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

Relevant chapter: Asheville, Sedona, and terrestrial chakras

is definitely some kind of terrestrial meridian or you know a terrestrial acupoint right that's what we call it chakras terrestrial chakra. It just means wheel. Gal is the the the Hebrew term for that spinning vortex. But the thing is it's a little bit of both, right? It it definitely I think is affected by the astrology or is at least more sensitive to whatever is happening uh uh in a certain area based on a planetary correspondence or some sort of constellation or what have you. But it also is kind of in this feedback loop

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 22:25

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

Relevant chapter: Mosaic law and ancient commandments

used astrology and they used omens for prophecy. And even now in modern modern magic, we use divination for pro uh pro prophecy and things like that. So, but back then these these prophets were explicitly being spoken to by their god. They were the ones who knew how to do it and that's what made them special. >> And you mentioned uh more than 10 commandments. I know there's something like the Egyptian 42 commandments of M. There's like the Babylonian code of Hammurabi and then maybe potentially like the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 29:35

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

Relevant chapter: Sidereal astrology and ritual accuracy

specific timings even in alchemy you know it has to be done. Now two different things. Cidurial astrology has to be used for operations whereas tropical astrology can be used for things like birth charts. >> Super important point I think >> right you have to it has to actually be in the in in that the planet has to physically be in the constellation. Okay. It can't be. Well, tropical astrology says it should be there or it would have been there, you know, 1500 2,000 years ago. Uh,

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

Relevant chapter: Sidereal astrology and ritual accuracy

for magical operations, you have to find where that planet is in the sky and you have to face it typically. Um, at least know where it is so you can you can direct your working toward it. Uh, and there are certain techniques that you can use that are really interesting. Now if you don't do something in a proper timing, my experience has been that it's not that things will technically go haywire. I mean there are other attendant things like let's say if you do cuz because you got to be pretty you got to be specific

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 30:49

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

Relevant chapter: Sidereal astrology and ritual accuracy

in your ritual work. You can't just do things kind of willy-nilly. Let's see what happens. I think in the beginning some safe low voltage level of experimentation is necessary but you you want to try and as you get as you get more and more advanced you have to try and really dial in with your intention and uh so if you want to amplify you know you want to invoke Mercury to bathe in its energies during a mercury retrograde if you're not the type of person who has a handle on their mercurial energies. Meaning if you

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

Relevant chapter: Jewish calendars and lunar cycles

certain kinds of theurgic work like uh El Cohen the all predicated on lunar cycles, you know, at least at least at the lower levels. I'm not sure about the higher levels, but that's that is all predicated on on lunar stuff. So, um I see I see consonants. I see a harmony with that kind of stuff. Um at the end of the day, for magical work, you need to be you need to be taking into account cidurial astrology and where the moon is, what phase it's in, and what it's doing at all times. So, if you can do those

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:07

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

Relevant chapter: Influence on Agrippa and hidden teachings

magic and astrology working with angelic med mediations through steganographia remained in manuscript form. It influenced occult sciences in the 16th century and cryptography. Trius was also accused of necromancy and demonic magic. So I was wondering >> there it is. >> There it is. And also I believe he was the teacher uh of a grippa as well as I think Pariselus. Um, do we have any information >> or indications of who Trimus's teachers may have been or any of maybe his close

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:24:01

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

Relevant chapter: Navigating the Tree of Life safely

sense right helenistic astrology meaning that it's not making any any aspects um rather than switching house uh houses um stuff like that. So you can try that stuff out anyway. So I'd get that going. I would get myself to a place where I was ready to visualize. definitely do a middle pillar before then to center myself, balance myself, and activate the we call them galgalim because it's a Hebrew word for, you know, swirling, but really chakras um of the on the the Hebrew, you know, or the abolistic

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:40:33

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

one of the presentation style lectures that I put together on astrology, tarot, ritual, all that jazz, uh you will be able to find an email, my Instagram, and that stuff. But go check out the videos and um keep enjoying the Etherica podcast with us. This is a lot of fun. >> Absolutely. All right. Until next time.

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Prophets, Laws, and the Architecture of Order Episode 14

Relevant chapter: Mosaic law and ancient commandments

used astrology and they used omens for prophecy. And even now in modern modern magic, we use divination for pro uh pro prophecy and things like that. So, but back then these these prophets were explicitly being spoken to by their god. They were the ones who knew how to do it and that's what made them special. >> And you mentioned uh more than 10 commandments. I know there's something like the Egyptian 42 commandments of M. There's like the Babylonian code of Hammurabi and then maybe potentially like the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 28:16

Evolotionary Arcana, Chronomany, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead - Episode 15

Relevant chapter: Asheville, Sedona, and terrestrial chakras

is definitely some kind of terrestrial meridian or you know a terrestrial acupoint right that's what we call it chakras terrestrial chakra. It just means wheel. Gal is the the the Hebrew term for that spinning vortex. But the thing is it's a little bit of both, right? It it definitely I think is affected by the astrology or is at least more sensitive to whatever is happening uh uh in a certain area based on a planetary correspondence or some sort of constellation or what have you. But it also is kind of in this feedback loop

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 48:56

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

Relevant chapter: The Demon Lover, Hungry Ghosts, and Purgatory

even in a comparatively respectable sense, can result in souls act souls acquisitively hanging around former habitations or sites concealed concealed valuables. Uh eventually the stars draw up the materially based astral forces which divide naturally into their elements according to the planetary configurations of astrology. With the inevitable dissolution, there can be a struggle as the former vices or obsessions rise up and amuse monstrous nightmarish shape shapes that eventually drive off the misdirected soul. This is

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 14:11

The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Priest-Astronomers & Early Astrology

the thing is that they were they were early early in the the system of of transmission. You know, it's the Mesopotamian astrologers were practicing this 5,000 years ago. You know, they were practicing astrology back then. It was, you know, ominic and it was mundane, you know, astrology. It it was electional. It had more to do with the affairs of of of state and sovereign um and uh and and omens and uh also but not this wasn't like people on the street you know. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> These were these were priests.

