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Transcript passage · Unknown · 45:25

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

Relevant chapter: Nadis, Chakras & Energy Flow Systems

like water. Uh right, it's a fluid fire. Where have we heard that before? you know, um and and uh and so they they would name these things after after uh they would describe them based on bodies of or types of water, you know, streams, rivers, uh the sea ofQi is in the body as well. You know, I believe that's uh um maybe Mingmen. Uh anyway, um it you know, this is all just stuff that it all relates to me. it it it just relates in general. But so the the the Vadic version the the yogic version or what they would use in say

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

Transcript passage · Unknown · 42:54

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

Relevant chapter: Three Veils of Negative Existence

shed some light on those a little bit. Sure. Uh essentially so the three veils of negative existence that is a term that that's an idea that comes out of um uh many versions of cababalism. I believe it's out of the Zohar actually. Um that that is taken from the Zohar. Uh but it's developed right you you've got three. So you have the tree of life and the tree of life embodies everything that um that exists and therefore can change. Even Kather um I would say Kather is the the the most

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 31:40

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Kenneth MacKenzie and possible manuscript origins

death. They they inherited them. So they either found them or were given to him. There are all sorts of stories, but but that's a theory that Kenneth McKenzie was working on these things. Okay. Well, even regardless of that Rosacrianism Mhm. I guess I'm not as confident in understanding the origins, but there are masonic or Christian bodies. >> Yeah, absolutely. And if there are there's an outer order. >> Well, the the Golden Dawn was completely indep. >> They did not operate with any Masonic

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 33:30

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Masonic vs non-Masonic Rosicrucian bodies

in in French masonry and and and and then the tarot in in France you know a little bit earlier and around that time. So then they really what happens is it's after they find the cipher manuscripts William Robert Woodman uh William Wyn Wescott and Samuel Little Mathers they start the Golden Dawn and but the thing is it's yes they are high-grade Rossy Christian Masons but they didn't they the Golden Dawn had a separate claim to Rosie Christianism they undoubtedly would have viewed it as the same

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:06

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Masonic vs non-Masonic Rosicrucian bodies

>> they would have viewed it as an expans expansion they would have said this is true masonry but a lot of people were doing that for a long time especially in France you know you got Kagliostro and his right of the Memphis mis rhyme saying okay this is the true face of masonry and and it was is all that kind of experimentation but the thing is they weren't really like people would it wouldn't even been like masons were like the golden dawn can't meet here it would have been like what the [ __ ] are you

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:34

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Evaluating orders by spirit and intent

doing why are you dressed as Egyptians why are there women here it would have been like we don't know what you're doing, >> you know, like what someone please explain, you know, so they didn't meet in Masonic holes. >> And there are differences between Masonic Racristian bodies and non-Masonic Rosian bodies or is there some >> there for everything that exists Masonically, somebody somewhere got an initiation, either drew up a charter or found somebody who would draw one up for

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 0:00

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

Relevant chapter: Four worlds and Briatic manifestation

So, briatic. So, all things are constantly manifesting on four levels. And in Cabala, they call that the four worlds. Um, in philosophy, you're going to see something more like seven bodies or seven planes, possibly more, but it it's kind of a similar uh model for for how spirit projects itself into matter. Um, >> hold on one sec. >> Nice. >> Another fire. I wanted to let it pass. Uh so um so there are obviously there are four worlds and they are in descending hierarchy. Atsilut um the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 53:18

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

Relevant chapter: Seven earths and planetary realms

explanation. To me, if I were reading that with no explanation, I would think the seven classical planetary bodies, the seven other earths, you know, um and they do all have rulers, right? um according to uh according to the cabalistic system and they comprise the the the ruach of the the individual. >> Okay. >> The spirit. I >> think this is my last question I got. Um I'm looking at this depiction of the tree of life from Citapus Egypticus by Athanasius Kchner in 1652. Uh it's got um you know the different

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 14:40

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

Relevant chapter: Plato’s Myth of Er and the afterlife journey

is [music] an ancient out-of body experience it's an ancient account of an out-of body experience and he talks about everything he talks about um you know dying and he talks about leaving the the spheres of causality the material universe. He goes to a place called the Agd Doad, the eighth sphere, you know, beyond the seven planetary bodies. Um the the the rungs of the latter of creation, if you want to look at it that way. And he's now beyond causality in this in this uh um I hate this word, liinal space. And uh he's

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 30:45

The Temple Has No Guard: Cycles, Slavery, Sovereignty, and Taking Back Your Mind (Freedom Pt 1)

Relevant chapter: Government, mind control, and responsibility

think about the institutions and bodies or organizations that we allow to usurp and take hold of the direction of our minds and our souls and the power that we grant them. But to be clear, I I want to be clear that I do believe in a sort of hierarchy, a a hierarchy of distributed responsibility and place of governance or government. um or you know like cuz it's like a it's almost like a corrosive or coercive control node in some sense. Um, but this sort of hierarchy of distributed responsibility

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:37:33

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

Relevant chapter: Spiritual light body and layers of consciousness

It's you can't pass the abyss. You can't cross Doth and be inbody. So that's not something that you're going to understand while you're embodied in in incarnation. You can think about it, you know, you can try and conceptualize it, but you will have virtually no understanding of it um while you exist as whoever the hell you are in this lifetime. Um from there, you project down into the causal bodies. And each one of these each one of these bodies, so to speak, they're not necessarily this outline of

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:38:38

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

you're able to access intuition. It's it's all that stuff is because it's a broad band and you your ego is at the [ __ ] bottom of it. It's the densest part and it's tied to the densest physical part of you. This body, this meat coat and um and where it goes, what it enjoys, what it hates, and how it's going to stay alive. So it descends. You have an upper and a lower level, right? Because we're talking about spectrums. We're talking about we're saying it in terms of levels

