[Buddha-l] angel or sphinx?

[Volker Thewalt]

Hi Kate,

this sounds really interesting:

 > As their name implies, the Sodomites were into 
animals, not angels.....

Is it not the other way? That the Sodomites had to lend 
their name to some
alleged sexual preference?????

Volker

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Kate schrieb:
> 
>>> . Though if this is what angels look like, the question
>>
>> remains what the Sodomites saw in them ...
>>
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Further to my last post:
> 
> "The Holy Animals of the Bible, according to tradition, can be assigned 
> with the Eagle to the East and to Air; the Bull to the North and to the 
> Earth; Man to the West and to Water, and the Lion to the South and to 
> Fire.  By this means we will obtain a mirror-like reflection of the 
> scheme given in Chapters I and X of the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel.
> 
> "This so-called quaternary of Ezekiel is very important because it finds 
> its application in the operations of evocations (right hand movement in 
> the circle) and in conjurations (the reverse movement).
> 
> "A second example given by the Apostle St. John in the IVth Chapter of 
> the Book of Revelations, shows us another reflection, which differs from 
> the previous one by the shifting of two elements.  In it the Bull and 
> Earth belong to the West, and Man to Water and the North.  This second 
> scheme allows us to establish some separate mysterious attributes such 
> as: humid-dry and warm-cold. In this way air is considered as humid and 
> warm, water as humid and cold, earth as cold and dry, and fire as hot 
> and dry. All these conceptions are used in alchemy and astrology."
> .....The Tarot pg 79
> 
> As their name implies, the Sodomites were into animals, not angels.....
> 
> Regards
> Kate
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