Obsessively Detailed Cults Iceberg #1 | The Birth of the Secret Doctrine
In this video, we delve into one of history's oldest secrets. Beginning with the priestly institution behind closed doors in ancient Egypt, we explore how secret knowledge was systematically preserved, transmitted, and survived for thousands of years through societies hidden in the shadows.
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Resources I used for those who want to do additional reading:
• “The Search for God in Ancient Egypt” -Jan Assman
• “Oils and Perfumes of Ancient Egypt” -Joann Fletcher
• “Nymphaea cults in ancient Egypt and the New World: A lesson in empirical pharmacology” -Elisabetta Bertol
• “Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris” -David O'Connor
• “The Library of Alexandria: Center of Learning in the Ancient World” -Roy MacLeod
• “The Way of Hermes: New Translations of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius” -Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, Jean Pierre Mahe
• “The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple” -Malcolm Barber
• “Underground Jerusalem” -Charles Warren
• “The Chinon chart: Papal absolution to the last Templar, Master Jacques de Molay” -Barbara Frale
• “The Rosicrucian Enlightenment” -Frances A. Yates
• “Invisibles: The True History of the Rosicrucians” -Tobias Churton
• “The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590 to 1710” -David Stevenson
• “Freemasons and Rosicrucians - the Enlightened” -Manly P. Hall
• “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy” -Manly P. Hall
• “Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code: The Rosicrucian, Masonic, and Esoteric Transmission in the Arts” -Ernesto Frers
Music used in the video:
"Areias Escaldantes" - Composiia
"A dark hidden Club" - SamuelFJohanns
"Akhet • Egyptian "Double Reed Long Flute Music" - Nate Loper
"Fading Light of the Faiyum" - Nate Loper
"Keeping Up With the Tarahumaras" - Christian Andersen
"Procession of Time" - Rand Aldo
"The White Birch" - Moorland Songs
"The Opening" - Lennon Hutton
"Streets of Cologne" - William Claeson
Sections:
0:00 Introduction
2:20 Egyptian Templar Societies
10:17 Hermetic Tradition
20:32 Knights Templar
33:23 Rosicrucians