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Relevant chapter: Awareness, imagination, and freedom
imagination is almost like a sort of built-in freedom orientation device. And so back to what I was saying about conceptualization and imagination as a sort of seed germ that fertilizes or is fertilized by the inspirational force that drives motivations. So there's a lot that we can get into with this conversation in terms of dancing with the phil the philosophy of freedom and its associated ideas and all of that. But for one, I really think that some people value the nosis or realization of freedom more so than
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Relevant chapter: Democritus: Travels, Influences & Gymnosophists
Democrus. Uh so Democrus was a pupil of certain Majian and Calaldanss. He traveled to Egypt to learn geometry from the priests as well as Persia. And it's said that he associated with the gymnosphists of India. Gymnosphists also known as the naked philosophers or naked wise men. Um this was the name given by the Greeks to certain ancient Indian philosophers of an aesthetic orientation meaning they held to a lifestyle characterized by absence from sensual pleasures often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:08
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
you know, depending on what the practice is, you're you're out of luck. So, you need those five things. And there was a time back in the old days when there was not a lot of material available. And it of course there was, but uh it took time and effort and energy to get. Amazon wasn't around, things didn't drop off at your door. You had to go searching. And you had to learn how to work well with others. And sometime around 2000, maybe five, eight, 10, somewhere in there. The notion of having to work with others
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:52
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
disintegrated. So, on one hand, we have all this talk about the age of Aquarius and working together with people. And on the other hand, the spiritual groups who can't have a life expectancy more than 18 months. Cuz they don't know how to get along. So, what I recognized is that the capacity for maturity, spiritual maturity, is completely absent without working with others. Now, we can talk about the notion of the solar practitioner, but that is a myth propagated by publishers who want to sell lots of
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 6:35
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
books. And I don't blame them. And as I've said honestly before, I've written many books, and publishers never once ask you, "Does this work?" They don't. They just ask you how many you can sell. And I'm still in communication with a lot of publishers, but particularly their marketing. The people in marketing contact me to find out what my thoughts are and where things are going. Which was what we're going to talk about here. And you'd be surprised, again, uh I often ask them, I said, "Do you use
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:08
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
astrology for any of your decisions?" And the response will be, "We don't have time for that." Well, guess what? You've just told me you don't really believe in this. Now, that's really important for the time and the age we're in, cuz we're going to see that same rule applies to most of the people that I've also talked to in leadership positions in esoteric groups. >> Yeah, I I am I I see a lot of this devolving into a term that I you used, uh the satanic pride of ultimate
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:42
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
individualism. >> Mhm. >> And how it's like this whole lone wolf thing really, this sigma as as the kids say, um that archetype is really just a psyop. >> It is because it keeps you from learning how to deal with others. And the reality is there's no such thing as a sole practitioner because you have to learn from someone even if that someone is a book. Now, the problem with learning from a book is that you it can't answer your questions. And it can't hold your nose by the
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 8:13
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
scruff of the neck to where you know, the stink is and where you're doing things really poorly. And in a real teach and we have to understand that the notion of the teacher-student relationship is complex. But we can look at it very simply in two ways. There's the teacher-student, which is what I am for most people. I am a teacher and they are student, which means I inform them about ideas and information. I give them methods. I help them as best I can. But it's really up to them. We may know each other or may just know
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Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
each other by name or by email address, but it's not a personal intimate relationship. It's a relationship, but it's not intimate. Okay? Now, the other one is the disciple. And disciple, I like that word because it the word means discipline. A person is disciplined and they've shown that they can do what they're told. They can do it without asking a lot of questions. They can analyze their experience and then bring that back for the discussion of the analysis. You know, they they're
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 9:23
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
they're willing to trust the process because they know, you know, they're they have some faith both in it and in in in me as the instructor. Okay? And they know I'll be honest with them about what I am capable and not capable of doing. That's an important part, too. So, that's a more intimate relationship, and that's with a much smaller group of people. But, they select themselves for that through their efforts. You know, and then there's a group of people that is somewhere in between.
