Category: Comparative Mythology
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Athena, Virgin Guardian of Aries: Courage and Noetic Enlightenment in Hellenic Esotericism
INTRODUCTION TO ZODIACAL SYMBOLISM AND SALVATION IN PRYSE’S INTERPRETATION We adventure once more into The Restored New Testament (1914) of Theosophist James Morgan Pryse to understand the significance of Athena in Hellenic religion. Pryse’s work reinterprets the New Testament as a Hellenic mystery drama infused with esoteric symbolism, blending Greek mythology, zodiacal astrology, and theosophical…
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From Nabta Playa to the Osirian Mysteries: Africa’s Claim to the Primordial Wisdom Tradition
How nineteenth-century esotericists ignored Africa’s ancient Wisdom Traditions, limiting their focus to Biblical interpretations, which expanded into understanding Indo-Iranian roots. INTRODUCTION The concept of a single primordial Wisdom Tradition, or even just the origins of “Holy Wisdom” as it was constituted in Western religious and philosophical literature (particularly in the nineteenth-century, to the medieval Alchemists…
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Noah Webster’s Influence on Early American Identity, Journalism and Education
Noah Webster, Adams and other early Americans emphasis on divergence from Britain demonstrates how Federalists sought to create early American identity through changes to institutions, language, and colonial education to legitimize the new republic. Mayflower descendant Noah Webster (1758-1843) is considered the father of American education and the American dictionary. Webster is accompanied by many…
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Poem: Into the Land of Heroes | Wagner, Das Reingold: Vorspiel
INTO THE LAND OF HEROES AND FRIENDS By Dominique Johnson I rise with you,As you do in me.I am shedding my skins,To unfold youSitting on the throne of the slainLight about your pavilion, Brooding deep with three piercing eyes Whisper at this hour the things your two eyes have seen.I saw the well in a…
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The World War II Consensus is Collapsing – Jonathan Pageau
Jonathan Pageau (founder of The Symbolic World) is a French-Canadian icon carver who explores the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world. We understand symbolism to express indirectly a reality that cannot be expressed directly. Jonathan Pageau is on a path to what he says is a reclamation of “the world of Beauty…
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They Lied About the First 100 Years of Christianity | Gnostic Informant
Neal Sendlak (Gnostic Informant) documentary provides one the most detailed study and history of the early schools of Christianity, before the schism with Gnosticism.
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How Wes Huff Misled Audiences in debate with Billy Carson – Dr. Joshua Bowen and Gnostic Informant
BIBLICAL DEBATE: DID WES HUFF GET IT WRONG WHILE BILLY CARSON WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG – MYTHVISION PODCAST Wes Huff, a young student linguist and apologist cut and ran into the bushes of his busy life and schedule after the big debate against Billy Carson. Due to the emotional breakdown recently of Billy Carson, many…
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I Feel Like the Mother of the World – Smog
“Whether or not there is any type of GodI’m not supposed to sayAnd todayI don’t really care God is a wordAnd the argument ends there Oh, do I feel like the mother of the world” “Ancient cosmotheologies commonly express the philosophy or dualism of Light and Darkness, of the twin or hostile brothers, so that…
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Christianity without Jesus: An Alternative Theory of How It All Began
WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT JESUS What Dr. Richard Carrier is describing about the space alien Jesus as an Angel before the New Testament sounds like another version of the myth of Adam Kadmon (Primordial Adam), Zoroastrian Anthropos, or the Ze`ir Anpin. Richard Carrier has actually demonstrated, that some early Christian sects existed that did also believe the…
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These Seven Kinds of Love will Change your Attitude to Life
LOVE (EROS), like the god PAN, is an important god (one of the primordial ancient Greek gods). Eros does not simply refer to an intense Erotic Love, but is an exulted Divine Ideal, that can be a frightening and dangerous POWER. It is considered to be a quickening FIRE, or psychic force that burns out…
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A Fauns’ Delicacy
Like a faun that plays between the wild forests and the labyrinth. Though, not in sorrow, nor in joy, but in rhythm. The faun can always hear the sweet melodies in the distance that run deeper than through those tall ears. This faun has not forsaken the dirt and the leaves, and the smell of…
The American Minervan 