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The Magi and the Pre-Socratics — Occult Roots of Philosophy

Relevant chapter: Presocratic vs Socratic Philosophy

um which is this kind of discursive reasoning uh a reasoned argument or discussion between two or more people and that we see that right in in Plato's dialogues that's exactly what they are that's the way he taught that wasn't um wasn't always the case right because you get people uh you have uh you know other philosophers right ma mathematics was was kind of was was part and parcel of philosophy Right? Because Sophia was wisdom and so you people like Uklid and and um Udox is

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 49:38

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Love of Wisdom & Divine Desire

go right now. Um, and I think that that is what a philosopher is that, right? It's it's it's hardwired into the word filia, love, right? Sophia's wisdom obviously, but it's a love of wisdom. It's not a [ __ ] interest in wisdom. It's not a curiosity. It's a love. It's a burning love. You have to love this [ __ ] You have to be obsessed with it the way that you're obsessed with your, you know, your your your romantic part. Um, beyond that, it pales in comparison. That's just that's

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

Transcript passage · Unknown · 45:31

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

Relevant chapter: Goetia vs Theurgy

subject to corruption especially if it's not the the the native language but the lematon is the lesser key of Solomon. It's also called the uh the goatia which goatia is a Greek word. Goatea was sorcery as distinct from maga or or even theoria. So, Goatia like Jake Stratton Kent makes a point in his um geosophia uh Argo of magic volume two the one about the Greeks and he says for all intents and purposes when we really look at what was going on in the and and goatia they're the same thing they use

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

Transcript passage · Unknown · 1:46:06

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

Relevant chapter: Plato, the Demiurge, and the Mind of the One

one is the demiurge >> okay the mind of the one so the demiurge a descriptor for the mind of the one. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's like >> and so and >> I always get I always kind of have to re um brush up on this because of like the Sophia and um the demiurge that like I forget how >> well people people have to understand this the demiurge is not a gnostic concept. It's not original to narcissism. the demi urge first appears on the historical record in the time of

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy