{"id":6017,"date":"2010-06-25T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2010-06-25T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T07:26:00","slug":"the-priesthood-the-black-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6017","title":{"rendered":"The priesthood, the Black Brotherhood !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E3SIGdIKk3k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The priest is a scoundrel &#8220;, said Khalil Gibran. The priesthood indoctrinate their flocks with fanaticism. &#8221; Our Religion is the greatest&#8221;, &#8220;Our Prophet is the greatest&#8221; and our &#8221; Book is the greatest &#8221; are their slogans. <\/p>\n<p>So no wonder we find a lot of fanatics today. People believe the mythological tales to be historical, with the result they clash amongst themselves over allegorical and symbolic stories. <\/p>\n<p>Books like &#8221; The Davinci Code&#8221;, &#8221; The Love in the East&#8221; and &#8221; The Satanic Verses &#8221; serve a good purpose. They give a clear message to the people, telling them to get rid of their fanaticism. <\/p>\n<p>The God of the philosophers is not the God of Theology. <\/p>\n<p>The priesthood talk about a jealous and vengeful God, sitting in some antisceptic corner of the cosmos, an extra-cosmic Deity. The Yogis talk about an Indwelling Presence, a principle which works from within and a Principle which gives Divine guidance  <\/p>\n<p>There is conflict when Philosophy meets Theology. &#8221; We are dealing with a full size World Mystery here and a fight between the Black and White Brotherhoods &#8220;. said Frater Achad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; The priest is a scoundrel &#8220;, said Khalil Gibran. The priesthood indoctrinate their flocks with fanaticism. &#8221; Our Religion is the greatest&#8221;, &#8220;Our Prophet is the greatest&#8221; and our &#8221; Book is the greatest &#8221; are their slogans. So no wonder we find a lot of fanatics today. People believe the mythological tales to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=6017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The priesthood, the Black Brotherhood !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}