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As a Zoroastrian YouTuber, I wanted to say thank you for shining some light onto my religion in such a truthful way, and for wading through the absolute mess that is Zoroastrian studies to find that stuff out. I appreciated how well researched it was.
One thing I wanted to say is that it “Zoroaster”, Zarathushtra Spitama as he called himself, can’t have existed anytime near the Achaemenid dynasty of Iran. The language he spoke, Gathic Avestan, is extremely similar to the Sanskrit of the RgVeda, and it is dated to either the middle of the RgVedic period or the very beginning, all dependent on what level of phonological change one adopts. Who knows when exactly the RgVedic era is, but I don’t think anybody puts it after 1000 BC. Either way thank you for making this video, and if you ever need help working on a video on Zoroastrianism, I’d love to help! Also, the Gathas are a masterpiece of ancient poetry, composed by Zarathushtra himself, and are a great read. I would recommend the translations by Dr Stanley Insler and Dr Ali Jafarey.
Ushta te (may you have radiant happiness)
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Hey doc. Listening to this episode at 3 AM in the morning a few days before Christmas. This year has been one of the worst I've had due to the loss of my mom and a few other troubles that happened throughout the year. Your channel and videos have been a constant companion for me and have brought me joy, knowledge, and peace of mind over the entire year; from Yahweh's historical origins, Paul's Ascent into the Kavode [sic], Yukio Mishima's physical primacy, that business with the Library of Alexandria being really small, to the breakdown of Jungian interpretations of Alchemy, I've learned a LOT about these topics and I've learned about people historical and beyond.
So for me at least, you are my Shining Star of Wisdom, Joy, and Peace in a year of tumult. Thank you, Doc. I deeply appreciate your work.
Oh and one last thing: I really like the comparison of your interest in Christian theology and history as reading a rulebook to a game you'll never play; being a Catholic born in Southeast Asia watching all that Kabbalah stuff was my version of your experience with Christianity.
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I grew up in an evangelical Christian family. I wasn't allowed to listen to rock music, play dnd, watch scary movies, or anything else fun. He-man, ninja turtles, and other magic or alternative spirituality related toys were off-limits.
When I grew up and moved out, I did all the things. I made up for lost time. Even though I was sort of a "model kid" (not a brag, trust me), I was already fringe. First and foremost, I had a mind of my own. I was asking lots of questions from an early age. I was attracted to Wicca, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Shinto, and other paths very early. I was aware of Buddhism at 15, thanks to a fascination with ninja and martial arts. I discovered Wicca when I was 16, and have been fascinated with the idea of magic ever since. I learned about ancient runes BECAUSE of the Satanic Panic, and that discovery fed an already strong love of languages and linguistics. All of these experiences kinda make me laugh. There's a kind of irony in it.
Now I guess I'm a black sheep in my family, but I'm okay with that. Religion isn't really my cup of tea now, but that subject and the subject of magic still fascinate me to this day.
I like your channel and videos, Dr. Sledge. Keep up the good work. 👍
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8:03 FIY, in the 21st century, the medical field of hospice care now does acknowledge what they call Visioning. It is regarded by professionals working in this field as a sign the person is nearing death. Hospice workers inform & educate their dying patients and their families that the dying person may very likely begin to experience visits from deceased loved ones, often parents, siblings, spouses and even pets. The visioning seems generally to begin about a month prior to death, and tends to ramp up as the person gets closer to death.
Visioning is not a result of the administration of drugs because people not given drugs also have visioning experiences as death nears (it's been reported that this happens to dying people for hundreds of years), and also because the dying are sometimes visited by loved ones whom neither they nor the family were aware had predeceased the dying patient.
Also, the visions of deceased loved ones do not cause fear or anxiety in the patient but in fact the opposite: they bring comfort to the dying person. This is an important distinction from hallucinations, which tend to be confusing & even upsetting to the dying person and are an indication something is wrong, a symptom of their terminal disease, or a problem with the drugs the person is being given. So to be clear, visioning is not the same as hallucinations despite the title of the research paper shown at the 8:03 mark.
Visioning people see their deceased loved ones in the room with them, sometimes floating up near the ceiling, and even carry on conversations with them while others in the room see nothing. Dying people who cannot speak sometimes reach out to invisible figures, or their eye movements indicate they are seeing something, paying attention to something nearby that no one else sees.
Amazingly, this phenomenon appears to occur to dying dogs, cats, & horses-- Rupert Sheldrake has discussed this.
Reliable and well-presented information on visioning and other death & dying topics can be gotten from Hospice Nurse Julie's Youtube channel.
Peace to all.
Thank you for this brilliant channel, Dr. Sledge. 👻
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Damn fucken right, and most undoubtedly so
That which hangs above is just as that which lays below.
And that which is infernal sits in its lofty seat
Until the vision of Oneness is accomplished and complete.
All emanates from One, that which arose from none,
Then emerged as something new from a contemplation done.
Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon,
The Earth is its provider, the wind within its womb.
Its potency perfected, father of every miracle,
Substance of generation for the spirit and material.
Its force it retains turned down towards the Earth,
Twisted upside down it splits the fire from the dirt...
It ascends into the cosmos, descending to and fro,
to itself receiving power from above and from below.
All obscurity shall flee, this the power of all powers,
It penetrates all solid mass and from its light the subtle cowers.
Thus the cosmos was created,
O’ Thrice Great holder of the Three,
This the way for wonders fated
I call on you, Mercurius,
font of philosophy.
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I love listening to this channel as you open up different topics and perspectives on ancient and medieval history, philosophy, and culture. It’s a field I find fascinating, and where I know just enough to know that I barely know anything at all.
When I was a child, I attended Bible camps in the summer. They were mostly summer camps with a lick of religion painted over the top; but some times the camps hired my Irish grandfather to conduct Bible classes. Usually these classes were superficial and boring, but when they had my grandfather come in, he would conduct the classes outdoors, sitting on the ground, his back to a big pine tree, and he would just narrate Bible stories (mostly from the Torah, occasionally from the New Testament) aloud, without reading from texts or notes, like a bard converted by Saints Patrick or Columba. When he got to a key point he would just break into a poem from the Bible that related to the story—the Song of Deborah, when telling stories from Judges, or the Song of the Sea when telling the story of the Exodus.
Anyway, your channel reminds me of those times. Not in terms of style, but in the depth of your knowledge, the enthusiasm and energy you give us, and the gentleness and generosity of the way you share your work with us.
I don’t know why this was on my mind today as I listened, but it was, and I wanted to share it with you, and to thank you for the gift of your sharing.
Peace, brother. ✌️
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I'm of Basque/French descent and was born in 1987 in New Jersey. I listened to Black Sabbath, Rammstein, NIN, etc. as well as dressed usually in dark colors or black. After Colombine and Marilyn Manson and all that, at home and in school, as well as in my appropriate countries of descent (whom I visited often to see family and grandparents) I was put through "the usual", stared at, cursed at, spit at, bullied, and all the rest that came with being oneself in the "fringes of society". Very grateful for your channel and this new cornucopia of long-lost knowledge here on YouTube. Bravo with everything you do!
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Dr. Sledge--as a student of philosophy and the "history of ideas," I particularly enjoyed this episode. Not many channels are willing to get into the weeds with Scholasticism, despite how influential some of these ideas and thinkers have been. Thanks for digging into this one, it is a fantastic introduction to the topic.
As an off-topic aside, one of these days it would be awesome to see an episode on the history of esoteric herbalism, sacred plants, incense, entheogens, etc. Psychoactive or otherwise, the history of these plants and the associations they came to have is a fascinating topic. The other tools, equipment, etc., used in ceremonial magic probably all have an interesting history as well. I'm not sure how much scholarly research there is into this subject, I know everyone has a theory as to what exactly "soma" was, or what was given to initiates in the Mystery Shools in Greece and the like. Even so, some speculative hypotheses would be interesting to discuss. This is also a rather broad topic, it may need to be broken down into multiple episodes. Something like you did with absinthe would be awesome to see with historically significant plants used in witchcraft and magic, or at least I think so. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep watching!
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So I've been working really hard lately on my programming skills, and I've begun noticing some striking similarities between the community of back-end software developers and the Kabbalistic milieu. For one thing, nested layers of complexity, like what you described in your comment about the nested sephiroth, are par for the course in both disciplines. A simple statement can be understood to reference hundreds of lines of code just like a certain key word in a Kabbalistic text is understood, by Kabbalists in the know, as a massive complex of layered meanings. Believe it or not, I've been pretty able to effectively adapt the thinking style I developed during my amateur study of Kabbalah into a basic understanding of how code works. From this perspective, a lot of the arcane text-specific references you mention as barriers to entry-level studies would be looked at by the dev community as cardinal compatibility sins. One of the stupidest things you can catch yourself doing as a programmer is designing software that only you, the developer, will ever understand. It makes it pretty much impossible for anyone else to do anything with your code, so other developers will usually ignore it and find an alternative rather than try to understand your personal vernacular. It would seem that such standards did not exist in the Kabbalistic community, but that likely has to do with the fact that, while devs are frequently seeking more devs to expand their projects, Kabbalists tend to be pretty proprietary and tight-lipped about their discoveries. While I'm still struggling to understand the reasons for that (though the Sabbatai Tzvi business does shed some light on it), I think it's important to recognize that Kabbalah was not made for amateurs to pick up easily. There are layers of obfuscation which, from what I've seen, seem to be viewed as necessary deterrents to seekers who are not earnest in their desire to learn and grow.
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Brilliant work. What an incredible finding, a stunning fragment.
Might the strapped “Re’evok” refer to the androgynous tefillin worn by the Shechina, as she descends back into the masculine, into the eighth sefirah (low, low, low, low, low, low, low + low) keter, which follows the ‘seven lower ones’ the ‘zayin tachtonim,’ and which is symbolized by the ‘tefillin of the head’ called ‘the crown.’ Assisting its return and re-ascent to the ‘heights of the crown.’?
Edit: This would fit with the words from the verse in Esther the fragment is commenting on (5:1): “and Esther donned [the garments of] kingship/majesty” and the rabbinic reading of the “levush malchut” “garments of kingship,” from later in the text, associated with “the large crown” and “yakar.” Both references to the tefillin of the head.
See Crowns, Tefillin, and Magic Seals, In Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism (pp. 49-57). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Thank you, Dr Sledge, for another fascinating video. One of the things I love about videos like this one is that it forces me to go back and learn more about things I thought I had a better grasp on (Sabbatai Zevi and Lurianic Kabbalah, in this instance).
I will say this- what Nathan of Gaza was claiming, as part of his promotion/defense of Zevi, sounds roughly familiar to things I remember learning as a kid in Catholic school: the idea that, following the crucifixion, Jesus went to hell (because He carried the world’s sins), and there in redeemed the souls of the long dead patriarchs and others who, though righteous and followers of G-d, still died in sin. Years later, I would read similar tales, but relating to other ancient religions (the story of Osiris, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and in stories of Mithra. The theme is very much the same, the devil (literally, sometimes) is in the details. As one of my high school history teachers once said- “history doesn’t always repeat itself, but it rhymes a lot”.
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I'm not an esotericist, I come from an skeptic, secular background, and I come here precisely because when I com here I feel like I'm taking a top level class on these topics. And I like it because the content you make demands from the viewer, you are talking about history, about philosophy, about intelectual history, about anthropology. I love that it demands my full attention and I love that it's hard to grasp, frequently I had to rewind and watch and re watch to get the concepts. This is not easier than a Hegel Lecture and I love the level and the rigour of the research you put on these lectures. Cuz that's what they're to me, I see you as my teacher and these videos are top level lectures to me. You know you are a truly innovator here.
