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Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

ryandv wrote: post #79
narrator wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the interesting things I realize when I meet occult practitioners of the Hermeticist varieties is they refuse to acknowledge they are a religion and what they believe is only as true as any other religion. Like one adherent told me the universal consciousness has parts and I said, "that's fine that you believe that, but you acknowledge that is your religious belief?" and this person refused to even say that in…

This is exactly how I feel when people start telling me about their own religious beliefs about things like "gender identity," right down to the absolute certitude in their faith and the bigoted, zealous excommunication of nonbelievers and heretics.

Now I'm wondering which church excommunicated you...

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

Trasmatta wrote: post #106
just-working wrote: post #59

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Exactly. We must turn the LORD and not these demons.

Sadly, "the LORD" has never done much for me, but diving into the occult has at least been fun!

Some folks think that the Creator is actually a usurper from the real divinity, and that therefore all of creation is inherently evil.

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Post by Trasmatta »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #122
Trasmatta wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, "the LORD" has never done much for me, but diving into the occult has at least been fun!

Some folks think that the Creator is actually a usurper from the real divinity, and that therefore all of creation is inherently evil.

Gnosticism is also fun!

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Post by ghssds »

throwanem wrote: post #75
dr_dshiv wrote: post #72

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Oh, cool! I don’t recall a “primary” in the book — he suggests a range of different possible configurations that he was open to. What struck you as not matching? Personally, I do think that the immaterial world of ideas must be primary—at least certain aspects of mathematics seem so necessary that they’d be discovered by intelligent life, no matter the galaxy… or simulation…

All life also defecates, intelligent or otherwise. Curious how no one hastens to canonize that for its ubiquity.

/offtopic

I don't know why but your comment made me remember a novel[1] I read thirty-some years ago about a temple found deep in the sand of the Sahara desert. Sometime later, an archeologist gave himself permission to defecate in a corner of the temple, only for his wastes to be absorbed by the temple in a few hours, which told him the temple was actually a living biological structure.

1: https://www.daliaf.com/oeuvres/etrange-monument-du-desert-ly...

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Post by teecha »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #55

A good place to start is Cornelis Agrippa’s “Three Books on Occult Philosophy.” Agrippa was a lawyer and esoteric feminist (eg, he wrote “on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex”) and defended women accused of witchcraft throughout Europe. His “three books” gave birth to the “occult” nomenclature. Or my favorite, Marsilio Ficino. There is a statue to Ficino when you walk into the library. Ficino was hired b…

Any recommended hard copy? Seems like there are more than a few floating around.

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Post by dr_dshiv »

popalchemist wrote: post #93

For those who don't know, this is the best digital library of Occult/Alchemical texts in existence.

And the physical library is conveniently located at 123 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam. It’s a beautiful location—and an amazing community of people. Anyone can become a member—but the secret rituals are ofc invite only.

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Post by UlisesAC4 »

perfectbeeing wrote: post #15

Would this be reasonable material on which to fine tune the new Gemma 3 270M model?

Probably absolutely no. I was studying about the corresponding names between tarot card and Shem Hamphorash and gave me incorrect names, it gave me a correct angel name but not the correct one of several cards.

So for studying? Nope, for practicing neither.

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Post by elmomle »

ryandv wrote: post #68
dr_dshiv wrote: post #55

A good place to start is Cornelis Agrippa’s “Three Books on Occult Philosophy.” Agrippa was a lawyer and esoteric feminist (eg, he wrote “on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex”) and defended women accused of witchcraft throughout Europe. His “three books” gave birth to the “occult” nomenclature. Or my favorite, Marsilio Ficino. There is a statue to Ficino when you walk into the library. Ficino was hired b…

> It is an old Pythagorean tradition that sensation or consciousness arises out of the interaction of the immaterial soul and the material body. That “three world” idea is echoed by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose in his book “Road to Reality.” He talks about how the material world produces the world of consciousness which produces the world of ideas (including mathematics), which seems to produce the material world… Yo…

Also reflected in Vedic/Hindu philosophy: conscious experience (cetanā) arises from the interfacing of ātman (the immaterial self / soul) with śarīra (the physical body).
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