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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:55

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

Relevant chapter: Critique of Modern Esoteric Misinformation

it doesn't represent the actual the wholeness of what these things are. So, I don't know. I just always like to get you to get hyped up on that stuff. >> You know how you know how to push my buttons. No, but the thing is that it's it's great, right? It's great that um it's great that you are open to this, right? Because there's I've been on a lot of podcasts and and done a lot of writing and there are people in the comments section who are like, "He's one of them. He's lying."

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:29

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Two creation stories in Genesis explained

camps of like pagan witches and like this whole like weird um intersectional divine feminine kind of I don't know. I want to call it [ __ ] but that that might make people like unsubscribe. But but the thing it's like she doesn't appear in the Bible. Um the uh it's there is there's two creation stories. Um there there are two creation stories in in Genesis and people don't really understand that. Um both involve Adam. Um but in one of them he has uh a different he has a first wife. But the

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 10:46

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

Relevant chapter: Consciousness beyond the brain

um were shining a light down inside to let somebody know where you were and then that person was shining a light at you. You could see vaguely where that light was hitting from below on the glass, but you couldn't pinpoint where exactly they were down there. And that's kind of the way, you know, neurological mapping works. We can't really see, we can't really pinpoint. So we say well con because even if we could right you're dissecting all these different parts of the mind but how that doesn't explain how

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 33:54

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

Relevant chapter: Nostradamus and prophetic traditions

but are have come to espouse a lifestyle in which they remain perpetually broken but are constantly seeking the healing. >> Yeah, that's so fascinating. I love that stuff. All right. Uh uh this is somebody that I don't know very much about, but I've heard the name often. Nostradamus. Uh I was in the kind of like metaphysical book section at the bookstore a couple weeks ago and there's just tons like a whole shelf almost full of noamis books and so there's obviously a lot to this guy. Um I just thought it

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 35:02

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

Relevant chapter: Nostradamus, Hitler, and prophecy books

maybe you'll go to like the clearance section in Barnes & Noble and of course there's a do there's a book that's been marked down from $30 to like four with, you know, the prophecies of Nostradamus. Um, and so that was kind of my entree to him. I did read sort of like transcriptions and descriptions of his prophecies. The whole thing with like he predicted Hitler, but he called him and all that stuff. What we don't I don't really know about any potential occult training with

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 53:02

Your Truth Vs The Good, Weighing the Heart & Freedom as Natural Law (Freedom PT 2 )

Relevant chapter: Closing thoughts and where to find the creators

that's what you embody. >> Amen. So first >> that's a to that's a toer. >> Yes. Free your minds everybody first and foremost. Um >> free mind your ass will follow. >> Yes, beautifully said. Um I second all of that. There's not much I can add that would uh add much to that. Uh Ike, where would you direct people to learn more about yourself, your channel, what you got going on? youtube.com uh arrcanumm a r can vm. Um all my other stuff, my my Patreon uh is all linked in the comments section

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:49:03

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

Relevant chapter: Outro and podcast sign-off

>> you answered it amazingly. I'm probably not going to be able to go to sleep now. Um, you see, you're keeping me from integrating my astral body. Um, >> no, no, this is great, dude. I love it. Um, if anybody wants to hear more of my craziness, uh, YouTube.com, a ran vm. And uh you can look in the about section of any video or and um I'll have my email, my Instagram uh and all that jazz there. So hopefully uh you guys continue listening into the Etherica podcast. This is a lot of fun and a pleasure and

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:39:51

The Path of the Unknown Philosopher — Martinism, the Elu Cohen, and the Light of Christian Mysticism

Relevant chapter: Saint-Martin’s inner path and closing reflections

Amen. I hope this was very informative and perhaps sobering for people. It definitely was a big one for me. And so with that, uh, we will conclude another episode of the Atherica podcast. This was an important one for sure. Um, if anybody wants to find more on the Etherica podcast, please check out the Patreon at patreon.com/etherica. And for myself, check out philosophicalminds podcast. And how about for you, Ike? YouTube.com/arcanum. A r cvm. And then uh usually in the about section of any video, whether it's a podcast or

