And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Rev. 13:11-12

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt. 7:15

Note the extensive imagery of the Shepherd leading and protecting his Sheepfold:

This could represent the child who is born, having two natures:

The Decans are:

• Orion
• Eridanus
• Auriga

“Leo, the Lion might easily picture Christ in His final victory over the Devil.

All three of the Decans point to the destruction of the enemy, pictured as a serpent.

Hydra, the fleeing Serpent, is about to be pounced upon by the lion.

Crater, the Bowl of Wrath, is placed on the serpent.

And Corvus, the Raven, the bird of doom, is also on the serpent, devouring his carcass."

Source: "The Gospel in the Stars," Prophecy Central

An article on this website titled “Francis Bacon & The Arcadian Academy” provided a revelation of the esoteric meaning of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor:

“According to Peter Dawkins, in his book on the English Arcadian Academy;

“Arcadia was presided over by shepherds, and Pan was the great God of Arcadia…arcadia comes from the word Arcas – the son of Zeus & Callisto.

Callisto is the Great Bear & Arcas is the Little Bear in astronomical terms, and in Greek Mythology.

These stars circumnavigate the North Pole Star – which esoterically is the symbol of high Kingship... the Bear is a ‘veil’ to a real name, which means shepherd.

It is where the sheep (i.e. initiates) and shepherds (adepts & Masters) come from...”

Source: "Francis Bacon & The Arcadian Academy," Sandy Hamblett

The final sentence is the key that unlocks the meaning of this sign:

“...the Bear is a ‘veil’ to a real name, which means shepherd.

It is where the sheep (i.e. initiates) and shepherds (adepts & Masters) come from...”

Dawkins’ explanation of the esoteric meaning of the Great and Little Bear constellations was worth the price of the book:

“Associated in esoteric knowledge with this role of high kingship is the symbol of the North Pole Star - the ’crown of the world - and the circumpolar constellations.

Of these, the Lesser and the Greater Bear are the most important: the former providing the present North Pole Star.

The ’Bear’ is a veil to the real name, which means ’Dove’, or ’Sheepfold’, or ’Chariot’.

As the Chariot, it is Arthur’s vehicle of manifestation, as also the fiery chariot on which Elijah ascended to heaven.

Hence Arthur is known as ’the Bear’.

As the Sheepfold, it is the heavenly place of peace and enlightenment that Jesus spoke of, to which the ’sheep’ (i.e. initiates) of mankind are led, and from which the ’shepherds’ (i.e. the adepts and masters) come from.

As the Dove, it is known as the vehicle of the Holy Spirit, by means of which that Spirit descends to the earth and governs its kingdom.

It is signified by the royal crown of a High King (i.e. a crown with arches) - a halo of light which descends upon a truly worthy and anointed (i.e. illuminated) soul, bestowing full knowledge of Truth.

The Great Bear is known as the mother of the Little Bear, which is her son.

The Rampant Bear and Ragged Staff emblem...depicts just this - the Bear constellation tied to the Pole of the earth’s axis, and dancing around it.”

Source: Dawkins, Peter. ARCADIA: THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES; ARCADIA AND THE ARCADIAN ACADEMY, Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal Series 1, Volume 5, Publisher: Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1988.

There you have it, the real meaning of Sheepfold in astrology:

“As the Sheepfold, it is the heavenly place of peace and enlightenment that Jesus spoke of, to which the ’sheep’ (i.e. initiates) of mankind are led, and from which the ’shepherds’ (i.e. the adepts and masters) come from.”

"Neither be ye called masters; for one is your Master, even Christ."

As for the trustworthiness of adepts and masters who are lead the initiates entrusted to them, let us not forget the words of Albert Pike, who stated in Morals & Dogma that Masonic initiates are intentionally misled by the adepts and masters:

“Part of the symbols [of Freemasonry] are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations.

It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he shall understand them.

Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the princes of Masonry.”

Source: Pike, Albert. MORALS AND DOGMA OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE FREEMASONRY, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins, Inc., 1871.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. - Matt. 7:13-15

Adolf Josef Lanz (19 July 1874 – 22 April 1954), also known under his pseudonym as Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, was an Austrian political and racial theorist and occultist, who was a pioneer of Ariosophy. He was a former monk and the founder of the magazine Ostara, in which he published antisemitic and völkisch theories.

The notorious German Thule Society, which Hitler joined in 1919, was founded by the followers of Jorg Lanz Von Liebenfels and Guido von List.

Guido Karl Anton List (5 October 1848 – 17 May 1919), better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism.

Lanz was,

"Formerly a Cistercian monk whom the Roman Church excommunicated because of his homosexual activities."

Source: Abrams, Kevin and Scott Lively, THE PINK SWASTIKA: HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE NAZI PARTY, OR: Founders Publishing Corp., 1995.

"a close associate of Lanz who formed an elitist priesthood called the Armanen Order, to which Hitler may have belonged."

In a penetrating analysis of the occult origin of Nazi Aryanism, authors of The Pink Swastika, Kevin Abrams and Scott Lively, implicate the Thule Society of empowering ’initiates’ with supernatural powers for eugenics purposes:

“The Nazi dream of an Aryan super-race was adopted from an occult group called the Thule Society, founded in 1917 by followers of Lanz and List.

The occult doctrine of the Thule Society held that the survivors of an ancient and highly developed lost civilization (Atlantis) could endow Thule initiates with esoteric powers and wisdom.

The initiates would use these powers to create a new race of Aryan supermen who would eliminate all ’inferior’ races."

A compelling expose of the Merovingian infiltration of the Catholic Church reveals that the Cistercians were Rosicrucians:

“Like most Merovingian monasteries Glastonbury became a Benedictine Monastery.

And the purpose of Merovingian monasteries was ’infiltration’ based on the belief that the best way to crush the Church was from ’within.’...

There is no doubt in my mind that [the Grail legend] would have been the work of the Cistercians, founded by Benedictine monks as ’the ratchet’ for the structural organization of [the Prieuré de] Sion.

Joseph of Arimathea is alone associated with the Grail legend and the Quest of the Grail legends, which per Colliers Encyclopedia, are dominated by the mystical symbolism of Cistercians...

“More than any heretical Merovingian organizations, the Cistercians personified the banality of evil at its finest.

The name Cistercian and of their first monastery, Citeaux derive from Cistus, of the Cistaceae or Rockrose family resembling the wild rose and cultivated in the Mediterranean. 

The Myrrh with which Mary Magdalene anointed the Body of Jesus also comes from the Cistus family.

And they had chosen the Magdalene...assigning her the symbol of the Rose and Cross in memory of the Brotherhood of the Sun founded by Akhenaten who had taken as its symbol the Rose and Cross (Lewis).

Cistercians were Rosicrucians.

And this Rosicrucian order of monks would triumph in its infiltration of the Church.”

Source: The Merovingian Infiltration of the Christian World Through Monasticism

The Secret Doctrine, authored by H.P. Blavatsky in 1893, became the sourcebook for twentieth century esoteric societies, including the Thule Society.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis - Anna’s Archive

The inner core of the Thule Society were Satanists such as Dietrich Eckart to whom Hitler dedicated his book, Mein Kampf.

Dietrich Eckart (German: [ˈɛkaʁt]; 23 March 1868 – 26 December 1923) was a German völkisch poet, playwright, journalist, publicist, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter ("Folkist Observer"), and the lyricist of the first party anthem, "Sturmlied" ("Storming Song"). He was a participant in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and died on 26 December of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, of a heart attack.  Eckart was elevated to the status of a major thinker upon the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933. He was acknowledged by Hitler to be the spiritual co-founder of Nazism and "a guiding light of the early National Socialist movement."

Hitler assiduously applied himself to the The Secret Doctrine, whose underlying premise was the Aryan root race theory, a gnostic belief that the present race of Homo Sapiens is destined to be replaced by the seventh root race of "godmen" or Homo Noeticus, the New Man.

There is evidence that the German scientists were aided by contact with ’Gray entities’ from inside the Earth for the building of their war machine and genetic research.

ST. JOHN: HEAD OF KNIGHTS & INITIATES

A website critical of Plantard’s "mystic monarchist games" also exposed the fascist proclivities of the former Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion:

Translator Peter O’Reilly interprets Le Cour’s vision of the Age of Aquarius as a civilization which revives the mystery religion of ancient Atlantis:

"In [L’Ere du Verseau] Le Cour looks forward to the future Age of Aquarius as bringing with it the return of Christ in the role of Christ the King.

It is a work of esoteric and apocalyptic Christianity in which the author also voices his belief in an esoteric spiritual tradition that originated in Atlantis…"

Source: "Pierre Plantard, 'Le Poulpe and Paul le Cour," Paul Smith

"For more than twenty years we have been calling in ’Atlantis’ for the formation of a new order of Knighthood and indicating the means by which it might be achieved...

