Tag Archives: Deification

A Short Note on Mystery Religions, Christianity and the Telestial World

By David Larsen | Published: March 31, 2009
In recent studies for school, I have had to look into the subject of the “mystery” cults that existed in many parts of the ancient world in the early Christian era. I just wanted to post a brief description of what these mystery religions entailed, as I found them very interesting and think some of [...]
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Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods

By David Larsen | Published: March 9, 2009
Lately, I have been looking into a very interesting topic in the Dead Sea Scrolls which concerns the idea that there are several levels of heaven and that each level has an appointed chief or guardian who rules over it.  This is actually a fairly common theme in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical literature [...]
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Levi’s Initiation into the Angelic Priesthood

By David Larsen | Published: October 7, 2008
10/07/08 This post will cover our class discussion of the Testament of Levi, an important apocalyptic document. I will not go into an overview of all that the document contains of theological interest–there is a vast number of details that could potentially be interesting to the LDS reader. For a great overview of the relevant [...]
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The Human Form on God’s Throne

By David Larsen | Published: October 1, 2008
  Michelangelo’s Depiction of Moses on a Throne The following post represents research I did for Dr. Orlov’s Apocalyptic Literature class in preparation for a presentation I did on themes from the text of an ancient drama known as Exagoge, written by Ezekiel the Tragedian. This text is only known by fragments of the original [...]
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When the Angels Worshipped Adam

By David Larsen | Published: September 26, 2008
September 26, 2008 Earlier on this week in Dr. Orlov’s class we had an absolute smorgasbord of a discussion.  The subject was the text often called The Life of Adam and Eve, known from the many manuscripts extant in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Slavonic, Coptic (fragments), Georgian, and Armenian. This document is an apocryphal [...]
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