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Relevant chapter: Emanation & the Tree of Life Explained
e emanated but the idea is that there are in order for things to differentiate out of that undifferentiated ated you know tohen that we call it apohaticism what we were talking about earlier not being able to like talking about things in the negative that's the we call it the apohatic tradition it's huge in eastern religion um and it was big in in platonism neoplatanism of platinus so in order for that to generate into all the multivariety we see it has to separate but it it doesn't separate into atoms
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Relevant chapter: Buddha Plane & Higher Self
certainly does in the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn the the whole goal and and Crowley completely ripped this off. Uh he called it the holy guardian angel because he got involved with the Golden Dawn and specifically was in close communication only with Mats because the rest of the Golden Dawn temple didn't like him and wanted him kicked out. But he Mathers kind of brought him under his wing because Mats himself was falling apart at the time. And at that time he was translating the Abramelon or at least
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Relevant chapter: Founding the Society of the Inner Light
or she incorporated a lot of the Arthurian mythos. Uh she was a huge proponent of okay, what's your ethnic background? Okay. Whatever they're doing there, if you can't move there and study it, then go somewhere like it and and uh and and study that. She she was very much about um uh getting in the stream, realigning with ancestral traditions, ancestral places. And so for her that was, you know, uh um British Celtic, uh you know, the Arthurian mythos. And so that's why she moved to Glastonbury. Obviously,
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Relevant chapter: Blavatsky’s Stance Against Ritual Magic
more hermetic, much more western, you know, uh, Bllovadsky relocated the locust of of the the source, the seed ground of Western occultism. She reoriented it for many, many years. It was Egypt, it was Greece, it was Alexandria, it was Athens, it was Syria. She moved it all the way the [ __ ] to India, you know, and said, "No, no, no. This is where your traditions come from." She's very, she was very anti-Christian, but I want to say not against Christ, against Christians. Um, I wouldn't say that she was
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Relevant chapter: Translation History: Hebrew to Greek to Latin
talks about that and at a certain point he says, you know, oh, how far you've fallen uh h in the Greek. So in in uh henistic Egypt, there were Jews, lots of them, huge community. And from that period of platonic influence in Egypt and in Hebrew communities, we derive or what emerged really as a consequence was henistic Judaism. And henistic Judaism gave us two really important things for the western esoteric tradition. It gave us merba mysticism and it gave us the septuagent. and the Septuagent are the 70 books that were
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Relevant chapter: Ain, Ain Soph & Ain Soph Aur
uh the creative substrate of all of everything is constantly being referred to as light in every tradition. Um but so that um that that comes from and I I don't care who is willing to you know debate me about otherwise because uh it's just not there. Um that comes from helanized Judaism because it's directly neoplatonic. Platinus talked about this before it was anywhere in Judaism. That's a fact uh according to the historical record. Now, the whole idea of Cabala is that it's an
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Relevant chapter: Neoplatonic Influence on Qabalah
oral tradition and it was never written down until Moses de Leon did it in the in, you know, in the um the Middle Ages in in Toledo, Spain. But you can't prove that anybody can say anything. Show me, show me the paper trail for this. Otherwise, let's not try and play the game of who did it first. You know, that that's the whole thing for me. I understand in the validity of subjective experience, but if you're going to talk about it as if it's objective, then you you you've lost me
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Relevant chapter: Merkaba Mysticism & Ascent Through Spheres
sphere. Again, that's from Plato and Plato's student Udoxis, right? Ududoxis came up with that idea like the same time that Plato wrote the myth of in the Republic. Um, it's amazing. It's it's just an incredible fact. Um, so that entire cosmology literally comes out of the Platonic tradition and it was the dominant way of looking at the world for about 2,000 years, 1500 years. >> Yeah. So, so um so mysticism, you know, they want to go and and behold the throne of God outside
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Relevant chapter: Alexandria as Esoteric Crossroads
neighborhood. The Gnostic gospels the Nagamadi cotices that include uh a Platonic tract or two Platonic tracts and two uh hermetic tracks all found outside of Alexandria Egypt 1945. Something was going on there. you know, it's also one of it's it's a very early place of the importation of Christianity. But the according to according to legend, um the uh um or tradition, I should say, uh the the evangelist Mark brought Christianity there in 42 CE. That's very early. That's very early. We you don't see that
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Relevant chapter: Lilith, Adam & Eve, and alternative traditions
uh accounts that involve Lilith in in the mix of things. And I don't think they're biblical, but gnostic perhaps or maybe there are some Gnostic texts that >> I don't see I don't I don't really understand Lilith in a Gnostic context. I mean, if anything, there's Noria. Noria is [ __ ] cool. Um but uh Lilit is so there's a little it goes back and forth. People are claiming you know obviously it's it's like the same there's so much overlap between the
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Relevant chapter: Lilith in Isaiah and Hebrew interpretation issues
assumed that you, whoever was reading this was going to be able to know what it meant. And obviously, you know, that's where this whole like cabalistic uh, exeetical tradition comes with Gamatria and they'll be able to read sentences like three or four different ways. you know, the Shem Kameffish coming from like three stacked lines of Hebrew text, you know, like they did they did all this word play with it because it was essentially like this grid matrix of words with no spaces, no vowels, just like just letters like
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Relevant chapter: Birth of Seth and spiritual vs material lineage