Jules Romain, in ’Le Probleme Numero Un’, published in 1947, wishes, in the face of the current enormous danger, for a spiritual power consisting of a grand order of chivalry and it seems to him that for it to be realized the support of the Catholic church would be of great help.

Another French author, Raymond Abellio, has published, likewise in 1947, a curious work entitled ’Vers un prophetisme nouveau’, in which he, too, calls for the formation of a grand order consisting of a community of initiates under the direction of a man with a sense of mission."

Source:  "Pierre Plantard, 'Le Poulpe and Paul le Cour," Paul Smith

"The order would comprise novices, disciples and masters.

He does not indicate the means of realizing it but thinks that it could be through the Catholic Church, on condition that it lifts the veil off the New Testament and ’questions St John....’

    "Let me also point out that P. Riquet in a conference in 1947 at Notre Dame de Paris, has also spoken for the need for the creation of an order of knighthood.

And Jean-Louis Lagor has published a work with the title ’Une Chevalerie Renaitra’ (An Order of Knighthood Will Be Reborn)."

Source: "Pierre Plantard, 'Le Poulpe and Paul le Cour," Paul Smith

Everything therefore needs to be created from the beginning to bring about the formation of leaders and educators, subject to a discipline simultaneously heroic and sanctifying, in special establishments:

"Our country has a mission to fulfill. It has been shaken hard to wake it from its torpor, its lethargy; and now ideas are shooting up on all sides, for France is a seedbed of ideas.

Let us try to understand what our mission consists of, let us try to fulfill it by preparing knights of the Apocalypse whose head will be Christ when he returns!"

Source: "Pierre Plantard, 'Le Poulpe and Paul le Cour," Paul Smith

"The cycle of the romances of the Round Table tells us the story of the holy vessel, the Grail, which there is good reason to connect with that Ganymede (i.e. Aquarius). 

Considered as containing all light and all knowledge, it is the object of a quest, a search to which the knights dedicate themselves.

Their head is King Arthur, head of the legendary order of knighthood of the Grail, who is to return one day at the head of his knights to put the world back in order, and at that time all symbols will be explained.

But such an order of knighthood will have to be placed under the patronage of St John, who is the head of knights and of initiates."

Source: "Pierre Plantard, 'Le Poulpe and Paul le Cour," Paul Smith

The preceding passage presents an altogether different type of world order than is portrayed by the usual New World Order propaganda.

Virtually all exposure of the global conspiracy creates the image of a secular, socialist world government under the management of the United Nations.

Yet, according to the late Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion, which directs all other secret societies, the new world order will be not only of a religious character but a dynamic network of monastic communities under a priest-king.

Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (Italian: Gioacchino da Fiore; Latin: Ioachim Florensis; c. 1135 – 30 March 1202), was an Italian Christian theologian, Catholic abbot, and the founder of the monastic order of San Giovanni in Fiore. According to theologian Bernard McGinn, "Joachim of Fiore is the most important apocalyptic thinker of the whole medieval period." The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri is one of the most famous works possibly inspired by his ideas. Later followers, inspired by his works in Christian eschatology and historicist theories, are called Joachimites. On June 27, 2024, Pope Francis, in his message for the World Day of Creation, described Joachim of Fiore, saying that "Joachim was able to propose the ideal of a new spirit of coexistence among people" and thus marks a turning point in history, as this had not happened in more than eight centuries since the death of the Florensis monk.

This would be a perfect fulfillment of a prophecy made in the twelfth century by the famous mystic monk, Joachim of Fiore.

"...the third age would be one of love, joy, and freedom, when the knowledge of God would be revealed directly in the hearts of all men.

The Age of the Spirit was to be the Sabbath or resting time of mankind.

Then the world would be one vast monastery, in which all men would be contemplative monks rapt in mystical ecstasy and united in singing the praises of God.

And this new version of the kingdom of the Saints would endure until the last judgment."

Source: Cohn, Norman. THE PURSUIT OF THE MILLENNIUM, NY: Oxford University Press, 1970 (1957).

"Joachim of Fiore, a Cistercian Abbot from Southern Italy, allegedly received visions on Mount Tabor which inspired him to write the ’Eternal Gospels’ based on his own interpretation of Revelation 14:6.

He proclaimed that there were three ages of the world corresponding to the three persons of the Holy Trinity.

In the first age, the Father ruled the world through power and fear (Old Testament).

The Son ruled through wisdom and discipline in the second age (New Testament).

The third age was nearing (he prophesied around 1260) when the Holy Spirit would rule with universal love without the need for institutions.

In this third age, the Church would be freed from everything carnal and worldly, and a new religious Order would be founded whose task it would be to propagate these ideas and thereby save the whole world."

Source: "The Prophecies of Joachim of Fiore 1132-1201," Virtual Center for Franciscan Studies

In their book, The Trojan Horse: How the New Age Infiltrates the Church, Brenda Scott and Samantha Smith reveal that the Temple of Understanding, a ’Spiritual United Nations’ launched by Eleanor Roosevelt, is networking monastic communities worldwide in order to form the very leadership envisioned by:

• Joachim of Fiore
• Paul Le Cour
• Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair

for the new global spirituality:

"In June of 1980, the...Temple of Understanding...sponsor(ed) the formation of a World Monastic Council... - to be an international network of monks, nuns, scholars, theologians and laity from... both East and West, who would work together to create... the global society of the future to work for the awakening of spiritual consciousness (godhood)."

Source: Smith, Samantha & Brenda Scott, TROJAN HORSE, Lafayette, LA; Huntington House Publishers, 1993.

KALLISTOS WARE

Kallistos Ware (born Timothy Richard Ware, 11 September 1934 – 24 August 2022) was an English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. From 1982, he held the titular bishopric of Diokleia in Phrygia (Greek: Διόκλεια Φρυγίας), later made a titular metropolitan bishopric in 2007, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was one of the best-known modern Eastern Orthodox hierarchs and theologians. From 1966 to 2001, he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford.

Timothy Ware (1934-) was an Anglican theologian who converted to Greek Orthodoxy in 1958.

In 1966, at age 32, he was ordained priest and became a monk, receiving the new name ’Kallistos’.

He made his monastic vows at St. John the Theologian monastery on the Greek island of Patmos and is now a bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church and considered the "foremost authority on Orthodoxy".

Also in 1966, he returned to Oxford as Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University.

Bishop Kallistos Ware is today a major figure in the interfaith/ecumenical movement.

He has written books and conducted numerous seminars on the Eastern Orthodox Church and Christian mysticism.

The following profile appears on the website of Ohio State University, where Bishop Ware lectured in April of 2002:

"Consecrated Bishop of Diokleia in 1982, Bishop Kallistos is well known for his popular books about Eastern Orthodox faith and practice and has been hailed as ’perhaps the 20th century’s foremost authority on Orthodoxy’ by the Russian Orthodox press.

Bishop Kallistos serves in the diocese of Thyatira of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.   

"Bishop Kallistos Ware is a resident of Oxford, England.

A British native, he left the Anglican Church and converted to Greek Orthodoxy in 1958.

Timothy Ware’s first contact with Orthodoxy was as a 17- year-old who ’by chance or divine providence’ attended an Orthodox vigil service already in progress and immediately felt a sense of ’belonging’ although he could not understand the language.

He was ordained to the priesthood at age 32 and took monastic vows at St. John the Theologian monastery on the Greek island of Patmos.

"Before retiring last year, His Grace was the Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford, where he had completed his own studies in Greek and Latin.

His Grace also was a fellow of Pembroke College at Oxford. Active in work for Christian unity, His Grace was a member of the Anglican Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions from 1973-84 and spent five years in the mid 1990s as co-chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Orthodox Methodist Theological Dialogue.

He has written three books, including The Orthodox Church, and has translated three major Greek liturgical works.

The first of an eight-volume set of his own collected works, entitled The Inner Kingdom, was recently published."

Source: "Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia Plans Visit to the HRL," Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, Highlander Research Library, Ohio State University, Dec. 2001

"In 313 AD, Christianity was officially recognized as the religion of the Roman Empire and from this time the new faith spread rapidly throughout the Greek islands.

The eastern Christian empire of Byzantium exercised control over the isle of Patmos and in the 4th century the ancient shrine of the goddess Diana was torn down.

Directly upon its foundations was erected a church dedicated to St. John but this church was itself destroyed sometime between the 6th and 9th centuries when the island was subjected to frequent raids by the Arabs.

Left deserted after these raids, Patmos next entered history in 1088 when a Byzantine emperor granted the island to the monk Christodolous, whose intention it was to establish a monastery.

Built upon the remains of the old church and the older shrine of Diana, the monastery of St. John has been in continuous operation for over 900 years."

Source: "Mythological Antecedents and Gods," Paul Chiumbolo

Robert Graves stated in The White Goddess:

"...Janus was really the oak-god Dianus who was incarnate in the King of Rome..."

Source: Graves, Robert. THE WHITE GODDESS: A HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF POETIC MYTH, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1948.

