Tag: Eschatology

Esoteric and exoteric characteristics of the Occultation of the Mahdi in Shiite eschatology

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Just as Herod two thousand years ago was desperately looking for a newborn baby who would be that future "king" who would deprive him of his temporal power, so the Herod of our times is also looking for a prodigious child destined to put an end to "history โ€, who, once his advent has come, โ€œwill fill the Earth with harmony and justice as it is now filled with tyranny and violenceโ€. The characters of this mysterious figure, the absolute fulcrum of faith in Iranian Islam expressed as the religion of the Expected, will be discussed briefly in this article.

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โ€œAltiplanoโ€: the pangs of Pachamama and the Anima Mundi

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Brosens and Woodworth's film is much more than a heartfelt appeal to the conservation of our planet's natural resources: in the drama of Saturnina, symbolisms and sacred conceptions of the New and Old World converge, which allow us to address the question on multiple levels intimately connected between They.

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