The Findings: Christianity | Encyclopedia of Mystery

Christianity78
Judeo-Christianity25
Christian Mysticism15
Catholic Christianity5
Christian Cabala2
- Levi's Hebrew Letters and the TarotLévi was not first: in 1781 the Comte de Mellet, in Court de Gébelin's Monde primitif, called the twenty-two trumps letters, noting the Hebrew alphabet has twenty-two.
- Mathers's The Kabbalah UnveiledHis 1887 preface says he translated principally from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin, collated with the Aramaic; he dedicated it to Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland.
Eastern Christianity2
- Orthodox CrossThe Lenten Ninth Hour hymn, in Shann's English of 1891, calls the whole cross that balance and names no footrest; Archbishop Anthony Medvedev reads the tilted bar as its beam.
- UrielAngel lists differ by tradition. Orthodox devotion names Uriel, while Catholic guidance permits naming Michael, Gabriel and Raphael and discourages other assigned names.
Christian Monasticism1
- Lectio DivinaGuigo's Ladder long went under other names. The Patrologia Latina (vol. 184, 1854) prints it among Bernard's spurious works. Its prefatory note records that it also ran as Augustine's 'Scala Paradisi'. It glosses a Cologne Charterhouse manuscript's 'Guigo', with a query, as the fifth prior, Guigo I.
Eastern Orthodoxy1
- HesychasmBarlaam of Calabria mocked the Athonite monks' head-bowed prayer as 'omphalopsychia', soul-in-the-navel; a synod at Constantinople upheld the hesychasts in 1341.
Ethiopian Orthodox1
- The Debtera and the Ethiopian Magic ScrollIn the fifteenth century Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob condemned magical objects and diviners and harshly punished their users. The Church tolerates the scrolls only because they carry Christian texts; the oldest surviving scroll dates to the early sixteenth century.
Judeo-Christian Magic1
- The Testament of SolomonNo complete copy predates the fifteenth century; the oldest witness is a fifth- or sixth-century papyrus of one chapter (Harding and Alexander, 1999).