AD 500 to 1000

Isaac the Syrian, also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism. Wikipedia
Born: Qatar
Died: Nineveh, Iraq
Attributes: Turban, cape, scrolls, writing tools
Feast: January 28
Venerated in: Church of the East, Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches

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The oldest and perhaps the purest form of Ancient Craft Masonry takes its name from the City of York, in the north of England.

The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap sometimes is called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.

o Chapter 01 The 13 Attributes of Mercy
o Chapter 02 Attaining the Qualities of Kether
o Chapter 03 Attaining the Qualities of Chokmah
o Chapter 04 Attaining the Qualities of Binah
o Chapter 05 Attaining the Qualities of Chesed
o Chapter 06 Attaining the Qualities of Gevurah
o Chapter 07 Attaining the Qualities of Tiferet
o Chapter 08 Attaining the Qualities of Netzach, Hod and Yesod
o Chapter 09 Attaining the Qualities of Malkuth
o Chapter 10 Ascending the Tree

Shabbateanism was the largest and most momentous messianic movement in Jewish history subsequent to the destruction of the Temple and the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The factors giving rise to its extraordinarily widespread and deep-seated appeal are twofold. On the one hand there was the general condition of the Jewish people in exile, and the hopes for political and spiritual redemption fostered by Jewish religious tradition and given great emphasis in Jewish thought, which at all times could provide fertile soil for the blossoming of messianic movements aimed at ushering in redemption. On the other hand there were the specific conditions contributing to the impetus of the movement that began in 1665

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and Lady Philosophy. She consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of fame and wealth ("no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune"), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the "one true good". She contends that happiness comes from within, and that one's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperilled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

The Septuagint was written in Koine Greek , said to have been written by Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, 309–246 BCE, for the Greek speaking peoples in Alexandria. His brothers were kings of Macedonia and were killed in the Gallic invasion of the Balkans.  The importance of the Jewish faith, to the ruleing Greeks after Alexander is clear. Today faith remains important to how we govern.    

The Derveni papyrus, containing a treatise by a follower of Anaxagoras probably written in the 420s B.C.E., is the most important new piece of evidence about Greek philosophy and religion to come to light since the Renaissance. It is also the hardest to understand, and all work on it is inevitably work in progress. This is the first book-length study of this text since 1997, when its crucial opening columns, plus an updated translation of the whole, were published.