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Tag Archives: Church history
Christ and Qabalah by Gareth Knight and Anthony Duncan
Me Myself (of which I make so great a fuss) is a mere, brittle spike of consciousness on the circumference of being; a tiny terminal of an unplumbed depth. This opening stanza, read in the quiet nave of an old … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Anglican, Anglican Curate, Anthony Duncan, Biography, Browning, Christ, Christ & Qabalah, Christianity, Christina Rosetti, Church history, Church of England, Cloud of Unknowing, Collaboration, Corbridgem, Devotional, Dion Fortune, Early Church, Emily Bronte, English poetry, esoteric, Friendship, Gareth Knight, Highnam, History, Julian of Norwich, Kathleen Raine, Magic, mysticism, Newcastle, Occult, Parkend, poetry, Qabalah, Richard Rolle, Society of Inner Light, Tennyson, Tewkesbury, Victorian, Warkworth, Whitley Mill
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The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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Scourging and Buffeting: Jurors in the Court of Torture and Blame!
Anyone who has seen Mel Gibson’s films will know that he is quite fond of accentuating torture scenes – almost to the point of fetishisation. Whether it’s Detective Riggs, William Wallace, or an emaciated Jesus Christ, we have become accustomed … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Uncategorized
Tagged ancient stage, Apocrypha, Blame, Buffeting and Scourging, canonical sources, Catholicism, Christian history, Christianity, Church, Church history, Complicity, Dark Ages, Drama, Gospels, Jesus Christ, Jewish history, mediaeval, Medieval, Mel Gibson, Mystery Plays, Passion of the Christ, Passion Plays, Religion, Revisionist history, Roman History, theatre, torture, torture scenes, Towneley Cycle
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