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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:06:11

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

Relevant chapter: Nature of material reality and illusion

and it exists kind of in in you know I don't want to say two planes simultaneously because I don't want to I don't want to misconstrue anybody between that whole uh platinian versus emblem uh soul fully descended or partially descended argument. It's kind of not what I'm talking about in this particular thing. But there's, you know, there's an existence where um there's a release from the temporary back to uh the ground, right? There's a reason we say that our waking lives are

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

Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 18:53

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Operative versus speculative Masonry

the chief emblems. And you know, three great lights of masonry. Um so uh they opened up their doors to these noblemen who were very interested in things like uh liberal arts education and geometry and wanted to learn all this stuff and eventually it just kind of devolved into a completely speculative system which we have today. Okay, that's the mundane interpretation. Very very popular in the 1930s when everybody was just sort of you know uh wa washing trying to wash the stink of that 1920s

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 4:35

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

Relevant chapter: Theurgy, Ascent, and the Circuit of Force

it. And it's all based on emblemian theology. But the thing about the circuit of force and a lot of people have it [ __ ] because of the eastern contamination, the transcendent kind of like all is you know illusion and we have to trans transcend and and and get beyond the material paradigm [ __ ] You go up to come down. You go you go up the it's not fully transcendent where bye have fun rotting in hell. You come back down with with you know with that prometheian fire to to square the circle

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 20:24

The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Pomegranate Symbolism & Attachment to Matter

her back. Uh but the thing is in her her captivity down there, you know, refusing food, she did she grew weary and and and and thin and and hungry and Hades convinced her just just have this one little pomegranate seed. And she did and she had to come back. He said, "Okay, but she's eaten of the fruit of the underworld and so she's she's got to come down here at least half the time." And so why people live there? Why how the [ __ ] does that make any sense? Well, it's it's emblematic of the idea that

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