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Transcript passage · Unknown · 23:01

Lilith , Magic vs Logic, and the Society of 8

Relevant chapter: Christianity as culmination of theurgic model

platinus plato himself pagan >> but they're talking about theergic processes of philosophy. Theoria theoria divine ascent. If if there is any pagan religious stuff it's that. Yeah, >> that's what it is. But really, the trajectory is modeled is archetypally subsumed in its most perfect iteration by the story of Christ. Get all the church rules out of your [ __ ] head. Forget them, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Christ is valuable. Christ, the idea of the

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

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 13:35

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

Relevant chapter: Chaldean Oracles & Fragmentary Tradition

and quoted and things that that related to uh theoria and and all kind of this hodgepodge at this point of neoplatonic sayings. And we call that the Calan oracles, but we have no idea what the actual C called an oracles were as a as a whole document. You know, we have fragments and extracts. It's like if I'm quoting from the mystical cabala, >> but nobody, you know, they have my four or five lines of what I wrote, but the book's not available, you know. So, we don't really we don't really know. But

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

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 14:50

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Plotinus’ Philosophy of The One, Nous & Soul

you know mostly consist existent and the big thing being uh the theoria of of Plutinus Plus's philosophy was very very interesting. I find his ideas to be of of of the fall and of of cos cosmology uh and sotiology. I find them to be the most uh intuitive. It's it's like what it seems, you know, like bells go off. I start like my my something in me begins to resonate like a tuning fork. When you bring a tuning fork that's struck and vibrating and sounding next to a tuning fork that that that is, you know, has

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

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 21:04

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Iamblichus, Matter & Theurgy

noose, then we can experience henosis, union with the divine, then we can become a species of enlightened and then we can kind of evolve beyond this. And he calls that theoria which means divine contemplation. Whereas amlus said I'm no we have to use the matter because there's numa in the matter that there are the the platonic forms the ideals you know perfection is in matter even if matter can only vaguely dimly express it because it's constantly changing and falling apart which means it's not real and it's not

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

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 26:17

Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Christian Mysticism & the Philosopher-Magician

Relevant chapter: Proclus & Platonic Synthesis

philosophical discourse. There was no more theoria. Um, it was all the become so popular that he had to like say, "Okay, I have to reintroduce the philosophical stuff to these people." Um, so, um, he was able to really really blend things in an amazing way. If you want, if you really want to have a very firm understand, but it's dense, right? It's crazy. He's he's got these insane commentaries are like this thick, you know? So, um, but yeah, he also taught, uh, I don't know if he taught him

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

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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

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