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Article: What’s the water under God’s throne?

1. A time before time

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Seminar: What was before?

2a. The beginnings of creation

2b. The formation of the universe(s)

2c. Things out there of interest: Universes and ETs

Seminar: The creation of the realms and what's out there

3. Who's there? Thinking about Great Entity

Seminar: Who and What is 'God' and what 'must' we think?

Written assignment (1)

4a. The physical constitution of Humans

4b. How the human form emerged

4c. Differentiating between the body and being - The beginnings of insaan

Seminar: Life, Humans, and Human evolution

5a. Adam and human-ness

5b. Human-ness, language and the intellect

Seminar: The intrinsic nature of humanness

6a. Adam, cognition and the Mala'ikah

6b. Iblis, Eve, the Sanctuary and the Expulsion

Seminar: What we learn from the story of the beginning and summary

7. The sons of Adam: murder and migration

Seminar: Murder and Migration

8a. Noah: the second epoch in human history

8b. Noah and his people

Seminar: Noah and the Great Flood

Written assignment (2)

9. The Holocene and Abraham in Ur: The Third Epoch

Seminar: Abraham and civilisation

10. Abraham and the new lands

Seminar: Emigration, citizenship and settling down

11. The religion of Abraham

Seminar: Abrahamic monotheism and the 'millah'

12. The descendants of Isaac and the Jews

Seminar: The Children of Israel

Seminar: Christ and the Nazarenes

13a. Ishmael and the Arabs

13.b Muhammad and a new civilisation?

Seminar: The Great Nation

Starting at the fundamental basis

14. Muhammad to today

15. Summary and QA

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