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Relevant chapter: Lunar Cycles & Behavioral Patterns
>> and um believe it or not I made the correlation after a particular Well, I kind of knew what's 30 days. It's [ __ ] lunar cycle. Um, and but I made I really made it when I had done this full moon ritual. Um, and uh it was like I had to leave the ritual because of the images, the mental images and the impulses and the urges I was getting um having vanished and everything. Right? So, uh, the thing is that practicing magic, and here's why it's dangerous. And people who don't acknowledge this and and they
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Relevant chapter: Eliphas Levi & Cryptic Occult Writing
oultist. I've been studying this stuff for 20 years, you know, and I still look at Levy and I'm like, some of it's like really solid. Some of it's brilliant. Some of it is like you can tell he's writing between the lines. >> Mhm. But some of it is just it's just it's just downright I feel like he used this cryptic voice to hide things or areas that he didn't know anything about. You know, I think that there I don't think he his knowledge was quote unquote perfect. So
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Relevant chapter: French origins of hermetic tarot
it was cable who uh who kind of intuited that first he claims that it's an insight that he received uh that as soon as he laid eyes upon this thing he kind of intuited that it was um a vestage of Egyptian kind of knowledge that got transferred over. Um but uh it ends up getting uh placed onto the tree of life uh really firmly seriously by the hermetic order of the golden dawn and their work with the the uh within the hermetic cabala and hermetic tarot in order to system systematize a a holistic system of uh
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Relevant chapter: The Circuit of Force and magical practice
is said and if you really ruminate on this this it is the key it is the key to magic. Um and that's called the circuit of force. You may read it, you may come away from it and say like I have no idea. I'm none the wiser. You must keep going and you have to synthesize that knowledge and you should practice a lot of it. Um, but it's going to particularly affect people who are in the traditions that she came up in hermetic order, the golden dawn, all the splinter orders, derivative orders,
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Relevant chapter: Preparation, dissolution, and safeguards in vision work
the opices of the spirit. Ininoian is that like on [ __ ] steroids. So I don't know how much of that you want to try for the for as your first fora. A lot of people are very confident you know but that's you know pride is the beginning of the fall you know pride comes before the fall really um so so I would say stay away from it particularly also if you have any kind of addiction um known or like like acknowledged or unagnowledged stay away from um and if you have no experience with vision for
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Relevant chapter: Mixtures, herbs, and natural magic
degree. Are they mixed? Are they pure? are they, you know, um, uh, that that middle nature where it's like there's no way to purify this. And once you have delineated that, you can begin to work with them. And you work with them based on your theoretical knowledge of the way that the elements will or should permutate with each other. Will they be friendly? Will they be um, antagonistic to each other? And you can do things like create herbal preparations and that can heal people or can bring love potions and things like
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Relevant chapter: Gnostic texts and orthodoxy
Gnostic stuff right out of the gate was rejected. The the Coptic schools in Alexandria in and around Alexandria, everybody like the people that that heated Rome were basically like, "No, not you guys." Uh I I think that the spiritual if I want to talk to why if I want to speak on why that was allowed to happen from a spiritual perspective, it's because those gospels reveal the reality of the demiurge or demiurgic and aronic nature of this game we're stuck in. Whereas church doctrine upon receiving state
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Relevant chapter: Cultural transmission of esoteric knowledge
uh the Greeks. And now the Greeks are using this different perceptive lens that they've developed you know that that kind of more scientific that more philosophical traditionally or classically philosophical uh perceptive system to condense these things right and and sort of elaborate them or express them in in what was then a new iteration that the Greek mind could really understand could really get behind. And you see this typically happening in guys like Pythagoras and guys like Plato who went
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Relevant chapter: Cultural transmission of esoteric knowledge
to Egypt to be initiated to be taught by the priest class there. They come back and they start writing they start mythologizing they start you know um trying to make a point trying to communicate this stuff to the people that's around that are around them. Um, as far as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, I believe that has to do, and I don't want to butcher this. I apologize if if this is like your thing, anybody that's listening, but um, I I read it really early in my 20s in bits and pieces
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Relevant chapter: Social weather and recognizing storm patterns
difference between uh maybe like irrational paranoia and the focus of one's thoughts and attention versus a very reasonable and experiential sort of pattern recognition type situation of weather detection in terms of events uh and forces playing out nationally or globally and in utilizing the knowledge of the ancient past and nosis of the local past. If we are to trajectory map sort of the weather of consciousness, we can without a doubt see some storm clouds overhead and it's pretty much up to us to properly
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Relevant chapter: False occult wisdom and power over self
sovereignty because we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater with morality and ethics and virtue. And now, you know, we come in with this, you know, again, this younger generation, we're coming in with this inclination towards mystical knowledge. Um, perhaps as an impetus of previous lives, who knows really? And now it's they're spoonfeeding us dog [expletive] We're getting Crowley. We're getting Phimma. We're getting Anton Lavey as wisdom. That's not wisdom. That is not wisdom. Okay. I
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 0:51
Relevant chapter: Hosts reflect on learning, humility, and teaching
happy to I'm happy to, uh, I'm really honored to be able to speak with somebody like you who is not pretentious and uh, somebody who is is humble and and knowledgeable about the things that he takes an interest in and and again professes to understand in any way but still open to learn and that to me makes a good teacher. It makes a good, you know, magician, whatever, philosopher, whatever you want to do it. That is those are the makings of, you know, those are the traits that I aspired to when I was learning a lot of
