Margaret Starbird ponders Friday the 13th, Esther, Templar Ships
Author Margaret Starbird writes: The infamous arrest of the Knights Templar was carried out on Friday the 13th of October, 1307. The day lives in the memory of Westerners, though they may not know why it is so “dangerous.” It actually goes back to the Hebrew Bible, the book of Esther, when the evil Haman persuaded Esther’s husband, the King of Babylon, to arrest and execute her people, the Jews, en masse. Ultimately, I think scholars will agree that the faith of the Templars was based on ancient “Ebionite”

Reign of Mary Coming Soon
Anne, the grandmother of Jesus, with her daughter Mary “…the fight between the sons of light and the sons of darkness, established by God in Paradise, when He foretold that Our Lady would smash the serpent’s head: an eternal fight that was, is, and ever will be present in History until the end time. <snip> At Fatima, Our Lady prophesied her triumph, that in the

Forget Whether God Exists, Investigate Survival of Consciousness First
Forget God (for awhile), survival of Consciousness after death and outside the brain is the thing to investigate first, says this blogger below. If you prove consciousness has a mind of its own, a life of its own, then the other question of whether God/Goddess exists or not will simply answer itself. The atheists-and-scientists vs. mystics-and-believers method is not getting us the answers we need, we crave. We must look at whether consciousness survives after we die, examine the evidence that our brains do not create consciousness, they merely tap into it, like your car radio picks up on a broadcast of huge FM

Sophia: the Gnostic Heritage
Just read John Nash’s article, ”Sophia: the Gnostic Heritage“, published in the Fall 2009 edition of The Esoteric Quarterly. Nice thorough-but-brief coverage of the topic, if you know what I mean.  Here’s an excerpt… Summary This article presents a brief history of Sophia, best known of the divine feminine individu

Saved not by truth, not by gnosis, only by faith?
Someone viewed our Seminary website and emailed me the following thoughts. Not sure what I think, if I agree with her. See my thoughts below her letter. Dear Council ~ I came across your site, and was interested to see how you blend what you describe as esoteric or mystical concepts with variations on Christian faith. I became a Christian last year, and have found that yes, Christian faith is a mystery. from the outside, it makes little sense. that God would or could limit Himself to One Man, and that One Man’s death could do anything for us. the concep