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Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul
the same um is is is constructed to the same note. You bring them within proximity and the other one will automatically pick up the vibration. Something like that happens to me. Um when I when I you know read and understood his his philosophy on and that which is basically that obviously you have the three hypotheses you have the one uh intellect and psyche and those are all meaning like not my intellect not my see soul um but a a universal one really the world soul and the greater soul of of the oversoul uh
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Relevant chapter: Proclus & Platonic Synthesis
him um and his life and what we know about him. >> Brilliant. >> He's brilliant. He was one of I think one of the last scholars of the Platonic Academy. He actually moved back to Athens to run the academy there. But his thing Proglas was the great synthesizer of the entire Platonic tradition from Plato to uh to to Amunius to Plutarch to uh you know the middle platonist to um to the neoplatonist the amus platinus. He synthesized all of it into one hole and it was uh what he did his commentaries
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Relevant chapter: Constantine, Politics & Christianity
monkeys at this point. But um but but the but you know, the thing is in Constantine, I've studied him greatly. He's extremely interesting and I do find him I do find plenty of evidence uh that convinces me that he was one of these personages. Um you know the biggest tip of the hat for me was that he never converted to Christianity. You know he he's had all this [ __ ] and he stayed a [ __ ] pagan. Um that's I mean it's a central doctrine is baptism, you know, and rights of of of those rights of
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Relevant chapter: Porphyry’s Real Critique of Christians
Pfury railed against those. Um, if I remember correctly, Porefrey was criticizing Christians, the the burgeoning Christian community, >> um, really. And, and I mean that that's that comes with being a philosopher is just thinking everybody else is dumb, >> you know? I mean, listen to me, you know? Not not a great way to be. not a great way to be but it it is it is kind of endemic to the to the the type of of person that becomes a philosopher. Uh so so I think I think that had a lot to do
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Relevant chapter: Humility, Socrates & Devotion to Truth
there, you know. Um uh >> well, could we say maybe like >> I would sorry I I would say I would say more in like think about it, right? Socrates, he sat in the square and he told everybody they were [ __ ] wrong. And he went and he showed them step by step that they were wrong. And he was, if you read those dialogues, it's [ __ ] great. It's awesome. I forget every time when I go back and I'm in the middle of a dialogue, I'm like, it's like watching reality television. Like, this is
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Relevant chapter: Humility, Socrates & Devotion to Truth
the money lenders, the money changers, not a pacifist. You know, he says specifically, I came to bring a sword, not peace. So, um, you know, I'm and I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I'm I'm just trying to reintroduce this perspective to people that like nobody who ever did anything really that great was what really truly embodied what we in a modern sense think of as humility. >> Yeah, that makes total sense. So we could say maybe a dedication and a following of their higher genius. Like a
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Relevant chapter: What Is Magic?
here's where it started and here's how how it was affected." You cannot. You can't. We've been trying to do it, but it it doesn't work. You're never going to pigeon hole. It's bigger than you. Um I don't care if you're [ __ ] a grippa. You do your best. It's great. We have systems. You're never going to you're never going to denute it. it's just not going to happen. But it's it's an outcome that that happened almost despite itself
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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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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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Relevant chapter: Ancient vs Modern Consciousness
expect the same results. There's a lot of preliminary work that needs to happen. But what's great about Elusus is that I mean it actually becomes beloved of Rome. So when Rome conquers Greece, they actually give money to the temple. You know that now they're really flourishing because they're they're backed by the empire and Marcus Aurelius was initiated at Elus. >> Oh wow. I don't I did not know that. >> I got to send it to you. There's a there's a big bust of him
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Relevant chapter: Hermes Trismegistus: Historical vs Mythic Figure
just used to have lunch with Plato and Santa Claus. But um but but we we understand now that um there are different religious implications specifically because of when this really epet begins to emerge, right? um the the combination of Thoth and Hermes and this um thrice magnified, thrice greatest um epitet and it happens when Hellenism uh comes after the Alexandrian conquest when uh Egypt is conquered by Greece and the TMIC Greek dynasty is installed after Alexander's death and uh there's
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Relevant chapter: Hermetic Texts & Pseudonymous Authorship
academic. It's like they'll write like 845 pages on like this one crack that's in the wall in a temple of dendera, you know? like so but you know it's kind of like that attribution whereas like um we don't also the style of of dialogue right so it's like you have you have like in the corpus hermetic the pimeter is a great great example you have these you know kind of a son and a father um at least in the verbiage, but really most likely what's trying to be um uh again that three-fold or or or
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Relevant chapter: Authority, Attribution & Esoteric Legitimacy
