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

Relevant chapter: Descent of the Soul & Material Bondage

>> the archons work primarily through >> so the the stars incline you. >> They put on they they they they you put on the accretions but essentially that three-fold bondage that cord that gets wrapped around you that's your physical body. Your physical bo your physical body is the material inclination. The fact that I am a soul that is beyond death. I'm not beyond dissolution because I can my soul can dissolve if I allow highly the material to to to dissipate and and literally confuse it

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 20:35

Drew Mackinnon: Teleology of the Temple

Relevant chapter: Postmodern materialism vs spirituality

age, right? It hasn't happened before. Um but uh you know this you've get like you've got like these primary ingredients like the enlightenment and cartesianism and nominalism that and and and the educational institutions which have essentially installed all of us um without our knowing uh with this perceptual software with which to look at the world without even realizing it. Right? a computer program doesn't even realize it's a computer program. So, it's just it's just doing its job. And uh and that's

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 5:22

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Lack of Lilith in primary source texts

A focused passage on lilith, primary, source, texts from Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 50:49

Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic

Relevant chapter: between our conscience and the gratification of the material desires

A focused passage on between, conscience, gratification, material from Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic.

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Chapter match · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 51:24

Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic

Relevant chapter: experience death and material impulses like wanting Taco Bell at

A focused passage on experience, death, material, impulses from Qabalistica : Kabbalistic Frameworks: Jewish, Christian, Hermetic.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 21:43

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

Relevant chapter: Color as a Real Force, Not Just Symbol

it's all [ __ ] primary colors, you know. Uh it's, you know, it looks like a like a like a playroom, but it's not because they like bright colors. It's be there's a [ __ ] reason for everything in a Golden Dawn Temple. Everything. If you think something's like just hanging out on like a counter, you know, everything's there for a reason. Nothing is arbitrary. Uh so, but color magic is a huge huge part of it. And actually Moina Mats, um Sam Mats's wife and one of the founders

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 22:50

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

Relevant chapter: Moina Mathers & Color Scale System

the color scales and they're based on the four worlds of the cabala. So that's why you typically have four um you have the king scale, queen scale, prince scale, and princess scale. And they get more and more rarified. You be you be in the king scale you begin with primary colors and you move downward. Um, and in the in the the princess scale, they're typically like flecked, you know, uh, black flecked gold. Um, or raid, they call it. They're either flecked or raid. So, um, so that's a

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:20

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

Relevant chapter: Psychological vs Etheric Effects of Color

important because that's kind of the route. I was reading some stuff I wrote like two years ago and I'm reading it, you know, in putting together this manuscript for Tria Prima. I'm going through every note, everything I ever wrote. It's uh it's it's extremely extensive. And I'm reading stuff I read like I wrote like two years ago and I'm like I was psychologizing it >> and I didn't even realize it because it's like it's so strongly ingrained in

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 26:14

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

Relevant chapter: Flashing Colors & Etheric Interaction

the idea that they had was that colors being forces in and of themselves had actual etheric kind of interactions. And what happened was when two colors primarily uh complimentary colors which if you look I don't know if you can see you see right right here. >> Yep. Yep. >> So that's the uh the munel uh or the early um color wheel in in the in the system of hues. And so complimentary colors are colors that are on the opposite side of the color wheel. They're typically colors that wouldn't

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 27:34

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

Relevant chapter: Talismans, Candles & Color Charging

called a ground and a charge >> right so you got the the primary thing is always the ground so the red is a primary color and you put the green on top of it and it flashes and you can see it >> you can see the etheric flashing that's happening Um when you consecrate a uh candle let's say for instance of a certain color you will you will understand that it's charged when it begins to glow in its complimentary color. So if I'm charging a green candle it should be glowing red um to know you

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 29:33

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

Relevant chapter: Personal Experiences with Color Sensitivity

>> color color is color is wild, man. And it but it does do >> uh it does do things to the to consciousness for sure. I I remember like when I first started getting into color magic, it was awakening certain thing and I I hated the colors I was working with. I don't like primary colors. >> Yeah. >> Um, you know, you've been in my library, you know, I like everything like muted, earthy burgundy's, you know, that kind of stuff. Um, but I started working with these colors and it was awakening stuff

