I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this book for many years. One Eternal Round is the 19th volume in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, and is his magnum opus, the volume of materials he worked on for a very long time until the end of his life. The book [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship
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Also tagged abraham, Achilles shield, alchemy, apocrypha, Aztec, books, BYU, Fibonacci, greek, hermeticism, history, hopi, hugh nibley, islam, Jewish, kabbalism, Mayan, mesopotamia, myth, Phi, ritual, traditions
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August 16, 2009 – 2:59 pm
I saw the movie The Bucket List last night, and it was very inspirational. I thought the following scene was particularly poignant and familiar. http://www.tubechop.com/watch/22170 Carter: You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven the gods asked them two questions. Their answers determined [...]
On Sunday I had the opportunity of going to the Daybreak Stake Center in South Jordan and listening to a wonderful fireside given by Dr. Daniel C. Peterson about the temple. I audio recorded the fireside, and have a digital copy. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a hold of Dr. Peterson to ask [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged ancients, anointing, ascension, cleansing, cosmology, creation, crown, daniel c. peterson, diagram, embrace, endowment, enoch, fair, fireside, gammadia, garments, gate, hands, jerusalem, markings, myth, osiris, paul, prayer, presence, priest, psalms, questions, rituals, robes, scholar, secret, tabernacle, throne, veil, washing, worthiness
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November 11, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Last Friday I was able to attend the symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” sponsored by The Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) and the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. It was an excellent symposium about the temple, with a wide range of topics related to the temple presented by students [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged apostasy, architecture, asian, BYU, early christian, imagery, incense, lecture, liturgy, matthew brown, near east, online, prayer circle, priesthood, rituals, SANE, scholar, symposium, tabernacle, video
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As someone recently quipped, “I’m so glad Nibley’s not letting a little thing like being dead slow down his publishing schedule!” Another volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series is being officially released on August 6, 2008 (it’s already available in Deseret Book stores). This volume will be the third volume published since [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged atonement, book, hugh nibley, interview, jews, joseph smith, literature, restoration, scholar, truman g. madsen, video
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