The Lonely Life of a Knower

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” – Carl JungAlex_Grey-Despair

My life has always been filled with the feeling of being alone. These feelings I can recall all throughout my childhood, teen years and as an adult. They followed me like faceless monsters in a bad dream that would last from the wee hours of the morning and well into the dark night of the soul.

Sometimes I would feel the utter despair of abandonment as if I was a child with no parents or family even though I had both. A lost adopted child who even my own biological parents could not relate.

It often didn’t matter who I would surround myself with, and who I befriended for much needed companionship. This loneliness had seemed to haunt me no matter what I did, or where I went. Surrounding myself with people, my life was even lonelier than when I’m by myself.

Today at this point in my 44th year of my sojourn journey, this fact seems more evident than ever.

In this interconnected world of fast media, fast friends, and attention deficit disorderly people, I sometimes feel more disconnected than ever. I’m simply an outcast caught in a web on the super information highway of ignorance where almost everything and everyone is a copy of a copy that many of us now call our lives. (more…)

Gnosis of the Ages

“It is no small thing—this Gnosis of ten-thousand-times-great Hermes, as Zosimus in an ecstasy of enthusiasm calls Him;GNOSIS OF AGES

For it has as its foundation the Single Love of God, it endeavours to base itself upon the True Philosophy and Pure Science of Nature and of Man, and is indeed one of the fairest forms of the Gnosis of the Ages.

It is replete with Wisdom (Theosophia) and Worship (Theosebeia) in harmony—the Religion of the Mind.

It is in its beginning Religion, true devotion and piety and worship, THE based on the right activity and passivity GNOSIS of the Mind, and its end is the Gnosis of things-that-are and the Path of the Good that leads man unto God.”

The Gnosis of the Mind By George Robert Stow Mead, Hermes (Trismegistus.)

The word hippocampus is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), ἵππος (hippos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kampos, “sea monster”)

The word hippocampus is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), ἵππος (hippos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kampos, neptune-on-hippocampus“sea monster”). This is why they are named after each other, and the reason for the fabulous Greek legends of Neptune and his sea horses.

This science was often depicted with Gods riding a sea-horse such as Hippius, a name of Neptune. The Hippocampus was Neptune’s favorite horse. Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the Roman god of water and the sea in Roman mythology and religion, a brother of Jupiter and Pluto.

He is the counterpart of the Greek sea god, and one of the ancient gods of Phoenicia under the name of Poseidon. Neptune or Poseidon, is often riding a hippocampus or has his chariot drawn by two of them, and his babies are called tadfoals.

By Moe the Gnostic Warrior (You can find more of these teaching in my book, The Order of the Gnostics: Ancient Teachings for the Modern Gnostic)

Archaeological Discovery Yields Surprising Revelations about Europe’s Oldest City

New evidence suggests that an ancient Aegean city not only recovered but also flourished following the collapse of the Bronze Age.

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The discovery suggests that not only did this spectacular site in the Greek Bronze Age (between 3500 and 1100 BC) recover from the collapse of the socio-political system around 1200 BC, but also rapidly grew and thrived as a cosmopolitan hub of the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. Antonis Kotsonas, a University of Cincinnati assistant professor of classics, will highlight his field research with the Knossos Urban Landscape Project at the 117th annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies. The meeting takes place Jan. 7-10, 2016 in San Francisco. (more…)

Bowie: The Starman Returns to the Sky

The Legend is now complete. The story has been told, its ending could not have been more perfectly constructed or executed. It’s said that the great ones know when to leave the stage; the Greatest also know how.

(By Christopher Knowles The Secret Sun) – A little less than three years ago, David Bowie released what I called“The Last Rock ‘n’ Roll Album,” and pulled off what some critics labeled the greatest comeback since Elvis in ’68. Hardcore Bowie fans like myself were a bit nonplussed by the critical response to The Next Day,not because we didn’t appreciate the praise but because we wondered where these critics had been hiding while Bowie had been making important music both onstage (The BBC Radio Concert, the A Reality DVD, for starters) and in the studio (see 1.Outside, Earthling, Heathen). (more…)

What is Karma?

“Karma is not a punishment bestowed by heaven. It is not a painful work given by deity to wayward children.” – Manly P. Hallkarma (1)

There are many misconceptions being perpetuated by ignorant people about the phenomenon known as Karma.

The laws of karma are and have always been about cause and effect, and for every action, there is a reaction.

As Buddah said, “Effects follow their causes; As the wheels of the cart follow the foot of the oxen.”

33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall had said this on Karma, “We are not dealing with a punishment persay. We are not referring to a condition after death or in life in which evil forces take over the life or consciousness of a human being. We are not relating to demonology; nor to a Hades populated by ghosts and monsters. The word is simply a term to signify that the effects are inherent in their causes.” (more…)