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Category: Social Pyramid, Content: Priests were the servants of the gods who performed daily rituals to honor them
��� Egyptian Priest - No Contact with people - Priests did not preach, proselytize, or care for a congregation, their duties were:
Perform material and ritually magic services to the god of his temple
Perform funeral rites for the dead.
Catholic Priests- Close contact with people - messengers of a 'divinely revealed truth.'
Preach the word of the Lord
Attend to the spiritual, pastoral, moral, and educational needs of the members of their church.
The Past:
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
'The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.'
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Hope
Question: The hope that tomorrow will solve our problems prevents our seeing the absolute urgency of change. How does one deal with this?
Jiddu Krishnamurti - What do you mean by the future, what is future? If one is desperately ill, tomorrow has meaning; one may be healed by tomorrow. So one must ask, what is this sense of future? We know the past; we live in the past, which is the opposite movement; and the past, going through the present, modifying itself, moves to that which we call the future.
First of all, are we aware that we live in the past - the past that is always modifying itself, adjusting itself, expanding and contracting itself, but still the past - past experience, past knowledge, past understanding, past delight, the pleasure which has become the past?
The future is the past, modified. So one's hope of the future is still the past moving to what one considers to be the future. The mind never moves out of the past. The future is always the mind acting, living, thinking in the past.
What is the past? It is one's racial inheritance, one's conditioning as Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Catholic, American and so on. It is the education one has received the hurts the delights, as remembrances. That is the past. That is one's consciousness.
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Perform material and ritually magic services to the god of his temple
Perform funeral rites for the dead.
Catholic Priests- Close contact with people - messengers of a 'divinely revealed truth.'
Preach the word of the Lord
Attend to the spiritual, pastoral, moral, and educational needs of the members of their church.
The Past:
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
'The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.'
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Hope
Question: The hope that tomorrow will solve our problems prevents our seeing the absolute urgency of change. How does one deal with this?
Jiddu Krishnamurti - What do you mean by the future, what is future? If one is desperately ill, tomorrow has meaning; one may be healed by tomorrow. So one must ask, what is this sense of future? We know the past; we live in the past, which is the opposite movement; and the past, going through the present, modifying itself, moves to that which we call the future.
First of all, are we aware that we live in the past - the past that is always modifying itself, adjusting itself, expanding and contracting itself, but still the past - past experience, past knowledge, past understanding, past delight, the pleasure which has become the past?
The future is the past, modified. So one's hope of the future is still the past moving to what one considers to be the future. The mind never moves out of the past. The future is always the mind acting, living, thinking in the past.
What is the past? It is one's racial inheritance, one's conditioning as Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Catholic, American and so on. It is the education one has received the hurts the delights, as remembrances. That is the past. That is one's consciousness.
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