High place, or place of worship, in biblical times referred to shrine built on hills throughout Erez Israel; although the term might also refer to a raised altar.
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This fellow Enoch really had a friend in a high place. He got to talking with God. Consider the Yeminite Jewish people; there are places in Israel where the Yeminites settled.
Though the Sammohana Tantra gives high place to Shamkara as conqueror of Buddhism (speaking of him as a manifestation of Shiva and identifying his four disciples and himself with the five Mahapretas), ...
Thou, O Lord, Who hast made both Heaven and Earth, and hast measured them in the hollow of Thy hand; Thou Who art seated upon the Kerubim and the Seraphim, in the high places, whereunto human understanding cannot penetrate; ...
In the early days of Buddhism the Vedas held high place, for the Lord Buddha, as Dr Rhys Davids says, 'was born and brought up, and lived and died a Hindu'.
"Imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak, as far as the eye could reach, and paid out until it reached the 'high places' of the earth at a number of ridges, banks, and knowls.
'Again, I adjure thee, O BARAKON, by the spirit of Him on high (? for åé?òä, l. ïéìòä), together with thy associates, also by the Eternal Being, blessed and glorified in the recesses of the high places, ...
"No one journeys now 'from the high place of Cabaon to the threshing floor of Oman the Yebusite,' nor has seen, 'his Master, clothed in blue and gold;' nor are apprentices and Fellow-crafts any longer paid at their respective Columns; ...
"If the student but provides the right conditions, if he conforms to the necessary rules, if he aims always at regularity, at calmness, at that inner concentration that holds the mystery of the High Places, ...
The first one reads: “To the strong is given the burden" and the second, “Kindle a fire upon the high place that the sacrifice may be borne upward to the Desired One.
-- Church and State Christianity pre-eminently -- have failed most egregiously; others because they would fain preserve the existing state of things: Pharisees and Sadducees in the seat of Moses, and publicans and sinners revelling in high places, ...
He is listed in the official Acta Sanctorum as "beatus," but he is also listed as a heretic in the official Catalogus Haereticorum. Dante gives him a high place in Paradisio, possibly as a cynical jab at the Church's ambiguity.
 See also: World, Spirit, Light, Sun, Christ
  
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