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Is the Temple Troubling?

July 11, 2008 – 5:45 am

Someone recently asked me the following: Perhaps you can explain how a person who finds the [temple experience] to be … troubling should express those feelings. This was my reply, with additional edits: 

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The Founding Fathers’ Temple Work

July 3, 2008 – 6:54 am

Since tomorrow is Independence Day, I thought I might say a word about our Founding Fathers.  We are deeply indebted to all the noble men and women who sacrificed their lives to establish this country of the United States of America some 232 years ago, and to make this country a free land.  Through their [...]

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Time and Eternity: An Egyptian Dualism

June 25, 2008 – 8:19 am

As I was researching for the posts on the ankh, I came across some information which was interesting, describing the Egyptian concept of “time” and “eternity.” These concepts almost seem repetitive and redundant to our modern way of thinking, but to the Egyptians each of these terms represented something concrete and distinct, and both were [...]

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The Egyptian Ankh, “Life! Health! Strength!” – Part 3

June 23, 2008 – 9:30 pm

(Continued from Part 2) The ankh symbol appears frequently with several other hieroglyphics in certain formulas and invocations that immediately call our attention.  These are wedja, seneb, djed, & was. This table summarizes the different possible explanations for these hieroglyphics that I have been able to find: 

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The Egyptian Ankh, “Life! Health! Strength!” – Part 2

June 22, 2008 – 10:56 am

(Continued from Part 1, which has been updated) As I mentioned in Part 1, the more interesting aspects of the Egyptian ankh are not necessarily what it means standing alone, but how the Egyptians used it in their texts and illustrations. There are three principal ways that the Egyptians used the ankh symbol, by itself, [...]

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