Mastodawn

“He aspired not only to spiritual leadership but also to political power. Rather than earn the devotion of his followers, Strang demanded that his councilors take a comprehensive oath of fealty during a private ceremony, replete with the theatrics of secret handshakes and gestures.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/03/he-aspired-not-only-to-spiritual-leadership-but-also-to-political-power-rather-than-earn-the-devotion-of-his-followers-strang-demanded-that-his-councilors-take-a-comprehensive-oath-of-fealty-durin/ #aspired #BeaverIsland #book #BrighamYoung #comprehensive #conspiracy #councilors #demanded #devotion #earn #fanaticism #followers #gestures #gothicDrama #highTragedy #history #JamesStrang #JohnJMiller #JosephSmith #LakeMichigan #LatterDaySaints #mormonism #Nonfiction #oathOfFealty #politicalPower #Polygamy #pride #privateCeremony #quote #ReligionSpirituality #repleteWith #secretHandshakes #sex #spiritualLeadership #theatrics #violence

John Griogair Bell Dec 17

“Nature herself gives us a clue. If something we are doing or feeling or thinking makes us dreadfully unhappy, then we are on the wrong path. The Holy Guardian Angel will come more readily to a nature calm and balanced and unruffled by the circumstances and the accidents of life!”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/17/nature-herself-gives-us-a-clue-if-something-we-are-doing-or-feeling-or-thinking-makes-us-dreadfully-unhappy-then-we-are-on-the-wrong-path-the-holy-guardian-angel-will-come-more-readily-to-a-natur/

#accidents #balanced #book #calm #circumstances #doing #dreadfullyUnhappy #feeling #givesUsAClue #holyGuardianAngel #kabbalah #life #magick #nature #onTheWrongPath #phyllisSeckler #quote #ReligionSpirituality #thelema #thinking #unruffled

John Griogair Bell May 16, 2025

The Tree of Gnosis

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/16/the-tree-of-gnosis/

#book #christianity #earlyChristianity #Gnosticism #IoanPCouliano #mythology #Nihilism #ReligionSpirituality #review #TPolyphilus

The Tree of Gnosis - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism [Amazon, Local Library] (Les gnoses dualistes d’Occident) by Ioan P Couliano Despite the subtitle, which seems to imply a narrative “from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism,” The Tree of Gnosis offers detail on the synchronic forms of dualist doctrine, rather than […]

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