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A Pharaoh Thrice Buried? The Mystery of the Tombs of Pharaoh Akhenaten | Ancient Origins
Pharaoh Akhenaten is one of the most mysterious kings of Ancient Egypt. Researchers have discovered three tombs dedicated to him – all full of even more secrets.
Source: A Pharaoh Thrice Buried? The Mystery of the Tombs of Pharaoh Akhenaten | Ancient Origins
Tarot Contemplation – Ace of Swords

Don’t be afraid to make a leap if it’s in your best interests. Bravery is once again called for to make the next strides forward. You know what has to be done … so go to it! We’ve been at a similar juncture after we’ve had opportunities to contemplate what aspects of living make us happy … we continue to experience opportunities to rebalance and refocus on the relationships and situations that matter to each of us … and now, once again, we know what we want at this new level and its time to JUST DO IT. The Universe is on your side … CARPE DIEM!
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Tarot Contemplation – Two of Swords

The theme today is partnerships and balance. Partnerships of all , actually, ought to be going quite well these days. How committed are you to them? How committed are they to you? Is there balance and equality in these relationships? Open communications, or opening communications, is key. Spiritually, you are on a more balanced approach on your path. If it’s working for you, stick with it even though your methodology might not be understood by others.
Tarot Contemplation – Seven of Cups

Choices, choices, choices … and confusion, and perhaps a touch of disorganization. There’s just a lot going on, isn’t there? It’s time to narrow your focus. You’re probably trying to do too much, and doing most of it not very well. Choose just a few of the myriad things that are on your plate and work through these items one by one, carefully. You may be feeling overwhelmed. Remember that you can control how much you are trying to take on … at least in some areas of life right now. If a business or work deal seems too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true. Watch where you put your money and who you put your trust in. If you work (or want to work) in a creative field of some kind, this is an excellent omen for making good progress. However, if your job or field is more precise, mathematical and business-like, this energy carries the warning that you may be spending too much time with your head in the clouds and need to refocus. You may have several romantic chances at hand. Be clear and specific about what you want in a relationship, evaluate your choices thoughtfully, be honest and as clear as you can be with the people involved (including yourself), then move ahead. Good relationships, even soul mate relationships, will settle into a less “rush-based” comfort zone at some point. That does not mean that you have to stay in a rut. This is a good time to make financial investments. If you must, consult a professional or do a lot of homework first. You may be too scattered businesswise (especially if you run/own your business). For maximum return, focus your efforts. If you are experiencing health symptoms, this is partially due to a lack of being grounded. Of course, consult your physicians to be sure. Journal your symptoms and also your thoughts. Physical exercise may help you stay grounded. Visualize the most important goals and desires being met. Use positive affirmations and/or treasure-mapping to help make your dreams come true. Keep a positive attitude.
Tarot Contemplation – Ace of Swords

Aces indicate new beginnings of some sort in your life. Sometimes, a new beginning comes about from a separation of some kind …. a relationship, or from a job situation. Know that as anxiety producing as such a new beginning can be, that underneath it all is good, beneficial energy that is getting you where you want to go. The Ace of Swords calls on us to not be afraid to make a leap if it’s in our best interests. In short, bravery is called for today. Feel the fear and do it anyway. You have a good idea already of what must be done. The hard part is the doing of it. Start today. At work, you soon will try a different tactic, or may even choose to leave the job that you’re currently in. If you’re committed to staying where you are, you may have some good ideas for new policies or procedures that could make everyone’s life easier at work and improve the bottom line/final product. Don’t hesitate to give voice to those. It’s amazing what gets done when you don’t care who gets the credit. Ultimately, everyone will know the good was your handiwork. As for your finances, enough is enough. Now is not the time to take chances with money. Don’t invest any money that you cannot afford to lose. You may be asked for a loan, but you might not be in a position to accommodate this request. Lend only if you’ve weighed the contingencies and accept the potential consequences. Spiritually, you can finally let go of belief systems that aren’t working for you. You’ll find some spiritual truths that hold more promise for you and which are beneficial. Discuss with others what works for them on a spiritual level.
Meditation

“Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.”
— Sanskrit poem
Tarot Contemplation – Seven of Swords

