by Moe
“We live in a Cult-u-re here in the West where much of our media has taken a page from the playbook of the Gnostics. Many movie scripts today are based on ancient Gnosticism where the writers Gnosticize in modern form to appeal to the senses by giving old themes a new Gnostic coloring.” – Moe Bedard
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
by Moe
The Ancient Babylonians had left us the famous story on seals and stones of a half-human and half-divine hero named Gilgamesh (Gilgāmeš) who is king over the city of Erech. These stories are collectively known today as “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
Gilgamesh stands out as the defied hero who some scholars say is based at one time on a real personage whose name may have been Gisdhubar, or Izdubar, but was later pronounced Gilgamesh. The other two Gods or Demons who are his consorts are named Eabani, who is said to represent primitive man, and Ut-Napishtim (Ūta-napišti or Parnapishtim), the hero of the Babylonian deluge myth.
The story is told that Gilgamesh is set on a mission to travel to the land of his ancestor in order to seek out “Ut-Napishtim,” the son of Kidin-Marduk.” Ut-Napishtim is called the “distant one” and his dwelling is far off, “at the confluence of the streams.” The road to the place is full of dangers, but Gilgamesh, undaunted, undertakes the journey. The hero himself furnishes the description.
I came to a glen at night,
Lions I saw and was afraid.
I raised my head and prayed to Sin.
To the leader (?) of the gods my prayer came.
[He heard my prayer (?)], and was gracious to me.
We can find Gilgamesh is pictured in many ancient seal and cylinders in the act of war – fighting with or strangling a lion and he is given the weapons of an ax and a sword for the fight. Gilgamesh comes to the mountain Mashu (Holy Mountain), which is also described as a place of terrors.
The mountains of Mashu are described as follows:
When [he arrived] at the mountain range of Mashu,
Which daily keeps watch over sun[rise and sunset]-
Whose peaks [reach to] the vault of heaven
(And) whose breasts reach to the netherworld below. (ANET, 88; Heidel 1946, 65).
Mashu is said to mean twin and it is from the “twin peaks” of the Mountain Mashu “daily keeps watch over sun[rise and sunset]” (ANET, 88) which was at the center of the Soul of the World and the two main geographic points of East and West. For it is the Western gate which the sun enters at night and the sun travels at night in subterranean caverns back under the earth to come out in the East at sunrise. The cave is also called the “vault of heaven” is the same phrase su-pu-uk same(e) meaning the “foundation of heaven.”
It is here where we find remnants of the Sabien Rite which is the Rites of the Apocalypse being performed by initiated priests known as the scorpion-men whose “glance is death” and guard the entrance to the cave in the mountain of Mashu or Mashi; that is, “the mountain of the Sunset” or “Dark Mountian of the Sunset.”
The scorpion-men of the Mountain would be the immortal and mortal spirits who took the sacrificial oaths at the beginning of this Age and who hold the keys to heaven and hell via binding and loosing. Gilgamesh must cross the Waters of Death and gain entrance to the Cave AKA the “vault of heaven” through the scorpion-men who are the guards in order to fulfill his mission.
The Scorpion Men stand guard outside the gates of the sun god Shamash at the mountains of Mashu. These give entrance to Kurnugi, the land of darkness which was a dark and dreary cavern located deep below the ground, where inhabitants were believed to continue “a shadowy version of life on earth”.
The only food or drink was dry dust.
The rulers of the underworld were the King of Hell and God of Death, Nergal and his Queen, the goddess Ereshkigal.
The scorpion men open the doors for Shamash as he travels out each day, and close the doors after him when he returns to the underworld at night. Their heads touch the sky, their “terror is awesome” and their “glance is death”. This meeting of Gilgameš, on his way to Ūta-napišti, with the Scorpion-folk guarding the entrance to the tunnel is described in Iškār Gilgāmeš, tablet IX, lines 47–81.
When one of the scorpion-man sees Gilgamesh at the cave entrance, he addresses his wife: ” He who comes to us is of divine appearance.” The wife agrees that Gilgamesh is in part divine, but she adds that in part he is human. The scorpion-man then announces that it is by the express command of the gods that Gilgamesh has come to the mountain.
