The Gnostic disclosures alienated the Christian Church from the lofty truths of the Kabbalah

“This religion of reason could not be that of the multitude, who require fables, mysteries, definite hopes, and terrors, materially operating upon them. On that account the sacerdotal institution was established in the world.

Now the sacerdotal order is recruited by initiation. Religious forms perish when initiation ceases in the sanctuary either through being divulged, or by neglect and forgetfulness of sacred mysteries. (more…)

It’s only in the safety of light that we can dismiss the darkness

“Most Westerners have a day consisting of eight hours of work, eight of play, and eight of sleep.

The eight hours of sleep, that third of a day of darkness, is sharply distinguished in our minds from the two-thirds of a day of waking and light.

We try not to think of that time of darkness and dreams. We pretend that we don’t dream, or if we do, that the dreams are meaningless.

Yet nightmares leave us all shaken and afraid. (more…)

Pope Francis Goes After Freemasons and Seizes Power of the Knights of Malta

The Vatican has officially seized power from the Order of Malta. An action that amounts to one sovereign country annexing another. This news comes shortly after the head of the Order, Fra’ Matthew Festing met with Pope Francis and resigned from the Order. Now the Vatican has ceased complete power of the order ending 900 years of sovereignty in what is being called “a brutal power-grab by the Vatican.”

The disorder in Malta had started in December when the Vatican demanded that the Knights of Malta dismiss Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager as grand chancellor (the order’s third-ranking official) for distributing thousands of condoms and oral contraceptives through the order’s humanitarian agency, Malteser International. (more…)

Southwest Native Americans Knew Advanced Geometry

Researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) have found that the Southwest Native Americans had advanced geometry skills that enabled them to build sophisticated architectural complexes. They were so good in fact, they could be called Pythagoreans.

These findings represent the first potential quantitative evidence of knowledge of advanced geometrical constructs in a prehistoric North American society, which is particularly remarkable given that the ancestral Pueblo peoples had no written language or number system.

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