I’ll take you down the only road
I’ve ever been down
World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. … Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. … The brilliant plan of the Ancients has survived to our time, and it will continue to function until the great work is accomplished. …
The American nation desperately needs a vision of its own purpose.
Swear allegiance to the flag –
Whatever flag they offer
There’s a problem, feathers, iron –
Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys –
Feathers hit the ground
before the weight can leave the air
I’ve got a secret and I can’t explain
All the time I’ve waited for this day
All along I was never in doubt
I always knew it would never get out
But there is one new and encouraging element present in most of the recommendations of today’s experts. They are recognizing the necessity of conceiving the world as one interdependent structure.
This beat is a chemical
Beat is a chemical
Is this just an illusion
That I made inside my head to get me by?
It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise
Right there in front of everyone’s eyes
Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done
Here come the planes
They’re American planes
Made in America
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can’t you understand?
Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It’s out of my control
A family of secret societies formed in late medieval Germany, which taught esoteric practices that were concealed from the average person. The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians became known as the “College of Invisibles.”
The secret messages are calling to me endlessly
They call to me across the air
There’s a progress we have found
(when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem
(when the children reign)
Building towered foresight
(keep your conscience in the dark)
Isn’t anything at all
(melt the statues in the park)
America,
America don’t you cry
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. In 1875, he joined the Freemasons Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris.
Hide you in my coat pocket
Where I kept my rebel red
Felt I was invincible,
You wrapped around my head
Lift me up –
Give me strength to press on
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
I’ve been reading books of old
The legends and the myths
The testaments they told
The moon and its eclipse
Sometimes the sun goes
’round the moon
And Superman unrolls
A suit before he lifts
But I’m not the kind of person that it fits
Sometimes the very thing
you’re lookin’ for
Is the one thing you can’t see
Both foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the adoption of NSC-68; 9-11.
Such catalytic events afforded precious opportunities to those forces that were best prepared to take advantage of the spaces opened up for ‘new’ thinking, often considered ‘unthinkable’ before the ‘crisis’.
Inderjeet Parmar
Foundation Networks and American Hegemony
All the hurt, all the lies
All the tears that they cried
When the moment is just right
You’ll see fire in their eyes
‘Cause he’s stronger than you know
A heart of steel starts to grow
Singing from heartache from the pain
Taking my message from the veins
Speaking my lesson from the brain
Seeing the beauty through the – Pain!
I am, I am, I am Superman
and I know what’s happening
I am, I am, I am Superman
and I can do anything
superman (n.)
1903, coined by George Bernard Shaw to translate German Übermensch, “highly evolved human being that transcends good and evil,” which is from “Also sprach Zarathustra” (1883-91), by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
Übermensch the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5).
Nietzsche thought that such a being could arise when any man of superior potential shook off the conventional Christian morality of the masses to create and impose his own values.
Über, is a German language word meaning “over”, “above” or “across”. It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is a cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, Swedish över and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages; it is a distant cognate to the Sanskrit word ūpari and Hindi ūpar (both meaning ‘above’, ‘over’ or ‘up‘), probably through Proto-Indo-European.
Even cold hard facts
Have got a way of changing
Their stripes in the light of a new day
The world we hold so tight and true
Turn it on it’s head
Buy the sky and sell the sky
And tell the sky, and tell the sky
Don’t fall on me
(What is it up in the air for?)
Fall on me
(If it’s there for long)
Fall on me
(It’s over, it’s over me)
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat,
for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we
believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent
of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief,
but because modern science has convinced us that nothing
that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical,
improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless,
or outrageous is scientific.
Take your instinct by the reins –
You’d better best to rearrange –
What we want and what we need,
has been confused, been confused
How long am I gonna stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I’ll start before I can stop or
before I see things the right way up
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
Where’d you wanna go?
How much you wanna risk?
I’m not looking for somebody
with some superhuman gifts
Some superhero, some fairytale bliss
I’ll take you down the only road
I’ve ever been down
You know the one that takes you
to the places where all the things meet, yeah
But there are some modulations
that aren’t so easy…
you’ve got to weave through all sorts of things.
He understood both the farmer and the philosopher, and could speak the languages of both.
From farmers in the fields –
To the tallest of the towers that fall and rise
These secret garden beams
changed my life, so it seems
Maybe, I don’t really want to know
how your garden grows
’cause I just want to fly
He’s a got a beast in his belly
That’s so hard to control
‘Cause they’ve taken too much hits
Taking blow by blow
Now light a match, stand back,
watch them explode
In 2001, The Coup released Party Music to widespread praise. However, in part because of distribution problems, sales of the album were low. The original album cover art depicted group members Pam the Funkstress and Riley standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions, and Riley is pushing the button on a guitar tuner. The cover art was finished in June 2001 and the album was scheduled to be released in mid-September.
