Transcript passage · Unknown · 10:29
Relevant chapter: Theosophy & Attempt to Modernize Esotericism
attempting to be a part of this new world and and v for prominence within the sphere of public ideas and identity and ideology. Um so that's that's when you see you know the theosophical society kind of I wouldn't say that it happened so much with Bllovadsky. I mean, yeah, she definitely set the tone, but with with Basant and and even Alice Bailey and especially with Lead Beater, you seeing his stuff on the chakras and and uh his stuff on the etheric body, you know. Um there's one other guy, too.
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 48:34
Relevant chapter: Early Spread of Christianity & Esotericism
a lot that Christianity was being brought to major cities like that. I mean, maybe Rome, you know, with St. Peter. But anyway, so um they get that idea from uh Platinus's three hypotheses which which is also where the the holy trinity of Christianity gets its >> theological basis. Yeah. So you you have for for Plutinus he he conceived of the absolute as a three-fold unity and it couldn't be otherwise. Um so you had Then right the one that was beyond contemplation. It was everything
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:51
Relevant chapter: Satanism as self-worship and material gratification
one's black, one's white. Uh, and one pulls downward, one pulls upward. They pull in opposite directions. It's the charioteer's job to be able to, you know, pull them into submission and drive them somewhere to towards a unified purpose. Um, and so he calls them the the the the appetitive, uh, which is the animal aspect. It's a part of us. The we in in initiated esotericism we call this the threefold bond bond uh three-fold bond of the material inclination. We are inclined towards material things
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:20
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
about the saints that's the whole thing is like people people always think that like Christianity is against magic it's it cath Catholicism is not against magic in the new testament the only thing the only admonition is is is against uh you know pharmcoy or pharmarmacia essentially um herbalists, but the connotation was, you know, witches, you know, uh witch doctors and things like that. At the end of the day, magic has been with Cath Catholicism from the very beginning, you know, it's it's
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:57
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
bursting with magic. Um so, uh I completely lost my train of thought, but >> yeah. Well, it's interesting you mentioned that the, you know, the Pharmarmacia thing. That was something I think I brought that up with one of the interviews I did with Douglas Gabriel because I was kind of picking his brain about that um particular verse or whatever it was. But, um, you know, cuz that's some of the common argument against things like um that would be considered sorcery or whatever to some
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 26:29
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
individuals. And to me, it seemed like the connotation of the word itself was geared towards the description of maybe herbalism done in the form of harm or something along those lines or like a a substance that is procured with ill intention or like that to me was what seemed like pharmarmacia was being alluded to. >> Yeah, absolutely. Because um pharmarmacia is different than uh yatros which is doctor right? Pharmarmacia is is like an herbalist and um yeah absolutely uh somebody who specifically worked with
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 27:17
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
plants to distill certain things and and make certain potions and things like that. Uh, but um I don't I'm not sure where I was going to go with that because I can't remember what I was saying before I kind of went >> Well, my original question was about the >> Oh, I know. I remember. >> Okay. >> I remember I was going for the saints. >> Okay. >> The saints were essentially magicians. They were people who could talk to animals. St. Francis made an almond tree bloom. you
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 27:50
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
know, uh, these were so but these were people who lived, you know, lives of of of, you know, high restraint and high dedication, you know, and um, that's another thing, you know, in in in medieval renaissance forms of magic. I mean, even up until like somebody as recent as Anton Kmers or or or um you know, uh Ellis Levy go even further. Uh the founders of the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, they were all saying like the only way you can gain magic powers, you know, to become strong, magically strong to the point where you
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 28:32
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
could, as you say, perhaps consecrate a river, you know, in perpetuity is to live a saintly life. is to live a life of discipline of control. Now um you know a little different in the Golden Dawn. In the Golden Dawn they they thought that if you could suffer a severe discipline in a city you were even more powerful. You were even more holy because um I think Wescott puts it like uh um he says something to the effect in one of the flying roles that like it doesn't matter if you go live in a forest. If you're a slave to yourself,
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 29:07
Relevant chapter: Saints, magic, and Christian esotericism
you will practice vice in that forest, you know. So, it's uh that kind of thing. So, so the level of available energy and and quote unquote I hate this word, but power available to a particular person depends on how much they have developed the in themselves. I don't think that anything is impossible. But you need to pay that price. Nothing is free. I'll put it that way. Nothing is impossible but nothing is free. >> And so like with the trinitarian thing that you mentioned in regards to consecr
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 2:07
Relevant chapter: Esotericism and cryptography connection
that one, you know, unlocks mysteries or a symbolic uh system of language of some kind. Uh one has to learn certain keys for understanding like a particular text or you know like within alchemy for example or uh even you know modern digital or economic security apparatuses have to do a lot with you know cryptography and decoding things and things along these natures. So, we thought this would be a really fun one to kind of just explore these ideas um with, you know, esoterica and cryptography. And I really think they go
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 59:57
Relevant chapter: Introduction to Kabbalah and pathworking
um uh any other notes on Raymond Lul that you wanted to throw out there before we move on? >> Um don't confuse him with Will William Lily because I'm pretty sure I did that for like five years. So >> All right. Well, all right. Cobalistic pathworking. Um the Caboa cobalistic path working amazing obviously huge gigantic thing within esotericism. Um so I'm aware of the cabala and the tree of life to a degree and somewhat aware of the conception of its sepharotic nature these spheres uh or
