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Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: Learning Symbolism from Dion Fortune & Other Influences

don't read that. I'm not a believer in it. Um but but uh the force of Crowley's personality tends to drag people into like uh cult status. So there's that. But um Dion Fortune principally taught me how to utilize the occult and what the occult was. Um, but she gives you just enough that you're not able to project these things that she's talking about onto your own experience. She she gives you just enough to the point where you can understand your experience if you're if

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Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: Hermetic Influences Behind the Kybalion

know the pyander talking about I am news and I am with you everywhere and I know everything about you I know what you want when you want it I am everything yeah everything is mental all is mind um you know so it's there and it goes goes on, you know, they they they definitely combed the corpus hermeticum. They didn't pull it out of their ass. And a lot of that, I think, is because I truly I do believe even though there's there's not um enough evidence to say definitively and and even if I found

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Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: Magic, Energy Amplification & Risk

where is that center where is where is the center of charge and release in the human body of of of that energy it's in it's in yes it's in the generative uh center. So you build these things up and and if you do work in the full of the moon, there is more etheric uh um energy available, right? Typically like any you know any any magician who's been doing it for long enough knows like look if I do if I do a particular ritual let's say a talismanic consecration it's not going to be as

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Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: Biblical Origins of Lucifer Term

your stuff out there um but the luciferian thing it comes from the book of Isaiah um where essentially the prophet Isaiah is denouncing a king of uh of Babylon and he calls him uh well in the original Hebrew it's uh hell um the lightbearer you know having to do with an epitet of the king because everything all the lines leading up to that are talking about a king of Babylon and how he's going to fall because he's he has oppressed you know the the the the the uh the Israelites, you know, um the Hebrew people. And he

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Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: The One, Nous & World Soul

of the of the world. and um of the universe and that essentially objectified those images and moved towards them in an act of desire and that is how the soul falls into materiality. Uh and then you see Tertullian the early church father and neoplatonist he was trained in neoplatanism. I believe he studied with ammonia sakus. I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head but I know he was a neoplatonist. He invents or imports the doctrine of the holy trinity. Uh he calls it um persona substantia three persons one

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Evolutionary Arcana : Chronomancy, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead

Relevant chapter: Evolutionary theory and human diversity

like, you know, there and then there's the ideas of evolution and things evolved from like bacterias and uh into higher order life forms and then those evolved into higher order life forms and then eventually we got humans and then there's this interesting diversity within the race of people and their different pronounced features, skin color, um, things like this. Uh so I just wonder your personal take on the how humanity came into its modern form. Um uh do you do you view it as something

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Evolutionary Arcana : Chronomancy, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead

Relevant chapter: Evolution, faith, and unresolved gaps

lifetimes, whether they're a [ __ ] guru or a yogi, you're still human. Unfortunately, you're still human and that's all we're going to get. That's as high as it goes in this lifetime. Um but you look around, you're like, "God damn it, man. Are we not miraculous enough to have built these massive buildings, these cities, these systems, this computer I'm talking to you on? I mean, that's miraculous enough for me. Absolutely. Um, but I do believe that evolution was a

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Evolutionary Arcana : Chronomancy, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead

Relevant chapter: Group souls, epochs, and race theories

skin goes I mean yeah I could get behind the idea that it had something to do with that but uh there are other traits like you're saying that appear to be more than egregor they right egregor are national I believe in a group soul there and and actually this is this is something that is valid I think from those teachings that that those those root races have have group souls and now we're not talking about black you know, uh, African, uh, uh, indigenous, Native American, you know, Asian. That's not what we're talking

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Evolutionary Arcana : Chronomancy, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead

Relevant chapter: Egregores, fear, and influencing groups

influence people, you know, that kind of whole uh Frankenstein's monster thing, you know, where it's like the town is like uneasy and ominous feeling and and and that's how witch hunts and things like that. So if you're able to generate and it's typically a quicker stronger at first whirlpool of of or vortex uh chakra gal whatever language you want to use but this spinning wheel of energy um to essentially build an egregor but at a certain point it's going to do its own thing. it'll be characterized with

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Evolutionary Arcana : Chronomancy, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead

Relevant chapter: The Circuit of Force and magical practice

uh uh essays about this thing called the circuit of force. And we can go into this because this is a three-hour conversation at minimum. We can go into this in another spot, but Gareth Knight collected all these works and published them with his, I think, appendices and his introduction, and he entitled it the circuit of force for occultists within the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn. hermetic cabalistic initiation. This is not only a must-read but if you read it enough and if you practice what

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: John Dee, Edward Kelley, and angelic scrying

They were delivered to John D in his scrying sessions with Edward Kelly, the medium, you know, also the alchemist, also the hustster, but uh apparently a very gifted medium. enough so to convince after repeated experiments testing testing the veracity of these visions he convinced Queen Elizabeth's court astrologer John D that he that he was the man for this experiment. So essentially what gets delivered to them in a series of scrying uh this is going to take way too long for me to branch off and if you don't

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Dangers of Enochian magic and psychological dissolution

Regggery in his private letters um which I've read you can read them they're online uh that Enino and Magic has made like somebody that he knows go completely insane one of his friends and this is not something that's it's not rare enough to not be to not have perked your ear up. uh you know it's it's definitely something you hear about working with these energies and working with with the angels and this kind of stuff. It has a tendency towards dissolution if you start at it too

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: The Enochian aethyrs and visionary work

and so voluminous. And one of the one So, there's two quick anecdotes I want to tell about the workings with these angels. They don't they don't care. They're not It's not like I said, it's not the magic of love and light. It's not this fluffy new age interpretation. These entities are perplexing and often horrifying. Um, and universally, um, some people enjoy working with them, other people go mad. Uh, but you typically find this kind of escatological throughine. And what is esquetology?

