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Too many people make the Spiritual mistake of considering "light" as truth and assume the being as the wholeness of all things, yet even basic esotericism will anoint this aspect of illusion that, light is a lie and the truth is the vibration as the to the level of one's own comprehension of perception.

"Lord of Light" is in fact Satan, the deceiver, illumination is not light, it is understanding, something the Gnostics wrote about before the Catholic Church ordered the Knights Templar to exterminate them, to keep this information covered up in favour of their own Biblical BS.

Once you gain this knowledge, the universe is of what one can perceive, beyond the five sense realm of physical reality, hence how we alone can decide reality for ourselves. Humanity is becoming slowly more spiritual, I alone along this canal where I took this photo have experienced Shadow People, Ghosts and a momentary time slip, which I theorise to being an experience of reality encoding via perception's ability assorting itself, for another words, what keeps us imprisoned is slowly and thankfully losing its grip, if only to allow yourself to see it!

So........... with that said I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)

"One day they will come to tell you

how they believe in you, they love you

and how they want you.

Keep your mind on the child,

lock the door,

they are lying..

Someday gnostics will come,

educated and literate,

to convince you.

Keep your mind on the child,

lock the door,

they will sell you...

And when the times come

that the candle will be extinguished

in the storm,

defend the child.

Because if the child survives,

there's hope. "

🎧Κάποτε θα ΄ρθουν να σου πουν

Taken @ Quoted Memories

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This last remaining seed was holding on in the breeze on a dandelion in my garden, by the way, there is no such thing as weeds in my garden, all life is life and should be respected.

But this image got me thinking, about the principle and birthing of consciousness, from where-hence I was pure consciousness to be born, where did my moment of conception of conscience begin, well before the physical 5 sense realm we know today. I do not mean born in the maternal sense of the word, but more so where within thinking can one begin to be self aware, it would be great to be able to remember that moment.

I think it was the Gnostics that drew on this idea, that we agree to a contract and become the human experience for whatever length of time is allocated. This seed in my garden is a pondering of that moment.

New week ahead and I hope everyone is well, and so as always thank you! :)

PS: This piece of music I think goes well with this...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaj-V2KIxRk

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"The holy book of the Great Invisible Spirit,

the Parent, the Father whose name cannot be named,

who came from the Heights of Fullness,

light of light of the realms of Light,

light of the silence of Forethought

and the Father of silence,

light of word and truth,

light of the incorruptions,

infinite light,

radiance from the realms of light

of the unrevealed, undisclosed,

unaging, unannounced Father,

aeon of aeons,

self-generated, self-generating,

self-producing, foreign,

truly true eternal realm."

- From the Gnostic text, "The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit".

Discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, dating from the second half of the 4th century when the Gnostic sect was under severe persecution from the religious and secular authorities.

I know what goes on. Evil forces holding us captive. Don’t believe what they say. Don’t read their books or study their crooked journalism. Don’t watch their TV channels. Whatever they tell you will be fake. Listen to yourself and find the truth inside you. Liberate yourself! Find likeminded people and begin to understand how the establishment manipulates your brain with falsehoods, disempowers you by stealing the vote, controls you with vaccination programmes, and hides from you their sexual perversions. Join us in privileged knowledge. God is on our side!

You think you are a citizen of the world, but in fact you are a citizen of nowhere! You are seeing the world from the wrong angle! You are not really in the know! You shouldn’t believe everything you read in your leftist or communist papers! Listen instead to the people who are special and who are true patriots! Listen to those with privileged knowledge!

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So much happening right now, so many pieces being moved about the chess board of the ever-expanding realm of human consciousness. And yet so few actually now what is going on. That’s why they call it Esoteric.

The invasion of soldier age Islamist illegal migrants onto western shores, all attacking with knives (ever noticed that?) modus operandi of the field of battle, yet, they’re as much pawns in this game as the victims are, of course I don’t expect a nation’s society to stand idly by when rape and murder is beset upon them, however, after two world wars (Imperialist) then the desecration of Palestine by Israel (Zionist) and now the aforementioned activities (Wahhabism), neatly allowing Israel to re-adjust the narrative making themselves look to be good guys now, aided by the Bondi Beach incident (Interesting timing) this is a slow motion methodology of “Poisoning the Well” a CIA narrative altering strategy and method of pursuing propaganda. So thus, the final initiative for the oil pipeline and reserves can be tapped into beyond Palestinian shores. And beyond the 3 aforementioned factions are the ones who really pull the strings, not your governments.

In recent history: First it was the money (Federal Reserve / Central Banking), second it was the territory and central bank implementation (Middle East Wars), then it’s the minerals (Oil and Agricultural take over) then it’s population control (Constant Fear, Vaccines, Digital ID’s and Internet “Safety” Bills, etc). Marching toward a world central government, single world currency and one world religion.

If you still think it’s Left vs Right, you haven’t got a clue, if you still blame your world “Leaders” and Government than you haven’t got a clue, if you listen to “Alternative” news agencies who only steer the hate and division, then your attention is in the wrong place and you haven’t got a clue. The two great time lines have become very apparent, the kicker is that the ones on the lower time line won’t even realise it, somewhat akin to a patient with Alzheimer’s who won’t realise they are dying from Alzheimer’s, and those at the higher time line look down at the lowers and despair for them!

For those of the higher realm, do not engage with the lower realities, you can only retain a higher vibration, equip oneself with knowledge and go forward (transcend consciousness). If you don’t, you’re just amongst the people of echopraxia!

I hope everyone is finally waking the fuck up and so as always, thank you! 😊

Light beams play the creation lute

And words smile in fire.

Fountains adore the gnostic souls

When love birds sing for the lovely flowers.

4/22/2021

La llegada de mi hija Helena , la autora de la foto , y para evitar equivocaciones me ha aclarado algunos conceptos de la foto.

En la entrada me han entregado un plano para que me oriente en el recorrido. Busco el centro neurálgico de este lugar, el llamado “pozo iniciático”, que está situado en el otro extremo de los jardines. Observo las grutas subterráneas que cruzan y se entrecruzan todas ellas hacia un destino común, el mencionado pozo. Inicio mi viaje tomando el sendero de mi izquierda, dejando el palacio para el final.

"Someday they will come to tell you

that they believe you and love you

and how they want you...

Have your mind to the child,

lock the door with a key,

they tell lies.

