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Transcript passage · Unknown · 50:33

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

Relevant chapter: The One, Nous & World Soul

of the of the world. and um of the universe and that essentially objectified those images and moved towards them in an act of desire and that is how the soul falls into materiality. Uh and then you see Tertullian the early church father and neoplatonist he was trained in neoplatanism. I believe he studied with ammonia sakus. I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head but I know he was a neoplatonist. He invents or imports the doctrine of the holy trinity. Uh he calls it um persona substantia three persons one

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 15:29

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

Relevant chapter: Group souls, epochs, and race theories

skin goes I mean yeah I could get behind the idea that it had something to do with that but uh there are other traits like you're saying that appear to be more than egregor they right egregor are national I believe in a group soul there and and actually this is this is something that is valid I think from those teachings that that those those root races have have group souls and now we're not talking about black you know, uh, African, uh, uh, indigenous, Native American, you know, Asian. That's not what we're talking

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:23

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

Relevant chapter: Egregores, fear, and influencing groups

influence people, you know, that kind of whole uh Frankenstein's monster thing, you know, where it's like the town is like uneasy and ominous feeling and and and that's how witch hunts and things like that. So if you're able to generate and it's typically a quicker stronger at first whirlpool of of or vortex uh chakra gal whatever language you want to use but this spinning wheel of energy um to essentially build an egregor but at a certain point it's going to do its own thing. it'll be characterized with

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 19:01

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: The Enochian aethyrs and visionary work

and so voluminous. And one of the one So, there's two quick anecdotes I want to tell about the workings with these angels. They don't they don't care. They're not It's not like I said, it's not the magic of love and light. It's not this fluffy new age interpretation. These entities are perplexing and often horrifying. Um, and universally, um, some people enjoy working with them, other people go mad. Uh, but you typically find this kind of escatological throughine. And what is esquetology?

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:35:01

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

Relevant chapter: Spiritual light body and layers of consciousness

end of a hall to the other. So they exist uh sort of co-terminously meaning in the same place. They interpenetrate each other. It's more like a light spectrum. There's no there's no clear visible delineation um between that like liinal space when one is turning into the other. It's all connected, right? Um uh so that's important to to note for conceptualization purposes um especially because of the way that it is talked about highly fragmented. So I tend to particularize these things in terms of

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:46:04

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

Relevant chapter: The “egg body” and integrated aura

So he's talking about something that's shaped like an egg. And what does that sound like? That sounds like the aura. And essentially that the um the egg body, this the egg form um that becomes luminous when integrated. for instance, when that is the totality of your microcosm um uh in the in the physical realm and it's composed of astral and etheric energy. Um and when you're able to see etheric energy, the one of the first things that you notice is like I must not be doing this

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:13:05

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Persephone, Hades, and the soul’s descent

documents is just sayings by neoplatonists like Platinus and Proclas and and all that stuff. Um but one of the lines actually is stoop not down into that darkly splendid world where in lith uh um a continually faithless gloom or something to that effect. Hades wrapped in gloom delighting in unintelligible images ever espousing a body unluminous formless and void. Something to that effect. Um, but stoop not down into that darkly splendid world. And she stoops down and what does she reach for? The

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 15:29

Evolotionary Arcana, Chronomany, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead - Episode 15

Relevant chapter: Group souls, epochs, and race theories

skin goes I mean yeah I could get behind the idea that it had something to do with that but uh there are other traits like you're saying that appear to be more than egregor they right egregor are national I believe in a group soul there and and actually this is this is something that is valid I think from those teachings that that those those root races have have group souls and now we're not talking about black you know, uh, African, uh, uh, indigenous, Native American, you know, Asian. That's not what we're talking

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:23

Evolotionary Arcana, Chronomany, Time Travel, Magic, Tarot, and the Dead - Episode 15

Relevant chapter: Egregores, fear, and influencing groups

influence people, you know, that kind of whole uh Frankenstein's monster thing, you know, where it's like the town is like uneasy and ominous feeling and and and that's how witch hunts and things like that. So if you're able to generate and it's typically a quicker stronger at first whirlpool of of or vortex uh chakra gal whatever language you want to use but this spinning wheel of energy um to essentially build an egregor but at a certain point it's going to do its own thing. it'll be characterized with

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 40:16

Circuit of Force, Magnetic Interchange , Polarity Magic, Astral Light, Etheric Charge/ Forces #19

Relevant chapter: Astral Light, Imagination, and the Body of Light

wondering if you see it that way and then two if you could say more about this diaphane. Is there um yeah anything more about that diaphra thing. >> I have a lot to say but I have to pee so I'll be right. >> Okay go pee. >> All right. Do you remember uh our subject matters? >> Yeah. So I want to talk a little bit about the um the connection between that that Dion Fortune uh is talking about with the imaginal and the body of light. And I also want to say you know obviously diaphanous me just means

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 52:07

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

Relevant chapter: Trade, Travel & Cultural Exchange

and they were a seafaring people they moved around constantly but on water right because it's very hard to travel through to places from the the you know um the pelponius and you you have to there are it's very arid, it's very rocky and it's extremely mountainous. >> So, it's not easy to travel. It's easier to travel by boat, which is what they did. Um and so yeah they they traded with with the the the um the Italics and the the Latins you know these these people early people the Atruscans these

