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Transcript passage · Unknown · 10:36

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

Relevant chapter: Polarity, Projection & Psychological Reflection

for a long time right they're mirroring each other you know all they can see it's like everything's on a gigantic like carousel, a circular, you know, a circular kind of track that we're all on that is in the horizontal plane and from wherever I am, I'm my line of sight is directly across from me, you know, and so all all I'm all I'm kind of objectifying is my my polarity, what's directly across from me, uh, diametrically opposed to me. And you see that a lot. You see that

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 11:25

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

Relevant chapter: Polarity, Projection & Psychological Reflection

kind of like that that juxtaposition of perspective and this hyperfixation on what's going on directly opposite of wherever I am. And some people, you know, they observe this and they're moved to the point where um by whatever this is, by their observation and their analysis of it to sort of, you know, let's say in the sphere of politics to act against it as a countermeasure. And that starts out, you know, fine and well, right? That's that's the principle. That's you're

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:07

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

Relevant chapter: Nostradamus as apothecary and astrologer

of who knows something going on in those those continental European traditions of of herbal folk healing but he was he was an astrologer as well and that's a kind of divination as well you know astrological prophecy really divination um prophecy and divination are different but he also held the prophetic um and they're different because they work on different parts of the psychic organism uh but but he he did also have that gift of prophecy where he would, you know, I don't know what his methods

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 20:46

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

Relevant chapter: Prophets, exile, omens, and ancient divination

one who says go get out of here go back build your temple um after the first temple of Solomon was destroyed and they spend all this time in uh in Persia a a a lot of this stuff uh was kind of based um around that kind of story you know uh there were constantly because they had no homeland for a really long time they were constantly taken over by people or entered into these sort of uh work relationships with them. Right? I mean, I think the conception that we have of the Hebrews being the slaves of the

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 21:22

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

Relevant chapter: Prophets, exile, omens, and ancient divination

Egyptians who built the pyramid is a little bit of it's a little reductive. It's a little oversimplification because you see that they in in the archaeological remains that they had their own cities, they had their own amenities and things like that. Typically slaves don't have that, you know. So, um, they were able to live their lives and and it seems almost like a like a a mutually beneficial relationship, you know, because they were the workforce and Egypt needed a workforce and uh and they exchanged food

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 21:52

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

Relevant chapter: Prophets, exile, omens, and ancient divination

and and and you know, room and board and protection, right? Because Egypt was the most powerful empire in the land. So, a lot of the prophetic stuff is generated while they're in bondage or when they're really starting to to hit the downturn because of how good um everything is. But, um you know, there are lots of other types of prophecy. You you really you see it even as far back as as the Calaldanss, right, which are kind of like around the same time but maybe predate the Egyptian civilization. They

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 22:25

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

Relevant chapter: Mosaic law and ancient commandments

used astrology and they used omens for prophecy. And even now in modern modern magic, we use divination for pro uh pro prophecy and things like that. So, but back then these these prophets were explicitly being spoken to by their god. They were the ones who knew how to do it and that's what made them special. >> And you mentioned uh more than 10 commandments. I know there's something like the Egyptian 42 commandments of M. There's like the Babylonian code of Hammurabi and then maybe potentially like the

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 6:17

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: John Dee, Edward Kelley, and angelic scrying

know, look at the beautiful living quarters that I make for myself. Yes, >> I make soap. I make music. I'm extremely creative. I'm I am, you know, not to pat myself on the back, I am >> for a man, I'm gifted in in intuition and and and divination and and uh astral stuff because of honing in on that feminine element. But I have it balanced, you know? It's not one over the other really. It's just each one, right? The masculine side projects itself. The outward face is the pharaoh.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 6:06

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Paths of wisdom and dark reflections

further downward. Now there are 10 sephirot on the tree of life. There are 22 naval paths on the tree of life that connect these the the the sephirot. They're traversible in in vision work in hermetic cabalistic magic. Um they represent life as it is experienced. um the experiential components whereas the Sephirod are archetypal things which are uniform um uh and are applicable through the collective unconscious to everything that is they would they would be more tent about to the like let's say Plato's

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 6:49

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Paths of wisdom and dark reflections

uh you know forms >> then you have the paths that connect them the 22 paths uh making 32 quote unquote paths of wisdom when you add this the sephirod to the Na'vi talk. But if you take the tree of this is a trick and a cold trick. They always take the glyph as a whole afterward and add that. So really there are 33. You have the the 10 sephiroth, the 22 navad and the tree as a whole. Um the tunnels of set are a con. I'm not sure where this comes from. Um, but I understand it to be that the averse tree

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:30

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Paths of wisdom and dark reflections

rather than having paths has tunnels because it's it's downward. It's it's in materiality. So it's like we're digging away from the light. We're digging into the, you know, the the arets. >> That makes the earth. >> And so so there are 22 tunnels of Seth and it's it it it becomes really interesting. Um because you have essentially uh in in in Hebrew cabala you have uh again this inherent duality within the world the material creation. And so you have it stratified into the

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 8:11

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Paths of wisdom and dark reflections

sitra de kadusha and the sitra. And so this sitra de kadusha is the side of holiness and the sitra is the side of impurity respectively. So uh you know again the the the sitra is the realm of this uh averse tree and it has all these tunnels which are you know they're a dark inversion of the the paths on the upright tree. So, um, that again, you know, it's it's it's just really interesting to see how much of this conversation is really coincidentally boiling down to this dark reflection. I think we've had a couple

