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Illustration from the book "Shamanic Beliefs of the Non-Russian Peoples of Eastern Siberia", 1890
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"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering
"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of
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Would You Like to Talk About God?
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting “Winter” of 1563 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563. Strange that there are no tangerines. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Unexpected
Unexpected. The New Yorker, December 1939
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A text on Freemasonry in Russia, its ban under Alexander I and the Illuminati
Some Excerpts from the Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and the State" ...Preaching complete non-interference in religious and state affairs, Freemasonry, with its closed character, its secret signs and rites, constituted a kind of separate secret state, which in governments was bound to arouse
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The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, Sir Henry Raeburn, National Galleries of Scotland
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Killing of Priest Pavel Dernov and His Three Sons in Yelabuga in February 1918
Author of the Famous Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and State": Hieromartyr Pavel Dernov (1870-1918) of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Father Pavel Dernov was a priest, preacher, writer, regular contributor to the Vyatka Diocesan Gazette and
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On seeing an image of Osiris protected by the Mehen serpent, which destroys the enemies of Light by beheading them, I recalled Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" and the snake that swallowed an elephant
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21 December is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, after which comes the longest night of the year
21 December is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, after which comes the longest night of the year. Astronomical winter is held to begin precisely at the winter solstice. It will last until 20 March 2025, the day of the spring equinox
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Netflix adapts García Márquez's “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, with his sons as producers
Netflix has released a series based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The first season contains 8 episodes of the 16 planned; the second half of the series is expected in 2025. Although "No One Writes to the Colonel" and