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Theravada tradition holds that the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma first to the assembled gods of the Tavatimsa heaven , headed by his mother . And if they turn away , be assured that for some of their crime it is God.s purpose to punish them . The prototype for Venus in the panel In the Presence of Gods Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche and Celebrates her marriage to Cupid was the artist 's wife Marthe Denis , and he painted the Olympian gods from his friends : Mars from Roussel and Bacchis from Maillol . I was especially fascinated by the myths and legends of gods and heroes , and the innumerable fairy tales . In the Hymn of the Salii he is called " God of Gods . These lawless desires are such as are excited in sleep , when the rational part of the soul which governs it is asleep , and the part which is brutal and savage , being filled with meats and drunkenness , frisks about , and pushing away sleep , wants to go and accomplish its practices ; in such a one it dares to do every thing , as being loosed and disengaged from all modesty and discretion ; for it scruples not the embraces , as it imagines , of gods , men , or beasts ; nor to kill any one ; in one word , is wanting in no folly nor impudence . Like Buddhism it found no help in the multitude of India ’ s gods and made man ’ s salvation wholly dependent on his own self-effort . Shinto means literally the " way of the gods , " from the two Chinese words Shen - - gods , and Tao - - way . Like many spiritual teachers , Empedocles appears to have given his students riddles ( ainigmata ) to work on , and the correspondence between the Elements and the four Gods Hera , Persephone , Zeus and Hades appears to be one of these . " but those who were convinced that they must meet God , said : " How oft , by God.s will , Hath a small force vanquished a big one ? God may play hide-and-seek with us , Berger concludes , but for those who listen to the harmonies of the universe with a third ear , He leaves sufficient evidence as to His presence . " Book , and Wisdom , and the prophetic office , should say to people : " Be ye my worshippers rather than God.s " : on the contrary ( He would say ) " Be ye worshippers of Him Who is truly the Cherisher of all : For ye have taught the Book and ye have studied it earnestly . On the first epimanikion the Annunciation and the Nativity , proclaiming the humanity of God made man , the Baptism and the Transfiguration , proclaiming his divinity ; on the second the Crucifixion and the Anastasis , signifying the redemption of mankind through the sacrifice of God , the Ascension and the Pentecost , symbols of the Church . Its reputation for wisdom and justice was so high , that Cicero said , the commonwealth of Athens could no more be governed without the court of Areopagus , than the world without the providence of God . A philosophical critical examination of religion to include : the nature of religion ; religious argumentation ; existence and nature of God ; meaning and relation of faith and knowledge ; theories of origin or religion . All persons born in the British American Colonies are , by the laws of God and nature and by the common law of England , exclusive of all charters from the Crown , well entitled , and by acts of the British Parliament are declared to be entitled , to all the natural , essential , inherent , and inseparable rights , liberties , and privileges of subjects born in Great Britain or within the realm . They can all be against us , but I think God looked down on us and that we can go far " ( Savo Milosevic , Yugoslav player ) . It is an awe-inspiring gift that God has given us to enjoy . Over against the individualism which was becoming more and more ineffective in the new order , exponents of Social Christianity offered a social doctrine of the Kingdom of God . And together we can show the world that America is still one nation under God . I had to reisntall my OS the other day along with Steam and I want to use my backup files I have from steam as its nearly 19GB worth of files , how in gods name do I reinstall my backups ? If one wishes to give a psychological interpretation to that traditional account , one might say that the sojourn in the world of gods may refer to periods of intense contemplation transcending the reaches of an earth-bound mentality ; and that from the heights of that contemplation its fundamental teachings were brought back to the world of normal human consciousness and handed over to philosophically gifted disciples like the Venerable Sariputta .