The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

phenomenon, the elements, and animal creatures, Hindu deities are shrouded in the mysticism that typify so many archaic ancestral religions. Priests and ministers don ceremonial masks and costumes in worship to give the impression of transforming into the deity’s image. Ceremonies involving human slaughter, fiery immolation pits, and violent rituals for bloodletting are executed to appease the deities in rituals expressed as divine battles, conquests, and tributes acted out by human agents on divinities’ behalf. Also consistent with their early polytheistic predecessors are the divine wars and fertility myths used to explain the male dominance and female subordination characteristic of Asian lands. The male god holds a condescending view of the goddesses, consort or not, that stems from his position as creator and head, and hers as the feet, so to speak. See Buddhism. 645. Holiness—A) The state of being consecrated and sanctified to God from sin. B) The law of God’s temple. Holiness from God’s perspective is uncontaminated and incapable of being contaminated by anything outside itself, hence Jesus’ parable of Matthew 15:11, 20 and Mark 7:20. God’s holiness speaks to holism with all parts well, healthy, and operating in perfect synergy with the others uninterrupted and unimpeded. It is holiness in conduct that springs from holy thoughts, emotions, desires, and determination. It is a willful holiness that resolutely exists to produce and perform what is right, recognize and shun what is not, and impart the power and excelling virtues of both to those around. This is more than sanctification or consecration. It is the grounds upon which both can be accomplished and biblical redemption is exhibited. 646. Holy—The state of being dedicated and devoted to God by being separated from sin. 647. Home—Symbolic of acceptance (or rejection and disapproval in negative circumstances), safety, and security. Warmth, relaxation, and harmony. A place of familiarity and a refuge. 648. Homosexuality—An observance of ancient pagan fertility rites where persons of the same sex copulate in worship of the old spirits that required fecundity offerings. The Bible calls male homosexuality sodomy, because that is what the fertility gods of primarily eunuch and prostituting men submitted to in supplying sexual favors for the ancient rulers, worshippers, and the deities they served. Being without a normal female sex organ, the sex act is completed rectally. It is the necessary mode of this completion that Creator God condemns because it mixes the male seed, which is to bring life, with fecal waste and thus