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Relevant chapter: Time as an Illusion of Perception
measurement. We can only be now and that's the only thing that exists. the ever present. Now, that's very eastern, but it's also [ __ ] true. I don't care if it doesn't fit neatly into uh the western paradigm, and in fact, it does in the neoplatonic uh philosophy of of Plutinus. Um but and likely his his teacher ammonia Sakus. But so the reality of eternity requires uh no change um and changeless and therefore deathless. And so that is uh purusha. Purusha is the changeless whereas
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Relevant chapter: Eternal Now & Philosophical Reality
proriti is the material which is constantly changing. And these are these are these are words that um I mean I've probably like when I first got into this stuff that's all there was. You know the eastern words and and vernacular and stuff. But since then I've I've the the good thing is that I've been because I went so deep and really did my best to understand it and I had like decent teachers at least of the philosophy when I did start delving more you know explicitly or exclusively towards the
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Relevant chapter: Influence on Christian Trinity
substance >> pulls that directly out of platinian >> platinian philosophy uh you know so so this is how these these ideas have have have penetrated through time they exist. It's you got a lot of scholars that'll get super granular and say, "I'm going to give well right now, just so you're aware and everybody else that might be listening, I'm going to give probably the worst analogy you've ever heard." And you're going to chuckle, but it's [ __ ] true. Um,
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Relevant chapter: Christianity as culmination of theurgic model
platinus plato himself pagan >> but they're talking about theergic processes of philosophy. Theoria theoria divine ascent. If if there is any pagan religious stuff it's that. Yeah, >> that's what it is. But really, the trajectory is modeled is archetypally subsumed in its most perfect iteration by the story of Christ. Get all the church rules out of your [ __ ] head. Forget them, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Christ is valuable. Christ, the idea of the
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Relevant chapter: Esoteric vs institutional Christianity
Hellenism. It did not come out of Hebrew. It did not come out of Judaism. It came out of Henanism. It came out and if it and it was related to he uh Judaism obviously, but it was helenized Judaism. It was the Jews in Alexandria and you know and surrounding parts of the the Mediterranean that that had been influenced by henistic philosophy and religion. So if there's any paganism, it's there. It's it's in the theurgic stuff that leads us to Christianity proper. >> And we're were these Christian
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Relevant chapter: Plato’s soul, the beast, and the inverted pentagram
thing and you do your thing and if anybody bothers you, you should [ __ ] hurt them. You know, like that's when we're like, okay, everything just went south. That's that's the dark part that allows itself off the leash. The issue is that makes sense to most people nowadays because our entire society has undergone this satanic program. And I'm not being I'm not moralizing this as like Christian or non-Christian. I'm I'm giving you the philosophy behind this stuff. The images, the the how to
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Relevant chapter: Modern culture, truth, and spiritual inversion
it's everywhere. Our entire realm here elsewhere, the entire strata of our of our being is composed of nothing if not truth alone. So you cannot kill truth but you can obscure people's ability to recognize it. That's what postmodernism is and that's what this philosophy is doing. That is satanic. It's a religion. It's a satanic religion. Postmodernism. And the the last thing I'll say on that is that people are taking their postmodern secularized programming and then they are entering into spiritual
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Relevant chapter: Agrippa, Renaissance magic, and occult philosophy
this time and place uh as a folk tradition and then at that time right 1500s you just had I mean I can't imagine what it must have been like to to been alive at that time and working and because you had all of Plato and the corpus hermeticum all that stuff was lost to Europe. They had one so there was one platonic dialogue in Europe through the middle ages and that was the time that had been translated into the lingua frana of the time that was available for study. Marcelia Facino I think in between 1460
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Relevant chapter: Agrippa, Renaissance magic, and occult philosophy
and 1480 translates and publishes maybe 1440 and 1480 I can't remember but in that block of time those like 30 40 years he translates and publishes the entire works of Plato the entire extant works of Aristotle the works of Platinus Pfury Proclasicus um and the entire corpus Hermetica So now all that shit's just here. And uh and then you have Cornelius Agria Heinrich Cornelius Agria von Netishheim. You have him calling all this stuff, looking at it, looking into it. And not only that, but
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Relevant chapter: Ficino, Paracelsus, Trithemius, and Agrippa’s influences
centuries recently been re-ransated. This man in the light of Catholic theology and what he understands about neoplatanism and and hermeticism is now telling this young man this is how the universe works. This is what magic is. Let's talk about it. And it was from a those series or the initial conversations that Agria was inspired at this young age to begin writing the three books of occult philosophy and he sent Trius drafts and Tremius you know told him keep going keep pushing your work. Uh ultimately the
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Relevant chapter: Demiurgy, theurgy, and the ascent through the elements
that. But ultimately what we talk about there is is in and he doesn't call it this but it's been called this before and I want to delineate it very clearly. That kind of magic is called demiergy. Okay. >> Oh interesting. as opposed. Some people call it low magic, some people call it field magic, some people call it natural magic. But that's what the first book of AO philosophy is about. It's about natural magic. It's about demi-urgy. You start changing things in physical existence
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Relevant chapter: Agrippa’s magical worldview
will be able to read this book and come away knowing, understanding, doing magic, but the unwise will will walk away from this, you know, none the wiser. So that's something that he explicitly stated about this work. Um, and so the the underlying tenants of the magical worldview that are are fully delineated in Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy. He relied heavily on Prolis. He references Plato and Pythagoras constantly throughout the work. Constantly. um he quotes Platonic and Pythagorian axioms.