It is at this time that Gilgamesh recovers his courage tells the scorpion-man of his purpose. The scorpion-man then proceeds to inform him of the extreme dangers that will come upon anyone who ventures to enter the dreadful district. Now that he is completely aware and conscious of the Gnosis of who he is and his immortal mission, the gate is then opened for Gilgamesh and his epic journey begins.
Gilgamesh magically makes it through the darkness which is enclosing him on all sides and after traversing a distance of twenty-four hours, he beholds a splendid tree decorated with precious stones and bearing beautiful fruit. He then reaches the sea where he meets the maiden Sabitum where she has her palace and throne as guardian (mermaid) of the sea.
When Sabitum sees Gilgamesh, she locks the gates and will not permit him to pass across the sea. Gilgamesh then pleads with Sabitum telling her of the loss of his friend Eabani, ‘who has become dust (mortal fungi – ie: men),” and whose fate he does not wish to share. When Gilgamesh speaks to Sabitum, it is then said in the text; “[Now] Sabitum, which is the way to Ut-Napishtim.”
The Ninth Tablet opens with the lament of Gilgamesh for the death of his friend, and his number one goal which is to seek out the spirit of his ancestor who is named “Tsit-napishtim (Ut-Napishtim)” so he might perhaps escape a similar fate.
Tsit-napishtim informs Gilgamesh that all men must die with he himself being an exception in exceptional circumstances. He then gives Gilgamesh an opportunity of eating the plant of life, which is then lost. However, Tsit-napishtim then cures Gilgamesh of his disease which he has contracted while crossing the Waters of Death, and he is finally restored to King of Erech.
The Babylonian tablet reads:
“For his friend Ea-bani “Gilgamesh wept bitterly and he lay stretched out upon the ground. “(He cried): ‘Let me not die like Ea-bani! “Grief hath entered into my body, and “I fear death, and I lie stretched out upon the
ground.
“To (test) the power of Tsit-napishtim, son of UbaraTutu,
“I will set out, and I will not tarry by the way.'” Gilgamesh describes his journey thus :— “To a mountain gorge I came by night, “Lions I beheld, and I was terrified. “I raised my head and I prayed to the Moon-god, “And to the [chief] of the gods came my cry, “[And he hearkened and] showed favour unto me.”
From what remains of the text it appears that Gilgamesh had a dream in which the Moon-god shewed him the way by which he might safely pass over the mountains. Gilgamesh succeeded in crossing the first mountain range which barred his path, and he next came to a still greater mountain named Mashu, that is to say, the Mountain of the Sunset.
The poem continues as follows:
“Then he came to the Mountain of Mashu, “The portals of which are guarded daily [by monsters];
“Their backs mount up to the ramparts of heaven, “And their fore parts reach down beneath Arallu. “Scorpion-men guard the gate (of Mashu); “They strike terror [into men], and it is death to behold them.
“Their splendour is great, for it overwhelms the mountains; “From sunrise to sunset they guard the Sun. “Gilgamesh beheld them, “And his face grew dark with fear and terror, “And the wildness of their aspect robbed him of his senses.”
One of the Scorpion-men then caught sight of Gilgamesh, and, turning to his wife, told her that the body of the man they saw approaching resembled that of a god. His wife replied that Gilgamesh was partly divine and partly human. The Scorpion-man then told her how Gilgamesh had set out on his long journey in accordance with the will of the gods, and he described the steep mountains which he had already crossed.
Gilgamesh, seeing that the monster regarded him with friendly eyes, recovered from his fright, and told him of the purpose of his journey, namely, to go to Tsit-napishtim, his ancestor, who stood in the assembly of the gods, and had the power over life and death.
The Scorpion-man replied by describing the difficulties and dangers which he would encounter if he persisted in his purpose of traversing the Mountain of Mashu, adding that for twelve kasbu, that is, for a space of twenty-four hours, he would have to pass through thick darkness.
But Gilgamesh was not discouraged.
The Scorpion-man, therefore, yielded to his request, and opened the gate of the mountain and let him through.
