by Bruce Johnson © 2015 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter February 2015. Plato, who was a mystery school initiate, located Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic Ocean. Pythagoras learned of Atlantis when he studied the secret teachings with the priests in the mystery temples of…
by Bruce Johnson © 2014 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter October 2014. The form of scrying called mirror gazing is an ancient divination technique that has been used to prophesy the future, warn of impending danger, divine answers to questions, be aware of people and activities at a…
by Bruce Johnson © 2014 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter November 2014. The universal truths of the tarot are reflected in many ways through varied translations. Interpreting the Tower card esoterically for an advanced soul reverses the traditional account of destruction and catastrophe, into one of great good…
by Bruce Johnson © 2012 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter February 2012. The Bible teaches that Satan, as the adversary of good, is identical to the Serpent in the Garden, the tempter of Jesus, and the horned red Dragon in the Book of Revelation. Orthodox Judaism and Christianity…
by Bruce Johnson © 2011 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter July 2011. The problem with relating stones to months rather than to astrological sun signs, is that about two thirds of the way through the month, a new sun sign begins. The sign of the last one third…
BASIC TRUTHS OF REINCARNATIONby Bruce Johnson © 2012 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter January 2012. 553 A. D. was the year the Fifth Ecumenical Council met in Constantinople at the request of the Emperor Justinian. That year Justinian and the Council voted to anathematize or curse the doctrine…
CUBE SYMBOLISM AND ANCIENT WISDOMby Bruce Johnson © 2011 Bruce Johnson – Reprinted with permission – Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore Newsletter June 2011. A cube or hexahedron is a square in three dimensions with each face equal in size. The New Jerusalem that allegorically descends from heaven in the Book of Revelation is a cube of…