"Macrobius...says that Janus is two-faced because he is a fusion of Artemis and Apollo (i.e., Sun and Moon, Janus and Jana = Dianus and Diana); thus he corresponds to the alchemical hermaphrodite..."

Source: Williams, Brian, A RENAISSANCE TAROT: A GUIDE TO THE RENAISSANCE TAROT, Stamford: U.S. Games, 1994; Pythagorean Tarot: XXI. Mundus - Kosmos - Cosmos (21)

In The Cult of the Black Virgin, Ean Begg confirms the duality and bisexuality of Janus/Diana, adding that Janus was also John:

"Janus is one of the most important Roman gods.

His two faces illustrate not only his role as deity of beginnings, looking to past and future, but his essential duality as the original bisexual chaos and the form which emerged from it.

Diana/Jana and Saturn are especially associated with him.

He may have been Gallicized into Jean (John), one of the companions to the Black Virgin."

Source: Begg, Ean. THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN, Arcana Peguin Books, 1996.

To circumvent this prohibition, pagans simply disguised themselves as Christian monks and infiltrated the Church, where they were, whether unwittingly or no, given carte blanche as ’holy men’ to reactivate the ancient underground grid:

Source: "A One World Church"; Wendy B. Howard, CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE, October 1997.

"In Atlantis, an etheric energy matrix existed beneath the Earth’s surface, providing a lattice network for such activities as telepathic communication and healing.

This matrix was known as a grid...

"This grid was a system of electromagnetic frequencies created through worldwide linkages made by human thought waves and energy transmitted by the Earth and through crystals.

The system followed a carefully designed global plan...[which] embodied the study and form of geomancy, which means the divination of lines drawn at random...

"...The electromagnetic grid was built by the Thrice-Greatest Geomancer and Master of Earth known as Hermes Trismegistus and the High Priests and Priestesses of Atlantis who came to earth to build a great civilization for this part of the galaxy...

"...The effect of this grid was to connect humans to the Earth though the power of Spirit.   

"Hermes and other beings of Light first implanted celestial crystals within the etheric bodies of the High Priests and Priestesses and then within those of the Light Workers of the hierarchy.

These crystals contained symbolic and geometric coding from the Universal Language of Light that send out frequencies to connect signals emanating from points of Light.

This effort formed lines of Light radiating from their etheric bodies which connected to the Earth, forming the Illuminated web of Divine energy...

"These select emissaries of the Divine journeyed to various lands and sites.

Each time they visited foreign places, the currents of energy were made stronger...

The grid truly connected the Heavens and Earth and formed the perfect Oneness...

"That was the state of affairs when Atlantis was in its glory, but...

Certain individuals, not of the priesthood, began to rise to power and change the systems, which resulted in disaster.

In time, Atlantis fell, and... many of these great accomplishments were buried with the land underneath the ocean floor...

Some of the survivors, who were keepers of this sacred knowledge on geomancy, settled in Egypt and the Yucatán, keeping a portion of the mysteries and knowledge alive... history would reveal that the souls of the High Priests and Priestesses would reincarnate to rebuild Atlantis in the form of the Seventh Golden Age.

That time is now."

Source: Milanovich, Dr. Norma & Dr. Shirley McCune. THE LIGHT SHALL SET YOU FREE. Albuquerque, NM: Athena Publishing, 1997.

"It is debatable how far the Artemis of Greece, the ’maiden huntress’, should be identified with the many-breasted, fertile, Ephesian goddess.

Between them they combine the paradox of virgin and mother which is at the heart of Christian Marian dogma...

"It is with Artemis of Ephesus rather than the Arcadian Lady of Wild Things that we must now concern ourselves in the quest for the origins of the Black Virgin.

According to legend she started as a black meteoric stone...

Ephesus was where the Virgin Mary traditionally spent her closing years before her Dormition and Assumption, with St John, before his exile to Patmos.

In Ephesus in AD 431 the Virgin Mary was proclaimed ’Mother of God’, and her cult spread thence to the city of the she-wolf, Rome, and so to all the corners of the world, as, indeed, a thousand years earlier had that of her predecessor, the Black Ephesian.

The best-known image of Artemis of Ephesus, a Roman alabaster and bronze statue of the second century, shows her with a black face, hands and feet, multiple breasts, on her head a mural crown or tower, and on her dress images including bulls, goats, deer and a bee...    

"Artemis is hostile to love and punishes sexual transgressors severely.

Unawakened little girls, brownies playing bears to her honor in the forest, are great favorites of hers, but boys fare less well at the hands of her devotees.

In Sparta, youths were flogged in front of the statue of Artemis Orthia (upright), in a combination of fertility rite and painful puberty initiation.

The sexual puritanism of the new goddess of Christianity, with its proliferation of monastic establishments, would not altogether have displeased Arcadian Artemis."

Source: Begg, Ean. THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN, Arcana Peguin Books, 1996.

"One of the treasured relics taken from the Cathar stronghold of Montsegur, France, just before its fall to the Inquisition, was a statue of the Christian Black Madonna crafted by St. John on the Isle of Patmos.

It was a simple artwork, for John was not a skilled craftsman; but it was and is a venerated talisman, empowered by St. John during his mystical trances, through which he imparted the Book of Revelation."

Source: Terran Lux & the Lady of the Midnight Sun

Atlantis?

We interject here that Chuck Missler of Koinonia House sponsored an ’Exclusive Archaeological Cruise Event’ called The Malta Expedition.

Charles W. Missler (May 28, 1934 – May 1, 2018) was an American author, evangelical Christian, Bible teacher, engineer, and businessman.

Paul's 'Miracle at Malta' | Koinonia House

Tourists sailed to the islands of:

• Patmos
• Malta
• Crete

with excursions to Ephesus and Athens, where they visited:

• the Acropolis
• Parthenon
• Mars Hill

Visit:

• Valletta - A World Heritage Site
• Grand Master’s Palace (War Room)
• Paul’s Cave
• Paul’s Shipwrecked Church
• the fishing villages

"Even in the monument strewn islands of the Mediterranean, the spiritual singularity of the goddess temples of Malta is conspicuous.

Built with monumental boulders, yet finished with the first dressed stone within, these temples were designed in a unique apsidal arrangement resembling the clover leaf form of the goddess herself.

Some temples, large enough to be compared with cathedrals, were expanded through the addition of vaulted circular chambers.

They contained altars, fonts, ovens for baking sacred bread, and many goddess figures; the remains of one are nearly six feet in height.

A visit to the monuments there reveals convincing evidence of goddess worship."

Source: Johnson, Buffie. LADY OF THE BEASTS: THE GODDESS AND HER SACRED ANIMALS, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1994.

"Last year the idea that Malta was Atlantis gained international recognition and featured in popular television documentaries, publications and guidebooks.

A Russian TV crew had visited Malta for this purpose and a documentary was screened on OTR channel 1 in the Soviet Union.

Piero Angela, of Super Quark, was also interested enough to come to Malta to make a documentary about the subject.

David Furlong, author of Keys to the Temples, was also in Malta to study the positions of prehistoric sites and compare them with British sites.

The theory that Malta was Atlantis was published in the Italian journal of archaeology Hera, while the French journal Archeologie also carried articles about it.

Best-selling author Graham Hancock had also published a book ’Underworld, flooded kingdoms of the Ice Age’ in the UK, dedicating 120 pages out of its total of 761 to Malta and the publications Malta: Echoes of Plato’s Island, and Dossier Malta - evidence for the Magdalenian, published in 1997.

The latter had suggested that the presence of man on Malta could date back to about 15000 to 12000 BC rather than the traditionally accepted date of about 7000 BC."

Source:  "New theory puts Atlantis off southern Cyprus," Jesmond Bonell

Mount Athos

"The advancement of education of the public in the study and knowledge of the history, culture, arts, architecture, natural history, and literature of the Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos and the promotion of the religious and other charitable work of the Holy Community and monasteries of Mount Athos."

"History, culture, arts, architecture, natural history, and literature of the Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos."

History

"The religious history of Athos goes back long before the birth of Christianity however. 

The great marble peak of Mt. Athos (6670 feet, 2033 meters) was mentioned as early as Homer and Aiskhylos as being the first home of the Greek gods Zeus and Apollo before they moved to Mt. Olympus.

Pagan hermits have lived in the deep forests since prehistoric times for it was known then, as it has been forgotten now, that places where the ancient gods had lived still held great powers for humans."

"For more than a thousand years Athos has existed as the principal center of monasticism for the Orthodox Church -- or rather for all the Orthodox Churches.

Ever since Byzantine times it has been a pan-Orthodox, multi-national center.

There were once monasteries for Albanians, Amalfitans, Bulgarians, Georgians, Moldavians, Russians, Serbs, and Wallachians as well as Greeks.

Today there are still houses for Bulgarians, Greeks, Romanians, Russians, and Serbs. 

Furthermore, Athos is unique for being a portion of contemporary Europe entirely devoted to the monastic life and to nothing else.

"Today the Mountain has a total population of some 2000 monks, a figure that is steadily rising.

