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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Re: one more time.../Holy Spirit
Message-ID: <2323@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 16:46:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2323
Posted: Fri Oct  3 16:46:41 1986
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References: <1002@tekcrl.UUCP> <296@isieng.UUCP>
Reply-To: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel Rives)
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In article <296@isieng.UUCP> kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst) writes:
>In article <1002@tekcrl.UUCP> daveh@tekcrl.UUCP (Dave Hatcher) writes:
>>
>>Here are some related questions.
>>	Why does the inner teachings of all the great religions recognize
>>	  in their own vocabulary the Holy Spirit? 
>
>I don't think any of them do.  Most try to do self fulfillment means of 
>reaching
>nirvana or follow the instruction of some teacher.  None that I know of have 
>the
>Holy Spirit.  Do you know of anything in particular?  I have several books that
>compare different religions and I could look it up if you name one.

I, for one, would like you to look it up Kiki. Do not look in those comparative
religion books you refer to, though. Instead, go to the source. Read through
the Holy Scriptures of Hinduism - the Vedas, the Upanishad. Also, I recommend
looking into the Shaman culture of the western plains Amerinds. Study, with an
open mind, the remnants of Druidical culture that has come down to us. Explore
the mysteries of Orpheism out of Greek culture. Best of all, perhaps, because
of it's influence on Judeo-Christian concepts, study the religion of the
ancient Persians - they developed many of the concepts that were later borrowed
by the children of Israel after being released from captivity.

>>	How would you explain the saints and mystics that all religions
>>	  have?
>
>Again, I don't know of saints and mystics, not in Buddhism, Muslim, Islam, 
>Judaism, etc.  Could you provide an example?

Perhaps, Kiki, you should ask a Buddhist or a Muslim or a Sufi or a Druid
or a Wiccan or a Hindu or a Taoist or a .............

I think you get the picture. There are even net groups dedicated to various
societies (Indian, Celtic, etc...). Perhaps, you could query there.

-- 
                                               Joel Rives
                                               gatech!gitpyr!cc100jr

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