Within this spiritual realm, there are three classes of spirits which are collectively called "Les Invisibles" (the invisible ones). The three classes which the les invisibles break down into are the basic fundamental principles of voodoo which consist of: Les Morts (which are the collective dead), Les Marassu (the original twins from which the human race has evolved) and Les Mysta (also known as the mysteries; the Loa (lwa) or the Gods). ... The petite bon ange (also known as the little good angel) is our conscience and man's eternal commitment to good. ...

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Pride, being one of the seven deadly sins of man in Christian belief, is a natural and common feeling of being understood, which makes his argument more compelling. ... Mather's article The Wonders Of The Invisible World shows a problem in the New Puritan settlement, and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands,". ... In the Scarlet Letter Hester mentions a Black man who gives her the scarlet letter on her chest. ... The Black man is similar to this, representing the Devil. ...

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Equiano was a very religious man eventually becoming a Methodist, religion was a huge part of his life and even his identity. ... "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ... Piety and faith are two of Equianos strongest character traits, they are apparent through the way he talks about God "I was sensible o...

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She speaks about how the language in the Torah can seem degrading to women because God is always assumed to be a man and it is offensive God is never referred to as a woman. She goes on to speak on how the world has deterred from the original revelation and is more male dominant while the women became invisible. ... The reason she is a centrist is because she still believes in the traditional roles such as the man being responsible for the wife if he is making the money or a man should serve his wife. ...

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Even during the trial, she continued to challenge the court's authority by saying: "But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me" (Wheeler and Becker 45). This was also part of her Antinomian belief of being free from "the man-made laws of both church and state, taking commands only from God, who communicated his whishes to the saints" (Wheeler and Becker 32). ...

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In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to the underworld realm of Mictlan. ... This invisible, God-given doctrine protected them, although not always entirely, from usurpers and those who wished to challenge their rule. ... Greek tradition was simila...

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After becoming a Sadhu, or holy man, and renouncing all material possessions they are able to be one with Brahma Nerguna. ... Some Buddhists worship Buddha, while the remainder of Buddhist think of Buddha as just a man and follow his teachings. ... This was a group of sayings by Confucius about how one man should act accordingly as opposed to how an inferior man would act in comparison. ... Instead they decided to focus on teaching about other things such as non-violence, paying attention to the invisible and The Sage. ...

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Heaven is the invisible home of the gads and ancestors. ... One story that tells of his mischievous is when he posed as a merchant, alternately sold increasingly magnificent gifts to each of a man's two wives. ...

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This belief of Ik Onkar and the teaching of gurus passed down and taught put a Sikh on a journey that will transform him into a new man. ... Shinto followers place little emphasis on death and what happens after it "death means the kami is hiding in the invisible world, the same as birth means that someone has made an entrance into the visible world....

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