The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

sphere of authority, power, and ministry where a servant of God is placed for duty. 1 Samuel 9:13; Psalm 18:33; 2 Samuel 22:34; Habakkuk 3:19. 641. High Priest—The highest office of temple ministers who are responsible for sacrifices, offerings, and votive gifts to appease the Lord. 642. Hills—Centers of pagan and nomadic worship. Generally, hills were the worship centers of lower or subordinate deities. Mountains were the site of a celestial god’s worship. 643. Hindu Trinity—The Asiatic triad of the Hindus adopted also by the Buddhists comprised of Brahma, the creator god; Vishnu, the preserving god; and Shiva, the destroyer. These are in addition to a host of other deities over the earth, its elements, nature, and the skies, as well as the underworld. 644. Hinduism—An Indo-Asian religion based on replacing nature worship with human deification; a concept held by the ancient Egyptians. By absorbing the teachings of their masters, adherents of Hinduism become human replicas or the embodiment of their faith’s deities; an achievement considered as total enlightenment. Contrary to traditional faiths, Hindus are cooperatives with their deities in their spiritual development. They have as much to do with their spiritual success by good works as the god they strive to conform to or become. When it comes to religion, Hindus—and Buddhists—do not see themselves as necessarily truckling slaves of their gods, as primitive peoples did. Instead, they are free agents and somewhat compeers in the co-transformational process of transitioning from earthly to divine beings. The Hindu pantheon is but a reinvested Aryan version of the old Asiatic-Indo European religions that predate it. Though claiming to be atypical, the religion is no more than a revival of the fecundity cults of antiquity where the mother goddess (earth) is worshipped with a pantheon of other deities now called devas or devi. The recurring themes of previous myths are espoused to justify belief in astral, terrestrial, and subterranean gods. As with their primitive counterparts, the other detrimental features of their religion are brought forward as well, such as intoxicating drinks to remove inhibitions and hallucinogens to facilitate phantasm. Of course, godhood is ascribed to the powers of their intoxicants and he is called Soma. Moreover the motif of prophetic symbols and divinatory objects persist with spiritual import placed upon the worshipper’s connection and communion with the gods, further carryovers from antiquity. Taking the forms of nature’s