For twenty-four hours Gilgamesh marched onwards, “and the darkness was thick and there was no light.” But at the end of this long and dreadful journey he came out once more into the light of the sun, and the first thing he beheld was a beautiful and wonderful tree. The poem describes the tree in the following words:—
“Precious stones it bore as fruit,
“Branches hung from it which were beautiful to behold.
“The top of the tree was lapis lazuli,
“And it was laden with fruit which dazzled the eye of him that beheld.”
This tree grew in a great park or orchard beside THE PRINCESS SABITU.
SOURCES:
1. Babylonian Religion and Mythology By Leonard William King
2. The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Being Babylonian and …, Volume 1 By Reginald Campbell Thompson
3. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria By Morris Jastrow (Jr.)
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
by Moe
Did you know that Jesus may have been a powerful Gnostic magician who terrified and killed some people in his village who angered him? Did you also know that a schoolmaster named ‘Levi’ had slapped him for being disrespectful to his authority?
Allegedly, the chaos and ruckus that Jesus had caused with his magic in his hometown got so bad that his father Joseph declared that the Lord would be on house arrest when he said;
“Henceforth, we will not allow him to go out of the house; for everyone who displeases him is killed.”
Today, you will discover this secret story of Jesus in the British Museum. The story is told on what is known as the “Tring Tiles” which date from the early 14th century and illustrates the scenes from Jesus’ alleged childhood that are said to be of English, or Norman manufacture. (Norman-Anglo-Saxon Old Guard) using a 14th-century art technique known as graffito.
The images on the tiles were said to be based on the Sacred Writings of the Apocrypha the New Testament which was originally translated by The Ante-Nicene Fathers and was very popular in the 14th century. These specific designs are thought to be derived from the Apocryphal Gospels via a French manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford University.
The tiles were presumably once wall-mounted at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church at Tring near London and is also said to be called the “Tring Parish Church” located on “Frogmore Street.”
Nobody knows exactly how many tiles there are in existence, but there are currently eight tiles on display at The British Museum and two in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
We can see in one image in the lower right on the tile shows Jesus entering school, on the right and in the next tile he is standing directly in front of his teacher who is named ‘Levi’ from whom he receives a slap on the face.
You may ask, “Why in the hell would anyone want to slap Jesus?” – I did not learn about that in Sunday school or in my newly edited 666th version of the New Testament Bible.
The reason is that these are the stories that became “banned and unlawful” by Rome and the Church through the Roman Curia to distribute so they did not make the cut in the editing process of the Old and New Testaments but were still considered “sacred” by the early Church Fathers. They are collectively known as the “Infancy Gospels,” written in Syriac, Arabic, and Greek which relates to us Jesus’ childhood acts or more appropriately – “magic acts.”
Even though many theologians and Christian researchers may have never heard of these writings, these books were still being taught and distributed in various parts of the world by what appears to be an Orthodox Greek and Russian conspiracy with the help of the English Anglican Church to keep these teachings for their descendants.
I believe the reason being is that they contain a treasure trove of the knowledge and Gnosis of the secret mysteries of the early church and also the fact that Jesus appears to be a superhero type of Gnostic – prodigal son who is portrayed as a magician with supernatural powers who heals and kills people with his magic.
The Jesus we find in these stories appears here not as the Prince of Peace who loves thy neighbor and turns the other cheek when slapped. No, Jesus is portrayed as a boy with supernatural knowledge (Gnosis) and magic whose abilities can easily debate and beat his elder schoolmasters and also kill his foes at will.
It is clear as day that Jesus is a warrior priest who can get just as angry as an “an eye for an eye” Old Testament or Greek God.
In one of the images on the Tiles, Mary and Joseph stand behind Jesus giving hand salutes with Joseph respectively with the Right Hand representing the Father and Mary the Left Hand -the Holy Spirit. We are shown a depiction of how even beasts like the Wolf had known Jesus, the Son but men knew him not.
He takes his Left Hand and touches the Left Hand of a man behind him, then Jesus proclaims;
“These beasts know me: but men know me not.”
To many people, the idea of the Lord Jesus being some type of “bad boy” who declares wolves as his friends and men as his foes and then practices magic and is feared by almost everyone in his community might seem totally reprehensible. But that is exactly what these stories of Jesus’ early childhood portray.
