Kelpius Cave - Hike & History - Mystic Cult of Monks in 1700s Phila for Occult Beliefs - Nik Stamps

This is a short hike to Kelpius Cave & mysterious story in the beautiful Wissahickon Park.

The best starting point film in seeking the history of America's first Doomsday Cult. A truly incredible story of layers of magical intrigue, worth diving deeper to satisfy a curiosity. Hollywood fantasy with a wizard alchemist exploding his philosopher's stone of his, throwing it into the creek running by his cave. This community was in the wilderness of a "New World" decades before America was born as a nation, a land with natives who welcomed new arrivals, not yet experienced in the horror their people would endure in the future.

Their home was a huge log tabernacle, a sanctuary, their school to practice various pursuits in art, music, science, astrology, a mixture of religious beliefs that dive in occult spiritual teachings that was not allowed in Europe they left behind for the freedom offered in a New World. The tabernacle built on neurology of 40 representing perfection and was surrounded by botanical gardens that inspired other botanical gardens that remain celebrated in Pennsylvania. They helped the residents near by with health, teaching children, even with horoscope or folk magic remedies. The group tried to improve the world and shape society, like supporting abolitionist fighting to end slavery, a full 100 years before it would take a civil war to abolish the horrible act.

This union of exactly fourty monks was lead by Transylvanian born Johannes Kelpius he was their spiritual leader and his followers called themselves "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness" coming from Biblical prophecies of end times that would happen in 1700 destroying earth. However they would survive this Armageddon and be saved by a magical woman with unearthly powers.

They built a observatory upon their tabernacle, the first in all America searching nightly for the arrival of this lady, waiting for her arrival, saving the 40 mystics and traveling onwards to other realms in reality with the haunting woman clothed in light.

This film features video footage created by "WalkingCam" for their channel. Their project was further developed by Nik Stamps and features a reading from the famous 19th century Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. I'm his work he immortalized Kelpius & mystics with the phrase of his poem,

"From his hermit's den, weird as wizard, maddest of Good Men..."

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