“Myths serve as source patterns originating in the ground of our being. While they appear to exist solely in the transpersonal realm, they are the key to our personal and historical existence, the DNA of the human psyche.”
―Jean Houston, The Hero and the Goddess

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The True Meaning of ‘Peace’

Maimonides AKA ‘the Rambam’ the most prolific and influential Jewish philosopher points out that the commandment for ‘righteous deceit’ from the off-planet father god Yahweh is clear within the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible).

“When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labour and shall work for you.”
-Deuteronomy 20:10-12

Chabad Lubavitch, the most influential and best-known Hasidic group give instruction on when it is permissible to lie. Telling the Truth...and When It Is Permissible to Be Less Than Honest

From the article - “And we are told that a lie told to promote peace is not included at all in the prohibition of telling lies. It seems then that since the ultimate goal of this lie is a positive one, it is not prohibited.”

Chabad indicates that a lie is permissible if it’s in the service of ‘peace’. The commonly known Hebrew greeting of ‘shalom’ means ‘peace’. However, we should ask ourselves what is meant by ‘peace’. According to Maimonides ‘peace’ means acceptance of and following the 7 Noahide Laws (currently being promoted to the UN) which is absolute submission to the rules of Yahweh. Therefore with this understanding, the true meaning of ‘peace’ in this context would be ‘submit or die’.

“For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.”
― Angela Carter

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“Greek philosophers were inspired by Sophia, and through her divine wisdom human beings could begin to form a new relationship with Sophia through the use of the power of thought. This is what gave birth to philosophy. When we consider the original meaning of the word philosophy, philo-sophia, love of Sophia, we can see it was really love for the Divine Sophia, who was present from the beginning as the divine plan of creation, that gave birth to philosophy.”
― Martin Rowe, Sophia Teachings: The Emergence of the Divine Feminine in Our Time

Image: The Banquet after Plato (extract) by Anselm Feuerbach

“Although the earliest Mesolithic and Megalithic sites of the world prove to be more sophisticated in design and construction than those of later date, most people continue to accept the unsustainable fiction concerning the world of the past. Ancient man was primitive and modern man is civilized. That is what the vast majority of people believe. It is, however, one of the most egregious fallacies conceivable.”
― Michael Tsarion

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“Animism has traditionally been considered backward and lacking in objective validity by Western scholars, but today philosophers, psychologists and scientists in our culture are beginning to realise that animistic peoples, far from being ‘primitive’, have been living a reality which holds many important insights for our own relationships with each other and with the Earth. One such insight is that animistic perception is archetypal, ancient, and primordial; that the human organism is inherently predisposed to seeing nature as alive and full of soul, and that we repress this fundamental mode of perception at the expense of our own health, and that of the natural world.”
―Stephen Harding, Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia

Image: Visionary Journey by Emma Lucy Shaw

Notes: If you would like to learn more about ethnic healing and returning to indigenous roots, check out the latest Fyrgen podcast interview with visionary artist Emma Lucy Shaw here. View more of her art and other services here.

“Prehistory is like a giant jigsaw puzzle with more than half its pieces destroyed or lost. It is impossible to reconstruct completely. But the greatest obstacle to the accurate reconstruction of prehistory is not that we are lacking so many pieces; it is that the prevailing paradigm makes it so hard to accurately interpret the pieces we have and to project the real pattern into which they fit.”
―Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade

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“Who were the Gnostics? Until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, most of our knowledge about them came from prejudiced sources, the church fathers who railed against and condemned them as the first “heretics”, a word that derives from the Greek hairetikos, which means “able to choose.” Heretics are those who choose something other than the received church dogma. What the Gnostics chose was gnosis over belief and experience over faith.”
―Gary Lachman, The Secret Teachers of the Western World

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“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

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“Yaldabaoth himself chose a certain man named Abraham…and made a covenant with him that if his seed would continue to serve him he would give to him the earth as an inheritance. Later through Moses, he brought forth from Egypt the descendants of Abraham, gave them the law, and made them Jews.”
―Irenaeus, Against Heresies: On the Section & Overthrow of the So-Called Gnostics, 120 AD

Notes: Due to the Abrahamic eradication of the mysteries until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, Against Heresies was the best surviving denoscription of Gnosticism despite it being the case of the prosecution. In the passage above; the Abrahamic deity, Yahweh, is identified as being the Lord Archon Yaldabaoth; a delusional extraterrestrial entity who believes he created all that he beholds. By pointing out this fact and the nature of the Mosaic covenant in which the Earth is promised as an ‘inheritance' we can begin to see why these teachings were annihilated.

