Playboy: One critic even called 2001 “the first Nietzschean film,” contending that its essential theme is Nietzsche’s concept of man’s evolution from ape to human to superman. What was the metaphysical message of 2001? Kubrick: It’s not a message that...
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...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
Months later, while outlining a not-yet-titled book about the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of this movement: its atypical leadership, the patient in-tensity of its adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in...
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson
The political, military, and economic pillars of this long range plan cannot fully support a World Order without the fourth pillar - a global religion - standing beneath the fourth corner, lest the structure collapse. It is that simple.
Source: One World by Tal Brooke
Once we are committed to this ideology of cosmic evolution, the narrow five millennia of recorded history with their minor progressions, regressions, cycles, and sinusoidal curves appear terrifyingly diminished. And yet the neo-evolutionists would insist that their teachings are raising...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
Thus, we may say that a new idea disturbs the existing stock of ideas and distorts the accepted frame of reference. In our endeavor to restore the former coherence and balance, to remedy the disturbing situation, we are compelled to...
Source: Nature and Human Nature by Lawrence K. Frank
A NEW way of looking at the universe and man's place in it was urged upon the scientific world by Lawrence K. Frank, of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science....
In a culture conditioned to think in categories of Cartesian dualism or of a pre-Copernican cosmology that split the heavens and the earth, Spinoza was taken either as an atheist who reduced everything to matter ... or as a pantheist...
Source: Constantine’s Sword by James Carroll
Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...
Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science by Agustín Udías
Sesame Street Episode 2956 - Telly sees a giant number 11 - Air date March 2, 1992 - Season Season 23 (1991-1992) - Written by Lou Berger Lou G. Berger (born August 21, 1950) is a former head writer for...
For those who have a sense of this invisible, other reality, the answers to life’s mysteries offered by modern science are inadequate and unsatisfying. They are unable to accept them and they find themselves seeking something else.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
As McGilchrist argues, the Renaissance was a time when the two rival hemispheres came together briefly, that is, they “integrated,” and formed a creative union that produced remarkable works of art and architecture.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
Since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, modern science has focused on the kind of “facts” that can be grasped by the senses and proven by measurement. It abandoned the religious explanations for the world, which posited an unseen God...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
Of equal significance was the fact that everyone could see that the Moon itself was round, suggesting that the sphere was the natural state of being, adding even more ammunition to the round Earth hypothesis
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled “Elon.” Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet.
Source: Project Mars by Wernher von Braun
After a deluded gunman, assassinated President Kennedy...
The first of these schemes derives from the fact that the generally accepted "flat earth" was, all of a sudden, proved to be a sphere by the voyage of Magellan's ships around the world.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute—and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to...
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
Being a sphere, it therefore had to be a finite object, with a finite—that is, limited—surface area. With this awakening the ideas of world trade and related colonial proprietary rights were born.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny — helpless!
Source: 1984 by George Orwell
The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...
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.
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
The term [revolution] derives from the Latin substantive revolutio, which was unknown in classical Latin but was used in the early Middle Ages by St. Augustine and other Christian writers. Translated into Italian as rivoluzione in the early Renaissance and...
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
[Palingenius] argued that there must be creatures in the other regions of the heavens immeasurably superior to man, since it is inconceivable that “the infinite power of God”’ can have exhausted itself with the production of so insignificant and wretched a...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Another reason why the Greeks rejected Aristarchus’ Solar System was its apparent failure to stand up to scientific scrutiny. Aristarchus had built a model of the universe that was supposed to match reality, but it was not clear that his...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
This architecture of scientific logic has an inherent beauty which emerges from how various arguments fit together, how several measurements interlock with one another, and how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him.
Source: The Truman Show
Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
Source: 1984 by George Orwell
It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
Thus, we can begin to think of the immense universe in which our green mantled earth is but a tiny speck whirling around our sun, one of the many stars that range throughout space-time.
Source: Nature and Human Nature by Lawrence K. Frank
Also, every myth represents the absolute truth within its society. The word ‘myth’ is derived from the Greek word mythos, which can mean ‘story’, but also means ‘word’, in the sense of ‘the final word’. Indeed, anybody who dared to...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Light is not only a physical element, it is also a mental and spiritual element and in the temple the disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one; for every visible thing is only...
Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall
With only one or two human-made structures visible from Earth orbit, everything else that divides us – national borders, politics, languages, skin color, who you worship – is invisible to you.
Source: Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The esoteric tradition is also intuitive, focusing on our subtle, inner worlds, rather than our obvious outer one. It believes in a living, organic, spiritual, even conscious universe, rather than a dead, mechanical, oblivious one. It is also concerned more...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....
The foundational line of true ethical behavior, its main guiding principle valid across all times and cultures, is the degree of freedom from self-centeredness of thought and behavior, and willingness freely to give up one’s own self-interest on behalf of...
Now, Bastian, you're old enough to get your head down out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground. Right?
Source: The NeverEnding Story
Anaximander of Miletus argued that the Sun was a hole in a fire-filled ring that encircled the Earth and revolved around it. Similarly, he believed that the Moon and stars were nothing more than holes in the firmament, revealing otherwise...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand, not far from here in Menlo Park, and...
What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...
Source: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Q. Similarly, describe the Initiate of The Sacred Science. A. He who deals with the causes behind phenomena, studies and learns to wield the laws in all worlds of form and co-ordinates them in one essential Unity or Cause.
Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove
Q. Define, then, the physical scientist. A. The physical scientist is he who observes and measures the appearances of the phenomenal world and from his data draws conclusions as to the nature of their causes. He deals, therefore, only with...
Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove
How do you balance science with science fiction? They're both the same.
There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...
Humans for the most part don't have a clue. They don't want one or need one either. They're happy. They think they have a good bead on things. Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it. A...
Source: Men in Black
I can feel it. I can feel the earth moving. It’s moving too fast. Raj, slow it down.
Source: The Big Bang Theory
What is Gravity? I have no idea, OK, next question.
We know that with the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century—a development clearly linked to the temperament of the left brain—the esoteric tradition lost much of its prestige and that, in order to maintain itself, it had to...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
The existence of the agency's investigations into behavior and thought control was previously known. But through access to 2,000 C.I.A. documents and wideranging interviews, a group of New York Times reporters has developed new information about the cost of the...
Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth’s gravitational pull?
Source: Back to the Future
As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic...
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith
It channeled funds through three private medical research foundations. One of these, the Geschikter Foundation for Medical Research in Washington, D.C., is still active. Another, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology Inc., was disbanded in 1965. A third...
There is another kind of knowledge. It is not one of physical facts, nor can it be quantified and measured. It is a knowledge of our inner world, not the outer one, a knowledge of what we used to call...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Maybe 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?
The left brain, on the other hand—literally—is geared, McGilchrist argues, toward breaking up the whole that the right presents. It turns the right brain’s unity into bits and pieces, which it can then manipulate. Its job is to analyze the...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.
Source: Without Frontiers by Daryl Easlea
Mike Michaelson : Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now? Christof :We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented....
Source: The Truman Show
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we—not this crude matter.
Source: The Empire Strikes Back
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Several prominent medical research ‘institutions and Government hospitals in the United States and Canada were involved in secret, 25‐year, $25‐million effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to learn how to control the human mind.
I might point to the fact that, although the meetings of our society are of necessity enshrouded with the veil of secresy, which circumstance, in seasons of excitement and peril, the designing and malicious would have converted into matter of...
Moon voyages became popular in the 1630s, their underlying inspiration Galileo’s telescope and the curiosity it piqued about the planet; but the way of reaching the new world on the moon was more important than the substance of an ideal...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
Even figures associated with the rise of modern science and the modern world—Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton—were profoundly influenced by Hermetic ideas. Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, made a living as an astrologer, and Newton wrote more...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...
Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck
It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon "the Alexandrine" cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to...
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith
Throw in some assumptions, such as moonlight being nothing more than reflected sunlight, and a framework of scientific logic takes shape.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
Indeed, imagination, linked to the right brain, is one of the central pillars of the esoteric tradition. As the historian of esotericism Antoine Faivre writes, imagination is “a kind of organ of the soul, thanks to which humanity can establish...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
And yet there is no sign of humans in this picture, not our reworking of the Earth's surface, not our machines, not ourselves: We are too small and our statecraft is too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being...