One day there will come gnostics and grammarians

to persuate you...

Have your mind to the child,

lock the door with a key,

they will sell you.

And when the times will come,

when the candle has gone out

in the storm,

defend the child.

Because if the child is spared,

there is hope."

Κάποτε θα ΄ρθουν να σου πουν🎼

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"Patience is a virtue,

possess it if you can.

Seldom found in woman,

never found in man."

- An old saying.

These beautiful seagulls were sitting there waiting. Waiting perhaps for someone to offer them a morsel, despite the signs which clearly said, "Do not feed the birds."

Waiting requires the virtue of patience. It also needs hope. Waiting is a state of being between moments and events. For this we need faith. These are all things philosophers have taught us from the ancient Greeks to modern existentialists. The world is waiting right now. We are about to move from one act to another in this drama of souls.

In a small reflective book published in 1982, the English theologian W.H. Vanstone wrote these words:

"...a person to whom few things are important rarely waits. A person who views the world with indifference rarely finds himself waiting. Conversely a person to whom many things matter will often find himself waiting. The experience of waiting is the experience of the world as in some sense mattering, as being of some kind of importance."

("The Stature of Waiting", Morehouse Publishing, 2006).

Vanstone then goes on and shows how our faith and hope and love for our world will drive us on in even the most trying circumstances that we do not understand:

"To man as he waits the world discloses its power of meaning - discloses itself in its heights and its depths, as wonder and terror, as blessing and threat. Man becomes, so to speak, the sharer with God of a secret - the secret of the world's power of meaning." (p.112)

We cannot be sure of comfort in these words, life wasn't meant to be easy, and recall that the evolutionary process itself seems extremely costly and is full of dead ends (extinctions). No wonder the ancient Gnostics believed that the True God was beyond all this and hidden from view. That this world of woe is much the creation of a lesser god or fallen angel (Yaldabaoth) and that true liberation comes when our spirits are reunited with the Eternal Spirit after we have "shuffled off this mortal coil" as Shakespeare put it. www.worldhistory.org/Gnosticism/

Whatever your beliefs, this much is true: We must wait. And to do so we need the virtues of patience, hope, faith and above all love. We must love each other.

Los cátaros surgieron sobre los rescoldos del gnosticismo y tuvieron un razonable éxito de propagación entre los siglos XI y XIV. De manera que la Gran Iglesia los vio como un peligro para su hegemonía y decidió crear la Santa Inquisición para su represión. A partir de ahí el término cátaro quedó ligado al de «hereje».

Para conocer más sobre este tema consulta el siguiente vídeo de la escritora Ibiza Melián: youtu.be/awsFvbGCPGI

Gnosticismo del que habló en su libro La corrupción inarmónica: www.amazon.es/dp/B082TMYP7X/

While disciples make their hajj to William Blake, I would rather

pause to kiss the air on behalf of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 - 1919,

of Dane County, Wisconsin, who wrote, a pat on the back is only a

few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, Mrs. Wilcox one

of the Midwestern gnostic poets at the edge of where the country

broke in half, where the midday moon appears crenelated and rusts

through the sky. The wind could channel the vapors of atmospheric disturbance above Galena or Mt. Horeb, could summon thunderheads and crackle the blue, but sweet, dead Mrs. Wheeler Wilcox would

remain speechless under her sod, gone with those who gathered

thistles and eulogized the russet manes of draft horses, camisoles

and ice frescoes. I think of her now as I pump this roadside

spigot and listen for whatever life begins its upward journey

hundreds of feet below. A sputter, a muddy burst, then

I speak in tongues, a lukewarm joy I bend toward and sop up.

It's hard enough to rescue the lost who are still with us, but

those who wrote so plain seem unanointed, few thickets to hew

or Latin to transliterate. We drink what the well sends up, no

matter how aged or mineralized or from which artesian spring it

comes, earthy in my cup of hands, water from underground, from

lightless cisterns, free flowing long after we let go. And for

hours afterward an indefinite taste remains in my mouth, of words,

I think, untapped, moving miles down in subterranean rivers and

black, enormous lakes that exist on maps only the dead possess.

--M deO

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Ce qui est fêlé laisse passer la lumière. Et c’est par leur usure que les objets produits industriellement prennent leur caractère, leur individualité, et deviennent irremplaçables. Ce genre de réflexion, c’est du déjà-vu. Tout comme l’exil (auquel il fut naïvement question de faire dos) était déjà écrit, imparfaitement, avec des manières maladroites de gamin de vingt ans. Nous sommes des primates, nous vivons littéralement “à la suite d’un mandrill” et nous sommes biologiquement programmés pour croire en la divinité. C’est ce qui rendit fêlés les gnostiques dézingueurs de démiurge, qu’ils le nommassent Samaël ou Ialdabaoth ; c’est ce qui rendit Wolfgang Pauli alcoolique, malgré tout son génie. Mais bien obligés, clopin-clopant, de faire chemin bon gré mal gré, à l’aveugle, au petit bonheur la chance, en écho à une plus ancienne procession de boiteux (c’était en des temps d’esbroufe). C’est ce qui explique la joie de retrouver son “terrain”, de renouer avec un septième paysage qu’on n’avait pas su chérir suffisamment, de fantasmer un retour aux sources, des retrouvailles, ou d’imaginer de jolies messes d’enterrement. Aimer la fêlure ou procéder à sa réparation ? Peu importe. Assaisonner les restes de viande et de légumes qui débordaient du römertopf, pousser jusqu’au bout ce vieux thème à peine suggéré, pour parler de singes et de civilisation, sous-entendre que toute imitation est nécessairement diabolique, qu’on sait très bien reconnaître une parodie d’empire. Ne jamais voir New York, en garder le kitsch intact, rester à la remorque, s’épargner l’impact… Parfois, il vaut mieux ne pas donner de la voix. Parfois, il n’est pas nécessaire d’avoir fait ses devoirs. Parfois, il n’y a pas à culpabiliser. Ça n’empêche pas de s’excuser de ses manquements. Mieux vaut tard que jamais, malgré une bribe déjà lâchée lors d’un trente-cinquième hiver, et dans la ressuscitation d’un soupir ursin, techniquement pie, symboliquement bipolaire.