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 9:59
Relevant chapter: Entering the occult path, early searching, and Hermetic orientation
You know, but you know, you're never quite sure who they are cuz they kind of come and go. You know, it's kind of like, you know, you hear about the 12 disciples, you know, 12 apostles, and then you hear about the 72, and and the 100, you know, you know, it's kind of like in that 72 range. So, so Jesus probably had probably what, probably 20, 25, 30 close disciples really that we can think of. So, any group is really similar to that. And uh those people are then able after intensive training
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 23:58
Relevant chapter: Inner work, perception, and the difficulty of real transformation
that Anglican Church. It's not that uh country or parish priest who's, you know, involved in naturalist philosophy and folklore, which is just another polite word for magic. No, it's none of that. Pagan magic, I should say. You know, what it is is it just it's a it's a secular political machine. Uh geared towards a very clear political orientation. Now, so that gives us a bump in Catholicism to some degree, probably as a protest movement and because of the immigration issues in the UK. And we
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:02:45
Relevant chapter: Mind, imagination, and the capacity for inner formation
however you want to look at it. Uh that fascination with Enochian, of course, too, even in popular culture as we see it is is another kind of uh sign or signal, if you will, as to orientation. You know, you have to learn to how to read the symbols, not just in terms of some gematria and notariqon that makes you crazy. But how do you see them in real life? How is that archetype that you're talking about earlier? How is that archetype incarnating right now in front of you in real life? And that archetype is also incarnating
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Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation
not familiar with astrology, the sign middle left, it's called the ascendant. And then the sign middle right, directly across from it, 180 degrees across from that, is called the descendant. Okay? And that is that axis of first and seventh house draws a horizontal line. That horizontal line is the horizon. Okay. So the sun um rises in the east. Okay. And that's the left that's the left that's the left side of the chart. Okay. Um, that's actually why when you look at like a lot of Golden
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Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation
Dawnbased ritual floor plans like before you're about to um a lot of times the east will be in the left like to the left in a not in all but in a lot. It's like, oh go, why is the east in the left on the left of this? It's because it's it it's, you know, it's modeled after this, the astrological chart where the eastern horizon is the ascendant on the the middle left. Okay. Um, that's also why in the Golden Dawn when we trace figures, let's say the spirit wheel is a great
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:55
Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation
example, you start middle left and then move around clockwise with the sun. So anyway, we've got the theme of Mundi who it's whole sign. We've established our ascendant, descendant, first 7th house axis and our horizon line. So this is the birth of the world, right? The birth of the universe. So on the ascendant we actually have um whole sign cancer, right? So the zodiacal sign of cancer is in the ascendant. And then as we go around counterclockwise, which is what we do in an astrological chart, right, with the
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Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation
houses, you've got, you know, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, etc. going all the way all the way around to to uh uh to um Gemini in the 12th house. So you've got the ecliptic established with the doiciles, that is the ruling houses of the luminaries of the sun and the moon on the horizon line in the east, right? Like it's the universe about to be born. The sun's about to come up over the horizon. Okay. So, you've got that gives us the the the way that we're kind of like
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:14
Relevant chapter: Chaldean Order, Luminaries, and Planetary Houses
locking the the ecliptic, locking the zodiacal wheel into this orientation of the world's natal chart. Now, east we know is the place of the dawning or the birth the rebirth of the sun. So, we have situated the luminaries there. Now the luminaries only partake of a single house and this is actually why because we then go counterclockwise and we situate the planets based in distance and relative speed. Okay. >> So that's that's uh really important. So >> and that's aan
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Relevant chapter: Sub-Elements, Tattvas, and Symbolic Synthesis
>> Yeah. interesting how you know encoded within them are the directions like they're orient their forces of orientation um in the way that we relate to them like northeast south and west and um so yeah anyway so after reading your atheric magic book and watching your your talk at PRS last weekend I was thinking about like the vital energy meridians and dowoism in traditional Chinese medicine in relation to the water element because you know we've got like rivers and lakes and bubbling springs
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Relevant chapter: Early influences, occult background, and leaving former affiliations
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Relevant chapter: Orders, organizations, and the question of living tradition
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Relevant chapter: Esoteric community, New York/Vanderbilt references, and personal history
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Relevant chapter: Childhood, family history, hardship, and formative experiences
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