I'm from México, here a niche philosophy youtuber professor just announced he's quitting his job cuz academy sucks, it's an old monolith that needs to change and this phenomenon of professors coming from the academy to teach massively online is moving things to uncharted and exciting territory, is a revolution in knowledge in the making, and you are por of it. Thank you so much Doctor and Happy New Year!
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This one really spoke to me. I wouldn't call myself a kabbalist (or any specific single thing), but my spiritual life is heavily influenced by Kabbalah.
I have been studying all the kabbalistic classics by myself for over 13 years now, but I can't say I understand any of them, it's more like I am revealing the essence of an extra-dimensional picture of ideas piece by piece, deepening my personal relationship with Torah and G-D, something I had much difficulties when only studying Talmud and other more rational, philosophical (in academic sense) and maybe dogmatic approaches to Torah interpretation.
I don't believe one even can really understand the mysteries for they are not understandable by common human measurements, only experienced or perceived with a kind of extra-sensory intuition that one must first create for themselves.
Same goes for studying ancient Hebrew and Aramaic; it's not really (at all) about how to speak these languages in some practical setting, but how the languages have formed around the ancient ideas, and how the very substance manifests itself through them.
I find it's the personal relationship or belief what in the end really separates Kabbalah from the current mainstream forms of traditional Judaism. Maybe it's also my background living in a strongly protestant Lutheran society, and working with a strange combination of both art music and computer programming for livelihood.
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5:21 The way you pronounce Urizen just opened up the whole mythos for me, Doctor. I had not heard it pronounced the way you do, but it makes perfect sense. I first heard about William Blake decades ago, as a freshman studying Western LIterature. The professor could go on and on about Homer, St Augustine, Petrarch, Dante, Shakespeare and many others-- but when we got to Blake, he shrugged and admitted he was baffled by Blake's America, for example, and all the long poems. We learned Innocence & Experience. Nevertheless, I loved Blake for his Proverbs from Hell (I think it's called) because I recognized one in a Pretenders song circa 1980--
We are all of us in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars.
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Glad to hear that you are recovering. I hope you continue to feel better.
There's a "Rosicrucian" themed cafe in the Akihabara district of Tokyo (the area I usually stay in when visiting), called "Rosenkreuzer", although I think the commitment to the theme does not extend beyond the idea of "secret society". I haven't had the chance to go there yet, since there are so many other cafes in the area, many of which have themes related to Western Esotericism - Angels, Demons, Fairies, Vampires, Grimoires, Exorcists, etc. Even nun and shrine-maiden themed cafes.
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So basically the original alchemists wanted to be able to find a method to turn stuff into other stuff, elemental transmutation. And in the process of doing that they discovered a lot of compounds, basically by trying to mix various things, heat them up and/or then separate them again, and these compounds were then given fanciful descriptions, since nobody really knew how the process worked at the molecular level ("Spirit of Sea Air" being a favorite.)
Then actual analytical chemistry became a thing because people had discovered that some of the things alchemists had made were useful for normal everyday applications, and they wanted to make more of those things, and know the exact process to make them, and if it could be made more efficient and cheaper.
As usually happens when money is involved, all the fanciful ideas about what actually took place were stripped out, a new process for mass production was formulated, and we get common everyday hydrochloric acid.
Then after alchemy had already been declared a pseudoscience by the current generation, someone thought that this lost art would be really cool to bring back, because surely something that involved had to have SOME meaning to it, and they made it trendy, and then a lot of now-famous people put words in the mouths of the old alchemists that were only really trying to turn one metal into another?
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just dropping in to say, Thank you! for the content itself, and also for sharing your own story. I'm from the Philippines, and I was into punk music in the 80s and a physics major in college. my self-avowed Christian professors accused me of being a Satanist and would read scripture directed at me in class, just because I dressed a certain way and listened to certain music. One of them even insisted I attend born again Christian seminars on weekends! It's a wonder I ever finished college, come to think of it! This video made me realize, maybe it wasn't just my dumb luck this was all happening, that maybe it was this 'Satanic Panic' that had somehow spread all the way to the other side of the world, the Philppines. Anyway, whatever the case, again, thank you for this video!
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Justin,
You are truly doing wonderful, important work. I’m consistently in awe of the quality and generosity of your contributions. I do not think it is an understatement to say that Esoterica is a great gift to humanity, and I truly admire your commitment to the earnest pursuit and sharing of knowledge of these subjects. There simply is no other single source of this caliber, that covers such a broad array of subjects so deeply, in such a delightful presentation, and I do not think there will every be another. You are the secret sauce—thanks to your generosity, integrity, creativity, sweat equity, mentality, and intellect.
Thank you! 🙏
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I always experience a wry chuckle when I hear the world "enlightenment" to describe what, in the west, is basically materialism, whilst in the east, the term refers to the transcendent state that a human may reach at which point he/she discovers that the world, universe, reality itself, is actually nothing more than consciousness.
In the opinion of this occult autodidact, it's the people of the east who got it right. Speaking from experience, I can say that magic absolutely works, (my favorite occult quote of all time: "Magic always works. If what you're doing doesn't work, then it isn't magic.) and somehow I doubt that reality would be so easily bent to the human will if it had an independent material reality. What else could it be than consciousness.
For my money, philosophical theories are a fine way to pass the time while drinking a pint with friends, but all the clever jargon in the world won't help you cure an "incurable" disease, or deflect bullets with your will. For that you need magic.
You were absolutely right (you usually are,) when you said that the bulk of people studying the occult have never given a damn about what the academics think of their great luminaries. We haven't, don't, and probably never will. Still, it gives me a lovely heartwarming feeling to hear somebody with your caliber of scholarship actually say what a shame it is that the occult philosophers are ignored by academia.
It is a shame, but then, do we really want professors and their ilk learning how to cast spells, read minds, fly, etc.??
All the best, N.
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It's worth pointing out for all the textual critique nerds that Gospel of Phillip does not say J kissed M on the mouth. We don't know for sure where he kissed her. The world's most annoying lacuna destroys that particular noun for us.
I once had the fantastic opportunity to take a class on the Gospel of Mary and Mary Magdalene with Dr. King (I apologize for being possibly obnoxious and name dropping here, but it was really fucking cool!) My absolute fave memory of grad school was working with Dr. King on my own Coptic fragments translation of Gospel of Mary! One of the things I found for myself was what I call pregnancy imagery in the text.
The first thing was the spheres that the soul ascends through. This is standard for soul ascents. But for this text, as you pass from one sphere to the next, it's almost as if you're being born into the next realm. That's because the Coptic uses two interesting verbs that create an overall context of pregnancy and birth. The first is ϫⲡⲟ, which in English is usually rendered to "bring forth" or "get for yourself" but can mean "beget, give birth". The second is ⲟⲩⲥⲱϥ, which is often translated "bring to nought", "destroy" but can also mean "to leave barren".
We often see the pregnancy aspect of ϫⲡⲟ in the fairly common translation of Soter's teaching "matter gives birth to a passion" at the beginning of Gospel of Mary. But I think understanding a following teaching as "give birth to my peace" instead of "acquire my peace" fits the theology of the text better. Also, the pregnancy aspect of ⲟⲩⲥⲱϥ changes Wrath's accusation of the soul as being "a destroyer of realms" ("space conquerer" in King) to "one who leaves realms barren". Unwieldy in English, but true to the imagery and theology of the text. Each of these verbs is used 3 times. Only Soter uses ϫⲡⲟ and ⲟⲩⲥⲱϥ is only used when relating Mary's version of the Soter's teaching.
Anyways, sorry for the wall of text! I know I suck because of it, but Gospel of Mary is my jam!! I could bore you to death about this book. Thanks for this fantastic episode, sir!
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I really appreciate what you do and how well you do it. Your descriptions in every post and the links to scholarly resources online and in print are really helpful. Your students are very lucky to have you. And I count myself amongst them. Plus, you crack me up and are very entertaining to watch, aside from the great nourishment of mind that you provide in each episode.
I discovered the online trove of Newton docs about 6 or so years ago. I actually got my foundation in alchemy as a discipline from studying his notes. Newton, above all, was a focused, conscious, and aware Observer. The questions that peaked his interest where never what or when, but how and why (as it seemed to me). These he pioneered through careful observation, contemplation, notation, and further experimentation. His what's and when's were answered by the role of Spirit at their core. His notions about life and reality paralleled mine, so it was relatively easy to focus on the greater depth of his understanding in this art. These are the impressions I got from that body of work anyhow.
Thanks again for your great contributions to propagating to the world, what I like to call, "the medicine of the mind".
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Really just overwhelmed with gratitude that such an honest, down to earth, utterly thorough survey of the history of Kabbalah exists, that which eventually accumulated into a thing that I have marveled at but was utterly intimidated. Thanks for being. I got giddy, lol, when you opened this lesson with something like, "and Kabbalah is like still some 1,200 years years away." Without context such as this history, learning theory, is like hitting golf balls on the moon. So thanks for bringing the gravitation; without it, who could build a palace?
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Unfortunately, I didn't get to take as much Hebrew Bible during my M.A. as I would have liked, but what I did take talked a good deal about the Dead Sea Scrolls (the professor had worked on some Dead Sea Scroll texts over spring break the semester I took his class...that's a story in itself!)...but, there was never any mention of what you discussed here! The Synoptic Gospels class I took began with the professor saying, "I don't think you can understand the Synoptics unless you understand things like the Q Gospel, the Gospel of Thomas, and various other non-canonical texts," and I was excited by this (alas, not all of my classmates were, which is another story!). But non-Dead Sea Scrolls texts that are referred to in the Hebrew Bible, or are pseudepigraphal? Nope, not a word.
So, needless to say: thanks a million for doing this episode, and I look forward to more related to these topics, and whatever else you decide to discuss! :)
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Good Doctor Sledge,
Thank you once again for another fabulous learning experience! I especially love all matters pertaining to Lilith, and I love the fact that the purpose of this summoning spell was simply to gain knowledge of things, (if perhaps things of a "doubtful nature"). I feel that gaining knowledge is one of the nobler (less sleazy) uses to which black magic has been put in the past, and it feels more innocent and lighthearted, (and slightly less ridiculous) than say, the treasure-seeking motif.
I realize that Lilith has the whole terrifying night-hag, baby-killer reputation, and that that is perhaps a bit more questionable baggage than one wants a friend to have, but when I was young I reasoned that Lilith was probably being targeted with lies by very patriarchal religious authorities who just wanted to keep a bad-assed female deity down. I figured that I probably wouldn't have gotten along with those same authorities myself, had I lived during their times, and so I decided not to believe the hype, and went about worshipping Lilith as the goddess of rebellious women everywhere. This never did me any harm that I'm aware of, and I'd almost forgotten about the ancient fear that people once had of her potentially turning up and absconding with the lives of their wee ones. When you reminded me of those beliefs and fears in your earlier videos on Lilith, I took a second look at her, and wondered if, in my earlier neo-pagan and feminist zeal, I may have bet on the wrong horse... and then I thought, what the hell? In for a penny, etc. Lilith has gotten me this far, so I won't let a few creepy rumors sour me on her now. I especially love the Catholic story (at least I think they were the ones who cooked it up?) about her allegedly "seducing" Eve, in place of Satan, as the real serpent in Eden. (HOT!) It sounds like she was saying: "Hey, Eve, why don't you ditch this bozo and come away with me to Dykesville?" At least that's how I read it.