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 8:57
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
uh one perhaps maybe you could correct me if I'm wrong but uh like you had mentioned Yakob Burma I always have trouble pronouncing that hopefully I did a good job uh his text Aurora um I don't know is this associated and maybe you could touch a little bit on that text and a little bit about what it encompasses >> I think a lot of things philosophically influenced uh Louis Claude de Sam Martan um and it was a very interesting time he was technically you know uh somebody who didn't
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 9:29
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
I'm not certain certain about his biographical details whether or not he was he was actual nobility but my assumption is that he had to have been because it's the only way that you could have done any of this stuff you know with capes and swords and secret meetings if you don't have to work or like make bread for a living um in uh you know in in in 18th century France but um a man man of education uh for certain a man of letters and um to a degree uh but um I I'm not certain as to how
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 10:10
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
influenced he was by the aurora but I think personally that um I would I would venture to say that 95% of the western esoteric traditions uh were influenced by Yakab Burma because when you get to the core of any of the real initiatic systems that were you know coming about in that time they are all Christian explicitly Christian um you know so that doesn't mean that they can't be like the the the the inner order of the Golden Dawn being a rosy Christian order Christian imagery figuring heavily Even in the outer
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 10:55
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
order, all your admission badges are crosses. And uh you know, all that stuff figuring into this very esoteric mystical Christian conception uh really is the heart of esotericism. An attempt to understand the esoteric meanings, the symbolism of the Christ within. >> I mean, the aurora is what, right? The dawn. That's what that word means. the golden dawn, right? So, uh it's there it's all talking about the same thing, the light of the golden day of uh that kind of cristic initiation, the
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 11:38
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
awakening of the Christ force within us. And um so I'm not certain how to what extent uh Martine or uh uh Louis Claude De Sam Martanam was influenced by Yakab Burmy's work but I do know that they are extremely consonant. I do know that at at heart they are it it's it's Christian mysticism, right? I mean, the Golden Dawn, you go into uh a temple and you're walking around doing a lot of circumambulations and wearing funny headdresses and stuff and uh you have all these tests and
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 12:15
Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn
these this curriculum to memorize and then you get into the inner order and you're doing proper theology and it's all these reports and things like it's excellent. It's excellent. In Martinism, you retire to your prayer closet. You know, it's it's the way of the heart. It's not the way of the head. It's Christian mysticism uh for for a more modern audience. Um and in the millu of the esoteric uh initiatic format, those those orders. >> Yeah. Yeah. I drew from some of the
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 40:04
Relevant chapter: Closing reflections and future collaboration
Foundation of Western Esotericism Explored. I'll be doing book one. Jamie will be doing book two. Mark will be doing book three. That's running every Monday from August 21st to September 25th. So, 6 weeks, two hours uh per session, two sessions per book. Um I think it's a a fantastic value. And um you can uh look that up on the Institute for Hermetic Studies Teachable platform. Um and I will link to that on my Facebook page and Instagram, all that stuff. That's a big thing coming up
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:01
Relevant chapter: Christian Kabbalah and the pentagrammaton
Christianity um grew forth you know they kind of examining that that's really the birth of modern esotericism let's go back to Egypt to see what they were talking about and see how it comes forth and and and and really the usage of the lineal Glyph of the kabbalistic Tree of Life to sort of graft everything onto it's very esoteric so I'm not you know we can't we can only speculate as to the spirit um in which these academics and early esotericists worked in you know we don't
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:01
Relevant chapter: Christian Kabbalah and the pentagrammaton
Christianity um grew forth you know they kind of examining that that's really the birth of modern esotericism let's go back to Egypt to see what they were talking about and see how it comes forth and and and and really the usage of the lineal Glyph of the kabbalistic Tree of Life to sort of graft everything onto it's very esoteric so I'm not you know we can't we can only speculate as to the spirit um in which these academics and early esotericists worked in you know we don't
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:51
Relevant chapter: Satanism as self-worship and material gratification
one's black, one's white. Uh, and one pulls downward, one pulls upward. They pull in opposite directions. It's the charioteer's job to be able to, you know, pull them into submission and drive them somewhere to towards a unified purpose. Um, and so he calls them the the the the appetitive, uh, which is the animal aspect. It's a part of us. The we in in initiated esotericism we call this the threefold bond bond uh three-fold bond of the material inclination. We are inclined towards material things
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 0:53
Relevant chapter: Ficino, Translation Work & Renaissance Esotericism
Um, but there's there's a mystery. There's there's this legend, this wordof mouth bic tradition that all of these initiatic orders were um expressions of this philosophy, this this really esoteric religion um that had existed in Italy since the time that Pythagoras came to Crotona. So, like I was saying, when uh Marcelio Ficino um started st really because in order to translate stuff, you got to study it. You're reading it constantly. Um and he did [ __ ] volumes. Can you just as a
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:35
Relevant chapter: Ficino, Translation Work & Renaissance Esotericism
brief aside, how many how many of you people listening can actually [ __ ] commit to writing in a journal once a week? >> This guy translated like a hundred books, you know? in in his lifetime, you know, he didn't even live to be that old. So, it's amazing what we can do, A, when we give a [ __ ] about something, and B, when we don't let distractions [ __ ] us up, you know. Um, now it's there's a million different distractions. Million TV, Netflix, uh, you know, whatever it is.
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