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:53

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

Relevant chapter: Generative Center & Creative Energy

of generation which is what I just said about yes all the influences pour into it and out of it comes the material world. Um and right things have to go into it and then then things filter through it and come out of it as some sort of concretized uh microcosm, right? A miniature world unto itself, a mini malc uh a mini microcosm. So there is a certain type of energy that flows through there and it is psychosexual and psychoetheric. This is the center where and this is this is not really talked about very

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:04:46

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

Relevant chapter: Descent of the Soul & Material Bondage

to the point where it can't it cannot recognize its source, its home. It'll never go back, you know. Um Uh that was the whole problem with Plutinus, his idea that like why the reason he was an aesthetic was like look I like the soul can get lost and like stay lost. Um and but it's it's it's the physical body that does that is that final kind of the coffin being nailed shut or really it's the coffin itself. So I would allocate the those the those particular astral accretions and we're remember we're

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:53

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

Relevant chapter: Limits of Purely Psychological Interpretations

doing. They weren't saying that these things are psych psychological and ancient peoples just in you know they they mythologized psychology. That's not what they were saying. They were saying psychology is definitely a part of it right because that that is subsumed within the soul within the spiritual organism of the being. of course it's a part you know it's like just because my hand is is material doesn't mean it's not a part of everything that I am you know so but there there is more there's

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

Relevant chapter: Importance of Studying Source Material

>> Yeah. And that's why exactly why I keep bringing it up because I want to drill it into people's heads. Um because >> So you've got you got a personal vendetta against somebody, don't you? Well, I I just I listen to a lot of podcasts and in you know these days when people are talking about esoteric subject matters from uninitiated perspectives are just uh they're just stringing together and picking little tidbits out of all different kinds of sources to create whatever nar narrative they

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 38:14

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

Relevant chapter: Limits of Materialist Explanations

are things that I cannot ex explain with the positivistic materialistic paradigm um it's you can't explain most things so we limit our discussion to things that we can and that makes us comfortable. But when you really look at the the the breadth of of lived experience that is recorded and attested is way more than we're willing to talk about. Um because we can't explain it. We can't fit it into our neat little paradigm. Uh you know, and too [ __ ] bad. I think we're really getting to the

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

Relevant chapter: Change vs Changeless Reality

criterion and and what what what that needs what it means that it needs to not be existent within time. It has to be outside of time because time is evidence of change. That's all it is. Doesn't actually exist. Time is a is the way that our our five sense limited consciousness bound to the material vessel and fooled by the illusions of procriti >> exper experiences change. In reality, time is an anomaly. We cannot go backwards and we cannot go forwards in it as a as a as a as a a tool of

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 41:44

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

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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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

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 54:17

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

Relevant chapter: Archetypes vs Over-Analysis

of course there's differences. We live in the material universe, you know, like things change, people change, they morph, but like there is some overarching like ar, you know, there's an ar the Greeks would call it. there's a foundational archetype to it that is is constantly expressing what it is. And though the exterior presentation may differ, it's still expressing like this this internal tilos, this unity. And and when you constantly constantly zoom in so that you're looking at things so

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:22

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Lack of Lilith in primary source texts

Lilith riding Adam on top upset Adam like sexually and he was like complaining to God about how he was disappointed because he didn't feel like he was like dominating the situation like something like hilarious along those lines but that this was I I I don't know anything in the Gnostic text that talks about Lilith to be honest with you. >> Um that could be >> that could so that could be my own ignorance because the Gnostic texts to read the Gnostic text is like reading maybe like two two more Bibles,

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Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Gnostic texts and uncertainty around Lilith

>> you know? So, it's like it's it's not been exhaustive. But my understanding, and I would love if somebody were to to inform my understanding or prove me wrong, and go and do this research since I'm doing all this other [ __ ] research and giving away for free, >> go find where it says that Lilith did these things. Not where they have been rewritten, but go to the source material. I So don't come to me with with [ __ ] "Oh, look right here. This dates from the 9th century." That's not

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