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  The Destiny of Man
The destiny of man as seen by these mystics is to be a similar process of going back to his source and origin.
This is the destiny of man as cognised by seers of transcendental divine insight.
This is the vision of man and his destiny of the illumined sages and saints, the Mahapurushas.
www.dlshq.org /messages/destiny.htm   (5733 words)

  
 Scorpio man
Scorpio man surrendered to the thrill of life, leaving behind the illusion of security offered by the job you hated, a routine you tired of years ago and the comfort of resistance.
It could be said that Scorpio man have a big advantage in that they are in touch with deep areas of their personalities that others may only sense occasionally, if at all.
The scorpio man escaped from the samsaric slumber of the syber palace in which he was born, and went to meditate under a bodhi tree for many years before enlightenment came.
www.onecer.net /astro/scorpio-man.html   (2922 words)

  
  Man's Destiny in the Universe by Swami Krishnananda
The causal notion in which the intellect of man is imbedded and soaked to its fibre appears in outward life as the seeking of perfection and achievement by the relating of one person, thing or circumstance with another, so that achievement of any kind is identified with doing something, in some manner, under some condition.
Man's professions and vocations, in short, all his business of life, is, thus, a perishable bubble floating on the tempestuous ocean of the space-time continuum.
The unending longing of man and his hope for a better future, in spite of the defeats he suffers in all his efforts, prove that there is an eternal ground of being behind temporal succession.
www.swami-krishnananda.org /disc/disc_81.html   (2822 words)

  
 Man's Final Destiny
The Son of Man decides the destiny of every man. The Westminster Confession of Faith makes this statement about the final judgment: "God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world, in righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father.
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done." In Matthew 13:40-43 he said, "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
This King, the Son of Man, is the Judge, and after dividing the sheep from the goats, he pronounced a benediction on the sheep on his right.
www.gracevalley.org /sermon_trans/Mans_Final_Destiny.html   (4159 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Naturalism
Man is a conscious automaton whose whole activity, mental as well as physiological, is determined by material antecedents.
Even if the soul of man is regarded as spiritual and immortal, and if, among human activities, some are exempted from the determinism of physical agents and recognized to be free, all this is within nature, which includes the laws governing spirits as well as those governing matter.
Having no supernatural destiny, man needs no supernatural means — neither sanctifying grace as a permanent principle to give his actions a supernatural value nor actual grace to enlighten his mind and strengthen his will.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10713a.htm   (2533 words)

  
 ORIGINAL SIN ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL
The subjugation of man and creation to the power of the devil and death was obviously a temporary frustration of the original destiny of man and creation.
Sarx and psyche are synonymous and comprise, together with the pneuma, the total man. To live according to the pneuma is not to live a life according to the lower half of man. On the contrary, to live according to the sarx, or psyche, is to live according to the law of death.
Because man is inseparably a part of, and in constant communion with, creation and is linked through procreation to the whole historical process of humanity, the fall of creation through on man automatically involves the fall and corruption of all men.
www.romanity.org /htm/rom.10.en.original_sin_according_to_st._paul.01.htm   (9546 words)

  
 The Kingdom of God, not the world, is man's eternal destiny
Man cannot become too attached to the goods that are linked to a perishable world.
He interprets the teaching on continence, on virginity, along parallel lines with the doctrine on marriage, keeping the realism that is proper to a pastor, and at the same time the proportions that we find in the Gospel, in the words of Christ himself.
Both furnish a full answer to one of man's fundamental questions, the question about the significance of "being a body", that is, about the significance of masculinity and femininity, of being "in the body" a man or a woman.
www.miraclerosarymission.org /ga82jul19.html   (1180 words)

  
 The Recovery of Man's Lost Destiny  -  John MacArthur
God's original destiny for man was to be king of the earth, and for everything in existence to be in subjection to him.
Man was made lower in the sense that he is physical and angels are spiritual.
Man needed to know that God was aware of his sin and that he had to pay for his sin in part by fighting against the earth, which was originally designed to be subject to him.
www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/sg1605.htm   (5403 words)

  
 He-Man.org
In other related news of interest, representatives for BCI Eclipse have stated that they're exploring the idea of releasing the 2002 "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" sets on high-definition Blu-ray Disc, seeing as how there was a marked improvement in quality during their tests.
King Grayskull was based around the original barbaric concept of He-Man. And discussions took place about how Prince Adam would handle the power of He-Man when he hadn't killed or hurt anyone in battle, where it was implied that King Grayskull probably did.
The passing of power was Adam's destiny and part of his lineage.
www.he-man.org   (2352 words)

  
 The Destiny of Man
But then, there has been in human history the phenomenon of individuals like you and me, but endowed with some special genius, with a hunger to know, with a keen desire to unravel the mystery of life, to see the unseen, to cognize that which is hidden behind the mere appearances.
This is the destiny of man as cognized by seers of transcendental divine insight.
So our secular heads of state, with their body bound consciousness, who are slaves of their senses and passions, who don’t know themselves and the real destiny of man, what can they provide for this inner process of evolution?
www.angelfire.com /scifi/icm/dharmatalk.html   (5726 words)