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What is cracked lets the light through. And it is through wear that industrially produced objects acquire their character, their individuality, and become irreplaceable. This kind of reflection is nothing new. Just as exile — which one once naïvely thought to turn one’s back on — had already been written, imperfectly, in the awkward gestures of a twenty-year-old boy. We are primates. We live quite literally "in the wake of a mandrill", and we are biologically wired to believe in divinity. That is what cracked the Gnostic demigod-bashers, whether they called him Samael or Ialdabaoth; what turned Wolfgang Pauli into an alcoholic, genius notwithstanding. And yet we are forced — limping along, for better or worse, blindly, by sheer chance — to keep moving forward, echoing an older procession of cripples (back in more boastful times). This is what explains the joy of returning to one’s “ground,” of reconnecting with a seventh landscape one failed to cherish enough, of fantasizing about a return to the source, reunions, or even imagining graceful funeral rites. To love the crack or to attempt its repair? It hardly matters. To season the leftovers of meat and vegetables spilling out of the Römertopf, to carry through to the end an old theme barely sketched out: to speak of monkeys and civilization, to imply that every imitation is necessarily diabolical, that we know perfectly well how to recognize a parody of empire.

Never seeing New York — keeping its kitsch intact — staying in tow, sparing oneself the impact. Sometimes it is better not to raise one’s voice. Sometimes it is not necessary to have done one’s homework. Sometimes there is no need to feel guilty. That does not prevent apologizing for one’s shortcomings. Better late than never, despite a fragment already released during a thirty-fifth winter, and in the resurrection of a ursine sigh — technically magpie-patterned, symbolically bipolar.

It seems that the contemporary mind would have us believe that humanity does not belong on the earth...we are just parasites...that we only choose to consume and control. It would be better to erase the face of humanity...and the world would be eden again. I disagree! The world is full of beautiful people...

-rc

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The Lord made the world and made man in order that He Himself might descend into the world, that He Himself might become Man. When He regarded the world He was about to make He saw His wisdom, as a man-child, “playing in the world, playing before Him at all times.” And He reflected, “My delights are to be with the children of men.” The world was not made as a prison for fallen spirits who were rejected by God: this is the Gnostic error. The world was made as a temple, a paradise, into which God Himself would descend to dwell familiarly with the spirits He had placed there to tend it for Him.

-Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1961), 290.

Toy Sunday - What started it all

Here I am infront of the double Byzantine church which is built directly into the rock. One half is dedicated to St. Spyridon and the other to St. Nicolas. It was used by twelfth-century Christian hermits associated with the Gnostics.

Today's outing with the Environmental Cultural Club of Attica (www.peripolo.gr) was to visit the Ancient quarries of Mount Pentelikon where the world renowned marble was taken from, which was used to build the Acropolis and other Ancient Monuments.

The ancient quarry is protected by law, and used exclusively to obtain material for the Acropolis Restoration Project. This roadway, used to transport marble blocks from the quarry to the Acropolis in antiquity, is a continual downhill, and follows the natural lay of the land. It has been researched and fully documented by the chief Acropolis restoration architect, Professor Manolis Korres, in his award-winning book "From Pentelicon to the Parthenon". A monastery is also located in the middle of the mountain, north-east of city centre.

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The Druze town of Daliat El-Carmel, located on the Carmel Mountain in Northern Israel, is the largest of Druze settlements in the country. The Druze people speak Arabic but they do not identify themselves as Arabs, their secret religion is somewhat close to Gnosticism. They are very friendly and hospitable - it is a real pleasure to be among them!

Enter your dreams

swim beside them

flow with yourself

float higher than you ever dared

before, now after them!

you're free, you've let yourself go

broken away from conformity

differenced your own opinion

preconceived the unforeseen

challenged time itself

deceived negativity

embraced optimism

on the spur of the moment

dived into the orbit

tweaked at the vortex of reality

now rest your mind

radiate

pause and ponder

feel

float

no part is alone

no part is overthrown

there is only you...

you...you reign supreme

but you're not alone

the ibidem is illusionary

but real too

let yourself be nature-gnostic

see the reflection of your waterheart

enjoy the flowshow exemplum.

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11h25: 11/01/2008

© 2008anglia24

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Listening to: Airwave: "Save Me"

El Palácio da Regaleira es el edificio principal y el nombre más común de la Quinta da Regaleira. También llamado Palácio do Monteiro dos Milhões (Palacio de Monteiro el de los Millones) por el apellido de su primer propietario, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro. El palacio está situado en pleno Centro Histórico de Sintra y está clasificado como Patrimonio Mundial por la Unesco.Carvalho Monteiro, ayudado por el arquitecto italiano Luigi Manini, da a la Quinta de cuatro hectáreas el palacio, jardines lujuriantes, lagos, grutas y edificios enigmáticos, lugares que esconden significados relacionados con la alquimia, la masonería, los templarios y la rosacruz. Modela la quinta con construcciones que evocan las arquitecturas románica, gótica, renacentista y manuelina.

Situado en la Estrada Nova da Rainha, en pleno Centro Histórico de Sintra y muy cerca del Palácio de Seteais, la quinta se beneficia del microclima de la sierra de Sintra, que contribuye en gran medida con sus nieblas constantes al aura de misterio de los lujuriantes jardines.

La documentación histórica relativa a la Quinta da Regaleira es escasa para los tiempos anteriores a su compra por Carvalho Monteiro. Se sabe que, en 1697, José Leite era el propietario de una vasta propiedad en los alrededores de la villa de Sintra, que hoy integra la Quinta.

Francisco Alberto Guimarães de Castro compró la propiedad (conocida como Quinta da Torre o Quinta do Castro en 1715), en subasta pública, canalizó el agua de la sierra con el fin de alimentar una fuente.

En 1830 pertenece a Manual Bernardo, y toma el nombre que posee actualmente. En 1840, la Quinta da Regaleira es adquirida por la hija de una comerciante de Oporto, Allen, que más tarde recibió el título de baronesa da Regaleira. Data de este período la construcción de una casa de campo, visible en algunas representaciones iconográficas de finales del siglo XIX.

La historia de la Regaleira actual comienza en 1892, año en el que los barones da Regaleira venden la propiedad al Dr. António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro por veinticinco contos de réis. La mayor parte de la construcción actual de la quinta estaba terminada en 1910.

La quinta fue vendida a Waldemar Jara d'Orey en 1942, quien, sin desvirtuar la concepción original del lugar, realizó pequeñas obras para acoger a su gran familia. En 1987 la Quinta da Regaleira es adquirida por la empresa japonesa Aoki Corporation y deja de servir como alojamiento; fue entregada al cuidado de guardeses y permaneció cerrada al público.

