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— Revelations 13:1
M. E. Rothwell • The Leviathan
Amongst the Bogomils whose names have survived are Jeremiah (thought by some to be the pseudonym of Bogomil himself), who wrote the widely circulated tract The Legend of the Cross,
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
The Secret Book of Dzyan: Unveiling the Hidden Truth about the Oldest Manuscript in the World and Its Divine Authors (Sacred Wisdom 2)
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Sick minds identified the notion of a Terra planet with that of another world and this “Other World” got confused not only with the “Next World” but with the Real World in us and beyond us.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
I don’t know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. It wasn’t exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures.
Paulo Coelho • The Alchemist
another ancient Hermetic text: the extremely brief and elliptical Emerald Tablet,
The Three Initiates • The Kybalion: Centenary Edition
Peter D'Autry • Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
the Quran proposes the unprecedented notion that all revealed scriptures are derived from a single concealed book in heaven called the Umm al-Kitab, or “Mother of Books” (13:39).
Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Revelation thus cannot be viewed as “a pure expression of God’s will,” but rather “as an expression of God’s will filtered through the mindset and mores of its intended audience.”