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Bitu's primary function is that of a gatekeeper (ì-du 8). [11] He could also be addressed as the "great gatekeeper," ì-du 8 gal. [5] This epithet was transcribed in Akkadian as idugallu. [5] In incantations which were meant to compel demons and ghosts to return to the underworld, a formula placing them under the control of Bitu was sometimes ...
The Economy of God, first published in 1968, is one of Witness Lee's principal works and is a compilation of messages he gave in the summer of 1964 in Los Angeles. These messages build on one of Watchman Nee's classics, The Spiritual Man, which reveals that man is composed of three parts - spirit, soul, and body.
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
In Traci Harding's book The Cosmic Logos, the Grigori are a group of fallen spiritual beings who watched over and assisted human spiritual evolution thus gaining the title "the Watchers". Looking in on us from way out there, the protagonist of the 1972 Hawkwind song The Watcher feels his "sense all disgusted:" although man had the chance to do ...
Interpretations concerning the god's fundamental nature either limit it to this general function or emphasize a concrete or particular aspect of it (identifying him with light, [17] the sun, [18] the moon, [19] time, [20] movement, [21] the year, [22] doorways, [23] bridges, [24] etc.) or else see in the god a sort of cosmological principle ...
2nd gate: the guardian god is called "Swallower Of Sinners" and his gate precedes a lake of fire. 3rd gate : its guardian snake is "Stinger" while the portal itself is the goddess " Mistress Of Food "; some jackals watch over the "Lake of Life" interdicted to the dead because it is the place where Ra draws his breath.
The figure of Christ is central to the spirituality of the Watchers, and should provoke a spiritual and social conversion in everyone. [16] Thus: "In homage to the Crucified-Resurrected, the Watchers evoke, every Friday, in recollection, the Cross of Calvary, God's gift par excellence to humanity for its salvation. This homage can also take a ...
Jaya is depicted as a four-armed god with the chakra in his upper left hand, a shankha in his upper right hand, a mace in his lower left hand, and a sword in his lower right hand. Vijaya is depicted in the same manner except that he holds a chakra in his upper right hand, a shankha in his upper left hand, a gada in his lower right hand, and a ...