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zare_i's review
4.0
Written as a accompanying book to the "Beasts, Men and Gods" by Ossendowski this book gives us a very detailed story about hidden secrets of the religion. Esoteric elements like stones and places of power, hidden numerical meanings behind the names and finally the secret of the mysterious King of the World living in the hidden kingdom of Aggartha.
From this perspective book provides plethora of information and references related to the esoteric mysteries. You can either take it as it is or look at it from the perspective of interest in the lore related to Templars, Rosen-Kreuzers and Hinduistic and Buddhist mysteries.
You can also look at it from the perspective of history to find out that nations and people of old weren't as isolated as we might think (modern discoveries confirm that kingdoms of old were very much connected until the series of events (circa 12th century BC) brought these communications (and in some cases very kingdoms) to the end for a brief period of time). And what travels by speed of light - ideas and knowledge. And what better way of securing ones knowledge and ones position in centers of power than through obfuscation and mysteries (trust me, even today these practices are alive and well although not that "mysterious"any more - just take state exams for some of the jobs like solicitors, engineers or - longest that I know - medical finals, practicing and specialization). So you have elite sharing ideas in their own guilds and influencing the world around them. And all of this taking place in the world that had much more common than it is case with our current religions - they maybe had different names but all the deities are there known to them all because they are personifications of man can see and feel. So is it that strange that same concepts, same ideas can be found in different locations of our planet (I mean, forgive me but aren't for example oars and sails, pottery and even riding gear and carriages, spears, swords and archery equipment technology that popped up in several places at the more or less same time?). And in regards to the similarity between names and terms - don't all the nations in Europe (at least majority) share same heritage from the Indo-europeans (that again brings us to India and Hinduism/Buddhism and religious concepts)?
Book shows that all religions are based on the same template - template that unfortunately benefits the elites and the way society is to be organized (no matter how new-agey that original religion sounds, split of society on the royal-aware-ones and the rest reeks very much of social splitting which never brought anything good). This might have sounded a little bit judgemental (I am not of those that think religion is the cause of all of the problems - we need not forget that majority of major initial scientific breakthroughs came from monasteries and institutions linked to the religion) but the main tool for bringing up the secularism as we know it was the science, discipline that encourages questioning and reasoning and fights against blind acceptance. Through it all science stole the "thunder", stole the "mystery" from the religion (although as things currently stand some very misdirected forces tend to make science a new unquestionable religion which would be a very, very bad thing again).
All in all interesting book, viewpoints are very much 1920's (this is also period of slow rise of German Thule society and period when Helena Blavatsky published her quasi-scientific works) but that was expected.
Recommended to all fans of esoteric.
From this perspective book provides plethora of information and references related to the esoteric mysteries. You can either take it as it is or look at it from the perspective of interest in the lore related to Templars, Rosen-Kreuzers and Hinduistic and Buddhist mysteries.
You can also look at it from the perspective of history to find out that nations and people of old weren't as isolated as we might think (modern discoveries confirm that kingdoms of old were very much connected until the series of events (circa 12th century BC) brought these communications (and in some cases very kingdoms) to the end for a brief period of time). And what travels by speed of light - ideas and knowledge. And what better way of securing ones knowledge and ones position in centers of power than through obfuscation and mysteries (trust me, even today these practices are alive and well although not that "mysterious"any more - just take state exams for some of the jobs like solicitors, engineers or - longest that I know - medical finals, practicing and specialization). So you have elite sharing ideas in their own guilds and influencing the world around them. And all of this taking place in the world that had much more common than it is case with our current religions - they maybe had different names but all the deities are there known to them all because they are personifications of man can see and feel. So is it that strange that same concepts, same ideas can be found in different locations of our planet (I mean, forgive me but aren't for example oars and sails, pottery and even riding gear and carriages, spears, swords and archery equipment technology that popped up in several places at the more or less same time?). And in regards to the similarity between names and terms - don't all the nations in Europe (at least majority) share same heritage from the Indo-europeans (that again brings us to India and Hinduism/Buddhism and religious concepts)?
Book shows that all religions are based on the same template - template that unfortunately benefits the elites and the way society is to be organized (no matter how new-agey that original religion sounds, split of society on the royal-aware-ones and the rest reeks very much of social splitting which never brought anything good). This might have sounded a little bit judgemental (I am not of those that think religion is the cause of all of the problems - we need not forget that majority of major initial scientific breakthroughs came from monasteries and institutions linked to the religion) but the main tool for bringing up the secularism as we know it was the science, discipline that encourages questioning and reasoning and fights against blind acceptance. Through it all science stole the "thunder", stole the "mystery" from the religion (although as things currently stand some very misdirected forces tend to make science a new unquestionable religion which would be a very, very bad thing again).
All in all interesting book, viewpoints are very much 1920's (this is also period of slow rise of German Thule society and period when Helena Blavatsky published her quasi-scientific works) but that was expected.
Recommended to all fans of esoteric.