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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Priest-Astronomers & Early Astrology

>> These were priest astronomers. Um, and that's essentially what uh mahi means, priests. >> You know, that term I believe comes from old Phoenician. >> Um, and I'm sure it has etmological roots in uh, you know, even further back. And the thing that's really really interesting that a lot of people don't realize and Steven Flowers has done some really interesting work on this. You have the ancient uh um I want to say uh Sumerian cultures and their gods. And this would have been

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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Meaning of Magos & “Great Light” Symbolism

anyway but um it's uh these were the the men learned in the astronomical sciences in in that culture in in Phoenicia and um they're the Persians, you know, the same same area, you know. So, it's uh >> so so yeah, so that that's kind of the what the word Magos means. And it's essentially what we're talking about these natural philosophers, right? Because they didn't really use astrology the way that we use astrology. They used it like a like like looking at the universal clockwork to say, "Okay, now

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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Astrology as Observation, Not Horoscope

is the time to, you know, go to war or now is the time to plant the crops or now is the time to build this city, lay the cornerstone of this building." Um, it wasn't like they weren't reading natal charts. They weren't doing horoscopes. >> Yeah. And just a touch more on on the note of like the omenic observations. Uh Jamie Paul Lamb was telling me basically like uh in regards to all the omic data that was collected over these large periods of time in particular that we're

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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Omen-Based Data & Origins of Astrology

talking about like with the calans and and whatnot um is kind of what led largely to the understanding of things like like the virtues and the dynamics of astrological and astronomical associations and influences and how they have their effects on consciousness and and matter in the material world and on Earth by all of these years and years of collecting all this data on the things that occurred in regards to the times that the planets were at certain positions and and all this all of these recorded data sets.

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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Omen-Based Data & Origins of Astrology

When you look at all of them, you find these particular patterns. And in finding and looking at those particular patterns is patterns is where such a large portion of of what we now modern day understand about why you know why do we say things like Venus is associated with particular things like love or you know Venian aspects is because of this preemptive uh very like in-depth data that was from this omenic uh kind of observe these like amenic observations or whatever. >> Yeah. I mean observation is the best

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

using the same principles. >> All right. Beautiful. So, we should probably roll the rest into another podcast because we've got a lot to cover still and this was pretty amazing. But before we do, I want to address one of our Patreons questions and then I'll end with like a couple closing questions. But I'll go ahead and I'll ask a question. She asks, "Is there such thing as theurgic astrology? Do we have any historical evidence of rituals or esoteric practices existing

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

where someone would be able to influence by way of ritual work or pathworking challenging placements or transits? Basically using your birth chart as a working map. Side note, this is where I'm hope this is where I'm hoping what I'm understanding the correctly. The equal god working. Um so theology actually and its beginning stages has to be predicated on astrology absolutely has to be um at the beginning stages right the goal is to transcend causal mechanism and if we're looking at in the

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

traditional neoplatonic sense the structure and position of the universe relative to itself and the bodies which comprise it um as causal um as influential. Then we want to find the best sort of arrangement of those things to kind of have this upward trajectory outward. It's kind of like the stairs in Harry Potter that are always moving. I don't know if you're a fan, but like when they're trying to get to their dorm room or get places, they're always going up these [ __ ] stairs, but the stairs

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

just move. It's like an MC Cher painting. Um, it's astrology is basically waiting till those stairs are aligned so that you can just [ __ ] fly up, you know, like that. I mean, that's a pretty silly analogy, but that's kind of it. Now, the piece about natal astrology and your natal chart. Absolutely. Um, that is that is that's your starting point. Now uh this is attested to intricacus too because he shits on uh in multiple writings he shits all over the astrologers of his day. He says they use

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

it for divination. They use it like drawing lots [ __ ] The high he get actually gets very cranky about it. He he it's one of the it's one of it's it's great. He really gets grumpy about it and basically poratively sort of sort of chides them and [ __ ] and finger wags at them and and says like you know you know it's it's the higher it's the the astrology is important for it. It doesn't give a [ __ ] if if you know how many goats should you buy you know um and it's it's it's really interesting.

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Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts

Dr. Gregory Shaw has a couple of um uh really good essays on that for free on academia. I think it's academia.org. Um so you can read some of those firsthand. He has great commentary on that. But yes, the natal chart is extremely important. Uh Jamie Paul Lamb is the guy uh for this stuff. He's developed a system of what he calls donic astrology. um he actually taught uh a class at the the uh Institute for Hermetic Studies um that I took. It was like a six-part class and it's exactly

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