It Is a Knowledge of Our Inner World, Not the Outer One

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

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

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

A Sense of This Invisible, Other Reality

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

It Turns the Right Brain’s Unity Into Bits and Pieces

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

Accepted Only That Which It Could See and Touch

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

Secret, Hidden, Obscured, or Perhaps in Some Cases, Even Purposely Disguised

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 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

Their Varied Meanings Are Only To Be Discovered by Reflection and Study

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Growing Dominance of the Ego

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

You Don’t Know Because Only I Know

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...

Source: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

This Book Is Not for You

Forget about it. This book is not for you.

Source: The NeverEnding Story

Humans for the Most Part Don’t Have a Clue

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

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

They Were Not Allowed Even to Speak of These Important Secrets

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

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...

The Mental-Rational Structure Is Focused on Words

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

No One Has Ever Seen It

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

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

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

Some Even Believe We Are Part of a Secret Cabal

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

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...

CIA Funding Was Involved

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,...

Investigations into Behavior and Thought Control

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...

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

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...

Learn How to Control the Human Mind

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.