Esoterica

The crucible of Kabbalah produced many schools. One of them - the Iyyun (Contemplation) Circle - produced a system of 13 ... Breaking with centuries of philosophical and spiritual tradition, the Syrian philosopher Iamblichus put forward a theory of salvation ... Lost and repressed books of scripture fire the imagination. From the Book of Enoch, the Gospel of Thomas or the Apocryphon of ... The Magi are famed as ancient keepers of esoteric wisdom. From serving as Zoroastrian priests, experts on the occult sciences ... The origin, nature and final destiny of Evil is one of the central concerns for theologians, philosophers and mystics. Developments ... The origins of the Kabbalistic Sefirot remain mysterious even after more than a century of historical research. However, recent ...

The "Sophia (lit. Wisdom) of Jesus Christ" is an ancient text in which the resurrected Messiah directly answers the Apostles ... Interest in Gnosticism and Gnostic texts has exploded since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. However, Gnostic ... The rise of Monotheism has transformed the world and the helm of that transformation is the ancient Near East deity Yahweh. The Chaldean Oracles were cherished as a kind of scripture by the last great Pagans philosophers such as Porphyry, Proclus, ... Gnosticism has produced some of the richest and most difficult spiritual texts of the ancient world. With the discovery of the Nag ... Discovered in fragments in the Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, the Sefer HaRazim (Book of Secrets) was painstakingly ...

The Knights Templar remain as fascinating and they are misrepresented in media, pseudo-history and conspiracy theories.