In fact, he absolutely amazed the learned elder teachers of his village with his knowledge and he copletely terrified the profane children and parents of his village with his magical abilities.
For example, we are told that Jesus kills a boy who bumped into him with his words and magic. In the gospels, a boy running down the street bumps into Jesus, knocking him down and in the Tring tile series, the event happens in a classroom. After the boy bumps into Jesus, he angrily condemns the boy to death when he declares:
“As thou has thrown me down, so shalt thou fall, nor ever rise. And that moment the boy fell down and died.”
News about Jesus began to spread around the village and the people truly began to fear him. The story goes that when a group of parents saw him coming up the street one day, they hid their children in a large oven.
Jesus asked the parents, “What was in the oven?”
They replied, “Little pigs.”
Jesus then said, “So be it.” And when the oven was opened, they found that the children were gone and only piglets remained.”
The facts are that the children were morphed into pigs by Jesus stating, “So be it.”
In another scene from the tiles, it shows how Jesus treats bullies with “zero tolerance.”
Here we clearly witness Jesus making some nice round circles which are said to be pools beside the river large with what looks like a large Masonic compass. More evidence for Freemasons and theologians that the family of Jesus were not only Priests and teachers but also Chaos magicians who were the original master builders ie: Freemasons.
Hence, “We started the Brotherhood.”
Jesus then proclaimed the death penalty on the boy who was the son of Annas the Scribe when he said, “In like manner as this water has vanished, so shall thy life vanish;” and the boy died.
This same “destructive boy” who dies is associated with Satan in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew where it is written;
“Then one of the children, the son of the Devil, and of an envious mind, shut up the channels which supplied water to the pools, and overthrew what Jesus had made. Then Jesus said unto him, Woe unto thee, son of death, Son of Satan. Does thou destroy the works which I have wrought? And straightway he who had done this died.”
It appears that the retribution dished out by Jesus seems to exceed the limits of moral justice where the offense did not warrant the death penalty even when compared to the Old Law of the slaves which allowed “an eye for an eye” and today we have the “Rule of Law” which only allows the state to administer justice.
In the next scene, it looks like his mother Mary instructs him to follow the light of the True God of the Most High with her Right Hand raised to the heavens as it shows Jesus with his right hand also raised with his left foot on the ground than restoring the boy back to life with magic using his right foot.
I believe the placing of the arms, hands, legs, and feet in these tiles play a huge role in the secret message they were trying to communicate to the initiates of their sacred bloodline via DNA Gnosis. Magic and Gnosis that the profane ie: uninitiated would not have understood and would have been absolutely terrified of Jesus’s supernatural abilities.
In one scene of the Tring tiles, a boy jumps on Infant Jesus’ shoulder. That angered the young Jesus so he kills him. The parents who are pictured on the right then come and complain to Joseph who has a talk with his son Jesus who then with his magic, revives the boy, who is next seen walking off to the right.
This may be the reason why the tiles show outraged village parents who came to Joseph complaining of Jesus’ atrocious acts. They demanded that something is done about the boy.
Joseph then attempted to admonish Jesus, but when Jesus discovered that the parents had complained about him, he used his magical powers to strike them blind.
In this story, it is obvious that although the knowledge (Gnosis) and intelligence of Jesus had easily exceeded that of the elders in his village, he lacked self-control which contributed to his rage and his unjust retribution against those who angered him. It was at this time that Joseph was persuaded by a schoolmaster named Zaccheus that the young Jesus should be sent to school where he might learn both discipline and literacy and more.
The secret story of the Bad Boy Jesus will be continued…
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
by Moe
For thousands of years before our present era, epilepsy was associated with evil demons and also ghosts that roam in the home at night.
As I mentioned in my article, The Babylonians Diagnosed Epilepsy As Demon Possession, the Ancient Babylonians were the first people in history to study and document the various human neurological and psychiatric disorders, including epilepsy. They believed that epilepsy was the cause of a supernatural disorder due to an invasion of the body by evil demons or spirits or the anger of personal gods.
