Esoteric Muslims: The Druze
Esoteric beliefs found an early foothold in Western civilization through the ancient Greek Gnostics. Since then, other esoteric beliefs have been trickling in from all over world, but one of them that...
View ArticleSpaceship Earth: Welcome Aboard
Besides being a popular ride at Disneyland, “Spaceship Earth” describes the beautiful little planet we share with every other living thing aboard it. From ants to elephants, from in-laws to out-laws,...
View ArticleHanging around, upside down
Have you ever seen a tree growing downward? If you’re familiar with Kabbalism then you have. This is probably common knowledge but yes, it’s the Tree of Life. It grows downward from The Source toward...
View ArticleSo what’s in a number?
We all use numbers constantly, no question about that. But numbers meant so much more to the ancients. Why? First let me explain who I’m talking about when I say “ancients”. I want to thank B.K. for...
View ArticleFulfilling the Purpose of Life—Evolution through Happiness
Consider the following: 1) How often is my entire physiology, small of back, inside thighs and eyes treated to stress-free non engagement, my mind to utter silence and respiratory system to minimal...
View ArticleMerry Gnosis
What kind of title is that? The answer to the title lies with the Sun. As I’m sure you have already guessed it has something to do with Christmas as well. From my last post I mentioned that the “mas”...
View ArticleThe Pentagrammaton
The word Pentagram we all know to be a star. It derives from the word Pentagrammaton. We also know penta means 5. But what about the “gram” part? In the word “tetragrammaton” the tetra portion is a...
View ArticleThe Journey of Being
In Merry Gnosis I talked of the Journey of the Soul as the big one and it is – for the soul. But there is a larger journey we are all undertaking, a much larger journey. We’ll call this the Journey of...
View ArticlePart One: Introduction: 37, 73, 137 and Qabalah
Ciphers and Cryptography: A Very Brief Foundation The use of ciphers and subtle allusions in mysticism, philosophy, literature and religion, though generally ignored or unknown in modernity (by and...
View ArticlePart IV: Logos: From the Raven to the Dove
Section One: Fibonacci and the Alchemy of Noah Mem and The Flood Returning to 7 and 33, aside from connecting the Golden Section to Creation and Redemption, they are also related to 13 through the...
View ArticlePart V: The Cosmic Christ, Temptation and Celestial Archetypes
Section One: The Tree of Temptation I would like to apologize for the length of Part IV, I had not realized it was so long. This is why I’ve broken up the final two parts into further divisions, so...
View ArticleFragmentation and Ascension
We all know what happens to water dropped from a significant height. It quickly starts to break up or fragment and the further it falls the more it fragments. That’s the way I understand what it is...
View ArticleSpirit of the Scripture Updates
As some of you may have noticed, SOS has experienced some technical difficulties as of late. I recently updated to the newest WordPress Version (4.0.1). At the same time, I updated five plugins. My...
View ArticleMore SOS updates 2015
I just wanted to let everyone on SOS know that the comment section is finally working again! I spent some time over the Holidays working out all the bugs of the site. The original culprit was my Thesis...
View ArticleHow Are We to Determine Truth: Part 1 – The Dream
Allow me to share in a little holiday fun with an amusing account of a dream. Never mind the poking and teasing in it. No disrespect is meant to the serious posts on signs and numerology. I just want...
View ArticlePart V Section Three: The Life of Christ, Epiphany to Easter
In the picture to the left, we see the Sol in Aries, Light of the World in the Lamb, the latter standing at the Heart of the Sevenfold Covenant that is “the bow in the heavens” (Post-Flood, God’s...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Messianic Prophecies, Part I
By the time Jesus is said to have appeared in Jerusalem, the rabbis knew that the scriptures described two archetypes of Messiah – a humiliated Messiah, known as the Suffering Servant, who in the...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Messianic Prophecies, Part II
The Jewish people have always had a longing for Messiah. In Part I of this series we learned that the Hebrew prophets spoke of two archetype Messiahs – the Suffering Servant, one who would save them...
View ArticleAn esoteric interpretation of the crucifixion of Jesus
At the moment we live in the period leading up to Passion Week again, and therefore I would like to give an explanation of some of the names and words that figure prominently in the Passion story,...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Messianic Prophecies, Part III
In this series we will continue to perform a temporary “about face” in our quest to discover wisdom. By reassessing the historical and literal validity of selected parts of the bible, we shall try to...
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