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archtroop · 2 years
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Some fine and really thought provoking, interesting analysis of FMA:BROTHERHOOD in accordance to actual Alchemical and hermetic texts. This guy plans on making a whole seroes of those. There are wo already up on his channel.
I'm tuning in 😎
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blood-orange-juice · 6 months
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I keep procrastinating a long post so I'll just write a short one.
Genshin Narcissenkreuzers are an obvious reference to Rosenkreuzers of the real world (Rosicrucians in English), The Brotherhood of Rose Cross, a 17th century spiritual movement. Rose is just substituted with a daffodil there.
(I'm not sure if cross has any actual symbolism in Genshin, or what the Teyvatian meaning of daffodils is. I know rose symbolism in Teyvat is different from our world)
It's a mishmash of Kabbalah, Hermeticism, alchemy and Christian mysticism. And the best part? The author who wrote one of the Manuscripts That Started It All eventually revealed it was a literature game, acknowledging its origin in a romantic fantasy that he wrote before he was 16 years old.
(do you see the parallels? magic born out of a childhood game)
The even better part is that it influenced European mysticism immensely, giving rise to Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and then to Thelema. A huge part of esotericism you see online these days is a development of their practices or just straight-out their old practices (tarot cards, astral travel, etc).
It influenced a lot of things indirectly too. For example, the concept of seeing "energy" (and the whole esoteric concept of energy as we know it now) was created by Madame Blavatsky by mixing the Rosicrucian concept of "light ether" (the primary 'proto-element' from which all matter is created) and Eastern concepts of prana and qi (which, if you try to study Indian and Chinese texts, turn out to be closer to actual physical definition of energy or maybe even information than to pop-esoteric "energy").
A similar thing happened to Wicca. It has its roots in Celtic revival and Neobardic tradition, which were in many ways influenced by Iolo Morganwg. That guy wrote a beautiful book Barddas, absolutely soaked in Mason and Rosicrucian teachings, passing it for a compilation of authentic Welsh bardic and druidic texts, forever tainting Celtic paganry with Rosicrucian influence too.
(it's a beautiful story in itself, full of poetry of all kinds. maybe one day I'll tell it)
(also, iirc, Wicca also heavily borrowed from the Order of the Golden Dawn too, so now it's hard to say what comes from where).
You might not know the name but Rosicrucians and their legacy are everywhere. Their practices, the names they used for things, their way of thinking.
And so is the Narcissenkreuz Ordo.
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incarnateirony · 2 months
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So anyway now you guys might know on the other side of the coin why I have, one could say, a supernaturally high success rate in suicide prevention crisis work. It's like, the same shit, I just usually don't have to fight an unwilling target.
Speaking of, oh look another one. Here we go. Works, Shealyn. It's about Works.
But yeah, fuck it. I managed to keep my magical drama off my blog for eight years, three of which I was being actively harassed by this psychopath proxying through every server or fandom I breathed in. TLDR yes I'm a magical powerful high grade in an actual brotherhood wizard that can shit on people with the god of memes through spacetime to the point my ex got all fucked up and confused me with the god i learned the teachings from, what about it, sorry.
I'm over running from monsters. Fuck this tumblr bullshit, it's done, this is just here to give her a chance to get the message to STOP being fucking dumb as hell, at least she has a running shot of understanding what's happening and making the simple choice needed to end it. We could have just smashed her like a bug from the start without a warning.
Right now she's going through her wiring again, she's actually focusing on her life, and home, and being somewhat honest about their recently strained finances, and that focusing on her real life helped. Yeah, that's the point. She's still sitting on her stupid horse shit though, so she's gonna drive backwards, because she thinks she can wait this out, and that's fine. We'll just keep rewiring her until she forgets why she's holding onto it to begin with. Yeah, she's getting to the step of "working on my own life" like a big girl now. She might be ready for "magical" work in another Adult Years Time, but right now, focus on your goddamn house and get off my dick. Cuz whoever is left by the end of this will be off our dick, you get to decide if that's you.
