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The Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent Hunt Point-to-Point Races, Chiddingstone Hoath, Penshurst. 20 March 2016. Mens' Open Race.
1928 William Harris leads the first Western Australian all-Aboriginal deputation to the WA Premier, Philip Collier, in March 1928 - the first of its kind in WA. Back (L-R): Wilfred Morrison, Norman Cleaver Harris (William's nephew), Edward Jacobs, Algernon Kickett and William Bodney. Front (L-R): Edward Harris (William's brother) and William Harris.
The men asked for proper Aboriginal rights and to ask for a repeal to the Aborigines Act 1905 - a piece of legislation whose official description was of 'an act to make provision for the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia.' In reality, the Act granted a Chief Protector wide-reaching power as legal guardian of all Aboriginal children under 16 years whom he declared illegitimate. He could grant or deny permission for Aboriginal women to marry non-Aboriginal men and could manage the property of Aboriginal people without their consent. Freedom of movement in and around Perth was also restricted.
The West Australian seemed amazed at how 'articulate' and 'well-dressed' the deputation was, noting: "[The group was] neatly clad and looking slightly self-conscious in the clothes of white men. William Harris, a half-caste and the spokesman of the deputation, stated [their] case in perfect English and showed no small signs of erudition." The Mirror noted that the group were "well-spoken and in some cases well-educated and well-read men." The talks ended with Mr Harris asking for enacting of legislation likely to prevent the further 'decay of the Aboriginal people'. He noted that "the laws should be drafted by someone who knows something about the blackfellow."
William and his group asked the Premier to repeal the Act and give the same rights to Aboriginal people as whites. They also implored the Premier to close Mogumber Mission (Moore River Settlement) due to its inhumane conditions, and had harsh words for A.O. Neville (Chief Protector) and Daisy Bates as some of the 'worst enemies of the Aborigines'.
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Black Man's Burden
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Chief Protector Criticised
Neatly clad and looking slightly self-conscious in the clothes of white men, a deputation, comprising seven full-blooded Aborigines and half-castes — the first of its kind on record in this State — waited upon the Premier (Mr. P. Collier) yesterday, and ventilated a series of grievances.
The Chief Protector of Aborigines (Mr. A. O. Neville) and Mrs. Daisy Bates, were adversely criticised by the speakers. One of the deputationists, an educated half-caste, is a vigneron in the Swan district.
Equality With Whites
William Harris, a half-caste and the spokesman of the deputation, stated the deputation's case in perfect English and showed no small signs of erudition. The Aborigines Act, he said, had always operated to the detriment of the Aborigines and lately it had become unbearable. Educated natives were punished under the British law but otherwise they were treated like wild blackfellows. They should not be debarred from entering the capital city of their own country.
The Premier: Do you think it would be well for the natives if they were allowed to enter the city without restriction? I suggest that the association of natives with the whites has not been altogether beneficial to your people.
Mr Harris: That is due to the absurd regulations of the Act. The restrictions should not be enforced against educated Aborigines, who are paying taxes like the white men.
Continuing, Mr. Harris said that any man who read the Aborigines Act with an unbiassed mind knew it was dead against the natives. Why should the Aborigines be dumped into any place the Chief Protector might choose? There was much injustice in the provision that employers must secure a licence before employing Aborigines.
The Premier: If there were unrestricted employment of natives, it would encourage sweating by employers.
Mr Harris: Natives south of Carnarvon are quite capable of looking after themselves, although those in the Far North may not be. There were no reserves, he continued, where natives might live in their natural state. Although the reserves were set aside for natives, they were within the area of pastoral leases, and squatters drove the Aborigines away. The native reserve at Mogumber was a prison because men were forced to stay there against their will. What was to prevent the natives from living like other free citizens of the Commonwealth?
The Premier: There would be no objection if they were all like you and other members of the deputation, but your whole race could not be allowed to live freely under the same conditions as the whites.
The natives, Mr. Harris resumed, objected to the Chief Protector's transferring families and individuals from their natural districts to settlements like Mogumber, where they were forced to mingle with hostile natives from other tribes. They also objected to native police being placed in control at the settlement, as this led to undesirable practices.