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 14:32

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

Relevant chapter: Baal and the averse Tree

nothing on the upright tree is demonic. >> Everything on the everything on the upright tree has has a dark reflection. And but that it's it's it the place where that dark reflection is is on the averse tree. The uh sitra the the sitra um acra. >> Oh, okay. Makes sense. Okay. And then so I came ac across uh Baleth says the 13th spirit of the Galatia and demon by day of the first deck of Leo according to the Yorum Solace demon of the first quintance of Sagittarius also spelled

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, The Mystical Qabalah, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 36:00

Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic

Relevant chapter: popularly, you know, known eastern aura.

popularly, you know, known eastern aura. Uh, I want to rectify that. I need to make that more like the divine plan. And the divine plan is the universe. Um, so uh, you know, I'm going to quote unquote rectify. And you know, those angels, those 72 angels have a dark reflection of the 72 demons of the the Goeta. And um that's also part of the universe. We don't you know we want to we we want to we want to assimilate that in a certain way too without you know without that stuff taking over

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:52

Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic

Relevant chapter: dangerous.

dangerous. It can be done under the right situations. It's actually a powerful tool for divination. Um >> uh I've done it before, you know, in in a in a group ritual setting. I've done it a couple of times invocations but um I've been the initiating hierofont in in invocations. Uh but uh dicey tricky up to the the the people who have been doing it for a while and really know what they're doing. Um so invocation is in right starts with I am. It's telling you I'm allowing it in.

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 45:43

Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic

Relevant chapter: have an exterior relationship to the divine light rather than

have an exterior relationship to the divine light rather than an interior relationship. And so they necessarily cause this dark reflection. Um, and so that's that dark reflection is why you have 72 angels and 72 demons. It's why you have, you know, the zodiacal signs and the the 12 princes, you know, the 12 dark princes, uh, which are the, you know, the averse zodiacal signs in, um, in that that uh, clipic cabala. But essentially, right, it says that the tree of life has has branches that tend upwards and downwards. And and

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 12:54

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

Relevant chapter: Near-death experiences and subjective recall

in lie of this information right I would recommend because you can you can listen to some people's recollection of what happens and some of it agrees and some of it doesn't with somebody else and some of it you know um is again maybe half remembered or filtered through the person's ruach. They're microcosm, you know, they're they're it has to go through this filter of the mundane personality now that they're back in a body and and working wherever the hell they're working and dealing

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 10:27

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

Relevant chapter: Secrecy and danger in historical occult practice

occult. you know, his his thing was that he kind of collected he made libraries, right? That wasn't really a thing back then. It was, you know, like um maybe Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't until really uh Cardinal Rishelu in the Renaissance created like one of the first public libraries and you had uh you know, you had guys like like like uh John D and Trathamius, you know, kind of having these private collections of texts and things like these mini Alexandrias and uh you know, he was known to have some some weird some some

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:00:32

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Meaning of “Elus-Cohen” and its symbolism

the the constellations of the zodiac on the the the outer sphere. Um so to me this is you got to remember that it was theurgic right as well as uh a grimoire style. So there's the incorporation of the shimme right the in there there's there's always things in these lines are are usually paired by sizzy right they have they have an upright and an inversion they have these reflections so you you've got there's 72 demons in the goatia uh of Solomon but there's 72 angels that form the you know the the holy the

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:37:18

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

I want to make that I wanted to make is that uh um so at a certain point Louis Claude de San Martan says can't we just can't we do an interior rectification? Do we need all this accutramon? Do we need to be dealing with dark spirits? Do we need the swords? Do we need this the circles and the floorcloths and the candles on the floor? You know, does that need to happen? And he decides he's not going to partake in in this even though he's been trained and it's the basis of his philosophy. He's learned a

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:37:55

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

tremendous about amount about himself, about the the way that the world works, magical operations. He goes he essentially pulls out of the Cohen and um you know starts writing as the unknown philosopher and his way is the way of the heart. It's more devotional. It's more mystic mystical um and and and focuses less on all the exterior issues and goes really really hard with the interior. And I think that's also why they're really really good counterparts, right? You have to it's, you know,

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:38:35

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

it's not visit the exterior of the heavens, it's visit the interior of the earth and you there rectifying you will find the hidden stone which is true medicine. Right? And and that that is the way the way of the heart is the way of the Christ. And there's really there's very little danger there. and and there are there's just more than one way to skin the cat and and do good in the world. And I think personally my own preference is just that my own preference is that really by

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

Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:39:10

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

by rectifying your sphere of sensation, your microcosm, you will change the world, you know, but that is going to require that you have the same courage that the grimoire magician, the same skill, um the same discipline, the same dedication, um and and willingness to be guided by others who know um and follow their protocols. You have to possess all the same skills. It's just whether or not it's just the path in or the path out, you know, and and the path inward is um in many ways the more severe one.

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

Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:39:51

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

Amen. I hope this was very informative and perhaps sobering for people. It definitely was a big one for me. And so with that, uh, we will conclude another episode of the Atherica podcast. This was an important one for sure. Um, if anybody wants to find more on the Etherica podcast, please check out the Patreon at patreon.com/etherica. And for myself, check out philosophicalminds podcast. And how about for you, Ike? YouTube.com/arcanum. A r cvm. And then uh usually in the about section of any video, whether it's a podcast or

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