It is common for families to participate in ceremonies for children at a shrine, yet have a Buddhist funeral at the time of death mostly due to the negative Japanese conception of the afterlife and death as well as buddhism's historical monopoly on funeral rites.

Wagner's plans for the cycle grew backwards from the tale of the death of the hero Siegfried, to include his youth and then the story of the events around his conception and of how the Valkyrie Brünnhilde was punished for trying to save his parents against Wotan's instructions.

Wagner worked backwards from planning an opera about Siegfried's death, then deciding he needed another opera to tell of Siegfried's youth, then deciding he needed to tell the tale of Siegfried's conception and of Brünnhilde's attempts to save Siegfried's parents, and finally deciding he also needed a prelude that told of the original theft of the Rheingold and creation of the ring.

To the Aztec there were thirteen levels of the Upper Worlds, and nine of the Underworld ; in the conception of the Afterlife the manner of a person's death determined which of these layers would be their destination after dying.

Greek and Roman authors have much to say about Apis, the marks by which the black bull-calf was recognized, the manner of his conception by a ray from heaven, his house at Memphis with court for disporting himself, the mode of prognostication from his actions, the mourning at his death, his costly burial, and the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found.

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

Thus Arthur, " the once and future king ," is an illegitimate child ( though the later legend emphasizes that the conception occurred after Gorlois ' death and that therefore he was legitimated by Uther's subsequent marriage to Igraine ).

In its final conception, developed by Reich's student Charles Kelly after Reich's death, Orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to Mesmer's animal magnetism, the Odic force of Carl Reichenbach and Henri Bergson's élan vital.

The rule is often stated as follows: “ No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after the death of some life in being at the creation of the interest .” For the purposes of the rule, a life is " in being " at conception.

:" Fetal death " means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy and which is not an induced termination of pregnancy.

George's own religious views resulted in him having an influential role in the Reformation Parliament between its conception in late 1529 and his death in 1536.

Vera religio ( true religion ) would command loyalty to the point of death ; his conception of it was influenced by Philo and Maimonides.

* Sanctity of Human Life-" CWA supports the protection of all innocent human life from conception until natural death.

1996 ), says " But to the Bible man is not a soul in a body but a body / soul unity ", the Encyclopedia of Judaism ’ ( 2000 ), says " Scripture does not present even a rudimentarily developed theology of the soul ", the New Dictionary of Theology ’ ( 2000 ), and " The notion of the soul as an independent force that animates human life but that can exist apart from the human body — either prior to conception and birth or subsequent to life and death — is the product only of later Judaism ", Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible ( 2000 ), says " Far from referring simply to one aspect of a person, “ soul ” refers to the whole person ", the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says " Possibly Jn.

After Gillette, who had no children, died, his will statedI would consider it more than unfortunate for me – should I find myself doomed, after death, to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet – to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home – founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut ; – that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock, and stone culverts and underpasses, all built in every particular for permanence ( so far as there is such a thing ); – that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles ; – that these, and many other things of a like nature, should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded.

There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth ( or conception ) follows immediately after death, and the other saying that there must be an interval between the two.

It believes " the purpose of civil government is to ensure security, freedom, and justice for all its citizens from conception till natural death, by upholding just laws ".

An account of the film from conception, along with Zeffirelli's main motivation for making it ( namely, removing sole responsibility for the death of Jesus from the Jews ), to final edit and audience reactions to it.

Cartwright and Lawes maintained an important working relationship, for perhaps a decade prior to Cartwright's death in 1643 ; in one view, Lawes made a significant contribution to Cartwright's conception of drama.

There are a total of 13 ceremonies concerned with life from conception until, but not including, death, each of which have four elements: placation of evil spirits, purification with holy water, wafting of essence and prayer.

Of how Colonel Astor had met his death she had no definite conception.

# To support the right to life of all innocent individuals from conception to natural death.

The truth is that our classic conception of the conduct of war has come up against a new conception.

( This Zoroastrian conception of polar opposition and conflict would later come to influence the development of Christianity as it elaborated upon the idea of the Devil as an ultimate source of evil opposed to the Christian God, an idea that was previously absent in Judaism.

Modern deists believe that they must continue what the classical deists started and continue to use modern human knowledge to come to understand God, which in turn is why a human-like God that can lead to numerous contradictions and inconsistencies is no longer believed in and has been replaced with a much more abstract conception.

Epicurus's technically hedonistic views and philosophical teachings, though opposed to the Hedonists of his time, countered Jewish scripture, the strictly monotheistic conception of God in Judaism and the Jewish belief in the afterlife and the world to come.

" Therefore, being always free from original sin, the doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.

Alternative positions are traducianism and creationism, which both hold that the individual human soul does not come into existence until conception.

If the only way to come by any approximately coherent conception of God is via a mystical experience, then it seems as though this formulation of God hasn't got enough objectivity to get it off the ground.

John Locke's conception of the social contract differed from Hobbes ' in several fundamental ways, retaining only the central notion that persons in a state of nature would willingly come together to form a state.

" Herschel himself thought catastrophic extinction and renewal " an inadequate conception of the Creator ", and by analogy with other intermediate causes " the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ".

What little of it nevertheless has come to the public attention, shows that the common conception that the kingship since the reign of William III of the Netherlands has in fact been almost fully ceremonial, is not supported by the facts.

It has further been shown that, contrary to Ostrogorsky's conception of the themata being established from the outset as distinct, well-defined regions where a stratēgos held joint military and civil authority, the term thema originally seems to have referred exclusively to the armies themselves, and only in the later 7th or early 8th centuries did it come to be transferred to the districts where these armies were encamped as well.

The only thing that they consider to be despicable is idleness, and in this way they come to privilege the dignity of work and to overturn an absurd conception of nobility, linked to inactivity and vice.

Raised in the Anglican denomination of Christianity, Spare had come to denounce this monotheistic faith when he was seventeen, telling a reporter that " I am devising a religion of my own which embodies my conception of what we are we were, are, and shall be in the future.

As Heinz Heckhausen has pointed out this work is a masterpiece for those who come to it without an intense background in the psychology of perception ; in a nontechnical style Metzger moves the reader toward a deeper experience, and sometimes an altered conception, of the visual world.

It fills one with horror that cultured people are simply living from day to day at the expense of a universe which is collapsing and content themselves with the thought that we have not yet collapsed, fondly imagining that this can go on. The transition to peace-time conditions when millions of soldiers have lost the habit of work and are looking for homes and jobs and finding only ruins can only come about if we have as the basis of our action a moral, idealist conception which will seize men's minds and lift them above the material difficulties and if we can win the people over to this. To-day the bonds of morality have been torn away ; what is left is merely convention.

" Herschel thought catastrophic extinction and renewal " an inadequate conception of the Creator ", and by analogy with other intermediate causes " the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ".

However, this traditional conception has come under scrutiny.

The conception is one of a non-profit, non-interfering, non-denominational, retreat or refuge, where philosophers might come to work communally together, or independently ,— where a library and other facilities might be developed.

Throughout the years band members have come and gone but Amir Chamdin and Rodrigo " Rigo " Pencheff are regarded as the core members and have been part of Infinite Mass since the conception.