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== El Morya’s embodiments == | == El Morya’s embodiments == | ||
[[File:Jan Victors or Rembrandt Studio - Abraham and the 3 Angels.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Abraham entertaining the three angels (Genesis 18:9-15), Jan Victors]] | |||
=== Abraham === | === Abraham === | ||
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As King Arthur (fifth century A.D.), Guru of the mystery school at Camelot, he guarded the inner teachings. He summoned knights of the Round Table and ladies of the court to quest the Holy Grail and to attain through initiation the mysteries of Christ. | As King Arthur (fifth century A.D.), Guru of the mystery school at Camelot, he guarded the inner teachings. He summoned knights of the Round Table and ladies of the court to quest the Holy Grail and to attain through initiation the mysteries of Christ. | ||
[[File:De Grey Hours f.28.v St. Thomas of Canterbury.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|alt=caption|The martyrdom of Thomas Becket, from a medieval Book of Hours (c.1390)]] | |||
=== Thomas Becket === | === Thomas Becket === | ||
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On December 29, 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral when four knights of the court took literally the king’s remark that he wished to be rid of “this turbulent priest.” Uncompromising to the end, Becket told the knights: “If all the swords in England were pointing at my head, you would never make me betray either God or the Pope.” More than five hundred healing miracles were attributed to him only a few years after his death, and he was canonized three years later. | On December 29, 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral when four knights of the court took literally the king’s remark that he wished to be rid of “this turbulent priest.” Uncompromising to the end, Becket told the knights: “If all the swords in England were pointing at my head, you would never make me betray either God or the Pope.” More than five hundred healing miracles were attributed to him only a few years after his death, and he was canonized three years later. | ||
[[File:Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|left|alt=Thomas More wearing the chain of office of chancellor|''Sir Thomas More'', by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527)]] | |||
=== Thomas More === | === Thomas More === | ||
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Lawyer, judge, statesman, man of letters, author, poet, farmer, lover of pastoral life, ascetic, husband and father, champion of women’s education, humanist and saint, Thomas More was outstanding among the avant-garde of the English Renaissance. | Lawyer, judge, statesman, man of letters, author, poet, farmer, lover of pastoral life, ascetic, husband and father, champion of women’s education, humanist and saint, Thomas More was outstanding among the avant-garde of the English Renaissance. | ||
[[File:Jesuits at Akbar's court.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|alt=caption|Akbar holds a religious assembly]] | |||
=== Akbar === | === Akbar === | ||
{{main|Akbar the Great}} | {{main|Akbar the Great}} | ||