In fact most of Copernicus' book runs closely parallel with Ptolemy's exposition, only the minimum changes being made to adjust the treatment of the Sun-centered theory; and most of the numerical constants are simply Ptolemy's figures transformed. Not unnaturally, Copernicus...
Source: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus
Let's briefly consider the spiritual part of this agenda: Religious differences are seen as the final barrier, separating various ethnic populations. Until these differences are broken down, divergent cultures will never fully meld into a One World Order.
Source: One World by Tal Brooke
Sometimes this philosophy has been hidden from the public and at other times it has been placed in plain view - though always in such a way as to remain unrecognized by outsiders.
Source: The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
We’ve got to act fast. Step one, we reverse the vacuum and blow the air back onto the planet.
Source: Spaceballs
In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...
Source: On the Origin of Free-Masonry by Thomas Paine
Some of these teachers we know and in a sense are not secret at all. Yet in many cases what they have to teach remains so. Some are not so well known, indeed, are hardly known at all. One can...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
The phrase “psychological warfare” is reported to have first entered English in 1941 as a translated mutation of the Nazi term Weltanschauungskrieg (literally, worldview warfare), meaning the purportedly scientific application of propaganda, terror, and state pressure as a means of...
Source: Science of Coercion by Christopher Simpson
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.
Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global...
Source: Memoirs by David Rockefeller
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
To start by making the trade center disappear, though, seems a good way to begin.
Source: Divided We Stand
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...
Symbolism was largely a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic styles which were attempts to represent reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal. Symbolism was a reaction in favour of spirituality,...
Even spiritualities with little connection to Christianity have drawn from him. When Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, asked 185 New Age leaders who had the greatest influence on their thinking, Teilhard was mentioned more than anyone else.
From all over the globe, people have gathered here waiting for the hour to strike, waiting to catch a glimpse of that legendary magician Mr. Willy Wonka.
Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...
Source: My Life by Bill Clinton
I can still feel the pain right now and Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop until the twin towers come crumbling down
I first met Carl (as he preferred to be called) during a visit to Cornell for the required college interview. My letter of application had been dripping with an interest in the universe. The admission office, unbeknownst to me, had...
Source: The Sky Is Not the Limit by Neil deGrasse Tyson
But the actual tendency of the geocentric system was, for the medieval mind, precisely the opposite. For the centre of the world was not a position of honor; it was rather the place farthest removed from the Empyrean, the bottom...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
[Renaissance philosophers] were alerted to the ancient manuscript tradition named after their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus... The documents were collectively called the Corpus Hermeticum or, simply, the Hermetica.
Source: The Magus of Freemasonry by Tobias Churton
Now, one thing I really want your generation to embrace is that the Earth is a closed system. We cannot leave the Earth. There's no place to go.
The earth may now be a mere planet moving around the sun, but man is no longer confined to it. His spiritual energy, his reason, his brain power, his psyche, his consciousness have become the center and the purpose of...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
First, the Greeks expected that if the Earth moved then we would feel a constant wind blowing against us, and we would be swept off our feet as the ground raced from under us. However, we feel no such constant...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
It seemed to me that another picture of the Earth, this one taken from a hundred thousand times farther away, might help in the continuing process of revealing to ourselves our true circumstance and condition. It had been well understood...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
For one thing, the esoteric tradition deals in imagery and symbols, the meanings of which are often complex and multiple, and which elude the left brain’s demand for clarity and definiteness; they are more attuned to what McGilchrist calls the...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
What sets the mental-rational structure apart from the previous three structures is that it is the most separated from “Origin.” In it, human consciousness, which had previously felt a fundamental connection to the world around it, was now unattached and...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
The heart of revolutionary faith, like any faith, is fire: ordinary material transformed into extraordinary form, quantities of warmth suddenly changing the quality of substance. If we do not know what fire is, we know what it does. It burns....
