The Edict of Thessalonica, 380 AD – If you oppose it, you are a foolish madman The Edict of Thessalonica, jointly issued by Theodosius I, Gratian, and Valentinian, ordered all subjects of the Roman Empire to profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria, making Nicene Christianity the state religion of the Roman …
“Tell to the king that the carven hall is fallen in decay; Apollo has no chapel left, no prophesying bay, No talking spring. The stream is dry that had so much to say.” This was the last known oracle of the Pythia given to Julian the Apostate, the last Roman emperor, whose goal was to …
Who is the Angel of Temperance? There are many candidates. Michael, Uriel, Kassiel, Adukiel and Saratiel are among them. This card was called “Time” in Italian tarochi cards from 18th century and probably for this mane reaon, Uspenski calls him Angel of Time. A. Crowley names him Angel of Art referring him to the art …
She had black hair, dark eyes, a blue medical cap with a red cross on her head. She was sitting in a van parked in front of the building where I lived at the time. Something drew me to get into her van. When she saw me, she immediately smiled at me and said: “You …
I spent my childhood across the street from Kalemegdan Park in Jovanova street no. 2, so I had the opportunity to play there with my friends every day. A hundred meters up the hill above the entrance to Kalemegdan, there was a pink elephant next to which my sister lost her ring and a magical …
After reading Anna Karenina, I got a desire to visit Leo Tolstoy and personally pay tribute to him on that masterpiece. What I like about Tolstoy first of all is that his stories are unforced, they somehow flow without any artistic pretensions. In addition, I was attracted to Tolstoy because he was an anarchist, so …
Let’s meet some spirits of nature: – Af Briya and Matarel, rulers of rain; – Adyuchas, genius of stones; – Alpiel, Ilaniel and Eirnilus, rulers of fruit; – Arias, the angel who rules over sweet-smelling herbs; – Zuflas, angel of the forest; – Makthiel, the angel of the trees; – Altarib, Ctariel, Attarib, Schlagiel and …
According to a good old medieval belief, the mighty east winds have such power that they can destroy the whole world. And for this reason, those winds are kept under control in a part of the sky that seems to be located just above China or Japan, where the countries of the East are. Eastern …
The great mystery of the thieves of the royal herds of cattle is presented in this picture, in which you may see the cattle before being stolen by Autolycus. It is not clear to me exactly why this was so, but it seems that one of the favorite hobbies of certain Greek heroes was to …
There are 30 aethyrs. They generally don’t correspondent to the 10 sephirot on the Tree of Life, except for the last 3 (TEX, RII and BAG), which may be seen as analogous to Malkuth and Yesod. So if you want to meet lunar angels and other kind of moon-like spirits, you can choose to go …
From Kircher’s Ars Magna Sciendi (1669). In his search for a scientific approach to the classification of all branches of knowledge and to invent a scientific approach for finding and expressing universal truth, Kircher drew this diagram which expresses: 1,273,726,838,815,420,339,851,343,083,767,005,515,293,749,454,795,408,000,000,000,000 combinations.
Those mysteries are about some people who never experienced death, but were moved into heaven with their own living physical bodies typically by the Chariot of Fire. Gregory the Theologian says that “Enoch was the first, Abraham 21st … and Jesus Christ 77th in number to exalt to heaven in human body”. Sandalphon as Elijah …