Like your Home can be your Great Work, but you can't be chasing the Road and your ex husband's dick and do that, what's not clicking, that's why he gave you Hestia earlier as the cure to Hermetic Intoxication, you dense bitch.
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twinflamedreams · 1 year
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Read Carl Jung, search Jordan Peterson on shadow work(and everything else really), really dive in there and learn something.
Also: Robert Monroe, Robert Sepehr, Rudolf Steiner, Manly P Hall, Dolores cannon, Tom Campbell, Clif high, David ick, Debbie Solaris, Gerald O'Donnell, Robert Bruce, Samael aun weor & Thoth the Atlantean / emerald tablets of Thoth.
A few other resources:
YouTube channels:
“The leak project”
Spoken scriptures:
Websites:
Gnosticism:
Texts/info:
Globalists/“deep state”/dark brotherhood/cult of Saturn/“the cabal” plans:
*link removed site has been taken offline*
Bibliotecapleyades: (a website that archives information about alternative medicine, conspiracies, New Age, paranormal, pseudohistory, pseudoscience and UFO)
Short index of things and places to research and dive deep. Please feel free to contribute to the index if you find any gems.
Have fun. 🐰🕳
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r3d-f0xs-blog · 7 months
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In other games
Be sharing some OCs from other games and bits of their lore. Maybe some more in depth posts another time.
This is Knight-Captain Blake Forder, later becomes Paladin.
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Blake was a member of the Appalachian chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel until the Scorched overran them at Fort Defiance. A few of them left under cover of fire from the last who made one final stand with the hope that they would be able to find a way into one of the nuclear silos to launch a strike on the Scorched nest. But thanks to the desertion of their one remaining leader, Bernice and Blake left to try and bring a message to the chapter in California.
They ended up staying in a town they found under attack from Raiders, in what had been Indiana and made their home there. Blake mostly hung up his power armour and found a friend and later, a lover in one of the engineers there, Alejandro. Alejandro learned his skills from his mother, one of the engineers who worked in developing power armour and had been part of the T-60 project.
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With the Californian chapter sending an expeditionary force years later after Bernice's attempts to relay a message to them bearing fruit, Blake returns to the fold. He's determined to wipe the scourge of the Scorched from the planet and the threat it poses to humanity. Alejandro follows him, keen to stay together and make greater use of his knowledge.
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Blake takes the role of Paladin when the one who led the expeditionary force, Paladin Richard Miller, was revealed to be an Enclave agent. From then on Blake leads the Brotherhood in Appalachia along with the cooperation of Foundation, Joel MacKenzie (one of the surviving original Responders) Gilda O'Sullivan a Free States survivor.
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Blake may be serious about his life in the BoS and the weight of responsibility can be hard to bear at times but he is also kind, compassionate and prefers to see the BoS as serving humanity by protecting and guiding with their knowledge or all technology they find rather than being secretive and hermetic. Some technology should be kept locked away but Blake believes in educating people why rather than a blanket denial and expecting people to accept their word.
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occultism, various theories and practices involving a belief in and knowledge or use of supernatural forces or beings. Such beliefs and practices—principally magical or divinatory—have occurred in all human societies throughout recorded history, with considerable variations both in their nature and in the attitude of societies toward them. In the West the term occultism has acquired intellectually and morally pejorative overtones that do not obtain in other societies where the practices and beliefs concerned do not run counter to the prevailing worldview.
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Key People: Zarathushtra J.F.C. Fuller Robert Fludd Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim Aleister Crowley
Related Topics: witchcraft magic alchemy divination astrology
Occult practices centre on the presumed ability of the practitioner to manipulate natural laws for personal benefit or on behalf of another; such practices tend to be regarded as evil only when they also involve the breaking of moral laws. Some anthropologists have argued that it is not possible to make a clear-cut distinction between magic—a principal component of occultism—and religion, and this may well be true of the religious systems of some nonliterate societies. The argument does not hold, however, for any of the major religions, which regard both natural and moral law as immutable.
