...A focus may be a physical object, a [[ritual]]istic action (for example, [[meditation]] or chanting), or a medium in which one becomes wholly immersed. The previ
...istianity's mystical offshoots, has lent aspects of its philosophy to most Christian-based occultism since the 17th century.
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...t and it was thus quite natural that monasteries, the homes of prayers and meditation, grew up in this area.
...e tradition. The crypt of the present church attests to the existence of a Christian colony in the 1s1 century AD.
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...have reclaimed "witch" attempting to remove its gynophobic and misogynist Christian and Patriarchal connotations. Male witches have most often been titled [[So
...specially neopagan ones, consider the malefic nature of witchcraft to be a Christian projection.
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...te (Roman) Antiquity: Greco-Roman concepts of ''daemons'' that passed into Christian culture are discussed in the entry [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]].The Hellen
...n the [[Tanakh]] are not the same as "demons" commonly known in popular or Christian culture.
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...ical experiences through studies and practice. Possible techniques include meditation, prayer, asceticism, devotions, the chanting of mantras or holy names, and
:*''God is Love'' (Christian and Sufi in particular), ''Atman is Brahman'' (Advaitan), Zen haiku, Rumi's
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...lements and sacred rituals. The underlying [[theology]] in these works of Christian demonology encourages the magician to fortify himself with [[fasting]], [[p
...their magical practices astrology, [[folklore]], and distorted versions of Christian ritual magic worked alongside each other to answer customer demand.
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...age:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 038-crop.JPG|thumb|right|''Philosopher in Meditation'' (detail), by Rembrandt]]
...Heloise (student of Abelard)|Heloise]]. The philosophers in the scholastic Christian tradition and philosophers in the other major [[Abrahamic religion]]s, such
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...ely incorrupt in the 1990s, was achieved by the sophisticated practices of meditation, coupled with prolonged starvation and slow self-suffocation using a specia
...city. Another notable example of natural mummification in modern times is Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz (1651-1702), whose body is on exhibit in his native
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...his father's death, his mother's efforts at indoctrinating her son in the Christian faith only served to provoke his skepticism. As a child, his constant rebel
...ting the essay ''Berashith'' (the first word of Genesis), in which he gave meditation (or restraint of the mind to a single object) as the means of attaining his
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