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Originally posted by Awoken4Ever
I haven't watched the complete movie. I couldn't get any further than about 45 minutes in before I was getting terribly sick from all the Masonic symbols throughout it (guess the cover wasn't obvious enough for you huh?)
Originally posted by Navieko
Originally posted by Awoken4Ever
I haven't watched the complete movie. I couldn't get any further than about 45 minutes in before I was getting terribly sick from all the Masonic symbols throughout it (guess the cover wasn't obvious enough for you huh?)
What the hell is wrong with you? Of course there's going to be "symbols" throughout the movie, considering symbolism is one of the main talking points in the plot. What did you expect? You go watch a documentary about birds, and it shouldn't surprise you that the film may contain pictures of birds in it. Same goes for documentaries dealing with the subject of conspiracy theories, in particular those that cover the topic of "Secret Societies"... does it not make perfect sense that they would use symbols and graphics in their film and on the posters/covers that deal with the subject, so as to easily visually communicate to people, what the film is about?
It's called marketing, and it's called common sense mate!
And as someone correctly pointed out, just because some "secret societies" may have adopted the use of certain ancients symbols, doesn't mean those symbols must always be used by the same old folks, with the same old "evil" intentions.
Paranoia is quickly emerging as a leading producer in ignorance and stupidity these days.
"Keep an open mind – but not so open that your brain falls out"edit on 24/11/11 by Navieko because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by daynight42
reply to post by ProphetOfZeal
Ridiculous really.
1) That's not a checkered floor. Look at it.
2) The eye thing has become a marketing tool. They use to attract attention. It works well for music artists. It also works well on the internet, where little kid-like people lose their minds when they see a single eye shown in a picture.
Moving on...
Surviving Hermes Trismegistus is the wisdom of the Hermetica, 42 books that have profoundly influenced the development of Wester occultism and magick.
Scope The term particularly applies to the Corpus Hermeticum, Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation in fourteen tracts, of which eight early printed editions appeared before 1500 and a further twenty-two by 1641.[2] This collection, which includes the Pœmandres and some addresses of Hermes to disciples Tat, Ammon and Asclepius, was said to have originated in the school of Ammonius Saccas and to have passed through the keeping of Michael Psellus: it is preserved in fourteenth century manuscripts.[3] The last three tracts in modern editions were translated independently from another manuscript by Ficino's contemporary Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500) and first printed in 1507. Extensive quotes of similar material are found in classical authors such as Joannes Stobaeus. Parts of the Hermetica appeared in the 4th-century Gnostic library found in Nag Hammadi. Other works in Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic and other languages may also be termed "Hermetica" - another famous tract is the Emerald Tablet, which teaches the doctrine "as above, so below". All these are themselves remnants of a more extensive literature, part of the syncretic, intellectualized spirituality of their era, a cultural movement that also included the Neoplatonic philosophy of the Greco-Roman mysteries and late Orphic and Pythagorean literature and influenced Gnostic forms of the Abrahamic religions. There are significant differences:[4] the Hermetica contain no explicit allusions to Biblical texts and are little concerned with Greek mythology or the technical minutiae of metaphysical Neoplatonism. However most of these schools do agree in attributing the creation of the world to a Demiurge rather than the supreme being[5] and in accepting reincarnation. Although Neoplatonic philosophers, who quote apocryphal works of Orpheus, Zoroaster, Pythagoras and other figures, almost never cite Hermes Trismegistus, the tracts were still popular enough in the 5th century to be argued against by Augustine of Hippo in the City of God [6],
Originally posted by MasterGemini
reply to post by daynight42
edit on 6-12-2011 by MasterGemini because: (no reason given)
Though the question is never found,
42 is shown as the table number at which Arthur and his friends sit when they arrive at Milliways at the end of the radio series.
Likewise, Mostly Harmless ends when Arthur stops at a street address identified by his cry of, "There, number 42!" and enters the club Beta, owned by Stavro Mueller, who is apparently the incarnation of Agrajag located at Stavromula Beta. Shortly after, the earth is destroyed in all existing incarnations.
Originally posted by timetothink
Any "Lost" fans reading this? The more I read about this Foster Gamble the more he reminds of the Alvar Hanso character from Hanso Foundation. His projects mirror the projects of the Hanso Foundation. Do you think Lost was a disclosure of the disclosure?