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Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry

by John J. Robinson

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Oedipus Judaicus

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John said: " Here is a book from 1811, when the creator of the Zeitgeist movie was barely a gleam in his Creator's eye (that's a joke, if you've seen the movie), about interpreting the Old Testament allegorically, especially focusing on its astrological significa ...more "

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“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good. ”
― Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

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“Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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“Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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“Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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