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:05:54

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Eleusinian and Samothracian mysteries

allowed us to uh they also didn't have you know it wasn't really until Aristotle that they had this you know left brain dissectional categorize it put it in this filing cabinet they had no way of coming to those you know uh those very fine-tuned uh quantifications right it was Aristotle who wrote about the categories and things like that uh quantification um and and and and and quality but Um, the myth of Pphanie to me really changed when I really understood it. Uh, the myths of Elusus, the rights of

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 10:46

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

Relevant chapter: Consciousness beyond the brain

um were shining a light down inside to let somebody know where you were and then that person was shining a light at you. You could see vaguely where that light was hitting from below on the glass, but you couldn't pinpoint where exactly they were down there. And that's kind of the way, you know, neurological mapping works. We can't really see, we can't really pinpoint. So we say well con because even if we could right you're dissecting all these different parts of the mind but how that doesn't explain how

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 33:54

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

Relevant chapter: Nostradamus and prophetic traditions

but are have come to espouse a lifestyle in which they remain perpetually broken but are constantly seeking the healing. >> Yeah, that's so fascinating. I love that stuff. All right. Uh uh this is somebody that I don't know very much about, but I've heard the name often. Nostradamus. Uh I was in the kind of like metaphysical book section at the bookstore a couple weeks ago and there's just tons like a whole shelf almost full of noamis books and so there's obviously a lot to this guy. Um I just thought it

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 35:02

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

Relevant chapter: Nostradamus, Hitler, and prophecy books

maybe you'll go to like the clearance section in Barnes & Noble and of course there's a do there's a book that's been marked down from $30 to like four with, you know, the prophecies of Nostradamus. Um, and so that was kind of my entree to him. I did read sort of like transcriptions and descriptions of his prophecies. The whole thing with like he predicted Hitler, but he called him and all that stuff. What we don't I don't really know about any potential occult training with

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 21:11

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

Relevant chapter: Golden Dawn Color Magic and the Sevenfold Spectrum

That is the the aspect of the divine that has been given to us. That is the prometheian fire. the fact that like we can recognize that and nothing else really. I mean, you know, animals hear music and stuff like that too, but we can make it. You know, birds can sing. So, but they're not intentionally harmonizing the way, you know, Mozart did with, you know, seven or eight different string sections and piano and that's incredible. That's miraculous. Um so so the rainbow bridge is symbolic of of

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 38:10

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

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

masters, right? Everybody, the 16-year-old in the occult section, the self-help section of [ __ ] Barnes & Noble is talking to three or four different uh people who are initiating her in the [ __ ] astral. So, you know, it's what they did was horrible, but they appropriated that mechanism and they redefined her terminology and they reassigned the astral to the imaginal. >> Okay? >> So, when we talk about the astral now, >> yeah, >> we're talking about typically we're

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:13:53

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

Relevant chapter: Closing Thoughts and Future Work

stuff that's going in the history and theory section. Uh but this book is going to have practices, practical western stuff. You're not going to be doing the chakras. You're not going to be doing the tapas. Uh I've there are two main systems in the western esoteric tradition so far that have suggested energy work to me and in their descriptions in ancient literature and have proven energy work in their practice and that is alchemy and uh particularly the branch of astrological magic that is talismatic.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 59:35

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

Relevant chapter: Corpus Hermeticum vs Full Hermetica

you that like oh this is like a very abridged version. The hermetic is enormous. The corpus hermeticum is just is just a part of the hermetica. Corpus hermeticum is not the whole thing. As a matter of fact it's a relatively small section of the hermetica because the hermetica it consists of the theoretical and the practical right the philosophic and the and the the the technical. So you have the philosophic stuff, you know, talking about the nature of the universe and the divine mind and how,

