Theme: “A Tongue Understood by No One”

💬 Quote Library — containing “A Tongue Understood by No One”

He Understood Both the Farmer and the Philosopher

He understood both the farmer and the philosopher, and could speak the languages of both.

from The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall

Looking into the Secret World

The word 'occult' comes from the Latin occultus, meaning 'hidden'. In modern times the word is used for those sciences and arts involved with looking into the secret world which is supposed to lie behind the world of our familiar...

from Secret Symbolism in Occult Art by Fred Gettings

The Language of Symbolism

When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.

from Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall

📖 Excerpts Library

The Secret Teachers of the Western World

In Order to Maintain Itself, It Had to Go “Underground”

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

The Esoteric Tradition Deals in Imagery and Symbols

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

The Invisible Ones Behind the Visible Sovereign Powers

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

Every Myth Represents the Absolute Truth Within Its Society

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

No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed

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

One of the Central Pillars of the Esoteric Tradition

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

Links in This Vast Chain Extending Round the Whole Globe

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...

Source: The Freemasons’ Quarterly Review

They Concealed the Highest Truths Under the Veil of Allegory

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

Remain Unrecognized by Outsiders

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

Religious Differences Are Seen as the Final Barrier

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

Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Effort to Control Behavior

It Channeled Funds Through Three Private Medical Research Foundations

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...

Source: Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Effort to Control Behavior

The Corpus Hermeticum

[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