RG ST 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cedar Forest, Enkidu, Ashurbanipal
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Adam (1) implies predestination (2) sura 7: we have predestined for hell many jinns and many men : betweens, barzakh: islam, purgatory: catholicism, world of the father: hinduism, world of the hungry ghosts: buddhism, bardo: tibetan buddhism. Christian religions) (a) burial with tablets describing entrance to hades and preparation for soul"s journey (b) tablet of petelia. Also found in mithraism (4) historical aristaeus had similar powers (ii) (a) taught mysteries that orpheus created: dionysian (indulge in senses) vs. orphic (deny senses) Mysteries (1) dionysian orgeia (orgy) v. orphic katharsis (purification) (2) eroticism v. asceticism (3) ecstatic explosion of consciousness v. enstatic implosion of consciousness (4) instinctive i. d. Zeus"s thunderbolt stops the titans before they can eat the heart. Ashes of titans + dionysius"s heart + earth = human race (2) orphic myth and practice (a) anthropogony myth is basis for: If mind gets distracted or has memories of past lives, they can"t be enlightened.