The Western tradition of occultism, as popularly conceived, is of an ancient “secret philosophy” underlying all occult practices. This secret philosophy derives ultimately from Hellenistic magic and alchemy on the one hand and from Jewish mysticism on the other. The principal Hellenistic source is the Corpus Hermeticum, the texts associated with Hermes Trismegistos, which are concerned with astrology and other occult sciences and with spiritual regeneration.
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The Jewish element is supplied by the Kabbala (the doctrine of a secret mystical interpretation of the Torah), which had been familiar to scholars in Europe since the Middle Ages and which was linked with the Hermetic texts during the Renaissance. The resulting Hermetic-Kabbalistic tradition, known as Hermetism, incorporated both theory and magical practice, with the latter presented as natural, and thus good, magic, in contrast to the evil magic of sorcery or witchcraft.
Alchemy was also absorbed into the body of Hermetism, and this link was strengthened in the early 17th century with the appearance of Rosicrucianism, an alleged secret brotherhood that utilized alchemical symbolism and taught secret wisdom to its followers, creating a spiritual alchemy that survived the rise of empirical science and enabled Hermetism to pass unscathed into the period of the Enlightenment.
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During the 18th century the tradition was taken up by esoterically inclined Freemasons who could not find an occult philosophy within Freemasonry. These enthusiasts persisted, both as individual students of Hermetism and, in continental Europe, as groups of occult practitioners, into the 19th century, when the growth of religious skepticism led to an increased rejection of orthodox religion by the educated and a consequent search for salvation by other means—including occultism.
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But those interested turned to new forms of occultism rather than to the Hermetic tradition: on the one hand to spiritualism, the practice of alleged regular communication between the living and the spirits of the dead through a living “medium,” and on the other hand to theosophy, a blend of Western occultism and Eastern mysticism that proved to be a most effective propagator of occultism but whose influence had declined markedly by the late 20th century.
Indeed, despite the 19th-century revival, occult ideas have failed to gain acceptance in academic circles, although they have occasionally influenced the work of major artists, such as the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Wassily Kandinsky, and occultism in Europe and North America seems destined to remain the province of popular culture.
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Gary K. Wolfe and Liz Bourke Review A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom 978-1250267689, $ 27.99, 400pp, hc) May 2021. Cover by Stephan Martiniere.
The notion of magic returning to the world has been a familiar trope for so long that it’s nearly become part of the performance repertoire of fantasy writers, like locked-room murders for mystery writers or alien invasions for SF. The idea by itself doesn’t have much air left in it, so the way to make it work is to relegate it mostly to background, and to focus on the setting: the particular kinds of magic involved, and, more importantly, the kind of world that it engenders. P. Djèlí Clark seemed to have figured this out when he introduced us to his alternate 1912 Cairo in “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” in 2016, with its dandy-ish investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi, her partly super­natural lover Siti, and an advanced, steampunkish Cairo featuring airships, clockwork trams, and automata (rather wonderfully called boilerplate eunuchs) – along with various troublemaking djinns, ghuls, sorcerers, and ifrits. The Ottomans and the British are long gone, and Cairo is one of the world’s great modern metropolises. In Clark’s followup, the Nebula-winning The Haunting of Tram Car 015, the main investigators – again working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchant­ments and Supernatural Entities – are Senior Agent Hamed al-Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi, giving the tale a familiar veteran cop-and-sharp-newbie overtone. In this one we learn that Egypt is also well in advance of England in terms of women’s suffrage and social equity.