Northern Cut-Throats.
"These cut-throats from the North," he continued, "have unlimited power. White men should be appointed, if police must be kept there."
Another member of the deputation interjected that at Mogumber women and children were forced to associate with gaolbirds from the North. Most of the black police were gaol-birds. "Policemen, white or black, are the terror of the natives," Mr. Harris said. "The natives run for their lives when they see a policeman."
The Premier: What do they do when they see a black policeman?
— They run twice as fast.
Aboriginals, said the speaker, had no time for the Chief Protector, and were afraid of him.
The Premier: Mr. Neville merely administers the laws; he is not responsible for them. I don't think a college education is any advantage to a Protector of Aborigines. A man with practical experience and an early association with natives, who understands their customs and habits, is required. The whole point lies in the administration of the law. Undoubtedly, your people have suffered through want of discretion. White people suffer similar disabilities through foolish administration of the law.
Mr. Harris: We want to live up to the white man's standard. It is no trouble to follow the white man's ideals, although there is room for improvement.
The Premier: Do you suggest that the Chief Protector should live among the natives so that he might be better able to understand their requirements?
Mr. Harris: That would be no good at all. The prohibition against carrying firearms, he continued, was another hardship, as it prevented natives in the North from providing for their needs.
The Premier: I don't think any native will touch a white man without provocation. In any report of the murder of a white man by a native, the white man seems to have been blameworthy.
"If a native State is provided nearly as many soldiers and police as there are Aborigines will be required to keep them there." Mr Harris said. "The department established to protect us, is cleaning us up. We were far better off under administration from England. Under the present Act, Mr. Neville owns us body and soul. There should be discrimination under the Act between full-blooded Aborigines and half-castes."
A member of the deputation: Natives living in the North should be subject to control different from that exercised over those in the south.
The Worst Enemies
Mr. Harris said that Mrs. Daisy Bates and Mr. Neville were the worst enemies of the Aborigines.
The Premier: I understood Mrs. Bates was the saviour of the natives.
Mr. Harris: She is doing it for publicity, so that people may call her a courageous woman for living amongst the blacks. If she did not encourage the natives to cadge at Ooldea, they would fend for themselves.
Concluding, he said that natives educated up to the standard of white men should be exempted from the Aborigines Act.
The Premier, in reply, said he was very glad to have met the deputation, whose members had presented their case in a concise and logical manner that would have done credit to any deputation he had received in his office. The problem was a great one. Whenever the white and the coloured races came into contact, social problems were always created. In Australia, more than in any other part of the world, the white man was under a great obligation to do justice to the aboriginal, because he had deprived him of his country. Aborigines were extinct in some parts and were rapidly disappearing in other parts of Australia. It would be one of the calamities of civilisation
if the aboriginal were to become extinct in Western Australia not only from a humanitarian, but from a scientific point of view.
Legislation on the part of the white races likely to prevent the decay of the Aborigines, should be enacted.
Mr. Harris: Then the laws should be drafted by someone who knows something about the blackfellow.
"I entirely sympathise with t
CN 7047 leads a south end pull down, while CN 7039 waits for instructions into the old BCR south yard. GP9RMs are still fairly common main yard units in the Canadian Nationals northern terminal of Prince George, BC.
sitting around waiting for jamezzzzz..got a little boring..can you tell? so started drawing on some bananas lol yay for silly art x3
leads 75W past a public park and through downtown Birdseye, IN on a beautiful evening.
It was built new for NS in 2012 and is one of 20 units on the roster painted in the colors of roads that NS has absorbed over the years.
PCA 177 - Recycled
Sunday October 2nd - Sunday October 16th 2011
Image tag: pca177
The focus of this assignment is the subject matter. In this age of thinking about the environment and being green, you are to capture an image that shows objects that have been recycled by being put to a use that it has not originally been intended.
You can deploy any techniques you wish to make your image stand out.
