Rome Takes Down Greece

I loved the stories of Hannibal- and his elephants! 

In the Second Punic War Hannibal traveled across Northern Africa, up to Spain, and over to Italy where in the battle of Cannae Hannibal killed 70,000 Roman soldiers (losing 8,000 of his own). The victory was short lived s Hannibal had to return to Carthage , where the Romans were counter attacking. 

It was in the Punic Wars that Greece had to call upon Rome to help them fend off the Carthaginians. In other words, the BEST that the Greeks had (Pyrrhus of Epirus) Rome had trampled on and it was over for Greece! What Greece lacked in military might, it still had supremacy in philosophy and religious power. 

Constantine would deliver the final blow in that area by making Christianity the “state religion”. 

Alvin Boyd Kuhn writes, ” With the enthronement of Christianity in world power through the conversion of the Roman Empire, all Hellenistic concepts were forced to take refuge in Gnosticism, Essenism, and the mystico-occult societies,  which had little world influence.” Thus the final nail was hammered into the coffin of Christianity and Cristianism was resurrected in its stead. 

“There was never a time that Christianity did not exist”, St. Augustine. 

It took another couple hundred years for the last of the Plato Mystery Schools to be abandoned; however, enough esoteric literature had been sent underground and preserved for us today to resurrect that which was thought killed. Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi finds, and others (more will be discovered as well) we will be able to take back what has been lost. 

All religion is or should be about the HEART and mans relationship to the inner “I AM” of  his-her own being, and as that relates to others- including nature!