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Exam 2 History of Witchcraft and Superstition
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Undergraduate 2
12/04/2015

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lived for 365 years.
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Enoch
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Never died, was translated. “Never saw or tasted from the bitter cup of death”
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Enoch
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Built underground temple. Descends by degrees. The more knowledge you obtain you become closer to God. 9 stone vaults.
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Enoch
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9th vault contains the golden plate from God. Ultimate wisdom, paradise of the occultist. The most sought after item of occultist societies.
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Eouch
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unity with God makes him eternal
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Enoch
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Master craftsman during the time of book of Solomon. Responsible for the construction of Solomon’s temple. One of the greatest creations in history
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Hiram Abif
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Killed because he they wanted his knowledge.
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Hiram Abif
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Becomes the inspirations for free masonry.
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Hiram Abif
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“Who will help the widow’s son?” Will you be civic minded, are you worthy?
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Hiram Abif
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Location of Solomon’s temple was chosen because it was thought to be location of Enoch’s temple.
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Hiram Abif
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Religious Crusaders (Nazis) 1000-1600.
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Knights Templar
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Jerusalem take from the Muslims. In search of golden plate (holy grail) in Solomon’s Temple.There are insinuations that they found it.
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Knights Templar
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Stone Mason’s Guild- Build Europe. Massive Cathedrals throughout the continent. Masonic secret symbology left in order to communicate with each other.
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Knights Templar
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1617-1692 embodies/personifies all of this occultism
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Elias Ash mole
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The Mercury Lover. Human Mercury
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Elias Ash mole
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Alchemist (philosopher’s stone), Freemason, academic, scientist, astrology, free thinker, civic minded, seeking eternal life in the example of Enoch.
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Elias Ash mole
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Casted very accurate horoscopes
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Elias Ash mole
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1760-1826 George Washington, Ben Franklin and John Hancock. 9 signers of the Declarations of Independence and 13 presidents have been
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Free Masons
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1. G=God and Geometry
2. Compass and Square.
3. Balanced Life.
4. Occult wisdom and civic duty.
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Freemason Zymology
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Free mason on steroids
1749-1830
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Adam Weishaupt
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Create a new world order (Illuminati)
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Adam Weishaupt
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1. Epitomize ambition.
2. Eliminate organized religion.
3. Opposed to oppressive government.
4. End superstation. “Superstition is the cause of world’s problems”. Enlightenment and philosophy can solve them.
5. Educations and Equality.
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Adam Weishaupt/Illuminati
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Mason who spews the secrets of the society.
Disappeared. Never heard of again (Hoffa style).
Mason’s viewed as killers.
Motivates and anti-freemason backlash is the US.
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William Morgan
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Leader of Mormons also a free mason.
Angel told him he can practice polygamy
Was not accepted by the US
Killed
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Joseph Smith
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Rewrote/revised all of the Free Mason rituals after the civil war. Died in 1897
iii. At the time of his death the term Satanic started to be associated with Satanic
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Albert Pike
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was the pursuit to create gold. It was thought metals were alive and could be grown.
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Alchemy
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i. Talisman (Philosopher’s stone)
ii. Substance thought to be able to transmute other metals into gold.
iii. Could give eternal life.
iv. Transmutation
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Zosomos of Ponomalas third century AD
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Alchemy was invented in
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Alexandria (Egypt)
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i. Invented Gun power while trying to create gold.
ii. Thought that he could summon the devil
1. Had a talking brass head
2. Mirror that could tell the future
3. Jailed by the pope.
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Roger Bacon
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i. Found the alchemists stone?
ii. Claimed that 1382 he succeeded in turning mercury into gold. Records in Paris endowed many charities with wealth before their deaths.
iii. Disappeared. No record of their death.
1. Citing of them around France, with a gold aura. 1818 (400 years later) in a coffee house someone claiming to be him offering to give secrets of philosophers stone.
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Nicolas Flemel
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i. Bombastic excessively pretentious.
1. Gave alchemist new focus. Healing.
2. Proved that lung disease was caused by mineral inhalation in caves
3. Treated syphilis’s with mercury. Was used until the 20th century.
4. The homunculus? Creating a human. Published the recipe. Told the world he destroyed his homunculus. Thought to be a soulless being because it was not created by god.
5. Died in 1541.
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Perselisis
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1. Alchemist
2. Inventor of calculus
3. At 51 he sent bizarre letters to his friends accusing them of falsehoods. Thought to be mercury poisoning.
a. Stands of his hair shows very high levels mercury.
b. Died in 1727 age of 85 after recovery from his episode.
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Isaac Newton
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disciple of Freud began to associate alchemy to dream vision symbols of his patients.