All these characters are back onstage in A Master of Djinn, Clark’s first full-length novel set in this colorful world, in which a Soudanese mystic named al-Jahiz had, 40 years earlier, somehow ruptured the membrane separating the world of djinn from our world, and then disap­peared. Like the two earlier stories, it begins as a kind of procedural, as Fatma – now saddled with a junior partner she doesn’t want – investigates the gruesome mass murder of a group of mostly British wannabes calling themselves the Her­metic Brotherhood of Al-Jahiz and supposedly dedicated to “uncovering the wisdom” of the missing wizard. (The echo of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, another band of Brits out to co-opt esoteric teachings from other cultures, might be no accident.) The investigation quickly spirals outward, leading to a mysterious masked figure claiming to be the returned Al-Jahiz, whose nefarious plans threated to disrupt an upcoming World Peace Summit, which, it’s implied, might determine whether or not the First World War develops – although in many ways that’s the least apocalyptic outcome that Fatma must prevent.
Despite the wonderfully imagined progressive Cairo, Clark’s version of djinn-driven steampunk technology, and his ingeniously worked-out hierarchy of supernatural figures, the plot of A Master of Djinn draws on several familiar ele­ments. Fatma makes a terrific heroine, but the new sidekick she resents, Hadia, turns out to be more competent than expected, like many such sidekicks, and while the local police inspector Aasim gets along with Fatma well enough, he sometimes echoes the officious and clueless cops of detective stories. Fatma’s mysterious, sexy, and kick-ass girlfriend Siti – easily the most appealing character in the novel – has secrets of her own, which expose her to some particular dangers. The antagonist shares not only the loopy megalomania of Bond villains, but the same habit of overexplaining the plan at critical junctures – the PowerPoint villain syndrome. And even though Clark plays pretty fair with the rules of a procedural, many readers won’t find it especially challenging to figure out the culprit’s true identity ahead of the detectives. That isn’t really a prob­lem, though, since the novel leaves the procedural issues in the dust by its final third and amps up the spectacle to last-act MCU levels, bringing onstage ancient Egyptian deities, self-replicating ash-ghuls, fiery ifrit lords, giant flying rukhs, a fair amount of collateral civic demolition, and even Kaiser Wilhelm. It’s a huge amount of fun, and Clark handles it all with style, even as he leaves us with some intriguing unanswered questions about the relation of magic to snazzy clockwork technology, or the relation of both to improved human rights and enlightened governance. But then, who’s asking about governance with a giant flaming demon on your tail?
-Gary K. Wolfe
P. Djèlí Clark is writing some of the most interest­ing novellas and short stories around. A Master of Djinn, his first full-length novel, is set in the same continuity as award-nominated novella The Haunt­ing of Tram Car 015 and the short story “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”, and it’s every bit as good as one might expect from the author of Ring Shout and The Black God’s Drums. A Master of Djinn‘s main character is Fatma el-Sha’arawi from “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”, a dapper, gender-non-comforming and over-achieving female agent from the Cairo office of Egypt’s Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities – a good Muslim with a fond­ness for well-tailored European suits. And for her infidel lover, Siti, a worshipper of Egypt’s old gods.
For 40 years, ever since the mysterious inventor and mystic al-Jahiz poked a hole between worlds and let magic (and the djinn) back into our world, Egypt has led the way in magical and mystical develop­ments, and in incorporating magic with technology. Al-Jahiz disappeared without a trace, but Egypt is now one of the world’s Great Powers, and Cairo is a lively modern city with plenty of problems for the Ministry to investigate.
A Master of Djinn opens with a gathering of an orientalist club – old white men with a fetish for antiquities – and their murder, by means including the magical, by a man-shaped figure all in black. The head of this club was Lord Worthington, whose murder, due to his wealth, is somewhat politically sensitive. He’s survived by two children, a son and a daughter. Fatma is called in to investigate because the kind of magic that kills a dozen people at once is bad news. And that’s before a black-clad person starts appearing in Cairo’s poorer neighbourhoods, claiming to be al-Jahiz returned and agitating against the government, spreading conspiracy theories along with rhetoric. And it seems this “al-Jahiz” can com­mand djinn – though what he wants, beyond murder and unrest, remains uncertain. It will turn out that this mysterious figure wants nothing less than to overturn the whole magical order, and, you know, take over the world.