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:12:17

The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Thoth, Nous & the Divine Mind

in the waters here and I'm not trying to confuse anybody here but I will say in some like 19th early 20th magical societies they viewed Thoth as the Egyptian concept of um of the the noose and the divine mind, you know, and and and really, you know, it's kind of hairy. >> But in the in the divine pymander, isn't it Thoth speaking to the divine pyander or is it not? >> No, it's it's poress. >> Oh, okay. >> That's that's the where the name comes

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 14:50

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul

you know mostly consist existent and the big thing being uh the theoria of of Plutinus Plus's philosophy was very very interesting. I find his ideas to be of of of the fall and of of cos cosmology uh and sotiology. I find them to be the most uh intuitive. It's it's like what it seems, you know, like bells go off. I start like my my something in me begins to resonate like a tuning fork. When you bring a tuning fork that's struck and vibrating and sounding next to a tuning fork that that that is, you know, has

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 15:37

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

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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Transcript passage · Unknown · 16:17

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul

and the intellect, the news, the mind of God and to and the one the the ineffable you cannot say anything about it other than what it isn't because it's simultaneously everything and nothing. Uh that's the the the tradition of of apoasis you know the apohatic tradition that we see everywhere we see in oriental uh you know east that is eastern religions as well but um how so how does nothing become everything well so the the divine noose the intellect contemplates the latent inexpressed

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 16:56

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul

uh contents of the the uh uh the one and it starts out in in very very abstract you know something like geometry, mathematics, these very abstract forms um that are that are very uh difficult to understand and then um discursively and then that generates this objectification because if you can think about something then it's not you anymore. um really you're you're at least temporarily objectifying it in order to to examine it. And so therefore that generates since there's this gap between the the observer or or

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 17:35

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul

or object and subject um uh there becomes this desire towards it and that's representative of the next phase which is key the soul. The soul in its desire for the the objectified contents of the the the one plunges downward towards them uh and into materiality. And the thing is that highly matter there, that's what it was. Uh el um highly it means like matter which it's kind of like this gross sticky substance is in and of itself inert and cloying and heavy tending downward sinking. Um

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

Transcript passage · Unknown · 40:27

The Masonic Magician, The American Psyche / War on morality & The Pitfalls of Career Occultism

Relevant chapter: Spiritual Ignorance & Human Nature

because they have knee-jerk reactions. They read something they don't like and they run instead of saying, "Okay, hold on. Don't panic. Sit with this. Read it. Think about it. Think about the exper your lived experience about the [ __ ] pain and misery and horror of existence. That's right there, right next to the beautiful and the and the glorious and the the tender. You they they they don't cancel each other out. They're co-evil, co- terminous and um you know, but to me,

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:04:17

The Masonic Magician, The American Psyche / War on morality & The Pitfalls of Career Occultism

Relevant chapter: American Culture, Extremes & Platitudes

American. You know, my father's Greek, my mother's family's from Italy, but I'm I'm I'm American. I I don't know what it's like to grow up and live uh in those cultures and societies in the modern day, but we're I don't the you know something is completely broken down. We we're such extreme people where it's like we're either like head over heels about a platitude, you know, something completely platitudinous, you know, which is just very superficially like uh follow your

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 30:33

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Tzimtzum, Broken Vessels & Tikkun

mean that's voluminous >> and that is where you really start to see the beginnings the makings of cabala as we understand it and particularly as it's trans transferred or translated to um to the lauranic cabala which I won't go into too far but there's three main ideas the failed first creation right of of god he fails the divine light uh he first he creates a space by attracting and expanding himself in the infinite light of the anor because it has to create an enclosure. It needs a vessel

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 3:48

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

Relevant chapter: From Lower Astral to Higher Spiritual Realms

realm. You can ascend to the you know the the higher spiritual realms. And that's um you know that that that's where that changes. So the going down is actually entering into the astral which means shutting down the senses and the locus of your consciousness is now in the imaginal and that's the activation of soul and it's from there that that this thing travels and there's a whole there's a whole tradition of you know the avoid you know the egg body they call it the luminous or radiant

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 57:53

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Planetary Signatures (Mars, Saturn) & Addictive Plants

um psychoactive plants or poisonous plants that fall under the banner of Saturn, you know. So there's there's some like you know some spots in ast astrological rulerships where you can say oh yeah there's there's a lot more like addictive substances which fall under these certain classifications um compared to say you know Venus like the the the malefific planets uh often have a lot of these substances categorized underneath them right like Saturn uh and Mars. So yeah, I mean there's there's some patterns there for sure. Well, yeah, and you're right. Right.

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:35:21

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Evolution, Consciousness & Nature vs Humanity

What's going on with cloud water extraction right now? Oh, fancy cloud water. Cloud water. Yeah, it's I I love this concept. Um, this is a concept that comes from uh Hollandis and I mean other people write about it in different terms and things, but it's the idea that you essentially you gently extract the endogenous water from a plant. So you're, you know, you've got a plant, it's got this natural water content to it. Even a dried plant will have water content to it. Fresh plants, of course, more. Uh, and so you are gently distilling this out. You know,

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:37:22

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Evolution, Consciousness & Nature vs Humanity

like when you if you distill an essential oil the the water that distills over is the hydrosol um and that that water um can be full of um the essential oil of the plant and these oils oils um can make it look cloudy. Um depending on how you work, you may not draw off all the essential oil and maybe you're only getting a little bit of it. And because um this water in the plant also will contain some, you know, volatile compounds like again indogenous alcohols and ketones and things. um it's able to bring with it um and and bring into into dissolution um nonwater soluble oils,

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