There's nothing really biblical about most Christinane theology. It's just using Pagan philosophy to backwards rationalise a Judeo-supremacist fairy tale. The question of whether the cosmos came to exist from nothing, or always existed, or had a creator (and who created the creator, turtles all the way down), or is comprised of a mind (aka: logos, nous, phyche, etc), etc, etc, is somewhat interesting. But with the exception of modern astrophysics and math, also purely speculation. Why some Abrahamic cults get a free pass to commit genocide over who has the right answer and whether it can be backwards rationalised into that farcical text is beyond me. If there's anything that's purely Abrahamic, it's all the bloodshed stemming from that argument, which frankly makes it abundantly clear that this is no religion, but simply a cult of violent stupidity using a heap of saccharine platitudes to disguise itself as such.
The first guy to even mention the "trinity" was Tertullian, and he was basing the concept off the Logos theology which was plagiarised wholesale from Platonism. All the early church fathers were heavily influenced by Hellenic theology and philosophy, including the Jews of that era. To say it had no influence on their thinking is silly, since their entire argument in that era was an attempt to justify Christinanity's status as a legitimate religion in contrast to the philosophical and theological understanding from the traditions of Plato, Aristotle and Homer, etc. That and to distinguish themselves from other sects such as what's now broadly called "Gnostic". All the theological language they used to denote these concepts were taken directly from prior art and the language invented by Pagan theologians.
I think the Trinity is pretty important to most of Christinanity, in spite of it being a direct ripoff from Plato's theory of the tripartate soul. #justsayn Just one example of many.
Neither Judajism, Christinanity nor Islame would have a theology to speak of were it not for them syncretising Hermeticism and NeoPlatonism into the BuyBull narrative.
Ah. News to me. I thought it was a reference to the revelation of John or something. Frankly there's a lot of "christinane interpretation of hermetic occultism". Literally almost 2,000 years worth, since it's been a core influence on Christinane theology from day one. Some of the early church fathers (eg. Bishop Syanecius of Cyrene, 4th century) were even Hermetic priesthood at the same time. Hermeticism by way of alchemy eventually evolved into modern day science. It was originally a religion in it's own rite. Isaac Newton's translation of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes is my fave tbh.
Most of what people think they know about stoicism these days is superficial BS that's been gutted of the richness of their tradition. This book however is highly recommended by those in the know.
"A pantheistic and magical figure of the Absolute. The torch placed between the two horns represents the equilibrating intelligence of the triad. The goat's head, which is synthetic, and unites some characteristics of the dog, bull, and ass, represents the exclusive responsibility of matter and the expiation of bodily sins in the body. The hands are human, to exhibit the sanctity of labour ; they make the sign of esotericism above and below, to impress mystery on initiates, and they point at two lunar crescents, the upper being white and the lower black, to explain the correspondences of good and evil, mercy and justice. The lower part of the body is veiled, portraying the mysteries of universal generation, which is expressed solely by the symbol of the caduceus. The belly of the goat is scaled, and should be coloured green ; the semi-circle above should be blue ; the plumage, reaching to the breast, should be of various hues. The goat has female breasts, and thus its only human characteristics are those of maternity and toil, otherwise the signs of redemption. On its forehead, between the horns and beneath the torch, is the sign of the microcosm, or the pentagram with one beam in the ascendant, symbol of human intelligence, which, placed thus below the torch, makes the flame of the latter an image of divine revelation. This Pantheos should be seated on a cube, and its footstool should be a single ball, or a ball and a triangular stool. In our design we have given the former only to avoid complicating the figure. ... The name of the Templar Baphomet, which should be spelt Kabbalistically backwards, is composed of three abbreviations : TEM. OHP. AB., Templi omnium hominum pacisabbas, " the father of the temple of universal peace among men." ... Now, this virile head is a beautiful allegory which attributes to thought alone the initiating and creating principle. Here the head represents spirit and the body matter. The orbs enchained to the human form, and directed by that nature of which intelligence is the head, are also magnificently allegorical"
You should read Eliphas Levi "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic" who is the original source for that image. He explains very clearly that the Baphomet symbol represents essentially the Western esoteric equivalent of Taichi (yin/yang), and that all the furious arm waving about it being Satanic is because regular Christians are violently superstitious lunatics. For instance...
"The symbolic head of the goat of Mendes is occasionally given to this figure, and it is then the Baphomet of the Templars and the Word of the Gnostics bizarre images which became scarecrows for the vulgar after affording food for thought to the sages, innocent hieroglyphs of thought and faith which have been a pretext for the rage of persecutions. How pitiable are men in their ignorance, but how they would despise themselves if once they came to know!"
I barely even know who this guy is, and I'm quite happy to keep it that way. But I see he made some negative comments about Trump, and if Trump decides to pull a Killary Clinton, I probably won't even notice much less lose any sleep over it.
HackRF or LimeSDR both do everything flipper can do and way way more, though you'd need to DIY a mobile case and UI. (speaking from research, rather than direct experience).
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