Anyway, please forgive the rambling and oversharing. Have perhaps consumed too much coffee this morning. Love your channel, as always, and I continue to be grateful for all the knowledge you share with the curious. Saves me from having to actually summon Lilith (or perhaps that other fellow) via the mirror! I still bought the T-shirt, however, because how could I not?
All the best! Blessed Be! Beir bua agus beannacht! --N
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Great introductory video, looking forward to the rest of this series.
The mention of Descartes made me wonder if you'd ever come across "Descartes's Secret Notebook" by Amir D. Aczel — not sure how good the scholarship is in this book (Aczel writes popular science histories) but it seemed decent to me, he details Descartes early life, his time in Bohemia, and his interactions with scholars related to the Rosicrucian circles — I'll have to revisit it, but I found it to be a fascinating & compelling book.
So many fascinating stories in that book — it opens with a wild account of how Descartes's early, encrypted notebook made it back to Paris, and was finally decrypted there by a visiting Leibniz. He has a good account of Descartes "mystical dreams" (which I know you've made great videos on).
Also I really loved his depiction of the Battle of White Mountain, with Descartes taking part in the siege of the city, almost crossing paths with Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart fleeing with their infant daughter Elizabeth of Bohemia, who some two decades later would become an important correspondent of Descartes, apparently important to the development of his thought.
Such a wild story, so many improbable serendipities!
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Wow. Listening to this reminded me of a situation that suddenly strikes me as more substantial than I originally accepted it for. A month ago one early evening, I was walking along and on the sidewalk right before me was a centipede. Not the centipede with the lanky and follicle thin, long legs, but of the variety with a more robust and substantial exoskeleton, and thicker legs. When once I wouldn’t have wasted a split second before smashing this rather apparently menacing insect which I felt emanated a hideously shocking and disgusting image, I actually couldn’t bring myself to strike it. Now I beheld something with a beautiful and pleasant image, with its rows of legs rolling along as though it were a ballet dancer. So, today where I only have an absolute tendency in my actions, I should not deny that with time the permanence is loosened and where we would have sworn there’s never likelihood for any changes, we should one day awaken to difference that awakens and grows with time. Ha ha, Im having fun dissecting your discussion, specifically what you were touching upon with the sounds, and how the sounds that seem to have been removed from His name by your work in question are, coincidentally, your favorite. My favorite sound is the sine wave, which theoretically should not be audible, but since there is resonance from accidental artifacts, we hear the rattles from those artifacts, in the resonant frequencies of the artifacts. So maybe we can say that vocal or vowel sounds are sine waves and the consonants are these artifacts, and they originate in our lungs and bodies? I studied phrenology and phonemics so I often overexamine sounds and supposed pronunciations. THANK YOU, BOTH, for sharing your discussion. I’m just a successor to an old Missouri Synod Lutheran, so any lectures that expose me to ‘that them there Olde World religions’ and it’s accompanying Liturgies are always a breath of fresh air for me! THANKS A MILLION!
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Thank you for telling us that Bennett's criticism of Spinoza brought you almost to tears. And for underlining the admiration underlying the deep and careful critique based on knowledge of the subject. I teach the psychology of dreams, an area in which a Berkeley UC professor told me that by the time students are freshmen in college, most have already chosen their hero (Jung, Freud, Boss, etc.) and severely limited their perspectives in spite of knowing very little about their hero, or about any other alternative perspectives. This is very discouraging to someone who has dedicated her life to liberating the explorer of the meaning of a given dream from traditional systems and methods of interpretation. In my graduate student classes, I warn against "Comparing and Contrasting" between or among systems before you deeply study and understand each of the systems in question. To further this goal, our Mid-Term Exams are a lively discussion between students who each costume as the hero/representative of one of about 10 theorists/practitioners who first introduce themselves (a surprisingly underestimated task), then engage in defending their system and in challenging their interlocuteurs for 2 hours.
Most then understand how little they know about most systems, including their chosen one, before they feel prepared to defend or criticize them.
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Had a couple of unrelated thoughts about this one (or at least, I don't see a relationship between them).
One had to do with the prophets arguing "Child sacrifice is a foreign rite inappropriate to the worship of ha-Shem" -- instead of the (admittedly better) argument "Child sacrifice is very evil, holy crap stop sacrificing children." To be fair to them, I feel like it's at least possible that, when we're talking about an individual or society with a conscience warped enough to even think about sacrificing children, they may be too far gone for the better argument to mean anything them. If so, appealing to nationalist pride might be the only effective way to get the individual or society in question to cut that shit out.
The other had to do with the closing bit about the influence of the firstborn-son-sacrifice concept in Christianity. There is no question that influence of that kind exists, especially in evangelical circles; the "penal substitution" doctrine of the atonement almost literally and directly is that. And it's not made of whole cloth. Even on the most generous interpretation, there are passages in the New Testament that permit that kind of reading (maybe they don't demand it, but they permit it). To me, this makes it rather striking that the first several centuries of Christian theology about the atonement are dominated not by this view of it, but by two other ideas:
1. The "ransom theory": this understands Christ's death, while quite real, as something almost like a "feint"; he fools Satan into snatching something he could not keep (Christ), and in so doing, losing his hold on humanity. (Why this would make Satan lose his hold on humanity doesn't always get answered, but based on what I've read, the answer often has to do with idea #2 here.)
2. The "recapitulation theory": this builds on New Testament, specifically Pauline, language that Christ is the "new Adam," and that he divinizes mankind by succeeding where the "old Adam" failed. (This second theory is imo also rather interesting in that it would seem to fulfill, of all things, the serpent's promise that by eating of the forbidden tree men would "be like God, knowing good and evil").
I admit, I'm not altogether sure what conclusion to draw from the early Church's (relative) de-emphasis of penal-substitutionary imagery/doctrine in favor of ransoming and recapitulatory imagery/doctrine. But it seems like an interesting aspect of theological history.
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Thanks so much for this. Both your historical and erudite analysis, which is fantastic as always, as well as your personal account of it. I never thought of this common historical thread linking ancient and medieval antisemitism, blood libel, witch hunts, through mcarthism, modern antisemitism, all the way to satanic panic and QAnon. It really is fascinating, deplorable and frightening how those cultural memes are recycled to victimize people.
Everytime I hear of stories like that I think I could very well have been swiped by a similar event. In the 90s in Brazil I was the weird nerdy kid in a small rural town, who had a homosexual mother, listened to "satanic" music, read weird stuff, played RPG, was interested in non-christian religions, had clear inadequacy, social and psychological issues. It would only take a tragedy in that town for eyes to settle on me. It chills my spine thinking about that.
There were quite a few cases in Brazil were tragedies led to innocent people being arrested in the 90s in Brazil accused of satanic rituals. Usually practitioners of African diaspora religions like Umbanda or Candomblé or "weird teenagers" like me. Some famous cases like the death of Evandro Caetano or the kidnapping and murder of children in Altamira are only now being revisited and exculpatory evidence being found, thanks to the effort of some courageous journalists like Ivan Mizanzuk.
Brazil is the perfect place for absurd conspiracy theories. Our social system produces plenty of marginalized people to be victimized and angry and confused people to be the perpetrators. Not 10 years ago a woman was killed by a mob in Guarujá after rumours about satanic rituals spread on social media. There wasn't even any case of disappeared children or anything. Just a rumor on WhatsApp with a picture that vaguely resembled the woman.
And since we love to import whatever the worst cultural tropes the US comes up with, ultraconservative conspiracy theories and QAnon is already making strides here.
Thanks again for spreading both your academic knowledge and your personal testimony. This gives us the right vaccine to imunize ourselves and those around us against those conspiracy viruses and help avoid more people to be victimized by ignorance, mystification and conspiracy theories.
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The pain...my bibliophilic heart absolutely aches that the Bohak and Burnett edition of the text is so hard to get...I've found one copy that is out of my price range currently. :( While I'm sure Warnock and Greer is fine (and I will get that one eventually, too!), I like to dig into the original languages when possible; and, I have really loved everything else I have read that Bohak has published, so there's that, too.
It's good to see Arabic Wizard Clip Art Guy getting some attention these days! He certainly beats the heck out of Arabic Version of Clippy! ;)
With the "breaking into song" talisman, I am reminded of the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is one of my favorite episodes of that entire series. Of course, that one was due to demonic intervention more than talismanic skill...but, sadly, many people today (including most people in Hollywood) would not understand the distinction.
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After watching this. We find this actually very fascinating. She had to lose everything, and experience the peak of suffering, to free herself of the sins of who she used to be, and connect with the devine abyssal darkness.
That is actually weirdly relatable to us in a way.
We lived most of our life as a person who no longer exists, who we consider very much dead. And went through hell to find a piece of heaven through a darkness others fear.
Our craft is heavily influenced by different aspects of monotheistic faiths especially angelogy, demonology, the idea of jinn, and the Christian idea that demons can become angels, and angels can become demons, but we're not monotheistic, very far from Christian, and probably the farthest thing imaginable from holy, since we consider ourselves very heavily possessed.
Still we can relate to the essence of some of what was expressed here.
We needed to go to hell, in order to taste of heaven, there was no other way for us to find God/Gods, but through facing the darkness and losing everything from our former life.
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Funny you should mention turning this into a game mechanic. I am! I am using the old D20 Modern system as the basis (It's a very flexible system), and developing a magic mechanics around "real world" traditions. Right now I am going heavy on Hermeticism, and I need to get all learned about Kabbalah, because those paths cross a lot. And then Gnosticism, which will be a very different kind of magic. Intelligence driven divine magic. I am currently subdividing the Hermetic Tradition into Philosophies (Agrippan, Solomonic, Enochian, etc.). After that, maybe another magic tradition, or I'll start tackling religion. Speaking of, it's funny how connected magic and religion are in the real world. Keeping them separate in game terms is tricky. And now I find out Agrippa put little stock in intellect. So now the Aggripan Mage will have Wisdom as the main attribute, rather than Intelligence. That's actually kind of cool. I love your work, man!
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So I've been working really hard lately on my programming skills, and I've begun noticing some striking similarities between the community of back-end software developers and the Kabbalistic milieu. For one thing, nested layers of complexity, like what you described in your comment about the nested sephiroth, are par for the course in both disciplines. A simple statement can be understood to reference hundreds of lines of code just like a certain key word in a Kabbalistic text is understood, by Kabbalists in the know, as a massive complex of layered meanings. Believe it or not, I've been pretty able to effectively adapt the thinking style I developed during my amateur study of Kabbalah into a basic understanding of how code works. From this perspective, a lot of the arcane text-specific references you mention as barriers to entry-level studies would be looked at by the dev community as cardinal compatibility sins. One of the stupidest things you can catch yourself doing as a programmer is designing software that only you, the developer, will ever understand. It makes it pretty much impossible for anyone else to do anything with your code, so other developers will usually ignore it and find an alternative rather than try to understand your personal vernacular. It would seem that such standards did not exist in the Kabbalistic community, but that likely has to do with the fact that, while devs are frequently seeking more devs to expand their projects, Kabbalists tend to be pretty proprietary and tight-lipped about their discoveries. While I'm still struggling to understand the reasons for that (though the Shabbatai Zevi business does shed some light on it), I think it's important to recognize that Kabbalah was not made for amateurs to pick up easily. There are layers of obfuscation which, from what I've seen, seem to be viewed as necessary deterrents to seekers who are not earnest in their desire to learn and grow.
