Tag: Mythology
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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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Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity
I just returned abroad from my journey to the island of Hydra (Gr: Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra) and Athens in Greece back home to the state of Illinois and came back very happily engaged to my beautiful partner. It has been over two years since I went on a trip through a tour agency to Italy…
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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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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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Owl Symbolism in the Illuminati’s Minerval Assemblies
AS WITH MANY SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS, I TOO ADOPTED THE PALLAS ATHENA OR MINERVA as a symbolic “patron of knowledge and the arts.” It reminds me of what we all stand for and helps me hold myself accountable. However, we sometimes also find Minerva accompanied by an owl, and this symbolism enters the Illuminati Order. Owl…
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A Few Points about the Bible
PHILOSOPHY FIRST, CHRISTIANITY NEVER? A little advice about the Bible and monotheism that I take into account: 1. None of the Abrahamic monotheistic religions are the True Religion. Monotheism is a later construction. There is no “true religion.” Get rid of this idea.2. Historically, Yahweh is not a Supreme God like El, but more of…
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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…
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Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan
𓄂𓆃 ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE MISQUOTE IN KINGSFORD’S “PERFECT WAY” ON THE SECRET OF SATAN H.P.B. STATES THAT “THE TRUE ESOTERIC VIEW ABOUT “SATAN,” the opinion held on this subject by the whole philosophic antiquity, is admirably brought out in an appendix, entitled “The Secret of Satan,” to the second edition of Dr. A. Kingsford’s…
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Kirsten Flagstad – Brünnhilde’s battle cry: “Ho jo to ho!”
Kirsten Flagstad having fun singing Hojotoho battlecry of Wagner’s Valkyrie! This scene is extracted from “The Big Broadcast of 1938” which is a Paramount film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies. Act TwoPrelude and…
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Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky on the True Ancient Meaning of Satan
INTRODUCTION — THE JEWISH AND THEOSOPHICAL POSITION, AND DEVIL-WORSHIP Satan יְהֹוָה in its original conception means adversary and differs from the later Dantian and Christian conception of popular imagination. According to H.P. Blavatsky, SATAN, a concept held by other ancient nationalities, “is one of the most profoundly philosophical and ideal conceptions of ancient thought” (The…
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The Liberator-God in Ancient Religion: Salvation and Resurrection of the Initiated
Resurrection of the DEAD and the Liberation of MAN in the MYSTERIES. Initiates, as Lovers of Education and WISDOM. THE DRAMA OF GRADUATION IN THE MYSTERIES Think only the Greeks and Romans celebrated the MYSTERIES? As Francis Bacon once said, Ipsa scientia potestas est (“Knowledge itself is power”)—Meditationes Sacrae, 1597. I must be INITIATED, ere I die!!—Aristophanes, Eirene (“Peace” Comedy). The…
The American Minervan 