Most follow the cenobitic tradition which brings monks into communities for living, working, and worshipping together.

Others follow the eremitical tradition and live as hermits, either in small groups or as solitaries.

Between them they inhabit a variety of different establishments."

Source: A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos

Art and Architecture

Icons are an integral part of the Orthodox belief and tradition--a direct violation of the 2nd commandment:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."  Exod. 20:4.

During Paul’s second missionary journey, while he was in Greece, God spoke through the apostle commanding all men, and in particular the Greeks, to repent of their idol worship:

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry...

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;...

Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Acts 17

Bill Schnoebelen writes from personal experience when he explains the occult meaning of the All-Seeing Eye:

"To ’open’ the eye a little bit is to experience psychic powers.

To open the eye completely is to have your brain flooded with the ’pure’ consciousness of Lucifer himself.

This is why one of the Masonic symbols is the ’All-Seeing Eye.’

It is a symbol of Illumination.

This is Satan’s counterfeit for being Born Again.

In it, you acquire a ’personal relationship’ with Lucifer.

You begin to think his thoughts and see with his eyes.

You begin to look at humans the way he does.

It is not a pretty sight."

Source: Burns, Dr. Cathy. MASONIC AND OCCULT SYMBOLS ILLUSTRATED, Sharing, 1998.

The Athens News Agency stated on November 11, 2002:

"Several Eastern Orthodox monasteries are located on Mount Athos, an all-male community dedicated to the Madonna for a millennium."

"Since the Catholic [Black Virgin] icons are Byzantine in origin, it seems worth indicating some in Greece that are mentioned as potential [Black Virgins]..."

Source: Begg, Ean. THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN, Arcana Peguin Books, 1996.

"is of a totally Black Virgin and Child"

Culture

"The monks of Mount Athos accepted Hesychasm.

According to Gregory of Sinai, the founder of hesychia, monks could see the ‘uncreated light of God’, the light that shone about Christ at his Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, if they were virtuous and devoted themselves exclusively to prayer, seated from morn to eve in the same place, concentrating and repeating silently the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me’.

The hope that they could thus come close to God was perhaps a reaction to the ever-increasing external dangers and the collapse of the Byzantine Empire."

Source: A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos

A book review of The Philokalia reveals that the objective of repeating the Jesus Prayer is personal deification---the Satanically inspired lie, ’ye shall be as gods’:

"The goal is to repeat without ceasing the Jesus Prayer, whether aloud or not.

Literally without ceasing.

The prayer should revolve in the mind even while eating, speaking with others, or sleeping. 

Thus, perpetual communion with God, the purpose of human existence, can be fulfilled. 

Theosis, deification, partaking of the divine nature, gaining the divinity that God has extended to us, is the purpose of practicing the Jesus Prayer in this way, just as it is the purpose of asceticism, hesychasm, and other practices."

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. - Gen. 3:4-5

A promotional piece for Bishop Ware’s seminar presents a word-for-word description of the hesychast technique:

"Countless Christians over the centuries have found a way of entry through practicing the invocation of the Holy Name:

in the West often through the repetition of the name ’Jesus’ on its own; in the East more commonly through a longer phrase, such as ’Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.’"

Source: Brochure for John Main Seminar 2002, World Community for Christian Meditation

Apposite to Bishop Ware’s leadership in the advocacy of hesychasm, one medieval Patriarch of Constantinople by the name of ’Callistus’ created an uproar in the Greek Orthodox Church when he persecuted opponents of hesychasm:

"In the fourteenth century a pseudo-spiritualism akin to that of the ancient Euchites or Messalians, culminating in the famous Hesychast controversies (see HESYCHASM; PALAMAS), greatly disturbed the mutual harmony of Greek monasteries, especially those of Mount Athos, one of whose monks, Callistus, had become Patriarch of Constantinople (1350-54) and in that office exhibited great severity towards the opponents of Hesychasm. 

Racial and national discord between the Greeks and the Servians added fuel to the flames, and for a while the monks were again subjected to the immediate supervision of the Bishop of Hierissus."

Source:

Literature

Before relocating to Mt. Athos to teach the monks the hesychast method of contemplation, Gregory of Sinai belonged to the Monastery of St. Katherine at Mt. Sinai.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 1815 – 7 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus after Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai.  Tischendorf was made an honorary doctor by the University of Oxford on 16 March 1865, and by the University of Cambridge on 9 March 1865 following his discovery. While a student gaining his academic degree in the 1840s, he earned international recognition when he deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament.

It was at this convent that the gnostic manuscript, Sinaiticus Aleph, was discovered by Constantin Tischendorf in the 19th century.

Brooke Foss Westcott (12 January 1825 – 27 July 1901) was an English bishop, biblical scholar and theologian, serving as Bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death. He is perhaps most known for co-editing The New Testament in the Original Greek in 1881. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the British Empire.

The Sinaiticus Aleph along with infamous Vaticanus B were used by B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort as the basis for their corrupt New Greek Text from which modern versions of the Bible are translated.

Fenton John Anthony Hort FSA (23 April 1828 – 30 November 1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek.

Mount Athos was ever a hotbed of gnostic occultism.

James H. Sightler, author of A Testimony Founded Forever, sheds more light on the pivotal role of the Mount Athos monks in preserving the Corpus Hermeticum.

These were the core documents of the Hermetic tradition which were unavailable to the West in classical times but ’rediscovered’ in Athos during the Renaissance and delivered to Europe where they were translated and disseminated.

Dr. Sightler is of the opinion that the Vaticanus B was also preserved at Mount Athos, and there is evidence that the Codex Alexandrinus was found there as well.

"Frances Yates relates that a monk from Macedonia, Leonardo da Pistoria, working for Cosimo de Medici, brought the Corpus Hermeticum to Florence about 1460, where it was translated by Marsilio Ficino.

Michael Psellus knew of this manuscript in his day in the eleventh century, and I believe that the Corpus Hermeticum actually came from Mount Athos, which is a peninsula of Macedonia.

I say this because of the mystical and Hermetic influences in religious practice and art on Athos which we have just noted, and I am also convinced that Codex B was found there by Bessarion at just about the same time as the discovery of the Corpus Hermeticum."

"...It is interesting that F.H.A. Scrivener’s book, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, shows in its index 30 references to Mount Athos covering 53 manuscripts which were found there.

At the time of publication of this book in 1883 about 650 New Testament Manuscripts had been found.

Therefore, about eight per cent were from Athos.

The index lists 5 ms. from Patmos, 20 from St. Saba in Jerusalem, 16 from the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, 20 from Jamina in Epirus, and 6 from St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai.

For those manuscripts whose origin is known, Mount Athos is the most frequent source...

Furthermore, Hatch’s catalogue of uncials of 1939, cited previously, lists a total of 7 uncials from Athos, only 4 of which had been catalogued by Scrivener.

Of these 6 are Byzantine and one, Codex Alexandrinus, is mixed.

Scrivener states that Wetstein, on the authority of Matthew Muttis, a deacon attached to Cyril Lukar, believed that Cyril had obtained Codex A from Mount Athos...

Foakes-Jackson and Kirsopp Lake agree with Scrivener and point out that Cyril was on Mount Athos in 1612-1613.

I believe that Codex B as well had been removed from Athos l 50 years before by Bessarion."...

"It is now no longer necessary to believe Tischendorf’s claim that Codices B and Aleph were once located and used in Constantinople.

Jackson and Lake give the opinion that Codex B ’was brought from Alexandria to Sicily by fugitives from the conquering Arabs, in the seventh century, and thence to Calabria.

Nothing is known which suggests that it remained in the East until the fifteenth century and was then brought to Rome under the influence of the revival of letters.’...

"Both B and Aleph were written in Egypt.

I believe that both were there, probably in Alexandria, in 640 A.D. when the Arabs under Amrou captured the city after a siege of fourteen months.

I believe they were removed by Egyptian anchorites before the city fell and taken to the island of Crete to be kept, perhaps in the famous Labyrinth cave, known from antiquity, by the monks and their successors until 823 A.D. when the Saracens captured portions of the island.

At that time Codex B was taken to Mount Athos, where the earliest monastic communities were just arising, or to Mistra.

The Corpus Hermeticum could have been carried along with it as well.

Aleph was taken by other monks to Mt. Sinai, where the monastery of St. Catherine had been built by Justinian in the eighth century.

These codices then remained in their respective places until Bassarion took Codex B from Athos or Mistra in 1846 and Tischendorf retrieved Aleph in 1859...

"At the Council of Florence Cosimo de Medici met Bassarion and his mentor, Plethon, and was moved by them to back the establishment of a school at Florence for the study and dissemination of Neo-Platonic philosophy.

Bassarion and Plethon in 1442 founded the Academia Platonica at Florence.

Cosimo provided funds for the acquisition of rare manuscripts, including copies of the Corpus Hermeticum, Plato, and Plutarch, as well a Biblical manuscript.

