Binah: It means "understanding," and is the Sephirot of deductive reasoning.
Krupskaya: The girl who married Lenin.
Freemasons: they have existed for centuries and no one is really sure where they came from. They share a declared belief in a Supreme Being.
Baphomet: supposedly a pagan deity, in reality, an invention of Christians after someone mistranslated Mohammed. It was also used to describe some pagan idols. Christians believed that it was a real deity, and it was drawn in cartoons as a kind of winged goat looking creature.
Manichean: a once very widespread and popular Iranian Gnostic religion in which there is a very elaborate cosmology about a fight between the good spiritual world of light and the evil, material world of darkness.
Cathars: perhaps inspired by the Manicheans, this heretic movement appeared in France in the 11th century and incorporated a belief about two gods (dualism). There was an all powerful, all-good god, that they worshipped, and a chaotic god, who actually created the world, which was evil.
Kundalini: In Indian yoga, the energy that resides at the base of the spine, sometimes associated with desire and libido and sometimes with the natural energy of the Self.
Teutonic Knights: a German order set up to help pilgrims on the way to the holy land and also to set up hospitals, and also to do fighting.
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