comes not know what that is, where it comes from-the historical assimilation of purity and virginity. Perhaps comes from the same place from which you linked to the soul to heaven or to the body with the ground or from where it was established that the gods had to dwell on the heights. Qualifying time will gradually, dichotomies, and returns to the chaos from which you took to explain to the men an unknown world.
In Treatise on Tolerance, Voltaire uses an old story that can be sensed in a state of Christian innocence, ignorant in their own way, subject to Manichaeism Schematic and more ignorant of future inquisitors. This is an episode in the life of Gregory Taumaturgo. This disciple of Origen, sent to preach to the region Neocaesarea (now Turkey), had to stay overnight in a temple of oracles due to a storm. The next morning, the temple priest who was surprised that the devils that had hitherto remained silent oracles delivered. The priest called out after a while they went to explain that the visitor "had been signs of the cross" during your stay and therefore could no longer live in that temple. The priest then made to stop Gregory and the latter, after assuring that he had every right to expel the demons wherever he wanted, he finally reached an agreement with his captor. Gregory cut a piece of paper and he wrote the following note: "Gregory to Satan, I command you to come into this temple." The paper was placed on the altar of the temple and the demons came back and returned to deliver their oracles as usual. Gregory was so free and continued his way.
Nothing is what it seems. Satan is depicted with legs and horns of a goat because, before him, those legs and those horns held and crowned fauns, personification of natural impulses, of unreflective instinct, joy overflowing in Greek mythology, in turn inspired by the East. Since ancient times, popular culture has accompanied the demons with masks and bells, with laughter that were both mockery and reverence, while the authorities needed to worship the deity with tears and suffering for lost innocence.
in Christendom could not fit those pagan gods and heroes and immoral where the martyrs enjoyed demonstrating the heroism of their suffering. The purity of man, connected with its divine part, is looking at what is believed more distant from each other: clean in thought passions and the will of the body torn. Holiness, the ideal of existence for man, lay in the desert, in the absence of stimuli, absolutely nothing. The statement was possible only from and through personal denial.
Purity and virginity is established as a concept that, once assimilated, they conclude that the world should be stain and aspire to a particular action or inaction by the removal of the same. Nothing but pure, however, be consistent with what one is, has and feels ... Can there, then, purity of virginity, as untouched, as not lived? In everything human is should not expel demons.
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