Meanwhile, Fatma – who’s run off every official partner she’s previously been assigned – has a new partner in the form of Hadia, one of the few other female agents in the Ministry and one who looks up to Fatma, an appreciation that Fatma does her best to stomp into pieces. And Fatma’s in a strange place with her lover Siti: Siti has secrets, is difficult to pin down, may or may not be interested in an actual long-term relationship, and is right in the middle of Fatma’s investigation, helpful and infuriating by turns.
The best way to describe A Master of Djinn is probably absolute gonzo pulp. Anti-colonial, anti-racist pulp (so very unlike old-style pulp), with a thoughtful heart and a deep appreciation for weird and bonkers world building elements. Clark evokes the messiness and complexity of (a version of) Cairo city, a society in constant flux, one that’s still grap­pling with what the last 40 years of progress mean. A Master of Djinn is one part mystery story, one part political thriller, and five parts action-adventure: Clark has a gift for compelling characters whose flaws as people make them all the more real, and all the more interesting. He has a gift, too, for deft and evocative turns of phrase, telling detail, and the kind of pacing that keeps you reading all in a rush, without ever feeling overly hectic or too fast to take everything in: I read A Master of Djinn in a single afternoon, and it broke a long spell where I had dif­ficulty reading any fiction at all.
A Master of Djinn is doing a lot with class and status, history and myth, racism and race and (post)colonialism, with sex and gender and the pressures of being a first, exceptional role-model; with magic and relationships and community and policing. Mostly, though, it’s having fun. I’m not sure I’d call it a romp when the fate of the world’s at stake, but it’s definitely a rollicking great adventure. Entertaining, thought­ful, and deeply enjoyable, A Master of Djinn is an excellent novel. I recommend it highly.
-Liz Bourke
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Mysticism [edit] By the early 18th century Masonic authors and Protestant clerics had developed the tarot defeats as reliable sources of ancient hermetic wisdom and Christian gnosis, and as revelatory tools of magnificent cartomantic inspiration, but they did not stop there. In 1870 Jean-Baptiste Pitois (much better referred to as Paul Christian) composed a book entitled Historie de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalit travers les temps et le peuples.
Christian offers an extended analysis of ancient Egyptian initiation rites that includes Pyramids, 78 actions, and the initiatory discovery of tricks. Decker, Depaulis, and Dummett write: At one phase in the initiation treatment, Christian informs postulant climbs down an iron ladder, with seventy-eight rungs, and enters a hall on either side of which are twelve statues, and, in between each pair of statues, a painting.
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Each represents a "letter of the spiritual language" and to a number, and each reveals a truth of the divine world, a truth of the intellectual world and a truth of the real world. The secret meanings of these twenty-two Arcana are then stated to him. Christian's efforts to provide authority to his analysis by incorrectly associating an account of ancient Egyptian initiation rites to Iamblichus, however it is clear that if there is any initiatory significance to the tarot surpasses it is Christian who is the source of that info.
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Papus (a. k.a. Dr. Grard Encausse). This Website to this activity the initiatory relevance of the tarot was securely established in the minds of occult professionals. The introduction of the tarot as an initiatory work of art was coincident with, and healthy perfectly into, the flowering of initiatory esoteric orders and secret brotherhoods throughout the middle of the 19th century.
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g. Dr Papus, Franois-Charles Barlet, and Josphin Pladin). These orders positioned fantastic emphasis on tricks, advancing through the grades, and initiatory tests therefore it is not unexpected that, already having the tarot to hand, they read into the tarot initiatory significance. Doing so not just lent an air of divine, magical, and ancient authority to their practices but permitted them to continue to state on the magical, magical, significance of the probably ancient and hermetic tarot.
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Allen Greenfield joins us to share his firsthand account of an accidental possession by the god Pan. This is a thrilling encounter that you won’t want to miss!