En 1997, el ayuntamiento de Sintra adquirió este valioso patrimonio; poco después inició un exhaustivo trabajo de recuperación del patrimonio edificado y de los jardines. Desde entonces, la Quinta da Regaleira está abierta al público y alberga diversas actividades culturales.

Parece evidente que la concepción religiosa del mundo que preside la Regaleira se asienta en el cristianismo, pero en un cristianismo escatológico, relacionado con el fin de los tiempos. Quiere recordarnos la lección de la escatología cósmica, que anuncia el fin del universo y de la humanidad, y al mismo tiempo que nos atengamos a la escatología individual, asentada en la creencia de la supervivencia del alma después de la muerte. Es también un cristianismo gnóstico, apoyado en discursos míticos y en conocimientos sagrados que prometen la salvación de los fieles y el retorno de los espíritus. Es, en fin, un cristianismo imbuido de ideales neotemplarios, asociados al culto del Espíritu Santo, que encontramos en la tradición mítica portuguesa.

La cruz templaria en el fondo del pozo iniciático, la Cruz de la Orden de Cristo en el pavimento de la capilla, así como todas las otras cruces dispuestas en la misma, testimonian la influencia del templarismo en el ideario sincrético de Carvalho Monteiro.

Carvalho Monteiro tenía el deseo de construir un espacio grandioso, en el que vivir rodeado de todos los símbolos que reflejaran sus intereses e ideologías. Conservador, monárquico y cristiano gnóstico, Carvalho Monteiro quiere resucitar el pasado más glorioso de Portugal, de ahí el predominio del estilo neomanuelino, relacionado con la época de los grandes descubrimientos geográficos; esta evocación del pasado incluye también el gótico y algunos elementos neoclásicos. La diversidad de la quinta está enriquecida con simbolismos de temas esotéricos relacionados com la alquimia, la masonería, los templarios y la Rosacruz.

Bosque:

El bosque, que ocupa la mayor parte del espacio de la Quinta, no está dispuesto al azar. Comienza más ordenado y cuidado en la parte más baja da quinta, pero se va haciendo progresivamente más salvaje a medida que se asciende hasta la parte alta. Esta disposición refleja la creencia en el primitivismo de Carvalho Monteiro.

Patamar dos deuses (Rellano de los dioses)

A la entrada de este rellano, una estatua de Hermes, el mensajero de los dioses y la personificación de la revelación de la sabiduría, parece anunciar los otros dioses que bordean este rellano. En el centro hay dos estatuas de quimeras, símbolos de ilusión y utopía.

Pozo iniciático:

Una galería subterránea con una escalera en espiral, sustentada por columnas esculpidas, desciende hasta el fondo del pozo a través de nueve rellanos. Los nueve rellanos circulares del pozo, separados entre sí por quince peldaños, evocan referencias a La Divina Comedia de Dante, y pueden representar los nueve círculos del infierno, los del paraíso, o los del purgatorio. Según los reputados ocultistas Albert Pike, René Guénon y Manly Palmer Hall, es en 'La Divina Comedia' donde se encuentra por primera vez expuesta la Orden Rosacruz. En el fondo del pozo está, embutida en mármol, una rosa de los vientos sobre una cruz templaria, el emblema heráldico de Carvalho Monteiro y, simultáneamente, indicativo de la Orden Rosacruz.

El pozo se denomina iniciático porque se sabe que era usado en rituales masónicos de iniciación; se dice que la explicación del simbolismo de los nueve peldaños se encuentra en la obra Conceito Rosacruz do Cosmos.

La simbología del lugar está relacionada con la creencia de que la tierra es el útero materno de donde proviene la vida, pero también la sepultura a donde volverá. Muchos ritos de iniciación aluden a aspectos del nacimiento y de la muerte ligados a la terra, o al renacimiento.

El pozo está comunicado mediante varias galerías o túneles con otros puntos de la quinta: la entrada dos guardiôes (entrada de los guardianes), el lago de la cascada y el pozo imperfecto. Estos túneles, otrora habitados por murciélagos, hoy en día alejados por los muchos turistas que visitan el lugar, están recubiertos con piedra importada de la costa marítima de la región de Peniche, para sugerir un mundo sumergido.

La capilla de la santísima Trinidad.

De construcción neogótica y neomanuelina ( típica portuguesa) se trata de una pequeña capilla situada a un lado de la casa principal que en la parte trasera tiene un estanque.

La capilla cuenta con una parte alta desde la que puede divisarse el suelo de la parte baja con la cruz de la orden de cristo en todo su esplendor y también cuenta con una cripta en el subsuelo; los días que estuvimos allí afortunadamente la entrada a la Cripta estaba abierta. En ella descubrimos una puerta con una reja que también estaba abierta y bajando por allí comprobamos que daba a una galería subterránea que comunicaba con el Pozo Iniciático.

El estanque es el denominado Lago de los cisnes y enfrente de él hay un precioso banco con arcos de arquitectura también gótica.

Le piramidi sono fatte di calcestruzzo?

Le pietre delle piramidi sono sintetiche provenienti da una pietrificazione artificiali con un cemento geopolimerico e costruite con stampi.

Dagli anni 80, Joseph Davidovits dimostra che le piramidi ed i templi dell'Antico Impero egiziano furono costruiti in calcare agglomerato e non con blocchi di calcare tagliato e trasportato dalle cave. Questo tipo di calcestruzzo, con conchiglie fossilizzate, sarebbero state così costruite o compattate in stampi. Gli operai egiziani hanno estratto il materiale nelle cave di calcare relativamente tenero, poi l'hanno disgregato con l'acqua, mischiato questa pasta di calcare con della calce e degli ingredienti come l'argilla caolinitica, il limo ed il sale natron egiziano (carbonato di sodio) formando dei tecto-alumino-silicati (geosintesi). Il fando di calcare (includente le conchiglie fossili) fu trasportato in ceste poi versato, piggiato o compattato in stampi (fatti di legno, pietra, argilla o mattoni) posti sull'area delle piramidi.