He later gave a villa at Careggi, near Florence, to a student and colleague of Plethon and Bassarion, Marsilio Ficino, who was the first to translate the Corpus, Plato and Platinus into Latin and carried on the work of the academy."

Source:  Sightler, James H., M.D. A TESTIMONY FOUNDED FOREVER: THE KING JAMES BIBLE DEFENDED IN FAITH AND HISTORY, Sightler Publications, 1999.

"Mount Athos comes under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople but enjoys the status of a semi-autonomous republic within Greece.

Not only was this spelt out in the Greek constitution as recently as 1975, when Greece entered the European Union six years later the monasteries were specifically excluded from the jurisdiction of EU equality legislation."

Unfortunately, the Mount Athos community has accepted "EU funds to help preserve both their treasures and the fabric of the monasteries"--a compromise having major consequences:

On September 4, 2003

"A plenary session of the Euro-Parliament has passed a proposal-report demanding that the Greek government rescind the special protection the monks have enjoyed for a millennium."

This eventuality has the makings of an ecumenical uprising against the European Union and a groundswell of support for the poor monks of Mount Athos.

Which is precisely what the social transformers have in mind to galvanize popular support for Joachim’s mystical utopia---where "the world would be one vast monastery, in which all men would be contemplative monks rapt in mystical ecstasy..."

NEW ORDER OF MYSTICAL KNIGHTHOOD

Bishop Kallistos Ware is involved in a number of ecumenical initiatives the purpose of which is to unite:

• Protestant
• Catholics
• Orthodox

not along the lines of doctrinal beliefs, but through an assimilation of the doctrinal (watered down to mere theism) into the mystical.

For example, Bishop Ware co-edited the aforementioned complete text of The Philokalia and also contributed to James Cutsinger’s book Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East, which is a collection of essays by Greek Orthodox and Islamic spiritualists finding common ground in the esoteric traditions of their respective religions.

This philosophy is termed the religio perennis, the ’eternal religion’, which means that,
 

"Every religion has, besides its literal meaning, an esoteric dimension, which is essential, primordial and universal."

Source: Schuon, Frithjof, Biography

Frithjof Schuon, considered the foremost spokesman of religio perennis and author of books such as The Transcendent Unity of Religions, calls this dialogue ’esoteric ecumenism’.

Frithjof Schuon (/ˈʃuːɒn/ SHOO-on; German: [ˈfʁɪtjɔf ˈʃuːɔn]; 18 June 1907 – 5 May 1998) was a Swiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Traditionalist School of Perennialism. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, religion, anthropology and art, which have been translated into English and many other languages. He was also a painter and a poet.

"These commonalities suggest the possibility for a deeper kind of religious dialogue than is customary in our day, a dialogue which seeks to foster what Frithjof Schuon has called inward or ’esoteric’ ecumenism, and which, while respecting the integrity of traditional dogmas and rites, ’calls into play the wisdom which can discern the one sole Truth under the veil of different forms’."

Source: World Wisdom's Library of Perennial Philosophy

This strategy has been voiced by a number of leading figures in:

• Protestantism
• Catholicism
• Orthodoxy

• Dom Laurence Freeman, a Benedictine monk and Director of the World Center for Christian Meditation
• J.I. Packer of Renovare
• Richard Neuhaus (Catholic priest/author, ECT Document)
• Harold O. J. Brown of the UN/Mormon-affiliated World Congress of Families
• James Cutsinger (mentioned above)

"Celebrates the life and teaching of the Benedictine monk whose life’s work was passing on the ancient practice of Christian Meditation."

The seminar has in the past featured as speakers the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who is a member of the Order of Druids; the Dalai Lama, the Buddhist High Priest; assorted Catholic priests; and Kallistos Ware, who was presenter of the seminar in 2002.

Light & Enlightenment – Library of Rick and RIA (RARE Information Access)

"The John Main Seminar is the Community’s premiere annual event held in honour of Dom John Main (1926-1982), the inspiration and founder of The World Community for Christian Meditation. Recent Seminar presenters have included:

Archbishop Rowan Williams, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Professor Huston Smith, Fr. Thomas Keating, Jean Vanier and Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.

The Seminar was last held in Canada in 1993 with William Johnston, S.J., as speaker."

Source:  Brochure for John Main Seminar 2002, World Community for Christian Meditation

The Times article, "Why the Archbishop is embracing pagan roots" by Ruth Gledhill, July 19, 2002, reported the event:

"...the new Archbishop of Canterbury will be inducted as a druid in a 200-year-old ceremony with pagan roots in Wales next month.

As the sun rises over a circle of Pembrokeshire bluestones, the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Dr Rowan Williams, will don a long white cloak while druids chant a prayer to the ancient god and goddess of the land.

After a trumpet fanfare and the thrice partial sheathing and unsheathing of a 6ft6in sword, a citation will be read.

Dr Williams will close his hands in prayer while the archdruid, wearing a crown and shield over his bardic robes, will enfold them in his own and utter words of welcome.

That will be the moment that Dr Williams, who will adopt a new, bardic name, is accepted into the white druidic order, the highest of three orders of the Gorsedd of Bards, the Welsh body of poets, musicians, writers and artists.

The Mistress of the Robes, Sian Aman, will then clothe him in a druidic white headdress, and a steward will lead him to join the other assembled druids inside a sacred circle."

Source: "Why the Archbishop is embracing pagan roots," Ruth Gledhill, Times Online, July 19, 2002

"According to church leaders in Austria and Germany the Dalai Lama wants to make Graz the pillar of a bridge for Buddhism into the Western world. Buddhists prophesied that the next Dalai Lama will reincarnate in the Western world.

In Graz children shall be presented to the Dalai Lama, to see if the next Dalai Lama is among them.

According to some prayer leaders the rituals in Graz are linking into the Nazi mythology that was typical for Austria during the Third Reich.

Graz at that time was the main city embracing Hitler...

"The Kalachakra tantra ritual is the key initiation rite into tantric or Tibetan Buddhism and is given over the course of 12 days.

First, there are eight days of preparatory rituals, during which monks make a mandala.

The Dalai Lama presides over the complex event, which, essentially, is a shamanistic process involving the conjuring of 722 spirits through music, prayers, veneration, dances etc.

These spirits are invited to take up residence in the mandala, or spiritual house, which has been built for them.

The initiation event is completed when the Dalai Lama ritually destroys the mandala after all meditation and initiatory rites have been completed.

The spirits are thereby released over the land while the initiates retain the spiritual connection to Kalachakra and his world, having internalized them through meditation.

The sand from the mandala is poured into a nearby body of water; in Graz, the river Mur, which flows from Austria to Slovenia - where the Dalai Lama also starts his visits and preparations."

Source: "Buddhist beachhead in Europe, "Joel-News International, #413, 5 October 2002

Not of This World:

An Ecumenical Conference for Traditional Christians

Tape 1:

A New Thing: Ecumenism at the Threshold of the Third Millennium

Tape 2:

Responses to Neuhaus:

Tape 3:

Proclamation & Preservation: Necessity & Temptations of Church Tradition

Tape 4:

Responses to Brown:

Tape 5:

Tape 6:

Responses to Ware:

Tape 7:

Tape 8:

Responses to Reardon:

Tape 9:

Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, and author of numerous books [Roman Catholic apologist] Ecumenical Jihad [Kreeft’s book on Apologetics at Catholic Encyclopedia website]

Tape 10:

Tape 11:

Responses to Kreeft:

Tape 12:

On From Orr:

Tape 13:

Responses to Packer:

Tape 14:

"Edited by a bevy of mainly younger Protestants, Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, Touchstone advances an ecumenism of orthodoxy defined by the Great Tradition.

The Touchstone people are bracingly conscientious and determined to follow where the Spirit leads." - Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-Chief, First Things [Roman Catholic]

"Touchstone serves the most significant form of ecumenical endeavor today: the rallying and coalescing of those in all the churches who stand for doctrinal, moral, and devotional orthodoxy.

The fact that Touchstone exists to serve this purpose gives it great importance." - J. I. Packer Author, Knowing God [Anglican]

"Touchstone is a voice that greatly needs to be heard in today’s Christian world. If this is what robust ecumenism means, we need more of it!" - Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia & Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Studies at Oxford University [Eastern Orthodox]

This alliance of Reformed, Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions, which calls itself the ’Confessing Movement,’ is appealing to all Christians, i.e.:

• Protestant
• Roman Catholic
• Orthodox

to embrace the teachings and practices of mysticism as authentic Christianity.

Those who practice Gnostic mysticism usually hide within the organized Church system and claim to follow primitive Christianity.

A.E. Waite wrote in The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal:

"...I should look assuredly to the East, in the direction of that pure catholic Gnosticism which lies like a pearl of great price within the... shell of external Christianity, which is not of Marcion or Valentinus, or Cerenthus and all their cohorts, but is the unexpressed mystery of experience in deep wells which issue no strife or sects."

