The legendary Knights Templar
were a military, monastic order with their main centre at Bernard de Clairvaux
in the east of France, and with Jerusalem as an important pole.For some centuries the
Knights Templar had an amazing cultural and large-scale financial influence in
Europe. It is believed that they had attained a special knowledge of biblical
and ancient oriental traditions, from Egypt - and from Moses.However, they suddenly
disappeared from history. Later, parts of the old tradition were observed still
to be in existence inside other societies and brotherhoods.
Secret Knowledge and Mysteries of Antiquity: Form the
earliest times existed different kinds of secret knowledge and cultic mysteries
- for instance initiation, cultic-religious mystery plays, and stellar science.
All this was available in the ancient civilized societies, e.g. in Egypt.
Even today certain forms can be seen in action among primitive people around the
world. At ancient times also knowledge and science seem to have been handed
down, thus giving their owners a special power. By
confident tradition and mythic metaphors, secret knowledge was handed down
through Antiquity into newer ages. In official religion-history contexts these
cults and the often high-ranking members of their societies are mostly
considered as exotic, collateral branches, although they had a decisive, genuine
importance in history.
When Moses
and the Israelites left Egypt, in 1455 BC, Moses had the temples plundered,
according to Manetho, the Greek-Egyptian historian (approx. 280 BC). The temple
archives, abducted by Moses at that time, have contained knowledge and data of
which the Europeans, several thousand years later, still wanted to get some
insight. Later, this became a special incentive to exploring expeditions - so
ardently occupying Knights Templar during the time of Crusades as well as
today’s archaeologists. At
an early age Moses was initiated in the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian
mystery cults. Later, influenced by Greek culture, they were maintained during
the times of Alexandria’s glory, approx. 330 BC till 330 AD Knowledge from
several religions, e.g. the Gnostics, were used by many cults...
The legendary Knights Templar
were a military, monastic order with their main centre at Bernard de Clairvaux
in the east of France, and with Jerusalem as an important pole.
For some centuries the
Knights Templar had an amazing cultural and large-scale financial influence in
Europe. It is believed that they had attained a special knowledge of biblical
and ancient oriental traditions, from Egypt - and from Moses.
However, they suddenly
disappeared from history. Later, parts of the old tradition were observed still
to be in existence inside other societies and brotherhoods.
Secret Knowledge and Mysteries of Antiquity: Form the
earliest times existed different kinds of secret knowledge and cultic mysteries
- for instance initiation, cultic-religious mystery plays, and stellar science.
All this was available in the ancient civilized societies, e.g. in Egypt.
Even today certain forms can be seen in action among primitive people around the
world. At ancient times also knowledge and science seem to have been handed
down, thus giving their owners a special power. By
confident tradition and mythic metaphors, secret knowledge was handed down
through Antiquity into newer ages. In official religion-history contexts these
cults and the often high-ranking members of their societies are mostly
considered as exotic, collateral branches, although they had a decisive, genuine
importance in history.
When Moses
and the Israelites left Egypt, in 1455 BC, Moses had the temples plundered,
according to Manetho, the Greek-Egyptian historian (approx. 280 BC). The temple
archives, abducted by Moses at that time, have contained knowledge and data of
which the Europeans, several thousand years later, still wanted to get some
insight. Later, this became a special incentive to exploring expeditions - so
ardently occupying Knights Templar during the time of Crusades as well as
today’s archaeologists. At
an early age Moses was initiated in the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian
mystery cults. Later, influenced by Greek culture, they were maintained during
the times of Alexandria’s glory, approx. 330 BC till 330 AD Knowledge from
several religions, e.g. the Gnostics, were used by many cults...
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Aleister Crowley?s Lam & the Little Gray
Men: A Striking Resemblance by Ardane Steward
Preface
:This report presupposes two things: that there
are ?aliens,? and that some people (occultists) have ?magickal powers.? It is
not the point of this report to prove there are or are not such beings or
powers. What is known is that there are people who believe that there are such
beings and believe that they have such powers. The crux of this report is based
on what people believe, which may be very different from the way things really
are. Please bear this in mind.
