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So in the 15th and 16th hundreds, it pretended it was religion, and you had a huge flourishing of things like Rosicrucianism which pretended to be Christian. Swedenborgianism or whatever, which pretended to be Christian Kabbalah. Kabbalah, which pretended to be Christian and Jewish. Everybody thinks it's just Jewish, it was both, you have all these kinds of weird sects latching onto the major religion. Swabian pietism was Lutheranism by name, but it was hermeticism in practice.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
One day, Degas complained to his friend, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, about his trouble writing. “I can’t manage to say what I want, and yet I’m full of ideas.” Mallarmé’s response cuts to the bone. “It’s not with ideas, my dear Degas, that one makes verse. It’s with words.” Or rather, with work.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
The heavy impact of startling new information may shake or shatter an individual’s vision, but does not in itself realign moral values. Mass unemployment, hunger, the killing of innocents, the deliberate degradation of the human spirit, or the cynical unleashing of war, all inspire the same horror as before. What changes is the perception of who or what is doing it and why.
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
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