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Transcript passage · Unknown · 13:27

Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: The Kybalion: Value & Simplicity

And I learned that from the mystical cabal. I learned that from Dion fortune. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh kind of speaking back to the cabalian a little bit. I know it's not like super in-depth, but I think it is such a great foundation and definitely has a special place for me because it was, you know, one of the first that I had come across. I found it super comprehensive. It was like literally one of the first books as elementary as it was that kind of like opened me up to a lot of these things

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 18:27

Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: The Kybalion as Entry-Level Teaching

somewhere else. But it's it's great when you're first coming to uh when you're first coming here. Sure. It's a great text, right? Because what else are you going to read? So, >> definitely. All right. So, uh >> that's why I that's why I love this [ __ ] podcast because I get to just kind of I get to just say like wild [ __ ] like that. It's my favorite. >> All right. So, the circuit of force um this may relate to color magic, but uh I was looking at the chapter titled

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 38:58

Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: Magic, Energy Amplification & Risk

poo poo, you know, they say, "Oh, well, you know, it's overrated." They don't know what the [ __ ] they're doing. It's as simple as that. They might be doing stuff. They might totally be great magic, but they don't know what they're doing. There's a difference. You have to know what you are doing. And what happens in magic is you are raising psychosexual energy because that is the motive force aotus levy talks about it magnetized electricity etheric energy you're building it up and

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 18:23

Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: Transition to Discussion on Theosophy & Lucifer

thing uh is that um well [ __ ] I I completely forgot. So let's let's uh what do you think about everything I just said? >> I think it's beautiful. I think that's a great overview. Um there was a question. And this is like kind of an off-topic thing from Dion Fortune, but um still I kind of related because we're talking about Bvatsky and like the theosophy of Bvatsky and all of that and you mentioned like um a little bit which made me think of these thoughts um like with her theosophy

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:55

Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: Critique of Modern Esoteric Misinformation

it doesn't represent the actual the wholeness of what these things are. So, I don't know. I just always like to get you to get hyped up on that stuff. >> You know how you know how to push my buttons. No, but the thing is that it's it's great, right? It's great that um it's great that you are open to this, right? Because there's I've been on a lot of podcasts and and done a lot of writing and there are people in the comments section who are like, "He's one of them. He's lying."

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Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: Thoughtforms, Tulpas & Imaginal Reality

that it's fake. That's another issue that people have. I I don't talk about it as the imagination. I call it the imaginal faculty. It's a spiritual power. And people don't just don't realize it's happening in a dimension that is is co-terminal. It it's coexistent and interpenetrative with all this stuff. But we don't experience it as physical until it manifests. Then we experience it as phys physical. But it's it's it's an actuality. The great line

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 54:51

Dion Fortune , Theosophy , Hermeneutics, Qabalah, thought Forms, Negative Existence #17

Relevant chapter: Dangers of Hyper-Granular Thinking

microscopically that you you you've completely lost the the picture, you that's why we end up in this place. And I I feel very passionate about that because there's some brilliant [ __ ] people who's like their talents are kind of wasted if you ask me. Uh um but you could be doing great [ __ ] work if you pull your head out of this gigantic academic ass.

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Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Intro & audio quality discussion

So, it might not be the most amazing audio quality. Um, and we may end up releasing this as an audio only version, which is really weird because it's the first time we're in Burson together. >> I know. >> And um, but the thing is I think it's a great episode so far. >> Me, too. >> I wanted to ask you cuz I was what you were talking you brought up like Eve, Adam and Eve, and all that. And I was listening to some stuff recently about some different ideas related to

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 23:08

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

Relevant chapter: Ascended masters and reclusive adepts

through again into the west. And there's this conception of, you know, even even like the seven dowist immortals who walk away from the world, you know, heartsick at its ways to go live on mountain toughs. Um, I would say that if they if there are people that do that, because it is a trope, um, that they're not doing a [ __ ] great job. So, unless they're dark, then they're doing >> chefs. But, um, I I I'm not certain that there are people who can sway an entire population just by sitting in a room

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

Relevant chapter: Closing thoughts and Patreon thanks

>> Epic. All right. Well, let's end it on that. Uh, this was awesome. >> Always a pleasure. I'll just give the listeners a little look of this sick shirt that we've got going on here. Um, very excited about it. Thank you anybody who has purchased one and supported us. Thank you all the Patreon listeners for supporting us. Greatly appreciate it as always. And we're going to continue to keep pumping out good stuff. And so with that, until next time. >> Hey, you know what? I want to mention

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

Relevant chapter: Intro and return from hiatus

All right, welcome to another episode of the Etherica podcast. I'm Sky Matthysse joined with Ike Baker. Ike, how are you doing? >> I am very good. I'm glad to be back with you. We were on a little bit of a of a hiatus there. We had some stuff going on in both of our lives, but uh I'm excited to be back with you, man. How are you? Me, too. I'm doing great. So, I'm looking forward to it. I've been uh lacking on the podcasts last week or so, so I'm excited to jump back in with you.

