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The line of the Orient includes Hindus, doctors, scientists, Arabs and Moroccans, Japanese, Chinese, Mongols, Egyptians, Aztecs, Incas, Caribs, and Romans.
To the Oxossi line belong the sun, the moon, the caboclo of waterfalls, and th...
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banquet of manioc, pimento, coco, amendoim, gengibre, moqueca de siri-mole, vatapá, efó, caruru, black beans with farofa, amid a languid odor of African spices, sweet and strong tropical flavors, which we tasted dutifully, knowing that we were sharing the food of the ancient Sudanese gods.
Simply
And
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John Dee,
everything
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full of allegories,
you got 1430, the year when the Order of the Golden Fleece,
Argonauts,
Holy Grail and therefore with the Templars.
1623, Rosicrucian manifestoes appeared on the walls of Paris,
thirty-six invisibles
“What thirty-six?” “The ones in my Templar document.”
Descartes—that’s
By the time he got back to Paris, the manifestoes had appeared, and he learned that everybody considered him a Rosicrucian.
It
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Hermes Trismegistus (who influenced the Italian Renaissance just as much as he later influenced Princeton gnosis),
that Dante had been a Rosicrucian and a Mason—as had Saint Thomas, incidentally. In cantos XXIV and XXV of the “Paradiso” one finds the triple kiss of Prince Rosicrux, the pelican, white tunics (the same as those worn by the old men of the Apocalypse), and the three theological virtues of Masonic chapters (Faith, Hope, and Charity).
legend of William Tell. Tell
the third eye
um is properly pronounced, it becomes a powerful mantra and produces fluid currents of harmony in the psyche through the siakra, or frontal plexus.
“So now it’s the Rosicrucians as well?
No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.
who observed it from the outside and turned it into a rite of passage, the return of spring—like an equinox or a solstice;
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
New York, in the UN building,
the science museum in San Francisco,
Foucault’s Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you h...
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“God is every...
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‘Yesterday, I didn’t dare speak—it would have humiliated the others—but your work, it’s sublime.
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When it is recalled that Daath is situated at the point where the abyss bisects the Middle Pillar, and that up the Middle Pillar lies the Path of the Arrow, the way by which consciousness goes when the psychic rises on the planes, and that here also is Kundalini, we see that in Daath is the secret of both generation and regeneration, the key to the manifestation of all things through the differentiation into pairs of Opposites and their union in a Third. —Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah, London, Fraternity of the Inner Light, 1957, 7.19
Esotericism is the search for a learning transmitted only through symbols, closed to the profane.
The occultism that spread in the nineteenth century was the tip of the iceberg, the little that surfaced of the esoteric secret.
initiatory secret revealed is of no use to anyone.
The English Templars put forth the Masonic proposal in order to make all the initiates of Europe rally around the Baconian plan.”