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
These loopy planetary orbits were hugely problematic for the ancient Greeks, because all the orbits were supposed to be circular according to Plato and his pupil Aristotle. They declared that the circle, with its simplicity, beauty and lack of beginning...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The real power structures [are] always the invisible ones behind the visible sovereign powers." The power elite is not a group from one nation or even of one alliance of nations. It operates throughout the world and no doubt has...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
As its name suggests, the mental-rational structure, which Gebser believed began circa 1225 B.C., is characterized by rational, discursive thought, the kind of logical, sequential thinking associated with the left brain. Whereas the previous structure of consciousness, the mythic, is...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
The right brain is geared toward engaging with living things, McGilchrist says, and with recognizing overall patterns, meanings, and relations. It is attuned to the network of connections that links everything with everything else. Its fundamental attention is to the...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
This - the evolution of man into superman - was always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
The Square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. It is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus: ‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The title Whole Earth Catalog came from a previous project by Stewart Brand. In 1966, he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, one of the...
God appears as the architect of the world, shaping the universe with the aid of a compass. Within the perfect circle already created are the spherical sun and moon and the unformed matter that will become the earth once God...
Source: Gardner’s Art Through The Ages by Kleiner, Mamiya, Tansey
The word ‘cosmology’ is derived from the ancient Greek word kosmeo, which means ‘to order’ or ‘to organise’, reflecting the belief that the universe could be understood and is worthy of analytical study. The cosmos had patterns, and it was...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
Source: The Truman Show
Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.
Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun
The symbols and ceremonies of Masonry have more than one meaning. They rather conceal than disclose the Truth. They hint it only, at least; and their varied meanings are only to be discovered by reflection and study. Truth is not...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
If you, the reader of these lines, personally use the words up and down, you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages. There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth; what may appear to be parallel...
Source: Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller
The theory wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for...
In this spirit of mystery they professed to imitate the Deity, who hides Himself from our senses, and conceals from us the springs by which He moves the Universe. They admitted that they concealed the highest truths under the veil...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
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...
They had to imagine the sun as something that does not move in relation to the earth and the earth even as something moving.
This is not to say that the new wave of philosophers necessarily wanted to deny the existence of the gods, rather that they merely refused to believe that it was divine meddling that was responsible for natural phenomena.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
The secrecy in which they buried their Mysteries, had that end. Those to whom they were confided, bound themselves, by the most fearful oaths, never to reveal them. They were not allowed even to speak of these important secrets with...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Science has given new answers to all these problems in recent years but most of the people do not know them. And those who know, often do not feel them. For this reason, Mr. Frank considers the rebuilding of our...
This power elite is not easy to define; but the fact that it exists makes itself known from time to time. Concerning the power elite, R. Buckminster Fuller wrote of the "vastly ambitious individuals who [have] become so effectively powerful...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized.
Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall
All THE upside-down, inside-out, other-way-round thinking of the secret societies, all that is bizarre and mind-bending in what follows stems from the belief that mind preceded matter. We have almost no evidence to go on when we decide what we...
Source: The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
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.
The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately...
So, you ask where did we come from? We came from the stars. And for me the most poetic accurate way to say this is not only are we alive in the universe, the universe is alive within us. We...
"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations," Ellis argues. "For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based...
Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...
Another reason to adopt moderate skepticism concerns the very real danger that we might be deceiving ourselves in our beliefs, even when we think our beliefs are based on sound evidence. One way in which this can happen is well...
Source: The Beatles and Philosophy by David Detmer
Whatever he's been smoking's been immunizing him to all our shit.
Source: The Cabin in the Woods
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...
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
The most secret teachings of the secret societies are transmitted only orally. Other parts are written in a deliberately obscure way that makes it impossible for outsiders to understand.
Source: The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
It looks so ridiculous and impossible. You can tell it’s real, because it looks so fake, honestly.
You can't get any further away before you start coming back
Source: The Truman Show
Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you. And for a student to teach his teacher is presumptuous and...
You're a scientist. Stop guessing. Know. Or be quite. That is all.
Source: Prey
You're always saying, "I guess." "That worked, I guess. I'll see you later, I guess."
Source: Prey
But 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?