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The doctrine of the serpent seed, also known as the dual-seed or the two-seedline doctrine, is a controversial and fringe Christian religious belief which explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain.
Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the English Bible the text reads: thy whole body shall be full of light. The World English Bible translates the passage as: “The lamp of the body is the eye. whole body will be full of light.
This verse presents the opposite stating that an evil eye plunges one into darkness. The evil eye was both an expression for jealousy and for stinginess (cf. Matthew 20:15 [ 1 ] ). The verse puts great emphasis on the depth of darkness that a poor spiritual eye will place a person in, because placing too much focus on wealth or possessions can ...
A traditional depiction of the chariot vision, based on the description in Ezekiel, with an opan on the left side. The ophanim ( Hebrew: אוֹפַנִּים ʼōp̄annīm, 'wheels'; singular: אוֹפָן ʼōp̄ān ), alternatively spelled auphanim or ofanim, and also called galgalim (Hebrew: גַּלְגַּלִּים galgallīm, 'spheres ...
The story is sometimes thought of as a loose adaptation of one in the Gospel of Mark, of the healing of a blind man called Bartimaeus, but in fact is a different story, The healing of Bartimaeus takes place near Jericho, involves two men who call out from the roadside as Jesus passes by, and comes later in Matthew 20:29-34. In Matthew 9, the ...
The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light. [ 1] The idea comes from a translation, or mis-translation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome 's Latin Vulgate Bible, and many later vernacular translations dependent on that.
God creating the cosmos (Bible moralisée, French, 13th century) Biblical cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws in the Bible. [1] [2] The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief; consequently, its cosmology is not always consistent.
The original depiction of a goat pentagram containing the Hebrew letters at the five points of the pentagram spelling out Leviathan (לויתן), the ancient serpent from the biblical Chaoskampf, first appeared in the book La Clef de la Magie Noire by French occultist Stanislas de Guaita, in 1897.