  
 American Fighting-Man: Destiny's Draftee
The man of 1950 was not a statesman; Dean Acheson and his fellow diplomats of the free world had, in 1950, notably failed to stop the march of Communism.
As the year ended, 1950's man seemed to be an American in the bitterly unwelcome role of the fighting-man. It was not a role the American had sought, either as an individual or as a nation.
A man's past, the things that shape his character, are reduced in wartime to a few sentences in a personnel file.
www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/1950.htm   (4587 words)

  
 The Church of God, International: Man's Awesome Destiny
The Copernican Revolution radically shattered man's self-importance by showing that the earth was not the center of the universe and that, in fact, the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the other way around.
The fact that man is not eternal and self-existent does not mean that man can never possess all the attributes of divinity by adoption.
The Incarnation was a signal as to the intention of God to deify man. In fact, in the very creation account, the fact that the animals were made after their own kind but man made after the image and likeness of God-the God-kind-allows us to catch a glimpse of God's divine purpose.
www.cgi.org /booklets/destiny.html   (6318 words)

  
 God's Sabbath Rest - Man's Created Destiny
He thus timed man's creation So man, made in His own image and likeness, would live the first full day of his life on God's day of rest, and be rooted and nourished in God's rest as he proceeded to exercise dominion under the Creator over all other works of God's hands (Genesis 1:26).
Because of God's creation mandate "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath" and "the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath" as Christ told the Pharisees (Mark 2:23-281.
Man was made for God's rest, and God's rest was made for man when God rested on the seventh day of creation week, the first and last Sabbath of created time.
www.creationism.org /csshs/v07n3p11.htm   (1473 words)

  
 The Kingdom of God Is Man's Eternal Destiny
Nevertheless, we can agree that at the basis of the Pauline interpretation of the subject of marriage-virginity, there is found not so much the very metaphysics of accidental being (therefore fleeting), but rather the theology of a great expectation, of which Paul was a fervent champion.
Yet at the same time he is fully aware of the weakness and sinfulness to which man is subjected, precisely by reason of the concupiscence of the flesh.
He says that the couple themselves, by knowingly cooperating with it, can maintain and strengthen that mutual personal bond and also that dignity conferred on the body by the fact that it is a "temple of the Holy Spirit who is in them" (1 Cor 6:19).
www.ewtn.com /library/PAPALDOC/JP2TB84.HTM   (1563 words)

  
 Essay IX - Man and His Destiny
Finally, there is the urge towards self-reproduction: a man feels deep within him that alone he is incomplete: it is not “good” for man to be alone: he requires a mate, and the natural result of this association of two lives is a child, and a home.
Thus, you behold man standing up on the surface of the earth and striding over it, hunting its beasts and living on their flesh and on the plants, and increasing thus his bones and blood and his muscles.
We have, so far, considered Man as it were in himself, examining the constituents of nature, albeit these displayed themselves forthwith as tending to this or that (truth, good, social life, etc.) We are now able to think of him as it were from God’s end, and thus to perceive more clearly man’s destiny.
www.marys-touch.com /Teaching/IX.htm   (11677 words)

  
 Perfect Man Lyrics - Destiny's Child
To run into your definition of that perfect man
Make him understand that he's your perfect man
Destiny's Child Tabs and Destiny's Child Sheet Music coming soon.
www.songlyrics4u.com /destinys-child/perfect-man.html   (122 words)

  
 Jesus: the Man of Destiny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We have reason to expect that an ordinary man would have survived the ordeal of crucifixion had he been removed from the cross after only six hours.
On the eve of his crucifixion, he told his disciples clearly that the hour of his destiny was the hour of his death.
On the basis of these facts, it is reasonable to believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the son of God, that he came to us on a mission of redemption according to the Father's foreordained plan, that Jesus was a man of a certain destiny, and that he fulfilled it at the cross.
www.scripturessay.com /cev10.html   (3184 words)

  
 Man's Awesome Destiny
But read the next three verses (and the entirety of Isaiah 42-45), an you will see clearly that this section is not discussing man’s destiny, but is condemning the use of false gods.
The Incarnation was a signal as to the intention of God to deify man. In fact, in the very creation account, the fact that the animals were made after their own kind but man made after the image and likeness of God—the God-kind—allows us to catch a glimpse of God’s divine purpose.
That man may become God is not merely the elevation of man to the eternal plan” but the glorification of God Himself in man.
www.cgiphils.org /literature/awesome_destiny.htm   (6287 words)

