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

Relevant chapter: Plato’s ethics and the “highest good”

super fan. There's a lot of [expletive] that he said that I I kind of don't agree with or, you know, I think was was some of it was like basically a lot of his dialogues were kind of predicated on these spirious terms, but the whole thing is that he wasn't arguing from a logical basis. [music] These were mystical documents. He was trying to get to the [expletive] point. Didn't matter if this didn't make sense to you now, 2500 years later. [music] Um, but you have to go back to him because

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 33:49

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

Relevant chapter: Plato’s ethics and the “highest good”

it happened before everything. It was before Christianity, you know, it it like so people point to like, oh no, that's Christian moralizing. Yeah, but but what about Plato? You know, this was hundreds of years before Christ, you know, and he was saying the same thing. So what do we do about that problem? You know, so that's why I always go back to Plato. He's the oldest and most intact version that we have of this stuff. And uh he he essentially at least according to our historic record he creates the first

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:24

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

Relevant chapter: Plato’s ethics and the “highest good”

philosophy of ethics um in the west and and you know arite and udeimmonia you know um excellence and well-being and that's what it's all about [music] and the pyia the education of the soul right not just the education of the man but the education of the soul consists in contemplating and coming to understand what he called the capital G good. The capital G good was the closest conception he could come to to like a substantive ground from which all of creation manifested. Um, and so that's

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:33

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

Relevant chapter: Recognizing and embodying virtue

know is you remove all the gray area. I know what to do in this situation. I'm not going to sit here and bite my nails and say, "Well, this would be really good for me and this is really inconvenient." No, you know what the answer is? Do it. And you do it. I mean, that's the basis of Stoicism came out of this exactly this philosophy of Platonism. this philosophy is of ethics is is was the ground of stoicism. Um they just said they were agnostic about all the other stuff. I don't really care

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 48:24

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

Relevant chapter: False occult wisdom and power over self

sovereignty because we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater with morality and ethics and virtue. And now, you know, we come in with this, you know, again, this younger generation, we're coming in with this inclination towards mystical knowledge. Um, perhaps as an impetus of previous lives, who knows really? And now it's they're spoonfeeding us dog [expletive] We're getting Crowley. We're getting Phimma. We're getting Anton Lavey as wisdom. That's not wisdom. That is not wisdom. Okay. I

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 25:15

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

Relevant chapter: Ethics and risks of manipulating energy

Ritual and certain Martinist uh um and Martinist related groups. I've done some more more healing stuff, but I tend not to try and screw with people cuz that's ultimately what you're doing, you know, at the end of the day after you've kind of experimented experimented to gratify your own curiosity and see if you could satisfy a sense of like accomplishment. But what did it do? You know, if anything, now it's going to take me it's going to take me some time to like work off that pride, you know?

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 25:49

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

Relevant chapter: Ethics and risks of manipulating energy

>> Sure. >> Yeah. So when I was poking through that book, that trimeian conjuration book, I had also come across something you're probably familiar with, the heptaron or the elements of magic. And seemed like they both kind of had the >> Yeah. looked like they both had a lot of the same similar sort of like sigils within those texts. So, I'm not sure if what came first if the I don't know maybe what do you have a little bit of background on the heptaron? >> Um,

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 3:38

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

Relevant chapter: Natural Philosophy & Early Cosmology

like a bunch of people who just it was something from the Twilight Zone a bunch of people who are just just sort of waking up in this gig realizing we're in this gigantic machine how how does this work. What is this? That was really precratic philosophy. Whereas Socratic philosophy dealt with things like virtue, ethics. Okay, we kind of we have ideas now about how this thing works, but how do we live in it? You know, what's the me what's the tilos, the meaning, the purpose of this whole

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Drew Mackinnon: Teleology of the Temple

Relevant chapter: Morality, discipline & esoteric traditions

you know physical temperance and stuff like that then the next one is ethicos you know ethics um and then after that is is uh you know politicos the the civic duty that you now have being an upright ethical person. I mean, this is part of the the Neil Platonic Academy. So, this goes way way way way way back. And so, now when you go into something like Freemasonry, which I think everybody should have to go through in order to like get into other esoteric orders, you know, um because there is co-masonry for women, I think that

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