The Unveiled Spectacle

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" - Matthew 7.7

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Did you know that Titan’s atmosphere is so thick that if you glued wings to your arms and flapped them there, you would actually fly.

(Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

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Ancient Egyptian Zodiac from the Dendera Temple complex 

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Black Sun (Sol Niger) setting on the outskirts of a city from ‘Splendor Solis’ (The Splendour of the Sun) a German illuminated alchemical treatise. (1582)

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Modern pyramids: Muttart Conservatory: Memphis Pyramid: Long Beach Pyramid: Louvre Pyramid

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Photos taken by (Sam LaPoint) 

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A Jewel Scarab (Chrysina sp.) being adorable.

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Under water ruins found in the Bahamas 

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"The sun rises in the east, and in the east is the place for the Worshipful Master. As the sun is the source of all light and warmth, so should the Worshipful Master enliven and warm the brethren to their work. Among the ancient Egyptians the sun was the symbol of divine providence. The hierophants of the Mysteries were adorned with many insignia emblematic of solar power. The sunbursts of gilt embroidery on the back of the vestments of the Catholic priesthood signify that the priest is also an emissary and representative of Sol Invictus."

- Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry by George Oliver, D.D.

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Grimmer, Abel - Toren van Babel by ros_with_a_prince on Flickr.

Grimmer, Abel - Toren van Babel

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Photograph by Patrik Gustafsson

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In ancient Egypt, the feather of Ma’at (an ostrich feather) symbolized truth, morality, justice, balance, order, and law. It was also the feather used in the weighing of the heart ceremony, which determined whether or not a person lived a just life and if they had, they could safely pass into the after life. It may be for this very reason, that ostrich feathers are worn upon the head dress of Knight Templar regalia as well as many other orders such as the Knights of Malta.  

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Photo taken by Mohammed Moussa

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"This is very important, because this is where you see the roots, the real roots of modern Freemasonry. The Egyptians were great builders, stone builders, and obviously their two greatest achievements in stone building were pyramids and obelisks. It is no coincidence that pyramids and obelisks are used as symbols of Freemasonry. Freemason meaning Free-builder. Here, we’re not talking about only building structures, physical structures. We’re talking about building your own inner temple, so the building concept is very important and that is why there is a strong association with ancient Egypt." - Akram Elias 

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Step 1: Read the mostly plagiarized works of Aleister Crowley, the Justin Bieber of the occult world. ”Do What Thou Wilt” - Francois Rabelais Step 2: Read Manly P Hall’s books without realizing how many inconsistencies and misinterpretations there are.

Step 3: Quote Crowley and Hall to no end...

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I like how diverse lodges are. Some of them look like Greek or Egyptian styled temples, some are painted to resemble the heavens or night sky, and others just look totally out there. 

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In the Hermetic texts Hermes Trismegistus tells a prophecy to his pupil Asclepius :

 ”Do you know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven are present in the Earth below? In fact it should be said that the whole kosmos dwells in this our land as in a sancturary. 

And yet, since it is fitting that wise men should have know of all events before they come to pass, you must be left in ignorance of what I will now tell you. 

There will come a time when it will have been in vain that Egyptians have honor the Godhead with heartfelt piety and servie; and all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual.

The gods will return from Earth to heaven; Egypt will be forshaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.

O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety. 

And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and worship … Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.

As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you - all this they will mock, and even ersuad themselves that it is false.

No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worth of heaven, will be heard or believed.

And so the gods will depart from mankind, - a grievous thing! - and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul. “