>>13541499 pb

Sure, but have you read Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, Manley P Hall, Rudolph Steiner, or Morals and Dogma by Pike in their entirety. Or have you just run with checking what someone has pointed out as being there and used the interpretation of the person who sent you there. Sure you found that what they said was there was indeed in the book they said it was in, but does what they are saying the quote means match with the context of the quote in the original text?

When I read those authors, my over all take away was that they all were doing their best to create a better world by exploring the unseen world the best that they could. For the most part none of them were dogmatic about anything, just relaying what they experienced and observed, trying to explain something that is very hard for human minds to understand. To pick out little snippets of very large narratives is like cherry picking passages out of the bible that taken out of context mean something completely different than what the context would suggest.

I read the bible cover to cover when I was 10, 25, and 45. The last time I read it it made so little sense it sent me on a years long quest tring to figure out what it was and subsequently what every other religion had to say. In the end, the only think I know for sure is that many of the narratives that surround different religions have very little to do with what the actual texts they sight have to say. What is today considered the occult or mystery religions is the same. If you study the Gnostics you will find very interesting parallels with current Christian thinking, and there is no doubt parts of current Christian practice draw heavily on the mystery religions.

>>13542058

the love a good woman is more precious that silver or gold, but living under the same roof as a harpy is worse than hell

to paraphrase Proverbs.

be careful who you take in your arms, as my father would say.

>>13542145

another way to look at it is that free will is the evil that was unleashed on creation. the bible suggests that angels do not have free will, so in a sense the story of lucifer, the light bearer, the most beautiful of all the creation, could not have rebelled of his own free will.

also, conflating satan and lucifer is not biblical, it is a mental short cut to deal with everything that is evil.

another intersting contradiciton is that it is said that god can not look on evil, and yet in Job god is talking to the satan the accuser about god's servant job.

the some of the ocult will tell you that satan as the accuser is pointing out anything that is done against the natural order. Free will allows humans to save the weak because they fell sympathy for the dying, thus perverting nature's course. in their opinion, that is definition of sin (anything that breaks natures order).