Allen is a long-time student of esoteric spirituality. He is an occultist, author, and bishop of the Gnostic Catholic Church He has been deeply involved in Ufology for many years, and is the author of “Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts”, a text that explores the connections between the occult and alien contact phenomena. This book was heavily featured in the recent paranormal series “Hellier”. Allen is a past elected member of the British Society for Psychical Research, as well as the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and has twice been the recipient of the "UFOlogist of the Year Award" by the National UFO Conference. Allen is a former member of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Since his departure from the order, he has devoted his efforts to the worldwide “Free Illuminist” movement.
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Greenfield’s published works include:
Silver Bridge (Introduction)
Saucers and Saucerers
Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts
The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light
The Compleat Rite of Memphis
Liber Thirty-One
The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult (Contributing Author)
Secret Rituals of the Men in Black
The Roots of Modern Magick: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700-2000
Christ and the Master Therion
Angel Spells: The Enochian Occult Workbook Of Charms (Contributing Author)
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dragon age:
v; by and by: pre-escape & life in the Circle {9:23 - 9:34 Dragon}
v; run boy: Qunari invasion of Kirkwall; post-escape from the Circle {9:34 Dragon}
v; earthbound misfit: living with the Dalish {9:34 - 9:35 Dragon}
v; seething shadows breathing lies: in Orlais {9:36 Dragon}
v; of crossed swords: in Antiva {9:37 - 9:38 Dragon}
v; bottom of the river: in Rivain {9:39 - 9:40 Dragon}
untagged: during the events of da:i; present {9:41 - ? Dragon}
v; stormalong john: nesting in Rivain
v; widdershins: interactions in the Fade
v; the coming dawn: in Skyhold
v; rose on the Grey: aiding the Grey Wardens
v; praelectus: chosen to be Dirthamen’s First
v; commissions: acquired employment
v; beast of burden:
bloodborne verse: fanatical nurse and caretaker, candle-lighter, and incense-keeper of Oedon Chapel, willing to offer blood sup and lyrical wisdom to whomever needs it on hunting nights & hazy days.
v; bittersweet symphony:
19th-century london verse: occultist & children’s book writer, willing to ingratiate himself within esoteric society ala the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the elusive Assassin Brotherhood, etc. to answer forever-long queries of the purpose of humanity & the Universe.
v; misty mountains cold:
tes: skyrim verse: half-Breton/half-Bosmer student at the College of Winterhold with exceptional skill & interest in Speechcraft & Conjuration, with ties and friends in ambiguous daedra cults & at the Bard’s College.
v; the weight:
non-human apostate verse: a literal star placed on earth before neanderthals walked the planet, only wants to make friends and spread love with powers of the Earth & with irl use of mysticism and mythological beings.
v; velvet underground:
modern!Lovecraftian verse: cars & coffee & laptops & phones, with the added spice of becoming a messenger & avatar for Lovecraftian, Eldritch Gods while living in his van & taking odd jobs for food & board.
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Do different Practicioners arrive at different conclusions at how their Craft works? For example, if Practicioner A says his Craft works like a science because X, but B says his science is actually Y. Are they still sciences and still work even if they go against one another, or is there one way to make the Craft work that is fundamentally “correct” over another?
Yes! One of the things we actually spent about 20 years trying to get her to study any variant of.
There's also, quite frankly, People Who Have No Fucking Idea What They're Doing But Just Minding Their Own Business Using It Basically As Therapy. Those people I tend to leave alone, but those people aren't grooming people to mindrape your face spouting your ancient 2001 anime references and calling it a religion. Hence the recent "We are literally about to burn the bitch down" while she keeps blindfolding herself.
But for example, I mentioned Brotherhoods. There are a great many brotherhoods one could mark under Gnosticism or general Neoplatonism, but they share a wide swath of their methods and structures, and so on; some change the names (eg, classic Gnostic is very christian, Thelema is egyptian mostly with some greek), and some debate moralities. For example, amidst gnosticism, valentinism, and the many branches there, people debate basically, to boil it down, "Is Chuck evil, stupid, or just fake?" and that kind of trickles down to how they respectively interpret the same data and methods, for lack of a better word.