WIT
On a photo shoot for a family. They thought it hilarious that the younger dog would "lead" the older dog. Or at least hold onto it's leash. I shot this as they came running past me. SOOC (no crop, no post processing).
For the subject, "recycled," this is a dog being recycled to walk with a different leash holder!
A color guard of Virginia National Guard Soldiers in World War I uniforms leads the parade at the inauguration of Dr. Ralph Northam as the 73rd Governor of Virginia Jan. 13, 2018, in Richmond, Virginia. They commemorate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I observed in 2017. WWI marked the first time that volunteer state militia units were activated and deployed overseas for combat operations for federal duty under a formal Army structure. Read more at go.usa.gov/xndqq.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe 7565(ES44DC), 3849(ET44C4), 7150(ES44C4) and Progress Rail "PRLX" 214(SD75M) Leads a Westbound Manifest on the Olathe Connector from the Emporia Sub to Southbound Fort Scott Sub now near the 400 Block of East Dennis Avenue in Olathe, KS.
Train: H KCKMEM1 14
Video Link: youtu.be/3rj6a1KA86w
Photo Taken: 12-14-17 at 4:09 pm
Picture ID# 9185
Having some tried and true #WaterDamage prevention tips and understanding its causes can help you prevent costly repairs and damage to your property. There are quite a few common causes of #Roof water damage in #Vancouver. These include things like flashing failure when water enters through the areas where fixtures are installed on your roof. Damaged shingles are also another culprit to look out for: check for cracked, warped, or missing shingles. Damage to your roof valley, the area which leads water to gutters and downspouts, is also a common cause of water damage.
One of the best ways to prevent an emergency water damage scenario is by having a team of professionals inspect your roof regularly. Looking out for signs of water damage, like mold or mildew and stains on the walls, can also help you catch roof leaks before they grow out of control.
Should you suffer a water damage emergency, contact the team from Malkin Cleaners for water damage repair services, mold remediation, and more by visiting www.malkincleaners.com or calling (604) 970 9052.
43004 leads the 09.26 Exeter St Davids - Penzance with 43040 on the rear past the boat shed viewed from Coastguard's Footbridge to the east of the station. The boat shed looks likely to be the first casualty of the revamp with demolition scheduled for Monday 07-09-20.
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Kempton Park, 23 November 2015. Novices' Steeplechase (2m). The winner Vaniteux (Nico de Boinville) leads on the left from Stephanie Frances (Harry Skelton) in red, white and blue, Qewy (Aidan Coleman) in black & Cousin Khee (Tom O'Brien) on the right
Isolating and insulating oneself from change only leads to inevitable obsolescence. Education today must realize that the social and cultural landscape is changing rapidly. Although there is a strong argument to be made for stability and reliability, it is also unwise to await the inevitable while resisting change. Being adaptable should be an attribute developed in all learners and embraced by education.
This quotation by Seth Godin can be found here: sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/04/in-search-of-res...
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2152 leads the Sunlander cars into the "hole-in-the-wall" during the obligatory lap of the city that takes place during the carriage wash process.
Canon 5Dmk2
01-01-2015
44211 leads the 'Snora through Redfern. 4490 was experiencing all sorts of problems on the return trip, and was eventually removed at Picton, leaving 44211 to bring home the Aurora solo.
In place of their traditional Nine Lessons and Carols, Holy Trinity Glencraig, held a ‘Carols by Carlight’ on Sunday 20 December 2020.
The rector, the Revd Catherine Simpson, led the service from the church gates and the parishioners tuned into the readings and carols on their car radios. Each car received a pack with a couple of LED candles and some celebration chocolates!
Carols by Carlight was a first for the parish and was well supported with 27 cars lining up in the car park.
Catherine said: “It’s not often I am lost for words but the beeping of horns and flashing of lights at the end of the service signalled the great joy that was felt by all as we celebrated the birth of Jesus.
“Regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in this year, let’s choose to celebrate the Good News of the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, who grew up, died (and was raised to life!) for you and me.”
LTEX GP15-1 1444 leads MaPa/Yorkrail CF-7 1504 across Queen Street in downtown York, PA. G&W recently bought new power, including 1444, to replace the CF-7s.
