbol of abstract creation. Force becomes the organ of procreation only on this earth. In India there are 12 great Lingams of Siva, some of which are on mountains and rocks, and also in temples.

Such is the Kedaresa in the Himalaya, a huge and shapeless mass of rock. In its origin the Lingam had never the gross meaning connected with the phallus, an idea which is altogether of a later date. The symbol in India has the same meaning which it had in Egypt, which is simply that the creative or procreative Force is divine. It also denotes who was the dual Creator - male and female, Siva and his Sakti.

The gross and immodest idea connected with the phallus is not Indian but Greek and pre-eminently Jewish. The Biblical Bethels were real priapic stones, the " Beth-el" (phallus) wherein God dwells. The same symbol was concealed within the ark of the Covenant, the "Holy of Holies". Therefore the "Lingam" even as a phallus is not "a symbol of Siva" only, but that of every "Creator" or creative god in every nation, including the Israelites and their "God of Abraham and Jacob".

(See also: Linga, Lingam, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

The Nazis adopted this Celtic symbol specifically as the insignia for a Waffen SS division composed of ("Celtic") Belgian volunteers. That has led to an association with the swastika. It is claimed, possibly apocryphally, that the similarity to the swastika caused confusion or distress amongst some Jewish refugees interned on the Isle of Man during World War 2. A group of racist South African Whites, the AWB, have used a flag consisting of a red background with a white circle. In the circle, three black sevens form a design distantly ...

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Triskelion, Triskelion - Origins, Triskelion - Sicilian triskelion, Triskelion - Manx triskelion, Triskelion - Spirally triskele, Triskelion - Nazis and racist groups, Triskelion - Other uses

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Urim (Hebrew, Jewish). See" Thummim". The" Urim and Thummim "originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. Thme (plural Thmin) means " Truth" in Hebrew. "

The Septuagint translates thummim, as Truth " (Bonwick). The late Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, shows the Jewish idea "derived directly from the Egyptians". But Philo Judeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were "the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate ", and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation.

(See also: Urim, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Within Judaism, the Biblical Judah (in Hebrew: Yehuda) is the original name of the Tribe of Judah - traditionally symbolized by a lion. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob refers to his son Judah as a Gur Aryeh גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה , a "Young Lion" (Genesis 49:9) when blessing him [1]. In Jewish naming tradition the Hebrew name and the substitute name are often combined as a pair, as in this case. As a result of the lion's link to the tribe of Judah, the dominant tribe among the ancient Israelites and t ...

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Lion of Judah, Lion of Judah - Lion of Judah and Judaism, Lion of Judah - Lion of Judah in Christianity, Lion of Judah - Lion of Judah in Ethiopia, Lion of Judah - Lion of Judah in Rastafari

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Dome of the Rock

An octagonal domed shrine built by the Umayyad Muslim Caliph Abd al-Malik in 691 on the sacred place in Jerusalem known as the Haram al-Sharif. Enshrined beneath the dome is an outcropping of the bedrock atop the Jewish Temple Mount.

The shrine was built to symbolize the commonality yet dominion of Islam over the two other monotheistic religions that regard Jerusalem as a sacred city. For Muslims, the rock under the dome marks the from which the Prophet Mohammed ascended into the Seven Heavens (Qur'an 17:1).

(See also: Dome of the Rock, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Yod (Hebrew, Jewish). The tenth letter of the alphabet, the first in the four fold symbol of the compound name Jah-hovah (Jehovah) or Jah-Eve, the hermaphrodite force and existence in nature.

Without the later vowels, the word Jehovah is written IHVH (the letter Yod standing for all the three English letters y, i, or j, as the case may require), and is male-female. The letter Yod is the symbol of the lingham, or male organ, in its natural triple form, as the Kabalah shows.

The second letter He, has for its symbol the yoni, the womb or " window-opening" as the Kabalah has it ; the symbol of the third letter, the Vau, is a crook or a nail (the bishop’s crook having its origin in this), another male letter, and the fourth is the same as the second - the whole meaning to be or to exist under one of these forms or both.

