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	Hsien-T'ien Tao (Way of Former Heaven) Sects
		The patriarchal lines of these two sects are largely identical down to the thirteenth patriarch Yang Shou-i (1796-1828), after whom the lines split and ultimately lead to the development of the I-Kuan Tao and the T'ung-shan She as separate sects.
		In addition, the sect maintains a strong institutional presence in Hong Kong and is proselytizing actively and successfully among overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe.
		For the first few years the sect remained centred in the province of Szechwan, but in 1917 the sect's administrative headquarters was established in Peking and was duly registered with the city government.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/china/hsien.html (2325 words)

	General Essay on Chinese Religions
		There are two streams of Taoism: Religious Taoism, which is represented by the many sects concerned with the quest for immortality, and Philosophical Taoism, which was concerned to explain the human condition.
		Christianity came to China first by the way of Nestorian Christians, after the arrival of A-Lo-Pen in 781 where it flourished for two centuries (by favour of the imperial court) until the reign of Wu Tsung who closed the monasteries and persecuted the church.
		These sects also claim to transcend all other religions and, therefore, provide a way by which all these religions can be united.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/china/geness.html (2739 words)

	No Sects
		That there exists an almost uncountable number of sects which divide the Christian world today -- each attempting to portray themselves as the genuine followers of Messiah/Christ -- from a purely biblical perspective this house divided syndrome demonstrates the reality of a spiritually disenfranchised people of blind faith who are led by blind guides.
		The teachings of The Way had absolutely nothing in common with a church or synagogue where priests, rabbis and other clerics performed rituals to absolve the people of their refusal to live in accordance with the Word of God.
		In the same way, children and adults alike are constantly being showered with claims of the superiority of one religious doctrine over that of another -- and yet, they are never told about what the Bible states is the cause for all theological conflict in the world.
	messianic.nazirene.org /no_sects.htm (10776 words)

	MORE LIGHT
		The earth is the standard of living places, not some speculative unseen regions, of which its 'heaven' may be the proper dwelling place for angels, and its 'hell' that of devils.
		To heaven, or to hell, for all eternity was to be the lot of all mankind, and still is, of course.
		Heaven is reserved for the Christian, and the Christian, of course, believes in God.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/heaven/morelight10.html (21077 words)

	Frank Toth - Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heaven is where Jesus Christ and the other "anointed Christians" will live.
		Those who don't qualify for heaven or the kingdom that will be established on earth will simply dissappear, as if they had never existed.
		When Jesus became king, Satan and his evil angels were kicked out of heaven and sent to inhabit the earth.
	formerjw.homestead.com /who.html (3743 words)

	REVELATION
		In the former sense, it was equivalent to hades (see Acts 2:27,31); in the later sense, it was equivalent to tartaros (see 2 Peter 2:4).
		The "angel" coming down from heaven with a great chain in his hand may symbolize the evangels (or evangelist) on earth with a heavenly message.
		The principal reasons are that (1) a corollary of the former was that the world would get better and better until the millennium eventuated, and the events of the century have seemed to conspire to refute such a.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /thebibleway/cw-rev17.htm (1741 words)

	The Good Life Regardless of Circumstances - With Dr James Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The importance of experiencing the kingdom of God and the preaching of Jesus to come and establish that kingdom was gradually replaced with a focus upon a heaven and a hell in the next life.
		Jesus then illustrated that because of this longing to hold on to the past and the failure to understand the ways of life, many would miss the opportunity to experience the glory of the manifestation of the kingdom of God in their lives.
		The way of life revealed in that event is the reason Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" (John 12:24).
	www.wayofchrist.org /good-life-two.asp (8855 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the other hand, the ROC, while never formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as Taiwan, which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see political status of Taiwan for more information).
		However, Yuan Shikai, a former Qing general who had defected to the revolutionary cause, soon forced Sun to step aside and took the presidency for himself (formally it was a negotiation where Sun agreed to step aside for what was then perceived as a strong reformer, Yuan).
		Dust blows all the way to southern China, Taiwan, and has even been measured on the West Coast of the United States.
	abcworld.net /China.html (4886 words)

	WAR IN HEAVEN / Notes
		Since there is at the moment no other way for readers to gain access to the ideas or information expressed in WiH, I am undertaking to summarize the key points here, and where appropriate on various pages of the Open SETI website.
		Christians in Heaven are kept in a perpetual state of religious ecstasy which activates their psychic powers under the control of their God.
		Theocratic religious sects often forbid deliberate mediumistic contact with the spirit world precisely because of this need to protect knowledge of the true nature of the afterlife.
	www.zeitlin.net /EndEnchantment/WarInHeaven.html (5868 words)

	Essene and Christian Parallels and Commonalties
		Nevertheless, so much remained the same that the identity of the two sects at their root cannot be denied.
		The highest aim of their lives was to become fit temples of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor 6:19), to perform cures especially spiritual cures and to be spiritually qualified as forerunners of the Messiah.
		Such was the religion, such the moral system, such the devout piety and such the practical lives of the Essenes, a religious sect which flourished in Alexandria and Judaea before the birth of Christ and was replaced in history by Christianity.
	www.thenazareneway.com /essene_and_christian_parallels.htm (3354 words)

