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Human Bodies Emit Visible Light

That’s right.  Our bodies actually emit a minuscule amount of real light.  This is not just radiation or infrared body heat, but actual photons are released from the surface of the skin: Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are [...]

The Fall of Adam and Eve in the Armenian Aprocrypha

The account of the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Bible is relatively succinct, particularly in the vocal exchanges between the serpent, Eve, and Adam (bolded below).  What details we know of the Fall come primarily from chapter 3 of Genesis: 1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field [...]

Enoch’s Anointing & Investiture during Ascension in 2 Enoch

While there is undoubtedly an abundance of temple allusions in the whole of Enoch apocryphal literature, I came across a good example today. I will certainly add more as I learn about them. This example is from 2 Enoch. This apocrypha text is a pseudepigraphon, meaning its authorship is unknown, but is considered part of [...]

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in [...]

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