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Raskolniki
(Old Believers)
(Old Believers)
Ratu adil
(“just king”)
(“just king”)
Religious dissent, as crime against state
Renaissance
A Report and Plea
(Trapnell)
(Trapnell)
Restoration
Resurrection
Revelation.
See
Book of Revelation
See
Book of Revelation
Rhymer, Thomas
Ricci, Catarina de'
Richard I, King (of England)
Rites and rituals
Mayan
Melanesian
Robert of Flavigny
Roberts, Issachar Jacox
Rochette, Louis de
Roden, Ben
Roden, George
Roden, Lucy
Roger II of Sicily
Roger of Hovedon
Romanov, Nicholas
Romanov Dynasty, fall of
Romans/Roman Empire
Christianity and
defeat of
end of
in Judea
“mystery” religions and
thousandth anniversary of fall of Temple to
Rome
as fourth monarchy in Book of Daniel
Rosecrucians
Ruggiari brothers
Rump Parliament
Russian Old Believers
Russian Revolution
Saadia ben Joseph
Sabbateans.
See
Sevi, Sabbatai
See
Sevi, Sabbatai
Sabbath
Sacraments, sinful clerics performing
Sacrifices
Sahih
(“without flaws”)
(“without flaws”)
Saladin
Salam, Abdus
Salimbene
Samaritans
Sankey, Ira
Sanskrit tradition
Saoshyant (savior)
Satan.
See
Devil/Satan
See
Devil/Satan
Satin-Rémy, Jean de
Savior, rightly guided, idea of
Savonarola, Giralamo
Saxons
Scaliger, Julius Cesar
Science, modern, founders of
Scofield, Cyrus
Scofield 's Reference Bible
Second Advent.
See also
Second Coming
See also
Second Coming
Second book of Esdras (Ezra)
Second Coming.
See also
Parousia;
specific individuals/groups
See also
Parousia;
specific individuals/groups
Fifth Monarchists on
Montanism on
Paul on
Self-immolation
Seljuk Turks
Serpents
Seven churches, in Revelation
Seven seals, in Revelation
Seventh Day Adventists
The Seventh Seal
Sevi, Sabbatai
Shakers
The Shephard 's Rod I & II
(Houteff )
(Houteff )
Shepherd of Hermas
Shi'ite sect
Short Parliament
“Sibbilla,”
Sibylline Oracles
Sigismund, King
Sign of the cross, fingers used for
The Signs of the Times
(Himes)
(Himes)
Sins, redemption for
Six-Day War
Smith, Joseph
Snow, S. S.
Solar flares
Solvetskii Monastery monks
Souls
Egyptians on
“etheric retreats” by
Hindus on
Zoroastrians on
Spaceship
Spinoza, Baruch
Standerin, Abraham
Stars
in Book of Revelation
Mayans and
predicting future with
Statistical Science
Stephen, Michele
Sufayana
Suicide, mass
Sukarno (Indonesian leader)
Sumerians
Sun, worship of
Sunna
(customs)
(customs)
Sunni sect
The Sword in the Stone
(White)
(White)
Symmachus
Syria
Taborites
Taiping Dao
(The Way of Great Peace)
(The Way of Great Peace)
Taiping Rebellion
Taliesin
Tanakh, Jewish
Tata tenteram
(“peace and order in harmony”)
(“peace and order in harmony”)
Technology
Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa
Tertullian
Testimonies
(1827)
(1827)
Testimony
(1806)
(1806)
Thessalonians
Three states/epoch, concept of
Thurman, William C.
Tidal wave
Time
in Book of Daniel
Hinduism on
Mayans on
Zoroastrians on
Titans
Tithes
Tomb robbing
Torah
Trajan, Emperor
Trapnell, Anna
Tree of Life
Trinity
Tun
Tuwaletstiwa, Philip
Twelfth imam
“Twelvers,”
Umayyad Dynasty
Umma
party
party
Umpleby, Stuart A.
Universe
Unlucky days
Upanishads
Urban II (pope)
Uriel (angel)
Ur-myth
Utopian communities
Vedas
Venerable Bede
Venner, Thomas
Vidal, Pierre
Vieira, António
Virgin Mary
Virgins
Volcano, super
Vortigern, King (of Wales)
Wakara Nasara
(“Poem on Christians”)
(“Poem on Christians”)
Waldensians
Wardley, James
Wardley, Jane
War Scroll
Waters, Frank
Way of the Celestial Masters
West Bank
White, James and Ellen
White, T. H.