	Why Wasn't Chinese Science about Nature?
		In early Chinese philosophic and scientific language, there are ways, sometimes simple ones, to say something more or less equivalent to each of the twenty or thirty senses of "Nature" and the forty or fifty senses of "natural" found in a standard English dictionary.
		Because the deeper Way is mysterious, arcane, and subtle, a sage cannot give an orderly account of its first principles to anyone else without speaking of it on two levels.
		In China there is general agreement that the ruler was the mediator between heaven and earth, responsible for the welfare of "all under heaven." Cosmos and the state form a resonant whole.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~nsivin/wayword.html (11826 words)

	Early Christianity, Primitive Christianity
		Mary Magdalene was on her way to France, having fled the Holy Lands with her children, who because they were Yeshua's offspring, were also a threat to the Herodian Dynasty and Roman rule in Palestine.
		If it was a religion, it was one with a path and a Way that had not existed since the days of Solomon, and before him Melchizedek, when Yahweh or El Elyon and his Wife were worshipped together as God-the-Father and God-the-Mother.
		This writing shall examine several doctrines of the church, their stated origin and the manner in which each has deviated from what many believe to be the true message of the sage and master Yeshua.
	northernway.org /early.html (4460 words)

	A . m . b . i . g . u . i . t . y: God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"I'm this way because of the things that have happened to me" I wonder if there is a way around that, around shackling ourselves to the past, enslaving our lives to be lived within the boundaries that our past set.
		Instead of choosing to believe that the human body came equipped with a way to facilitate the transfer of energy needed to create a physical response in the body, people believe that unless they are wearing a bug repellent, they will get bitten.
		Siddhartha (Buddha) was a man who broke free from the dream that is this life and searched and found a way to become enlightened, to jump to the next level of existence at the end of our time here.
	www.blog.oliverthomasart.com /2006/05/god.html (1798 words)

	Former Christian Priests and Missionaries who have Embraced Islam
		My wife and I had attempted to live our lives that same way, but for several years I had felt that we were doing so in the context of a moral vacuum.
		As a former minister and elder of the Christian church, it has become incumbent upon me to enlighten those that continue to walk in darkness.
		That set the Nun thinking, her mind "challenged", and when the former Bishop proposed marriage to the Nun later, the answer was "yes".
	www.islamdoor.com /former.htm (15376 words)

	Shaolin Chamber-Reviews
		I thought the first movie, Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre was a bit confusing, especially with all the names thrown at you, it made it quite difficult to keep up with the story.
		This movie along with Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre are both recommended purchases, but also multiple viewings should be considered to fully understand the many developments that take place throughout the 3+ hours of story you will get from both movies.
		If you have a membership at either Cinflix or Nicheflix, I would recommend you to rent this movie as well as the first one, that is as soon as they have them available for rent, to make sure it is the type of film you can appreciate and enjoy.
	www.shaolinchamber.com /reviews-HeavenSwordDragonSabre2.html (1367 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Heaven, which way?
		Challenges to the consensus are the only way to build a new consensus which will be capable of sponsoring progress.
		The process of interpretation is not, in essence, separable from the structure of the texts involved, for it interacts humanly and historically with the texts in a way that makes any reference to a "pure text" a flight of the imagination, an attempt to deny the human aspect and disassociate it from the divine.
		The 1967 defeat gave currency to the claim that the only way to salvation was through the establishment of an Islamic state ruled by Shari'a, a state that would bring back the golden age of the caliphate.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/603/sc16-17.htm (6355 words)

	Way of Former Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Way of Former Heaven, or Hsien-t'ien tao or Xian Tian Tao (先天道) encompasses five religious groups of Chinese origin.
		The term White Lotus religion (Bai Lian Jiao) has a negative meaning in Taiwan and is associated with secret, illegal, rebellious sects.
		The wheel of reincarnation started and the return to heaven was no longer possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Way_of_former_Heaven_Sects (359 words)

	What did Christ teach about Heaven and Hell? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		New birth, salvation, damnation, heaven and hell, all these have become to us mental conceptions which we believe to be solidly anchored in the Bible, yet which we nevertheless sadly misunderstand, forgetting to whom and in what connection these things were spoken.
		All were and remained what they had become in Adam, mortals on their way to death.
		Therefore the former was necessary, in order to prepare the road for the latter.
	www.godstruthfortoday.org /MillennialMadness/HeavenAndHell.htm (4530 words)

	Sacred Scrolls of the Essene Church
		Though it is different from the other six of these seven sects, it causes schism only by forbidding the books of Moses like the Nasaraeans.
		This was Elxai who may have given his name to the ancient Elkasite sect.
		Epiphanius is our source on this Ossaean prophet named Elxai, who is said to have insisted on matrimony and introduced into their oaths and worship the substances of salt, water, earth, bread, heaven, aether and wind; with 7 witnesses: sky, water, holy spirits, angels of prayer, the olive, salt and earth.
	essenes.net /jewsects2.html (653 words)

