I’ve been wanting to write for a while a missive on why I call myself a Christian. There was a time in my life when I would have found even the idea of calling myself a Christian distasteful, much less stating it publicly. But we all grow and evolve in time. I am not trying […]
There has been much debate of late in the media about the wisdom of sending Ukraine additional weapons and military aid to help it defend itself against Russia’s invasion. Although the media has focused mostly on the statements of what has been characterized as “far-right” Republicans, it is important to note that so-called “far-left” Democrats, […]
I read last night an article accusing Ukraine of providing weapons to Hamas to be used to attack Israel. The apparent source for the allegations was Georgia’s Republican Congresswoman, Majorie Taylor Greene. Below is the link to her Twitter post. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? on X: “We need to work with Israel to track serial […]
In Egypt stands one of the most famous human built structures of all time, the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Constructed about 4,600 years ago, this mammoth stone edifice was the tallest man-made building in the world when it was completed, at just over 480 feet, for about 3,800 years. Unlike the European Cathedrals whose spires […]
Reading once again Thomas Taylor’s 1821 translation from the Greek of Iamblichus’ work “On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians,” written around 300 AD. This work never ceases to inspire and focus my mind on those things which are most important. The following caught my eye this time. “For on this account, because […]
I just finished reading Christopher Dunn’s book, “Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs.” Mr. Dunn is an engineer, I believed retire now, or at least retirement age, who became fascinated early in life with ancient Egypt in particular, but more specifically the stone structures and artifacts that he […]
One day, many years ago, I was reading a book of the prophesies of Nostradamus. Nostradamus wrote in the mid-1500’s in France. He was a Catholic whose family had converted from Judaism. He was noted for his prophesies that were written in the form of quatrains, short poems of four lines, although Nostradamus never claimed […]
“Since, however, prayers are not the smallest [but on the contrary a very great] part of sacrifices, especially give completion to them, and through these the whole operation of them is corroborated and effected; and since, besides this, they afford a common utility to religion, and produce an indissoluble and sacred communion with the Gods, […]
Section IV, Chapter XXIII “The various mode…..of sanctity in sacred operations partly purifies and partly perfects some one of the things that are in us or about us. and some things, indeed, it restores to symmetry and order; but others it liberates from mortal-formed error. But it renders all things familiar and friendly to all […]