Thus the word or name is pre-eminently phallic, it is that of the fighting god of the Jews, " Lord of Hosts" ; of the "aggressive Yod" or Zodh, Cain (by permutation), who slew his female brother, Abel, and spilt his (her) blood. This name, selected out of many by the early Christian writers, was an unfortunate one for their religion on account of its associations and original significance ; it is a number at best, an organ in reality. This letter Yod has passed into God and Gott.

(See also: Yod, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

In Jewish tradition, the Amalekites came to represent the archetypal enemy of the Jews. For example, Haman, from the Book of Esther, is called the Agagite, which is interpreted as being a descendant of the Amalekite king Agag. The term has been used metaphorically to refer to enemies of Judaism throughout history, including the Nazis, and controversially, by some to refer to the Arabs. Amalek - Rejection of God. The concept has long been used by rabbis (particularly the Baal Shem Tov) to represent t ...

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Amalek, Amalek - Amalekites, Amalek - Allies of the Amalekites, Amalek - Genocide of the Amalekites, Amalek - Symbolism of the Amalekites, Amalek - Rejection of God, Amalek - Kings of the Amalekites, Amalek - Listing of Amalek/Amalekite references in the Old Testament

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CABALA/KABBALA/QUABALA - 1. Hebrew magickal system. (TRASB)

2. spelling usually employed when discussing the spread of Kabbalistic teaching and symbols into Christian circles during the Renaissance. (NAD)

3. KABBALA - traditional Jewish mysticism; chain of inter transmission of the secrets of esotercism (Hebrew)

Soul aspect:

• yehida.....archetype
• hayah.....divine emanation
• neshamah.....thought, principles
• rv’ah.....spirit
• nefesh.....species, animal soul.

(See also: CABALA, KABBALA, QUABALA, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

According to occult the shape of the Tree of Life has correlation to 22 Tarot parts too. It has cinnarot from Hod and Netzah to Malkuth. While its cinnarot order differs from Jewish Kabbalah. The Sephirothic Tree is sometimes depicted as being a human body and, as such, is thought to symbolize the first "Heavenly" Man: Adam Kadmon who is identified by Manly Hall as the Idea of the Universe. Each of the Sephirah, as seen within the formation of the Sephiroth, correspond ...

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Sephirot Kabbalah, Sephirot Kabbalah - Paths and Sephiroth, Sephirot Kabbalah - Names, Sephirot Kabbalah - The Pillars, Sephirot Kabbalah - Non-traditional interpretations, Sephirot Kabbalah - In the occult, Sephirot Kabbalah - Numerology, Sephirot Kabbalah - Rabbinic Significance, Sephirot Kabbalah - Pop culture

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Tomar attracts many tourists, because of its varied monuments, such as the Convent of Christ, a Unesco World Heritage Site, built as headquarters of the Knights Templar order. Other monuments in the city are the Jewish synagogue, the oldest in the country and the castle. Other places to visit are the garden of Mouchão and the Forest of Sete Montes. In the outskirts of the city you can also visit the Aqueduct of Pegões. The still standing Church of Santa Maria do Olival was built as Mother Church to all the new churches in the Azores, Madeira, Africa, Brazil, India and East Asia. It bears the templar symbols in its ...

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Tomar, Tomar - Geography, Tomar - Economy, Tomar - History, Tomar - Attractions, Tomar - Politics, Tomar - Holidays, Tomar - Parishes

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In January 1995, as officially Gianfranco Fini proclaimed MSI's dissolution, and the foundation of the AN, he announced the abandonment MSI's ideological stances, symbols, gestures and salutes that had closely identified it with the Mussolinian past. Despite Fini's success in distancing the party's image from the former MSI, including the suppression of anti-Jewish comments in public and the party organ "Il Secolo d'Italia", there remain contradictions with ...

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National Alliance Italy, National Alliance Italy - Political program, National Alliance Italy - History, National Alliance Italy - Government participation, National Alliance Italy - Electoral Results, National Alliance Italy - July 2005 purge

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Since Covenant Theology today is mainly Protestant and Reformed in its outlook, proponents view Baptism and The Lord's Supper as the only two sacraments, and both subjects are related to the idea of supersessionism. Covenant Theology - The Lord's Supper. The Lord's supper instituted by Jesus was a replacement for the Jewish Passover festival. As such, it should be celebrated in much the same way - as a symbolic participation in God's act of salvation. In the Old Testament the Jews celebrated God's rescue f ...