Questo calcare ri-agglomerato, unito in situ attraverso reazione geopolimerica (chiamata cemento geopolimerico), indurisce in blocchi di grande ressitenza. Nel 1979, al 2° Congresso Internazionale degli Egittologi a Grenoble in Francia, Joseph Davidovits presentò due conferenze. Una espose l'ipotesi che i blocchi di piramide sono stati costruiti come calcestruzzo invece di essere tagliati. Una tale teoria era molto imbarazzante in rapporto alla teoria classica con le sue centinaia di migliaia di operai partecipanti a questo sforzo gigantesco. La seconda conferenze ha sottolineato che dei vasi in pietra, costruiti 5.000 anni fa da artigiano egiziani, sono stati fatti in pietra dura sintetica (fatti a mano).

Imhotep l’Alchimista

IL SOMMO SACERDOTE IMHOTEP INVENTÒ LA FORMULA CHIMICA 5000 ANNI FA

Ideatore e costruttore della PRIMA PIRAMIDE della storia

la piramide a gradini di Saqqara

Imhotep ha ideato e costruito la prima piramide della storia umana, la piramide a gradini di Saqqara, la prima manifestazione della conoscenza più elevata nell'Egitto antico.

Egli faceva parte di un'organizzazione chiusa di sacerdoti chiamati scuola dei misteri "dell'occhio di Horus", i custodi esclusivi della conoscenza nell'Egitto antico.

Imhotep. il cui nome significa "il saggio che viene in pace", occupa un posto particolare nella storia. Era venerato in Egitto da tre millenni- cioè, da quando era in vita durante il regno del Re Djoser sino alle conquiste greche e romane in Egitto. Suo padre era l'architetto reale Kanofer, sua madre Khredonkh, una nobile ereditaria. Molto giovane, Imhotep ricevette il sacerdozio e cominciò a vivere nel tempio di Annu sulle rive del Nilo- un centro della scienza e della religione, con una grande biblioteva. Là imhotep apprese come leggere e scrivere nella lingua simbolica dei geroglifici.

Imhotep lasciò dei piani di ideazione dei templi che venivano costruiti migliaia di anni dopo la sua morte, come indicato dagli ieroglifici di numerosi templi. Era geometra, dottore in medicina, inventore del Caduceo, l'attuale simbolo dei medici. La leggenda riporta che Imhotep divise i cieli in settori di 30°, conosciuti oggi come le zone dello zodiaco, per osservare i movimenti delle stelle e delle costellazioni.

Un sacerdote-scienziato come Imhotep, che riusciva a fare vasi di pietra, beneficio di uno statuto speciale, poiché la sua conoscenza gli permise di dare la forma alle pietre e la pietra per gli Egiziani era il simbolo dell'eternità. Dopo la sua morte, è stato divinizzato dagli Egiziani che lo hanno identificato con Thoth, la divinità dal volto di Ibis, dio della saggezza. Gli gnostici l'hanno chiamato Ermete Trismegisto, tre volte grande, fondatore e origine della loro sapienza esoterica.

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Del griego ἀβράξας abráxas, cuyas letras, en su equivalencia numérica, suman 365, pues α = 1, β = 2, ρ = 100, ξ = 60 y ς = 200.

1. m. Voz simbólica entre los gnósticos, expresiva del curso del Sol en los 365 días del año y representativa del dios todopoderoso.

2. f. Piedra donde estaba grabada la palabra abraxas y que los gnósticos llevaban como talismán.

From the Greek ἀβράξας abráxas, whose letters, in their numerical equivalence, add up to 365, for α = 1, β = 2, ρ = 100, ξ = 60, and ς = 200.

1. m. A symbolic voice among the Gnostics, expressive of the course of the Sun in the 365 days of the year, and representative of the almighty god.

2. f. A stone on which the word abraxas was engraved and which the Gnostics carried as a talisman.

By contemplating the created order, and by contemplating and ordering the moral structure of one’s own life, one would be led to the pure theoria of the fountainhead of all existence, ho on, ‘the existing one’, ‘He Who is’, this being the name of God revealed to Moses at the burning bush. Historical revelation in this light becomes God’s method of spelling out truth in the terms of the world: an arrangement of clues which, rightly seen, leads to illumination. However, this is not really comparable to the enlightenment of the gnostic: there is no ‘technology’ here, no suggestion of control over the laws of the Spirit. The end is simply contemplation, the enjoying of God for his sake alone; and Philo shares the biblical repugnance for any suggestion that God can be brought into human control. God can never be contained in human concepts. Moses ascends into a cloud and darkness beyond the scope of intellect, where God offers himself directly to the vision, without the intervention of any form or idea. Here, then, the pilgrimage of the understanding is seen not (as for the gnostic) in terms of acquisition but in terms of stripping away, the stripping of multiple and diffuse kinds of apprehension to the simplicity of a single-hearted vision –in Platonic terms, the return from the Many to the primal One.

- The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS

Showing itself primarily in ancient Gnostic texts, the Ouroboros is any image of a snake, worm, serpent, or dragon biting its own tail. Generally taking on a circular form, the symbol is representative of many broad concepts. Time, life continuity, completion, the repetition of history, the self-sufficiency of nature, and the rebirth of the earth can all be seen within the circular boundaries of the Ouroboros.

Societies from throughout history have shaped the Ouroboros to fit their own beliefs and purposes. The image has been seen in ancient Egypt, Japan, India, utilized in Greek alchemic texts, European woodcuts, Native American Indian tribes, and even by the Aztecs. It has, at times, been directly associated to such varying symbols as the Roman god Janus, the Chinese Ying Yang, and the Biblical serpent of the garden of Eden. Even The X-Files' Dana Scully chose the Ouroboros to be tattooed on her back because she felt it represented the progression of her life. It seems that the Ouroboros is a powerful archetypal symbol, a part of our Spiritus Mundi, the collective unconscious which thrives within each and every human being regardless of race or culture.

Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos leads the Orthodox Christmas procession inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 6, 2011.

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Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos leads the Orthodox Christmas procession inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 6, 2011.

Shortly about me:

It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.

In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.

The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »

The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .

If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.