The Babylonian demon of epilepsy was said to be called Lugalurra (bēl-urri/Lugal-urri/Lugal-ugri/Lugal-arri) which means “Lord of the Roof.”
For example, tow lines from the the text reads, “If a man approaches a woman on the roof, the Lugal-arra will seize him,” or “If a man approaches a woman on the roof, the (demon) Lurker (rabisu) will strike him with a stroke.”
Since the Babylonians play a large role in years leading up to the formation of Christianity, it should be no surprise to you that we find that the Lord of the Roof in the New Testament has a parallel in the Gospel of Matthew with the epileptic boy healed by Jesus is said to be possessed by “the Son of the Roof” (bar ˀeggārâ, Matthew 17:15).
The Ante-Nicene Christian Library: The Apostolic fathers (1870) says the Syriac word Peshitta translated in § 1, 79 as “The son-of-the-roof,” a Syriac phrase said to mean a demon of lunacy. A word used in Arabic of the devil producing insanity.
The lines read in transcription of the Babylonian tablets have been interpreted by researchers from the Institute of Epileptology from King’s College, London, United Kingdom, and †Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
summa am ˇ elu anta ¯ subb ˇ u b ˆ el¯ uri ¯ …qat etimmi q ¯ at m¯ am¯ ˆıti…
eli-su iba ˇ sˇsi al ˇ u lemnu ireddi- ˆ sˇu´…
They are translated as:
“If a man has been suffering from antasubb ˇ u, b ˆ el¯ uri ¯ , qat etimmi ¯ or qat m¯ am¯ ˆıti, and an alu lemnu ˆ then begins to inflict him with ideas of persecution…”
The researchers stated that the word antasubb ˇ u,ˆ is a understood to mean “the falling disease,” or what we call epilepsy characterized by major seizures. The term bel¯ uri – means literally “the lord of the roof.” It was this demon that supposedly caused epilepsy by lurking on the roof of a house.
The word qat etimmi ¯ means “the hand (power or influence) of a ghost.” The words alu lemnu ˆ translate, nonspecifically, to “evil demon.”
It is interesting that the Babylonians had said that epilepsy was caused by a demon and specifically, a demon called the Lord of the Roof who they thought actually “lurked on the roof of a house.”
Why the Lord of the Roof and why did they think this demon had resided on the roofs of their homes?
In my own experiences in dealing with the supernatural, modern science and “things that can possibly lurk on the rood on our modern homes,” I have met with a supernatural entity/organism that is intelligent, parasitical, and adversarial to humans to the point that it seeks to maim, eat and kill them.
Like the mythical Kronos, the real-life devourer of children…
This organism is the oldest living entity on earth. We know it as Mold in English and Fungus in Latin.
An evil demon like entity that lives on the roofs of houses and inside the walls and in the basement wreaking complete havoc and mayhem on the occupants of that same sid house unbeknownst to them until often, it is too late.
Here is some supporting evidence for my Babylonian theory on toxic parasitical molds being the true “Lord of the Roof.”
Mold makes Vancouver house uninhabitable – “Couple’s health, finances, wrecked by situation”
Craig and Shelly Johnson bought their Andresen neighborhood home 24 years ago. To the high school sweethearts, it was the perfect place to raise their kids and enjoy their future grandkids.
This summer, the Johnsons learned their dream home was poisoning them.
After a decade of unexplained chronic pain, fatigue, respiratory infections and debilitating headaches, Craig, 54, and Shelly, 50, learned the attic of their home was full of various varieties of black and white mold.
Read more @ Columbian.com
Mold forces Seminole County firefighters out of station, into trailer
Firefighters are not allowed inside the building during remediation and must sleep in the temporary trailer behind the building.
“The crews here knew there was likely going to be mold behind the cabinets, due to the leaks in the past,” Seminole County Fire Union President Jon Divita said.
9 Investigates obtained records that show concerns about leaks and mold were well-documented.
Spring 2015 maintenance notes stated, “There is a roof leak in the kitchen. It is above the cabinets to the left of the sink. Water is running down into the cabinets down the doors onto the counter.”
By December 2015, maintenance notes stated, “There is mold and wood rot that needs to be mitigated.”