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@katiepg6168 yes, I even teach in Oklahoma. In 7th grade social studies, we approach world religions as an extension of culture, and not much else. We discuss what their primary beliefs are, who the main figures are, how many of them exist, where they originate, and just surface level topics. It's a touchy subject, especially in the bible belt, but I managed to make it through. Polytheism might open a can of worms, lol.
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Not sure when you started doing so, but the joke captions with the pictures are giving me a good laugh while taking in all the serious information you otherwise provide. Well, come to think of it, you've always had a good degree of humor in your work here, subdued though it may be. (the doubting thomas one is what brought me to write this, great double joke)
I really do appreciate how layered your presentation has always been, communicating a great deal with slight pauses, changes in tone, facial expression, deliberate omission, etc.
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This makes me wish I had gone beyond high school chemistry. You can see the path from the Summer Perfectionais to modern chemistry.
Substances do have 3 states, in which their molecules (corpuscles?) are more or less dense: solid, liquid, gaseous.
I wonder why they latched onto mercury as being so critical, though. Sulphuric compounds are so common and modernly used, sulfates and sulfides, etc. I feel like they were chasing the wrong tail by going after mercury.
You have certainly given me a reason to exist that may stave off dementia as I get older. The pursuit of knowledge and art for its own sake, the quest for paths not taken, even to imagine a world in which Nature worked the way they thought it should…. It could be research that inform my future art or maybe even writings.
And this is why I will end up selling my own work, so I can support your work, to inspire my work, to sell to fund your work which will inspire mine….
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the whole sexual themes seem to be everywhere, still in use today, from the numbers, 1, and 0, used to represent on and off, found on light switches and computers etc..., to the obelisks of ancient times, when you start seeing it, you cannot un-see it, don't tell beavis and butthead, they may die laughing
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18:23 - After having finished watching Miniminuteman's multi-episode debunking of that netflix series and getting recommended pretty awful 'alternative histories' on youtube shorts all the time, this pause hit pretty hard for me.
It's particularly depressing when you think about how the prevalence of those shorts and the existence of that netflix series are all predicated on the fact that these 'alternative facts' will always sell and some people (clearly not everyone thankfully) are more interested in making a quick buck than presenting good or reliable information. I bet half of the people peddling that stuff don't even believe it but are still disseminating that info because they gotta find some way to keep the lights on.
I speak from some personal experience; I was once hired as a proofreader and corrected a bunch of scripts covering these kinds of topics. I did it. I'm not proud of it. I don't believe a word of it. I didn't like it. I felt stupider for having done it. And have avoided taking jobs like it ever since.
I'm personally very sorry for having contributed for the dissemination of what's basically problematic fan-fiction and hoaxes and that's why I find it doubly important that I study stuff like this and whatever you, miniminuteman, RfB, PBS Eons, and more, have to say about the story of life, humanity, philosophy, and religion.
That's why we need people like you, Doc. And why I deeply appreciate the existence of your channel and the coverage you give on these topics. Be all like 'Carry the light of knowledge as your torch and burn away the darkness of ignorance.' or what have you. Carry on, Doc Sledge, you're fighting that good fight and I'm rooting for you.
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TLTR: I just gave my entire bio but the point was to show how ridiculous it is that the YouTube algorithm hasn’t introduced me to this channel until now.
I guess it’s an Xmas present & I’ll be binging for days. I’m very glad to have found you!
- Crys
I have absolutely no idea how this is the first video I’ve been recommended. I’ve had an interest in philosophy, theology, folklore, the occult & the esoteric all my life.
My mother was fascinated by human psychology and belief systems. She was also very interested in true crime, which fits into the same construct if you think about it. It’s all understanding human behavior.
I spent my tween years in the public library obsessed by folklore and oddities of history and belief.
I’d seen a vampire movie & got obsessed. Possibly an early manifestation of what would be revealed as ocd when I was an adult. I rented the movie (in the days of vhs stores) so many times the owner gave me a copy for my 11th birthday. My mom went all out and made me a garlic necklace, hand carved a table leg into a wooden stake with crosses burnt into it & a topped it off with a stolen vial of holy water.
Needless to say she was encouraging of all my interests & she had her own esoteric library for me to explore.
She was Wiccan (my dad was Catholic). I was very interested in the paranormal. I had a phase of obsession over revelations. I even worked for the international society for cryptozoology as a teenager.
I had a good foundation of knowledge but it wasn’t until college that I started honing critical thinking skills. High school was a nightmare but I easily excelled in academics in college.
I debated between psych & anthropology, became an archaeologist (focusing on indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest & a 19th center Japanese village north of Seattle) then developed spinal problems and went back to school for history.
My academic focus was medieval Europe. I wrote about the French werewolf panic , women in early Christianity & the influence of John Dee.
I minored in NELC {ancient near eastern civilization} studying Sumerian, Babylonian, & Egyptian history & theology as well as the development of Abrahamic religion.
I also had a second minor, a major had I done the language requirement, in Scandinavian studies studying Viking burial practices.
I just realized this is long & is half my life story. I’ll leave it at this: I’m thrilled to find this channel & annoyed it took so long. Subscribing with the bell on 😀
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Thanks!
My GOD, this is fascinating!
What I love best about the history of religion is the history of mysticism that really drives all true conceptions of the Divine. It is marvelous to contemplate the levels of spiritual experience that humans are capable of achieving, and it is marvelous to contemplate the actual powers and intelligences who seem to manifest to our awareness as the result of meditation, or as the de facto answer to prayers!
Underlying every religion worthy of the name are people who underwent divine visitations, transportations, raptures and ordeals, and these people lived to tell of their experiences, and believed said experiences to be profoundly genuine enough to base whole new approaches to God upon.
I am proud of those brave visionaries. I hope to become one of them. That is why practice magic, and why I carefully tend my mushroom garden. (Eat your psychedelics, child, and you might grow up to BE somebody!)
Much love, and many thanks, Dr. S! --Naomi
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Well Dr Justin, this one touched something in me. Being British with a touch of the Gothic about me, in that I've stayed in more than a few haunted castles, and Manor houses on the back-end of their past elegance, I am very into this genre. But you said something important here about contemplating something bigger. I get that. When one has stood by oneself at Callanish standing stones on a starry night, or sat for a while at a 5,000 year old Dolmon, one is put in his place by the meaninglessness of everything back in the city. I even get that when I go camping here in Texas, and see the awesome sight of the Milky Way, something most people alive will never see. It's there, but you've got to leave your towns and go look for it. Long story short, too late, which is why I believe a camping trip, or a day by the sea, or a walk up a mountain, or a wander on a moor, resets us all. We realize just how vulnerable we actually are. At the mercy of the multi-dimensional unknown, and that is what Lovecraft tapped into...
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Oh wow! Lilith in her OWN concise episode from the update!! I'm all in! 🪞 🕳 📖 📚 🌌 🌟 ⭐️ 🌠 💫 !! Lilith on top! Let her ride!! (unwise bravado, of course) oh NICE tee!! 🕳!! Also, being Necromancer Munich milieu, Lilith goes back further in time and eras, in earlier religious-historical-magical conjuring lens. Why Lilith, of all beings, in Munich and that religious framework? My eye raised skyward higher than the Rock. I'm more beginning to understand the mystical, if you will, perspective of really cultural learning/respect/appreciation vs traditional compelling of powerful beings which is essentially an imposed sorta religio colonization, as I'm beginning to understand it. My personal grasp on the ideas from Frater Acher's writings on approaching the Goetia and so forth! Fascinating the cultural religious historical milieu framing! Ah, man, I wiped away the Esoterica ❤️ with editing comment!
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Thank you for the video. I literally got chills during that whole "but wait, there's more" run-up to the end. I feel deeply, deeply stupid that I never made this connection before. Once you've said all this, it seems like the most obvious thing in the world. I'd made the relatively obvious connections among apocalyptic Judaism, gnosticism, and Christianity, and was familiar (not as a practitioner, of course!!!) with merkabah mysticism, and was even interested in possible genetic similarities between Pauline and Sabbatian theology as apocalyptic Judaisms (as much as I know Nathan and his messiah would hate to have that comparison made). But it never occured to me that Paul might have been a Jewish mystic. Not. Once.
I even practically blamed him as the father of everything I perceived as wrong with Christianity, such as removing Jewish and mystical elements and making it soulless, and sometimes I quoted Ephrem the Syrian and saying, "Beware the poison of the Greeks" (that is, rational philosophy). Which I know, all sounds a bit insane for anyone who's actually read Paul, whom I don't think we can ever accuse of not being a deeply emotional and passionate and sincere writer and theologian, but it just goes to show that he's such a deeply complex and world-historic figure obscured by the weight of two thousand years of positive and negative opinion about him, that practically any thought can find purchase in his writings.
Lately, this past year or two, I've been trying to re-engage with Paul and appreciate him more. This revelation (apocalypse? Haha) is certainly helping. Thank you again.
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Wow, so I never really put it together. I lived through this in the 80's...pre-teen and teen, kind of a nerd, but loved metal and RPG and video games. I never worried and neither did my parents (somewhat progressive Catholics). All was well. I knew it was BS when someone came into my classroom and tried to tell me playing Led Zepplin backwards meant....yada, yada, yada. But now I see that this never went away. This is now Q-Anon, This is now laid bare, the reactionary, authoritarian Christian zealots have never gone away. And what freaks me out now, as an adult, is they won't stop.
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If there was actually a God, I definitely would have found this channel years ago, when I was so desperately trying to learn the context for what I’d been studying in the Bible my whole life. Of course, if I had found this channel then, I would have stopped believing in God much sooner, I suppose.
The bit about the “whiplash” effect on Christian Bible readers, jouncing between the viciousness of Yahweh and the fatherly benevolence of El…it makes so much sense now. Why isn’t this information more generally known? I guess because the faithful don’t want to know it, and these days, the non-believers simply don’t know or care. More or less.
This is fascinating! Thank you so much for producing and sharing this content with such intellectual honesty and academic integrity. I’m going to have to re-watch this several times, take notes, and order a book or two from your recommendations.
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Enjoy listening to you explain these academically! Glad I found this channel.
Thoughts on the more contemporary notion of the Logos actually being an altered state where the word of god(s) themselves, took on idea-graphic qualities while writing the words of god(s, as many religions have a foundational understanding of the power of sound/word/symbol/syllable).
Which is to say, the characters of the typeface would reveal shapes (we call this Gestalt) while writing, thus giving us some of the symbols we have? Did the "word" as it was being transmitted, and the letters/sigils of the words, become logos? What we today call, Graphic Design. And subsequently, when a logos would appear, perhaps the anthropological art would then emerge as a way to give narratives to the logos that would appear, while writing—
A kind of automatic writing/corpse writing, that for people whom were not artists perse, but through a creative intellect, would see the IHS, or OWL, or LOGOS as a graphic shape—?
For example; The Word "logos" in upper and lowercase letters, looks very close to a dragon facing east (right). The tale is the L, the face/tongue, being the S. And of course, the Sacred G being the point of transference for the logos.
Dull Disclosure, I've been building brands and designing marketing identities for companies for over 30 years. We create logos this way, very often, within the industry basically responsible for mass-logos-bathos-pathos.
