3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're interested in the study of religion at all (at least as a human affectation), it can get pretty interesting to get into the Hermetic and Gnostic texts. Some of the traditions and proposed knowledge exists on a timeline parallel to popular history going back thousands of years. It's really quite something. It combined with other mystic traditions ultimately informed the theosophical movement of the 19th and…
>His sex magick informs a lot of the modern incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy. The result being that you have to abstain or otherwise be reduced to a plodding pile of unenlightened goo (to give the idea some imagery). As someone who appreciates occult and pagan symbolism for the aesthetic and narr…
That the swastika is basically banned in many countries, is in my understanding the same as we would ban the cross, because of Inquisition, etc.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really like these old texts because it's interesting to try and get into the mindset of the authors. To the medieval occultist, that plant over there is growing well because Saturn is ascending or whatever, and if a rabid dog bites you, you should apply the plant to the wound because the melancholic nature of Saturn will counteract the mania of the rabies, etc. Why did such-and-such happen? A demon did it. It's a c…
> it's very strange to our modern sensibilities... My mom buys things because they help remove 'toxins.' It's not that strange.
At least she hasn't yet learned of the foetid influence which seeps through the aether and will destroy the balance of your body's humours: wifi.
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#86Does this mean we're no longer allowed to make fun of renowned author Dan Brown[1]? 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-re...
I was thinking a bit similar, but I'd say, no, because I am still mad for all the useless discussions I had with people claiming Illuminati etc. was factual ... (what the book also claimed to be)
So sure, every audience gets the writer it deserves, but still - I appreciate the gift, but there would need to be much more, before you can even consider that ... but I don't think he has so much money though.
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#87That's pretty cool. I mean not into it, but I think it's worth preserving.
Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're interested in the study of religion at all (at least as a human affectation), it can get pretty interesting to get into the Hermetic and Gnostic texts. Some of the traditions and proposed knowledge exists on a timeline parallel to popular history going back thousands of years. It's really quite something. It combined with other mystic traditions ultimately informed the theosophical movement of the 19th and…
>His sex magick informs a lot of the modern incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy. The result being that you have to abstain or otherwise be reduced to a plodding pile of unenlightened goo (to give the idea some imagery). As someone who appreciates occult and pagan symbolism for the aesthetic and narr…
> I wanted to get a valknut tattoo when I was younger just because I thought it looked cool - now I'm glad I didn't because if I had, Nazis would think I was one of them.
It's also a bad time to be a fan of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It combined with other mystic traditions ultimately informed the theosophical movement of the 19th and 20th century through to the magick of Aleister Crowley. His sex magick informs a lot of the modern incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy. The result being that you have to abstain or otherwise be r…
Incels don't practice noFap. If you actually check incel forums, they heavily ridicule the idea and the Redpill types who do.
Good point. It's important to keep your ridiculous lunatics separate.
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#90> “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy, I don't understand, what's really the use of any of this stuff except for their insight into history and as precursors to science. There's no way any of this stuff has any meaningful application today. I also don't understand how anyone can find this stuff interesting, they're often boring, hard to read, and filled with obviously erroneous information
expanding on your line of thought...
why bother doing anything, ever, at all, anywhere?
it's all pointless anyway due to the impending heat death of the universe.