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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.”
Godel’s theorem
We midwives, who assist at the births of what others conceive, should be refused burial in consecrated ground.
we play with a plurality of make-believes,
with the endless possibilities of existence in an infini...
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We have courses in Morse syntax, the history of antarctic agriculture, the history of Easter Island painting, contemporary Sumerian literature, Montessori grading, Assyrio-Babylonian philately, the technology of the wheel in pre-Columbian empires, and the phonetics of the silent film.”
“Maybe. But what courses did we put under Oxymoronics? Oh, yes, here we are: Tradition in Revolution, Democratic Oligarchy, Parmenidean Dynamics, Heraclitean Statics, Spartan Sybaritics, Tautological Dialectics, Boolean Eristic.”
necessity of the impossible.
real catacombs—extends
As God is my witness, gentlemen, those tunnels are tailor-made for commandos. Quick and invisible, you slip in at night, knife between your teeth, a couple of grenades in hand, and your enemies die like rats!”
but there were Cathars in Champagne also,
Cathers
Trithemius presents forty major and ten minor cryptosystems. Here I was lucky—either that or the Templars of Provins simply didn’t make any great effort, since they were sure nobody would ever crack their code. I tried the first of the forty major systems and assumed that only the first letter of each word counted.”
Here is the wheel for the first system.”
relapsi
“Revenge
avenge Jacques de Molay. I don’t think much of the Masonic rite—a mere bourgeois caricature of Templar knighthood—but
one of the degrees of Scottish Masonry
was kadosch knight, the knight ...
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Every twenty years, I conclude; six times or one hundred and twenty years in all.
castle
because the digits of 1944 add up to eighteen.
Well, the six hundred and sixty-sixth year after 1344 is the year 2000, when the Templars’ revenge will triumph. The Anti-Jerusalem is the New Babylon, and this is why 1944 is the year of the triumph of La Grande Pute, the great whore of Babylon mentioned in the Apocalypse.
“but if I understood correctly, when the first seal is opened, the succession of keepers of that seal doesn’t end; it lives on until the breaking of the last seal, when all the representatives of the order are to be present. In every century, then—or, strictly speaking, every hundred and twenty years—there
“Thirty-six knights for each of the six places makes two hundred and sixteen, the digits of which add up to nine. And since there are six centuries, we can multiply two hundred and sixteen by six, which gives us one thousand two hundred and ninety-six, whose digits add up to eighteen, or three times six, or 666.”
nine was the number of the knights who founded the Temple in Jerusalem?”
“And the Great Name of God, as expressed in the Tetragrammaton,” Diotallevi said, “has seventy-two letters—and seven plus two makes nine. But that’s not all, if you’ll allow me. The Pythagorean tradition, which cabala preserves—or perhaps inspired—notes that the sum of the odd numbers from one to seven is sixteen, and the sum of the even numbers from two to eight is twenty, and twenty plus sixteen makes thirty-six.”
Had Diotallevi turned arithmetic into a religion, or religion into arithmetic?
“Really, gentlemen! The Stone is, of course, the Grail.”
Druid Saint Bernard, is riddled with the number 3.”
Kali Yuga
cathedral of Chartres.
the black virgins of the Celts.
three
The Benedictines are the heirs of the Druids.
virgin symbolizes the prime matter that seekers employ in their quest for the philosopher’s stone, which, as we have seen, is simply the Grail.
Black Stone of Mecca?
Odin,
the sacred animals of Odinism: the dog, the eagle, the lion, the white bear, and the werewolf.
statue of a woman holding the chalice, the Grail. Ah,
heretics.
“The Virgin has a different shape, and I believe it contains eleven stars. . . .
“The Zohar,”
Pythagoras,
“The age of the Antonines
Hermes, inventor of all trickery,
where everything dissolves into the horizon,
go-between, trader,
“You believe that I am as hasty in distributing gods as Hermes is in distributing merchandise.
Besides, the Comte de Saint-Germain
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Oxalá line. Sirens, water nymphs, caboclas of the sea and the rivers, sailors, and guiding stars are part of the Yemanjá line.
