Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate Nehru boldly declared for the first time that the neighboring independent kingdom of Nepal lies within the orbit of India's defenses against Red Chinese incursions. He said attacks on Nepal and protectorate states nearby would be considered attacks on India itself...
...found a veto-proof 1946 precedent for "a subcommittee of inquiry" that could receive reports but could not seek facts on its own initiative (TIME, Sept. 21). Predictably, in its 32-page report to the Security Council last week, the U.N. team found plenty of evidence that the kingdom of Laos' fevers were Communist-caused, but no hard proof on the key issue of direct aggression...
Part of the Gnostic's special concern seems to have been self-knowledge, an emphasis that appears at least twice in the Thomas Gospel: Jesus said: Whoever knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything . . . But the Kingdom is within you and it is without you. If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the Living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty...
Some of the similes are familiar, e.g., The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who has taken a little leaven and has hidden it in dough and has made large loaves of it. Whoever has ears let him hear. But others have a surprising new emphasis, like the saying which immediately follows the above and seems to indicate that one can lose one's chance to enter the Kingdom through ignorance: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road...
...King dom of Heaven? In a cryptic "saying," the Gospel of Thomas seems to suggest that it has something to do with psychological unity: Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These children who are being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom. They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male...