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Transcript passage · Unknown · 9:57

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Watchtowers, tablets, and the Golden Dawn system

that stuff. And the big things that came out of it were the sigilum deigulum de or emit. So that means sigulum is the seal de is of god and emit or is truth. So the sigil of or the seal of the truth of god or the seal of god's truth. That's the big thing that comes out of that. and then the enosian or the angelical uh watchtowers, the terrestrial tablets um that are in the quarters. And it's primarily we in the Golden Dawn, we use the the terrestrial tablets, the one which are the it's the same thing. There

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 52:58

Enochian, Golden Dawn Insights, and Agrippa

Relevant chapter: Planetary keys, signatures, and magical correspondences

sigilum signatures. Each thing has the signature of a particular celestial influence and behind that a virtue that is imparted by way of the celestial rays. And then you just play that key. You play it up and you play it down. And that is to say you climb that ladder of the virtues beyond just the material, even beyond the celestial. And once you're able to travel beyond the celestial to the divine mind, you there remain uh continually perfected. You you're made perfect there. >> Yeah. Yeah. It totally reminds me. I

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 27:27

QABALISTICA PT 2 : Secret Names, Sacred Vibration, and the Architecture of Becoming

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 · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 2:48

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

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

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

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 · 25:49

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

Relevant chapter: Ethics and risks of manipulating energy

>> Sure. >> Yeah. So when I was poking through that book, that trimeian conjuration book, I had also come across something you're probably familiar with, the heptaron or the elements of magic. And seemed like they both kind of had the >> Yeah. looked like they both had a lot of the same similar sort of like sigils within those texts. So, I'm not sure if what came first if the I don't know maybe what do you have a little bit of background on the heptaron? >> Um,

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 31:17

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

Relevant chapter: Sigils, symbols, and magic squares as ciphers

these magicians were not they weren't these spiritual fear just trying to ascend and awaken this cristic solar force in themselves. They were basically just guns for hire that are instead of contracting people, they're contracting entities to do, you know, mundane things. So, uh, so that that's, uh, working within the Christian millu, you see that a lot, the angelic stuff with, um, Petra de Abano, you see it, uh, again, uh, obviously in in the the things that we're talking about. and and

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 31:52

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

Relevant chapter: Sigils, symbols, and magic squares as ciphers

then you see it in D which is really cool because I've always kind of found D and Tmius to have a lot of similarities uh particularly with with things like okay you had trus who was a master of language and coding and then you had D who literally you know he basically translated an angelic language. So >> yeah, with a lot of these like sort of associated pentacles and or alter glyphs um that are kind of associated with a lot of this sort of thing. It seems like that might be a lot of where the kind of

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 32:30

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

Relevant chapter: Sigils, symbols, and magic squares as ciphers

cryptographic nature of thing comes into play because when you look at a lot of them it they're conglomerations of a lot of there's like Hebrew and then there's alchemical symbology and then there's uh eninoian and uh like these angelic seals and whatnot encoded with some of the stuff and so I think it's right you know these days we have like the ability to research online and look up all these things really quickly. But back then, man, that must have been quite a task to familiarize yourself and and understand

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 40:56

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

Relevant chapter: Spirit work, crystals, and practical skepticism

that's not I wouldn't I wouldn't include that specifically on my path. But, you know, touching upon the idea of magic squares, right? Magic squares are another type of cipher. But the ciphers, right, that's where we draw sigils from. A sigil is typically drawn from something else. The sigil is the sigil connects either words either letters or numbers but it forms a word or a pattern that is translated to be the energetic typically the energetic signature in a way right the the the essence a

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 41:35

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

Relevant chapter: Sigil creation and mathematical symbolism

signature of the essence a symbol meant to convey a particular essence and in magic squares that's done so mathematically so there's this con there's this con connection with an abstract essence through mathematics into some kind of um expression of its of its nature. So that in and of itself, a magic square is that's why you have to learn sigils because you could you'll take a sigil, nobody know what the hell it is. It look like a bunch of squiggly lines. Um if it's if it's a if it's a

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 42:05

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

Relevant chapter: Sigil creation and mathematical symbolism

traditional sigil and you'll just all you have to do is take the sigil and place it over the magic square and you can figure out uh you know what it is. Of course, you'd have to know what kind of magic square it is. You'd have to have some clue as to its meaning. Otherwise, you could be working on a square of the sun, which is completely different, you know, than like a square of Mars or Venus, um, you know, uh, or Saturn, right? Small square, tiny square. Uh, you take something like the

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 42:34

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

Relevant chapter: Sigil creation and mathematical symbolism

square of the sun, which is fairly enormous, and you're just not going to be able to figure it out. You do have to have some education. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was something I always had kind of been curious about with all like the old sigils that we find was how they were derived. And yeah, I guess magic squares is where it's at in that regard. >> Yeah, there are there are other there are other methods too, but I'm not I don't I don't think I can talk about that.

