Rebuild Spirit

At the base of the ancient Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter’s Square stand four bronze lions, installed in 1586  under pope Sixtus V ....

From the Ram of Osiris to the Children of the Harlot In yesterday’s post, we traced the shadowy lineage of the occult’s most infamous...

Today’s post is heavy with names and titles from ancient history and scripture, so I ask you to bear with me as we unpack them. Each name...

Long before the serpent slithered into Eden, a radiant being stood among the precious stones in the garden of God. Ezekiel 28 describes...

Douglas Hamp is a respected author, researcher, and pastor with a specialized focus on biblical prophecy, ancient languages , and the...

In the Exodus story, God’s command to “let My people go” was a direct challenge to an empire claiming ownership over souls. Rome, Egypt,...

Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue  (written in 40 BC) is a remarkable poem in which the Roman poet heralds the birth of a miraculous child who...

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit…”— Revelation 17:8 Nimrod, Gilgamesh, and the...

In the ancient world, religion was often a mediated experience. From towering ziggurats  in Mesopotamia to elaborate priesthoods in...

Ancient philosophers and biblical writers alike warned of non-human intelligences infiltrating humanity. The 3rd-century thinker Porphyry...

The Roman Catholic Magisterium claims to be divinely inspired; guided, it says, by the same Holy Spirit who inspired the prophets,...

An Esoteric and Biblical Exploration Across esoteric traditions and the Bible, there are intriguing references to elemental spirits  and...

Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy, argued in Isis Unveiled (1877) that ancient editors of scripture obscured a solar meaning in...

The Roman Catholic Church maintains that the pope; the bishop of Rome; is the successor of the apostle Peter and the earthly head of the...

Edited.... For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has interpreted 1 John 5:16–17 as a foundation for distinguishing between venial and...

The Bible repeatedly forbids idol worship and making  idols . In the Old Testament God warns Israel not to “corrupt” themselves by...

The Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, was founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 and formally approved by the Roman Catholic Church...

A World Turned Upside Down At first glance, some of the topics discussed here; Theosophy, Luciferianism, esoteric Jesuitism, Atlantis,...

Today, many profess faith in God while unknowingly walking in ways He never commanded. The modern Roman Catholic Church (RCC), though...

The doctrine of predestination is not an obscure or peripheral idea buried in the pages of theological speculation; it is a divine pillar...