Message of physic healing from the subconscious.
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Karl Jung 1920s
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physicist used transmutation used a particle accelerator to infused mercury with neurons and create gold in
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1941
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1688-1772: The greatest Occultist of his time.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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a. Comes from wealthy professional family, which provided him with exceptional education. Fluent in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
b. For the first half of his life he produces book on a wide range of things (metallurgy, geology and other sciences). He is a professor, writer, philosopher, and politician. Very few things that he is not intimately involved in. Devours knowledge.
c. Many, many accolades.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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d. For first 55 years he is part of the Lutheran faith of his father. No occult processes.
e. 1743 age of 55 he radically changes. Has his first voice vision.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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i. Trans induced states that he began to have. Witnesses reported that these states could go on for days.
ii. Described as a lucid dream, hovering between consciousness.
iii. Immediately upon coming out of his trance he would being write dream journals?
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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f. He became totally obsessed with occult phenomenon from this point on. Everything he had ever done or learned became focused on creating a new religion
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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g. 1743-1757 12 volume 7k page metaphysical epic called Heaven and Hell.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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To understand Heaven, Earth, Spirits, matter and energy. And the unity of all. “Unity of the Cosmos”
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Swedenborgism
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i. His work was rejected by organized religions.
ii. People thought he’d lost his mind.
iii. Describes visiting 3 heavens. Celestial, Spiritual and Physical.
iv. Visited all of the planets in the solar system and other solar systems.
v. Divinely (inspired) appointed vessel to communicate with humanity.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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vi. He said that he saw the last Judgement. He stated he was the second coming of Christ.
vii. Was also regarded as clairvoyant. Saw fire close to his home when he was away and new that the majority of his belongings would be destroyed but not all. That happened exactly.
viii. Everything is about progression. As you go up in metaphysical understanding
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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i. Dies in 1772 and it takes until 1810 for people to begin studying his work and form the Swedenborg Society. He is prolific experiences and documentation made him one of the father’s occultism.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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a. Very educated like Swedenborg
b. Medical Clairvoyant
i. All diseases could be heeled by the mind
ii. Illness were caused by blockages in Electro Magnetic Fluids.
iii. For the last 35 years of his life Mesmerism was wildly popular.
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Franz Anton Mesmer 1734-1815
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i. Could tell who had what wrong with them.
ii. Hypnotic trance-state.
iii. Would “balance fluids view hand movement”.
B. Created organisms in women.
C. Used magnets to cure illness.
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Franz Anton Mesmer 1734-1815
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a. Poor penniless, dysfunctional family, no education. Complete opposite of most historical occultist.
b. Age of 12 people who met said that he was “specially adapted to going into trance states”. This was before he could every read anything about the topic.
c. 1844 age 18 reported a shamanic dream vision. Met Swedenborg in a cemetery. Was chosen by Swedenborg to be “the Shepard”.
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Andrew Jackson Davis 1826-1910
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d. Swedenborg incarnate.
i. Has 150+ trance vision in 1 year. This makes him famous. Speeches were given during a trance state.
ii. Writes 30 books. His greatest work is called Great Harmonica.
iii. Waged war against organized religion. Wants to destroy the idea completely.
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Andrew Jackson Davis 1826-1910
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e. Encouraged people to become better and closer to perfection.
i. Swedonborg indicated that there was sex in the afterlife.
ii.indicated that everyone has a perfect match.
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Andrew Jackson Davis 1826-1910
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Esoteric philosophy concerning the investigation and seeing direct knowledge of presumed mysteries of being and nature. Theosophy is focused upon the Nature of Divinity. Theosophists are occultists who seek hidden knowledge or wisdom that leads to enlightenment. Theosophy was to be the summation of all occultism traditions into a unified Cosmic System. teaches the Onesss of Creation and man becoming divine.
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Theosophy
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Founded by Blavatsky and Olcott
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Theosophy
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1831-1891 Mysterious Russian Mystic
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Blavatsky
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1. At 17 her parents married her off to an older man. It lasted a few months and then she disappeared. She discovered the world over the next 20 years (very difficult to document), ends up in Vermont and meets Olcott at the Eddy farm house. She states that during her extensive travels that she met 2 “Hidden Eastern Masters” (Hindu Gurus) 1872.
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Blavatsky
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Isis Unveiled (1200 pages) “book” of her “religion”. Dictated through her by invisible gurus.
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Blavatsky
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The Secret Doctrine: Addition to first work.
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Blavatsky
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i. 7 Human Races
ii. 7 Fold occult traditions.
iii. Hebdomad: 7 planets on cosmic spheres of cosmic freedom.
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Blavatsky
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