Source: Waite, Arthur Edward. THE HIDDEN CHURCH OF THE HOLY GRAAL, London: Rebman Limited, 1909.

DEIFICATION THROUGH THE DIVINE ENERGIES

According to Webster’s Dictionary, mysticism is:

The use of mantras, however, is a direct violation of Christ’s command:

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.  Mt. 6:7

"Countless Christians over the centuries have found a way of entry through practicing the invocation of the Holy Name:

in the West often through the repetition of the name ’Jesus’ on its own; in the East more commonly through a longer phrase, such as ’Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.’

"This is a prayer in words; but, because the words are so few and so simple, they reach beyond the words into silence; more exactly, they enable us to discover the silence that is hidden in the heart of the words themselves.

"In the Seminar we shall explore the distant origins of the Jesus Prayer among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of Egypt.

We shall see how in Sinai and Mount Athos the invocation of the Name came to be accompanied by a physical technique, involving a positive use of the body.

We shall learn also how, in the experience of the saints, the Jesus Prayer brought them to the vision of the Divine Light of Tabor.

"The Jesus Prayer is a prayer that all can use, requiring as it does no special knowledge or elaborate preparation; yet it is a prayer that leads to the deepest mysteries of contemplation.

It is being practiced today more than ever in the past and is especially suited to our present age of anxiety.

Because it is rooted in the traditions of both the Christian East and the Christian West, it can serve as a powerful instrument in our shared quest for unity.

The practice of the Jesus Prayer is akin to the teaching of Christian Meditation and other forms of the rich tradition of Christian contemplative prayer." - Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia

Source:  Brochure for John Main Seminar 2002, World Community for Christian Meditation

This mystical experience in greater detail in Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way:

“…God is revealed as light above all at the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor, when ‘his face shone as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light’ (Matt. 17:2).

This divine light, seen by the three disciples on the mountain—seen also by many of the saints during prayer—is nothing else than the uncreated energies of God.

This light of Tabor, that is to say, is neither a physical and created light, nor yet a purely metaphorical ‘light of the intellect’.

Although non-material, it is nevertheless an objectively existent reality.

Being divine, the uncreated energies surpass our human powers of description; and so, in terming these energies ‘light’, we are inevitably employing the language of ‘sign’ and symbol.

Not that the energies are themselves merely symbolical.

They genuinely exist but cannot be described in words; in referring to them as ‘light’ we use the least misleading term, but our language is not to be interpreted literally.” 

Source: Ware, Bishop Kallistos. THE ORTHODOX WAY, Revised Edition, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1999.

“Although non-physical, the divine light can be seen by a man through his physical eyes, provided that his senses have been transformed by divine grace.

His eyes do not behold the light by the natural powers of perception, but through the power of the Holy Spirit acting within him.”

Source: Wheel of the Year, Pagan Federation

“’The body is deified at the same time as the soul’ (St Maximus the Confessor).

He who beholds the divine light is permeated by it through and through, so that his body shines with the glory that he contemplates.

He himself becomes light. Vladimir Lossky was not speaking merely in metaphors when he wrote:

‘The fire of grace, kindled in the hearts of Christians by the Holy Spirit, makes them shine like tapers before the Son of God.’ The Homilies of St Macarius affirm concerning this transfiguration of man’s body:

“Just as the Lord’s body was glorified, when he went up the mountain and was transfigured into the glory of God and into infinite light, so the saints’ bodies also are glorified and shine as lightning…

‘The glory which thou hast given to me I have given to them’ (John 17:22): just as many lamps are lit from one flame, so the bodies of the saints, being members of Christ, must needs be what Christ is, and nothing else…

Our human nature is transformed into the power of God, and it is kindled into fire and light.’

“…In the lives of the saints, Western as well as Eastern, there are numerous examples of such bodily glorification…

In The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, we are told how a disciple looked through the window of Abba Arsenius’ cell and saw the old man ‘like a flame of fire’.

Of Abba Pambo, it is said, ‘God so glorified him that no one could look at his face, because of the glory which his face had.’… “…as Jacob Boehme puts it,

‘The darkness is not the absence of light, but the terror that comes from the blinding light.’” (Bishop Kallistos Ware)

Source:  Ware, Bishop Kallistos. THE ORTHODOX WAY, Revised Edition, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1999.

For theological support of the ecstatic experience of ’deification,’ Bishop Ware appeals to mystic monks and canonized saints as authorities, rather than Scripture—except to misapply the Scriptures concerning the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, who is Deity Himself.

Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; German: [ˈbøːmə]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme (retaining the older German spelling); in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.  Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German idealism and German Romanticism. Hegel described Böhme as "the first German philosopher".

Jakob Bohme (1575-1624), cited by Ware as a spiritual authority, was a German mystic whose writings were a precursor to existentialist philosophy.

Boehme directly influenced the German Romantics:

• Hegel
• Baader
• Schelling

and indirectly the existentialist philosophers:

• Schopenhauer
• Nietzsche
• Hartmann
• Bergson

• Paul Tillich
• Martin Buber
• Carl Jung

In the chapter ’Teachings on Initiation’ Bailey states:

"We come now to our second point, that initiation veils a secret and that the revelation of that secret is imminent.

Just what this secret is, I may not reveal, but it is concerned with a peculiar type of energy which can be induced at a moment of supreme tension.

The only possible hint I can give you in connection with this mysterious matter is that it is closely related to the ’Blinding Light’ which Saul of Tarsus saw on the road to Damascus and the ’blinding light’ which accompanied the discharge of energy from the atomic bomb.

The ’Blinding Light’ which ever accompanies true conversion (a rare and sudden happening always when true and real) and which is an attendant demonstration of all Lives who have passed the human stage of consciousness - according to their degree - and the light which is released by the fission of the atom are one and the same expression on different levels of consciousness, and are definitely related to the processes and effects of initiation.

This will not even make sense to you until certain initiate-experiences have been undergone by you.

It is not easy for the average aspirant to realize that progressive stages upon the Path indicate a progressive ability to ’take the Light.’

When the aspirant prays in the new Invocation: ’Let Light descend on Earth’ he is invoking something which humanity will have to learn to handle; this is one of the things for which the disciples of the world must begin to prepare the race of men."

Source: Bailey, Alice & Djwhal Khul, DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE, VOL. II

"There is no distinction between magick and meditation"!!

"In the straightforward or ’Protestant’ system of Magick...

The Magician addresses a direct petition to the Being invoked.

But the secret of success in invocation has not hitherto been disclosed.

It is an exceedingly simple one.

It is practically of no importance whatever that the invocation should be ’right’.

There are a thousand different ways of compassing the end proposed, so far as external things are concerned.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words:

"Enflame thyself in praying."

This is Qabalistically expressed in the old Formula: Domine noster, audi tuo servo! kyrie Christe! O Christe!  [Our Lord, hear your servant! Come Christ! O Christ!]

"The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self.

The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal state of consciousness calls I.

Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of himself in a creative frenzy, so must it be for the Magician...

"Every Magician must compose his ceremony in such a manner as to produce a dramatic climax.

At the moment when the excitement becomes ungovernable, when then the whole conscious being of the Magician undergoes a spiritual spasm, at that moment must he utter the supreme adjuration.

"One very effective method is to stop short, by a supreme effort of will, again and again, on the very brink of that spasm, until a time arrives when the idea of exercising that will fails to occur.

This forgetfulness must be complete; it is fatal to try to ’let oneself go’ consciously.

"Inhibition is no longer possible or even thinkable, and the whole being of the Magician, no minutest atom saying nay, is irresistibly flung forth.

In blinding light, amid the roar of ten thousand thunders, the Union of God and man is consummated.

"If the Magician is still seen standing in the Circle, quietly pursuing his invocations, it is that all the conscious part of him has become detached from the true ego which lies behind that normal consciousness.

But the circle is wholly filled with that divine essence; all else is but an accident and an illusion.

"The subsequent invocations, the gradual development and materialization of the force, require no effort.

It is one great mistake of the beginner to concentrate his force upon the actual stated purpose of the ceremony.

This mistake is the most frequent cause of failures in invocation.

"A corollary of this Theorem is that the Magician soon discards evocation almost altogether --- only rare circumstances demand any action whatever on the material plane.

The Magician devotes himself entirely to the invocation of a god; and as soon as his balance approaches perfection he ceases to invoke any partial god; only that god vertically above him is in his path.

And so, a man who perhaps took up Magick merely with the idea of acquiring knowledge, love, or wealth, finds himself irrevocably committed to the performance of The Great Work.

"It will now be apparent that there is no distinction between magick and meditation except of the most arbitrary and accidental kind.

There is the general metaphysical antithesis that Magick is the Art of the Will-to-Live, Mysticism of the Will-to-Die; but --- ’Truth comes bubbling to my brim; Life and Death are one to Him!’.

"Beside these open methods thee are also a number of mental methods of Invocation, of which we may give three.

"The first method concerns the so-called astral body.

The Magician should practice the formation of this body as recommended in Liber O and learn to rise on the planes according to the instruction given in the same book, though limiting his ’rising’ to the particular symbol whose God he wishes to invoke.