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Relevant chapter: Plato, Pythagoras, and mathematical realism
So what what are they too known for? You know Plato obviously known for the mystical Platonic dialogues that expound the magical worldview. In the Tiamus you have the microcosm and the macrocosm which is you know that that is hermitism as above so below. In Pythagoras, you have number mysticism, which is of supreme importance to the three books of occult philosophy. If you cannot understand mathematical realism, you will not understand a grippa. But what's more important is you will never be able to
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Relevant chapter: Agrippa course details and closing announcements
gonna try Thursday >> this week. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. Okay, cool. So, Monday, August 21st at 8:00 PM Eastern is the first class of a six-w weekek course uh that will be taking place at the same time every Monday for six weeks on the three books of occult philosophy. Uh each book will be given two two-hour sessions um and a different teacher. I'll be teaching the first book on natural magic. Jamie Paul Lamb will be teaching the second book on celestial magic and Mark Stavish will be teaching
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Relevant chapter: Magical implements and symbolic tools
thought. Anatomy philosophy you know uh anatomy and energy theory were not two separate things until fairly recently. All right sweet. So that answers a lot of my questions that that was really interesting. So all right symbols um implements in the practice and theory. So we see a lot of uh patterns of symbolism within things like the tarot you know they're a lot intertwined with various esoteric orders. I don't know if some are exclusive to the Golden Dawn like I don't know like the Krux uh and
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Relevant chapter: Four worlds and Briatic manifestation
So, briatic. So, all things are constantly manifesting on four levels. And in Cabala, they call that the four worlds. Um, in philosophy, you're going to see something more like seven bodies or seven planes, possibly more, but it it's kind of a similar uh model for for how spirit projects itself into matter. Um, >> hold on one sec. >> Nice. >> Another fire. I wanted to let it pass. Uh so um so there are obviously there are four worlds and they are in descending hierarchy. Atsilut um the
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 27:27
Relevant chapter: Magical timing and spirit work
know I don't think that has much to do with with the question >> definitely um okay so came across the sigil of buer ber uh says demon of the first quint of scorpio president commanding 50 legions appears as center la goes on um oh yeah it says appears as a centaur when the sun is in Sagittarius uh teaches moral and natural philosophy, the art of logic, so on and so forth. Um so my I think my question in this regard and this probably bad bad example cuz it I think it's a demonic um thing but say
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 8:41
Relevant chapter: Golden Dawn also has to do with the you know
Golden Dawn also has to do with the you know um Sabatian uh uh uh Cabala but I don't see it um and there's been a a lot of exesis on it from where I stand in the Zelra that this minor grade I could I could absolutely be proven wrong as you go further but I I don't see it to me it's like there you know it doesn't matter that uh West God or Mathers were reading that stuff, what is present in the in the philosophy of of the order system. And to me, it's Laurianic Cabala with the tikunam and and all that sort
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:24
Relevant chapter: Plato’s ethics and the “highest good”
philosophy of ethics um in the west and and you know arite and udeimmonia you know um excellence and well-being and that's what it's all about [music] and the pyia the education of the soul right not just the education of the man but the education of the soul consists in contemplating and coming to understand what he called the capital G good. The capital G good was the closest conception he could come to to like a substantive ground from which all of creation manifested. Um, and so that's
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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:33
Relevant chapter: Recognizing and embodying virtue
know is you remove all the gray area. I know what to do in this situation. I'm not going to sit here and bite my nails and say, "Well, this would be really good for me and this is really inconvenient." No, you know what the answer is? Do it. And you do it. I mean, that's the basis of Stoicism came out of this exactly this philosophy of Platonism. this philosophy is of ethics is is was the ground of stoicism. Um they just said they were agnostic about all the other stuff. I don't really care
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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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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 5:22
Relevant chapter: Historical context: monks, scholars, and hidden knowledge
worldview. We tend to forget that that these guys were all like Christian priests and monks, you know, um because that's who was educated uh and interested in any of this stuff there. You weren't taught philosophy if you worked on a farm. Uh and and it wasn't, you know, they didn't have this institution of of of public schooling. That's very recent. you know, it was all private tutors and things like that back then reserved for the nobility who could pay for it and had the time to learn.
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:10:01
Relevant chapter: What pathworking is and how it functions
philosophy uh of of cord develon and and those people uh you know ate or however you pronounce his name. So um that is prerequisite and that is it's all part of forming a symbolic vocabulary by which to navigate successfully and to little or no detriment to yourself the hinterlands of the astral right that wild >> hinterland >> it's like an unexplored territory it's beyond what is known >> uh you know so um you have to in some way uh but it's this involves a discussion of the astral
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 6:16
Relevant chapter: Martinism’s relationship to Martinezism
and um So we have Martinism now. It's come down uh a lot of different channels. There are a lot of French names uh that are difficult for me to pronounce. But ultimately uh what you can expect from Martinism is a kind of again a threederee system um culminating in these various various steps toward uh reintegration. that is the word that they use. Um and it all comes from the the underlying philosophy comes from what we call Martinezism and that is the teachings uh and the the Christian the
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