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  • Albert Pike’s Life, Education and Writings | Seminars of Manly P. Hall

    Albert Pike’s Life, Education and Writings | Seminars of Manly P. Hall

    Manly P. Hall establishes a background about Albert Pike in this seminar. I strongly argue, that despite shortcomings, as possessed by many of his time, the history of Pike’s life is very important here to our history and is a lesson for us. It establishes Pike and his legacy as an exemplar of cross-cultural wisdom…

  • The World War II Consensus is Collapsing – Jonathan Pageau

    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…

  • E Pluribus Unum: The Classical Roots of America’s Motto and the Forgotten Meaning of Unity in the Founding Era

    E Pluribus Unum: The Classical Roots of America’s Motto and the Forgotten Meaning of Unity in the Founding Era

    The Origin and Meaning of the motto “E Pluribus Unum” In an era of deep national divisions, few phrases capture the American ideal better than E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One). Adopted during the Revolutionary War, this Latin motto symbolized the fragile union of Thirteen colonies into a single republic. However, its roots run…

  • Owl Symbolism in the Illuminati’s Minerval Assemblies

    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…

  • Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Ideals and Fascination with the United States Motto

    Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Ideals and Fascination with the United States Motto

    Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was a progressive Republican and Episcopalian, a high ranking official during the war, New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President of the U.S. 1941-45. He is considered a notable contributor to American liberalism and political culture. This brief will not cover his life or political work but highlight his particular…

  • Columbia (American Minerva) and the Fasces in Harper’s Weekly “Reconstruction” for Equal Rights (1868)

    Columbia (American Minerva) and the Fasces in Harper’s Weekly “Reconstruction” for Equal Rights (1868)

    EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCACY “Reconstruction” by German-born American political cartoonist, Thomas Nast illustrates the Southern states being brought back into order with the North under the ancient symbol of collective power, authority and fraternity, the fasces and the nation’s motto, E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One”). The symbolism of Columbia (America) depicted in Thomas Nast’s…

  • The Swastika and the Star of David: A Combined Theosophical Emblem

    The Swastika and the Star of David: A Combined Theosophical Emblem

    THE SWASTIKA AND HEXAGRAM DO NOT ORIGINATE with the Nazis and the Jews. These two symbols are part of a symbolic language, established upon natural and pure transcendental and metaphysical realities in connection to life and the cosmos. The four-armed wheel (or cross) and the double-interlaced triangle have hitherto become the symbols of two political…