It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Of this class were all the nuns who suffered in Persia, namely, SS. Varda, the two Theclas, three Maries, Danacka, Tatona, Mama, Muzachia, Anna, Abiatha, Hates, Mamlaca, Tata, Ama, Adrana, and Maraca; for they are called Bnoth-Kiama, or daughters of the covenant. All these classes of holy virgins lived in private houses, before monasteries were founded; but never in the same houses with men, as St. Cyprian testifies, (b. 1, ep. 11.) They had consecrated themselves to God by vows of chastity.
spiritual forces are invoked through symbology, invocation and ritual
Originally posted by JayinAR
I tend to throw up the hex sign at the mention of demons and other such mess.
So for my part I will just read the discussion from here out and forego posting.
Originally posted by Direne
reply to post by Kantzveldt
spiritual forces are invoked through symbology, invocation and ritual
I agree. I think words pronounced like a mantra gets your mind into a state in which you can communicate in a totally different way. Mind and sound is a recurrent theme in trance rituals (any of them). And even today some religions do recitation of their holy books. Reading is not enough. But how is this so? What's the power of words being "chanted" upon the mind?
Originally posted by Direne
No other language is related to Summerian.