Another set of threads to tie together out of recent conversations here:
Religious/ethical prohibitions against usury
Role of the Knights Templar and consequent secret societies in the origins of modern banking
Obviously, when it comes to secret societies, reliable information is exceedingly hard to piece together. But we could sketch out a tentative line of descent from the [...]
The subject of Hawala and alternative remittance systems has got my mind going on overdrive. Whenever I learn a nice solid new concept like this, my brain will tend to leaf through old information and try to apply it to things which have been left laying around.
This line on the Hawala Wikipedia page intrigued [...]
They are talking about Original Sin in these readings. The five miasms of homeopathy - Cancer, Psora, Tubercular, Sycotic or Syphillis - are the five seeds of the Apple in the Garden. They grow from the seven branches of white tree at the center of the hedge maze. Each of the branches is named after [...]
