Thread by @owenbroadcast

weird energy in the dead sea scrolls. remember reading about albert pike (was he philip k dicks priest?) dying in the desert where they were found after going out with no water. they have this ominousness, like if u were looking for the wrong thing in them, they would consume you

obviously they are not nefarious in and of themselves, but to me they have always had the aura of a strange power, like a chemical a man in a lab takes off the shelf for extremely specific purposes only after warning the interns. why were they locked in the caves for so long

lol. the priests name is james pike, but his middle name is albert, which means his name contains the name of one of the most famous freemasons (just makes it weirder). the story about his death is very odd. he and wife roll out into the desert with just two cokes and no water.

but if my memory serves me correctly, he had been in places near here before. so obviously he knew it was hot. then they get kind of lost and lay down in the shade and as the wife tells it, she didnt want people to find them there and think they killed themselves, so she went off

walks off into the desert to the nearest town. but why didnt he go with her? and then, as i heard one person tell it, when she gets to a town (think she went down a dry riverbed) the people in the town tell her it was impossible for her to walk that distance. they go back for him

but hes not there. he just walked off into the desert. left a trail of items and then just stopped dropping stuff and was found dead later. but why wouldnt he wait there? if he was leaving a trail of items and wanted to be found, why not just wait in the known location?

they were there researching a book about the “historical” Jesus (occasionally a code word for a secular ie non divine version of him, not sure if that was the case here but it makes the whole thing more interesting). he also was formerly involved with certain mediums, seers, etc.

that story, regardless of what is true of it (dyor) has always been etched into my mind and intimately woven with the dead sea scrolls, as though in the quest for forbidden or lost spiritual knowledge, one eschaton, one endpoint, is just walking out alone into the desert to die.

are they fake. i used to think they were totally modern forgeries, now im just kind of neutral about it