Someone is behaving with less than ethical intentions. Actions of prying into someone’s life where you don’t belong. If you sense that someone is spying on you, you may be right. If you are tempted to dig through someone else’s life (excluding parents looking after their children for the most part), resist the impulse. Everyone deserves privacy. If you are involved in any sort of competition this month (formal or informal), you will want to keep a close eye out for cheating of any form. Be aware and make sure you are doing things the right way so you have nothing to worry about, even if someone is out to get you. Your employer is looking at your work and conduct very closely. Keep your nose to the grindstone and make sure your work is above reproach. This is not a time for games of chance or taking risks. Don’t sacrifice your integrity just for a buck. Be very cautious about religious or spiritual gurus or leaders that require your money in exchange for so-called enlightenment. Be careful with new-found spiritual friends.
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‘The Mountain of Dead Selves’: Video tribute to the occult roots of Bowie’s ‘Station to Station’ | Dangerous Minds
10 Charms And Talismans With Unsettling Histories – Listverse
As a whole, mankind is a superstitious lot. The world is a cruel place and we need all the help we can get. So, what do we do? We turn to our amulets and c
Source: 10 Charms And Talismans With Unsettling Histories – Listverse
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Language of the Gods | Ancient Origins
Egyptian hieroglyphs are among the oldest writing systems in the world, dating back some 5,200 years. Known in ancient Egyptian as the “language of the gods” and said to have been
Source: Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Language of the Gods | Ancient Origins
Affirmations …

Tarot Contemplation – Knight of Cups

This Knight is a bearer of optimistic messages. Things are going to be going well. You are likely to be feeling charged up and ready for action. Good news (particularly related to matters of the heart) is likely to be headed your way soon. Work projects are likely to move ahead in a positive way, sooner than you’re expecting. Be proud of your accomplishments and contributions. If you have questions about love, this card means a positive/affirmative answer. Singles are about to meet someone who will sweep them off their feet. Couples are solidifying their commitment, each to his/her other. Be open to exploring your own feelings. Good news is also coming relative to your finances. Figure out where you are to the penny; it’s not as bad as you think. You are entering new realms of spiritual exploration, so be open to receiving new information and new experiences that will broaden your horizons.
Perspectives …