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 2:48
Relevant chapter: Symbolism, sigils, and coded knowledge systems
hand in hand in a lot of ways. And even if you look at figures like Crowley, which I know is your personal favorite cultist, I say that very sarcastically. Um >> he's just overhyped, that's all. I mean, at the end of the day, he's about as harmless as a as a as a horse flag. >> Yeah. And Yeah. He himself, I believe he was involved with British intelligence as well. I'm sure you probably come across that. But um but yeah, even thinking about like sigil creation or things of that nature,
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 3:19
Relevant chapter: Symbolism, sigils, and coded knowledge systems
kind of piecing together elements of meaning into some kind of unique way uh in a a cryptographical form that one would have to have the knowledge. I'd have to have the knowledge of like what elements are uh included within it that make up the thing to then begin to decode its meaning. And I think maybe like with initiatory orders, speaking from more of my speculation, uh it seems to me like within some orders there, there's a real cryptographic nature to them within maybe the act as perhaps like many
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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 · 5:56
Relevant chapter: Historical context: monks, scholars, and hidden knowledge
But um Tmius is a very interesting character to me. But one of the first things I want to point out is that magic is a and just in general, right? I mean, it all boils back to Plato. He talks about forms. forms are in the Golden Dawn, you know, we say by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened. You know, in things like rosy Christianism where you you see all of this these diagrams um in Freemasonry, right? A uh beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory illustrated by symbols. The symbols
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:54
Relevant chapter: Influence on Agrippa and hidden teachings
associates or contemporaries or anything along those lines as far as your knowledge is concerned? >> Not to my knowledge. Um, that was that's what makes uh Trius so interesting is that he's just this kind of mystery man. uh at least to people in the occult. I'm sure there's some academic out there that's like squeezed every drop out of his biographical information that is possible at this time, but I'm unaware of it. Um you know he is one of those people who was a master
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 33:08
Relevant chapter: Complexity of occult symbols and study challenges
all of the meanings and and uh and really thoroughly be able to organize it all in a comprehensive manner. I mean it's just amazing the fact that like a guy like Trimus and what knowledge he must have had along with John D which I think he had quite a pretty extensive library as well. >> Yeah, John D was the man I I really I think no nobody has done more for the magical arts since then since the But where are you seeing the Nokian? >> You might be confusing that with Steven. Yeah, let me let me pull up a screen
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:19:49
Relevant chapter: Visualization, focus, and preparation requirements
this this is these are authentic works of Aristotle he's not and this was the empiricist right like Aristotle rejected the realm of forms so he's not somebody who's going to mince words or try and lead people on. He's all about precision and uh and and and that kind of stuff. So, empiricism. So, uh for him to say that twice in two major works, it's like you got to take that seriously. There was an unwritten and I'm not he does not imply what that pertained to. So, I don't want anybody to get it twisted and
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 41:32
Relevant chapter: Egyptian mysteries, Mithraism, and Zosimos
same ground. they're underscored by the same mystery, the same question, the same cosmogy, the same cosmology. Um, when you strip aside the, you know, the the uh very minor, very minor cultural variations, it's this, it's the same thing. I'm definitely more of a of of a Campbell Jung archetype mono myth type because it's there. It's there. It's just wearing different clothes, you know. Um but um uh so Zosimus may have had uh may have had interaction or or knowledge of uh
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 42:14
Relevant chapter: Egyptian mysteries, Mithraism, and Zosimos
the Mithraic rights being right a scribe priest. He was an Egyptian scribed priest scribe priest in in Egypt. But his special purview was uh the coloring of metals. That's really what what his area of specialization was. Mithraism it's another thing actually the first time I I read about it was in uh secret teachings manly Palmer Hall was great for that man um encyclopedic knowledge man traveled all over the world before he wrote that book you it's not like the internet there wasn't like one place you
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 52:08
Relevant chapter: What the Egyptian mysteries may have taught
philosophers, geometers going to Egypt and coming back these great men, right? They they're not they're not brilliant when they go there, but they come back and they're almost like superhuman in their knowledge. They changed the course of human history by bringing that light to their respective little corners of of the world, the Mediterranean. So, those are my thoughts really on, you know, quote unquote Egyptian mysteries. There's a lot that have has been written. Normandy de Ellis is one
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 2:27
Relevant chapter: Luciferic vs Ahrimanic forces and the Christ balance
referred to the name as >> and the formation or inclination of the assemblage of an army of Christ and the arising aspirations of Jesuitism to attack spiritual scientific knowledge. And he gives this example of himself at this time I guess being attacked by the Jesuits. Um so I thought that was interesting too. And then he talks about prior to the incarnation of Christ the dominant incarnate force of the time was that of the luciferic. And he says the Christ impulse shown its light into the best of
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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:38
Relevant chapter: Zoroastrian dualism: Ahura Mazda vs Angra Mainyu
know, I don't need the names, you know, but um I think that that is one of the ways and this is a golden dawn teaching. This is very very important actually. I'm glad we kind of stumbled here. Unless a very very very very very refined vehicle, somebody who puts them in the position to receive knowledge from the quote unquote interior or higher, they will always be tainting or filtering that message through their ruach, which in the cabalistic conception is their psyche. you know their their intellective faculties, you know,
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