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Covenant Theology, Covenant Theology - History of Covenant Theology, Covenant Theology - Covenant Theology and the biblical covenants, Covenant Theology - Covenant Theology and the sacraments, Covenant Theology - The Lord's Supper, Covenant Theology - Baptism, Covenant Theology - Historical documents relating to Covenant Theology, Covenant Theology - Critics of Covenant Theology

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In 36 BC the Tenth legion fought under Octavian against Sextus Pompeius in the battle of Naulochus, where it earned its cognomen Fretensis. The name refers to the fact that the battle took place near sea straits of Messina (Fretum Siculum). In 31 BC it fought in the Battle of Actium. Although Actium was a battle at sea, the legion was able to board enemy ships that had been hooked close by means of an iron grapnel. Its key participation in this battle is probably the reason that the legion also used a trireme as one of its symbols. Actium marked the end of the civil war and the rise to power of Octavian, ...

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Legio X Fretensis, Legio X Fretensis - History, Legio X Fretensis - First Jewish War, Legio X Fretensis - Archeology

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In the early 1980s, the International Herald Tribune ran a full-page advertisement for war-era commemorative photo featuring Christian X on horseback with a Jewish Star of David on his sleeve. The image echoed a popular tale which claimed that the king wore the symbol as sign of support for and solidarity with Danish Jews suffering from Nazi persecution during the occupation. (The story had become well-known partially through its retelling in Leon Uris's 1958 novel about the founding of Israel, Exodus.) This attribution of support is apocryphal, however, ...

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Christian X of Denmark, Christian X of Denmark - Easter Crisis of 1920, Christian X of Denmark - Reign During World War II, Christian X of Denmark - Anecdotes and Trivia, Christian X of Denmark - Death

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Ezekiel is a prophet who was instructed to act his prophesies. He was a prophet who loved drama and songwriting unlike the other prophets. He would sometimes do unbelievable things such as taking a potter's flask and smashing it to symbolize that Jerusalem will be destroyed and the people in Jerusalem will be scattered to the winds. The elders of the exiles repeatedly visited him to obtain a divine oracle (chapters 8, 14, 20). He exerted no permanent influence upon his contemporaries, however, whom he repeatedly calls the "rebellious ...

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Ezekiel, Ezekiel - Introduction, Ezekiel - His mission, Ezekiel - Ezekiel's personality, Ezekiel - Ezekiel in Jewish literature, Ezekiel - Resurrection of the dead, Ezekiel - Ezekiel the Tragedian, Ezekiel - Ezekiel and Other Faiths

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Jachin (Hebrew, Jewish). "In Hebrew letters IKIN, from the root KUN "to establish", and the symbolical name of one of the Pillars at the porch of King Solomon’s Temple"

The other pillar was called Boaz, and the two were respectively white and black. They correspond to several mystic ideas, one of which is that they represent the dual Manas or the higher and the lower Ego; another connected these two pillars in Slavonian mysticism with God and the Devil,to the"WHITE" and the "BLACK G0D" or Byeloy Bog and Tchernoy Bog. (See "Yakin and Boaz" infra).

(See also: Jachin, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

According to occult the shape of the Tree of Life has correlation to 22 Tarot parts too. It has cinnarot from Hod and Netzah to Malkuth. While its cinnarot order differs from Jewish Kabbalah. The Sephirothic Tree is sometimes depicted as being a human body and, as such, is thought to symbolize the first "Heavenly" Man: Adam Kadmon who is identified by Manly Hall as the Idea of the Universe. Each of the Sephirah, as seen within the formation of the Sephiroth, correspond ...

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Sephirot Kabbalah, Sephirot Kabbalah - Paths and Sephiroth, Sephirot Kabbalah - Names, Sephirot Kabbalah - The Pillars, Sephirot Kabbalah - Non-traditional interpretations, Sephirot Kabbalah - In the occult, Sephirot Kabbalah - Numerology, Sephirot Kabbalah - Rabbinic Significance, Sephirot Kabbalah - Pop culture, Sephirot Kabbalah - Notes

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Christos (Greek) Anointed; applied in the Greek Mysteries to a candidate who had passed the last degree and become a full initiate. Also the immanent individual god in a person, equivalent in some respects to Dionysos, Krishna, etc.