There's also the fact that most people online just kinda... share tips they learned without cognition of the depth of the rabbit hole? Like, if I told you right now, "Wicca started as a chapter house of the Thelemic brotherhood, before Valentina fucked it all up, rewrote it, and it got yote in the internet for every 14 year old to revise." half of witchblr would shit their pants and start screaming about Valentina's disproven Global Witch Religion rewrite, and a Thelemist like myself will just open to the original plagiarized text and compare for the 14 year old.
So yeah, people definitely come to different conclusions, but I find the longer someone studies, the more those conclusions tend to resonate more closely to each other in their conclusions. Hermetic doctrines integrate fantastically with Buddhism, for example, and at the end of the day they're essentially teaching the same thing with slightly different language or perspective. Everyone can be the BuddhaHermes (no they're not the same, but they're bros and can get along), but you gotta put in the work to be the BuddhaHermes. That tends to be the ultimate conclusion of most meaningful faiths or practices explored to the end point. In order to be the happy fat man or the funny tricksy man, the happy fat funny tricksy man must be in you.
I too once started as a stupid 13 year old, but I'm 37 now, and that's been a long time for me to get my shit straight. I worked past it. Some people never do, and they just stay with spitting on a crystal and convincing themselves that's why they got a raise, and that's fine, I guess, until someone starts fucking around like Shealyn is. Ironically it has therapeutic value for those still willing to Work towards their goals in life, and even if they're just mixing together candles and herbs, they're trying to put their focus towards a goal and by nature tend to put in other subconscious work to complete the goal, unless they are an individual like Shealyn who is grossly allergic to the concept of the actual Works part.
In adjacent note, such brotherhoods are generally the origin of Illuminati screaming. The Illuminati were one of many brotherhoods, and became the most pop famous, but they're one of several. Personally I find Golden Dawn methods bypass political level practice firewalls better than anything else.
In other news, welcoming of questions like this. I somehow think my audience, lovers and haters both, didn't expect to see a beyond spacetime disco dance beat down where the bitch even confessed we successfully dragged her back to still tell her about work and still won't catch the clue because she's a fucking doorknob. Yeah sorry to the j2 tinhat that was using her to start shit, if you're questioning your entire understanding of the universe or me, you did it to yourself as much as she's doing it to herself.
Jesus, Hermes, and Buddha can all walk into a bar together, share philosophy, debate minor perspective, but still try to lead their followers towards a prospective oneness with the respective divine path, and the apotheosis with it, but all three paths consider their own actions and works to attain it, and that's the part people like Shealyn get lost in.
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Mysticism [modify] By the early 18th century Masonic authors and Protestant clerics had actually developed the tarot trumps as authoritative sources of ancient hermetic knowledge and Christian gnosis, and as revelatory tools of magnificent cartomantic motivation, however they did not stop there. In 1870 Jean-Baptiste Pitois (better known as Paul Christian) wrote a book entitled Historie de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalit travers les temps et le peuples.
Christian offers a prolonged analysis of ancient Egyptian initiation rites that includes Pyramids, 78 actions, and the initiatory revelation of tricks. Decker, Depaulis, and Dummett compose: At one phase in the initiation procedure, Christian informs postulant climbs down an iron ladder, with seventy-eight rungs, and gets in a hall on either side of which are twelve statues, and, between each set of statues, a painting.
Each corresponds to a "letter of the spiritual language" and to a number, and each expresses a reality of the magnificent world, a reality of the intellectual world and a reality of the physical world. The secret meanings of these twenty-two Arcana are then expounded to him. Christian's efforts to provide authority to his analysis by wrongly associating an account of ancient Egyptian initiation rites to Iamblichus, but it is clear that if there is any initiatory importance to the tarot defeats it is Christian who is the source of that details.
