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The other day a friend of mine asked me to send him a link to a timeline I had posted on Mormon convert David Alexander's religious peregrinations during his purported " 47 years in evangelical Christianity " before becoming a Mormon on 20 March 2023. My friend responded back with one line: "Thanks! This guy is a regular Martin Harris." This was not the first time I had heard the comparison made between Harris and Alexander in the month or so since Alexander popped up on my radar. One person put the question like this: "Is Alexander a fraud or is he a Martin Harris?" As to the former, the idea that Alexander might be a fraud, was not without warrant. For one thing he did not sound like an evangelical. He did not obviously share their emphases or beliefs. If one asks an evangelical, "What is the most important thing for me to know?" His answer would be the same as was given by the Moravian August Gottlieb Spangenberg to the very zealous but...

Psychedelics Manuscripts Art Workup under construction

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Français 995 | Gallica Missale et horae ad usum Fratrum Minorum. | Gallica    BnF, Manuscrits, Latin 757 Walters Ms. W.26, Claricia Psalter   This one also has Jesus baptized in a pile of water.  London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII | IIIF Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1 | IIIF Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books  This one has Jesus baptized in a pile of water.  Digital Scholarly Library Viewer  many manuscripts.  Not biblical mostly Evangeliarium Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB), Cod. 1182 EVANGELIARIUM (SOG. TROPPAUER EVANGELIAR) Pergament     189 Bl.     375×256     Prag, 1368 A Cambridge Bestiary Library of Congress Ambrose Hexameron: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13459/?sp=3&st=gallery LJS 101 9th cent Aristotle.  Many pictures of church with archangels Michael and Raphael  [...