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:11:17

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Anti-Masculinity, Suicide & Spiritual Warfare

you say, you know, yeah, men need a place to come together in solidarity, too. I mean the past like I think three years alone male suicide rates which were already extremely high have doubled. Um so and that's probably also a little bit about of what they want. Um but so there's also this this whole like you know intersectional feminist piece where it's like well why why is why is it just men you know and then there's the whole trans issue that we're going to have to deal with that will likely

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 50:35

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

Relevant chapter: Cults, Religion & Social Perception

whatever the [ __ ] thing they're saying is a cult. And it's like, what is a cult? Like a sect, a religious system? Like, so so what? Now we should elimin eliminate everyone else's and be in opposition to everybody else's belief systems that we don't agree with because it doesn't agree with ours. Like what the [ __ ] Like it's so bonkers. Yeah. And and I mean that's that's that is one of the the dangers of feeling very very strongly about something. But the the you know a

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 17:16

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

Relevant chapter: What is “Oerification” in Initiation Rituals

being and there are things that we're doing at higher sections of that chain. And so that's where the magic is taking place in the on on the higher levels of of uh cognizance or or or or consciousness. And so it's not just symbolic, but if you were to see it symbolically, it would look like um a candidate being bound um and uh or in some way in some way the candidate is symbolized as having died. Um so there's lots of ways you can do that. You could put him in a room with skull and crossbones. You could put them

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 7:22

Freedom Pt 4 : Americas Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Declaration of Independence & Taxation Discussion

we're like, and and you know what, to your point of people not trusting the government. [ __ ] There's a huge subsection of people that trust the government implicitly right now. Like, totally. And those people are [ __ ] [ __ ] I mean, I don't I don't even know. I have no idea. Like, it's not even naivity. There's something [ __ ] wrong with your brain if you trust Biden. >> Yeah. The government has stands as a joke >> or or if you tr or if you trust Trump. >> You know what I'm saying? Like nobody's

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 11:51

Freedom Pt 4 : Americas Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Role of Government Structure & Checks and Balances

[ __ ] good thing. You know people cla they complain about like how slow how long it took. That's a [ __ ] good thing. You know, you want that constant battle between the different because that keeps the it it keeps keeps it from any one section or any one person or persons from having too much power. And so my thing is that I I like to think about not just the ideals that made this country great, but what were the philosophies behind those ideals? How did those people arrive at those ideals,

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 34:42

Freedom Pt 4 : Americas Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Corruption of Media & Music Industry Influence

from from him. But to paraphrase, he you know uh somebody walks into a station and says, "I think we should play this uh because it's, you know, this is cool. This is good. This is new." And the the guy who's who's programming the radio station says, "No, no, no, no, no. People don't tell us what's cool, we tell people what's cool. And so that is effectively that is what happened in every sector of American life, every sector of American economy. It stopped being,

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 59:31

Freedom Pt 4 : Americas Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Historical Context of Slavery & Founding Figures

things that you're doing right now, people are doing right now. We don't even have any idea. You know, he this guy actually got his ass into a position of power where he changed things. He didn't go on, you know, he didn't do his equivalent of Instagram memeing and write on the town crier board, you know. So, you know, uh, he actually did it. He worked for it. And this is the same guy that these people are using, particularly the academic sectors. These [ __ ] Marxist lunatics are are

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 12:01

Daniel Wiseman : Metallic Alchemy & The Animating Spark of Life

Relevant chapter: Crystals, Memory & Mineral Consciousness

that different areas produce different stuff in varying amounts. Um and then the environments it's if we think of these inorganics as building blocks um a lot of the time the organic life that builds upon the inorganic life is is um you know largely affected by this this inorganic substrate that the organic stuff grows from. You know different plants like different pH or minerals and things like that and then you get different insects and it just goes right up through the the chain of life, right? So there's something to it, but um you know it's it's it's hard to say exactly.

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