"The second is to recite a mantra suitable to the God.

"The third is the assumption of the form of the God --- by transmuting the astral body into His shape.

This last method is really essential to all proper invocation and cannot be too sedulously practiced."

Source:  Crowley, Aleister. MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, Dover Publications, Inc., 1976

Source: Crowley, Aleister. MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, Dover Publications, Inc., 1976

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Luke 11:24-26

THE HOUSE OF VERE

LOR note:

According to Dagobert’s Revenge website, the exalted pedigree of this bloodline requires an organization whose sole purpose to protect its purity and perpetuity:

Source:  "From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells," Foreward, Nicolas de Vere

As King Arthur’s Dragon Court was originally comprised of twenty-four knights, there are currently twenty-four families representing the Rex Deus group and the Dragon Court.

These are supposedly descendants of Israel’s twenty-four priestly families; they reign, but do not yet rule, as occult priest kings.

As stated, the Dragon Court exists to protect the descendants of the ancient Vere family of the Merovingian bloodline, out of which will eventually come the Antichrist.  [See: Antichrist in Virgo]

False Gospel in the Stars: Antichrist in Virgo

Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg is currently the Sovereign Grand Master of the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court & Order.

The Druidic Council of Elders are represented by the Dragon Court, which is comprised of twenty-six members of royalty from Eurasian countries that help comprise the European Council of Princes.

These twenty-six members will be a false twenty-four elders plus the Antichrist and False Prophet.

The Druidic head dragon king (Pendragon), which has historically been called the ’King of Kings’, will be the Antichrist.

Also previously documented in this series is the fact that Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair and his son, Thomas, the former and current Grand Masters of the Prieuré de Sion, descended from Godfroi de Vere de Bouillon, the first Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion.

In Genesis of the Grail Kings, Laurence Gardner identified the Plantard bloodline as a branch of the House of Vere:

Source: Sir Laurence Gardner. "In the Realm of the Ring Lords," Part I, Nexus Magazine, August/Sept. 1999

Prominent names related to the Vere/Weir bloodline are found at the highest levels of the various sectors of society:

Economy:

• Warburg (Banking)
• Verifone (Mondex)

Education:

• B.J. Weir (Transgenics)
• Virgil
• Thomas Weir (Sorcerer of Edinburgh)
• Weir Hall (Yale)

Environment:

• James H. Ware (Public Health)
• Bruce Weir (Human Genome Project)
• Lance Ware (Biological Weapons/Founder of Mensa)

Government:

• Karl Ware (CFR)
• Thomas E. Weir (Environment)
• Jessie Weir LaRouche (mother of Lyndon LaRouche)
• Weir Systems (Intelligence/Software UK)
• Veri-Chip (Implantable Biochip)
• Veridian Systems (Federal Data Corp./Carlyle Group)
• Verio (Webhosting)
• Vera Inst. of Justice

Science/Genetics:

• Edmond Ware Sinnott (Genetics)
• Mary Ware Dennett (Birth Control)
• Bruce S. Weir (DNA expert)
• Robert F. Weir (Euthanasia)
• Harry F. Weyher (Pioneer Fund)
• Weirton Steel
• Verimark (Communications)

Religion:

• Bruce A. Ware (Apologetics)
• Henry Ware (Unitarian Church founder)
• B.B. Warfield (Bible)
• Bishop Kallistos (Timothy)
• Ware (Anglican/Eastern Orthodox)
• Weyerhauser (founded Fuller Theological School of Psychology)
• Thomas A. Weir (Masonic High Priest)
• John Ferguson Weir (Skull & Bones ’83)
• Weirus (16th c. Sorcerer)

King James I opened his book, The Daemonologie, with mention of a German occultist named Weirus:

"...WIERUS, a German Phisition, sets out a publick apologie for all these crafts-folks, wherby, procuring for their impunitie, he plainely bewrayes himselfe to have bene one of that profession."

Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere—
Our memories were treacherous and sere—
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year—
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)
We noted not the dim lake of Auber—
(Though once we had journeyed down here)—
We remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Brother Truth?

The motto of the Theosophical Society founded by Helena P. Blavatsky, states:

"There is no religion higher than truth."

As perceived by the occultist, truth is God, however, as Peter Dawkins expressed in Arcadia, the occultist wallows in his own reasoning about God rather than acknowledging the truth of Scripture:

"Through thinking man comes to understand and eventually, through thought put into action, to know truth - to know God."

Source: Dawkins, Peter. ARCADIA: THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES; ARCADIA AND THE ARCADIAN ACADEMY, Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal Series 1, Volume 5, Publisher: Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1988.

Thomas Paine stated it more succinctly:

"My own mind is my own church."

"When Rosslyn is excavated the truth will conquer all." 

"Uncovered the origins of Freemasonry which showed how modern Masonic rituals developed from those once used by the Jerusalem Church and later developed by the famous Crusader Order of the Knights Templar."

"The twenty-eighth degree of the ’Knight of the Sun’ claims that it is the Key of Masonry...

The degree describes all the Masonic symbols, and the overall purpose is given as the inculcation of truth.

A lecture on truth is delivered in sections by nine officers who are called Thrice Perfect Father Adam, Brother Truth, Michael, Gabrielle, Raphael, Zaphriel, Camael, Azrael and Uriel.

Over the entrance to the chamber where the degree is conferred is written:

’Ye who have not the power to subdue passion, flee from this place of truth’.

"The last seven names used in this degree are those of the major angels.

The Frenchman who told the story of the two schools of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus said that the high priests of Yahweh used these names for themselves.

Perhaps as the new high priesthood of Yahweh, the Knights Templar also took these names.

"...The emphasis on ’truth’ brought back to mind the sole inscription in Rosslyn [Chapel] that reads: ’...truth will conquer all’."

Source: Knight, Christopher and Robert Lomas. THE SECOND MESSIAH: TEMPLARS, THE TURIN SHROUD AND THE GREAT SECRET OF FREEMASONRY, Element, 1997.

These nine officers of Masonry were probably intended to correspond to the original nine knights of the Order of the Temple, who also prefigure the Council of Nine which will rule the New World Order:

"God...will save his people by the hands of two messianic figures who arise at the end of time; one from ’Branch of David’, and the other ’The Interpreter of the Law’."

Source: Knight, Christopher and Robert Lomas. THE HIRAM KEY: PHARAOHS, FREEMASONS AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET SCROLLS OF JESUS. Rockport, MA: Element Books, Inc., 1996.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. - Rev. 13:11

’He spake as a dragon’ would refer to the False Prophet’s descent from the Dragon race, the Merovingian bloodline.

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom.

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. - Rev. 13:11-18

"...Hermes Trismegestus taught the idea of the seven governors of the world, planetary angels..." 

Source: Sightler, James H., M.D. A TESTIMONY FOUNDED FOREVER: THE KING JAMES BIBLE DEFENDED IN FAITH AND HISTORY, Sightler
 Publications, 1999.

"...the Gnostics derived some of their lore from the stellar religion practiced by the Chaldean astrologers.

They adopted the seven planetary spirits or gods... represented by the classical gods of Roman and Greek mythology—Mercury (Hermes), Venus (Aphrodite), Mars (Aries), Jupiter (Zeus), Saturn (Chronos), Sol and Luna.

In Gnostic belief these gods were transformed into archangels who became the central focus of medieval magic and the Hermetic tradition."

Source: Howard, Michael. THE OCCULT CONSPIRACY, Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1989.

"Beast that rises out of the earth" 

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Rev. 13:11)

"In Ring Lore...[he] who held the Ninth Ring, the One Ring was Lord of the Rings.

In ancient times, the One Ring was representative of the overlordship of the Sun, with the other key Eight Rings representing the planetary kingdoms of Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury."

Source: Gardner, Laurence. REALM OF THE RING LORDS: THE MYTHS AND MAGIC OF THE GRAIL QUEST, Glouchester, Mass., Fair Winds., 2000.

Nicholas de Vere, Sovereign Grand Master of the Dragon Court, informs us that the surname ’Vere’ means vampire which means overlord, and that both derive from the Sanskrit word, Aryan, which means Lord:

"If spelt literally vampire would be uavber, uauber, or uaupir , which is the central European oupire or oupere.

These variants stem from the Sanskrit upari (Up-Ari or Up-Arya, meaning Over-Lord)... 

Over (ME-ouere) began a graphic variant of uuere which translates into the dynastic name Vere with the Latin V being interchangeable with the double U for hard Germanic W which became V— rendering Ver or Were."

Source:  "From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells," Chapter 1, Nicolas de Vere

"Clymer claimed that the doctrines of his society were endorsed by a secret order that directed it from France—called the Council of Nine.

He published a letter from them in 1932, which proclaimed:

’This is the New Dispensation, and the work of the Spiritual and Mystical Fraternities must be reestablished around the world, so that all peoples may be taught the Law and thereby enabled to apply it towards universal improvement as the only means of saving mankind...

