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| Â | Black Stone - definition of Black Stone in Encyclopedia |
 | | The Black Stone (called Al-Hajarul Aswad in Arabic) is one of the most sacred holy relics in Islam. | | | Since the Stone was originally installed by Muhammad, and this act led to his title 'The Wise', it was repaired and put in place as a reminder of Allah's vastness and mankind's smallness, as explained in the Hadith of Muslim. | | | The damage to the stone is said to have occurred during the destruction of the Idols at the Kaaba by Muhammed and his followers (628 CE), when they destroyed 360 idols of the pagan pantheon and calendar system that was worshipped there. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Black_Stone
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| Â | Nestorian Stone |
| | The title here depicted commemorates the coming of missionaries from Mesopotamia bringing the "Luminous Religion." The original stone was found in 1625 AD and has an amazing history associated with its discovery. | | | Replica of Christian stone of Chang'an (now Xian) in China (eighth century). | | | This was alarming to them because it had long been their boast that their written characters had remained unchanged for thousands of years. |
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http://www.nestorian.org/nestorian_stone.html
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Corner Stone |
| | An interesting fragment of evidence is, however, furnished by what is apparently the inscribed foundation stone of the first church of St. Mark at Venice. | | | In the function which ensues the bishop first blesses holy water with the ordinary forms, then sprinkles the place where the cross stands and afterwards the foundation stone. | | | Through Christ Our Lord, Amen." After the Litany of the Saints, followed by an appropriate antiphon and Psalm cxxvi, "Unless the Lord build the house" etc., the stone is lowered into its place with another prayer and again sprinkled with holy water. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14303a.htm
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| Â | Rune stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most stones are put up as memorials for a dead person: in many cases death caused by sudden and unexpected events. | | | The Adre stones, which were desecrated by the Christians and re-used as paving under the wooden floors of the local church, which ironically preserved them. | | | Several stones have obviously been erected by women. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_stone
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Altar (In Liturgy) |
| | A portable altar in a wider sense is one that may be carried from one place to another in the liturgical sense it is a consecrated altar-stone, sufficiently large to hold the Sacred Host and the greater part of the base of the chalice. | | | The present discipline of the Church requires that for the consecration of an altar it must be of stone. | | | A fixed altar, in a wider sense, is one that is attached to a wall, a floor, or a column whether it be consecrated or not; in the liturgical; sense it is a permanent structure of stone, consisting of a consecrated table and support, which must be built on a solid foundation. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01346a.htm
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| Â | Is the Black Stone an Idol? and Is Pilgrimage a Pagan Rite? |
| | Far from worshipping the Stone, the Pilgrim is kissing it, or pointing at it, just as was done by the Prophet (Peace be upon him) in his time. | | | Although so reverently kissed and caressed during the Tawaf, the Black stone, in one of the corners of the Ka’bah, is no graven image for the pilgrims to worship. | | | Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: "The Black stone descended from heaven, when it was whiter than Milk, but people’s sins have blackened it". |
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http://www.missionislam.com/discover/hajjpaganblackstone.htm
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| Â | Rune stone: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Four will suffice to show the wide range of Norse activities related on rune stones: (1) “Ali had this stone put up in his own honor. | | | (and many of Scandinavia’s surviving rune stones served as memorials for people who had died far from home. | | | Rune stones are standing stones with runic[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] inscriptions dating from the Iron Age Iron Age quick summary: |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/r/ru/rune_stone.htm
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| Â | Mystical-WWW - MERLIN |
| | Merlin is described as having caused a stone with a sword, earlier referred to as the Sword of Branstock, held in its mass to appear in a courtyard of an ancient chapel. | | | Merlin is one of the original line of Mystics in ancient British folklore and has become an icon to many people interested in the mystical, in arcane magic and spirituality. | | | Merlin is even described in one text, in the words of his sister, as the 'bardic president about the Waters of Clyde'. |
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http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/merlin
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| Â | Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland, a book review for readingmatters.co.uk |
| | Merlin isn't a lord or a knight, but he isn't a priest or a monk or a friar. | | | That is what his seeing stone is. Merlin gives it to him on his thirteenth birthday. | | | In the dark ages Merlin the wizard watched oved Uther Pendragon's son and helped him to become King Arthur, the King Who Was and Will Be. |
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http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=124
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| | Merlin predicted that it could only be used by Galahad or Lancelot, but if Lancelot were to possess it he would use it to kill Gawaine. | | | It was not until the coronation feast at Carlion that Merlin came himself before the king. | | | There are some who say that Merlin did not die, but Nimue finally came back to take Merlin away, just as she did later for Arthur. |