White Brother (Hopi)
Whore of Babylon
William of Newburgh
William Rufus, King
Wiztzum, Rips, and Rosenberg (WRR)
Women
Chinese
Fifth Monarchists and
Islam and
in Merlin's prophecies
in Oneida Colony
Savonarola on
Yellow Turbans on
Wood, A. H.
Woodworth, Maria B.
WRR (Wiztzum, Rips, and Rosenberg)
Wycliff, John
Y2K (2000)
Yang Xiu Qing
Yasna
ceremony
ceremony
Yellow Emperor
Yellow Turbans
Yom Kippur
Young, Benjamin
Zhang Daoling
Zhang Jue
Zhang Liang
Zhang Pao
Zhuang'zi
Zoroaster
Zoroastrians
Zwingli, Ulrich
a
J. Hospers, “Rock Magnetism and Polar Wandering,”
The Journal of Geology
63, no. 5 (1955): 59.
The Journal of Geology
63, no. 5 (1955): 59.
b
Sid Perkins, “North by Northwest: The Planet's Wandering Magnetic Poles Help Reveal History of Earth and Humans,”
Science News,
December 22-29, 2007, pp. 392-394.
Science News,
December 22-29, 2007, pp. 392-394.
c
Ludwig Koenen, “Greece, the Near East and Egypt: Cyclic Destruction in Hesiod and the Catalogue of Women,”
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)
124 (1994): 6.
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)
124 (1994): 6.
d
Ibid., 10.
e
This may be one of the reasons most people think they'll survive the Apocalypse. We're hardwired for it.
f
Alfred Burns,
The Power of the Written Word: The Role of Literacy in Western Civilization
(New York: Lang, 1989), 16. This, I am sure, has been noted by the “alien seed” theorists.
The Power of the Written Word: The Role of Literacy in Western Civilization
(New York: Lang, 1989), 16. This, I am sure, has been noted by the “alien seed” theorists.
g
Daniel F. Fleming, “After the Gods Abandoned Us,”
The Classical World
97, no. 1 (2003): 13.
The Classical World
97, no. 1 (2003): 13.
h
A. R. Millard, “A Sign of the Flood,”
Iraq
49 (1987): 65.
Iraq
49 (1987): 65.
i
Ibid., 65.
j
Fleming, 15.
k
Benjamin R. Foster, “Mesopotamia and the End of Time,” in
Imagining the End,
ed. Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson (London: Tauris, 2002), 27.
Imagining the End,
ed. Abbas Amanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson (London: Tauris, 2002), 27.
l
“The Epic of Gilgamesh,” trans. E. A. Speiser, in
Religions of the Ancient Near East,
ed. Isaac Mendelsohn (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1955), 106.
Religions of the Ancient Near East,
ed. Isaac Mendelsohn (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1955), 106.
m
Foster, 26.
n
Robert H. Pfeiffer, “Akkadian Prophecies,” in
Religions of the Ancient Near East,
205-207.
Religions of the Ancient Near East,
205-207.
o
Rosalie David,
The Experience of Ancient Egypt
(London: Routledge, 2000), 25.
The Experience of Ancient Egypt
(London: Routledge, 2000), 25.
p
Leonard H. Lesko, “Ancient Egyptian Cosmologies and Cosmogonies,” in
Religion in Ancient Egypt
ed. Byron E. Shafer (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), 93.
Religion in Ancient Egypt
ed. Byron E. Shafer (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), 93.
q
Stephen Quirke,
Ancient Egyptian Religion
(London, British Museum Press, 1992), 70.
Ancient Egyptian Religion
(London, British Museum Press, 1992), 70.
r
Dieter Arnold, Lanny Bell, Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, Gerhard Haeny, and Byron E. Shafer,
Temples of Ancient Egypt
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), 2.
Temples of Ancient Egypt
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), 2.
s
Quoted in Lesko, 103.
t
Ibid.
u
Ibid., 102. This may mean that the king was tomb robbing.
v
Quirke, 81.
w
Dieter et al., p. 24.
x
Ludwig Koenen, “Greece, the Near East and Egypt: Cyclic Destruction in Hesiod and the Catalogue of Women,”
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)
124 (1994): 15.
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)
124 (1994): 15.
y
Philip G. Kreyenbrock, “Millennialism and Eschatology in the Zoroastrian Tradition,” in
Imagining the End: Visions of the Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America, ed.
Abbas Amnanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson (London: Tauris, 2002, 34. Ohrmazd is also called Avestan and Ahura Mazda, or Lord Wisdom. Ahriman goes by Angra, or Evil Spirit.