Tarot Contemplation – The Sun

But, of course, you felt The Sun come out today! This is a sign that soon you are likely to find yourself feeling more free than you have in a while, perhaps years. This is a great time to take a vacation (remember, yesterday’s Six of Swords counselled now is a good time to travel) and to experience different things. The Sun is about vitality, freedom, joy and self-expression. Things in general are very likely going well for you. However, even though finances are likely to be in good shape, that does not mean you lose focus on what is truly important in life. Materiality and money are not high on that list. This is a great time to socialize and meet new people. Get out and about and enjoy under The Sun. This is a time when you are very likely to be able to see the truth with a capital “T” about life; which is that there is a great deal of beauty, joy and happiness to be found in this life, if you are looking hard enough and in the right places. Spread this very important message. This is a great time to try different spiritual approaches on for size to see if any of them work for you.
The Truth About Animal Sacrifice and the Occult
Seeing the Great God Pan — Unsung Stories
| National Review
Men of action cut a large figure in the history books, but it is the ideas placed in their heads by men of thought that actually determine what they do. Thus the scribblings of mad philosophers can lead to the deaths of millions. As the modern-day heir to this tradition, Alexander Dugin bids fair to break the record.Most Americans don’t know anything about Alexander Dugin. They need to, because Dugin is the mad philosopher who is redesigning the brains of much of the Russian government and public, filling their minds with a new hate-ridden totalitarian ideology whose consequences can only be catastrophic in the extreme, not only for Russia, but for the entire human race.In recent months, as the embrace of Duginist ideas by the Putin regime has become ever more evident, a number of articles have been written calling attention to the threat. But now, with the appearance of “The American Empire Should Be Destroyed”: Alexander Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology, by James Heiser, we finally have a book-length treatment. It is well worth reading.Heiser is a bishop of the Lutheran church, and, accordingly, he deals with both the political and the theological aspects of Dugin’s allegedly conservative but actually neopagan “Eurasianist” ideology. The subtitle of the book may put off a number of readers, but as a plain-spoken engineer who would cross the street to avoid terms like “immanentized eschatology,” I found the writing to be clear enough overall, and in some places elegant.Heiser follows Dugin’s career, moving from his expulsion from the Moscow Aviation Institute for involvement in proto-Nazi mystical circles in the early 1980s, through his continued development in association with various Thule Society–like organizations through the late Eighties, his contacts with the anti-democratic European Nouvelle Droite, his co-founding and career with the National Bolshevik Party in the 1990s, and his subsequent move into the Russian political mainstream following from his realization that he could gain far more influence as an adviser to those in power than he ever could operating as a splinter party on his own.Heiser then proceeds to dissect Dugin’s political and geopolitical ideology of Eurasianism. The core idea of this is that “liberalism” (by which Dugin means the entire Western consensus) represents an assault on the traditional hierarchical organization of the world. Repeating the ideas of Nazi theorists Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, Carl Schmitt, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Dugin says that this liberal threat is not new, but is the ideology of the maritime-cosmopolitan power “Atlantis,” which has conspired to subvert more conservative land-based societies since ancient times. Accordingly he has written books in which he has reconstructed the entire history of the world as a continuous battle between these two factions, from Rome vs. Carthage to Russia vs. the Anglo-Saxon “Atlantic Order” today. If it is to win its fight against the subversive oceanic bearers of such “racist” (because foreign imposed) ideas as human rights, Russia must unite around itself all the continental powers, including Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics, Turkey, Iran, and Korea, into grand Eurasian Union strong enough to defeat the West.In order to be so united “from Lisbon to Vladivostok,” this Eurasian Union will need a defining ideology, and for this purpose Dugin has developed a new “Fourth Political Theory” combining all the strongest points of Communism, Nazism, Ecologism, and Traditionalism, thereby allowing it to appeal to the adherents of all of these diverse anti-liberal creeds. He would adopt Communism’s opposition to free enterprise. However, he would drop the Marxist commitment to technological progress, a liberal-derived ideal, in favor of Ecologism’s demagogic appeal to stop the advance of industry and modernity. From Traditionalism, he derives a justification for stopping free thought. All the rest is straight out of Nazism, ranging from legal theories justifying unlimited state power and the elimination of individual rights, to the need for populations “rooted” in the soil, to weird gnostic ideas about the secret origin of the Aryan race in the North Pole.What Russia needs, says Dugin, is a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism.” On the other hand, “Liberalism, is an absolute evil. . . . Only a global crusade against the U.S., the West, globalization, and their political-ideological expression, liberalism, is capable of becoming an adequate response. . . . The American empire should be destroyed.”Heiser then provides a chilling analysis of Dugin’s theology:It would be our contention that Dugin’s fusion of Traditionalism and Eurasianism has become a “gnostic mass movement” of the third type, “activist mysticism.” It is not an exaggeration to state that Dugin’s intended goal, his telos, is the End of the World, and that the accomplishment
Source: | National Review
Perspectives …
There are no Adepts or Masters in this world or upon the invisible planes who have not passed through all the sorrows and uncertainties of human experience. They have reached their present position because they have mastered those uncertainties and have risen above the circumstances which chain most people to the selfish side of life. All of the Great Ones have passed sequentially and gradually from ignorance to wisdom. none was made overnight. Each was tempted and each was strong through the moments of temptation. All were persecuted. Many died for their ideals, preferring wisdom above all treasure and truth above all power. Each initiate who now sits in session with the Elder Brothers has earned his position by consecration, intelligence, and sincerity. These are the magic keys which open the gates of the Mystery Schools.
Again and again the question is asked, “How can we know an initiate if we come in contact with one?” We can only answer, “By their works shall ye know them.” After analyzing the lives and habits of those initiates whom we are able to recoginize with our limited vision, we find that they all adhered to a general series of rules. Conditions are altered by the needs of the moment, but among the ancient manifestos we find hints as to the conduct of adepts and mystics.
For many hundreds of years the true Adepts and Initiates shrouded themselves in an impenetrable veil of mystery. This procedure served many ends. First, it protected the Initiates from the endless inconveniences to which they would be subjected by the curious and the credulous. It also permitted them to live quietly and silently, to study and pray, unknown and unsuspected even by their next door neighbor. Then, again, it multiplied the power which they had over a world which could not oppose them because it could not discover them. And, lastly, it enabled these schools and their disciples to escape the persecutions of religious bigotry and intolerance that have always been felt when man sought to discover God without the benefit of clergy.
The Egyptian Sphinx is supposed to have pointed out the initiate’s code of conduct by the symbolic interpretation of the four creatures composing it. The body of the bull with its great strength was interpreted to mean the process of labor, “to do.” The legs and tail of the lion speak of courage and are interpreted as meaning “to dare.” The wings of the eagle bespeak of loftier things, so they are interpreted as “to aspire.” The human head, with its sealed lips, means “to be silent.” Of all these rules, the last is most important.
excerpt from:
What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples
by Manly P. Hall




