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 ating back to the Crucifixion - though its precise association with Jesus of Nazareth is part of its lost secrets - the relic at the centre of this story has been adorned and embellished by successive generations of Christians, mystics, occultists and alchemists.The box began as a simple wooden receptacle (in Latin, loculus) and bore the first known coded reference to Christ on the cross (from the first century AD). It is contained within hieroglyphs and the Chi-Rho symbol on its top part. |
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The knowledge of the Loculus's secret was passed from generation to generation by each master of science and alchemy in his age, on to his pupil. This process was known as the Underground Stream or Hermetic Tradition (after the first alchemist, Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt. Hence the phrase "hermetically sealed"). All were trying to work the Great Work with the Loculus, and the quest of the film is not only to find the Loculus but to understand what the Great Work was, or is... |
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