Suspended Animation Classic #321
Originally published February 19, 1995 (#8)
(Dates are approximate)
Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor Special, Stormquest
By Michael Vance
“Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor Special”/58 pages, $4.95 from Dark Horse Comics/Words: Harlan Ellison, various artists/available in comics shops and by mail.
If the size and shape of his perspective strikes you as bizarre, well, that’s Harlan Ellison’s game. He has made that crystal clear in his life and writing. It has made Ellison a world famous author.
Hosted by Harlan caricatured, five of his short stories are adapted into comics in “Dream Corridor Special”. His introductions often reveal as much about the writer as do his stories.
Down these uneven corridors: a sheriff needs protection from what he protects; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a rat for a rat smell of vengeance; a genetically engineered dog is a lizard; a sleeping giant gathers much more than moss.
One of these corridors is a dead end. Admitting that “If This Be Utopia” was a one-punch short story written in during his early ‘20s, Harlan believes its adaptation is “genuinely funny”. It isn’t. Despite nice art, he should have let this sleeping dog/lizard lie.
One hall leads to Prometheus buried under petunias, and a powerful, moving question that man cannot let lie. “On the Slab”, with the best art and most thought provoking story, almost makes “Dream Corridor Special” a must read.
To be even a lesser door in Harlan’s house of stories is to read better than most of what is written in comics, and the remaining adaptations fall into this category. Of these, “The End of the Time of Leinard” (that Western) is most interesting, and “Rat Hater” most hackneyed.
What? gasps a hardened Harlan fan. Harlan hackneyed?
Much in his favor, none of these are rooms without a viewpoint. All lead back to Ellison, whose beliefs and personality are indelibly impressed into everything he has written – the hallmark of real literature.
Recommended for adults.
MINIVIEW: “Stormquest” #5. New (artists and writers) and improved justice in time. Superheroes.
Members of the Elon community gathered at The Inn at Elon on April 28 to learn more about the Elon LEADS Campaign.
"The papacy inspires the same sentiment like the Roman goddess, Queen of Heaven, and leads its followers to consider Eve's sin in the same way as paganism did. as paganism. In the canon of the Mass, the most solemn service in the Roman
missal, we find the following expression in the apostrophe to the fault of our first parents:
"O beata culpa,quas talem meruisti Redemptorem!"
O blessed fault, which has provided us with such a Redeemer. -
The idea contained in these words is entirely pagan. Here's what they boil down to: "Thanks be to Eve, whose fault whose fault has obtained for us the glorious Savior." -
The idea of a primordial tradition emerged in Germany in the early 19th century as a consequence of the discovery of the great Eastern sacred texts: it enabled the universal claims of the biblical narrative to be transposed by assigning it a common ancestor with India, Persia and China. In fact, his approach remained marked by his Catholic training and the notion of apostolic tradition based on the two sources of truth: the Scriptures and transmission through the chain of the priesthood."This is the great connection between the physical and the and the spiritual, the earthly and the supersensible, which he wanted to present, as well as the way, which the
the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities if he wants to ascend from the earthly to the spiritual. to the spiritual. This is a question that man must always ask himself. Schiller had presented this problem in his own witty way in the "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man".
This treatise, only little known and studied, is a
treasure trove for the one who sets out to solve this riddle. Goethe was inspired by it to express himself on the same question and he did so in the fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful Lily", which he later added to the "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (conversations of German emigrants). The fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful lily" shows the development of the human soul to ever higher insight,
All human soul forces can develop, not only the human thinking faculty. All soul forces, also feeling and willing, can penetrate into the objective secrets of the world. But they must learn to
must learn to switch off.
anthroposophie.byu.edu/vortraege/053_16.pdf
"In itself, the reality which we now call 'Christian religion' existed even among the ancients, and was present from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh; and it is in consequence of this coming, that the true religion existing from all time, began to be called Christian."
