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Prophets, Laws & the Architechture of Order Ike Baker & Sky Mathis

Relevant chapter: Satanism as self-worship and material gratification

putting yourself before everything else. And that Christianity is putting the good of everything else before the good of yourself because you recognize them as one and the same. Satanism is the pull towards material gratification. Feeding the animal part, right? Plato conceived of conceived of the human being as having a tripartite soul. And essentially you see this in the in the the allegory of his fedras, the allegory of the charioteer. And there's a charioter and he's got these two horses. One's dark, one, you know,

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Your Truth Vs The Good, Weighing the Heart & Freedom as Natural Law (Freedom PT 2 )

Relevant chapter: Objective truth vs. subjective perception

going to be this way. Okay, we're good to go. I'm not talking about gravity here. You're not talking about on the moon where it's [music] different. We're talking about the same thing. And this is an immutable law. We're not going to get away from this. This is gravity we're talking about here. Well, there are behavioral laws, laws of cosmic cause and effect, and those are just as immutable as physical laws. That's what masonry teaches through analogy and allegory and

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 5:56

Esoterica & Cryptographia, Trithemius, Ramond Llull, Quabalistic Pathworking & The Light Body

Relevant chapter: Historical context: monks, scholars, and hidden knowledge

But um Tmius is a very interesting character to me. But one of the first things I want to point out is that magic is a and just in general, right? I mean, it all boils back to Plato. He talks about forms. forms are in the Golden Dawn, you know, we say by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened. You know, in things like rosy Christianism where you you see all of this these diagrams um in Freemasonry, right? A uh beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory illustrated by symbols. The symbols

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 28:37

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Moral symbolism and the tools of Masonry

you've paid your dues quite literally and figuratively, but um aside from digressing into obviously something I'm very passionate about, um you know, you're told by the worshipful master as an entered apprentice that masonry is a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. So that's what masonry itself has to say about what it is. So here we have three different ts. My theory is that it's all somewhere in between, right? Because that's typically where the truth lies.

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 36:54

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Adonis and the hope of immortality

geometrical, you know, uh figures, they're lines, they're curves, you know, they have they have color, they have form, uh they have proportion, they have ratio, they have beauty. Um those are the real teachings of masonry. allegory symbol. >> Absolutely. And in terms of the of Egyptian mysteries, uh Egyptian are are the Egyptian mysteries synonymous with uh Mithraic or Myithism? because I think I read that Zazamos the alchemist was somewhat associated with the rights of Mithros or Mithraic rights

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:16

Prophets, Laws, and the Architecture of Order Episode 14

Relevant chapter: Satanism as self-worship and material gratification

putting yourself before everything else. And that Christianity is putting the good of everything else before the good of yourself because you recognize them as one and the same. Satanism is the pull towards material gratification. Feeding the animal part, right? Plato conceived of conceived of the human being as having a tripartite soul. And essentially you see this in the in the the allegory of his fedras, the allegory of the charioteer. And there's a charioter and he's got these two horses. One's dark, one, you know,

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Hekalot Literature, Astral Gates, Imaginal Faculty, Ontology, The Underworld & Osirification

Relevant chapter: Myth of Hades and Persephone as Esoteric Allegory

Sounds really interesting. Um, >> yeah, and I mean, I've I've talked about it, you know, on on earlier episodes. To me, the best example of that is in the myth of uh Hades and Praphanany. That's the best that's the clearest example. And that's exactly why that those that was specifically that was the myth that was covered in the Elucinian mysteries. >> This is probably the best part to ask you. Um what is oerification? Um well, let's let's look at it in terms

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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Freedom Pt 4 : Americas Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Education, Classical Thought & Intellectual Decline

philosopher king. >> Yeah. >> And a a lot of Freemasonic allegory is based on that, right? Because in Freemasonry, our our big mythos is the the temple of Solomon and and Solomon King. And and what was he, right? He was the he's the the archetype of the of the uh philosopher king. He was w he had he was wiser than all the kings, all the regions, all the wisdom of Egypt and Syria, wiser than all of them according to, you know, the ancient writings. And so he was the philosopher king. And

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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