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 52:05

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

Relevant chapter: Elus-Cohen requirements and Masonic ritual context

don't get to move to the next grade until you there's a list at least in the modern iterations. There's a list of symbols and sigils and things like that, names. And so your, you know, your chapter, your chapter master has this book and you perform these theoric rights by yourself and then you are supposed to receive these symbols. you go back, you write it in your journal, you show it to the chapter master, and um he tells you whether or not you can move on because this the symbol has

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:11:20

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

Relevant chapter: Pentacles, talismans, and protective tools

symbols, they're pretty unfamiliar to me. Are those anything that you're aware of? So the crosses and the hexogs are intimately familiar to me, but I'm I not understanding the other writings. But again, we're talking about now if these are if these are called from uh from Elo Cohen documents, we're talking about something that is reliant upon the individual receiving uh figures, sigils, and then having to report back. Okay. uh test what they got against what others got to have some

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:13:17

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

Relevant chapter: Rituals, operations, and protocols explained

whole grimoire synthe is is being able to en invisage things in the smoke um uh at least at first. So um and a lot of these things were channeled and they were private and their meanings were kept private. And so depending on the context of of of those sigils um they could be you know they are like likely uh received sigils rather than something that is inculcated. In other words, you might have to test your findings against that because that's what somebody else uh kind of got. and and so uh I those

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 1:13:59

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

Relevant chapter: Rituals, operations, and protocols explained

sigils are completely unfamiliar to me at this point. >> Yeah. Now is there a difference between uh operations, rituals andor protocols or all of these along the same lines? Protocols are are components of rituals or operations that are formulaic. Rituals Ritual is something that is done uh as it implies with a certain type of repetition. The protocol of a ritual might be the ritual format. The the protocol of a ritual might be what you say and when you say it or what you wear, you know, or at what time. That's a big one. Mhm.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 37:24

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Solomon, Grimoires & Hebrew Magical Traditions

know, he he he imports cedars from Lebanon and he employs these kings of Ty to to assist him. He formed political relationships and um and he's able to bring wealth and and a proper temple to worship their god in. Um now you get the midush literature kind of expanding on that and they call him a magician. He was a healer and a magician. And according to the Midrash literature, he received a ring from the Archangel Michael uh with um the sigil of God on it. Uh I believe it was a pentagram or

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 39:46

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon

Solomon and things like he's a fixture in there. So we get um the testament of Solomon and then we get the greater key and the lesser key of Solomon. Um and the greater key is more interested with uh it concerns it's more theergic. It's more about the invocation of angels and the use of pantacles which have a talismanic and and character to them and they've got these sigils and things. Uh um and again these are collections of texts. It's not just like one book that somebody wrote. Um but uh and there's a

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 42:29

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Almadel, Arbatel & Renaissance Magic

certain sigils and and and talismans and there's angelic uh entities associated with them and you you kind of invoke and then meditate on those symbols and then you'll know everything there is to know. Um, but around the time where we get to the Arbotel, well, the Almadel is pretty cool, too, because that's an Arabic corruption of Almandel, which is essentially I think that's a part of that's a I think that's a part of the greater key of Solomon or maybe the Testament of Solomon, but it's

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:15:59

Mark Stavish : Occult Training, Hermetic Practice, Alchemical Psychology & Esoteric Development

Relevant chapter: Discernment, symbolic pollution, and the practitioner’s responsibility

or the degradation of occult symbols turning it into pop culture entertainment symbols only. And not really understanding that maybe there's something else at work here particularly when people are you know getting themselves uh tattooed with uh sigils and everything. You have to be that I said to someone once and this that always gets them offended and really don't care. And I said, "Well, you know, it feeds off the blood." So, what can I say? Every seven every seven minutes you feed it.

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 24:25

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Sigil Craft, Planetary Squares, and Rose Cross Sigils

it goes down to the the intelligence and the the planetary intelligence and the spirit. Is there any particular reason why like we have sigils for the planets, the angels, um the rulers and the spirits but not for the intelligences or do we is there like sigils that are correspondent to the intelligences? >> Yeah, you can absolutely and the whole thing is like sigil craft sigil craft is again it's another thing that people tend to get like legalistic about. >> Yeah. But the old the oldest sigil

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 24:57

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Sigil Craft, Planetary Squares, and Rose Cross Sigils

traditions we have within a sort of recognizable sophisticated paradigm of ceremonial. So I'm not even talking about like cave drawing shamanic [ __ ] I'm talking about like an actual like ceremonial consecrated lineage line. Even in that, something as sophisticated as that, the earliest versions we have, which are typically the the dowist um magical lines and the f the foo sigil talisman tradition, those thing the like their talismans are were at some point [ __ ] channeled there. It's almost like

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 25:35

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Sigil Craft, Planetary Squares, and Rose Cross Sigils

automatic consciousness. Something is coming in and and revealing to you this particular symbol and then that gets that gets consecrated and that gets passed down through the generations. Um uh but you have to be a >> when say like things like sigils are held in traditions and they're being passed down through generations. Is this like kind of um potentizing them on like an astral in an astral sense? >> Oh, I I wouldn't I wouldn't say that that that the sigil is becoming more

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