From the blog of Pinny Arnon at The Times of Israel ...
As we saw in the previous installment of this series, eighth-century Japan finally succeeded in importing the three elements (Buddhist images, the “Dharma,” or law, and the “sangha,” or community of ...
From the ninth century CE, two esoteric schools (Shingon and Tendai) took on a dominant role in Japanese Buddhism and laid down the foundations for almost all subsequent developments in the centuries ...
The popular notion of Kabbalah – the Kabbalah of red strings, holy water, and incantations – has attracted a following in recent years among Hollywood celebrities and others. This type of “Kabbalah” ...
The dreary official chronicles of conventional 20 th-century art history have completely ignored the memory of Augustus Knapp, who reached an audience of millions and captured their hungry ...
Therefore all the creatures of the world tremble with fear of them. But when the people transgress against the commandments ...
The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men—there was no inner circle of “initiates” with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The ...
In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate, and the wonderful facts which he relates, soon changed ...
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