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:39:07

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

and partitioning it just for the sake of being able to communicate the analogy. Um but in reality, you're you're at the part of the the the mental causal body that is closest to the spiritual. Then at a certain point you get to the part of the mental causal body that is now morphing into uh the um the astral or or emotional body, you know, something like that. Um and that's more that's more like the realm of intuition. That's more the the realm the lower part of the astral again the astral body the planes

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:39:44

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

and the bodies are a onetoone. So if I'm saying astral plane, I'm also of necessity am explaining astral body. Your astral body or the the the this the segment of the your spectrum of consciousness which can interact with that plane is of that plane. It's on that plane at all times. It doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't, you know, it doesn't descend. It's just where your focus is is how you're going to toggle through it. So part of spiritual training is to broaden your awareness so

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:40:22

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

that your focus isn't so tight that I can only be here or there. At a certain point you can exist and feel in multiple parts of that spectrum of consciousness all being mediated through the the persona that has come to understand them and learn to deal with them. Um from there you go from the higher astral lower astral um you move into the physical but the higher physical which is a very rarified substance which we callqi or prana the etheric body. Now the etheric body like etheric energy is

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:41:01

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

tantamount in the cabal cababalistic system with the nephesh. Okay. So it's it's impressionable. It's subject to the emotions. It changes based on your emotions, but it can also be moved by you. And if it's not being moved and directed by you, if it hasn't been linked up with the conscious mind in conscious awareness, and it's basically this appendage that you don't know you have, it's completely atrophying, then somebody else is going to move it for you. So somebody that is

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:41:28

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

more in their in their own will, somebody that has this kind of knack for being uh sort of expanding their field and and and whether they realize it or not can can influence people. They're going to influence your etheric body and by way of that they're going to get into your field and they're going to influence your thought body. and you know whether intentionally or not uh implant those what we were talking about the last time those those uh thought forms in there and a lot of times you think those are your ideas and

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:42:01

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

Relevant chapter: Ego, astral, etheric, and causal bodies explained

those are your feelings but a lot of times they're not. Um and a part again of this spiritual training is learning to differentiate between something is yours originating in you or uh something that is implanted whether intentionally or not. It's not nine times out of 10. So the etheric body is the higher version of uh or the higher per uh aspect of the physical because it is physical. You can feel it when you you can feel it when you do energy work. You can move it through acupuncture and you can see it. So it's

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 4:39

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: What Freemasonry is and why its origins are debated

like a seed ground for that kind of stuff. Splinter orders. I consider things like the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, Martinism, El Collen, all that stuff. Um, I consider it within the greater framework of masonry. We're studying principally the same symbols. Uh, now that, you know, we want to be inclusive of the appendent bodies, right? It's not just Blue Lodge. Um, but we're studying a lot of the same symbols in just a a different context with a little bit a little bit more of a liberal

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 32:06

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Adonis and the hope of immortality

like the polus the city citystate that's you know there wasn't a lot of interaction because of vast bodies of water in between the islands and then the rest of the place is mountains that you you can barely get up on a on a donkey or something like that you know so it's they were isolated but they did have a lot of foreign exchange overall. Um, you were very curious people. They were not uh some of them were were were were less xenophobic than others and they you know they were trained in Egypt and they they took all

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 24:32

Power, Heresy, and the Evolution of the Church ( Ike Baker | Sky Mathis )

Relevant chapter: Baptism, anointing, and the Holy Spirit

Jesus is no more. He is the Christ. Okay? And the the symbolism of baptism is so important because it relates to the word Christos. Christos means anointed. But anointed, some people conflate that with chosen, but what it really means is anointed with oil and they would anoint kings and they would anoint high priests and things like this, but it was symbolic because this was a time and place that did not have the widespread usage of soap. And so they used oil to clean their bodies. And so an an act of anointment is an act of

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 33:51

Power, Heresy, and the Evolution of the Church ( Ike Baker | Sky Mathis )

Relevant chapter: Lucifer, Satan, and the morning star

Literally, one who carries the the light. Um, it talks about it being in a fallen state. Now, there's a lot of ways you can interpret that. [clears throat] It could they could be talking about Sirius, the morning, you know, they could be talking about Venus. It could be a planetary body. I mean by all rights, right? Ancient civilizations did believe that planetary bodies were the terrestrial phys physical manifestations of the gods. They existed on many many on you multiple planes but that was their body particularly in like

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:14

Circuit of Force, Magnetic Interchange , Polarity Magic, Astral Light, Etheric Charge/ Forces #19

Relevant chapter: Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism, and Etheric Energy

some ambulism. So that the discovery in the west of that the cultivation of that some nambulistic state and then not only that but he from use of of uh animal magnetism which in the cabalistic so if you go back to that that that drawing that we had about the the seven planes and the seven bodies and the seven planes that's how we that's the vernacular I've used for it in the book you have a higher and a lower so you have the lower astral and you have the higher astral that creates like 14

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 40:57

Circuit of Force, Magnetic Interchange , Polarity Magic, Astral Light, Etheric Charge/ Forces #19

Relevant chapter: Spiritual Hierarchies and the Circuit of Force

translucent. So >> um that's what that means. Um, boness is in there, right? That's the Greek root uh is um that means light. >> So, uh the whole idea is that you you have to look at that hierarchy that ladder um the planes and the bodies as as I call it. Um each higher one, right? We were talking about this um the the way that kind of mode of like vibration and sending things down. Each higher thing controls its lower. It's the same in the system of agria, right? He talks about the three-fold

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