The Firmament Sheweth His Handywork
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
from Psalms 19:1
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The Unformed Matter That Will Become the Earth
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
He Who Deals with the Causes Behind Phenomena
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
We Are One and the Same
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...
Source: Meditation Magazine’s Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson!
Focusing on Our Subtle, Inner Worlds, Rather than Our Obvious Outer One
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
Understanding of the Way the World Works
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
The Heavens Were the Realm of Perfection
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
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
He Believed That the Moon and Stars Were Nothing More than Holes in the Firmament
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
He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers
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
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
Novus Ordo Seclorum
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
Do You Suppose It Is Beyond Us to Produce a Dual System of Astronomy?
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
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
A Co-Conscious Vehicle of Divine Wisdom
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
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
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
🎼 Song Excerpts
But the Sun Is Eclipsed by the Moon
And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Source: Eclipse by Pink Floyd
The Crumbling Difference Between Wrong and Right
And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
Source: Round Here by Counting Crows
To the Tallest of the Towers That Fall and Rise
From farmers in the fields - To the tallest of the towers that fall and rise
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
That’s When the Energy Comes, and the Dark Side’s Light
You come out at night - That's when the energy comes, and the dark side's light
Source: Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
We Are a Rock Revolving Around a Golden Sun
We are a rock revolving around a golden sun
Source: Saltwater by Julian Lennon
Because You’re Upside Down and Inside Out
Because you're upside down and inside out and you can feel it
Source: Upside Down & Inside Out by OK Go
And Who Knows Which Is Which and Who Is Who
And who knows which is which and who is who
Source: Us and Them by Pink Floyd
What Life Looks Like From Up Above and Down Below
If I could fly, then I would know, what life looks like from up above and down below
Source: Cecilia and the Satellite by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
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Open Your Eyes, Your Life Is a Lie
I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they’re real.