	Vietnamese beliefs, vietnam religion, belief and religion in vietnam, religions in vietnam
		According to the Taoist cosmology, Ngoc Hoang, the emperor of Jade whose abode is in the heaven, rules over a world of divinities, genies, spirits and demons in which the forces of nature are incarnated as a supernatural beings and great historical personages have become gods.
		It is the aspect of Raoism that has become assimiliated into the daily lives of most Vietnamese as a collection of supersition and mystical and animistic beliefs.
		By the early Han, Laozi came to be worshipped as a god—either in association with or conflated with the Yellow Emperor.
	www.hotelvietnamonline.com /culture/taoism.htm (1990 words)

	Written & Artistic Works by Our Seminarians & Doctoral Candidates
		The Nazarene Sect of Jesus the Nazarene was a Gnostic and Kabbalistic Sect that had its origins in the Oral, Esoteric Tradition of Judaism.
		There are no definitive ways to measure what, if any, influence Joe's positive thinking had on the situation, but Joe knows in the depths of his soul that the positive thinking did have an affect and no one can shake his complete conviction of that positive influence.
		Not only is mankind beginning to consider the way in which he treats his environment, he is becoming willing to "put his money where his mouth is" both financially and physically in regard to nurturing it.
	www.northernway.org /membersworks.html (18577 words)

	Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - "The Other Side of Heaven"
		However, it should be known that this is a Mormon film based on the memoirs of John Groberg, currently a Seventy in the Mormon Church who served an LDS mission in the 1950s.
		The film was not produced, funded or endorsed in any way by that Church.
		Some might call that good marketing strategy; however, knowing how the LDS Church continually deals with its image in the public arena, I just can't help but think that this was a bit of, for lack of a better word, deception.
	www.mrm.org /multimedia/text/other-side-of-heaven.html (1427 words)

	Excerpt from The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
		The church began publication of a newspaper under the editorship of William W. Phelps, a native of New Hampshire and former New York newspaper editor and politician.
		On the way he visited with missionaries such as Pratt's younger brother Orson and John Murdock, like so many of the early Saints, New York natives and former Campbellites.
		In a real sense the experience affected Woodruff in ways similar to modern thought reform by destroying for the time being not only his commitment to previous beliefs but also to his family.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/heaven.htm (9796 words)

	Meteoroloo.com :: China - great wall of china
		On the other hand, the ROC, while never formally surrendering its claims to all of China, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as Taiwan.
		Sun Yat-sen of the Kuomintang population of china (KMT or Nationalist Party), was proclaimed provisional president of the republic.
		The Giant Panda is an endangered species native to the bamboo forests of central and southern China.During many dynasties, the southwestern border of China has been the high mountains and deep valleys of Yunnan, which separate modern China from Burma, Laos and Vietnam.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-countries-a-b/China.html (5056 words)

	Christian Audio Heaven IV
		The view of the Eucharist as heaven on earth was essential to the faith of the earliest Christians and to the authors of the New Testament -- especially the Book of Revelation.
		This exegetical unfolding of the Annunciation, Visitation and Nativity are beautifully placed in their historical context, along with the OT prophesies, NT parallels, and wonderful quotes from Mother Teresa, and G. Chesterton.
		Groeschel shows that the way out of the present darkness begins through the intercession of "She who is the mother of Him who will rule the nations," our Blessed Lady.
	csasso.hypermart.net /heaven4.htm (7961 words)

	China - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The People's Republic of China does not consider the Republic of China to be legitimate, as it considers itself to have succeeded it entirely.
		On the other hand, the Republic of China, while never formally rescinding its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as "Taiwan", which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West.
		However, Yuan Shikai, a former Qing general who had defected to the revolutionary cause, soon forced Sun to step aside and took the presidency for himself.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=244908 (4207 words)

	Christmas Download Service 1
		He is incorpreal, and infinite; and in the same way it is said of God that He is one.
		The ancient peoples viewed the heavens, the wide open formless space above everything later created, as "Water." This water is the sky that we see as blue in the daylight.
		You can examine words this way in every dialect and arrive at the fact that different tribes read the same diagram differently, or read the original words derived from it variantly when they transcribed or interpreted them down the many millenniums of human history.
	www.gis.net /~mlkyway/serv01.htm (10724 words)

	The Bible Led me to Islam - Iman Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Without any biblical or divine guidance, the only way I thought this to be possible was to always do good deeds and keep the remembrance of God on my tongue and in my heart.
		There are MANY Bibles on the market that are used by different Christian sects and all of these sects say that their book, though different, is the word of God.
		In addition to the many different Christian sects and Bibles, I have learned that there are also different men, not Prophets, who founded these sects and are using various interpretations of the Bible and/or man-made doctrines as their creed.
	www.imanway.com /en/showthread.php?t=101 (4886 words)

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