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

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Post by cess11 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's a fair bit of defecation in the Bible. Saul shitting in a cave, I forgot where, or Paul calling all material things 'skubala', i.e. waste, as in junk, poop, refuse, basically what we'd call shit today:

https://www.greekbible.com/philippians/3/8

Edit: This also seems like a decent opportunity to bring up the scatological Luther.

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2012-americ...

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Post by grues-dinner »

Onavo wrote: post #47
jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

The Laundry and the Black Chamber want to know your location.

Honestly, if Charles Stross decides that reality is catching up with the fiction again and the Laundry Files goes the way Rule 34 universe, I'll have to feed myself to the corner hounds.

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Post by fnordlord »

Jonovono wrote: post #9

Somewhat related, but I randomly got suggested this video on Youtube when it only had a couple hundred views. He's turned it into a series, and I have quite enjoyed it. Somehow bridges user interfaces and occult stuff haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&list=PLsfH1Ahi4S...

This is great, thanks. I've been going down a real rabbit hole on Thelemic magic and this really brings it back, full circle, to something I actually do understand.

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Post by krapp »

cess11 wrote: post #81
throwanem wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's a fair bit of defecation in the Bible. Saul shitting in a cave, I forgot where, or Paul calling all material things 'skubala', i.e. waste, as in junk, poop, refuse, basically what we'd call shit today: https://www.greekbible.com/philippians/3/8 Edit: This also seems like a decent opportunity to bring up the scatological Luther. https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2012-americ...

Also Ezekiel 4:9-13, where God commanded Ezekiel to bake bread in a fire fueled by human shit because He was angry at the Israelites, but Ezekiel haggled God down to just using cow shit.

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Post by ryandv »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, there was the Egyptian deity Khephra who was represented by the dung beetle rolling its dung along the desert, symbolizing the passage of the sun through the sky.

In alchemy and western esoterica, excrement is associated with the tenth sephirah, the 10s of the Tarot minor arcana, and symbolizes the end result of a process and any remaining waste byproducts, for obvious reasons. In The Holy Mountain's (1973) depiction of the alchemical magnum opus, The Fool's excrement is transmuted into gold, symbolizing the awakening of unconscious, reactive matter into fully enlightened and integrated, free willed, egoic man.

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nashashmi wrote: post #52

Some people here are reacting like the occult is fake. Magic is fake. It is an illusion and it is fun and games. And we have lots of stories about it, both fantasy and horror. Occult is real. There is no such thing as white magic. There is only black magic. And such magic involves making trades with spirits and demons and establishing relationships with them. These demons do not have a code. They slowly guide you tow…

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