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It sounds possible the headaches she suffered may have been migraines. Migraines, including those associated with hormonal fluctuations, are more than pain; they're a disorganised carnival of neurological disruption to which a devastating headache may (but not necessarily) be invited. Before, during, and after a migraine there's a lot of activity over several days that can include things like aphasia, intrusive thoughts, altered mood and thought patterns, visual and perceptive distortion, dissociation or derealisation, euphoria or mania, and so on. This is not to medicalise the mystical or mysticalise the medical, I'm not a fan of doing either, however deriving mystical insight through a medical phenomenon wouldn't be unexpected if your brain activity regularly goes full clowncar every month or so.
Just a thought for the headaches and mysticism connection.
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... wow & yay ... l am so very thankful to have just right now discovered u & your channel !!! ... & l am absolutely loving your depth, expertise, thoroughness, & fascinating topic choice ... l really like learning Hebrew root words & meanings, tho l'm still just a babe, there ... & u're witty, too !!! ... luv wit, luv it !!! ... but what immediately came to my mind, when 1st seeing your vid's title, was ... 'marvel not ... that the spirits are subject to u ... but that your name is written in The Lamb's Book of Life' ... ok, gonna begin plowing thru your l'm sure awesome video library ... & thank u !!!... (-_'|
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Oh I love this further delving into Libraries before and beyond the famous Alexandria! I had no inkling of or nor given full thought to the more gradual perhaps disrepair or disruption of maintenance of splendor! Spoilers follow: Yeah, Hellenization of Indian Buddhist art is fascinating! 🎉 and this brings some learning for me on Jewish scrolls 📜 to what we know on the surface of books in the Jewish Bible collective. I love this inclusion of passage from Asclepius. It's edifying and recalls the draw of mystery. Yeah, Ptolemy. How fascinating this convergence of Greco-Egyptian and Judaic milieu! 🎉 whoa, Homer! Etymology, even! The relevant calculations is an awesome segment of deduction by estimation! 📜 📜 ≠ 📚 Excellent firsthand informal surveying, Justin Sledge! So you're saying there's a chance...that the truth is (scrolls are) out there! By calligraphy! How does the ink stay?? Nice nod to that flight of fancy 🎉 there! Is lingua franca anything to do with French or just common, as in frankly speaking? This is its own essential course in attaining a degree in Library keeping and records keeping! Yep, County Library! 🔥 🔥 🪜 📚 📜 📜 📜 🎻! The mass appeal power of developed myths over time prompt seeking and unveiling of actual verifiable history, like the more historically accessible battle of Thermopylae amped up and further mythologized in the entertaining jingoistic 300. Yeah, Cleopatra was a Ptolemy! Kara Cooney book, I believe! Oh wait, not egyptology. Stacy Schiff tome! 🎉 so the 🔥 perhaps increased its legend right when it was declining in prestige or maintenance? 🤔 will do check out link! Wonderful tie in to and perspective on Nag Hammadi! SPOILER: A lost Aramaic gospel?? 🎉 😮 (its own episode or short, perhaps?) 🎉 Thank you for underwriting inspiration! Including my needed hopefully sooner patronage Esoterica! 🎉 Thank you, Dr Justin Sledge for this learning that should be required to be an archivist librarian! 📚
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You know, I spent like $100 on a hardcover of 'The Goetia of Dr. Rudd'. Spent a lot of time looking through and reading a lot of information I was familiar with and a lot more stuff that was more specific and a bit... pedantic? Like, I look at the body of Solomonic magic and it's like, 'yeah, I remember doing amphetamines and trying to relate astrology to quantum chromodynamics but that was like... a weekend. what the fuck is up with you, middle ages?'
It was fine, I bought it from a small local shop and after I studiously wrote out the demonic summoning form-incantation(?) and said, "...this is really insulting." and then it's supposed to 'fer sure' work, but if it doesn't yada yada which will work 'fer sure' unless they're busy and then yada yada and I'm just laughing at this point because... It's just like, 'You buffon. You're literally blowing up an infernal entity's phone with this insulting shit and you go through this fucking absurd process to make sure they can't lie or trick you, even though they infamously lie and trick all of you constantly. I'd trick you too. I'm pretty sure literally fucking Yahweh would raise a bemused eyebrow at the irony before smiting you over whatever.. nerdlust power you thought you could actually just appropriate his name and tame a demon to maybe get a look at some chambermaid's calf.'
So, I just gave it to my psychopath neighbor (who already had an uncircled sigil of bal on one shoulder and paimon on the other) as I decided I didn't much care for him or his very, incredibly rational atheist/ironic satanist brother and thought he'd make better use of it. I mean, it wasn't really with ill intention but at this point... I don't know how to say, it has a very 'Uncarved Block' becoming the tool he desired kind of vibe? He talked about Crowley like he was the fucking godhead, so I'd offer pretty good odds that he destroyed himself with it.
I had.. intended to 'try' it, but it came at a pretty weird time and I was giving an abusive ex a third chance and I was going to let her be my second, but she got all anxious about it and I wasn't really feeling it, anyway. Not the ritual, anyay. I was born under the influence of Alphecca and did see """Ashtoret"""" that night. I caught my eyes in a mirror and stopped and felt things unwind. And then she smiled. And I said 'Hello'.
The "Goetic" function of demonology is appropriated Hebrew linguistic traditions which first broadly smears together all pre-Apostolic philosophy and metaphysical thought into an undifferentiated 'barbiarian horde' then pulls from the intellectual carrion names to assign responsibility for all the sins they meticulously journaled about and compared notes on all the succubus tail they were definitely for real getting. Demons exist more broadly, of course, however while I would always caution anyone considering engaging with darker energies, I would doubly be cautious when applying Goetic techniques, as I can say with fair confidence that as a reflexive property of the... very warped perspectives that gave rise to this nightside framework are implicitly begging that entity to see if you've actually... "read the package" and understand that you're literally calling them on the 'antisemitism' phone. I can't speak for all of them and won't speak for Astarte, but I can promise she'd dick with you and most of the rest of them would, too. In fact, if they aren't fucking with you on that, that's definitely worse.
People tell you not to fuck with the keys of solomon and make it sound cool.
But you shouldn't fuck with them because they're shitty, makeshift keys and the door itself is kinda sus.
Remember, if you have to order the demon not to lie to you, the demon is definitely lying to you and you should probably just talk to someone about the problem you're trying to resolve.
{YouTube Comments are not Necromantic advice}
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6:35 - *Just don't quote me on this reading cuz the Latin is broken so I'm not terribly confident I got it 100%
I wondered if 'dogies' had something to do with adorugen (aka. al-darijan, addorungen, adurugen, adorogen, addorugen, etc.), but this is a guess.
The transcribed Latin, for anyone else willing to take a stab is: " [Nomina Babara...] es qui cottidie astra celorum ascendunt ubi sunt tres dogie cruci vel breves actu vel seculorum in quator partes seculi, ad faciendum totam voluntatem in eam, per deum ubi probabiliter et licencia placabiliter et effabiliter, sine terrore, absque tocius ineffabili potencia deitatis summi vivi."
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powerful stuff dr sledge! trying to get at the heart of just where the journey became so disordered. what a great chunk of clues! so at what point in western history did mystical experience become uncommon, exclusive, and used to wield power? was it when the advent of war culture cut us off from our everyday, indigenous ancestral practice? and without the context of cultural ceremony, do these mystical experiences become unmoored from any grounding reality, to be leveraged for any ego-based purpose? i have spent much of my life with people for whom mystical and esoteric experiences are a common, everyday matter. i won’t say whom or where, but there are places on this earth where ceremony has been continually practiced for tens of thousands of years. western esoteric study seems so blind, primitive, groping in the dark. just desperately making stuff up. what happened to us? find your true earth soul. quit tripping so hard. this craziness has gone way too far from life
anyhow i truly appreciate your scholarship, love your videos, and am so curious about your take on indigenous spirituality
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good stuff, if you ever experience horrible pain for long periods, you will really see the truth in that clive barker book, and one reason why the pain killers are so addictive, no pleasure greater than having pain released, and if your life is pain and suffering, then oblivion becomes the great sleep where all of your pain and suffering ends, a heaven of the void and nothingness, like them buddhists try to achieve, something i didn't see you mention is all of the studies about violence and sex, like with all the wars and rapings that seem to go hand in hand with other, pretty metal and brutal stuff
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Hello, autistic fan here so sorry for the info dump thats the only way i know to explain things I'm very appreciative of this channel, as a former Christian turned pagan (LONG story involving some triggering topics including death and self harm) long story short, after leaving Christianity, I began to follow fenrir the wolf from Norse mythology, protector of the innocent and God of the betrayed, as I build this new faith and put my beliefs into words, I write a fantasy novel touching on my life, christianity and my personal experiences in a fantasy take. This channel has really helped me understand christianity, and to a more degree Judaism which is extremely helpful as when I write this book I know I'll have to touch on faiths and cultures I'm not familiar with, and it really helps to have a reliable source of information to draw from to teach each belief with the respect and care it deserves
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Fantastic! This type of speculation is what we need more of these days, I think--in absence of certainty or a trail of irrefutable proof, well-founded and informed speculation is not a bad option, and I think is infinitely preferable to "Well, we'll just never know." One can try out different possibilities, have those interrogated by others, and if flaws in those hypotheses are found, then so be it; but just sitting around and going "Nope, we'll never know so there's no point in saying more" is so gutless. Though their conclusions were often wrong, it seems that older generations of academics were more courageous in this regard. I don't see why things have changed like this over the last few generations...sure, suspicions about grand narratives and such are certainly a good thing, but come on! Aren't we sort of not doing our jobs as academics if we're not at least trying some ideas out? Scientists don't seem to be penalized for having their hypotheses be demonstrated as wrong (which is one of the benefits of the scientific method!), and yet in the social sciences, history, and humanities, it seems like people are so afraid of "being wrong" these days that caution to the point of silence has been made the requirement rather than just looking at the evidence and making a good guess.
There's a double standard at work in all of this, too...in the fields that I toil in, a tiny bit of evidence has been used to make grand sweeping interpretations about things whenever they appear or are suggested; but surely, that's the very essence of confirmation bias when all bits of evidence that may be contrary to one's interpretation are ignored in order to make one's point. That was one of the things that was occasionally said to me when I was working on my dissertation, i.e. "why include these bits of evidence that may contradict the overall narrative you're trying to build?" Firstly, I wasn't trying to build an overarching narrative, I was attempting to amass as many examples as possible and make some typological classifications so that all of the grand theories could at least be questioned or problematized going forward. That confirmation bias was, in essence, being preached as "the way scholarship is done," in essence, is highly questionable, in my mind.