......William Blake in the early nineteenth and Carl Jung in the early twentieth century rediscovered the basic truths outlined by Swedenborg. Blake, as an artist, used Swedenborgian fragments to create his epics of psychic conflict. Jung, using a very Swedenborgian technique of active imagination, made contact with various autonomous archetypal entities. He used this almost shamanic knowledge to help others heal and grow toward a new level of human-ness. Blake and Jung, like Swedenborg, sustained an on-going dialogue with the Spirits of the dead. Jung’s Seven Sermons for the Dead, a gnostic tract written at the Spirits’ insistence during the depths of World War I, begins, “We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.” Like Swedenborg, Jung concludes that heaven and hell are mental states, and that it is the living who have much to teach the dead, not the other way around. After Swedenborg, the psychic intrusion, the invasion of the Spirits, was simply a matter of time. The framework was in place, awaiting only the eruption of phenomena to animate its belief system. The question of extra-terrestrial life blurred and merged with the idea of Spirits. As Spiritualism expanded the mental horizons of the Victorians, the issue of other life in the universe gained a whole new level of meaning.

Sophie

I was sent forth from the power,

and I have come to those who reflect upon me,

and I have been found among those who seek after me.

Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,

and you hearers, hear me.

You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.

And do not banish me from your sight.

And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.

Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!

Do not be ignorant of me.

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

(Apocryph, gnostic text from The Nag Hammadi Library, 1945)

(Translated by George W. MacRae)

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It seems that the contemporary mind would have us believe that humanity does not belong on the earth...we are just parasites...that only choose to consume and control. It would be better to erase the face of humanity...and the world would be eden again. I disagree! The world is full of beautiful people...

-rc

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The Lord made the world and made man in order that He Himself might descend into the world, that He Himself might become Man. When He regarded the world He was about to make He saw His wisdom, as a man-child, “playing in the world, playing before Him at all times.” And He reflected, “My delights are to be with the children of men.” The world was not made as a prison for fallen spirits who were rejected by God: this is the Gnostic error. The world was made as a temple, a paradise, into which God Himself would descend to dwell familiarly with the spirits He had placed there to tend it for Him.

-Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1961), 290.

El gnosticismo fue señalado como fuera de la ortodoxia desde los comienzos del cristianismo. San Pablo se opuso a este modelo de pensamiento, por negar la resurrección corporal. El vocablo griego «gnosis» se traduce como conocimiento. Término del que deriva la palabra «gnóstico» y que atañe al que conoce, al «iniciado».

La persona para los gnósticos queda conformada por cuerpo, alma y espíritu. Donde el espíritu es la parte más elevada del ser humano, por lo que exclusivamente los hombres espirituales son los que se salvan. Aquellos que son capaces de hallar en su interior la «chispa» o «centella» divina. Sin embargo, la «Gran Iglesia» en el Concilio de Constantinopla IV, celebrado en el 870, equiparó el alma al espíritu y condenó como herejía la concepción tricotomista.

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In around the 11th century, two byzantine chapels were carved directly into the rock of the Davelis cave entrance which are rather unusual in the fact that they are interconnected, converging as one church within two sanctums and are said to be dedicated to Saint Spyridon and Saint Nicolas. The smaller of the chapels contains glyphs and engravings thought to have been produced by the anchorites, and there is a mural in the larger one depicting Michael Akominatos, the last Greek archbishop of Athens.

They were used by twelfth-century Christian hermits associated with the Gnostics.

Today's outing with the Environmental Cultural Club of Attica (www.peripolo.gr) was to visit the Ancient quarries of Mount Pentelikon where the world renowned marble was taken from, which was used to build the Acropolis and other Ancient Monuments.

The ancient quarry is protected by law, and used exclusively to obtain material for the Acropolis Restoration Project. This roadway, used to transport marble blocks from the quarry to the Acropolis in antiquity, is a continual downhill, and follows the natural lay of the land. It has been researched and fully documented by the chief Acropolis restoration architect, Professor Manolis Korres, in his award-winning book "From Pentelicon to the Parthenon". A monastery is also located in the middle of the mountain, north-east of city centre.

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Serapis, also spelled Sarapis, Greco-Egyptian deity of the Sun first encountered at Memphis, where his cult was celebrated in association with that of the sacred Egyptian bull Apis (who was called Osorapis when deceased). He was thus originally a god of the underworld but was reintroduced as a new deity with many Hellenic aspects by Ptolemy I Soter (reigned 305–284 BCE), who centred the worship of the deity at Alexandria.

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The Serapeum at Alexandria was the largest and best known of the god’s temples. The cult statue there represented Serapis as a robed and bearded figure regally enthroned, his right hand resting on Cerberus (the three-headed dog who guards the gate of the underworld), while his left held an upraised sceptre. Gradually Serapis became revered not only as a Sun god (“Zeus Serapis”) but also as a lord of healing and of fertility. His worship was established in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean, following the trade routes and being particularly prominent in the great commercial cities. Among the Gnostics (early Christian heretics who believed that matter is evil and the spirit is good) he was a symbol of the universal godhead. The destruction of the Serapeum at Alexandria by Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, and his followers in 391 CE—together with the obliteration of other pagan temples (all with the encouragement of Emperor Theodosius I)—signaled the final triumph of Christianity not only in Egypt but throughout the Roman Empire.

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Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist. A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer," she published more than 20 books in her life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonderment at life and death, makes her writing unique.... She's still regarded by most as one of the best Canadian poets."

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“Όσοι πιστοί,προσέλθετε“!

ΚΑΘΕΔΡΙΚΟΣ ΝΑΟΣ ΚΟΙΜΗΣΕΩΣ ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟΥ ΥΔΡΑΣ

«ΜΟΝΑΣΤΗΡΙ»

Το ιστορικό Μοναστήρι της Ύδρας, η παλαίφατος Μονή Παναγίας της «Φανερωμένης» και νυν Καθεδρικός Ναός της Μητροπόλεώς μας, αποτελεί το κόσμημα της ηρωοτόκου και αγιοτόκου ενδόξου Νήσου μας. Είναι το Μοναστήρι- έτσι το αποκαλούμε μέχρι σήμερα- που έδρασε την περίοδο της δουλείας του Γένους και που τις ημέρες του Αγώνα της Εθνεγερσίας έλαβε ευθύνες και πρωτοβουλίες σημαντικές.

Από ιστορικές πηγές η πρώτη ίδρυση τοποθετείται πριν από το έτος 1655. Η ιστορία του Αντωνίου Μιαούλη «περί της Νήσου Ύδρας» αναφέρει ότι η Μονή εκτίσθη το έτος 1643. Τα εγκαίνια του Ναού ετελέσθησαν πριν από το 17ο αι. στο όνομα του Αγ. Χαραλάμπους και η μετατροπή του έγινε στις αρχές του 17ου αι.

