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  Anathema (This Rock: April 2000)
Anathemas were only warranted by very grave sins, but there was no reason why the offender could not repent, and those who repent aren’t damned.
Thus, while anathemas were imposed on account of gravely sinful behavior, this was not a guarantee that it was mortally sinful.
Anathemas were simply a major excommunication performed with a special papal ceremony, and, like all excommunications, their intent was medicinal, not punitive.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anathema
When the anathema is rigorous all the inhabitants are to be exterminated, the city burned, and permission denied ever to rebuild it, and its riches offered to Jehovah.
In the New Testament anathema no longer entails death, but the loss of goods or exclusion from the society of the faithful.
solemn formula as anathema, by which the criminal is excommunicated, abandoned to the judgment of God, and rejected from the bosom of the Church until the coming of the Lord.
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 anathema - Definitions from Dictionary.com
One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned: "Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a 'social construct'" (Wendy Kaminer).
Anathema maranatha, taken as an intensified form, is a misreading of the Syriac maran etha "the Lord hath come," which follows anathema in I Cor.
In some cases an individual denounces an anathema on himself unless certain conditions are fulfilled (Acts 23:12, 14, 21).
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Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure and The Focus of Life
The three books included in this publication are Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites, The Book of Pleasure: The Psychology of Ecstasy and The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos.
This compilation of three of Spare's most popular works is a must read for those that are fans of his writings and those interested in books on the occult.
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 Definition of anathema - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Late Latin anathemat-, anathema, from Greek, thing devoted to evil, curse, from anatithenai to set up, dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to place, set — more at do
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