Okay...rant over! ;)
Stepping away from methodology for a moment, here's a question that is somewhat theoretical, but why not? While I have not been able to study these texts as in-depth as you have, it seems to me that both of them call for various forms of sexual purity, and even a degree of renunciation. Given their historical contexts and cultural backgrounds, that is understandable. But given that what I understand of Jewish tradition often has great respect for finding loopholes in the laws set forth, I would wonder the following: if, excluding all other forms of impurity-generating actions and exposures, seminal impurity is the issue at stake with engaging in sexual practices that might undermine one's suitability for angelic contact, then if one engaged in sexual practices that did not involve seminal impurity (i.e. non-ejaculatory practices), would those activities be possible under these two traditions' rubrics? I suspect that Aleister Crowley would have exploited such a loophole if it was feasible/allowable in the Abramelin ritual, but it just occurs to me to inquire on this. I know it isn't a popular, widespread, or even often acknowledged possibility that such practices can be done (especially in Western contexts!), and yet if it is a legitimate loophole, then it's interesting to consider what that might indicate! ;)
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"Come to me, lord Hermes, as fetuses do to the wombs of women. ... I also know what your forms are: in the east, you have the form of an ibis; in the west, you have the form of a dog-faced baboon; in the north, you have the form of a serpent; in the south, you have the form of a wolf. ... Whereas Isis, the greatest of all the gods, invoked you in every crisis, in every district, against gods and men and daimons, creatures of water and earth, and held your favor, for victory against gods and men and all the creatures beneath the world, so also I, NN, invoke you. ..." -- PGM VIII 1-63, "Astrapsoukos"
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The blurb alone is epic, Dr Justin Sledge! 🎉 📖 📚 From his rap name Bombastus P, to your awesome mention of his break, line drawn in the sand or intellectual dispute/rap battle (collab nudge) with Ibn Sina, aka Avicenna! 🎉 Only now further discovering the man in essence that began primarily through magic practitioner author Frater Acher (whose latest esoteric book review website paralibrum's subject is Arthur Green's enthralling Guide to the Zohar, which I had wanted to further ask you, with your deeply inspiring and encouraging talk on learning the Zohar, about his Seekers of the Face, and therefore revisit your episode on the I will say the celestial Body), as well as magician author and open source practice curriculum creator Josephine McCarthy, I am enthralled to dive in!
" 'Cause I Wanna be Alchemy!" - P.T. Bombastus (probably! 🎉) I will assert that: the best humour is a sense of humour! I would like to latinize that as a pseudo-Paracelsian tattoo! Macrocosm ≠ microcosm! 🌌 Arcane astronomy! As above, so below? When you know you'll hop back onto rewatch, with ✏️ 📝 ✍️ pen & paper n notes in 📓! A further philosophical underpinning for praxis! I think this moment onward 30:00 is so 🔑, with our modern view, on Alchemy. I like this guy almost as much as as I like and greatly appreciate Dr Justin Sledge, I will say the Pseudo-Paracelsus or Neo-Hermes Trismegistus! Yeah, I'm with that pushback on Luther! Thoughts abound, I wonder how this plays into epidemics and even pandemics and plagues of the time that even occurred up to the time of Alchemist Newton! I look forward to that future Esoterica episode on Paracelsian milieu that to me foresaw I'm just gonna say (SPOILER UPON SPOILER) um a Charlton Heston movie that's NOT Planet of the Apes, nor Omega Man, nor Ten Commandments, but costars an actor from the latter! Wow, that imagery is not going away anytime soon! Pretty epic culmination that only lights up the imagination and desire for learning! Waiting with bated breath, and hop onto Paracelsus episode on Sigils (with a "j")! Meanwhile, your 📚 book recommendations are a boon on top of your already epic work and video library of enthralling topics! I will must put up soon! 🍻 kudos in the meantime! ILL, archive, and your links, including invaluable treasure house sefaria, to the public go far in democratizing esoteric knowledge, I think as Paracelsus might have it! I love that frontispiece and the word! Pitchfork and torches, indeed on Brill with that note! The affront to learning! Tear down the gates! 📖 ! Thank You, Dr Justin Sledge! 🎉 🌌 📖 📚!!! (workshopping your esoteric name!) 🎉 🌟 🔭 🌳 🌲 🌴 🌌 📖 📚!!
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Hi Dr. Sledge, I greatly appreciate your dedication to introducing esoteric, alchemic, philosophical, and religious concepts to laymen like myself. I never would’ve imagined I’d be capable of delving into these fields and topics before stumbling upon your channel (through your The VVitch review with Atun-Shei of all things). While I know it’s probably not your area of interest or expertise, I was curious if you’d ever consider doing videos on East Asian or African esoteric practices and beliefs. It’s significantly less accessible for western scholars, especially on the sub Saharan end of things, but I would be fascinated to see you attempt to unravel these ideas to your audience. It could make for a mutual learning experience. Things like Onmyōdō from Japan (which is strikingly similar to many of the esoteric philosophies you’ve spoken about before) or the secret lodges in Nigeria and Senegal such as Ekpe, could use more scholarly exposure, and I would love to hear your take on them. Just a thought. You’ve earned a diehard fan this past year, thank you!
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Thank you so much, Dr. Sledge, for your fascinating and respectful video highlighting the life and work of Anne Conway. It is refreshing beyond words to hear somebody, (a man, no less, -gasp!-) taking time to experience and praise a female philosopher, especially a wonderful genius like Anne Conway! Your tribute to her was as moving and inspiring as it was beautiful and informative.
I myself am a bit of a philosopher, (in the sense that every sincere and diligent seeker of the truth must needs become a philosopher of sorts, if only for oneself,) yet this is the first time I've ever dared refer to myself as such, and I think that this comes from an ingrained subconscious belief that I could never be taken seriously as a philosopher simply because I am a woman. I am no Anne Conway, however, and I wouldn't attempt any comparison of my own footling work to hers- I only mention my own path in order to highlight how much your video touched my heart and lifted my spirits.
I love all of your other videos as well, and I think that it is truly admirable that you are making your work available to such a wide audience, free of charge. You are truly one of the most wonderful voices on Youtube. I can't thank you enough! Blessed be all of your loves and endeavors! Go n-eiri leat!
--N
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Hey Dr. Sledge! First of all thank you for all the content, it's been very helpful especially as I've been slowly making my way more to Kabbalistic study. I'm not sure if this will reach you at all and this might be a bit of a mess of a comment but I have a few thoughts and responses as I have become a bit familiar with Bataille and his ideas from friends of mine and have a few issues I feel don't get addressed much as well about Historical Materialism as well.
I should state I have sympathies to the Communist left (Specifically the Internationalist Communist Tendency and groups of that sort), and that is the perspective I'm coming to this with. I find often when Historical Materialism is discussed it is informed by the Stalinist perspective which has cast a long shadow over the last 100+ years (to the point "dialectical materialism is common reference.) I also find often that when this methodology is discussed it is also presumed that Historical materialism hasn't developed at all.
With the first the Stalinist notion of Materialism is so wildly alien at times from how historical materialism operates in it's presumptions that it sometimes seems like more of a parody. (Stalin's own book on the topic introduces it with a tautology that is honestly just hilarious) In his own lifetime Marx never really considered himself breaking with Hegelian Dialectics, however I think that many historical materialists do not consider the system to be dialectical, and, I can only speak for myself on this one but I would say that HIstorical Materialism rejects Dialectics and Hegel's system by seeing Hegel as someone who shows how class society operates essentially saying the quiet part outloud and that the goal is to totally demolish the system of dialectical notions forced upon us by class society. In this sense without realizing it Marx unintentionally was on his way to a criticism of dialectics wholesale although he clearly did not notice this to some degree. The working class in this sense makes up the class that can abolish the dialectical system not out of a sense of some self-indentification such as in Hegel and the slave-master dialectic, etc, but by it's material interest of self-abolition.
The next thing as for the development of Historical materialism and I will leave some links as well for those interested, one of the things I found odd but interesting about Battaille is his notion of the accursed share and sacrifice is that it is in some sense similar to the concept of Decadence. In Decadence theory we note that because of the over-abundance created by the development in mass production and the process over time which causes the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, we can see the issues of the system turn and become worse. This eventually leads to the need to cannibalize via massive world wars for example, and the restructuring of infrastructure that allows new value to be able to develop. Essentially the "sacrifice" here is the working class and existing infrastructure in favor of new value and this profit.
Lastly I would say that Bataille's notion of waste to me seems very informed by one living in a capitalist society. Class Society in general often involves waste due to the nature that a ruling class must constantly sacrifice various materials, people, etc in order to remain on top. In the modern context this is especially true with the over-production being in the pursuit of profit, waste of products being in the attempt to keep profitability and thus status. This of course also hits it's highest point during wars and so on. Either way I do not disagree with Bataille per se in this sense but I would find giving it universal status in society in general is a misstep.
Anyway not sure if you'll see this but if you do thank you for reading my jumbled mess I left some links if anyone wants to read on this and while I am not at all the most well versed on Bataille, his entry into my life over the last few years has been at least interesting in it's similarities and differences to my own thoughts so hopefully sharing this was interesting to someone else haha
Decadence: https://www.leftcom.org/en/forum/2013-02-17/a-framework-for-the-concept-of-decadence-of-capitalism
http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2003-12-01/for-a-definition-of-the-concept-of-decadence
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/decadence
Irrationality: https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1972/irrational.htm
On Stalinism: https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2003-08-01/stalin-and-stalinism
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This is hard core.
If this was a Whats Happening!? episode, it would be the one where Rerun bootlegged The Doobie Brothers. This is the Soy Bomb Bob Dylan performance. This is the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. This is the Tiki idol/Hawaii episode of The Brady Bunch.
This is Adam Weishaupt spitting mad rhymes about perfectibilism at an audience full of Methodists with Adolph Freiherr Knigge all, "The khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs, I got mad frop and Slack like my name is Bob Dobbs."
This is a Roman Catholic making the 33rd degree in the York Rite, riding the goat all like, "Excommunicate me, I dare you" to the Pope. Boaz, Jachin. pass the Ma-ha-Bone!"
This is doing fat lines of alkahest with Hunter S. Thompson off of Harvey Spencer Lewis's ass.
This is giving Choronzon a noogie and crossing The Abyss in a golf cart while blasting Maiden's "Wasted Years" and not consuming anyone else's bodily fluids, eating a manna taco.
This is like the musical bits of Atalanta Fugiens played by KRAUTROCK LEGENDS: MAGMA.
This is like pulling down the 1977 edition of Advanced D&D's Monster Manual down off the shelf, only to find that you're in it.
This is hard core.
I look forward to more Paracelsus, because Paracelsus, is metal. Plants. I mean plants.
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When I stated looking into religion (2018), there was one youtuber I was able to find that discussed it in an academic way, Religion For Breakfast. Since then the field has grown exponentially.
You, Let's Talk Religion, The Histocrat, Fire of Learning, Dan Davis Author, Monstrum, Al Muqaddimah, Seekers of Unity, Sam Aronow, Hochelaga, Useful Charts, Gnostic Informant, Breaking the Habit, Angela's Symposium, Ready to Harvest, Jordan Peterson, Cogito, Genetically Modified Skeptic, The Ten Minute Bible Hour, and more
Some of the above are a bit biased, but I've learned a lot from them nonetheless.
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Fun fact 1: Lebanese Christians (and some Muslims as well) still practice "neder" and use the exact same word although in a different context. Nowadays Parents "neder", "Yendour (m) tendour (f)" their children especially if they're sick to a local Saint, such as Mar (St.) Charbel , or Mar Elias or Mar Takla or the Virgin Mary, kind of like consecrating or offering that child to the Saint as if saying "He\she is yours, take good care of them, heal them". If \ when the child gets better (Thank God for doctors and modern medicine), the parents usually donate some money to a church or a shrine dedicated to these saints.
Fun fact 2: roughly five thousand years later and Baal is still present in the Lebanese culture although most local people don't know it and mistakenly think the word is Arabic. To this day, we use the term "Zira'aa Baalieh" which roughly translates to Baalic agriculture, which is a rainfed agriculture that relies solely (or mostly) on rainfall for irrigating crops, Baal was the god responsible for rainwater.
Fun fact 3: Up until the turn of the 20th century, Northern villages in Lebanon still spoke a mix of Syriac \ Aramaic.