- Saint Augustine, Retractaciones, I, XII, 3
"My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the Kaabah of the pilgrim, and the table of the Thorah and the book of the Qorân. I am the religion of Love, whatever road its camels take; my religion and my faith are the true religion."
Ibn Arabi (Tarjumân al-Ashwâq)
"As far as religions are concerned, only transcendent unity, achieved from above, is valid: the unity that results from the recognition of the One Tradition beyond its various particular and historical forms, the recognition of the constant metaphysical contents that present themselves in various guises - like so many translations into several "languages" - in the world's multiple religions and sacred traditions. The prerequisite, then, is an "esoteric" understanding of what manifests itself in the confusing and sometimes contradictory variety of religions and traditions. Encounter, therefore, can only take place at the top, at the level of elites capable of grasping the inner, transcendent dimension of the various traditions; then unity would automatically follow, and "dialogues" could take place without disturbing the limits proper to each tradition at the level of "base" and external doctrine. But there is nothing of the kind in the recent reformist initiatives that have given rise to "ecumenical euphoria". It's essentially a matter of simple tolerance that more or less renounces dogma."
Julius Evola (1898-1974)
For René Guénon, religious practice in general concerns only the exoteric, essentially social and moral, aspect of the Primordial Tradition. His knowledge is therefore intended to go beyond the religious point of view, without denying it, but assuming it in its entirety19. Epistemologically speaking, for traditionalists, metaphysical knowledge is not simply a matter of reason, but of intellectual intuition, which is supra-rational20. Knowledge of this hidden truth is therefore aimed at "metaphysical realization" through traditional initiatory rites that are distinct from mere religious rites and inaccessible to the majority. Christianity is, however, an exception for Frithjof Schuon and Jean Borella, for whom Christian sacraments are indeed initiatory. Be that as it may, the Traditional Method is in many respects a "method which is the opposite of a method, since it maintains the secrets, the trials". Beyond his rejection of modernity, Guénon rejected the autonomy and primacy of reason, in contradiction to the entire evolution of Western thought since the end of the Middle Ages, in favor of a purely spiritual "intellectual intuition". Such an approach led him to view the entire cosmos as an illusion destined to dissolve into divine unity at the end of time. These choices gave rise to two complementary features essential to the development of his system: 1) the existence of an original revealed datum, which the work of reason had first commented on and then distorted, and which he called "primordial Tradition", long predating Judeo-Christianity; a tradition handed down from master to disciple since the dawn of time; 2) the central role attributed to the forces of evil, the only "motor of history" driving the world into a slow, ineluctable "descent".
The concept of "intellectual intuition" is rather difficult to grasp. Guénon also rejects mysticism. Does this "intellectual intuition" correspond to the spirit of the classical body-soul-spirit triptych (with reason referring to the body and mysticism to the soul)? Things change when we consider, beyond the method of approach, the nature of knowledge: what Guénon calls pure intellectual intuition is immediate access to "Deity", to use Master Eckhardt's language, beyond the revealed God. It refers to that identification with God himself which led the Sufi master al-Hallaj to martyrdom, and to what other great spiritualists, recognized by Guénon himself as esoteric, have called mysticism.
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The Two Babylons, subtitled Romanism and its Origins, is a book that started out as a religious pamphlet published in 1853 by the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland theologian Alexander Hislop (1807–65). Its central theme is the argument that the Catholic Church is the Babylon of the Apocalypse which is described in the Bible.[1] The book delves into the symbolism of the image which is described in the Book of Revelation – the woman with the golden cup – and it also attempts to prove that many of the fundamental practices of the Church of Rome, and its Modus Operandi in general, stem from non-scriptural precedents. It analyzes modern Catholic holidays, including Christmas and Easter, and attempts to trace their roots back to pagan festivals. It also attempts to show that many other accepted doctrines (such as Jesus' crucifixion on a Cross) may not be correct. Hislop provides a detailed comparison of the ancient religion which was established in Babylon (allegedly by the Biblical king Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis) by drawing on a variety of historical and religious sources, in order to show that the modern Papacy and the Catholic Church are the same system as the Babylon that was mentioned by the apostle Paul in the first century (when he commented on the iniquity that was already creeping into the 1st century Christian church and the author of Revelation. Most modern scholars have rejected the book's arguments as erroneous and based on a flawed understanding of the Babylonian religion, but variations of them are accepted among some groups of Christian religious evangelical Protestants. The book was expanded in 1858, going through many editions. A 3rd edition was published in 1862, a 7th in 1871, (thus, a mere six years after the author's death, four successive posthumous editions had already appeared), and a popular edition in 1903.