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

Relevant chapter: Fire, sulfur, meteors, and divine punishment

Quran also. But what's really cool for me is that so they're told as they're walking away from the destruction, the rubble, not to look back. And Lot's, who is Abraham's nephew, Lot's um wife, turns and looks and she immediately turns into a pillar of salt, which is one of those all-time great biblical stories that make it like this crazy, you know, uh fantasy or like almost like a sci-fi type of thing to it. Just makes it great reading the Old Testament really. um the the punishments that this God just

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

Relevant chapter: Lucifer, Isaiah, and mistranslated context

kind of stuff. So that's the biblical prophetic. I mean there's some really cool surreal stuff in like the book of Daniel in the Old Testament and then you go for again that was also I think uh Nebuchadnezzar right I think he was that's where you get the the writing on the wall uh tech many foxes uh measure your weight and number um and all these very obscure references to like some king's downfall and a lot of it happens when they're in the Babylonian exile you they get captured and then Cyrus the great is the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 24:46

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

Relevant chapter: Mosaic law and ancient commandments

portion of his adult life in Egyptian society which had lots of laws, right? Because they had a a huge they had a huge he was part of royalty. You know, he's the brother of Rammeses, right? The the one of the greatest pharaohs of all time. I forget which Rammeses it was, but they were all pretty good. But um you know so yeah of course he would have been the one to like tell the people like okay if we want to do this we want to like stay alive and and have some sort of growth here's what we have to

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:59

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: The angelical language and key Enochian sources

Eninoian. In the histories, it's said that this language was delivered to the Hebrew patriarch Enoch by the great angel A. But they call it the angelical language. And it's got its own syntax, its own grammar. uh it's a fully fleshed out thing. Now, some of the best works on the the historical side, one of my favorite books of all time uh on this stuff was actually John D and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louuv. And if you really want to dig deep into the In Nokian, you can um you can look at uh

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 8:39

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: The angelical language and key Enochian sources

Frather Yakita's Inkian Magic in theory and Inokian magic in practice. And of course, what is essential for the Eninoian library is the work of of Aaron Leech um who is also a fraud um in the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn and we've done some stuff together. Uh his stuff is is really indispensable. Great work because he he has the audition. They're scholarly. They're well put together, but he has the insight of a practitioner of decades, which he is. So, um, if you want to learn more about the history and and the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 13:50

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Elemental grades and advancements

grade and you know then you're introduced to the earth tablet and so on and so forth. It's because we're calling in these energies specifically through that filter, through that lens, through that focal point. and um all of the Golden Dawn correspondences, all of the whatever you want to call them, god forms, uh the the the great names, words of power, all of them have some place on that Enochian tablet. All each one of them have multiple in in each square, you know, they have they share space.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 22:06

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Refinement of Enochian practice through later adepts

and more people working with you know have there been a lot has there been probably like a lot of refinement and uh testing and um conclusions that could be drawn that people are pretty safe saying like you know that um these are some methods and ways to go about these things. These are common results. Um is it kind of been pretty fleshed out, is there still a lot of up in the air stuff with it or >> Well, the great thing is that people who who even if you're a highly ambitious pain in the ass beginner and you're like,

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Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Ficino, Paracelsus, Trithemius, and Agrippa’s influences

you had Paracelis too, who was local. He was, you know, it was German, like in that same time and place. and and Paracelis the great alchemist and Spager Spageric you know the founder of Spageria he gave us the philosophical essential of salt that third philosophical essential. So all this stuff that is modern magic as we understand it happened right before Cornelius or right as Cornelius Sigria was incarnating and as a young man came under the toutelage of a an uh essentially a bishop. He was in an

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 40:40

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: The fifth element and the Tablet of Union

emotions. Somebody could start crying, not really know why. In air, somebody could people have literally gotten dizzy and had to like sit down, almost pass out, things like that. So um earth a great example would be like you know uh nobody having the energy to do it you know like just feeling heavy uh feeling weighed down depressed things like this can all you know I mean it could even you know it could even be like literal like like a pipe bursting in the water grade or something like that. So you need to

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 48:35

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Mixtures, herbs, and natural magic

its taste, its smell, its scent. You use the five senses to figure out what virtues and he agria says this is not easy. It's not like oh yeah just go ahead and do it. He's like this is incredibly difficult. the greatest minds of all time worked together over centuries trying to figure out, you know, try trying to correspond these things and and notate it and preserve these notes. But essentially, you use your five senses to figure out what objects and substances contain what virtues to what

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:42

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Incense, spirits, and purification by scent

of the things that's very interesting too is that because you don't purification can take place in two in one of two ways or typically both in the Golden Dawn. Water and fire. Fire is purificatory. That's the greater purifica purifying agent. That's you can't just expose things to fire immediately. They have to be gradually gradually kind of purified. And so you begin with water and then you you you go on to to fire in most cases. Again, nothing here is a rule that is set in

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 12:00

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Catholic ritual, incense, and holy water

so even to this day in like the major ritual that happens typically in the United States, which is the the you know, Christian forms of high mass, they they purif they purify the space and the the lesser ritual of the of the pentagram and to and absolutely to a greater extent the greater rituals there's all sorts of of things that are meant to purify a space and you purify things you know one of the one of the basic ways is like keep everything clean keep it dustfree don't go into a ritual

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:04

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: The wand as will and fire

right? one of his early works with with Francis King. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I mean, it's basically a reiteration of the Golden Dawn early stuff. Um, there's nothing new in it, but there's highly highly informative stuff. It's called Techniques of High Magic. It's a great book for beginners, especially if you don't want to join an order. I recommend that one. The only thing is they correspond wand to air, which is no, absolutely not. The wand has a phallic germinative connotation.

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