Answer to a FB comment, but FB won't let me answer....

I didn't say that you are a M. Passio believer, I only mentioned that he is tricky. And one should be careful, simply because he teaches the "balancing the sacred feminine and masculine", thereby he glorifies the human being. Now where lies the difference to men becoming gods through a higher consciousness by accepting their sacred feminine and masculine consciousness?... Surly you can study him, I also studied his works, but by knowing the Kabbalah, and Gnostic teachings I can recognize the similarities between his teaching and the named secret teachings. And that is why I only mentioned to be careful. Even if you do not accept the christian teachings, you would though have to accept the simple fact, that without comprehending the bible, one can not fully comprehend the ancient mythologies, Babylonian Mysteries, Talmud, Kabbalah, Theosophy or the Gnostic teaching. The bible is the Rosetta Stone to decode these named (secret) knowledge’s, because all these named teaching are based on the bible. About the term 'dark', this term implies that hidden knowledge is evil, but not the knowledge is evil, it's the powers that are hiding the knowledge that are evil. Thereby taking the knowledge out of the dark, wouldn't change the hidden (occult) societies, because in the end they would still be hidden.

Again about symbols, according to Joseph Campbell “A symbol is an energy evoking, and directing, agent. “ saying it doesn't matter if you don't believe in symbols, or they wouldn't harm you. Problem is the ruling powers know how symbols function and how they can be used. Fact is symbols are used to produce an emotional effect, remember Ferguson and the hands up symbol? Now when thousand people at once use that symbol they are emotionally involved, in spiritual sense energy is being produced... simply said all these symbolic movements use symbols that were created for hidden purposes, i.e peace movement using the peace sign which is nothing other then a broken cross, or the V sign Churchill used as a victory sign, well the master druid and free mason Churchill knew the precise meaning of it, namely nothing other than the glorification of the 5. Age or Golden Age...or the devil horns, people assume this symbol is a youth rock and roll symbol, the president and the pope use it to act like they are cool...but when a Jesuit pope uses this symbol he shows his real allegiance. Now people all over the planet are using these simple symbols because they believe these are positive symbols expressing a positive action, but without their knowing their spiritual energy is being exploited.

“The unique nature of a symbol is that it gives access to deeper layers of reality which are otherwise inaccessible.” John Tillich