The Hebrew word for anointed (mashiah) is generally written in English as Messiah. What we know as Christianity is a syncretism of borrowings from Neoplatonism, neo-Pythogoreanism, Greek Gnosticism, and Hebrew religion. Christos was commonly used in the Greek translation of the Bible as a title of the Jewish Kings, those who had been anointed for reigning -- a symbolic rite taken originally from the Mysteries. St. Paul's use of the word shows that he understood its true mystical meaning, but spoke with precaution in his public epistles or writings.

The first two letters of the Greek word, , superimposed in a monogram, were on the military standard of the later Christian emperors of Rome, probably dating from Constantine, and have a significance as geometrical symbols besides.

See also CHRESTOS

(See also: Christos, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Historically, circumcision was argued for on religious or traditional grounds. Philo Judaeus in the 1st Century defended Jewish circumcision on several grounds, including health, cleanliness, fertility and as a symbol of "the excision of all superfluous and excessive pleasure" [3]. However, over the past century, medical advocacy has taken prominence. The prophylactic benefits claimed for non-therapeutic male circumcision continue to be disputed by advocates and opponents (see Medical analysis of circumcision). Some advocates of non-therapeutic circumcision have also stated a pr ...

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Circumcision advocacy, Circumcision advocacy - History, Circumcision advocacy - Prominent circumcision advocates in English-speaking countries, Circumcision advocacy - Prevalence of advocacy efforts, Circumcision advocacy - Advocacy in U.S. Hospitals, Circumcision advocacy - Legal and economic aspects, Circumcision advocacy - Have advocacy efforts affected circumcision practices?

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Paedobaptist Covenant Theologians see the administration of all the biblical covenants, including the New Covenant, as including a principle of familial, corporate inclusion or "generational succession." The biblical covenants between God and man include signs and seals that visibly represent the realities behind the covenants. These visible signs and symbols of God's covenant redemption are administered in a corporate manner (for instance ...

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Baptism, Baptism - Background in Jewish ritual, Baptism - Explanation, Baptism - Ecumenical statement, Baptism - Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox Lutheran Anglican and Methodist baptism, Baptism - Baptism and salvation, Baptism - Conditions of the validity of a baptism, Baptism - Baptism by other denominations, Baptism - Who may administer a baptism, Baptism - Baptist and other Protestant baptism, Baptism - Reformed and Covenant Theology view, Baptism - Latter Day Saint baptism, Baptism - Baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Baptism - Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptism - Baptism in Churches of Christ, Baptism - Other baptisms, Baptism - Non-christian religions, Baptism - Non-religious baptism, Baptism - Related articles and subjects, Baptism - People and ritual objects, Baptism - Resources

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Paedobaptist Covenant Theologians see the administration of all the biblical covenants, including the New Covenant, as including a principle of familial, corporate inclusion or "generational succession." The biblical covenants between God and man include signs and seals that visibly represent the realities behind the covenants. These visible signs and symbols of God's covenant redemption are administered in a corporate manner (for instance, to households), not in an exclusively individualistic manner. Baptism is consi ...

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Baptism, Baptism - Background in Jewish ritual, Baptism - Explanation, Baptism - Ecumenical statement, Baptism - Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox Lutheran Anglican and Methodist baptism, Baptism - Baptism and salvation, Baptism - Conditions of the validity of a baptism, Baptism - Baptism by other denominations, Baptism - Who may administer a baptism, Baptism - Baptist and other Protestant baptism, Baptism - Reformed and Covenant Theology view, Baptism - Latter Day Saint baptism, Baptism - Baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Baptism - Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptism - Baptism in Churches of Christ, Baptism - Other baptisms, Baptism - Non-Christian religions, Baptism - Methaphorical Baptisms, Baptism - Related articles and subjects, Baptism - People and ritual objects, Baptism - Resources

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A Christian theological definition of Ark of the Covenant according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Ark of the Covenant

See also: Ark of the Covenant, Christianity, Body Mind and Soul)