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Ficino, Paracelsus, Trithemius, and Agrippa’s influences

abbot. So he was in charge of a monastery and his name was Yannis Tmius. They call him Trimus. So this man was essentially, you know, the head of a monastery and he was well respected enough obviously to have attained that position, but he had a little, you know, he was a little iffy uh having to do with clerical authority and the general, I guess, rules of engagement of of of the the clergy at that time, the Catholic Church, right? which was don't read magic, don't do magic. You know, for the

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

gonna try Thursday >> this week. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. Okay, cool. So, Monday, August 21st at 8:00 PM Eastern is the first class of a six-w weekek course uh that will be taking place at the same time every Monday for six weeks on the three books of occult philosophy. Uh each book will be given two two-hour sessions um and a different teacher. I'll be teaching the first book on natural magic. Jamie Paul Lamb will be teaching the second book on celestial magic and Mark Stavish will be teaching

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

the third book on uh super celestial or divine magic. Um there are links to uh the IHS, the Institute of Hermetic Studies. There are links to this um course where you can sign up, you can register or learn a little bit more about it on on my Facebook and my web page which is ikebbaker.com. Um and all my links are there. Um just look around a little bit and uh you will also be able to you'll be given supplemental materials if you register for the class. you'll have lifetime access to the recordings of the class

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

because they they're going to be on uh these Zoom and Teachable platforms. It's not in person. Uh you can do this from the comfort of your your your office or your living room or even in your bed. Um and you'll have lifetime access to those recordings. And I'm also giving out a free ebook called Cornelius Sigria and the Magical Worldview, which will be available to all registrants of that class. Again, you can check that out on my web page, ikebaker.com. Um, and that also has all my socials. If

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

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

you're having trouble finding that, either me message us here on the Patreon or just send a message to my Instagram or Facebook page. I'm pretty quick. Uh, and that's that's really it. This is going to be an amazing class. I mean, like, if I just just Jamie and Mark alone, you know, like if if I >> He's got a super team going. >> And I I know it's crazy. And the thing is like I I'm so looking forward because we have not we've not really communicated on what we

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

were what we're going to teach. We had a a preliminary meeting on like, you know, okay, six hours is six years is not enough for these three books. So six six hours is not enough to cover the entirety. So what do we focus on? But we haven't really corresponded at all on like you know uh approach. So each teacher is going to have their own individual approach and I am like thrilled to see what Jamie and Mark come up with. This is like a once in a-lifetime type of type of class right here.

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

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements

>> Yeah. >> How about you man? >> What you got? First, I I'll include those links in the description below for people that are watching this in the Patreon. That way, you just jump on over there if you're interested. And for myself, check it out. Philosophical Minds Podcast as usual. And yes, thank you again all for supporting uh me and Ike here on the Atherica podcast. >> And thank you, Sky again. Thank you.

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The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Analysis, division, and limits of the mind

with money, right? And I know a lot I know I know lack of money, poverty causes a lot of evil, but the problem with that is that you're not looking at big enough of a [ __ ] picture. You're on the ground. I'm in the sky. You know, I'm looking at the whole thing and say like it's the the system. the system has got to [ __ ] go because that is the only thing that's keeping us trapped in everything we hate. Everything that bothers us is is because we won't leave this uh financial system completely.

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The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Venus symbolism and Egyptian polarity

because they had to because either their sons you know were were not old enough or incompetent or somebody had died. And Hatcheepsut was one of the the new kingdom uh lady pharaohs and she was arguably she was the only pharaoh to rule in Egypt in a in a time of prosperity. She did a great job. And that's not to say anything about about women, but it's it's more so that you know historically, you know, incontrovertibly a patriarchy. Um but in terms of let me let me back up incontrovertibly a

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

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QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Briah as the creative world

were receiving the command from the the head guy. So it's like the divine mind has the idea and commands it forth and what receives that command is the briatic level. So um that's that's kind of what that looks like. That's a pretty convoluted way of describing it, but I think I gave you enough in there to be able to interpret something. >> That makes sense. Okay. So um I came across something called Baretil. Uh, it says the guardian of the 12th tunnel of set and then it goes on to

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

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QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: El, Adonai, and divine names

>> Oh, yeah. I want to get that one. >> Yeah. And and I mean it's dicey when you when you when you when you try to stick everybody. There's it's not a onetoone correspondence. Typically, we don't have enough cultural nuance and and understanding to be able to to it's they're not all one one being really. It just becomes that way. The same way like band-aid, I say band-aid, you know that I mean bandage. Band-aid is not a thing. Band-aid is a [ __ ] brand. >> But that's the way people use words.

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