>>2067758

The "I AM" Movement is the original Ascended Master Teachings religious movement founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878–1939) and his wife Edna (1886–1971) in Chicago, Illinois.[1] It is an offshoot of theosophy and a major precursor of several New Age religions including the Church Universal and Triumphant.[2] The movement had up to a million followers in 1938[3] …

The movement believes in the existence of a group called the Ascended Masters, a hierarchy of supernatural beings that includes the original Theosophical Masters such as Jesus Christ, El Morya Khan, Maitreya, and in addition several dozen more beyond the original 20 Masters of the Ancient Wisdom of the original Theosophists as described by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (12 August – 8 May 1891)

Aleister Crowley was a believer in Blavatsky.

Bet you thought this was "new"?

Be careful who you follow

>>2037452

Good ole paganism!

Thoth

Thoth, in one of his forms as an ibis-headed man

Major cult center Hermopolis

Symbol Ibis, moon disk, papyrus scroll, reed pens, writing palette, stylus, baboon, scales

Consort Seshat,[1] Maat, Nehmetawy[2]

Offspring Seshat in some accounts

Parents None (self-created); alternatively Neith or Ra or Horus and Hathor

Thoth is one of the ancient Egyptian deities. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at.[3]

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Ancient Egyptian: "Khemenu", which was known as "The City of Hermes" during the Hellenistic period through the interpretatio graeca that Thoth was Hermes. Later known el-Ashmunein in Egyptian Arabic, it was partially destroyed in 1826.[7]

In Hermopolis, Thoth led "the Ogdoad", a pantheon of eight principal deities, and his spouse was Nehmetawy. He also had numerous shrines within the cities of Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.

Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Maat) who stood on either side of Ra's solar barge.[9] In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes,[10] the arts of magic, the system of writing, the development of science,[11] and the judgment of the dead.[12]