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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 10:10

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

Relevant chapter: Jacob Boehme, Christian esotericism, and the Golden Dawn

influenced he was by the aurora but I think personally that um I would I would venture to say that 95% of the western esoteric traditions uh were influenced by Yakab Burma because when you get to the core of any of the real initiatic systems that were you know coming about in that time they are all Christian explicitly Christian um you know so that doesn't mean that they can't be like the the the the inner order of the Golden Dawn being a rosy Christian order Christian imagery figuring heavily Even in the outer

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 40:04

The Light-Bearer and the Shadow of Faith — Lucifer, the Nephilim, and the Crisis of Spiritual Rebellion

Relevant chapter: Closing reflections and future collaboration

Foundation of Western Esotericism Explored. I'll be doing book one. Jamie will be doing book two. Mark will be doing book three. That's running every Monday from August 21st to September 25th. So, 6 weeks, two hours uh per session, two sessions per book. Um I think it's a a fantastic value. And um you can uh look that up on the Institute for Hermetic Studies Teachable platform. Um and I will link to that on my Facebook page and Instagram, all that stuff. That's a big thing coming up

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

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

texts that are uh in the 1400s, they're still predicated on ideas that came about in you know the time of writing Genesis and the time of of you know when the hermetica the corpus hermeticum was written and those ideas are so but we do find that they're they're based in th in that specifically that Judeo helenistic and when I say henistic I mean I'm not saying helenic. I'm not saying helenic. Helenic is exclusively Greek. Helenistic is is more at least I use it to mean Greco Egyptian and then even Greco

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

Egyptian Roman >> you know that whole period. Uh so so there's it's really it's really from that period. Um that's the seedbed of that is the genesis of everything. It's like it's like the it's like all the DNA of you know it's like when a sperm and an egg meet it's like okay this is this contains all the potentialities for what this being could be in the future. When I would say Greece was the sperm Egypt was the egg. When those two things met it created the the uh western occult the

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

western esoteric traditions. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I had always personally been a little confused on the term henistic, but now that you clarify it like that, it makes a lot of sense. It's like that fusion of those different like the Greco Egyptian fusion type thing. >> Yeah. Well, well, the thing is that scholars for years have used the the term Henistic basically to refer to the the point of the Alexandrian conquests um at around 332 B.CE. CE of Persia and Egypt because Persia controlled Egypt

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

for like 200 years. They had already conquered them. So when Alexander got Persia, he got Egypt with it. And uh so he goes in there and he you know he he installs his you know his his thing. He lets he brings back Pharaohic rule. Actually uh the Persians ruled as foreigners. They didn't allow the far the Pharaohic tradition to continue. But Alexander actually says you can you guys can have your pharaohs back. But guess what? I'm a pharaoh now. >> So, uh, but but, um, uh, Chris Brennan, who has made enough

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

of a splash in in in this world that we're in, uh, in the occult and specifically in astrology, his book, Henistic Astrology, I think came out in 2017. He actually uses it to include uh, he includes the the Roman period. Rome kind of rather quickly uh cleans up, you know, they take over the TMIC dynasty, but the thing is that they love the Greeks, so they let them do their thing and they just they they mine the place for resources, tax the [ __ ] out of it. But at the same the same token, they

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

contribute in terms of infrastructure and wealth. So whatever was there just be it just grows. It becomes inflamed. the Romans uh you know they built bigger temples for um the theologists and stuff like that but but Chris Brennan uses the term henistic to include all of that period uh until I guess the anti-pagan edicts of Theodosius around the 700s all that [ __ ] falls apart but academics only consider well at least the stuff that I've read from the a couple of years ago they were using the term henistic to

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

Relevant chapter: Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism

describe um the Alexandrian conquests up to the the the conquests that Rome had of them. So that's just an important distinction for anybody that get because the terminology can get confusing. >> Yeah. Um, something interesting to cross reference is Yambbleian theology versus the Heckot literature or the chariot literature because they have this system of or the way they describe it as a descent to the throne versus an ascent. So is that like a language thing or is it mean in terms of meaning is it

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Drew Mackinnon: Teleology of the Temple

Relevant chapter: Artistic influence, intention & taking the first step

they applied it to the study of um of Western esotericism and and and magic, etc. So, uh that's that's kind of a cool thing. And then of course, you know, Sky, I've I've said it here a few times, it's an unfortunate consequence that she was very vocal about her ascended masters teaching and initiating and training her telepathically. Um because now it that finds its, you know, inverted correlation to uh modern days like spirit guides and everybody thinking like you can be completely

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

Relevant chapter: Intro — Mark Stavish and the frame of the conversation

director of the IHS, aka the Institute of Hermetic Studies, uh where he provides high-quality affordable information for the study and practice of traditional Western esotericism classes, seminars, workshops, all that good stuff. Um and two, if you guys are unaware uh about the Philosophers of Nature funded by Jean Dubuis, you're missing out. Uh part of what makes Mark significant to me personally is that he is a Philosopher of Nature indeed. Uh he served as the director of research for the Occult Research and

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

Relevant chapter: Religion, clergy, institutions, and living spiritual responsibility

I mean, I I knew quite many of the local clergy here quite well for a while and I could tell you some tremendous horror stories, but uh I won't. All you need to do is look at the Pennsylvania State Attorney General's report from several years ago on church abuse in Pennsylvania. Uh, but with that said, in neo-paganism, in esotericism, in the groups we're in, a lot of the people don't really and particularly Tibetan Buddhism, Western converts, they don't really believe it either

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

Relevant chapter: Closing reflections and future conversation

The institute's annual conference is a great one. We're going to do the Kali Yuga in Western esotericism. So we have discussions on millennialism or uh within the framework of colonial Pennsylvania and Ephrata and Kelpius and Beissel. You know, Fairmount Park, the early Rosicrucianism. We're going to have discussions on what is Kali Yuga within the Indian framework and the tantric framework. Uh we're going to have a discussion too on weather magic, which I think is relevant to our discussions in terms of

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