There’s a humming in the restless summer air
And we’re slipping off the course that we prepared
But in all chaos, there is calculation
1-7-7-6 –
The names upon the list
of all the ones who gave until they died
On May 10, 2013, the final component of the skyscraper’s spire was installed, making the building, including its spire, reach a total height of 1,776 feet (541 m). Its height in feet is a deliberate reference to the year when the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.
US superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.
Ola Tunander
The Use of Terrorism to Construct World Order
Pleasures remain
so does the pain
Words are meaningless
and forgettable
I know we’re not everlasting –
We’re a train wreck waiting to happen
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
Rebuilding Americas Defenses
Project For a New American Century
My life, my love, my drive,
it came from – Pain!
I can still feel the pain right now and
Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop
until the twin towers come crumbling down
Every day, every hour,
turn the pain into power
Stuck on a runway –
I can get lifted
Don’t you hold back
I can see in your mind and
your mind will set you free
Just think of a destination
I’ll be your transportation
I’m so sorry, I forgot you –
Let me catch you up to speed –
I’ve been tested like the ends of,
a weathered flag that’s by the sea
No matter what our particular job,
especially in our world today, we all are
called to be Tikkun olam –
repairers of creation.
Can you build my house with pieces?
I’m just a chemical
A messed up garden to inspire
The greatest minds and all their power
We say, yeah, with fists flying up in the air
Like we’re holding onto something that’s invisible there
‘Cause we’re living at the mercy of the pain and fear
Until we dead it, forget it, let it all disappear
We’ll find there’s a kind of place
that can only be seen
with the naked mind
Rise to the top of the world
America,
America don’t you cry –
Lift me up,
Give me strength to press on
He is able to discern that it was himself who at first was “without form and void” and who in virtue of that Fiat Lux! has at last become transformed from chaos and unconsciousness into a form so perfect and lucid as to become a co-conscious vehicle of Divine Wisdom itself.
I was hoping for an indication
I was seeking higher elevation
Maybe this is just too philosophical.
Maybe I’m trying to…
combine things that…
can’t be combined,
but it makes sense to me.
Well, I met an old man dying on a train
No more destination, no more pain
Well, he said one thing before I graduate
‘Never let your fear decide your fate’
Words like violence,
break the silence
Come crashing in,
Into my little world
[It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)] was included on the 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs thought to be ‘lyrically questionable‘ after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Document is the fifth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., released on August 31, 1987, by I.R.S. Records. It was the first album by the band to be produced by Scott Litt.
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I.R.S. Records was a major American record label founded by Miles Copeland III, Jay Boberg, and Carl Grasso in 1979.
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Miles Copeland III, the son of CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr., played many roles in the U.K. punk rock and new wave music industry of the middle to late 1970s: agent, manager, producer, magazine publisher, record company and label owner.
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It’s a small world after all
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs,
Don’t mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn’t coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it’ll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o’clock, T.V. hour, don’t get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(time I had some time alone)
The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(time I had some time alone)
You could try and take us,
But victory’s contagious
Notes & References
🎥 Its the End of the World As We Know It
🎥 Something Just Like This
🎥 America
🎥 Waiting For The End
🎥 Superheroes
🎥 Kill Your Heroes
💬 Quote Library
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Repairers of CreationNo matter what our particular job, especially in our world today, we all are called to be Tikkun olam - repairers of creation.Sources
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He Understood Both the Farmer and the PhilosopherHe understood both the farmer and the philosopher, and could speak the languages of both.Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
🎼 Song Excerpts
A Heart of Steel Starts to GrowAll the hurt, all the lies, All the tears that they cried - When the moment is just right, You'll see fire in their eyes, 'Cause he's stronger than you know - A heart of steel starts to growSource: Superheroes by The Script
A Way to Talk Around the ProblemThere's a progress we have found - (when the rain) - A way to talk around the problem - (when the children reign) - Building towered foresight - (keep your conscience in the dark) - Isn't anything at all - (melt the statues in the park)Source: Fall On Me by R.E.M.