Στην αρχή η Μονή ήταν γυναικεία, συγκροτήθηκε από μια αδελφότητα 18 μοναζουσών και εν συνεχεία μετετράπη σε ανδρώα. Το έτος 1747 η Μονή μετετράπη σε Σταυροπηγιακή με Πατριαρχικό Γράμμα του Πατριάρχη Παϊσίου.

Σημαντική προσωπικότητα στην εξέλιξη της Μονής υπήρξε ο ηγούμενος Νεόφυτος Ζώταλης και μετά την κοίμησή του, το έργο του συνέχισε ο ανιψιός του Ιερόθεος Ζώταλης, ο οποίος και περάτωσε την ανακαίνιση της Μονής το έτος 1774.

Πρώτος Ηγούμενος υπήρξε ο Λαυρέντιος (1769-1779) και ο κατάλογος συνεχίζεται μέχρι και τον Άνθιμο (1820-1824).

Κατά την επανάστασιν του 1821 στο Μοναστήρι αυτό συνεδρίαζαν οι Προεστώτες και οι Ναυμάχοι, οι Καπεταναίοι και ο Λαός. Έγινε το κέντρο για την απελευθέρωση του Γένους μας, γι’ αυτό και φέρει το προσωνύμιο «Ναυαρχείο».

Ο Ναός αποτελεί σήμερα ένα Μουσείο Τέχνης, το οποίο όμως δεν παύει να είναι και η βασικότερη ενορία της Ύδρας.

Η αρχιτεκτονική ακολουθεί το σχήμα των Βυζαντινών Μονών με σαφείς επιρροές από τους χρόνους μετά την άλωση. Το Καθολικό είναι τρίκλιτη θολωτή Βασιλική μετά τρούλου. Τα κλίτη χωρίζονται με κιονοστοιχίες: Το μεσαίο είναι αφιερωμένο στην Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου, το δεξί στον Αγ. Χαράλαμπο και το αριστερό στον Αγ. Νικόλαο. Το σημαντικότατο Τέμπλο του Ναού κατασκευάσθηκε επί ηγουμενίας Ιεροθέου του 2ου από τον Αρχιτέκτονα Γαβριήλ. Είναι κατασκευασμένο όλο από ατόφιο λευκό μάρμαρο με πλούσια και έντονη ανάγλυφη διακόσμηση (γλυπτά σταυροί, έξεργα, θωράκια, ιωνικοί κιονίσκοι κ.α.). Στο τέμπλο βρίσκονται και οι αξιόλογες εικόνες του Ναού με πλούσια διακόσμημένα επικαλύμματα που υπήρξαν δώρα εις τον Ναό από πλούσιους Υδραίους και Ναυμάχους.

Η γενικότερη διακόσμηση του Ναού είναι καταπληκτική: Η εφέστιος εικόνα της Φανερωμένης βρίσκεται στο παλαιό προσκυνητάρι του Τέμπλου, εικόνες του τέμπλου και φορητές όπως η Παναγία η Βρεφοκρατούσα (η Παναγία του Μαλίκη), Αγ. Κων/νου του Υδραίου, Ευαγγελισμού της Θεοτόκου, Αγ. Σπυρίδωνος κ.α.

Οι πολυέλαιοι και τα κανδήλια προσθέτουν αίγλη στη θέα του Ναού: Υπάρχουν τέσσερις πολυέλαιοι, ο κεντρικός έργο του Κουσουρέλη είναι ασημένιος και απεριγράπτου τέχνης. Την ίδια σχεδιαστική τεχνοτροπία ακολουθούν και οι δύο μικρότεροι στο κεντρικό κλίτος. Ο πιο πολύτιμος και θρυλικός είναι ο εξάφωτος που βρίσκεται κοντά στην ωραία πύλη και έφτασε στην Ύδρα από την Γαλλία ή την Ισπανία. Πρέπει να τονιστεί ότι όλοι οι πολυέλαιοι του Ναού και τα κανδύλια δεν λειτουργούν με ρεύμα αλλά με κεριά ή λάδι.

Τα πάμπολλα κειμήλια του Ναού εκτίθενται στο Εκκλησιαστικό Μουσείο που λειτουργεί εντός του χώρου της Μονής.

Το Μοναστήρι έχει δύο κωδωνοστάσια. Το «μικρό» ανεγέρθηκε το 1806 και το δεύτερο και μεγαλύτερο το 1874. Και τα δύο είναι μαρμάρινα με πλούσιο γλυπτό διάκοσμο, οι δε ήχοι των μεγάλων κωδώνων που κρούουν από το Μεγάλο Κωδωνοστάσιο δημιουργούν δέος και κατάνυξη.

Εκατέρωθεν της εισόδου διακρίνουμε τα αγάλματα των Ανδρέα Μιαούλη και Λαζάρου Κουντουριώτη

ΤΟ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ «ΑΓΙΟΣ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΣ ΝΟΤΑΡΑΣ»

Το Εκκλησιαστικό Μουσείο « Άγιος Μακάριος Νοταράς» στεγάζεται στην δυτική πλευρά του μοναστηριακού συγκροτήματος και λειτουργεί από το 1999. Φυλάσσονται σε ειδικές προθήκες όλα τα κειμήλια του μοναστηριού ήτοι ιερές εικόνες, άμφια, ιερά σκεύη, μουσικά χειρόγραφα, τούρκικα φιρμάνια, κ.α.

Υπάρχουν και κειμήλια από ιδιώτες όπως φορητές εικόνες του Αρχιμ.π. Αθανασίου Κουλούρα, προσωπικά αρχιερατικά αντικείμενα του μακαριστού Μητροπολίτου Ύδρας κυρού ΠΡΟΚΟΠΙΟΥ του Καραμάνου, τα οποία προσέφεραν οι ανηψιές του κ. Ελευθερία Σούλια και Μαρία Κουρουσοπούλου, προσωπικά αντικείμενα του μακαριστού Υδραίου Ιεράρχου, Μητροπολίτου Παροναξίας κυρού ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ, δωρεά του ανηψιού του Γεωργίου Ε.Καλαφάτη, ως περίτεχνος Σταυρός ευλογίας, δωρεά Άννας Δημ.Πέρκιζα.

