Arriving in Egypt, Pythagoras tried to become a student of the temple priests. He applied again and again, but he was told that unless he goes through a particular training of fasting and breathing, he wasn't even allowed to enter the school.
Pythagoras is reported to have said...
" I have come for knowledge, not any sort of discipline."
But the school authorities said...
" We cannot give you knowledge unless you are different. And really, we are not interested in knowledge at all, we are interested in actual experience. No knowledge is knowledge unless it is lived and experienced. So you will have to go on a 40-day fast, continuously breathing in a certain manner, with a certain awareness on certain points."
After 40 days of fasting and breathing, aware and attentive, he was allowed entry.
At Diospolis, Pythagoras said...
"You are not allowing Pythagoras in. I am a different man, I am reborn. You were right and I was wrong because then my whole standpoint was intellectual. Through this purification, my center of being has changed. Before this training, I could only understand through the intellect, through the head. Now I can feel. Now 'truth' is not a concept to me, but a life."
@Maga4liberty You can believe this or not. I am undergoing a 40-day fast that ends after the eclipse.
I won't be in a city named after Jerusalem but in the bay of Trinity.
I hate to say it but you are both wrong, it goes way beyond cursing Jesus.
To blaspheme the Holy Spirit is to call into question the very nature of Gods power, because its the 'holy spirit' that makes Jesus a 'god' in the eyes of the church, and without it, the Trinity falls apart. Its the glue that binds Jesus and God together.
Without the Trinity, the church itself is guilty of breaking the first commandment.
Yes of course I make sure I drink enough electrolytes, but that is really the only concern. Every few days I also have a cup of bone broth, and that is about it.
I still have all my hair and my heart is fine so far. I have plenty of fat reserves for my body to use before it starts eating muscle.