Mariolatry : worship of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
... etc. The Christian transference was a very refined act which isolated from the mixture of spiritual and physical impregnations current in Egyptian and Greek myths the purely spiritual component. Mariolatry was also a purer and profounder movement than the worship of the various near-Eastern "Queens of Heaven". I am a great admirer of this whole Mother-mysticism that entered Christianity and aligns... must have become such a prominent member of the post-crucifixion following of Jesus that the mythopoeic process to which I have alluded was fairly easy. And I for one am happy that Marianism and Mariolatry arose, for though there is no historical basis of any kind in favour of the Virgin-Birth doctrine, the mistake, which made her a special vessel of God's grace in the period after the Gospels of Matthew... God's existence because it is the safe side, has never appealed to me and I am sure you don't endorse its "business" or "gambler" frame of mind. Teilhard de Chardin was greatly embarrassed by the Mariolatry of Pope Pius XII who made the dogma of Mary's bodily ascension into heaven a compulsory belief. I don't think he accepted the bodily ascension of Jesus either - Page 88 and his ...
... such as that of Mahomed against the naturalistic, Pagan and idolatrous polytheism of the Arabs or of the Protestants against the aesthetic and emotional saint-worship of the Catholic Church, its Mariolatry and use of images and elaborate ritual; its motive is philosophic, rational, psychological. Heraclitus was not indeed a pure rationalist He believes in the Gods, but as psychological presences, cosmic ...
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