  
 PBS - Napoleon: Classroom Materials
This lesson is based on Episode One "To Destiny" of the four-part PBS series "Napoleon." It is suggested you show the hour-long video in 5 viewing segments (see below).
Before viewing the video, students are asked to consider what has influenced their own lives and whether or not they believe in "destiny." At the end of the program they must assess what have been the most significant factors in shaping Napoleon's early life, including historical events of the period.
Episode One of "Napoleon" begins with Napoleon as a young man searching, like any other young person, for a sense of identity, and ends with Napoleon's conviction that he is a man of destiny—someone who would change the face of Europe.
www.pbs.org /empires/napoleon/n_clas/destiny.html   (3220 words)

  
 Man of Destiny, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cannonading is his technical specialty; he has been trained in the artillery under the old regime, and made perfect in the military arts of shirking his duties, swindling the paymaster over travelling expenses, and dignifying war with the noise and smoke of cannon, as depicted in all military portraits.
He is, however, an original observer, and has perceived, for the first time since the invention of gunpowder, that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him.
To a thorough grasp of this remarkable discovery, he adds a highly evolved faculty for physical geography and for the calculation of times and distances.
manybooks.net /pages/shawgeoretext03tmnds10/8.html   (227 words)

  
 Booklet > What Is Your Destiny? > The Question of the Ages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen—even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas" (verses 5-8, emphasis added throughout).
Before we can comprehend man's eternal destiny, however, we need to clearly understand what man is now.
They taught that man has a dual composition, that a human being is both a physical body and an immortal soul.
www.ucg.org /booklets/WD   (1155 words)

  
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He is a chuckle-headed young man of 24, with the fair, delicate, clear skin of a man of rank, and a self-assurance on that ground which the French Revolution has failed to shake in the smallest degree.
Or do you mean that YOU are that sort of man? NAPOLEON (exasperated, clasps his hands behind him, his fingers twitching, and says, as he walks irritably away from her to the fireplace).
You must find that man. Your honor is at stake; and the fate of the campaign, the destiny of France, of Europe, of humanity, perhaps, may depend on the information those despatches contain.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/tmnds10.txt   (13240 words)

  
 Man and His Destiny
Ma’bad Juhani was a very bold and frank man. One day he asked his teacher, Hasan Basri if the question of fate and destiny as raised by the Umayyads, was right.
Anyhow in the Shi’ah literature in Arabic and Persian there is not so much mention of human liberty as of man’s being subject to his destiny, though the Imams of the Holy Family have expressly declared that the belief in fate is not on the whole inconsistent with the idea of human volition.
The words, fate and destiny have become awful and frightening because with the domination of the Ash’arite school in the Muslim world and it’s influenced over Islamic literature, these words have become synonymous with compulsion, lack of liberty and illogical control of human actions and behavior by an invisible force.
al-islam.org /mananddestiny/4.htm   (655 words)

  
 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Man of Destiny (The).
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Man of Destiny (The).
He looked on himself as an instrument in the hands of destiny.
“The Man of Destiny … had power for a time to bind kings with chains, and nobles with fetters of iron.”—Sir Walter Scott.
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 Manifest Destiny Introduction Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
No nation ever existed without some sense of national destiny or purpose.
Manifest Destiny -- a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States -- revitalized a sense of "mission" or national destiny for many Americans.
And while the United States put into motion a quest for its Manifest Destiny, Mexico faced quite different circumstances as a newly independent country.
www.pbs.org /kera/usmexicanwar/dialogues/prelude/manifest/manifestdestiny.html   (83 words)

  
 The Destiny of Man
But then, there has been in human history the phenomenon of individuals like you and me, but endowed with some special genius, with a hunger to know, with a keen desire to unravel the mystery of life, to see the unseen, to cognise that which is hidden behind the mere appearances.
This is the destiny of man as cognised by seers of transcendental divine insight.
So our secular heads of state, with their bodybound consciousness, who are slaves of their senses and passions, who don’t know themselves and the real destiny of man, what can they provide for this inner process of evolution?
www.sivanandadlshq.org /messages/destiny.htm   (5733 words)

  
 Man of Destiny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The man who had found a sign of his target's passing clutched his abdomen and dropped writhing into the dirt.
All she permitted herself was to cry her frustrated rage and to close her eyes to the sight of the man she had agreed to defend.
He would be remembered and buried with all the pomp and majesty of a man who had affected the lives of countless individuals on a myriad of worlds.
home.earthlink.net /~rdmadden/webdocs/Man_of_Destiny.html   (6899 words)

  
 Man’s Destiny--Where Am I Going?
When we speak of a person’s destiny, we are speaking of what happens to a person in the end.
Their stories are like a man telling others how good frog legs taste when the frog legs are still lying on his plate and he has not even tasted them yet!
Man is nothing more than body, brain, bones and blood.
www.middletownbiblechurch.org /manchris/manchr3.htm   (1789 words)

  
 As A Man Thinketh -- FREE eBook -- timeless classic by James Allen
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I hope As A Man Thinketh will have an impact on your life and I hope you’ll return often to our website.
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