Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson

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Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson
A human being has both a physical body and a soul or spirit, and at death the two dissociate. The spirit of the individual slips away and must be ritually reclaimed by a priest in a ceremony at a certain time after death, usually a year and a day in Haiti

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"through a glass darkly"

[jonquil_d]

Fascinated to find this reference to Paul's letter to the church at Corinth on LJ especially as I have just spent this morning preparing a service and sermon for Sunday which focusses in on Chapter 13.
Paul wrote of course in the Greek language and the word was "mirror" which in his experience would have been beaten and polished metal and not glass, and whilst the best mirrors would have given a reasonable reflection even the best would have been much more like what we see in the wing of a newly cleaned car or perhaps in a computer screen....no resemblance to our silvered glass mirrors which have a coefficient of reflectivity of nearly 100% and can be produced so accurate as to produce a totally undistorted image.
Paul of course used the metaphor to compare our experience of human love as compared to the experience of the love of God directly in ultimate.