Description
Hislop builds on the Panbabylonian school of Hyperdiffusionism, which was common in the 19th century, to argue that Classical and Ancient Near Eastern civilization took its inspiration from Babylon. From this he derives the argument that the mystery religions of Late Antiquity were actually offshoots of one ancient religion founded at the Tower of Babel. Panbabylonism has since been relegated to pseudohistory by 20th-century scholars. Much of Hislop's work centers on his association of the legendary Ninus and his semi-historical wife Semiramis with the Biblical Nimrod as her husband and her son, with their incestuous male offspring being Tammuz. Hellenistic histories of the Ancient Near East tended to conflate their faint recollections of the deeds of ancient kings into legendary figures who exerted far more power than any ancient king ever did. In Assyria, they invented an eponymous founder of Nineveh named Ninus, who supposedly ruled 52 years over an empire comparable to the Persian Empire at its greatest extent. Ninus' wife Semiramis was in turn a corruption of the historical figure Shammuramat, regent of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 811 BC.[10] Hislop takes Ninus as a historical figure and associates him with the Biblical figure Nimrod, though he was not the first to do so. The Clementine literature made the association in the 4th Century AD. An influential belief throughout the Middle Ages was that Ninus was the inventor of idolatry,[11] a concept that Hislop clearly drew upon. However, Hislop wrote before the historical records of the ancient near east had been thoroughly decoded and studied, that cast doubt in the decades after he wrote whether there was any such figure as Ninus, and the Greek authors whom he quoted lacked credibility on the subject. The Two Babylons heavily relies on Austen Henry Layard's publications of his excavations at Nineveh, which had only been just discovered in 1851. This gave his work an appearance of being well-researched at the time of its publication. For example, Hislop linked the name of Easter with Astarte, the Phoenician fertility goddess by citing Layard's recent discovery of Astarte's Assyrian name, Ishtar, which Hislop took to be "identical" to Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar.
Relief of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, whose name Hislop incorrectly claimed to be the root behind the English word Easter
Hislop's claim that Easter is derived from Ishtar is rejected by historical linguists and is an example of folk etymology. Philologists derive the word Easter from Old English Ēostre, the name of a West Germanic goddess. Ēostre derives from the Proto-Germanic goddess name *austrōn-, whose name in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European deity and personified dawn *h₂ewsṓs (from the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning 'to shine' and thus 'dawn, east'). Other dawn goddesses who developed from *h₂ewsṓs include Latin Aurora, Ancient Greek Eos, and Vedic Sanskrit Ushas.[14][15][16] Ishtar, however, is unrelated. Ishtar is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate". Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar." He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.
Analysis
In the note by the editor of the 7th edition, which was published in 1871, it was claimed, "that no one, so far as we are aware, has ventured to challenge the accuracy of the historical proofs adduced in support of the startling announcement on the title page." Since then, however, there have been many who have challenged the accuracy of Hislop's claims. For example, Lester L. Grabbe has highlighted the fact that Hislop's entire argument, particularly his association of Ninus with Nimrod, is based on a misunderstanding of historical Babylon and its religion.[4] Grabbe also criticizes Hislop for portraying the mythological queen Semiramis as Nimrod's consort, despite the fact that she is never even mentioned in a single text associated with him, and for portraying her as the "mother of harlots",[4] even though this is not how she is depicted in any of the texts where she is mentioned. In 2011, a critical edition was published. Although Hislop's work is extensively footnoted, some commentators (in particular Ralph Woodrow) have made the assertion that the document contains numerous misconceptions, fabrications, logical fallacies, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and grave factual errors.