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http://www.employees.org/~pcorless/pendragon/merlin.txt
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| | the idea of the stone altar, the use of which afterwards became universal in the West, is evidently derived from the custom of celebrating the anniversaries and other feasts in honour of those who died for the Faith. | | | The stone slab enclosing the martyr's grave suggested the stone altar, and the presence of the martyr's relics beneath the altar was responsible for the tomblike under-structure known as the confessio. | | | The use of stone altars in the East in the fourth century is attested by St. Gregory of Nyssa (P. 581) and St. John Chrysostom (Hom. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/01362A.TXT
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| Â | Seer stone: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | At least one seer stone is also mentioned in the Book of Mormon. | | | (he is also believed to have used seer stones to receive revelations which directed him to restore the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | A seer stone is a magic stone or crystal used for crystallomancy Crystal gazing quick summary: |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/se/seer_stone.htm
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| Â | Medea's Chariot :: In Defense of Merlin Stone |
| | The criticisms that I have read roughly indicate that Stone claims the world was a peaceful place run by women until awful men came and took over the world, leading to its sorry state now. | | | She quotes Charles Seltman as saying that in Mediterannean cultures, society was built around women; for a man to become king or chieftan, he had to marry his daughter to the next person chosen as chieftan (Stone, 47). | | | This indicates to me that Stone recognized historically that men had rulership although such power was passed through women -- a sort of even control between men and women, emphasising interdependence. |
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http://www.medeaschariot.com/history/stone.htm
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| Â | Kensington Runestone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Kensington Runestone could be a stunning prank left by someone with knowledge of obscure medieval runes and intersecting word forms apparently unknown to most professional linguists at the close of the 19th century, or a haunting message left by 14th century Scandinavian explorers in the heart of North America. | | | However, linguists critical of the stone's authenticity consider the word to be a neologism and note the Swedish author Gustav Storm in the late 19th century had often used the term in a series of articles on Viking exploration published in a Norwegian newspaper and known to have been circulated in Minnesota. | | | Soon after it was found, the stone was displayed at a local bank (there is no evidence Öhman tried to make money from his find). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_runestone
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| Â | Biographical Sketch of Barton W. Stone |
| | Stone and his coadjutors preached that God loved the whole world and sent his Son to save men; that the gospel is the means of salvation, but it will never be effectual to this end until believed and obeyed by us. | | | Stone continued an earnest student of the Scriptures; so after a time he was immersed, as were many of those associated with him. | | | Stone was preaching, shouting the praises of God, and proclaiming aloud what they had done. |
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http://www.bible.acu.edu/stone-campbell/Biogs/stonebw.htm
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| Â | Origins of the denomination |
| | Barton Stone is a witness to the spiritual unity which is as real as the scientifically-observed physical unity. | | | As opposed to the doctrines of election, the nature of faith, total depravity, and the Atonement, Stone argued that the promises of the Gospel were for all and that the sinner was capable of believing in Christ from the evidence of the Gospel. | | | Barton Stone's life is a remarkable monument to the deeper truth of human existence and the Spirit of Christ within which makes us a new creation capable of becoming co-workers in the Divine. |
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http://firstkent.tripod.com/id13.html
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| Â | Daniel 2 A STONE CUT OUT OF A MOUNTIAN |
| | The stone and the Kingdom that the God of Heaven was to set-up are one and the same. | | | To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. | | | Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. |
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http://4thewordofgod.com/Daniel_02.htm
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| Â | Thursday Theology #112 - Nestorius and the Nestorian Church |
| | But another Xian attraction is the "Stele Museum," a vast collection of standing granite monuments, one of which is the "Nestorian Stone." I think it dates from the 8th century. | | | So for ThTh 112 something guaranteed(?) to be non-controversial: Nestorian and the "Nestorian" Church of the East. | | | Subsequently, because the Church of the East had the same doctrinal outlook which Nestorius himself held, the Church came to be called "Nestorian" by those in the West, the Byzantine Empire. |
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| Â | Assyrian Christians Missions in China |
| | The "Kumbhira" design at the head of the stone is thoroughly Buddhistic. | | | Below this comes an inscription consisting of one thousand nine hundred Chinese characters and about fifty Syriac words, besides some seventy Sryiac names in rows on the narrow sides of the stone with the corresponding Chinese characters denoting the Chinese synonyms or phonetics for the Syriac names. | | | In that year, many books were imported from China and among them was a a book entitled "A great Collection of Inscriptions on stone and metal". |