our best kind of informed position as to why all these documents ranging from different places, different, you know, uh, time periods, different styles, you know, and a lot of them even say contradictory things. >> Yeah. >> At points at points. So, but they're all attributed to Hermes Trisistas. And he actuallyist talks about it. He talks about how our ancestors attributed rightly all the works of all the great works of philosophy and mathematics and astronomy and religion to uh to Hermes. That's
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Relevant chapter: Transmission of Knowledge from Egypt to Greece
>> But the thing is, you know, the Rosian movement uh as a literary movement, you know, kind of died in the at the end of the 1700s. >> Um and I think one of the last great Rosie Christian works was um well, anyway, I people don't fight me on that, so I'm just going to keep my mouth shut, right? Um but uh I think personally if it's an older book there's a mistake being made because they thought you know Hermes magist was um was the uh was a contemporary of Moses. They could also be speaking poetically,
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Relevant chapter: Meaning of Magos & “Great Light” Symbolism
you know, um, lid on availability to those ancient sites, things from people like us and stuff. I mean, we look at the bombing of Baghdad, right? Destroyed tons of artifacts from uh, >> from that era, in that area. >> I think there's like the library of Asher Bonipal. I think that was in that area. A big ass library. >> Yeah. Um and just >> but but I I I just wanna I want to point out that because they share so many similarities um there's there's something interesting where do we find
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Relevant chapter: Meaning of Magos & “Great Light” Symbolism
like um in that language in in in Hindi and and Sanskritta and um you know the language of the vadas we find like the prefix ma meaning great and we find uh go or most um we find that meaning two things ow or like light. So it's interesting because if you take the if you take the vdic associations of those two you know uh this compound word let's say and put them together you have a word that means great light >> um and uh and we also know you know that that the cow became uh a sacred animal
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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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Relevant chapter: Unified Knowledge vs Modern Compartmentalization
>> definitely >> you know so so it's like even even back then histories had to teach lessons they had to teach morality they encoded esoteric truths they recorded a a story of of of of what happened and and the more the greater moral or spiritual implication, right? You read the Iliad and the Odyssey, it's just full of the [ __ ] gods. The gods are the only reason anything happens. >> Yeah. >> You know, so um I mean it's like the gods have, you know, uh they're just as prominent and prevalent
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Relevant chapter: Empedocles & the Four Elements
because he devised the theory of all matter being composed of four elements. >> That's where we get you know earth, water, air and fire. Those are traditionally known as the empedian elements. >> Yeah. And you know that what you said makes total sense. Makes a lot of sense to me. Um so yeah, he was of you know at least that school or that line of inquiry for one. And uh he was said to perform magical feats particularly in the realm of healing. He was a great healer apparently. Uh it seems you know
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Relevant chapter: Pythagoras in Egypt: Initiation & Study
um that we have either Fedrris or Parmenities but he Plato talks about the Egyptian god thought you know writing see this great scribe god who invented did numbers, letters, and words, you know. So, you have Plato talking about the knowledge of that god um and what he did and why it's important. And so, you have all these guys getting initiated in Egypt, but after Pythagoras comes back, right? And the the the quintessential thing that defines all these guys is this initiatic experience. They are changed.
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Relevant chapter: Methods of Inquiry & Logical Systems
these methods for um investigating nature that became highly highly logical um particularly by the time of of Pfury and and um and Aristotle, the great empiricist. But um uh but that they also as they tended down and looked inward, they also looked upward. And that's we find the best example of that in the historical record for my money in Plato because he's not just talking about the physical. He's constantly referring back to the metaphysical, the higher and and he did really exist in a Pythagor ultimately
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Relevant chapter: Magna Graecia & Greek Expansion
and things not unified. Wasn't a country like that. And so Italy in the the um in I want to say I I can't pinpoint it exactly but I know in in antiquity for several hundred years Italy was known as um now I'm talking about you know in the days of the Greek philosophers. I'm not talking about uh you know the middle ages or or or even even at the time of Rome before Rome um it was called Magna Greater Greece >> okay >> because that's just where right Greece is mostly islands
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Relevant chapter: Greek Identity: Language & Culture
unite to to fight the Persians, you know. So, it's it's it's not like pe the way people don't have any historical kind of context. >> So, Greek was a language parts of Ephesus there was that's t modern day Turkey that was Greek. You go right people talk about Alexander the Great in uh you know Macedonia that was that was Greek m it's it it's not Greek anymore you know what I'm saying it's the culture was Greek >> so so it's it wasn't really like that so
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Relevant chapter: Pythagoras’ School in Croton
Greeks. There's a lot of Greek in in Latin, you know, the Latin of Rome, a lot of Greek, a lot of similar words, shared words, lone words. Um, so when with all that in mind, when Pythagoras comes back from Egypt, he starts his school in uh a seaside town in what we call modernday Italy, which was then Magna, greater Greece, a little town on the souththeastern shore of Italy called Crotona. And so he basically starts philosophy there in Crotonia. He starts his school start teaching people all this stuff
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