Fun fact 4: Lebanese language (or dialect if you will) still holds quite a lot of words from Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Turkish, Persian aside from modern influences.
Fun fact 5: the majority of cities, towns and villages still retain their Aramaic \ Canaanite names.
I'm not a historian, I'm simply someone who is fascinated by the history of this region and the more I research (and this channel has been a treasure trove), the more I find similarities and connections and a continuation of old habits and customs and languages and I cannot help but wonder how much of this land's original heritage would've survived to this day if it weren't for the invasions of one empire after another, most impactful of which was the Arab invasion followed by the Ottoman invasion, both of which wiped out the native tongue and 'almost' wiped out the heritage, folklore & traditions of this small piece of forsaken land.
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Hey, new to your channel but I’ve been working badly with enochian ever since coming across it. I even at one point played a game of enochian chess, on yes a four dimensional enochian chess board (that’s not a joke). The flashes you receive whilst playing are supposed to reveal truths.
Aside from all of that, I have often like many pondered the actual composition of the enochian sessions. I mean they had all of the trappings, the tablet, board, etc. They then sat down and started the sessions, lots of I am sure miss starts, breaks, food, toilet and they did this day after day. As long con jobs go, I’m still unsure what Kelly talbot was working towards. Which is why I would be fascinated if you did a video around the counter factual aspects as they have always keenly interested me.
We know dee checked some of the angelic answers against Greek, which Kelly supposedly didn’t read. We also know the angels warned dee about Kelly. We also know that these tables are complex and mistakes are made really easily. I find it hard to think that Kelly managed to have in his head or even written down, the tables, the words, the order and could then provide those an answers backwards ?
That’s why I would love you to do a serious examination of what would be necessary for this to occur. By which I mean, let’s assume Kelly was on the con, what would he have had to hold on his head to be able to transmit this information ? Indeed info which it seems dee and Kelly never actually used, plus as things started very tediously the angels even slipped into an easier system.
One of the favourite explanations is that this was an alien being who was able to transmit non local ideas and latched onto Kelly. I beleive there is part of the conversation where the angel says he will no longer be able to commune after a certain date. Could this be due to planetary alignment ? We’re the stars just right when they started speaking and the alien knew it had limited window ?
There’s a lot to go at here, given the fact that anyone who has even a cursory look at the enochian language and tables realises it’s very very complex, non trivial and is indeed a system whatever that system is. We have been left with what magic should look like here if magic is indeed a thing. Magic should look like complex, hard work and resemble say a complex scientific document that also contains graphs, calculations, method etc.
If magic is a thing, then that thing would of course resemble other complex human endeavours and this ticks that box. So a video on ideas and certainly what would have to have been true if it was all a Kelly con job would I’m sure make excellent viewing.
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Ah, Justin, what a nightmare 🙇♂️ I would suggest that disputing the claim may be worth your while, establishing the clip as belonging to you, rather than just "usable by you". I've done it several times for both music and free to use background graphics, and always succeeded in getting the claim released.
You have the licence for the use of the performance, maybe an invoice from the artist to show you've purchased the copyright to the performance, and as for the composition, you can link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Chopin_-_Nocturne_Eb_major_Opus_9,_number_2.ogg
which states that:
"The author died in 1849, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929."
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The panic also extends into Transgender Panic... someone who saw The Sound Of Freedom accused me, in a google review, of pissing on them with a grin in the womens bathroom, and that I was a threat to women and children...
I am an employee there and get written up when others don't for being on my phone rarely when others are on them ALL SHIFT and bring laptops, and am currently having my religious rights denied, too... apparently its "Too dangerous" to wear a skirt and cook and clean and help people all day, women definitely have no history of being able to do that in skirts safely...😂
All, because I am transgender.
Proof of Satanic Panic? For stsrters...My own mom says I have a demon inside of me, and I am definitely going to hell... quite a sudden change of interaction.
I'm a intersex and transgender, neurodivergent, a pacifist and uber nerd and Hindu, with a security license, CPR certified, and a certificate for training for spotting and helping Missing and Exploited Children.
"Threat to women and children" 😂
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The Arbatel is one of my favorite works of the occult, so I'm overglad to see this pop up on your channel! Lovely stuff and extremely fascinating
You mentioned Houdoo, unsure quite how to spell that, and one of my primary studies, in so much as a non-academic can be said to 'have' a study, is Pennsylvania Dutch Braucherei, which by the way I'd love to watch a video about that lovely topic if you've ever the ability and inclination.
Also known as powwowing but I dislike that term and prefer not to use it for likely obvious reasons, it's a very interesting ritual tradition out of North America which bears many interesting similarities to the contents of the Arbatel, even as it lacks most of the more obviously occult bits like the glyphs and whatnot.
The directionality, the timings mentioned, in particular the ethics of the text remind me greatly of it, especially the focus on magic being a cooperative action between God and the practitioner
A prayer used in Braucherei that I've come to know illustrates that well in "mei Hand un dei Hand iss Gottes Hand" (my hand and your hand is god's hand) and "mei Fuuss un dei Fuuss sinn gleich" (my foot and your foot are alike)
-the Red Church, Bilardi (source)
There's this idea that 'trying' (Braucherei is the tradition, brauche is the verb meaning to do Braucherei upon another, this is often translated as 'trying' or 'trying for' somebody) is not the work of the Braucher upon the patient, but rather of a collaboration of the two united in God (or some higher power, opinions varied historically and presently about the nature of belief in regards to Brauche's effectiveness), that it is God performing the action not the Braucher but that both the patient and Braucher are themselves part and parcel of God and it is through this connection that the work is done, channeled through the Braucher.
-Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei and the ritual of everyday life, Patrick Donmoyer (absolutely lovely text by the way, best book I've seen yet of Braucherei and extremely influential on my thinking of things around the subject. Not expensive, and high quality, would strongly recommend getting it if any reading this are interested. Good intro and goes well in depth as well) (source)
note on pronunciation of Pa Dutch
Pa Dutch in Pa Dutch is 'Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch' (also spelt Pennsylvaanisch Deitsch)
Eastern varieties of Deitsch monophthongise 'au' such that it sounds the same as 'ah' (as if of German orthography, i.e. [a:] in the IPA)
Western varieties instead monophthongise 'ei' such that it sounds the same as 'äh' (as above. [ɛ:], like 'get' but a longer vowel)
I speak an eastern kind, so I'd say 'deitschi Mahs' instead of a western 'däätschi Maus' (I'd however spell it 'deitschi Maus' meaning Pa Dutch mouse)
Because of this, 'Braucherei' is pronounced by myself as 'Brahcherei' as tortured as that orthography looks
[bɾaːxəʼɾaɪ̯] (like brah che REI), note the stress is on the last syllable.
The 'AA' of Pennsilfaanisch is pronounced as a low back rounded vowel, akin to the 'aw' of certain English dialects such as you might find in 'dawn' or 'caught'
American English often has an unrounded vowel there, but it is the rounded version that is similar to the Pa Dutch 'AA' digraph
[ʼpɛnsɪlʼfɒːnɪʃ Daɪ̯ʧ ]
That is essentially all necessary to pronounce the bits of Pa Dutch in this comment correctly, should one already have an understanding of how to pronounce German as the orthography I use is based on that.
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This is one of my favorite channels for religious topics (Religion for Breakfast, and Let’s Talk Religion being my other favorites) but this channel is specifically interesting for me, since it really focuses on mysticism, and not religion as a whole. And, since I’m taking my very first religion and philosophy course, Philosophy of Religion, these channels that I’ve mentioned above have really helped; especially this one, bc at the beginning of the course, we really focused on Mysticism. Not Jewish Mysticism (which, since I grew up as a Catholic, I had no idea that that was a thing) just mysticism altogether.
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Does anyone else struggle to follow the narratives on this channel? For instance, in this video (which is meant to be an introductory course on the Emerald Tablet, according to the title), the ENTIRE first half is spent digressing into a deep and speculative rabbit hole concerning the period in which it was written--a topic which bears little significance in the eyes of the uninitiated. It seems like every other sentence is an incongruent tangent, in which dates, names, obscure esoteric orders, etc, are rapid-fired; and as a casual viewer, I have no context to comprehend any of these allusions! No matter how much I research these subjects, and watch these videos, I am consistently unable to stay afloat in the onslaught of technicalities.
I'm an avid supporter of this channel. Dr.Sledge is an obvious genius, and he's doing God's work by making these instructional videos! But I find myself unable to absorb any information from them due to the sporadic scripting, and I fear other eager students might feel the same. I feel awful that this light he's spreading could go to waste, and I wish I could lavish in it!
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Justin, this is an absolute masterpiece of scholarship.
I want to make a couple of points.
The video rightly so begins with a perception, 2nd hand, of the mystic rites of a "pagan" belief.
And this idea of practice as it can be divided between the Holy and the demonic is just nonsense.
Augustine is engaging in special pleading to create heresiology.
We can talk about iconography in the church, the church at one point realizing that the muslims had a point sought to get rid of all but the simplist icons in the chuch, twice, and they failed. While we could advance a number of reasons why it failed the simplist is that the iconography is part of the magick of the orthodox rites. When these icons were removed the experiential component of christian worship felt lower than with the icons. The orthodoxy created very careful wording to make it seem that people werent actually praying to idols, but this is simply special pleading.
Philosophically speaking when a adherant to religion begins to bisect "us" and "them" or the ordination of some virtual space, 7th heaven or ninth layer of hell, such that there is hierarchy in accordance of some political system, then we see the promotion of individuals to divine status and their nemesis to demons. The best example i kniw of is Nabo the vizier of Marduk is promoted to go as Nabos fortunes rise. In the case of Yeshua, as his divinity is promoted so follow the saints.
The problem with these systems is they dont last, very few christians kniw who Marduk and Nabo are, though they probably know Nabo Kadurri usur by some false name the Jews gave him. We have in the text of the bible what people want to believe about the past, not the actual past. We have in the doctrine of orthodoxy what people want to believe about a Nazarian, not the theology of the Nazarian. Its all conflated superstition.
Second.
I think that in the 13th to 16th century things in Europe were not going as desired, not only was the late medieval period marked by the black death, but also the not-so-little little ice age. It gave a chance for authorities to consolidate power and become more doctrinal. We see a systematization arising for example first and last names, concepts of marriage are solidifying and the authority of the church.
As you mentioned the first university formed, there would be the tying of medicine to the collegiate system and decline of folk medicine. The priesthood becomes celebate. European society is gradually undergoing a restructuring and certain aspects once widely accepted become taboo.
When we talk about religious practices i can make the point that everything is pagan in some sense, and if we use objective criteria idolatry abounds in every practice, there ample evidence of "us"-versus-"them"-ism everywhere. So the witch hunts of that period are sinply the soup du jour. I mean if we went by icons of magic, select anyone out based on their selected trinkets, images, and fetishes. When thinks start to go way bad around 1275 heading into 1315, @nd things did not improve, the baltic sea froze over in 1314, the greenland colony collapsed in 1405. You need villians to blame so you look for "thems" among you to persecute. There is a rudimentary survival mechanism at play, i mean if food production is collapsing and black death spreads in popukated areas you really dont need healers and women, you need a reduction in popukation until the system can be reworked.
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Feeling kinda smug, because I've cynically suspected the Voynich Manuscript was a Medieval or Early Modern hoax ever since I found out about it. People have been obsessed with the occult for thousands of years, and devotees have always been willing to spend big on the stuff that interests them the most. We're still fascinated by the thing today, so it makes sense that an alchemist from hundreds of years ago would find it just as, if not even more intriguing.
