According to the Bahá ' í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer, reflection, and being of service to humankind.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha first taught the four noble truths in the very first teaching he gave after he attained enlightenment, as recorded in the discourse Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma ( Dharmacakra Pravartana Sūtra ), and he further clarified their meaning in many subsequent teachings.

According to Samuel Angus ( 1920 ) gnosis in these early sects was distinct from the secret teachings revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression akin to arcanum.

According to Jewish esoteric teachings, the Hebrew letters are the lifeforce of all things created, determining their essence.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, " The evidence afforded by Egyptian and Greek texts support the view that Imhotep's reputation was very respected in early times ... His prestige increased with the lapse of centuries and his temples in Greek times were the centers of medical teachings.

" According to the BBC, Verity Linn's " diary mentioned the teachings of self-proclaimed prophet Jasmuheen who believes people can draw nourishment from the ' divine life force in the form of liquid light '.

According to Nichiren's interpretation of the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, persecutions which Nichiren Buddhists encountered should be perceived as a natural outcome of abiding by their beliefs, as predicted in various chapters of that Sutra: " There will be many ignorant people, who will curse and speak ill of us and will attack us with swords and staves, but we will endure all these things ”.

According to Pius, theologians, employed by the Church, are assistants, to teach the official teachings of the Church and not their own private thoughts.

According to Article I of the " Rehat Maryada " ( the Sikh code of conduct and conventions ), a Sikh is defined as " any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being ; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh ; Sri Guru Granth Sahib ; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru ; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion ".

According to religious tradition, all of the laws found in the Torah, both written and oral, were given by God to Moses, some of them at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle, and all the teachings were written down by Moses, which resulted in the Torah we have today.

According to A. W. Barber of the University of Calgary, Chan Buddhism was introduced to the Nyingmapa in three principal streams: the teachings of Korean Master Kim, Kim Ho-shang, ( Chin ho shang ) 金和尚 transmitted by Sang Shi in ca.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " This and other similar doctrines found in the Zohar are now known to be much older than Christianity, but the Christian scholars who were led by the similarity of these teachings to certain Christian dogmas deemed it their duty to propagate the Zohar.

According to most interpretations of Matthew 5: 17, 18, 19, and 20, and most Christian views of the Old Covenant, these new interpretations of the Law and Prophets are not opposed to the Old Testament, which was the position of Marcion, but form Jesus ' new teachings which bring about salvation, and hence must be adhered to, as emphasized in Matthew 7: 24-27 towards the end of the sermon.

According to the Theosophical teachings, the Mahatmas are not disembodied beings, but highly evolved people involved in overseeing the spiritual growth of individuals and the development of civilizations.

According to the Islamic teachings, God exists above the heavens and the creation itself.

According to Schechter, the qigong society under which Li and other qigong masters belonged asked Li to hike his tuition, but again Li refused, and emphasised the need for the teachings to be free of charge.

According to Master Hsuan Hua, the most popular example of esoteric teachings still practiced in many Zen monasteries of East Asia, is the and its dhāraṇī (), along with the Great Compassion Dharani (), with its 42 Hands and Eyes Mantras.

According to The Times, about 900 of Britain's nearly 1, 500 masjids are run by Deobandi affiliated scholars, and 19 of the country's 25 Islamic seminaries follow Sunni Deobandi teachings, producing 80 % of all domestically trained Ulema.

According to the teachings of Messianic Judaism, in the earthly life of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was the dove at baptism ( Matt 3: 16 ) and the giver of tongues in Acts 2.

According to the ancient gnostics, this passage was to be interpreted as implying that the teachings of the son of man would automatically bring those who heard and fully understood them ( the elect ) together.

According to Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, all Chinese religions are derived from the teachings of Fu Xi.

According to SGI teachings, the power of the Object of Devotion is not found in an external mandala, but through one's inner faith :" First, the power of any Gohonzon, including the Dai-Gohonzon, can be tapped only through the power of faith.

According to the prophet Jack Wilson ( Wovoka )' s teachings, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to native peoples throughout the region.

According to LDS Church teachings, the true gospel will be taught in all parts of the world prior to the Second Coming.

According to Islamic teachings, it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whom God ordered Abraham to sacrifice to test him.

According to Hasidism, The Infinite ein sof is incorporeal ( has no body ) and is both transcendent and immanent.

According to an interview with Newsarama, the Matrix Supergirl is wiped from existence by the events depicted in the 2005 limited series Infinite Crisis, although Infinite Crisis writer Geoff Johns later stated that Danvers is not.

