Room 209
Eight years ago (back in 2000) my mother had an operation and was confined in the hospital, staying on the second floor, Room 209. Our family doctor didn’t want us to stay
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Barachiel
Archangel Barachiel Archangel Barachiel, also spelled Barchiel or Barakiel, is known as the Angel of Blessings, Compassion, and Divine Abundance. His name comes from the Hebrew Barak-El, meaning Blessing of God or God’s Blessing. Barachiel is traditionally associated with divine
28 March 2022
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Isopsephy
Isopsephy: The Greek Art of Sacred Numbers Isopsephy is the Greek practice of adding together the
RANDOLPH, PASCHAL BEVERLY
American occultist, spiritualist, physician, politician, author, and founder of secret societies, 1825–75. A leading figure in
RITE OF PERFECTION
The first known Masonic body to work the degrees that later belonged to the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Perfection was organized in Paris in 1754 by the Chevalier de Bonneville. It
17 December 2022
RITE OF MISRAIM
Yet another of the complex systems of higher degrees born on the fringes of Freemasonry in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Misraim (also spelled Mizraim) had 90 degrees of initiation, with
17 December 2022
RITE OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM
The most extensive system of Masonic degrees ever worked, the Rite of Memphis and Misraim was the creation of John Yarker, the great promoter of fringe Masonic degrees and rites in the
17 December 2022
RITE OF MEMPHIS
One of the many systems on the fringes of regular Masonry that emerged in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Memphis was one of the most extensive, with no fewer than 95
17 December 2022
RIGHT-HAND PATH
A term borrowed into western occult jargon from Indian Tantrism, this phrase originally referred to those Tantric systems that maintain the rules of behavior standard in Indian yoga traditions, including celibacy, vegetarianism,
17 December 2022
RIDING THE GOAT
For close to two centuries, if not longer, initiation into fraternal secret societies has been described throughout the English-speaking world as “riding the goat.” The exact origins of the phrase remain obscure,
17 December 2022
RIBBONMEN
The rise of the Whiteboys movement in southern Ireland in the late eighteenth century inspired Irish farmers and labourers throughout the island to consider secret societies and violence as options in the
17 December 2022
REX DEUS
(Latin, “King God.”) According to recent speculative literature, the title held by a group of European aristocratic families allegedly descended from the family lines of the 24 High Priests of the Temple
17 December 2022
REUSS, THEODOR
German singer, journalist, Freemason and secret society founder, (1855–1923). Born in Augsburg, the son of an innkeeper, he began a musical career as a vocalist in his youth and did tolerably well,
17 December 2022
RETROSPECTIVE RECRUITMENT
One of the primary methods used by secret societies to conceal their actual origins, retrospective recruitment was defined and satirized by a famous passage in Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary of 1911: Freemasons,
17 December 2022
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