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Tag: Richard Payne Knight

  • Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries

    Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries

    INTRODUCTION The source of “The Secret Doctrine” on the Ancient Worships of Syria explains the ancient Sun-Gods. These Gods and Names in the ancient world are intimately tied to the history of ancient peoples, cities, and the meanings those people ascribed in their world. S.F. Dunlap was a reference source in H.P. Blavatsky’s major work,…

  • Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions

    Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions

    Limited Knowledge of Religion in Antiquity The term Pagan, or paganus originally meant, an inhabitant of the village, or a peasant, but came to refer to perverted heretical and heterodox beliefs outside of the theology of the Catholic Church. Therefore, what is considered perverted must come from the devil, hence, idolatrous and pagan. The Jews, Christians,…