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teaphile:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
By Shantideva
With folded hands I beseech
The conquerers who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless aeons
And not to leave the world in darkness.
That really is the book next to the computer.
Your turn.
teaphile:1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
By Shantideva
With folded hands I beseech
The conquerers who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless aeons
And not to leave the world in darkness.
That really is the book next to the computer.
Your turn.
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Date: 2007-04-22 07:49 am (UTC)They also believe that just as flesh by coition is born of flesh so is spirit procreated from spirit. For they say that the spirit of Adam which was a heavenly angel, came by God's command to see how Lucifer had divided the elements and had made from them the external forms of things before there was man on earth. Lucifer seized the angel and shut him in a fleshly body as in a prison, saying to him: "Pay what thou owest," meaning, Subject yourself to human flesh.
I think he is outlining what the Cathari believed to be the story of creation.