According to DC canon, the Quality characters, before the DC revamping event called Crisis on Infinite Earths, existed on two separate realities in the DC Multiverse: Earth-Quality and Earth-X.

According with the nature of the Spurious Quantitative Infinite, however, it does not matter how great a level the ego raises itself to, the absolute opposition between it and its other is there and everywhere reasserted and the whole process can have no other outcome than a desperate and futile longing.

According to Countdown to Infinite Crisis, there are roughly 1. 3 million metahumans on Earth, 99. 5 % of which are considered " nuisance-level " ( such as kids who can bend spoons with their mind and the old lady " who keeps hitting at Powerball ").

According to statements in interviews, Corgan worked nonstop after the Siamese Dream tour and wrote about 56 songs for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the last of which was " 1979 ".

According to Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths HC, the events of the second series originally took place on Earth-85 in the Multiverse before its destruction.

According to Greg Rucka, Rick Flag's subsequent re-appearance had nothing to do with Infinite Crisis, and John Ostrander has stated that he knew how Rick Flag could survive the explosion at Jotunheim when he first wrote it.

According to Crisis on Infinite Earths, the team ended in Markovia during 1945.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to Mohani Mohamed, the Arabian astronomer Alhazen ( 965 – 1037 ) made the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax, and he thus " determined that because the Milky Way had no parallax, it was very remote from the Earth and did not belong to the atmosphere.

According to an interview in Viva, Milford recorded an album Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts and a single, " Help is on the Way, Rozea ".

According to A. Zahoor, in the 11th century, the Persian polymath scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni described the Milky Way galaxy as a multitude of fragments having the properties of nebulous stars, and also gave the latitudes of various stars during a lunar eclipse in 1019.

According to Josep Puig, the Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars which almost touched one another and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 500 AH ( 1106 / 1107 AD ) as evidence.

According to the legend, king Alfonso was the first pilgrim who had come to see the Apostle: During the travel he was guided at night by the Milky Way, which from then on acquired in Spanish the name Camino de Santiago.

According to the game, as humanity expanded into the Milky Way Galaxy, the new colonies operated independently of each other.

According to Norman, One Way " used secular sub-distributors or " rack jobbers " and " one stops " to disseminate its records ".

According to the St. Johnsbury Caledonian of May 22, 1896, " The little town of Wheelock was thrown into a state of wild excitement last Wednesday evening when the cry went around that Marshall Way had killed his wife.

According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.

According to Gurdjieff, the work of schools of the Fourth Way never remains the same for long.

According to Fox files she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling one million dollars, $ 500K to finish Something's Got To Give, plus a bonus at completion, and $ 500K for What a Way to Go.

" According to Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook, Walker based the chaplain on Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald's priest character, from Going My Way ( 1944 ).

According to Andy Hamilton in an interview broadcast on April 5, 2008, on BBC Radio 7's " I Did It My Way ", one episode in series 3 was partially re-recorded due to a tragic confluence of events.

According to tradition, Paul's body was buried two miles away from the place of his martyrdom, in the sepulchral area along the Ostiense Way, which was owned by a Christian woman named Lucina.

According to these theories the Templars, possibly inspired by other games or discs ( as the Phaistos Disc ) from the Holy Land, developed a game and a secret or encrypted guide to the Way of St. James, representing each numbered space in the game a different stage in this journey.

He wrote a number of books and articles on sexual magic and various other esoteric studies, including The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way ( 1949 ), Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex ( 1958 ), Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest ( 1974 ), The Path of Enlightenment According to the Mithraic Mysteries ( 1977 ).

According to Bharti Verma, M. D., in The Way of Grace, by David Lucas Burge and Gary Boucherle, " Sudarshan Kriya is not hyperventilation.

According to an article posted on Billboard, Aiken and RCA parted ways shortly after his On My Way Here album was released.

According to Billboard, Aiken ’ s 2008 album “ On My Way Here ” sold just 159, 000 copies in the U. S., compared to his 2003 debut album, “ Measure of a Man ,” which sold 2. 78 million copies ".

According to the supplementary materials for some of the games, the fictional martial art style of Billy and Jimmy is named, a nod to Bruce Lee's fighting method of Jeet Kune Do, also known as the " Way of the Intercepting Fist ".

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission, in 2006 Third Way had 20 members and cashflow of approximately £ 1, 400.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission, in 2004 Third Way had 20 members and cashflow of approximately £ 1, 400.

According to the Ori themselves, the entire conversion of the Milky Way would probably give them enough strength to destroy the Ancients once the crusade was over.