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The Orphic Gold Tablets: “The Longed-For Crown”
I return now to my overview/commentary on Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets by Alberto Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal (Brill: 2008). If you missed my first few posts on this topic, you can see them here: First, Second, Third, and Fourth. One of the key features of the inscriptions found [...]
Posted in Scripture, Temple Also tagged Abraham, Bacchic, coronation, Crown, Doctrine and Covenants, Enoch, Greek Mythology, High Priest, Initiation, King, LDS, Moses, Mother Goddess, mystery religions, Netherworld, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, rituals, Temple, Underworld 3 Comments
The Orphic Gold Tablets: A “Ritual for the Dead”
In my last post on the Orphic Gold Tablets (“Arriving in the Afterlife and the Importance of Memory for Salvation”), I discussed the tablets’ instructions for the soul as it arrives in the Netherworld, and how the soul there encounters a scene very reminiscent of Lehi’s vision of the Tree of Life and its surroundings. [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, LDS Interest, Temple Also tagged Bacchus, Dionysus, Greek Mythology, Hades, Initiation, Initiatory, Initiatory rite, mystery cult, Netherworld, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, Persephone, rite, ritual, ritual for the dead, Underworld 4 Comments
The Orphic Gold Tablets: Arriving in the Afterlife and the Importance of Memory for Salvation
The writing of this post has been delayed a bit, but I’m excited to share more specific details about the Orphic Gold Tablets. Chapter One of Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets, by Bernabé and San Cristóbal is entitled “Arrival in the Subterranean World.” In this chapter, the authors concentrate on four of [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Scripture, Temple Also tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Greek Mythology, Initiation, Jesus Christ, Lethe, Memory, memory impairment, Mnemosyne, mystery cult, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, Tree of Life, Underworld 14 Comments
Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets
Introduction to the Orphic Gold Tablets As I have been promising for some time now, I would now like to introduce you to the Orphic Gold Tablets, a series of small gold tablets/plates that have been discovered in southern Europe buried with the dead and offering to the same instructions regarding what they should do [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, LDS Interest, Temple Also tagged gold plates, Netherworld, Orphic gold plates, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, soul's journey, Underworld 8 Comments
New Egyptian Tombs Discovery Contains Texts for Afterlife Journey