A Weathered Flag That’s by the SeaI'm so sorry, I forgot you - Let me catch you up to speed - I've been tested like the ends of, a weathered flag that's by the seaSource: Chlorine by Twenty One Pilots
All the Ones Who Gave Until They Died1-7-7-6 - The names upon the list of all the ones who gave until they diedSource: America by Imagine Dragons
Can Only Be Seen with the Naked MindWe'll find there's a kind of place that can only be seen with the naked mindSource: One Minute More by Capital Cities
- Can You Build My House with Pieces?Can you build my house with pieces? I'm just a chemical
Source: Chlorine by Twenty One Pilots
Can You See Through the Wonder of AmazementCan you see through the wonder of amazement at the Oberman?
Carry a Compass to Help You AlongIf you are confused, check with the sun - Carry a compass to help you along
Come Crashing In, into My Little WorldCome crashing in, Into my little worldSource: Enjoy the Silence (WTC) by Depeche Mode
- Feathers Hit the Ground Before the Weight Can Leave the AirThere's a problem, feathers, iron - Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys - Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Source: Fall On Me by R.E.M.
Greatest Magic Trick Ever Under the SunIt happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise, right there in front of everyone's eyes - Greatest magic trick ever under the sun, perfectly executed, skillfully doneSource: Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan
Here Come the Planes-They’re American PlanesHere come the planes, they're American planes, made in AmericaSource: O Superman by Laurie Anderson
Holding onto Something That’s InvisibleWe say, yeah, with fists flying up in the air, like we're holding onto something that's invisible there - 'Cause we're living at the mercy of the pain and fear, until we dead it, forget it, let it all disappearSource: Waiting For The End by Linkin Park
I Can Do AnythingI am, I am, I am Superman and I know what's happening - I am, I am, I am Superman and I can do anythingSource: Superman (R.E.M.) by R.E.M.
I Don’t Really Want to Know, How Your Garden GrowsMaybe, I don't really want to know, how your garden grows, 'cause I just want to flySource: Live Forever by Oasis
I Was Seeking Higher ElevationI was hoping for an indication, I was seeking higher elevationSource: Rise Up by Imagine Dragons
In All Chaos, There Is CalculationThere's a humming in the restless summer air - And we're slipping off the course that we prepared - But in all chaos, there is calculationSource: Glory and Gore by Lorde
- Is This Just an IllusionIs this just an illusion - That I made inside my head to get me by?
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
It’s a Small World After AllIt's a small world after allSource: It’s a Small World by Sherman Brothers
- I’m on Top of the WorldBeen dreaming of this since a child - I'm on top of the world
Source: On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons
I’ve Got a Secret and I Can’t ExplainI've got a secret and I can't explain - All the time I've waited for this day - All along I was never in doubt - I always knew it would never get outSource: Secret by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
- Just Think of a Destination I’ll Be Your TransportationJust think of a destination - I'll be your transportation
Source: One Minute More by Capital Cities
- Lift Me Up-Give Me Strength to Press OnLift me up - Give me strength to press on
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
Look at That Low Plane, Fine, ThenLook at that low plane, fine, thenSource: Its the End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M.
- My Life, My Love, My Drive, It Came From-Pain!My life, my love, my drive, it came from - Pain!
Source: Believer by Imagine Dragons
Never Let Your Fear Decide Your FateWell, I met an old man dying on a train, no more destination, no more pain - Well he said one thing before I graduate, 'Never let your fear decide your fate'Source: Kill Your Heroes by Awolnation
- Pierce Right Through MePainful to me, pierce right through me, can’t you understand?
Source: Enjoy the Silence (WTC) by Depeche Mode
- Pleasures Remain, So Does the PainPleasures remain, so does the pain - Words are meaningless, and forgettable
Source: Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
See Things the Right Way UpHow long am I gonna stand, with my head stuck under the sand? I'll start before I can stop or before I see things the right way upSource: Speed of Sound by Coldplay
- Seeing the Beauty Through the PainSinging from heartache from the pain - Taking my message from the veins - Speaking my lesson from the brain - Seeing the beauty through the - Pain!
Source: Believer by Imagine Dragons
- Take Your Instinct by the ReinsTake your instinct by the reins - You'd better best to rearrange - What we want and what we need, has been confused, been confused
Source: Finest Worksong by R.E.M.
- Tell the Sky, Don’t Fall on MeBuy the sky and sell the sky, and tell the sky, and tell the sky, don't fall on me - (What is it up in the air for?) - Fall on me - (If it's there for long) - Fall on me - (It's over, it's over me)
Source: Finest Worksong by R.E.M.
