alanbjones

The Wisdom That Fell Pistis Sophia and the strangest gospel in the British Library The Pisitis Sophia : The Goddess of the 13th Realm The Pistis Sophia There is a book in the British Library that no one was meant to read. It is old. It is in Coptic. It tells a story the early Church wanted forgotten. A London doctor named Anthony Askew bought it from a bookseller in the early 1770s. He paid little mind to where it had come from. Egypt, most likely. The sands give up such things. When he died...

The Discovery of Witchcraft - Reginald Scott The Discoverie of Witchcraft Reginald Scot, the sceptic who tried to kill magic and accidentally taught it to England. In 1584 a quiet man in Kent published a book that he hoped would stop the killing. His name was Reginald Scot. He was a gentleman, a sometime Member of Parliament, a grower of hops. He was not a wizard. That was rather the point. England in his day believed in witches the way we believe in gravity. The belief was total. It was...

The Pentagram The Pentagram :A Five Thousand Year History Five Points, Five Thousand Years The pentagram is the oldest star we own. It has meant health, truth, Christ, the cosmos and the Devil. The symbol never changed. We did. A star with a reputation Look around. The pentagram is everywhere, and nobody flinches. It sits on the flags of more than fifty nations. It marks the rank of a general and the badge of a sheriff. It crowns the Christmas tree in a Christian home. Children draw it...