Theme: “All Those Signs”

It’s Energy Surrounds Us and Binds Us

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

A Pantheist Who Believed God Was Everywhere

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

The Network of Connections That Links Everything With Everything Else

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 Power Elite Is Not Easy to Define

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 Universe Could Be Understood and Is Worthy of Analytical Study

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

Every Visible Thing Is Only an Effect of the Invisible or Causal

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

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...

Conceiving the World as One Interdependent Structure

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

World Democracy Was the Secret Dream of the Great Classical Philosophers

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 Science of the Spheres and Heavens

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

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

A Global Religion

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

Four Great Problems

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 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