Author: Xephyr Burton
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Icon and Text
The mythology of the Bible is a set of stories told about what the Bible says or means, and these stories reflect elements of a creed […] Most of what is written in a creed isn’t actually in the Bible. Yet it is the creed that defines the denomination. Thus the iconic Bible represents not…
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Meditation: Veils and Worlds
This is traditionally the time when we anticipate the “opening of the veil”: which is a time when we can better share our energies with our friends and family who have passed to that “other world”. While this explanation serves the many who celebrate this type of ritual, there are rationalists who find all this…
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Gamala – Capital of Rebellion
Around 6 CE, the Galilieans had their own tea-party moment when a local Roman governor ordered a census, and a fellow from Gamla named Judas began an organized resistance to Roman rule, convincing folks to not let the Romans count them by setting aflame any farms or houses of those who did. This Judas of…
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The Story of Mark
Scholars generally agree that the Gospel according to Mark was the first one of the four Gospels written, and that Luke and Matthew were written subsequently with knowledge of the book of Mark, but also with a secondary source – known as ‘Q’. Much of what appears in Luke and Matthew seems to have been…
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Framework: Trinitarianism
The restoration of the Flavian cult and how it became the Roman Catholic church.
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Framework: Flavian cult
The development of the Flavian cult and the degredation of empire.
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Framework: Imperial Cult
The transition to empire and the establishment of the Imperial Cult.