CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
Young Crowley:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire England to a family of wealthy and pious alcohol magnates. The Crowleys were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a low church known for being some of the strictest religious fun...
2024-08-17 15:39:03 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, occult trendsetter, and innovative antisemite, Mme Helena Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica.
(She combined Spiritualism with the doctrine of Western Esotericism)
-(biggest knock-on effect of this was a significant secularization of western esotericism)
(She was the...
2024-08-17 15:38:35 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, occult trendsetter, and innovative antisemite, Mme Helena Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica.
(She combined Spiritualism with the doctrine of Western Esotericism)
-(biggest knock-on effect of this was a significant secularization of western esotericism)
(She was the...
2024-08-12 15:47:16 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
(She combined Spiritualism with the doctrine of Western Esotericism)
-(biggest knock-on effect of this was a significant secularization of western esotericism)
(She was the first big East-We...
2024-07-20 16:23:54 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmash of european nobility, Blavatsky is our only source for her early life. She would claim to have psychic abilities, and that her grandfather was a high-ranking mason who ...
2024-07-19 17:45:00 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmash of european nobility, Blavatsky is our only source for her early life. She would claim to have psychic abilities, and that her grandfather was a high-ranking mason who ...
2024-07-17 16:47:04 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
Baboon-owner, world-traveling perennial syncretist, self-admitted huckster, protofeminist marajuana icon, and innovative antisemite, Mme. Helena Blavatsky was the most influential occultist of the Victorian era, for better and worse.
Born August 12 1831 to a mishmash of european nobility, Blavatsky is our only source for her early life. She would claim to have psychic abilities, and that her grandfather was a high-ranking mason who ...
2024-07-16 17:36:34 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
ToDo:
Roots:
A generalized western mysticism
James Fenimore Cooper novels about native americans
Reacting to Spiritualism
Before her we need a section on spiritualism.
Raymond Lull, Robert Fludd, Henry More
Notable Ideas:
Occultism v spiritualism
WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy where adherents and critics alike must spend significant effort to find it. The enlightenment was a spotlight on magical thought, a complex intellectual movement that sought to deny magic its obscurity. The light of reason was here, and there was nowhere to hide.
Except there is always a place to hide, always a new intellectual frontier ...
2024-07-05 16:38:40 +0000 UTC
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WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is different now. That goes without saying. I could begin every section of this book by saying “magic is different now” but the enlightenment put some serious elbow grease into it. Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy where adherents and critics alike must spend significant effort to find it. The enlightenment was a spotlight on magical thought, a complex intellectual movement that soug...
2024-06-29 16:36:13 +0000 UTC
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WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magic is different now. That goes without saying. I could begin every section of this book by saying “magic is different now” but the enlightenment put some serious elbow grease into it. Magic is a plant that enjoys the shade. It flourishes in the murky fringes of philosophy where adherents and critics alike must spend significant effort to find it. The enlightenment was a spotlight on magical thought, a complex intellectual movement that soug...
2024-06-27 16:41:55 +0000 UTC
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WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Where the Renaissance was dominated by clerical thinkers attempting to plumb the depths of their various theologies, the Enlightenment was all about shining the light of reason upon the wisdom of tradition. Renaissance magic does not exactly thrive under the light of reason. In fact, Enlightenment thinkers often defined themselves in direct opposition to notions of magic. We all love a good talisman, but it is important to remember that astr...
2024-06-18 16:48:28 +0000 UTC
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WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The year is 1610. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and salons of Europe. The age of reason and light is ascendant, there is little room f...
2024-06-10 16:25:33 +0000 UTC
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WELCOME TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The year is 1610. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and salons of Europe. The age of reason and light is ascendant, there is little room f...
2024-06-05 16:08:24 +0000 UTC
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The year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and reading groups of Europe. The broth of the enlightenment simmers on the backburner of history.&nb...
2024-06-01 17:56:42 +0000 UTC
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The year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and reading groups of Europe. The broth of the enlightenment simmers on the backburner of history.&nb...
2024-05-29 18:10:37 +0000 UTC
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The year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and reading groups of Europe. The broth of the enlightenment simmers on the backburner of history.&nb...
2024-05-25 17:02:12 +0000 UTC
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The year is 1610. You are an aspirant occultist. John Dee is dead. Shakespeare is soon for the grave. Europe has spent the last century and a half embroiled in bloody religious wars at the behest of kings and priests. Faith in the old institutions is strong, but there are whispers. Dangerous ideas like science, democracy, rationalism, and the rights of man, are taking root in the coffee shops and reading groups of Europe. The broth of the enlightenment simmers on the backburner of history.&nb...
2024-05-23 16:42:11 +0000 UTC
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There is no better introduction to the occult than Tarot. The original Rider-Waite-Smith was developed to be an introductory tool for broader concepts in western esotericism. It’s all in there. The four elements, the seven classical planets, the twelve zodiacs, the twenty-two paths. Each card represents an intersection of these foundational elements. While many later occultists have attempted to iterate on the deck, to improve upon its design, this was never my intention.
T...
2024-05-14 17:07:45 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate wor...
2024-04-26 16:27:13 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate wor...
2024-04-19 16:16:54 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate wor...
2024-04-10 16:32:38 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate wor...
2024-04-09 16:59:25 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
- Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
- Sulfur Mercury Theory
- Organic Matter
- Proto-Iatrochemistry
- Panacea
- Transmutation of base metals into noble metals
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate world. Rhazes is the exoteric one, Zadith is the Esoteric one.)
RH...
2024-03-13 16:02:34 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
- Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
- Sulfur Mercury Theory
- Organic Matter
- Proto-Iatrochemistry
- Panacea
- Transmutation of base metals into noble metals
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate world. Rhazes is the exoteric one, Zadith is the Esoteric one.)
RH...
2024-03-09 17:45:21 +0000 UTC
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ISLAMICATE ALCHEMY
EMERALD TABLET
- Just give us a page on this bad boy maybe
CORUPUS JABIRIANUM (died 806)
- Sulfur Mercury Theory
- Organic Matter
- Proto-Iatrochemistry
- Panacea
- Transmutation of base metals into noble metals
(Alexandrian alchemy created this divide between esoteric and exoteric alchemy. This carries over to the ISlamicate world. Rhazes is the exoteric one, Zadith is the Esoteric one.)
RH...
2024-03-07 17:04:21 +0000 UTC
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-by-proton, would be a painstaking and ludicrously expensive process.
In the second century, it would mean something alchemical. It would mean distilling the cake do...
2024-03-06 16:42:50 +0000 UTC
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-by-proton, would be a painstaking and ludicrously expensive process.
In the second century, it would mean something alchemical. It would mean distilling the cake do...
2024-03-01 17:44:53 +0000 UTC
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-by-proton, would be a painstaking and ludicrously expensive process.
In the second century, it would mean something alchemical. It would mean distilling the cake do...
2024-01-25 17:18:08 +0000 UTC
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF ALCHEMY
What would it mean to un-bake a cake?
These days, that would mean something atomic. It would mean throwing baked goods into the beam of a particle accelerator, or leaving a tin of pastries in an unshielded atomic reactor. Theoretically, it could be done, but peeling a cake apart, proton-by-proton, would be a painstaking and ludicrously expensive process.
In the second century, it would mean something alchemical. It would mean distilling the cake do...
2024-01-23 18:53:19 +0000 UTC
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