they're born of this evil lustful spirit. Whereas Adam, you know, and and Eve now copulate and in the spirit of love and she her spirit remains in the body. And since she she has she has this experience of love with her spirit, they give birth to a child of flesh, blood, and spirit. And that is Seth. And Seth creates, you know, according to the traditions, Seth creates the line, the the un the the unbreakable race of Seth who that are like what they consider themselves the true gnostics. We will
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Relevant chapter: Logic as causality and observable sequences
talking about. >> Okay. I can see that >> I'm kind of talking about the overarching >> the that part I could get. But like then when you're talking about known and assumed parameters, would you say that say like within a traditional system like the hermetic order of the golden dawn, there are known and assumed parameters? >> There are what I'm talking about here is is logic has its own known and assumed parameters. Like logic will force you to make an a priority judgment. That's the
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Relevant chapter: Esoteric vs institutional Christianity
cristic force of Christ itself is paramount. It's the most important part of our spiritual tradition. Churchianity is not I don't give a [ __ ] what what days you want me to eat, what days you want me to not eat, what days I can [ __ ] my wife, what days I, you know, I have to go and and pray all day. It's not that's not for you to decide. >> But Christ is is important because Christ is the theoric model. Christ is what happens when you accomplish the perfectly. That's why Christianity came out of
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Relevant chapter: Ascended masters and reclusive adepts
state of being could have an effect on like a small population? >> Um, I def well that's the whole idea behind the quote unquote ascended masters, right, of Bllovzky and of of the Golden Dawn, Anna Kingsford, uh, Sam Mathers. They all believed in these [ __ ] adepts who were just the the the the quintessential ascended master. Um because they were they were all being influenced by these ideas from the east, you know, from the vadic traditions in India and Tibet and things like that were just starting to really come
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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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Relevant chapter: Nostradamus and prophetic traditions
would be interesting. I don't know if you have any interesting takes or thoughts in regards to Nostradamus. I believe he was a prophet of some sort. Um, but yeah, I wanted to ask you about him. >> I guess he's one of those guys that like when you first start like turning your So, you grow up in this western historic paradigm and you're taught about certain things and then like you'll kind of hear about Nostradamus in like a dark corner and not much is said about him and then
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Relevant chapter: Nostradamus as apothecary and astrologer
of who knows something going on in those those continental European traditions of of herbal folk healing but he was he was an astrologer as well and that's a kind of divination as well you know astrological prophecy really divination um prophecy and divination are different but he also held the prophetic um and they're different because they work on different parts of the psychic organism uh but but he he did also have that gift of prophecy where he would, you know, I don't know what his methods
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Relevant chapter: The Mystical Qabalah as essential reading
it became society of the inner light at a certain point. Um Dolores Ashcroft Noiki is cut from that tradition as well. there was a strong emphasis on psychic work, on pathworking, on um connecting with the grail mythos, arthorian um and you see that to this day in in in Gareth Knight's work. But here's what I want to say about Deion Fortune. First of all, the mystical cabala, that's a must [ __ ] read and a must readad four or five times. And that's that's a minimum. Every time I read it, I learn
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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: Messianic tradition and Israel’s rise and fall
their gospels, all these prophets were heralding me because there was a prophetic tradition, a messianic tradition, right? They called it Messiah, Messiah, Savior, you know, somebody who's going to come to redeem uh the really it wasn't about redeeming Gentiles and everybody. It was about the redemption of the Hebrew people once they have fallen into bondage because there's this there's this like arc. they're really really good and they listen to Yahweh or L and then or Adonai you know Lord and then
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Relevant chapter: Messianic tradition and Israel’s rise and fall
they and they have all this stuff and you know King David comes and beats Goliath but then before him you've got Saul who really didn't you know he he kind of was a [ __ ] and the the the Jewish people paid for it. So you've got this this arc where they're they're following Yahweh's laws and then they're not and it's it's this kind of peak and trough cycle and the prophets always came at those uh you know right at the peak because right that when things are good that's when
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Relevant chapter: Messianic tradition and Israel’s rise and fall
the downturn starts you know people grow too confident they don't need you don't need God if you're not suffering most of the time Israel regard he said that's why suffering is so powerful an initiator because We turn to God when everything else has failed. And that's that's the ark, right? So there's there's a lesson to be learned there in some of that Old Testament lore. But the prophets came uh and and largely it was about, you know, the downfall of like that's that's really the thing if you if
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Relevant chapter: Lucifer, Isaiah, and mistranslated context
you know somebody was like oh here look at this he's saying my how how you have fallen oh uh light of the morning so that you know that mean well no he's everything before that is him literally saying explicitly I'm talking about you this king x y and z. So um that was that was a lot of the prophetic tradition and the the messianic tradition is something prophetic tradition where the prophets are calling about a savior to redeem Israel. Then Christ comes and he says look truly I say unto you you or you
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