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There is a vast spiritual movement that arose during the earliest years of Christianity that was conducted in secret, which created impressive, yet illegal texts that produced a very different form of salvation than the Jewish, Roman, and all other orthodox teachings had ever produced. This movement is called Gnosticism and consisted of many different groups of early Christian mystics and philosophers who sought concealed or hidden knowledge from within themselves. 

Sun Tzu is one of the most well-known military figures in history, yet instead of being remembered as simply a prophet, king, or empire challenger, he is recognized as a strategic mastermind. Sun Tzu was born in 500 B.C., and lived during the Warring States period, a time when China was divided into many different states that constantly fought with one another; the combat normally involved large armies.

Throughout the history of religion, many of its most notable figures were either prophets who preached to large groups of people and kings who constructed beautiful temples and reformers who took on empires. However, among these, one of the greatest spiritual thinkers of 16th-century Europe would be an Italian philosopher, a mystic and a cosmologist named Giordano Bruno.

The most famous figures in religious history are often prophets who spoke to multitudes, kings who built great temples, or reformers who challenged empires. However, there was a great mind in spirituality in the sixteenth century that died at thirty-eight years old, did not write much, and spent the majority of his life teaching a small number of scholars in the remote Galilee Mountains of Modern Day Israel. He was Rabbi Isaac Luria also known to history as the Ari, (the Lion). Luria was a mystic, visionary, and spiritual revolutionary living in Safed (Modern Israel) in the 1570's.

The modern world is overwhelming, and, unfortunately, that stress is being passed on to everyone. We all have moments where we feel like we are unable to do anything right, and when our goals seem unreachable, we give up. However, what many people do not realize is that when they are feeling this way, they are actually exerting themselves far more than they should. The reason is that many of us are trying so hard to achieve every outcome. We have developed an obsessive tendency to control the outcomes of our lives by forcing them into some sort of predetermined path.

Do you want to find out the reason why you suffer, and is there an end to suffering? What you may not have realized is that the definition of "suffering" is a very broad term, encompassing a range of things, such as emotional pain, anxiety, and more.

The most important people in religion could be named Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Moses or the Buddha. But there is an important religious thinker from a very remote time who appears to have had a profound influence on the fundamental beliefs of both the major western religions. This is Zarathustra (Zoroaster to the Greeks). He was a mystic, poet, and revolutionary living in ancient Persia (modern Iran) between 1500-1000 BC.