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Three early secret societies that can be directly connected to a modern descendant are the cults of Roshaniya, Mithras and their counterpart, the Builders.
Milton William Cooper • Secret Societies: A Sinister Agenda Exposed
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Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Do we like Jacob? The likely answer is that we do not. We may revere him; after all, he is one of our three ancestral patriarchs. We may even respect him; he is certainly clever, audacious, and remarkably determined. But there is something fundamentally unlikable about our ancestor Jacob.
Alan Lew • Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life
The first was a young man called Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul.4 According to his own account, he was a Jew by birth who had been sent by the community to suppress the activities of the new sect of Christians, Jews who believed that the Messiah had come. On his way to perform his mission he experienced a conversion and became convinced that
... See moreJonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
In the period between the death of Abraham of Worms in 1458 and the first publication of The Book of Abramelin in 1608, the most influential occultist was, without doubt, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Because one of his key ideas foreshadows The Book of Abramelin, it is worth backtracking a little to consider Agrippa here.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