We, the Council of Nine, have selected your organization, as one of the oldest in America to help to this work.’

"This letter was signed by the excessively immodest ’Comte M. de St Vincent, Premier Plenipotentiary of the Council of Nine of the Confraternities of the World.’...

Another title of the Council of Nine, according to Clymer, was the ’Secret School’."

Source: Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY: REVEALING THE TRUTH BEHIND EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND THE MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT EGYPT, London: Little, Brown & Co., 1999.

CALLISTO, THE GREAT BEAR

"Like Ursa Minor, Ursa Major is neither a dipper or a bear. Rather it is the greater sheepfold, as pictured in the most ancient planispheres or zodiacs of the various nations...

"Other stars in Ursa Major are El Alcola, ’The Sheepfold’; Cab’d al Asad, ’Multitude of the Assembled’; El Kaprah, ’The Protected,’ or in Hebrew ’The Redeemed’ or ’Ransomed.’

A more familiar star, Callisto, again means ’The Sheepfold.’..." (D. James Kennedy)

Source: Kennedy. D. James. THE REAL MEANING OF THE ZODIAC, Coral Ridge Ministries, 1989.

Source: Behind the Name: the etymology and history of first names

“Most beautiful; a title of Artemis as totemic She-Bear and mother of Arcas, the Little Bear.” 

"So, Artemis’s plan was to have Callisto, as a bear, hunted down and killed.

But Zeus took pity, and sent Callisto to the heavens, keeping the same form of a bear.

Her son Arcas would grow up to be the ancestral founder of the Arcadians, before he too joined his mother in the heavens as Ursa Minor."

Source: Ursa Major

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY, London, 1892, Los Angeles, CA: The Theosophy Company, 1990.

In his book, The Sirius Mystery, Robert Temple associates the wolf with the Dog Star Sirius, where the gods reside, and fifty daughters or sons in Greco-Egyptian mythology with fifty celestial thrones orbiting Sirius:

"The element of the wolf, sometimes substituted for a dog in the Sirius tradition of the Dog Star, is important.

It is an obvious European substitute for the non-existent jackal of Anubis.

It was from this changing of the jackal into the wolf through adaptation to the European clime that those peculiar wolf traditions arose in Arcadia which developed in pre-classical times into the werewolf concepts.

Human blood-sucking vampires... and lycanthropy of werewolves all luxuriated in the wilds of Arcady among the Pelasgian survivors in pre-classical Greece after the Dorian invasion...

What is a werewolf?

It is a man’s body with a wolf’s head.... And the temples of Wolfish (or Lycian) Apollo, were not altogether rare in Greece.

Aristotle’s famous school of Athens, the Lyceum, was in the grounds of the Lycian Apollo’s temple just outside the Athens Gate of Diochares...

"...what was really meant to be significant about Danaos’s progeny was not their sex but their number of fifty. And from Pindar we see that they were on fifty thrones.

The fact that Aegyptos of Egypt had fifty sons as well and that Danaos’s daughters... taught the Egyptian mysteries to the Greeks all indicates that what transpired was a transplanting from Egypt to Greece of the all-important tradition to be common to both countries from then on--the fifty linked with the Dog Star Sirius and as celestial thrones.

In other words, the mystery of the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A in its fifty celestial steps."

Source: Temple, Robert K.G. THE SIRIUS MYSTERY: WAS THE EARTH VISITED BY INTELLIGENT BEINGS FROM A PLANET IN THE SYSTEM OF THE STAR OF SIRIUS?, VT: Destiny Books, 1987.

Kenneth Grant, Grand Master of the Ordo Templis Orientalis (OTO), wrote of the Merovingians’ affinity for the goddess Diana:

It is noteworthy that Convents of the Prieuré de Sion for selection of Grand Master are always held in the wolf-month, which is January:

"The Anglo-Saxons called [January] the wulfmonath, the wolf month, and many European sightings of ’werewolves’ take place during this season."

Source:  The Wheel of the Year 2001

"...Janus was really the oak-god Dianus who was incarnate in the King of Rome..."

Source: Graves, Robert. THE WHITE GODDESS: A HISTORICAL GRAMMAR OF POETIC MYTH, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1948.

Janus is also a hermaphrodite, i.e., male-female:

"In the Saturnalia, Macrobius says that January is dedicated to Janus as December is dedicated to Saturn, and so Janus is the new god who reigns at the end of the Saturnalia.

He also says that Janus is two-faced because he is a fusion of Artemis and Apollo (i.e., Sun and Moon, Janus and Jana = Dianus and Diana); thus, he corresponds to the alchemical hermaphrodite..."

Source: Williams, Brian, A RENAISSANCE TAROT: A GUIDE TO THE RENAISSANCE TAROT, Stamford: U.S. Games, 1994; Pythagorean Tarot: XXI. Mundus - Kosmos - Cosmos (21)

Diana required of her band of nymphs a vow of chastity; as related in Ovid’s Fasti:

“Among the Hamadryads (2) in the train of the archeress Diana one of the sacred band was Callisto.

Laying her hand on the bow of the goddess, ’Thou bow,’ quoth she, ’which thus I touch, bear witness to my virginity.’

Cynthia approved the vow, and said, ’Keep but thy plighted troth (3) and thou shalt be the foremost of my company.’”

Source: "Ovid's Fasti III. ID. 11th," Athena's Web

"Galileo’s orbital tour of Jupiter’s 16 moons, focusing on the four majors - Io, the most volcanically-active body known; frozen Ganymede, largest moon in the Solar System with a surface temperature of  minus 150 degrees; Callisto, Ganymede’s crater-scarred twin; and Europa, icy world with a possible sub-surface ocean that may contain extra-terrestrial life.  Jupiter and its moons are a mini solar system."

Source: The Complete Cosmos: The Universe: A Guided Tour: Chapter 10: Jupiter

Ganymede is therefore regarded as keeper of the Grail:

"According to the ancient Greek treatise, THE ILIAD, by Homer, the founder of Troy was named Dar-dan-us.

The name is strikingly familiar.

It contains the name of Dan!

It was said that Dardanus was the son of Zeus. Dardanus had a son named Erichthonius, who had a son named Tros, who was the namesake of the ancient Trojans and of their capital city, Troy.

"Tros had three sons, Ilus, Ganymede, and Assaracus.

Priam, the reigning king of the Trojans, was of the line of Ilus.

Aeneas, founder of the Roman Empire, as a prince of the royal house of Assaracus.

Ganymede was the great-grandson of Dardanus, the founder of Troy.

According to Homer’s ILIAD (Book V), 4. Zeus kidnapped the prince, Ganymede.

Zeus wanted Ganymede to be a special cupbearer to the gods (which may be a clue to the origin of the legend of the so-called Holy Grail).

"The ILIAD does not relate how Zeus carried off Ganymede, but there is an ancient Roman mosaic showing Ganymede, the Trojan prince, being carried off by Zeus, who had taken the form of an eagle!

Here is a possible clue to connect the progenitors of the ancient Trojans with the tribe of Dan, who had adopted the eagle as their insignia."

Source:  Church, J. R. GUARDIANS OF THE GRAIL...AND THE MEN WHO PLAN TO RULE THE WORLD! Oklahoma City, OK: Prophecy Publications, 1991.

"In the Psalter of Cashel it states that:

Source:  Elizabeth Van Buren, THE SIGN OF THE DOVE, Suffolk: Neville Spearman, Ltd., 1983.

The naming of Europe after this Phoenician princess, who originated in Greece and fled to Egypt, indicates the extraordinary influence of Greek culture on the continent of Europe---her:

• literature
• music
• sculpture
• painting

The famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote:

"We are all Greeks.

Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." 

The crest, as esoterically interpreted by Kenneth Grant, symbolizes the Typhonian/Draconian bloodline of the Merovingians:

"In his book Outer Gateways Kenneth Grant writes:

’In The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, the authors reproduce the family crest of Clan Plantard, the contemporary representative of which was, until recently, the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion, an Order which, according to Lincoln, dominated the Order of the Knights Templar and various other highly influential institutions which, at certain periods of history, included the Vatican.

The crest which supplies the key to the Current represented by the Merovingian bloodline and the Order of Sion, comprises the symbols of the Typhonian line of descent:

the two bears, eleven bees, and the fleur de lys...

The two bears denote the Mother (Typhon) and her son (Set)...

"In the Typhonian Tradition the Bear is the constellation of Ursa Major.

The stars must be aligned in a specific way in order for Set to be properly invoked.

To the Priory of Sion (the secret, occult organization dedicated to preserving the Merovingian Bloodline), the Bear was an animal of the Goddess Diana.

According to Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, the authors of The Templar Revelation, ’...the Merovingian kings, from their founder Merovee to Clovis (who converted to Christianity in 496) were ’pagan kings of the cult of Diana’.

’Picknett and Prince got this information from the Dossiers Secrets of the Priory of Sion."

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