Among these are treatises such as the Shikand-gumanic Vichar by Mardan-Farrux Ohrmazddadan, selections of Denkard, Wizidagīhā-ī Zātspram (" Selections of Zātspram ") as well as older passages of the book Avesta, the Gathas which are attributed to Zarathustra himself and regarded as his " direct teachings ".

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

Among the defeated bills was one allowing merchant ships to arm themselves, and another allowing the US government to make direct arms sales to the allies.

Among the most important are those that grant him authority over virtually all appointments and removals of public officials, and even popular elected ones ; empower him to promulgate the laws passed by Congress ; direct him to engage in diplomatic relations ; and empower him to command, to deploy, and to make appointments in, the armed forces.

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

Among the pioneering observations carried out using the VLT are the first direct image of an exoplanet, the tracking of individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and observations of the afterglow of the furthest known gamma-ray burst.

Among these, multiple Internet-based organizations have developed platforms that facilitate a modified form of peer-to-peer lending where a loan is not made in the form of a single, direct loan, but as the aggregation of a number of smaller loans — often at a negligible interest rate.

Among the changes: the primary election cycle would start nearly a year earlier than in previous cycles, states from the West and the South would be included in the earlier part of the schedule, and candidates who run in primary elections not held in accordance with the DNC's proposed schedule ( as the DNC does not have any direct control over each state's official election schedules ) would be penalized by being stripped of delegates won in offending states.

Among his direct descendants are Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the wife of Charles, Prince of Wales and author Violet Trefusis, who was a daughter of Alice Keppel ( Alice Frederica Keppel, née Edmonstone ), royal mistress of Edward VII, and George Keppel, son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle.

Among his direct male descendants, more than two hundred passed the military examination and pursued military careers, hence constituting a prominent family or military yangban of late Joseon.

Among the organisers is the Ukrainian women's direct action group FEMEN, which aims " to shake women in Ukraine, making them socially active ; to organize in 2017 a women's revolution.

Among the oldest described surgical procedures, tracheotomy ( also referred to as tracheostomy ) consists of making an incision on the anterior aspect of the neck and opening a direct airway through an incision in the trachea.

Among the present day artists, Atul Dodiya, Bose Krishnamacnahri, Devajyoti Ray and Shibu Natesan represent a new era of Indian art where global art shows direct amalgamation with Indian classical styles.

Among cruise lines, some are direct descendants of the traditional passenger shipping lines, while others were founded from the 1960s on specifically for cruising.

Among the plotters, John Row from Bristol was considered particularly unreliable, and he had a direct connection to the Monmouth household to offer as information ; a number of steps were taken to silence him, and his life was under threat more than once.

Among the main items on PV's agenda are Federalism, environmentalism, human rights, a form of direct democracy, Parliamentarism, welfare, civil liberties, pacifism and marijuana legalization under specific conditions.

Among the causes of the disaster were the ill-defined relationship between Durnford and Pulleine, brought about by failures of Lord Chelmsford's command and control, a lack of good intelligence on the size and location of Zulu forces which resulted in Chelmsford splitting his force and, most decidedly, Chelmsford's decision not to fortify the camp ( which was in direct violation of his own standing pre-campaign orders ).

Among the more recent generation of film-makers to emerge from World in Action were Alex Holmes, who became editor of the BBC2 documentary strand Modern Times and went on to write and direct the Bafta-winning dramatised documentary series Dunkirk for the BBC ; and Katy Jones, a former WIA producer, who became a key collaborator with the screen writer Jimmy McGovern as a producer on his award-winning drama-documentaries Hillsborough and Sunday.

Among occasional tasks too numerous to provide a complete list, volunteers assist with tri-annual audience surveys, drive company vehicles for visiting dignitaries, direct traffic during “ strike ” at the end of the season, and walk dog actors before and after shows.

Among the artists in whose work can be seen the direct influence of Michelangelo are Pontormo, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci, Paolo Veronese and El Greco.

Among these features were a new chapter in which Psaro is available as a party member ( as well as a prologue chapter ), an intra-party talk command similar to Dragon Quest VII, and the ability to turn off the artificial intelligence for party members to allow for direct control of their attacks ( except UC Party Members ).

Among other things, IBM's development and marketing of Lotus SmartSuite placed it in direct competition with Microsoft Office.