Read more from WFTV 9 News
Milan family forced to flee home over toxic mold
MILAN, Illinois – A Milan homeowner says he and his family have been going through hell in a dispute with American Family insurance over toxic mold in their home and what caused it.
“They’ve been lying to us. They haven’t been up front and honest, they’ve been deceitful, just everything you would not expect from an insurance company,” said homeowner Jason Beeks.
He and his family have been forced to flee their home because of toxic levels of mold.
“Right now, the atmosphere inside the house is not live-able. It will kill you,” he said.
He says it started after a heavy wind and hail storm that hit the neighborhood on August 2, 2015. Several roofs were damaged, and Beeks filed claims on two vehicles and his 7-year-old roof.
Read more @ WQAD News
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
by Moe
The first line (obverse) of the text of Tablet 26 from the Babylonian ‘Medical Diagnostic Series’ reads, “If epilepsy falls once upon a person [or falls many times] it is the result of possession by a demon or departed spirit.” (British Museum, London-See Kinnier Wilson and Reynolds, 1990)
This is known as the “epilepsy tablet” numbered 26 in a series of 40 tablets which comprise an early Babylonian treatise known as Sa-gig (Sumerian) or Sakikku (Babylonian), which is said to mean “all diseases”
The Ancient Babylonians were the first people in history to study and document the various human neurological and psychiatric disorders, including epilepsy. They believed that epilepsy was the cause of a supernatural disorder due to an invasion of the body by evil demons or spirits or the anger of personal gods, which like in Catholicism, required the intervention of the priest or ašipu.
The descriptions they left behind are very similar to our more modern clinical descriptions, minus the demons and spirits. The Babylonian medical text includes many of the classical symptoms of epilepsy such as paranoid delusions, hallucinations, mood and sleep disorders, as well as religiosity and hyposexuality.
Several different words for epilepsy are found in the medical texts, including bennu, miqit šamê (Sum. AN.TA.ŠUB.BA), and miqtu, as well as the Hands of several supernatural entities. They also describe the core symptoms by the words miqtu “fall”, ḫayyatu “fit”, and ṣibtu “seizure”.
Please keep in mind that the Babylonians were well aware of the multiple attacks that haunt epilepsy sufferers could be the attack of solitary or multiple demons who had seized upon the victim. They used priests to heal the victims and apparently knew the exact timing to intervene in order to drive the demon out of the person.
The following account of a unilateral focal motor seizure, which today we call ‘Jacksonian’, illustrates how a demon can be driven out only if the person is “consciously aware” and if “they are not so aware, the demon cannot be driven out.”
“If at the time of his possession, while he is sitting down, his (left) eye moves to the side, a lip puckers, saliva flows from his mouth, and his hand, leg and trunk on the left side jerk (or twitch) like a newly-slaughtered sheep it is miqtu. If at the time of the possession he is consciously aware, the demon can be driven out; if at the time of the possession he is not so aware, the demon cannot be driven out.” (BM 47753, reverse, lines 1–3).
The Babylonians had detailed the psychoses of epilepsy which we find from texts belonging to the British Museum and the Berlin National Museum (Reynolds and Kinnier Wilson, 2008).
‘If a man has been suffering from seizures, absence attacks, nocturnal epilepsy or automatisms, and an (or, possibly, the) evil demon then begins to inflict him with (ideas of) persecution so that he says—although no one will agree with him that it is so—that the finger of condemnation is being pointed at him behind his back and that god or goddess are angry with him; if he sees horrible, alarming, or immoral “visions” and is (consequently) in a constant state of fear; if he engages in periodic outbursts of anger against god or goddess, is obsessed with delusions of his own mind, evolves his own religion, and says—although (again) they will not allow it—that his family are hostile towards him and that god, king, his superiors and (city) elders treat him unjustly … and he has no desire for female relationships …’.
They were also aware of the serious potential consequence of epilepsy resulting in death:
‘If an epilepsy demon falls many times upon him and on a given day he seven times pursues and possesses him, his life will be spared. If he should fall upon him eight times his life may not be spared’ (BM 47753, obverse, line 6).
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