Image: Moses receives Commandments by Giora Eshkol

"The university intellectuals play an important role in carrying out the System's trick. Though they like to fancy themselves independent thinkers, the intellectuals are the most oversocialized, the most conformist, the tamest and most domesticated, the most pampered, dependent, and spineless group today. As a result, their impulse to rebel is particularly strong. But, because they are incapable of independent thought, real rebellion is impossible for them. Consequently, they are suckers for the System's trick, which allows them to irritate people and enjoy the illusion of rebelling without ever having to challenge the System's basic values."
—Ted Kaczynski

Image: Jordan Peterson, Lobster Dominance Hierarchy by Skai

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken

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"The majority of men ‘without religion’ still hold to pseudo religions and degenerated mythologies. There is nothing surprising in this, for, as we saw, profane man is the descendant of homo religiosus and he cannot wipe out his own history—that is, the behavior of his religious ancestors which has made him what he is today. This is all the more true because a great part of his existence is fed by impulses that come to him from the depths of his being, from the zone that has been called the "unconscious," A purely rational man is an abstraction; he is never found in real life. Every human being is made up at once of his conscious activity and his irrational experiences.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Image: Sacred Love and Profane Love by Giovanni Baglione

“A myth, therefore, is true because it is effective, not because it gives us factual information. If, however, it does not give us new insight into the deeper meaning of life, it has failed. If it works, that is, if it forces us to change our minds and hearts, gives us new hope, and compels us to live more fully, it is a valid myth. Mythology will only transform us if we follow its directives. A myth is essentially a guide; it tells us what we must do in order to live more richly. If we do not apply it to our own situation and make the myth a reality in our own lives, it will remain as incomprehensible and remote as the rules of a board game, which often seem confusing and boring until we start to play.”
― Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth

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“Tolerance is a precious human attribute, and no society can survive without it. But what happens when tolerance allows intolerance? Pondering this question may yield some insight into how it was possible for the Pagan world, where tolerance was everywhere the norm, to be destroyed by a relatively small number of adherents of a novel and utterly intolerant creed.”
― John Lamb Lash, Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief

Image: Saint Paul and the burning of pagan books at Ephesus by Lucio Massari

“In the absence of The King the Warrior becomes a mercenary, the Magician becomes a sophist (able to argue any position and believing in none), and the Lover becomes an addict.”
― Robert L. Moore, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Image: King Leoric by Richi Marella

“They began the year with December 25, the day we now celebrate as Christmas; and the very night to which we attach special sanctity they designated by the heathen mothers’ night — a name bestowed, I suspect, on account of the ceremonies they performed while watching this night through.”
― Saint Bede, The Reckoning of Time

Notes: We are somehow supposed to believe that these prior pagan celebrations falling on the exact same day (now shifted over the centuries) as the birth of the Hebrew ‘messiah’ is simply a ‘coincidence’ rather than evidence to suggest the dating of Christmas (by Pope Julius I in the 4th century) was decided upon largely for Machiavellian reasons. The Church decided it would be easier to convert Pagans in Europe through a process of co-opting and gradual assimilation leading them away from Paganism by reinventing their customs as Christian ones.

For more information on ‘Christmas Before Christ’, check out this excellent video by Fortress of Lugh.

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“Pope Gregory I (in 601) laid the church’s strategy out quite plainly. As he wrote to Mellitus, his missionary in England, “[Do] not…stop such ancient pagan festivities…adapt them to the rites of the Church, only changing the reason of them from a heathen to a Christian impulse.”
― David Kyle Johnson, The Myths That Stole Christmas: Seven Misconceptions That hijacked the Holiday

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“To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Every year about that time, the middle of winter, the sun was born once more and it was going to put an end to the darkness and misery of winter. So they had a great feast, with presents and dolls for everybody, and the best day of all was December twenty-fifth. That feast, they would tell you, was thousands of years old- before Christ was ever heard of.”
― John G. Jackson, Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth

Image: The Chariot of Apollo or Phoebus-Apollo by Gustave Moreau

"Oh, Greatest Of Kings, indulge me in this friendly Christmas game. Let whichever of your knights is boldest of blood and wildest of heart step forth, take up arms, and try with honor to land a blow against me. Whomsoever nicks me shall lay claim to this, my arm. It's glory and riches shall be thine. But thy champ must bind himself to this. Should he land a blow, then one year and Yuletide hence, he must seek me out yonder, to the Green Chapel six nights to the North. He shall find me there, and bend the knee, and let me strike him in return. Be it a scratch on the cheek, or a cut on the throat, I will return what was given to me, and then in trust and friendship we shall part. Who, then, who is willing to engage with me?"
― Anon, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Image: The Green Knight by Herbert Cole

"When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealise those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain."
―Richard Wagner

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