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The Eleusinian Mysteries The thread running through religious systems is how to deal with living and dying in the world. This is their “raison d'être”. Without the centrality of life's relationship to death and the sense of an afterlife in some form, religions would have no basis for their existence...

The significance of visions, phantasies, dreams is not in their face value but in their hidden meaning. It is their latent content that has to be understood not their surface appearance. As I mentioned in my previous letter we must correctly interpret what is happening between the brain and the mind...

MrMacSon posed the question. What does the Eleusinian Mysteries have to do with Christianity? Yes it does seem a stretch but the connections are there if you dig and look for them. As Greek culture heavily influenced the Roman Republic, it had a corresponding effect on the development of Jewish thou...

.. the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after th...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

The Roman-Jewish Wars between 66 and136AD were a catastrophe for the Jewish people, and in terms of religious significance I see the sack of Jerusalem and in particular the destruction of the Temple in 70AD as the watershed between the beginning of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The possibility ...