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Howard Barry Schatz. The Science of Religion
The Science of Religion
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The History & Science of Polytheism. Chapter 1: The Gods on the Mountain
In the Beginning ..
Discovering the Wisdom Practice
The Good Shepherds
Chapter 2: The Founders of Civilization. The Founding of Sumer
The Invention of Writing
The Aryan-Semitic Roots of Religion
Rediscovering the Aryan Fathers
The Four Rivers of Eden
Demonizing the Aryans
Chapter 3: Mastering the Elements. The Riddle of the Sphinx
Comparing Wisdom Traditions
The Eagle and Serpent Holder as Primordial Wind
The Bull of Heaven as Primordial Earth
The Lion as Primordial Fire
Man’s Source of Wisdom as Primordial Water
Chapter 4: Mastering Time
Choosing a Metric
Telling Time
The Path to Heaven
The Clock of Heaven and Earth
Closed Gate or Open Path?
Integrating Knowledge
Chapter 5: The Gods in the Clock. The Sumerian King List
The Kingdom of Heaven
How the Clock of Heaven Structures the Soul
YBC 7289 - Sheol: the Gates of Heaven and Hell
Plimpton 322 - Moksha: the Soul’s Liberation
The Holy Mountain as a Moment in Time
The Science of Religion
Part II: The History & Science of Monotheism. Chapter 6: The Great Patriarch of Monotheism. The Lost Word of God
Breaking with Aryan Tradition
Chapter 7: How to Read the Bible. Three Layers of Meaning
Layer 1 - Text
Layer 2 - Number
Layer 3 - Sound
Chapter 8: The Ten Commandments. The Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
Four Subsets of Divine Light
The Evolution of Music Theory
Four Rivers and Four Wheels
The Musical Scales of Creation
Creating the Soul
Creating the Body
The Sacred Practice
Opening the Gate to Heaven
Chapter 9: Shaping Biblical Allegory. The Soul of the Bible
The Book of Genesis
The Book of Exodus
Comparing Two Traditions
The Storm on the Mountain
Logoprosodic Analysis
Chapter 10: Music in the Garden of Eden. The Two Steps of Creation
Tending the Garden
Adam’s Fall from Grace
The Holy Mountain
The Tent as Holy Mountain
Chapter 11: Enoch’s Salvation from Earth. The First Holy Man
Wandering in Exile and Ascending in Grace
Chapter 12: Noah’s Salvation from Water. Building the Ark
The First Savior
Chapter 13: Lot’s Salvation from Fire. The Fires of Chaldea
A Fire Among the Parts
Chapter 14: Abraham’s Transformation of Wind. The Great Patriarch
The Mathematics of Sin
The Mathematics of Salvation
The Meaning and Pronunciation of YHVH
The Sun and the Soul; the Moon and the Body
Flood of Numbers
The Fires of the Four-Horned Altar
The Sabbath, Sabbatical, and Jubilee
Striving for Harmonic Perfection
Chapter 15: Isaac’s Transformation of Fire. Isaac as Sacrificial Lamb
The Birth of Israel
Chapter 16: Jacob’s Transformation of Water. Jacob’s Ladder
Two Levels of Prophecy
The Children of Israel
Chapter 17: Joseph’s Transformation of Earth
A Master of Dreams
The Transformation of Israel
Chapter 18: A Framework for Peace. Holy War
The Ancient Origins of Ethos
Abraham’s Legacy of Peace
The Way Forward
Judaism in a New Jerusalem
Christianity in a New Jerusalem
Islam in a New Jerusalem
Working Toward a New Jerusalem
Part III: Toward an Empirical God. Chapter 19: The Modern Quadrivium. Searching for a Common Vocabulary
Developing an Interdisciplinary Narrative
Science or Superstition?
The Grand Design
Particles & Fields
Global Laws of Quantization & Symmetry
The Doctrine of Opposites and the Mean
The Breaking of Symmetries
Superstring Theory & M-Theory
Chapter 20: Searching for a Common Truth. Creationism Versus Evolution
Redefining Intelligent Design
Conclusion
The New Jerusalem by Charles Bentz
Autumn Rhapsody by Jonathan S. Clark
Appendix: The Ancient Quadrivium
A Primer on Arithmetic
A Primer on Music
A Primer on Geometry
A Primer on Astronomy
Bibliography
Notes
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The most logical title for this text would probably be “The History and Science of Religion.” However, the current title reflects the profound notion that modern science is capable of anchoring the diversity of religious dogma within a comprehensive scientific framework. But to even suggest that a science of religion exists as an objective common ground is to swim against a very strong worldwide current of religious tradition and academic scholarship.
As a college student I had the good fortune to study with friend and mentor Dr. Ernest McClain, who taught me that the ancient mathematical discipline of music was the only way to unlock the deepest meaning of history’s great religious and philosophical texts. McClain’s writings survey crucial mathematical passages in texts of world literature — the Bible, the Rig Veda, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Plato — points that often challenged or eluded experts in the concerned disciplines.
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Campbell echoes Chuang Tzu as he describes the ultimate dreamer, Vishnu:
...floating on the cosmic Milky ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is “Unending.” In the foreground stand five Pandava brothers ... with Drupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses. They are those whom the dream is dreaming... Behind them a dream-door has opened, however, to an inward, backward dimension where a vision emerges against darkness. Are these youths, we might ask, a dream of that luminous god, or is the god a dream of these youths?13
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