John Michell’s The Flying Saucer Vision (1967) and The View Over Atlantis (1969) treated leys as sacred energy lines.
John Michell, in The View Over Atlantis, linked British leys to Chinese lung mei.
The earth-energy and node reading is a later Earth Mysteries layer from the 1960s onward, associated with Tony Wedd, John Michell, and the ley-hunting community.
"Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament" by John Walton: Walton identifies parallels in the Hebrew Bible and discusses how ancient Near Eastern ideas were adapted or countered within biblical theology.
John Wycliffe (1328-1384)
Jesus links Elijah to John the Baptist: “He is the Elijah who was to come” (Matthew 11:14, NIV), indicating John fulfills Elijah’s preparatory role.
The "First Ruler" in the Nag Hammadi texts specifically refers to this Demiurge figure, who is a central character in Gnostic narratives such as the "Apocryphon of John" and other related texts.
John Lear's Theory:
John Lear suggested that aliens view human souls as a commodity, comparing our bodies to containers in which these souls mature, akin to wine.
There, I enjoyed the companionship of John, who later became known as The Baptist, and Judas, later known as Judas Iscariot.
I was taught within the brotherhood, and also by John (the Baptist), how to hold my fire within my loins and not spill my seed, as my path to God.
John The Baptist
Many years before I met him, John had joined a sect of Judaism called the Essenes.
Every Sabbath and high day, members of the Essene Brotherhood would come to John’s household to pray, read, and discuss matters of spirit.
During my lifetime the core group included my friend Joseph, Mary his sister, Joseph her husband, their son James, Mary Magdalene and John.
Actual persecution has come upon the followers of my nephew, James (Yeshua’s brother), Peter, Andrew, my nephews John (Zebedee) and James (Zebedee) in Jerusalem.
Exactly the same thing happened to his cousin, John the Baptist.
The Apocryphon of John (Secret Book of John) gives the three names in one line:
Apocryphon of John
Reality of the Rulers and the Apocryphon of John keep that claim and its correction.
In the Apocryphon of John, he is the fourth of the seven archons.
In the Secret Book of John, a second-century text found in the Nag Hammadi codices of Gnosticism, Michael is placed in control of the demons who help Yaldabaoth create Adam, along with six others named Uriel, Asmenedas, Saphasatoel, Aarmouriam, Richram, and Amiorps.
John 6:31-58: In the New Testament, manna is referred to in Jesus' discourse where he compares himself to the manna that was provided to the Israelites, calling himself the "true bread from heaven" that gives life to the world, contrasting the temporary sustenance of manna with the eternal life he brings.
These things came to John in a mystery.Instantly the Savior vanished.
John came to his fellow disciples and told them what the Savior had said to him.
The Apocryphon of John
Ruler of water and earth (Secret Book of John)
In the Gnostic text known as the Secret Book of John, Elohim is another name for Abel, whose parents are Eve and Yaldabaoth.
According to Mandaean beliefs and scriptures including the Qolastā, the Book of John and Genzā Rabbā, Abel is cognate with the angelic soteriological figure Hibil Ziwa, (Classical Mandaic:, sometimes translated "Splendid Hibel"), who is spoken of as a son of Hayyi or Manda d-Hayyi, and as a brother to Anush (Enosh) and to Sheetil (Seth), who is the son of Adam.
In Christian iconography, a tetramorph is a symbolic arrangement of four different entities, each corresponding to one of the four evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan.
John the Baptist's primary role was to prepare people for the coming of Christ.
I was present when John the Baptizer announced Yeshua to be the Master Teacher – the Teacher of Righteousness – the Messiah, which the scriptures had prophesied.
John said that his purpose, as the one who had come to prepare the way, had been fulfilled.
She poured it on Jesus’ head (Matthew) or feet (the parallel in John) as he reclined at the table.
The disciples (especially Judas in John’s account) objected to the “waste,” but Jesus defended her, saying she had anointed him in preparation for his burial.
Gabriel is celebrated as the messenger archangel who announced significant events in the New Testament, such as the births of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ to Elizabeth and Mary, respectively.
Luke 1:19: Gabriel identifies himself to Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, when he appears to him in the temple.
Golden Objects in Dreams and Visions: Various dreams and visions in the Bible use gold to represent kingdoms, divine messages, or judgments (e.g., Daniel's visions, John's visions in Revelation).
John Cleves Symmes Jr., an American Army officer, was a well-known proponent who proposed an "inner world" with openings at the poles.
As mentioned, Zechariah and Elizabeth were both advanced in years when they were told by the angel Gabriel that they would have a son, John the Baptist (Luke 1:5-25).
For example, an angel of the Lord informed Manoah and his wife about Samson's birth, and the angel Gabriel told Zechariah about the birth of John the Baptist.
John the Baptist had a special role as the forerunner of Christ.
In the Gnostic text known as the Secret Book of John, Elohim is another name for Abel, whose parents are Eve and Yaldabaoth.
OAHSPE, the nineteenth-century New Age scripture of John Ballou Newbrough, sometimes treats related names as place or kingdom language rather than simple deity language.
The Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John), a Nag Hammadi text, gives a genealogy in which Yaldabaoth names his sons after the biblical brothers:
Secret Book of John
The Secret Book of John further places Elohim and Yahweh as sons of Yaldabaoth, deceptively named Cain and Abel.