Influence
Some fundamentalist Protestants still regard Hislop's book as proof that the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, the continuation of the ancient Babylonian religion. In 1921 A. W. Pink confidently asserted that Hislop's work had "proven conclusively that all the idolatrous systems of the nations had their origin in what was founded by that mighty Rebel, the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel."[20] Jehovah's Witnesses' periodical The Watchtower frequently published excerpts from it until the 1980s.[21][better source needed] The book's thesis has also featured prominently in the conspiracy theories of racist groups such as The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord and other fringe groups. Anti-Catholic Evangelical publisher Jack Chick endorsed the book, and his store still offers it. non-primary source needed] A number of Seventh-day Adventists still use The Two Babylons as source material. An example is the somewhat controversial Walter Veith, who still use the conclusions from Hislop's book to support his articles published at the website "Amazing Discoveries". Adventist magazine Spectrum, however, dismisses Veith as a conspiracy theorist. As well, various viral image posts have appeared on the internet, usually in neopagan or atheist spaces, citing Hislop's theory of Easter being etymologically derived from Ishtar, as well as adding in more misleading pieces such as claiming Ishtar's symbols were the "bunny" and the "egg". This view has been echoed by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, who has since redacted the claim.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Babylons
This book has been reissued many times. Its first publication was in 1916. The edition I read was printed in 1965. The title has one of those old lengthy subtitles underneath it: “Or, the Papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife.” I guess the subtitle about sums it up. The author carefully examines the various elements of Roman Catholicism and concludes in each case that it has its foundation in the ancient religion and practices of old Babylon as opposed to New Testament Christianity. The topics covered include: mitres, robes, candles, rosaries, statues, crosses, fishes, festivals, doctrines, developments and much more. It is pretty comprehensive, at least up until the date when it was written. The book will also go some way to explaining the origins of ‘the gods’ showing that they were founded upon the patriarchs and their deeds. The style of this book is more suited to academics and particularly those who are familiar with classical mythology. Neither of which describes myself and I would have to admit that much of the finer detail went over my head. The book can be made easier to comprehend and considerably shortened by not reading the frequent and lengthy footnotes. Why am I recommending this book? Well, quite simply the subject matter in hand is of such vital importance to God’s children. Many through woeful ignorance have been seduced into thinking that Catholicism is somehow ‘Christian’. This book is something of a standard work when it comes to exposing, not just a few ‘errors’ in Catholicism, but the entire system for what it is really all about. From both history and doctrine Mr Hislop shows overwhelmingly that the origins and practices of this religion are founded upon ancient Babylonian mysticism. Whether it is through this particular book or one of the many others that have been ably written on this subject I think that every one who is a believer in the biblical Gospel should acquaint himself with the facts of what that religion is really all about. There is no inference whatsoever in this book that anyone should have cause to despise catholic people. It focuses purely on the facts of the development of the system and concludes, just as many others do, that God has one specific word to those who are caught up with this ‘Alternative Church’ – “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” In conclusion, this particular book may not be the one for everyone on this subject, but those with a slightly more academic bent will appreciate the carefully researched detail and its presentation.
