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The Hamilton / Afghanistan War Monument – in Hamilton, Ontario – a retired Canadian Army LAV III
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located at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum was dedicated on June 3, 2017 to honour the
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service and sacrifice of the Hamilton area soldiers, sailors and aircrew who served in Afghanistan.
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The LAV III Monument at Fort York Armoury in Toronto, Ontario. A decommissioned Canadian Army LAV
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III was dedicated on June 10, 2018, to honour the 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) who served and
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the 162 Canadians who lost their lives during the conflict in Afghanistan.
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The B.C. Regiment (DCO) LAV III Monument at Shiloh Hill, Mission, B.C. was dedicated July 12, 2019
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to commemorate the Canadian Mission 2001 - 2014 in Afghanistan. The ceremony held by B.C.R.
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Honoraries and members of the military community in attendance. ref. The British Columbia Regiment
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(DCO) Association -Home and Newsletter.
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The LAV III Monument at Parc de la Paix (Peace Parc) in Rivière-à-Claude, Gaspésie, Québec. A
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decommissioned Canadian Army LAV III dedicated on August 19, 2019 honouring 40,000 Canadian Armed
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Forces (CAF) who served and the 162 Canadians who lost their lives during the conflict in
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Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan Memorial LAV III in Victoria Park, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
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OROMOCTO, NB, June 23, 2016 The LAV III Monument installation honours the service and sacrifice of
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Canadian Armed
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Forces during the war in Afghanistan.
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Related vehicles Stryker, a U.S. Army variant of the Stryker LAV-25 ASLAV LAV VI References
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External links
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GDLS Canada LAV III website Canadian Army LAV III specifications New Zealand Army NZLAV page
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Prime Portal – LAV III walk-around (1) Prime Portal – LAV III walk-around (2)
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Prime Portal – LAV III C2 walk-around Prime Portal – LAV III TUA walk-around
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Prime Portal – ELAV walk-around -LAV-III Engineer Walk Around
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Armoured personnel carriers Armoured fighting vehicles of Canada General Dynamics land vehicles
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Wheeled infantry fighting vehicles Eight-wheeled vehicles Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
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Wheeled armoured personnel carriers Mowag Piranha
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Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery
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tradition, is a term scholars use to categorise a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements
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that developed within Western society. These ideas and currents are united since they are largely
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distinct both from orthodox Judeo-Christian religion and Enlightenment rationalism. Esotericism has
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pervaded various forms of Western philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, art, literature, and
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music—and continues to influence intellectual ideas and popular culture.
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The idea of grouping a wide range of Western traditions and philosophies together under the term
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esotericism developed in Europe during the late seventeenth century. Various academics have debated
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various definitions of Western esotericism. One view adopts a definition from certain esotericist
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schools of thought themselves, treating "esotericism" as a perennial hidden inner tradition. A
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second perspective sees esotericism as a category of movements that embrace an "enchanted"
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world-view in the face of increasing disenchantment. A third views Western esotericism as
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encompassing all of Western culture's "rejected knowledge" that is accepted neither by the
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scientific establishment nor orthodox religious authorities.
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The earliest traditions that later analysis labeled as forms of Western esotericism emerged in the
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Eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, where Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism
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developed as schools of thought distinct from what became mainstream Christianity. Renaissance
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Europe saw increasing interest in many of these older ideas, with various intellectuals combining
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"pagan" philosophies with the Kabbalah and Christian philosophy, resulting in the emergence of
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esoteric movements like Christian theosophy. The seventeenth century saw the development of
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initiatory societies professing esoteric knowledge such as Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, while
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the Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century led to the development of new forms of esoteric
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thought. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of new trends of esoteric thought now known as
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occultism. Prominent groups in this century included the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic
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Order of the Golden Dawn. Also important in this connexion is Martinus´ "Spiritual Science". Modern
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Paganism developed within occultism, and includes religious movements such as Wicca. Esoteric ideas
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permeated the counterculture of the 1960s and later cultural tendencies, which led to the New Age
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phenomenon in the 1970s.
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The idea that these varying movements could be categorised together under the rubric of "Western
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esotericism" developed in the late eighteenth century, but these esoteric currents were largely
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ignored as a subject of academic enquiry. The academic study of Western esotericism only emerged in
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the late twentieth-century, pioneered by scholars like Frances Yates and Antoine Faivre. Esoteric
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ideas have meanwhile also exerted an influence in popular culture, appearing in art, literature,
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film, and music.
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Etymology The concept of the "esoteric" originated in the 2nd century
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with the coining of the Ancient Greek adjective esôterikós ("belonging to an inner circle"); the
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earliest known example of the word appeared in a satire authored by Lucian of Samosata ( 125 –
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after 180).
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The noun "esotericism", in its French form "ésotérisme", first appeared in 1828 in the work by
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protestant historian of gnosticism (1791–1864), Histoire critique du gnosticisme (3 vols.).
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The term "esotericism" thus came into use in the wake of the Age of Enlightenment and of its
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critique of institutionalised religion, during which alternative religious groups began to
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disassociate themselves from the dominant Christianity in Western Europe. During the nineteenth and
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twentieth centuries, scholars increasingly saw the term "esotericism" as meaning something distinct
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from Christianity—as a subculture at odds with the Christian mainstream from at least the time of
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the Renaissance. The French occultist and ceremonial magician Eliphas Lévi (1810–1875) popularized
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the term in the 1850s, and Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840–1921) introduced it into the
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English language in his book Esoteric Buddhism (1883). Lévi also introduced the term l'occultisme,
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a notion that he developed against the background of contemporary socialist and Catholic
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discourses. "Esotericism" and "occultism" were often employed as synonyms until later scholars
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distinguished the concepts.
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Conceptual development
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The concept of "Western esotericism" represents a modern scholarly construct rather than a
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pre-existing, self-defined tradition of thought. In the late seventeenth century, several European
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Christian thinkers presented the argument that one could categorise certain traditions of Western
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philosophy and thought together, thus establishing the category now labelled "Western esotericism".
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The first to do so, (1659–1698), a German Lutheran theologian, wrote Platonisch-Hermetisches
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Christianity (1690–91). A hostile critic of various currents of Western thought that had emerged
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since the Renaissance—among them Paracelsianism, Weigelianism, and Christian theosophy—in his book
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he labelled all of these traditions under the category of "Platonic–Hermetic Christianity",
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portraying them as heretical to what he saw as "true" Christianity. Despite his hostile attitude
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toward these traditions of thought, Colberg became the first to connect these disparate
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philosophies and to study them under one rubric, also recognising that these ideas linked back to
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earlier philosophies from late antiquity.
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In Europe during the eighteenth century, amid the Age of Enlightenment, these esoteric traditions
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came to be regularly categorised under the labels of "superstition", "magic", and "the occult" -
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terms often used interchangeably. The modern academy, then in the process of developing,
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consistently rejected and ignored topics coming under "the occult", thus leaving research into them
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largely to enthusiasts outside of academia. Indeed, according to historian of esotericism Wouter J.
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Hanegraaff (born 1961), rejection of "occult" topics was seen as a "crucial identity marker" for
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any intellectuals seeking to affiliate themselves with the academy.
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Scholars established this category in the late 18th century after identifying "structural
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similarities" between "the ideas and world views of a wide variety of thinkers and movements" that,