Including Moorish Science Temple in a complicated, expansive understanding

“Q: When you or scholars talk about the ‘Black Church,’ what does that mean to you? … A. The short answer is, ‘it’s complicated.’ … Sorett, Butler, and others call for a more expansive understanding of the Black Church that includes not only those previously mentioned but also members of religious movements that fall outside of mainstream Christianity, including the International Peace Mission Movement, the United House of Prayer for All People, Black Hebrew Israelite religions, the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Nation of Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, and other religious traditions. So, for me, when I use the term ‘Black Church,’ I use it to refer to those African Americans who travel under the sign of ‘Christian,’ regardless of denominational affiliation, while keeping in mind these other uses.”—”Are Black Churches, Once a Civil Rights Vanguard, Losing Importance?”

Passing mention of the Moorish Science Temple of America.

Hermetic Library Omnium Including Moorish Science Temple in a Complicated Expansive Understanding 28feb2023

Consider also:

  1. “In any case, this passage of Paul’s is the principle reason for the elaborate development attributed to St. Denis or Pseudo-Dionysus, in his Celestial Hierarchy and in passing as a matter of introduction in his Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. Conversely, the work of Pseudo-Dionysus is concerned with putting Judeo-Christian angelology in the context of Platonic metaphysics and cosmology.”
  2. “A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions.”
  3. A labyrinth inside a labyrinth
  4. “The works of the Italian Renaissance hermeticist Marsilio Ficino are of immense value, in that they bridge the gap between psychology and magic to a great degree. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to obtain, and deal with a style of kabbalah stylistically different from the more famous modern schools, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its off-shoots. Some of Ficino’s insights will be considered as well.”
  5. “In my textbook, Theory and Practice of Magick will be found the definition of the word magic, or magick, as I prefer to spell it, to distinguish the real from the fake. It is ‘the science and art of causing change to occur in accordance with the will.'”