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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 45:53

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: What the Egyptian mysteries may have taught

completely unnoticeable. It's like a a wrinkle on a raisin, you know, like it's a it's just the tiniest thing. And and so when we talk about the Egyptian mysteries, they changed dynasties. They changed the location of their capitals. They changed their creator gods. You know, it was Pata in the beginning, then it was, you know, Ra atum in the in the Middle Kingdom. It was things are constantly changing as they should be. Otherwise, they're no longer living traditions, right? But what's underneath stays the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:37

Hekalot Literature, Astral Gates, Imaginal Faculty, Ontology, The Underworld & Osirification

Relevant chapter: What “Entering the Underworld” Really Means

happening. You know, a lot of people read this stuff and they're like, "Okay, they entered the underworld." Like, what do they just like go into a cave and like what happened? They take hallucinogenic drugs. Well, sometimes, but really the the spiritual work as it and and we know because it's like we're working this [ __ ] now. It's not a dead tradition. It's a living tradition. This stuff is going to continue until the whole [ __ ] shebang's over. You know, it's it keeps finding its way

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:05:11

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

it was like it just kind of gave me this like a pop apocalyptic sort of vision came to my mind and then when you guys were speaking about the entities being able to manifest in this case probably not ideal entities being able to dwell in this sort of uh uh absent of life sort of environment that's being created and dwell bubbling up I guess at this time. And so yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there cuz that kind of made me think about that. It was really interesting. >> Yeah, and the presentation was the one

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:05:51

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

we did with the Institute for Vedic Studies Pluto and Aquarius 2025 and beyond. And you know, we we talked about a lot of this stuff and and predictions going out about 25-30 years. And you know, I was really kind of stunned too even after we did that how quickly this stuff was appearing in the news and I know I sent out some emails saying remember we talked about this and here it is. We talked about this and here it is because if you don't remind people they don't really notice it. They

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:06:17

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

don't really recognize it because at the end of the day a lot of people don't really believe it. So it's not just that the churches don't believe what they're saying in many of them but even within our circles they don't really believe it. And you know, sometimes even when they do maybe it's all for the wrong reasons. You know, you but you you do we believe that there is this capacity of consciousness to interact between various dimensions if you want to call it that?

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:06:52

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

And what does that mean in reality? And what other than consciousness entities out there what other sentient beings to use that term are out there that we engage with? And what environments do they thrive in? You know, I don't particularly thrive in a pile of pig But worms and bugs apparently do. You know, I don't thrive, you know, underwater. But apparently fish and a whole bunch of other things do. So, part of this is getting out of our very limited human understanding of things. And expanding and opening that.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:07:46

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

We're opening it up to what we call something higher. Higher means basically of a broader perspective, a wider range, a more inclusive view. So, we think of that as angels, archangels, adept eye, unknown superiors, superior, uh, you know, uh, saints, that type of thing. But on the other hand, they require to be invited. We must invite them in. Now, maybe they can step in on their own. Maybe some of them can. I'm not going to say they can't or don't. But it's best that we invite them in if

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:08:23

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

we want to have a relationship with them. And to do that, we have to create an environment first in ourselves that's inviting, the proper attitude. And hopefully an environment externally, and that's where ritual comes into play. You keep your environment clean and neat, no matter what it is, whether it's very elaborate or very simple. You keep it clean and neat. Now, on the other hand, what seems to thrive in that which is dirty and messy, but those beings which tend to be chaotic.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:08:56

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

Or maybe a little uncertain for you. Saturn doesn't mind the dirt, but you know, you got to have a lot of tenacity to deal with that. That's a that's a tough one. You got to have a lot of humility and be willing to bear that. So, when we look at these other entities, uh just as we can create a beautiful environment that by its very existence becomes a suitable home or dwelling place for that which is beautiful and harmonious, we can also accidentally unconsciously create an environment that is very

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:09:35

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Absence of life, environment, and the need for living tradition

conducive to some very destructive and hostile uh spiritual beings in our world. A gateway for them. >> Yeah. And they you you typically will know when they're you'll know their presence by the level of chaos your life devolves into. Um >> Well, and that's an important point. You know, as as Eliphas Levi said something to the same thing. You know, we we don't notice the good guys, I'm paraphrasing here, because everything's harmonious, but we certainly notice the bad ones.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 33:04

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Archons, Astral Garments, and the Body as Living Talisman

way. They're not standardized. We don't get them from scripture and we don't get them from the grimoire tradition. We get them very specifically from this arrangement of these three verses of Exodus. >> That's crazy. Okay. So, >> it's wild, right? >> Yeah. So like as you speak about in your book um about like in soulment the body as the living talisman I'm trying to kind of like reconcile conceiving of the archons or the the cosmoker the rulers um as like a demiurgic prison guards

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 0:00

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Intro & episode setup

A focused passage on intro, episode, setup from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:08

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Why purification matters in ritual

A focused passage on purification, matters, ritual from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 3:13

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Ritual bathing, cleansing, and shifting consciousness

A focused passage on ritual, bathing, cleansing, shifting from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 5:08

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Incense, spirits, and purification by scent

A focused passage on incense, spirits, purification, scent from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 7:00

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Fire and water as purifying forces

A focused passage on water, purifying, forces from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 9:28

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Etheric charge, cold water, and oils

A focused passage on etheric, charge, water from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 11:26

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Catholic ritual, incense, and holy water

A focused passage on catholic, ritual, incense, water from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:16

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Chaldean Oracles and ritual purification

A focused passage on chaldean, oracles, ritual, purification from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 14:55

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Soap, ash, and alchemical cleansing

A focused passage on alchemical, cleansing from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 15:53

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Purification and consecration as ongoing practice

A focused passage on purification, consecration, ongoing, practice from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 18:23

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Holy water and methods of consecration

A focused passage on water, methods, consecration from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 21:26

The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration

Relevant chapter: Energy transfer, Reiki, and spiritual purity

A focused passage on energy, transfer, reiki, spiritual from The Waters of Purification, the Fire of Consecration.

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