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By Leonard Farra For thousands of years, in many ways, the serpent has played a role in religions, folk customs,…
by David Percival The Conscious Reporter Is the all-seeing eye a symbol of divine omniscience or sinister influence? Today it symbolises…
By MITCH HOROWITZJULY Most people believe that the persecution of “witches” reached its height in the early 1690s with the…
Angela Pritchard Waking Times Spiritual symbols are powerful. Beneath the veneer of social norms they are being used in a hidden…
The Newton You Never Knew: Isaac Newton’s Esotericism Revealed © Brendan D. Murphy [Truth is] the offspring of silence and…
Harvard University, one of the most well-respected Ivy League schools in the world, has responded to rumors that they would…
Author and 32nd degree Freemason, Robert W. Sullivan discusses the influence of ancient mysteries, ceremonies, sages and astral bodies on the…
Jonathan Smith In January the Satanic Temple announced plans to erect a monument glorifying the Dark Lord on the front…
What I will be relating here is a classic Danish "poltergeist" case from 1826. This incident became so well known that it…