wow, an intelligent and interesting poster, thanks anon. not much productive to add but theres really interesting stuff in these posts.    one of the alleged symbols of the sarmoun brotherhood is the bee, allegedly for an allegory as to how bees extract nectar from different flowers to make honey, this allegedly paralleling the sarmounis practices of investigating different philosophies and religions (like the greece to egypt connection you brought up of some ancient greek mystics and philosophers making those travels), extracting that nectar to produce the honey of enlightenment. you say jesus didnt die, he went to east  this is baigent, lincoln and leigh holy blood, holy grail-type stuff, right? the claim that something like this gnostic tradition and knowledge was carried on, through groups like the cathars then perhaps rediscovered by the templars from their journeying to the middle east and jerusalem we find some texts of the nag hammadi tractates saying jesus didnt die on the cross, or it was a sham crucifixion, and interestingly thats also claimed in the quran. the claimed location of the sarmoun brotherhood also matches up with locations youre talking about, around central asia (which i understand anatolia borders). very cool stuff to chew on, thanks anon
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