Τα εγκαίνια του Μουσείου τελέσθηκαν επισήμως στις 15-8-2005 υπό του Μακαριωτάτου Αρχιεπισκόπου Αθηνών κ.κ. ΧΡΙΣΤΟΔΟΥΛΟΥ.

Το Μουσείο λειτουργεί από 1ης Απριλίου έως 15ης Νοεμβρίου καθημερινά εκτός Δευτέρας από τις 10 π.μ. έως 5 μ.μ.

Πρόεδρος του Δ.Σ. είναι ο Σεβ.Ποιμενάρχης μας κ.κ. Εφραίμ και Διευθυντής ο Γ.Α.Ε. π.Ακίνδυνος Δαρδανός. Κατ’έτος το επισκέπτονται περίπου 5.500 άτομα.

CATHEDRAL TOMORROOM OF THEATO CITY OF HYDRA

"MONASTERY"

The historic Monastery of Hydra, the old Monastery of Panagia of "Faneromeni" and the current Cathedral of our Metropolis, is the jewel of the heroot and the patron saint of our Inspirational Island. It is the Monastery - so we call it to this day - that it was during the period of the Gnostic slavery and that on the days of the National War took important responsibilities and initiatives.

From historical sources, the first foundation was established before 1655. The story of Antonius Miaoulis "about the island of Hydra" reports that the monastery was exalted in the year 1643. The inauguration of the church was carried out before the 17th century. In the name of Ag. Charalambous and its conversion was made in the early 17th century.

At first the Monastery was a feminine, formed by a fraternity of 18 monasteries and then turned into a man. In 1747 the monastery turned into a Stavropigiani with Patriarchal Letter of Patriarch Paisios.

An important figure in the development of the monastery was the abbot Neophytos Zothalis and after his death his work continued by the nephew of Jerome Zalalis, who completed the renovation of the monastery in 1774.

The first Abbot was Lavrentius (1769-1779) and the list continues until Anthimos (1820-1824).

During the Revolution of 1821 in the Monastery, the Presidents and the Sailors, the Captains and the People met. It became the center for the liberation of our Gentium, so it bears the nickname "Admiralty".

The Temple is today a Museum of Art, but it is still the Hydra's main parish.

The architecture follows the shape of the Byzantine Monasteries with clear influences from the times after the fall. The Katholikon is a three-aisled vaulted basilica with a dome. The aisles are separated by colonnades: the middle one is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, the right to St. John the Baptist. Charalambos and the left at Ag. Nicholas. The most important Temple of the Temple was constructed on the 2nd of Jerome by the architect Gabriel. It is made entirely of solid white marble with rich and intense relief decoration (sculptured crosses, sculptures, shields, Ionic columns etc.). In the iconostasis are also the remarkable icons of the Temple with richly decorated coverings that have been gifts to the Temple by wealthy Hydra and Marines.

The general decoration of the church is amazing: The icon of Faneromeni's iconic icon is found in the temple's iconostasis, icons of the iconostasis and portable ones such as Virgin Mary the Virgin Mary, Virgin Mary of Maliki, Hymn of the Hydra, Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, Spyridon and others

Chandeliers and candelabra add glamor to the view of the Temple: There are four chandeliers, the central work of Kusureli is silver and unrevealed art. The same design is followed by both smaller ones in the central aisle. The most precious and legendary is the exile near the beautiful gate and arrived in Hydra from France or Spain. It should be stressed that all the chandeliers of the Temple and the pots do not work with electricity but with candles or oil.

The many relics of the temple are exhibited at the Ecclesiastical Museum that operates within the Monastery's premises.

The monastery has two bell towers. The "small" was erected in 1806 and the second and largest in 1874. Both are marble with a rich sculptural decoration, and the sounds of the great bells that sound from the Grand Commons create awe and devotion.

THE CHURCH'S MUSEUM "AGIOS MAKARIOS NOTARAS"

The Ecclesiastical Museum "Aghios Makarios Notaras" is housed on the west side of the monastery complex and has been operating since 1999. All the relics of the monastery, such as sacred icons, vestments, sacred vessels, musical manuscripts, Turkish trumpets, etc., are kept in special showcases.

There are also relics of individuals such as portable images of Archimedes. Athanasios Koulouras, the personal archangelic objects of the late Metropolitan Hydra of the Prokopio of Karamanos, offered by Mr. Eleftheria Soulias and Maria Kourousopoulou, personal belongings of the late Hydra Hierarch, Metropolitan of Paranaxia, son of Epiphanios, donation of the niece of George E. Kalafatis, As an elaborate Cross of Blessing, donated by Anna Dima Perkiza.

The inauguration of the Museum was officially carried out on 15-8-2005 by the Archbishop of Athens, Messrs. CHRISTODOULOU.

The Museum is open from 1 April until 15 November every day except Mondays from 10 am Until 5 pm

Chairman of the Board of Directors Is our Deputy Principal Messrs. Efraim and Director of the SAE Dangerous Dardanos. Approximately 5,500 people visit it each year.

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This traditional Rose Window at the rear of the chapel at the Mount Royal Hospital is quite beautiful. You can actually see the two rose crosses at the top and the bottom. It might also be called a "Gospels Window".

In the centre is Christ the King, flanked on each side with the Greek letters "alpha" and "omega". This comes from the verse in the Book of Revelation 22:13, the great chapter where Christ is finally revealed in his full glory at the End of Time, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." This reflects orthodox Christian theology which sees Christ (in John's Gospel also known as The Logos or Word) as eternally pre-existing time.

The four canonical Gospels which tell his story are Matthew, Mark (the earliest version), Luke and John. These four canonical Gospels (accepted by AD381 at the Council of Constantinople) are not the only ones; "The Gospel of Thomas" is probably the most famous reject owing to its considered "Gnostic" elements. But the primary reason for only allowing four Gospels in the official text of the New Testament had to do with completeness. For example the "four winds of the earth", "north, south, east and west", the four sides of a square. This was a concept long considered a mark of perfection in Greek mythology.

Sobre la Inquisición española se han vertido grandes ríos de tinta, pero la leyenda negra ha difuminado la línea que separa la realidad de la exageración. Si en el vídeo anterior hablamos de la instauración de la Inquisición papal, concebida inicialmente para aplacar al grupo gnóstico de los cátaros, hoy nos centraremos en los orígenes de la Inquisición española. Inicios en los que se persiguió a los judeoconversos y moriscos.

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