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What most people think of as Baphomet is the invention of Eliphas Levi who drew on popular misconceptions (Levi himself believed that the Templars worshipped the Devil) and passed them onto Crowley and LaVey. In the actual records of the Templars' confessions there is no reference whatsoever to anyt...

I'm almost a year out of date but I would strongly advise scepticism in drawing definite conclusions from Gnostic mythology. For example, the idea that the Demiurge is an evil entity in the objective sense would almost certainly not be what was thought among the schools collected under the "gno...

How are you defining "religion"? For many, religion is synonymous with meek acceptance of dogma without knowing why it is being accepted, it is synonymous with not thinking. This is difficult for an ardent materialist let alone a spiritual pilgrim. Unfortunately, the reaction against this ...

In virtually all cultures of the Mediterranean and Near East there are myths referencing an early civilization destroyed in a cataclysmic event. In my reading of Plato, I would suggest that, in the Atlantis mythos, he is drawing on already well known stories as an analogy for the political views he ...