According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to " Doctrine of the Mean ," Confucius also said, " Love of learning is akin to wisdom.

According to Buchanan and others, the Bush Doctrine was a radical departure from former United States foreign policies, and a continuation of the radical ideological roots of neoconservatism.

According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to a family tradition, given by William Turner, on settling at Norwich he went through Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ( 1712 ) with his congregation, adopted its view, and came forward ( 1737 ) in defence of a dissenting layman excommunicated for heterodoxy on this topic by James Sloss ( 1698 – 1772 ) of Nottingham, a pupil of John Simson.

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

First and foremost is the Buddhist ascesis as he rediscovered it following over two thousand years of obstruction of the Buddha's teachings ( The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts ).

According to Julius Evola, tradition in its purest form encompassed asceticism, which he described in The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts as a discipline.

# The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts ( 1943 )

According to the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants, the President of the Church is the only man empowered to receive revelation for the entire church and to clarify doctrine.

According to Cutler, the misdeed that brought about the rejection of Joseph Smith's church was its failure to complete the Nauvoo temple within the " sufficient time " mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 124: 31-32 ; Joseph Smith's church had accordingly ceased to exist as a legitimate entity.

According to Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency ( New York: Henry Holt, 2004 ), application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to the Doctrine, any princely state or territory under the direct influence ( paramountcy ) of the British East India Company ( the dominant imperial power in the subcontinent ), as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System, would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either " manifestly incompetent or died without a direct heir ".

According to GOA the amendment blocked the Federal Communications Commission's ( FCC ) ability to use the Fairness Doctrine in order to radically limit the free speech allowed by organizations like GOA over the airwaves.

According to Blavatsky, " The MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity ( the " narrow-brained " savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian ) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had " ( The Secret Doctrine, Vol.

The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts is a book by philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola.

Wojtyła completed his licentiate and later a doctorate in theology in 1948 with a thesis on the topic of faith in the works of St. John of the Cross entitled Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce ( The Doctrine of Faith According to Saint John of the Cross ).

According to Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, the NSA had been monitoring phone calls and emails between Khan and several Islamic radicals from the United States and England, including Ahmed Omar Abu Ali.

According to Charles Curran, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith systematically attempted to silence authors also critical of teachings on homosexuality, citing the " highlighting " of errors in McNeill's The Church and the Homosexual.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to John of Damascus, anyone who tries to destroy icons " is the enemy of Christ, the Holy Mother of God and the saints, and is the defender of the Devil and his demons.

According to canon law, Albert was too young to hold such a position and since he would not give up the archiepiscopal see of Magdeburg ( in order to terminate the accumulation of archdioceses, which was also prohibited by canon law ), the Hohenzollerns had to dispense ever greater briberies at the Holy See.

According to that opinion, hand-made non-shmurah matzot may be used on the eighth day of Passover outside of the Holy Land.

According to a Stockholm University study in 2011, these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith, confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation, and connect personally to the Holy Land.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was Alexander I who inserted the narration of the Last Supper ( the Qui pridie ) into the Catholic celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

According to Cornwell, " the text, together with the Anti-Modernist Oath, became the means by which the Holy See was to establish and sustain the new, unequal, and unprecedented power relationship that had arisen between the papacy and the Church.

According to the Holy Quran there have been prophets at all times and in all countries.

According to a tradition that can be traced back at least to the 12th century, when it was recorded in the Codex Calixtinus, Saint James decided to return to Holy Land after preaching in Galicia.

According to Samaritan tradition, Mount Gerizim was the original Holy Place of the Israelites from the time that Joshua conquered Canaan and the tribes of Israel settled the land.

According to the laws of the feudal system of the Holy Roman Empire, the king had no claims on the vassals of the other princes, only on those living within his family's territory.

According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary.

According to Hartwick's legend, during his coronation Stephen dedicated the crown to the Holy Virgin, thereby sealing a contract between God and the crown ( which is therefore considered a " holy " crown ).

According to a number of sources their activities included mock religious ceremonies and partaking in meals containing dishes like Holy Ghost Pie, Breast of Venus, and Devil's Loin, while drinking Hell-fire punch.

According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy.

According to Adam of Bremen, an 11th-century historian, Harald's son Sweyn was baptised Otto, in tribute to the German king Otto I, who was the first Holy Roman Emperor.

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

According to the King James version of the Holy Bible, from within The book of Mark, Chapter ( 5 ), verses ( 25 ) through ( 33 ) by experiential definition.