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| Â | Amazon.ca: Books: Barton Stone: A Spiritual Biography |
| | Stone believed that slavery had no place in the Christian church and that it was a hindrance to both unity and the Second Coming of Christ. | | | In Barton Stone: A Spiritual Biography, Newell Williams (Christian Theological Seminary) takes great pains to paint a coherent well-balanced biographical picture of Barton Stone, one of the founders of the movement that would come to be called the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). | | | In addition to focusing on Stones deep spirituality and proclivity for Christian unity, Williams shows his humanity in pointing out his frustration at the churches of his time because their apathy on the issue of unity and another issue that was central to Stone's theology, emancipation. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0827202288
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| Â | At the Edge: Goddess of the Black Stone |
| | At Petra, the Nabataeans venerated a four-sided stone named after Allat [8], whose son Dusura (in their system) is a version of Tammuz/Dumuzi/Du'uzi, the vegetation god characterised by a seasonal death and resurrection, who dwells in the underworld for half the year. | | | There were, in pagan times, seven priestesses at site of the Black Stone, who circled it seven times, naked. | | | Bob Trubshaw's article on the Black Stone of Mecca was of great interest to myself, as I had already seen Rufus Camphausen's original article on The Ka'bah at Mecca, and already had something of an interest in the subject. |
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http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/blston2.htm
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| Â | Seer stone stolen from first presidency vault |
| | They say that they hold the stone, and meditate upon it, and that before long (1/2 hour) they begin to see flashes of light, and that with experience, they see people, and etc, and that it becomes easier with practice. | | | They indicate, that the light that powers a seer stone comes from within your soul, and that since it is (partially/mostly) you that is providing the energy to light the stone, that the specific type of stone is less important than what you bring to the experience with you. | | | It is at best an oral tradition within the church that a seer stone was or is owned by the church. |
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http://www.absalom.com/mormon/parable/seer-stone.htm
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| Â | Barton W. Stone |
| | Stone and his followers "New Lights" or "Stoneites." Most of those who were associated with Stone came from the Presbyterians, while most of those who were associated with Campbell came from the Baptists. | | | Stone did not intend to withdraw from the Presbyterian Church at that time. | | | Stone never ceased to rejoice in the success of the truth of the gospel. |
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http://www.therestorationmovement.com/stone,bw.htm
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| Â | Amazon.com: Books: When God Was a Woman (Harvest/Hbj Book) |
| | Stone in it and more of a straightforward story of the time when female spirituality was dominant. | | | Merlin Stone has written a very good book about the history of gender roles in Western society and the part religion plays in forming these roles. | | | Stone's work has been referenced by feminist writers Margaret Starbird, Sue Monk Kidd, and Lynn Picknett, and her chapter "Unraveling the Myth of Adam and Eve" presents a compelling argument and an interesting perspective, especially when contrasted with Elaine Pagels' ADAM AND EVE AND THE SERPENT, and Joseph Campbell's mythology works. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/015696158X?v=glance
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| Â | Maccabees - Angle-stone - Clean oblation |
| | Altar stones became mandatory from about the middle of the third century. | | | You have heard it said that the altar is a symbol of the body of Christ. | | | In the consecration of the Catholic altar, reference is made to all the altars set up by the patriarchs of the old testament. |
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http://www.wandea.org.pl/maccabees.html
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| | It was he who established the Shitennoji Buddhist Temple in Osaka which comprised four separate charitable institutions including the Kyoden-in or a sanctuary of religion, learning and music, The Ryobyo-in or charitable hospital, the Seyaku-in or a charitable dispensary, and the Hiden-in or an asylum for the helpless. | | | In the beginning and in the middle period of the T'ang Dynasty, the Nestorians had freely borrowed Buddhist and Taoist terms and imagery to express Christian doctrine, as we have seen in The Sutra of Jesus the Messiah and in The Hymn to the Holy Trinity. | | | More-over, in the persecution of foreign religions in 845 we learn that, besides foreign monks of Persian or Central Asian origin, there were a number of Chinese monks serving the Nestorian Church. |
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http://www.atour.org/news24.htm
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| Â | By Common Consent » Seer stone lessons |
| | The idea the Joseph used an Urim and Thummim and seer stones in his translation of the Book of Mormon is taught to us from Primary on. | | | While the Urim and Thummim are considered to be in the possession of the angel (along with the plates, sword and director), the Church has still in it’s possession one, but perhaps up to three different seer stones in their vault (1). | | | I don’t view any of seer stones, UandT, Liahona, annointing oil, garments, divining rods, etc. as having any intrinsic “magic” or other spiritual or phyical capabilities. |
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http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/02/seer-stone-lessons
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