75 Robert M. Baum, “The traditional Religions of the Americas and Africa,” in Arlene Swidler, ed., Homosexuality and World Religions 1-46, which offers a systematic and well-documented discussion of this phenomenon plus a very helpful specialized bibliography. 47 Joscelyn Godwin, Mystery Religions in the Ancient World (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981), dismisses these galli as “fanatics,” “a parody of continence,” failing to notice each the widespread character of this phenomenon and its deep theological pagan significance, which the Gnostic Naasenes and Julian the Apostate had no difficulty seeing-see below. The new, iconic Jesus for many Roman Catholics seems to be an ambiguous male whose deep essence derives from a robust girl of pagan spirituality. Spiritual Alchemy” 160-161, additionally connects the notion of androgyny with alchemical spirituality. She says: “If we consider the Stone as the fruit of two elements extracted from out of the chaos of the beginning of the work, which subsequently underwent processes that resulted of their turning into complete again, that is definitely one clarification for the meaning of the ‘Child of the Work,’ because it appears under the picture of Hermetic Androgyne and the rubric ‘Two-in- One’.
The 2 vessels are again Sol and Luna.” Voss, “Spiritual Alchemy” 174, sees a connection between this observation and the statement of Mircea Eliade in his study of tantric texts: “The Sun and the Moon must be made one . Within the 1780s there have been additionally “Sandemanian” Christians (one famous member being the scientist, Joseph Priestly) who “cast lots” to find out Godʼs will. There must have been more than one intruder, and that they had overwhelmed him. In three centuries (1450 to 1750) more than 100,000 persons, the overwhelming majority of them being ladies, have been tried for the crime of witchcraft, and more than half have been executed. The second half of the 20th century noticed national governments’ uptake of neo-Malthusian ideology that instantly linked population growth to increased (and uncontrollable) poverty, which through the embrace of capitalism, meant that countries were unable to economically develop due to this poverty. If anyone knows of circumstances in the twentieth century by which churches have “cast lots” to find out future church places; church directors; how greatest to distribute church funds; or determine the salaries of mega-church preachers, please let me know! However, nearly all of Christians continue to believe that God already knows the long run and so they explain away the above verses as mere “metaphors” of how God “appears” to act from our point of view.
Evangelical Christians of the “Open Theism” school of theology level to the above depictions of God “repenting,” and argue that God does “change his mind” in response to the arguments or actions of human beings. 96 Ibid. Some fashionable, apparently innocuous, arguments for the ordination of girls come perilously close to this type of gnostic reasoning, when it is argued, for example, that the headship of the husband over the spouse is just not carried over into church life, in order that in the church a spouse might be the pastor of her husband. By 1900, over 100 applications at these schools offered training for Black professionals, including teachers. The measure was opposed by councilmembers Corky Boozé and Nat Bates, who acknowledged that he knew “many obese people which are completely healthy” and that it was “elitist” and “targeted black” people respectively. People were chosen to receive particular favors by “lot” (Lev. 10:20-23; 14:41-42; Judges 20:9) Also chosen by “lot” had been “governors” for every “ward,” and for the house of God. Hebrew kings have been chosen and tactical decisions in battle have been decided by “lot.” (1 Sam. 27:21), and the Hebrew tribe of priests, the Levites (Deut.
