...also known as the Cathars. These families called themselves the Poor of Christ, which is why the Templars later adopted the name Poor Knights of Christ. The Cathars held that anyone, through their own efforts, could attain gnosis, a direct revelatory knowledge of the divine...
Gothic cathedrals were built with Templar and Cistercian funding beginning shortly after the Knights Templar were founded in 1118. Scott explains that these structures encode the Templars' true ideology in plain sight, concealed under the rose, a phrase meaning in secret.
Earl Henry Sinclair's voyages in 1395 and 1398 brought more than treasure to North America. He brought 120 Knights Templar, the last remnants of an order ravaged by plague and excommunication in Europe. With no future left in the Old World, they chose to start over.
@swolterhookedx@EagleCross1776 “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.” — Acts 7:22 (KJV)
Don’t forget how Jesus called out Moses for being trained in all the Egyptian Mystery Schools. What was that passage, again?
@swolterhookedx@EagleCross1776 Can someone help me remember, which scripture is it where Jesus went around insulting people for their beliefs? I know he called the Jews out, but what’s the one where he singled out Zoroastrianism, Buddhist, Hermeticism, etc. Dang it’s in the tip of my tongue.
@PhrunkusHosen@swolterhookedx That makes “repent” vs. “change your mind” vs. “turn/return” a very worthwhile comparison. Return to God and believe the good news. Or change your heart and return to God. It in no was means to feel guilty. However, has Paul points out a Godly sorrow can lead to a changed heart.
@PhrunkusHosen@swolterhookedx And there’s an even more fascinating distinction if you’re studying Jesus’ original Jewish context: Jesus probably spoke Aramaic, not Greek. The underlying Semitic concept may have been closer to “turn/return” (shuv) than the Greek philosophical-sounding “change of mind.
@PhrunkusHosen@swolterhookedx This is significant because metanoia does not itself mean “feel sorry,” “feel guilty,” or even specifically “turn away from sin.” Those ideas can be associated with repentance in the broader New Testament context, but they aren’t the literal lexical meaning of metanoia.