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g. Dr Papus, Franois-Charles Barlet, and Josphin Pladin). These orders positioned terrific focus on tricks, advancing through the grades, and initiatory tests therefore it is not unexpected that, currently having the tarot to hand, they read into the tarot initiatory significance. Doing so not just provided an air of divine, magical, and ancient authority to their practices but allowed them to continue to state on the wonderful, mystical, significance of the presumably ancient and hermetic tarot.
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Ch135, Thelema rears its head again. And I’m talking about it again!
Warning: LONG POST!
I’m so glad this was included in the translation notes. I’ve talked about Aleister Crowley, Thelema, Thoth (though I was talking about Undertaker on that one), the Æon of Horus, the (Hermetic Order of the) Golden Dawn/Aurora Aurea, and the Ruby Rose and the Cross of Gold (second level of the Aurora Aurea), and so on before. It’s good to see the parallel has continued between Viscount Druitt/Aleister Chamber and Aleister Crowley... and the Aurora Society, Blue Sect, and Osiris (company) vs various aspects of Thelema.
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Madam Red mentions “the rose something or the golden something” in ch7.
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The three-tiered Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is a secret society founded by three members of the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons, and it is part of the religion of Thelema, which was founded by Aleister Crowley.
It’s been called Aurora Society in the manga, but we might yet find out there’s deeper levels to its membership, just like with Thelema and the Golden Dawn.... The Aurora Society itself could be the lowest level of the order... simply the Golden Dawn?
I wonder what level this is supposed to be, these people having orgies and trying to summon a demon? According to the teachings within Thelema, a young male of purest innocence and high intellect makes the best sacrifice to make a summons, unlike what this cult leader says in the manga. However, this could have been twisted (needing them to be defiled, instead of left pure) for the purpose of summoning a demon, since its creepier. Plus, Crowley regularly incorporated “sexual energy” into his magic workings.... This cult could be the manga version of the second level, The Ruby Rose and the Cross of Gold.
Too bad Madam Red and our earl didn’t discuss these secret societies further. Too bad our earl didn’t instruct Sebastian to investigate the secret societies themselves, not just individuals with medical licenses and occult interests....
I have a hunch (a nagging suspicion) that the Blue Sect is the manga version of the leaders who have access to the highest level of the order, the Secret Chiefs.
And I say this because of what is said here (there’s lots of info worth showing, so just read through it). I’ll discuss the Secret Chiefs more below.
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I’m quite interested in this idea that the Secret Chiefs could be symbolic representations, not necessarily people. The Blue Sect uses both; the Lords of the Stars are people (sort of....), but they are like incarnations of the stars that they represent. Sirius, Canopus, Vega, and Polaris.
Notice that Osiris and Horus are mentioned above. This is crucial because:
Osiris is the name given to the (dummy or shell) drug company that buys Stoker’s “technology” (really, they got hold of how to make Bizarre Dolls?). They got this from the Aurora Society (and Undertaker). They could be the ones trying to prolong the lives of those old lords who have renal failure. Like Stoker, they could have good intentions but are being duped. Depends on who is really behind Osiris....
In Thelema, the Æon of Osiris is the era that is ending, dying off. It’s ruled by the old man... and death.
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Crowley thought he would use Thelema to usher in the Æon of Horus, a new era ruled by the eternal child, who neither dies nor is reborn....
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So... Lord Sirius could be not just one of these Secret Chief-like individuals... but also the manga version of the “undying and unreborn” representation of Horus in Thelema’s Æon of Horus. “The crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, but goeth radiant ever upon His Way.” But, we know that his radiance can grow dim....
I’ll add links to my older posts about this later, when I’m on my computer again. But you can find much of this (and maybe other details I’ve left out this time) by searching my blog for tags like #aleister crowley, #thelema, #osiris, #aeon of horus, #aleister chamber, #viscount druitt, #aeon of osiris, #golden dawn, #ruby rose and cross of gold, etc....
Also please check out http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Main_Page for all things Thelema.
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