Circumcision

Circumcision, Hebrew mullah; Greek peritome, "a cutting away," as a ceremony, is the cutting away of the foreskin, which is the hood or fold of skin covering the head of the male organ.

I conjure you spirits in what place of the world soever ye be, by the annunciation of Christ, by the baptism of Christ, by the circumcision of Christ, by the transfiguration of Christ upon the mount Tabor, by the cross of Christ, ...

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As Wolfson deconstructs it, circumcision is God's writing, or from God's dictation, on the body; and this surgery is the original commandment, on which all the others are based.

Rites of circumcision, baptism, and anointing the forehead with oil may be seen to have similarities with the ancient mystery rites of initiation into a select religious community.

Secondly, to circumcize the child: namely, to carry out the rules of circumcision in a proper manner so as to circumcise every kind of husk and foreskin which attaches itself to Foundation.

a servant of God, call upon thee, desire and conjure thee, Spirit Scheol, through the most holy appearance in the flesh of Jesus Christ, by his most holy birth and circumcision, by his sweating of blood in the Garden, by the lashes he bore, ...

First, the covenant was between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue (spiritual); second, the covenant was between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of circumcision (material); and God said of him, ...

scripture is his guiding of young Tobias in the apocryphal book of Tobit where he teaches the lad about medicine and demon exorcising among other things. Also in his role as healer, it is Raphael who eases the pain of Abraham after his circumcision, ...

See also: World, Spirit, Christ, Death, Abraham