The oldest wisdom of the Abrahamic lineage, the Jewish heritage you might say, lies in the Old Testament, and for better or worse this is my heritage – one I share with Jewish, Christian and Muslim brethren around the world… Read More ›
Moses
The Ancient Hebrews: The Tanakh, Torah and Five Books of Moses
As a specific example of how a word, a concept, can be disfigured and lose its fullness and richness of meaning as it moves through successive languages of translation and cultural evolution, let’s look at how the Hebrew word Torah, which… Read More ›
Religion and Politics: Separating Oil from Water
Searching for a a simple progression or development of monotheistic religions in the ancient world is no easy exercise by any standards. Monotheism clearly had tentacles that stretched far back into the dawn on civilized man, at least as far… Read More ›
Pythagoras and Plato: From the One to Many
Philosophy to the Greeks not only helped them understand the cosmos, creation and destruction of the universe and the essence of the natural world, but also the harmony within which we as individuals should lead our lives, and in turn… Read More ›
A Walk with Moses
Moses and his One God: Jewish Roots Christianity and Islam are the most wide spread and influential monotheistic religions in the world today by any measure, and both sprung from and were heavily influenced by the monotheistic religions, and metaphysical and… Read More ›
Knowledge and the Intellect: Extracting Truth from Scripture
Outside of his thesis coming together, with some clear indicators of cultural borrowing among Ancient Western civilizations with respect to the development of theology and philosophy, Charlie now had a much better context within which to view Niels’s letter which… Read More ›
Moses and Zarathustra: Long Lost Brothers
Christianity and Islam are the most wide spread and influential monotheistic religions in the world today by any measure, and both sprung from and were heavily influenced by the monotheistic religions, and metaphysical and philosophical systems, that preceded them most… Read More ›
The Advent of Monotheism: One Step forward and Two Steps Back
So there he was, really no closer to finding the source of materialism, or more aptly put by modern philosophers as the mechanistic world-view, than when he started his journey back through the dawn of civilization and mankind’s search for… Read More ›
Hellenistic Theo-Philosophy: Sowing the Seeds of Christianity
Despite his search through the evolution of thought from the dawn of civilization, particularly in the Mediterranean and Near/Far East, Charlie still had yet to find that marker, that break, where man had become so convinced of the reality of… Read More ›