The Greatest Minds and All Their PowerA messed up garden to inspire, the greatest minds and all their powerSource: Superhuman Touch by Athlete
The One Thing You Can’t SeeSometimes the very thing you're lookin' for, is the one thing you can't seeSource: Save The Best For Last by Vanessa Williams
The Places Where All the Things MeetI'll take you down the only road I've ever been down - You know the one that takes you to the places where all the things meet, yeahSource: Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
The Secret Messages Are Calling to Me EndlesslyThe secret messages are calling to me endlessly - They call to me across the airSource: Secret Messages by Electric Light Orchestra
The World We Hold So Tight and True, Turn It On It’s HeadEven cold hard facts have got a way of changing their stripes in the light of a new day - The world we hold so tight and true - Turn it on it's headSource: I Want to Know by Kongos
These Secret Garden Beams Changed My Life, So It SeemsThese secret garden beams, changed my life, so it seemsSource: Deep Inside Of You by Third Eye Blind
- This Is Not What I Had PlannedThis is not what I had planned - It's out of my control
Source: Waiting For The End by Linkin Park
- To the Tallest of the Towers That Fall and RiseFrom farmers in the fields - To the tallest of the towers that fall and rise
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
- Turn the Pain into PowerEvery day, every hour, turn the pain into power
Source: Superheroes by The Script
- Waiting for the End to ComeWaiting for the end to come - Wishing I had strength to stand
Source: Waiting For The End by Linkin Park
- We’re a Train Wreck Waiting to HappenI know we're not everlasting - We're a train wreck waiting to happen
Source: A World Alone by Lorde
Whatever Flag They OfferSwear allegiance to the flag - Whatever flag they offerSource: Silent Running by Mike + The Mechanics
- You Could Try and Take Us, but Victory’s ContagiousYou could try and take us - But victory's contagious
Source: Glory and Gore by Lorde
- You Wrapped Around My HeadHide you in my coat pocket, where I kept my rebel red - Felt I was invincible, you wrapped around my head
Source: Chlorine by Twenty One Pilots
- Your Mind Will Set You FreeDon't you hold back - I can see in your mind and your mind will set you free
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
📖 Excerpts Library
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A Co-Conscious Vehicle of Divine WisdomHe is able to discern that it was himself who at first was "without form and void" and who in virtue of that Fiat Lux! has at last become transformed from chaos and unconsciousness into a form so perfect and...Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
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Conceiving the World as One Interdependent StructureBut there is one new and encouraging element present in most of the recommendations of today's experts. They are recognizing the necessity of conceiving the world as one interdependent structure.
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
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It Makes Sense to MeMaybe this is just too philosophical. Maybe I’m trying to… combine things that… can’t be combined, but it makes sense to me.Source: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing EventFurther, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.Sources
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Such Catalytic Events Afforded Precious OpportunitiesBoth foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the...
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That Pain Won’t Stop Until the Twin Towers Come Crumbling DownI can still feel the pain right now and Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop until the twin towers come crumbling down
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They Had at Least the Evidence of Their SensesIn the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give...
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US Superior Military Strength and Intelligence HegemonyUS superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.
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World Democracy Was the Secret Dream of the Great Classical PhilosophersWorld democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. ... Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. ... The...
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You’ve Got to Weave Through All Sorts of ThingsBut there are some modulations that aren't so easy...you've got to weave through all sorts of things.
Source: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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Here Come the Planes
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The One Thing You Can’t See
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EmpiricismThe character of being empirical; reliance on direct experience and observation rather than on theory.- EsotericDesigned for or understood by the specially initiated alone.
- FreemasonryA system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
- MagicA concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion of change.
- Ordo Ab ChaoORDO AB CHAO. Order out of Chaos. This is the famous motto of the Supreme Council, thirty-third degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite—the highest degree of the Freemasons. From the beginning of recorded time, the human race has sought to explore its mysterious origins, and to explain and control the chain of causality. Order out of Chaos means the occasion of rising beyond one's indiscriminate animal patterning and so attaining a higher plane of existence. To learn the way to that plane, to follow the proper paths, to continue the journey and complete (as far as mortally possible) the wondrous voyage to a higher self and the unity of the whole—these are the goals of the venerable brotherhood of Freemasons, one of the most widely known fraternal organizations in the world.
- Private FoundationA tax-exempt organization that does not rely on broad public support and generally claims to serve humanitarian purposes.
- RosicrucianismA family of secret societies formed in late medieval Germany, which taught esoteric practices that were concealed from the average person. The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians became known as the “College of Invisibles.”
- Tikkun OlamA concept in Judaism, which refers to various forms of action intended to repair and improve the world.