Among them, the Ghattadakore is a direct branch of Coastal Yakshagana, while Mudalapaya is the most closely connected form.

Among these is Nação Iracema, founded in 2002 by Lúcia Simão and William Augusto Pereira, heads of the first black family in Fortaleza to direct a maracatu nation ( current as of 2009 ).

Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior ; there are evolutionary theories which hold that love is part of the process of natural selection ; there are spiritual theories which may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God ; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

Among the Greenland Inuit, the laity have greater capacity to relate with spiritual beings.

Among Scientologists, disconnection is viewed as an important method of removing obstacles to one's spiritual growth.

Among the Anishinaabeg, a particularly powerful and well-respected spiritual leader who had trained from childhood is called a Jaasakiid or Jiisakiiwinini, also known as a " Juggler " or " Shaking-tent Seer.

Among West Africans, Orunmila is recognized as a primordial Irunmole that was present both at the beginning of Creation and then again amongst them as a priest that taught an advanced form of spiritual knowledge and ethics, during visits to earth in physical form or through his disciples.

Among Cochran's marital innovations was ' spiritual wifery ', and " tradition assumes that ( Cochran ) received frequent consignments of spiritual consorts, and that such were invariably the most robust and attractive women in the community ".

Among all Hasidic works, it develops the theology and instruction of people of great spiritual ability in the different aspects of Tzaddikism.

Among various points of criticism of the Sōka Gakkai is its teaching of members for praying for material benefit as well as spiritual development in daily life: " This emphasis on benefit has been viewed with great suspicion by some Gakkai critics in the West ".. SGI clarifies the benefit of the practice as: “ Gakkai members learned to chant for vitality, courage, and mental and physical health, adequate food and housing, a decent job, a good spouse and a happy family ..

Among these, Sonnet 151 has been characterised as " bawdy " and is used to illustrate the difference between the spiritual love for the Fair Youth and the sexual love for the Dark Lady.

Among his distinctive views is his use of the scientific theory of evolution as a metaphor for spiritual development, referring to biological evolution as the " lower evolution " and spiritual development as being a form of self-directed " higher evolution ".

Among his other endeavors, Sava composed the " Studenica Typikon ", a liturgical book of orders where he described the life of Saint Simeon ( Nemanja ), leaving evidence of the spiritual and monastic life of his time.

Among this and other works, Vydūnas exalted the faith as being on the highest level of spiritual expression, along with other forms which he recognized.

Among the Hindu monastic as well as sramanic traditions, Brahmacharya is the term used for the practice of self-imposed celibacy that is generally considered an essential prerequisite for spiritual practice.

Among the sramanic traditions, Brahmacharya is the term used for the practice of self-imposed celibacy that is generally considered an essential prerequisite for spiritual practice. These characteristics correspond to Western notions of the religious life as practised in monastic settings but in the Brahma Kumaris and Prajapita Brahma Kumaris religion, it is practised by married couples and householders too, as a way of formalizing sexual behavior into a conscious, co-creative practice rather than merely an unconscious habit.

Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies.

Among these more spiritual concepts may arise and be integrated into the personality.

Among his works, two compositions particularly stand out: A small book of meditations, Shri Manāche Shlok, advises ethical behaviour and love for God, and a large volume, Dasbodh, provides advice on both spiritual and practical topics.

Among the forms that it can take are a stern rebuke by a legislature, a spiritual penalty imposed by a church, and a negative judgment pronounced on a theological proposition.

Among his most influential books ( concerning spiritual development ) are: The Master Game and Warrior's Way: The Challenging Life Games.

Among them were Mahammad Hadi, Abbas Sahhat, Huseyn Javid, Abdulla Shaig, Jafar Jabbarly, and Mikayil Mushfig, who in their search for a means of resistance, turned to the clandestine methodologies of Sufism, which taught spiritual discipline as a way to combat temptation.

Among the issues Fox was asked to defend were that he: called God " Mother ";” preferred the concept of Original Blessing over Original Sin ; worked too closely with Native American spiritual practices ; did not condemn homosexuality ; and taught the four paths of creation spirituality — the Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa and Via Transformativa instead of the church ’ s classical three paths of purgation, illumination and union.

Among notable people who spent time here was the Doukhobor spiritual leader Pyotr Verigin.