Imagining the End: Visions of the Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America, ed.
Abbas Amnanat and Magnus T. Bernhardsson (London: Tauris, 2002, 34. Ohrmazd is also called Avestan and Ahura Mazda, or Lord Wisdom. Ahriman goes by Angra, or Evil Spirit.
z
Ibid.
aa
Ibid., 35.
ab
Ibid.
ac
Miles Menander,
The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster
(New York: Macmillan, 1931), 13.
The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster
(New York: Macmillan, 1931), 13.
ad
R. C. Zaehner,
The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism
(New York: Putnam, 1961), 60.
The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism
(New York: Putnam, 1961), 60.
ae
Ibid., p. 62.
af
R. Gordon Wasson, “The Soma of the Rig-Veda, What Was It?,”
Journal of the American Oriental Society
91, no. 2 (1971): 169-187, opts for a mushroom.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
91, no. 2 (1971): 169-187, opts for a mushroom.
ag
René Dussaud, “
Ancien bronzes de Louristan et les cultes iranien,
”
Syria
2, no. 3.4 (1949): 205-207.
Ancien bronzes de Louristan et les cultes iranien,
”
Syria
2, no. 3.4 (1949): 205-207.
ah
Zaehner, 87.
ai
Ibid., 90.
aj
Ibid., 91.
ak
Dussaud, 218.
al
John R. Hinnells, “Zoroastrian Saviour Imagery and Its Influence on the New Testament,”
Numen
16, no. 3 (1969):167.
Numen
16, no. 3 (1969):167.
am
Zaehner, 58.
an
James R. Russell, “On Mysticism and Esotericism among the Zoroastrians,”
Iranian Studies
26, no. 1-2 (1993): 76. This is even reported by the Roman historian Pliny.
Iranian Studies
26, no. 1-2 (1993): 76. This is even reported by the Roman historian Pliny.
ao
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, “Time and Eternity,”
Artibus Asiae Supplementum
8 (1947): 40.
Artibus Asiae Supplementum
8 (1947): 40.
ap
Ebeneezer Burgess, “Translation of the Surya-Siddhanta, A Textbook of Hindu Astronomy,”
Journal of the American Oriental Society
6 (1858-1860): 154.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
6 (1858-1860): 154.
aq
Hubert Seiwart,
Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History
(Boston: Brill, 2003), 128.
Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History
(Boston: Brill, 2003), 128.
ar
Burgess, 155.
as
Robert Stencel, Fred Gifford, Eleanor Moron, “Astrology and Cosmology at Angkor Wat,”
Science
new ser. 193, no. 4250 (1976): 181-187. It's easier to understand with lots of pictures, but I can't manage that. Check out the article.
Science
new ser. 193, no. 4250 (1976): 181-187. It's easier to understand with lots of pictures, but I can't manage that. Check out the article.
at
Quoted in Lynn Thomas, “The Identity of the Destroyer in the Mahabhrata,”
Numen
41, no. 3 (1994): 257.
Numen
41, no. 3 (1994): 257.
au
Mahabharata,
book 6,
Bhisna parva,
sec. 3.
book 6,
Bhisna parva,
sec. 3.
av
Quoted in Lance E. Nelson,
Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), 181.
Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), 181.
aw
S. Radhakrishnan,
The Brahma Sutra: The Philosophy of Spiritual Life
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), 99.
The Brahma Sutra: The Philosophy of Spiritual Life
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), 99.
ax
Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version.
ay
I never understood this. Was it to be sure everyone understood that the problem with interpreting the writing wasn't lack of light?
az
George A. Barton, “The Composition of the Book of Daniel,”
Journal of Biblical Literature
17, no. 1 (1898): 62-86, gives an overview of theories from Spinoza and Newton to his own time.
Journal of Biblical Literature
17, no. 1 (1898): 62-86, gives an overview of theories from Spinoza and Newton to his own time.
ba
That the Book of Daniel as a source for the Book of Revelation is well established and is discussed in the section on John.
bb
R. B. Y. Scott, “I Daniel, the Original Apocalypse,”
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
47, no. 4 (1931): 296. Isaac Newton, among others, agreed.
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
47, no. 4 (1931): 296. Isaac Newton, among others, agreed.
bc
John of Patmos builds on this in his vision in which the sealed book is opened.
bd
Salo Baron,
A Social and Religious History of the Jews,
vol. 2, 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952), 58-61. See also the section on the other Jewish apocalypses.
A Social and Religious History of the Jews,
vol. 2, 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952), 58-61. See also the section on the other Jewish apocalypses.
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