Gospels…Acts of Apostles…Zoroaster legend:

Acts & the Gospel of Luke, both by the same anonymous author, are dated 80–110 AD; Luke tells how God fulfilled his plan for salvation through Jesus (the promised Messiah).  Acts continues the story into the 1st century, beginning with the ascension of Jesus; it charts the growth of the church in Jerusalem, then moves onto the export of the Gospels to the Gentiles by Peter, ending in Rome with his crucifixion.

The Avesta is the primary religious texts of Zoroastrianism, completed under Sassanian king Shapur II (309 to 379 AD) although the oral tradition is much older; it is a multi-faceted faith centred on a dualistic cosmology of good & evil, with the ultimate conquest of evil, it exalts an un-created, benevolent supreme being (Ahura Mazda) & includes messianism, judgment after death, heaven & hell, and free will.

Spengler identified both these religions as Magian.

 

Gethsemane:

a garden east of Jerusalem, near the brook of Kedron, scene of Jesus' agony & betrayal (Matthew 26:36)

 

Golgotha:

aka Calvary, hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified;.

 

Augustine:

aka Saint Augustine (354–430 AD) one of the fathers of the early Church, author & bishop of Hippo in N Africa.

 

godhead:

Deity, Divinity, the quality of being God or Conceptions of God

 

Yahweh:

national god of the kingdoms of Israel & Judah, rooted in the early Iron & Late Bronze Age; in the oldest biblical literature a storm &-warrior deity, leading the heavenly army against Israel's enemies; at this time the Israelites worshipped him alongside a variety of Canaanite gods & goddesses.  From the 9th to the 6th centuries BC this religion separated itself from its Canaanite heritage, Yahweh became the main god of Israel & Judah; over time the royal court & Temple in Jerusalem promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods & goddesses.  By the end of the Babylonian captivity (6th century BC), the very existence of foreign gods was denied; Yahweh was proclaimed creator of the cosmos & one true God of all the world.

 

σωματα:

the root of this Greek word, σῶμα, means a body, (any corporeal substance),  the body or whole of a thing, especially of complete parts of the body,

 

ζῷον  πολιτικὸν:

This phrase is from a larger statement by Aristotle:

“ἐκ τούτων οὖν φανερὸν ὅτι τῶν φύσει ἡ πόλις ἐστί, καὶ ὅτι ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον... “

It  is taken from his Politics and translates as:

it is clear that the city is one of the natural things and man, from his nature, is an animal that lives in & creates cities.

Aristotle is arguing that humans are political beings, it was natural for humans to form societies and start organising them.

 

propinquity:

nearness in place or time; proximity, or nearness of relation; kinship; affinity of nature; similarity.

 

Hellas:

the name for all lands inhabited by Hellenes,  all of ancient Greece, including the Greek colonies

 

numina:

aka numen

see page above page 401

 

Helios (worshipped only in… Rhodes):

in Greek religion and myth the god & personification of the Sun, depicted with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky; the guardian of oaths & the god of sight; a minor deity Rhodes was one of the few places he was worshipped as a major deity.  Aristophanes in his' Peace (406–413) contrasts the secondary worship of Helios and Selene with that of the more essential Greek Twelve Olympians

 

Selene (no cult):

goddess of the Moon, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and sister of the sun god Helios and Eos, goddess of the dawn. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens.   Moon figures are found on Cretan rings and gems, but apart from the role played by the moon itself in magic, folklore & poetry, there was relatively little worship of Selene.

 

Varro (genus mythicum):

(116–27 BC) Roman writer his chief work being Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, in which he classifies Roman religion; his category genus mythicum, referred to the imagination-world of poets and artists to include popular superstition

and see page 394 above

 

Varro (genus civile):

from Varro’s Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, a category in Roman religion referring to the sum of officially-recognized belief,

and see page 394 above

 

Ent:

see above page 398