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Primordial Tradition is Perennialism's idea that a single metaphysical truth intrinsically links all sacred traditions to an original revelation, the cause of which is non-human (divine). This truth, intrinsic to all traditions, constitutes the unique "Universal and Unanimous Tradition "1, which can be discovered through the multiple symbolic, mythical and ritual correspondences shared by the various sacred traditions of mankind.Developing the concept of Perennis Philosophia, the concept of Primordial Tradition has been theorized and problematized in contemporary times by the "School of Tradition "2 . This school is made up of writers, philosophers, anthropologists, historians and essayists from various religious denominations, whose founder and principal representative is the metaphysician René Guénon. For him, Primordial Tradition refers to humanity's oldest tradition, of meta-historical origin, which is "common to all authentic and 'orthodox' traditions, whose traces and signs appear very legibly in the symbols, rites and myths "3 of the various "traditional forms" or observable religions. Primordial Tradition is a concept that refers to the founding myths of mankind's various sacred traditions, such as the earthly paradise of the Bible, the Golden Age of Greco-Roman mythology or the Hindu krita yugaAS 1. Intimately linked to intuitive and intellectual knowledge of the "Ultimate Principle", Primordial Tradition thus designates a state of spiritual being that man lost during the Fall, and which he must regainAS 2 through metaphysical knowledge, both speculative (oral or written teaching) and operative (ritual initiation). The traditionalist imaginary is thus attentive to what each observable orthodox tradition says, and draws from their common account of a golden age the conclusion of a "Revelation, or primitive illumination of human thought". The starting point is therefore that the unity of the Principle of reality, God, is matched by the unity of a primordial revelation, expressed and revealed in the various sacred traditions of mankind. The traditionalist therefore gives equal credence to the accounts of the different "religions" as legitimate testimonies to the same original metaphysical experience. The "Traditional Method" thus endeavours to "discover an essential unity or equivalence of symbols, forms, myths, dogmas and disciplines beyond the varied expressions that the contents may have in the different historical traditions", with the aim of "bringing out the universal character of a symbol or teaching by comparing it with other corresponding symbols belonging to other traditions, in order to establish the presence of something superior and anterior to each of these formulations, different from each other, but nevertheless equivalent". The School of Tradition's approach is therefore not limited to the religious realm, but penetrates what it considers to be its inner, metaphysical aspect. From this perspective, the "synthesis" it intends to make of the various doctrinal expressions is not a "syncretism", as it does not intend to mix rites, symbols or myths, but to draw comparisons between them. Indeed, "Syncretism consists in bringing together, from the outside, elements that are more or less disparate and which, seen in this way, can never really be unified; in short, it's just a kind of eclecticism, with all that eclecticism always entails in terms of fragmentation and incoherence. This is something purely external and superficial; the elements taken from all sides and brought together artificially in this way only ever have the character of borrowings, incapable of being effectively integrated into a doctrine worthy of the name. Synthesis, on the other hand, is essentially performed from within; by this we mean that it properly consists in considering things in the unity of their very principle, in seeing how they derive and depend on this principle, and thus uniting them, or rather becoming aware of their real union, by virtue of a link that is all interior, inherent in what is deepest in their nature."
D6817 (37521) leads 1Z43 12.18 Skipton - Appleby "North Pennine Staycation Express" across Ribblehead Viaduct. 47593 Galloway Princess is on the rear.
With the previous day's sunshine having turned into fog, drizzle and even a few proper rain showers, there seemed to be little chance of "full sun" photography. Having come here to grab a cup of coffee from the burger van near the road junction, as I drove down the road I spotted an atmospheric shot with the viaduct a bit misty but a bank in the foreground much clearer; after eventually getting that coffee (the queue was moving very slowly as only one person was serving, and preparing burgers for the vast number of people doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks), I went to investigate further but found that the mist had cleared and there was even some brightness appearing. But I still went for the silhouette view from the east side of the line, with the intention of converting the image to black and white. I took shots from a few angles as the train crossed the viaduct: this was the last.
leads a daily WLE train through Bedford, OH while on lease.
Built in 1966 as NW 1724 to NS 1724, then as EMDX 1724 would get a chopped nose, and would become WC 1724, WE 1724, LTEX 1724 and finally MRL 388.
CP train 394 with a BNSF leader and an NS motor in trail runs along Pewaukee Lake on a splended fall morning in Wisconsin.
The Union Pacific Heritage Engine 4141 leads a consist of 3 Heritage units, including the UP 1988 and the UP 1982 along its route from Proviso, IL to Pine Bluff, AR. The 4th engine was a CP 5723, which was dropped off at Pine Bluff.
This shot was made near MP 128, on the Chester Sub, between ILLMO and Rockview, MO.
A record-breaking former Mayor of Dudley has funded a new ‘hearing dog’ as part of a £50,000 bumper fundraising year in office.
‘Dudley’ the hearing dog is currently undergoing rigorous training to provide help and support for someone with hearing difficulties.
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