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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, Afterlife, Bacchic, coronation, Crown, Doctrine and Covenants, Greek Mythology, High Priest, Initiation, King, LDS, Moses, Mother Goddess, mystery religions, Netherworld, Orphic Gold Tablets, Orphic Mystery Religion, rituals, Temple, Underworld Comments closed
Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods
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 [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, Priesthood, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, exaltation, Heaven, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, hierarchy of gods, James Davila, Joseph Smith, liturgical works, Melchizedek, Millenial Star, Orson Hyde, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Comments closed
Moses, Enoch, and the Heavenly Ascent
Insights from Andrei Orlov’s “IN THE MIRROR OF THE DIVINE FACE:THE ENOCHIC FEATURES OF THE EXAGOGE OF EZEKIEL THE TRAGEDIAN” For Latter-day Saints, there is often a certain connection made in our minds between the prophets Moses and Enoch due to the inclusion of the story of Enoch in The Pearl of Great Price’s Book of [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, Scripture Also tagged Andrei Orlov, Book of Moses, Deification, Enochic literature, Exagoge, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Moses, Pearl of Great Price Comments closed
How Many Judaisms?
Often when we think of Judaism, with think of this ancient monolithic system that has never changed much. Many assume that the Judaism of today is the same as the Judaism of ancient Rabbis, which is the same Judaism as is presented in the New Testament and, likewise, the Old. Nothing could be further from [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Boccaccini, Enochic Judaism, Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Sapiential Judaism, Second Temple, Wisdom Comments closed
Joseph Smith and the Genealogy of Melchizedek
Joseph Smith was a very bold individual. He made all kinds of daring religious claims and published many of them in writing for all to judge their legitimacy. In 1830, he published a book (The Book of Mormon) of nearly 600 pages of what he claimed to be additional Holy Scripture written by ancient prophets of God. Today, [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Priesthood, Scripture Also tagged Abraham, Adam, Genealogy, Joseph Smith, Melchizedek, Noah, Priesthood Comments closed
New Materials to Explore
Great Book on Deification I recently received an e-mail from my Church Educational System (CES) supervisor, Thomas F. Olmstead–I will soon be starting my second year as a volunteer early-morning seminary teacher–who informed me of a great book that deals with the doctrine of deification as it was passed on in the Greek Orthodox tradition. I [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, LDS Interest, Religious Scholars Also tagged Alexandria, Andrei Orlov, Apocalypse of Abraham, Byzantine, CES, Deification, Dionysius, Face, Greek Orthodox, Marquette, Maximus, Origen, Thomas Olmstead Comments closed
Introduction from Dr. Andrei Orlov’s “Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha”