There are indeed passages in the Bible where Jesus is described as instructing the disciples in a teaching witheld from the many – “those outside”, as he calls them. Such passages appear to posess a special significance in the Gospel of Mark, and perhaps none is more notable or more disturbing than the following: And [...]
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The subject matter of the Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse as it is often called, is veiled in symbolic, figurative, and allegorial language. This method was used by all ancient writers of the Bible, who were masters of allegory, in order to preserve and guard the sacred sciences in their true inner meaning from those who would purposely destroy them. Furthermore, they held that thosewho are morally unworthy should not receive the inner teachinguntil they had proved themselves worthy to receive it.
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I recently received a letter in which the writer asked: “Why are you a Freemason?” The question caused me to think and reaffirm my feelings about Masonry.
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Many critics of Freemasonry accuse it of devil worship. Remember that many religious leaders, for example Norman Vincent Peale or Billy Graham are high degree masons, so here is what the Souvereign Grand Commander had to say about Freemasonry and Religion.
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Like many, I reserved my copy of Dan Brown’s long awaited sequel to The Da Vinci Code back in March. Yesterday the book fell through my letterbox and I pounced on it and proceeded, I plead guilty, to race my way through it in under 24 hours. The book is fantastic, the plot is well developed in the main and Robert Langdon continues to exude his appeal as the bookish Professor of symbols.
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University Library Edinburgh: Black Box The small box, no larger then 2 cigarette boxes, produces a constant stream of random numbers limited to ones and zeros. All the time. This is the random event generator and is part of the Global Consciousness Project. Global Consciousness because it is supposed to find out whether or not [...]
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The Web Bot Project Sounds like straight out of the Lost Symbol. The Collective Counscious measured by searches and crawles. The Web Bot is claimed to have predicted several events prior to them occurring, most notably the September 11 attacks and the 2003 Northeastern United States blackout. However, many believe the predictions are vague and, [...]
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From a Noetic Science experiment in 1988: The human soul weighs 1/3,000th of an ounce! That’s the astonishing claim of East German researchers who recently weighed more than 200 terminally ill patients just before, and immediately after, their deaths. In each case the weight loss was exactly the same–1/3,000th of an ounce. “The inescapable conclusion [...]
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