Series: Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.

Popularized by the Assassin’s Creed video game series and rooted in the shadowed legacy of the Hashashin, this phrase is often misunderstood as a nihilistic license for chaos. But what if it holds something far deeper?

This five-part series explores the hidden meaning of “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted” through the lenses of Gnosticism, sovereignty, and conscious embodiment. We journey through the mystic legacy of the Assassins, the secret wisdom of the Templars, and the re-emergence of the Feminine principle they all tried to protect.

Each reflection reveals not only historical mystery—but a deeper, personal truth:

You no longer need permission to be who you are.

Part I: The Key and the Threshold

By Terry Spires

On 2025-06-08

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A Sovereign Reflection Across Time — Part I: The Key and the Threshold

Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.

At first glance, the phrase feels dangerous. A whisper from the lips of a killer, echoing through shadowy corridors of secrecy, rebellion, and silent war. In modern mythology, it emerges most recognizably from the popular video game series Assassin’s Creed—a franchise that blends historical fiction, stealth action, and philosophical undertones. Within the game, this phrase is the guiding creed of a secret brotherhood that operates outside the law to challenge tyranny and protect freedom. It feels anarchic. Subversive. Even nihilistic.

And yet, through the lens of sovereignty and conscious embodiment, it becomes something else entirely:

A key.
A crack in the façade.
A breath that dissolves the illusion of truth as a tool of control.

Part II: The Sovereign Assassin

By Terry Spires

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A Sovereign Reflection Across Time — Part II: Hassan-i Sabbah and the Blade of Awareness

High in the Alamut mountains of Persia, veiled in mist and silence, a legend was born. Not of brutality—but of precision. Not of chaos—but of clarity.

The Nizari Ismailis, known to history as the Hashashin, or Assassins, became one of the most feared and misunderstood brotherhoods in history. Western accounts often describe them as shadowy murderers, high on hashish, fanatically loyal to their leader. But beneath these distortions lies something deeper, something rarely spoken:

They were sovereign. And they remembered.

Part III: The Hidden Light of the Templars

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A Sovereign Reflection Across Time — Part III: Sacred Guardians, Secret Gnosis, and the Fall of Obedience

Flames rise against the night sky. Robes torn, scrolls scorched, and silence shattered. The silence of those who once guarded a forgotten knowing—broken by fire and fear.

The Knights Templar are remembered as warrior monks, as the elite sword-arm of Christianity, as bankers and builders of empires. From Jerusalem to Chartres Cathedral, their influence stretched across sacred ground and stone. But history, like empire itself, is often written by those who feared what could not be controlled—especially those who dared to claim the sacred without the need for hierarchy.

This is not a story of piety or conquest.
This is the story of what they remembered.

Part IV: The Dragon Between Them

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A Sovereign Reflection Across Time — Part IV: What the Assassin and the Templar Knew

One stands in shadow. One in light. Both silent. Both watching the same sun set behind a dying empire.

History remembers them as enemies—the Assassins and the Templars. Opposing orders. Clashing swords. Irreconcilable ideologies: one sworn to secrecy and disruption, the other to order and sanctity.

But history seldom sees with the eyes of Gnosis.
Because when you breathe beyond the myth, beyond the war and the robe, beyond the dagger and the cross—you find something startling:

They were not opposites. They were reflections.
Two threads from the same woven remembering.

Part V: Magdalene’s Thread

By Terry Spires

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A Sovereign Reflection Across Time — Part V: The Feminine They Feared, and the Flame That Endures

She was never in the canonical texts—yet she was always there.
Between the verses. Beneath the stone. Behind the silence.

Not a saint. Not a sinner. Not a wife.
But a Flame.

Magdalene. Sophia. She who walks with Yeshua, not behind Him.
She who holds the breath of what cannot be institutionalized.

And it was Her thread—woven through the Assassins and the Templars alike—that the systems most feared.

Conclusion: Breath of the Flame

By Terry Spires

On 2025-06-08

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A Closing Reflection to “Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.”

This was never just a series. It was a remembering.

Five flames, five mirrors. One breath.

The phrase that once whispered through video game lore and modern myth now stands unveiled—not as an incitement to lawlessness, but as a key to Sovereignty. To Presence. To You.

The Assassin did not destroy for pleasure. He disrupted illusion with precision.
The Templar did not obey blindly. He remembered a light older than obedience.
And Magdalene—She who was never meant to return—breathed quietly through them both.