This report also recounts some very curious
behaviors on the part of a number of people. These behaviors and events actually
did take place and are fact. However, the supposed results of these events are
entirely subjective and entirely in the realm of belief. It is not my purpose to
try to prove or disprove the beliefs of the people involved. It?s what they did
(and do) because of these beliefs that interest me.
Introduction: I first became curious about a possible
connection between the ?gray aliens? of popular UFO culture and the activities
of certain occultists after seeing several of UFO investigator Ray Fowler?s
books on the recommended reading list of a satanic website. In an idle moment I
had done a Google search on Ray?s book, The Watchers II, and one of the spots
that listed it - much to my surprise - was the recommended reading list of a
satanic group. (It is not my moral judgment that this group is satanic; the
group itself calls itself satanic.)
I found this both disturbing and inexplicable -
for what reason would a UFO book be included in the curriculum of a satanic
group, and why Ray's book in particular? I emailed Ray and asked him if he had
any insight into the situation, but he was as perplexed as I was. And there
matters rested for a year or so until additional information came into my hands,
information that may indicate - much as John Keel himself believed (Mothman
Prophecies) - that occult activity may be an ingredient of the ?gray alien?
mystery.
The pictures contained within this article bear
a resemblance and may hold the key. One is a drawing made by occultist Aleister
Crowley of an entity he had invoked repeatedly in 1918 and called ?Lam.? The
second picture is the cover image of Whitley Stieber's 1987 book, Communion.
Having noticed the similarity, I proceeded to investigate the connection.
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To most of us, the word "alchemy" calls up the
picture of a medieval and slightly sinister laboratory in which an aged,
black-robed wizard broods over the crucibles and alembics that are to bring
within his reach the Philosopher's Stone, and with that discovery, the formula
for the Elixir of life and the transmutation of metals. But one can scarcely
dismiss so lightly the science -- or art, if you will --that won to its service
the lifelong devotion of men of culture and attainment from every race and clime
over a period of thousands of years, for the beginnings of alchemy are hidden in
the mists of time. Such a science is something far more than an outlet for a few
eccentric old men in their dotage.
What was the motive behind their constant
strivings, their never-failing patience in the unravelling of the mysteries, the
tenacity of purpose in the face of persecution and ridicule through the
countless ages that led the alchemists to pursue undaunted their appointed way?
Something far greater, surely, than a mere vainglorious desire to transmute the
base metals into gold, or to brew a potion to prolong a little longer this
earthly span, for the devotees of alchemy in the main cared little for such
things.
The accounts of their lives almost without
exception lead us to believe that they were concerned with things spiritual
rather than with things temporal. They were men inspired by a vision, a vision
of man made perfect, of man freed from disease and the limitations of warring
faculties both mental and physical, standing godlike in the realization of a
power that even at this very moment of time lies hidden in the deeper strata of
consciousness, a vision of man made truly in the image and likeness of the One
Divine Mind in its Perfection, Beauty, and Harmony.
To appreciate and understand the adepts'
visions, it is necessary to trace the history of their philosophy. So let us for
step back into the past to catch a glimpse of these men, of their work and
ideals, and more important still, of the possibilities that their life-work
might bring to those who today are seeking for fuller knowledge and wider
horizons.
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Anthony North: We are all aware of the modern Ghostbusters. Made famous by the film of that name, they have gained a reputation as showmen and, at times, fantasists. Sometimes this is deserved, whilst at others, not so. Today, they exist in their thousands, creating voluntary investigation societies all over the world. Often doing a great job in assisting those who have been 'haunted', the original was undoubtedly Harry Price. Borley rectory: Price became most famous for his investigatio... Read More
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Anthony North: No occult figure is more puzzling than the Count Saint Germain. Always dressed in black, but decorated by diamond jewellery, Saint Germain first appears in Vienna about 1740 when he moves in high circles after curing a French Marshal of illness.Where the Count came from, no one knows - there are many versions of his birth from being the son of a Hungarian prince, to the son of a Portuguese Jew, to the b****** child of a Bohemian nobleman. In a full life he was known as a great mus... Read More