The Flood:

‘Aztlan… the land in the middle of the water’. Sometimes this land was called ‘Aztlan of the Seven Caves.”

“The Seven Wise Ones, or the Rishis.”

“The lotus in India, is the symbol of prolific earth, and what is more, of Mount Meru.”

“And the name for the water of the Flood is Mabbul.”

“the shadowy power of prayer, premonitions, the feeling of being stared at, evidence for mind-reading, out-of-body experiences, meaningful coincidences and other things swept under the carpet by modern science.”

“or it happens that someone decides against boarding a plane, which then crashes.”

“a deep patter of meaning hidden behind the muddle of the everyday experience.”

-The Secret History of the World

“...they also practiced bizarre extremes of mortification and debauchery, as a way of disrupting their own, despised bodily senses and gaining access to the spirit worlds. Some encouraged snakes to crawl over their naked bodies, some drank menstrual blood., saying ‘Here is the blood of Christ’, god-like creatures. Others castrated themselves and boasted, ‘I am deader than you are.”

-The Secret Doctrine

“They experienced life as meaningful and the cosmos as meant. They believed, then, that something like human qualities, indeed something like human consciousness, is built into the structure of the cosmos.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Pythagoras attracted murderous rage from those excluded from his inner circle. He refused to admit a man called Cyron into his Mystery school, because of his reckless, imperious behavior. Cryon stirred up a mob against Pythagoras. They broke into the building where Pythagoras and his followers were meeting and set fire to it. Everyone inside died.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Jesus Christ created the interior life.”

“A sense of individual identity, what we today , what we today sometimes call the Ego. But without the intervention of the Sun god, the ego would have been a small, hard, self-centered point operating in isolation, intent only on its own immediate gratification, open to no outside interests other than the very lowest. Every human being would have been at war with every other human being. No individual would have any sense at all of any other independent center of consciousness.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Again we see that the vegetative dimension of the cosmos is the focus of esoteric thought. In Plato’s philosophy it is the soul, the mediator between the material body and the animal spirit. If we are to leave behind the material world and enter the spirit worlds, this vegetable dimension must be the subject of our Work.”

“Socrates sometimes spoke of his daemon, meaning a good spirit who guided him through life.”

“This voice was his higher self. One of the great aims of the process of initiation he found himself undertaking, was to so alter his consciousness that he would be able to hear this voice all the time.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Attila, the ‘scourge of God.”

“Alttila - literally ‘little father”

“They were also shamanistically calling on the group souls of carnivores, the wolves and the bears, to enter into them and give them supernatural powers.”

“The word ‘shaman’ comes from the Tungus-Mongol noun meaning ‘one who knows.”

“Archaic techniques of ecstasy - to work themselves into a trance state; rhythmic drumming and dancing, hyperventilation. Frenzied self mutilation, sensory deprivation, dehydration, sleep deprivation - and also psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, peyote cactus, the ergot fungus.”

-The Secret History of the World

“A miraculous mechanical garden made out of precious metals and containing mechanical birds that flew and sang. In the middle of it stood a great golden tree, bearing fruit made out of astonishingly large precious stones and representing planets. To many these prodigies seemed necromantic. They existed on the border between magic and science.” (the necromancers)

“Born in 724 Charlemagne inherited the spear of Longinus, used to pierce the side of Jesus Crist on the cross. Charlemagne lived and slept with the spear, believing it gave him powers to foresee the future and forge his own destiny. (Charlemange and the spear of Longinus)”

-The Secret History of the World