If you could convince an alchemist that the secrets of the universe might be contained within a book, then he'd be willing to spend whatever he had on it. But because alchemists were among the most learned men of their ages, a fake would have to be well-constructed to pique their interest. It would therefore be very much worth putting the effort into making sure a fake was convincing if you wanted to sell it. A book with tantalising illustrations, but written in a convincing, but incomprehensible language hits the absolute sweet spot for the exact audience a financially-motivated Medieval or Early Modern hoaxer might target. An algorithmically-generated script not only saves the hoaxers the effort of actually writing a magical text, but because it's unintelligible, it means that potential buyers can project whatever meaning they want to on to the illustrations and therefore makes it all the more desirable.
I'd also deeply love to be proved wrong, though.
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Excellent video. It was already long so I understand not being able to get to much further into it than you did, but I would love it if you could expand more the nexus of anti-communism, anti-black racism, and anti-semitism prevalent during the Civil rights Era, and the conspiracy theories that the John Birch Society and the KKK alike pushed about how being that Black Americans were too intellectually inferior (their view not mine) to organize for their own liberation, that the Jewish people, especially Communist Jews, were once again caught up in the conspiracy theory as the real agents behind civil unrest, pulling strings behind the scenes and all that, and how Communism was their attempt to homogenize the USA through interracial marriage. It's absolutely bonkers, and I think it is important to understand that anti-communist sentiment is very often stemming from anti-black and anti-semetic sentiments. A sort of psychological substrate.
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Just signed up for IG for this but not sure if my post there worked, i dont see it. So also posting here. Only found your channel a few months ago but have had a great time. My best friend( he has a history degree and is a published authour, i am merely a dilettante) and I often spend weekends traveling the south coast of NSW going to various charity shops and other Op Shops (not sure thats just Aussie slang) looking for old books. My treasured possesion that i found is all volumes, first edition of Churchill's: The World in Crisis 1911-1918. (Only cost me $60, which is great as I can't afford actual book store prices for these things)
This book is almost 3 times its age, and as much as I'd love to have it on my bookshelf, I really want it as a surprise to my friend who would be over the moon (not to mention he has the resources to look after and preserve it a bit better than i do). I've had a bit of a year, and he's been there for me the whole time.
Anyway, I really enjoy your channel, keep it up, man. Your ability to synthesise your dedication to faith and dedication to good history is staggering to me. You found a way to square that circle that i often feel is impossible. keep up the good work.
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A topic very near and dear to me, well done!
I want to leave a very useful tip here for anyone who is interested in getting ahold of (digital) copies of otherwise cost-prohibitive Brill tomes.
If you become an editor on Wikipedia or any Wikimedia Organization website and make just 500 edits (and maintain 10 edits a month and good behavior), you are eligible to receive access to The Wikipedia Library. This resource gives you unencumbered access to countless scholarly publications and publishers—including free access to PDF copies of all Brill-DeGruyter books. This alone is huge (I just downloaded Hekhalot Literature in Translation for free instead of having to spend $226.00 on a hard copy! But there are many, many more paywalled sources open to you, and it just takes a bit of community service. Find a topic you are interested in and go for it. I specialize mostly in editing Hebrew and Tibetan entries on English Wiktionary, entries on Hebrew Wiktionary, various obscure and especially technical geoscience terms on Wiktionary, and editing Earth Science, Hebrew Language, Tibetan Language, Linguistics, and Tibetan Buddhist articles on English Wikipedia. If you find a topic you are interested in to edit, you will find that it is quite easy to get to the 500-edit threshold and maintain your membership to The Wikipedia Library and enjoy all of the world’s scholarly publications at your fingertips.
💫 (the more you know…)
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If I read the chalkboard @12:50 correctly:
P1. For any x, if it is possible to think x, then it is possible that x exists.
P2. For any x, if no x exists, then it is not possible that x exists.
P3. For any x, if it is possible that x exists, then x necessarily exists.
P4. For any x, if it is possible to think x, then x exists.
Conclusion. For any x, if x does not exist, then it is not possible to think x.
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@TheEsotericaChannel It is relatively easy compared to learning say Latin, ofcourse, but there is a definite learning curve. I'd say it's a lot like reading Middle English, or probably a little harder honestly. (I've read a bunch of Chaucer and some random poems which I'm going off) The lexical changes might be smaller for Dutch but unmarked clitics, cases instead of prepositions, latinisms and so on throw you off. It took me practice but I can read it pretty comfortably since getting into it three years ago.
Unrelated side note, but I have found that Middle English is very accesible to me as someone who speaks Dutch and English fluently, even before I got into Middle Dutch and even though English is a second language. There is a lot of words with Germanic roots that were replaced by words of Latin origin, so that they are completely foreign to English speakers but are instantly recognizable cognates of Dutch or German.
Hadewijch is considered the most difficult Middle Dutch material we have. 95% of what I've read on her is extracurricular. We get translations of everything with a few exceptions of fragments, for Hadewijch everything was translated. So it is considered too difficult or labour intensive to ask of undergraduates.
Some of the original is still very obscure to me, and the Dutch translations don't do it complete justice so I don't imagine the English ones could. Translation is interpretation and Hadewijch is not easy to interpret. She was a very gifted stylist though, as you said, and I'm glad that comes through in translation! The original is absolutely stunning and completely otherworldly. Reading the Visions for the first time is one of my favourite literary experiences ever.
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Amergin's Charm
I am the stag: of seven tines,
I am a flood: across a plain,
I am a wind: on a deep lake,
I am a tear: the sun lets fall,
I am a hawk: above a cliff,
I am a thorn: beneath a nail,
I am a wonder: among the flowers,
I am a wizard: who but I
Sets the cool head aflame with
smoke?
I am a spear: that roars for blood,
I am a salmon: in a pool,
I am a lure: from paradise,
I am a hill: where poets walk,
I am a boar: renowned ans red,
I am a breaker: threatening doom,
I am a tide: that drags to death,
I am an enfant: who but I
Peeps from the unhewn dolmen
arch?
I am the womb: of every holt,
I am the blaze: on every hill,
I am the queen: of every hive,
I am the shield: of every head
I am the grave: of every hope.
(Translated from medieval Irish by Robert Graves)
Does anyone else have a poem they would like to share?
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My stats: 51 yo man; husband, father of 2 boys; working professional; non-religious, but have always been interested in exo- and esoteric knowledge by way of ‘conspiracy theories’; Virgo sun/Scorpio ascendant with Jupiter in Scorpio (called to mysticism by birth).
The problem was that: 1) conspiracy research rarely actually gets it right, 2) never actually explains the roots of what’s going on, and 3) NEVER brought me happiness, quite the opposite, actually.
But this year, in a complete low of anxiety and depression, my sub-C found me The Kybalion. It truly opened my eyes. Then I found ‘As A Man Thinketh’, and that was a life changing book for me. I now watch your channel, listen to Manly P. Hall lectures, and also other authors on various ‘master key’ content channels. You and others have really helped me to better understand the universe around us and how we are all connected to it. Thank you!
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wonder if the cathars were also made of wood, like them witches were........., the same fantastical delusions of evil groups still exist today, you have on one side, the fascist nazis, who are trying to create a totalitarian world domination scheme tied with the conservative christians, and they think the other side are devil worshipping, baby eating communists on the other side, recently a guy shot a jewish couple, one of them died, he was one of the right wing types, thought they were part of the devil worshipers, because they supported biden, pretty insane how some of the extreme propaganda in the u.s. is creating these delusions in the minds of the people, it's typical war like propaganda, pretty dangerous stuff to be playing with
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What I find most amusing about the beginning topic of this video is that people assumed all of Medieval Europe was the same, not realizing that Medieval Europe was as complex and diverse as Modern Europe today. The church is by all means not always the central of everyones' lives and their doctrines wasn't always reality. Case in point, the church condemns women of being sinful due to the sin of Eve (though Adam ate that same fruit too and he didn't became targeted as sinful) thus creating biblical laws suppressing women at a societal level. What we find in artifacts and writings is that women still held property rights and even had the right to divorce just on the bases her husband can't get it up. Also, Medieval women were expected to take over her fathers' or husbands' trading and work, especially if either of them died. Women were limited if they were a noble woman and/or royalty (this is true in all time periods and not limited to just medieval times), but if a woman were from the merchant and artisan classes she was more mobile and allowed to take up trade and have her own business (many were beer, ale and other fermented drink makers). After the black plague, we can see a rise of women involved in trading and owning businesses since there was a demand for labor due to the shortage of people. Again, by all means, the church and its doctrines wasn't always the reality of daily lives of most medieval individuals, especially those of merchant and lower classes (even peasants govern their own communities, since lords and land owners tend to let the peasants deal with the superficial things like court cases and distributes over governing land). We can only speculate based on the documents and artifacts of the time period and unfortunately the majority of those said documents and artifacts were from the church, since the clergy men were very meticulous about their archives of books and documents. Much of the average medieval person were either minimally found or not at all and we just based it on the documents found in church. 🤷I think that adds more hatred towards the church rather than being grateful that at least one group of medieval folk wanted to archive and save their history, knowing the power of knowledge, regardless what type it is or was. As always thank you for such an informative video.
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hey, justin. love, love, love, and i mean love your channel. love the philosophy-heavy approach you take, the way you bring authors books and ideas to attention that i would've never had the know-how to find or even know to look for. i love the aesthetics aswell, there's just something satisfying about it's rustic and old-tomey vibe. you've helped me out in a myriad of ways: you've enriched my inner life, my inner monologue. the world feels more alive once one has a key to mysticism's many doors. you've given me new ideas, new notions, new intuitions. it's like opening several eyes i didn't know i had.
anyways, without getting too weird on my praise here, i just meant to say that i'm glad you'll get to keep doing this and have a better life because of it. thanks for the cool videos, they're comfy to listen to.
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Edit: I just became a Patreon supporter! It's not much, and your content is worth more, but you have my gratitude.
I love historic documents, and actually accidently stumbled upon an antique map shop while visiting St Augustine in Florida. I bought as much as I could afford (which wasn't much) and coveted those maps.
I ended up losing those maps in a divorce...not because they were worth a bunch of money, but because they were worth a bunch to me. If I could afford any historic book, I'd pounce on it immediately and covet it (and not lose it in a divorce!!! Haha).
One of the things I like about your channel is actually tangentially related to the content (which is obviously awesome)...you're from Detroit. As a fellow nothern Midwesterner, and knowing quite well about Detroit's collapse, I always love to see how the arts, education, and academia that has blossomed from the "rubble", as it were (I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean).
I put you in the same category as Jack White. Purveyors of important culture from Detroit (and you, too, have awesome taste in music haha).
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JUSTIN SLEDGE: « You can think of Descartes' project as something like cleaning out a closet. Well, what's the best method for cleaning out a closet? So, you take everything out and you sort it out into three piles, right? There is the trash pile, there is the keep pile, there is the donate to charity pile, there's the "maybe I'll fit into this one day" but probably not pile.
« So if you sort out what's in my closet, which is a lot of detached starched collars and Black Metal T-shirts, and substitute in for that, clear and distinct ideas, you see what you get to keep. That is to say, you take out all of the ideas, you find out which ideas are clear and distinct, and those ideas are placed back into the mind to become the foundation for all other ideas... »
Aha! Metal Head!
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16:00 made me love this channel all over again. I first discovered it when looking into the Apocryphon of John (by way of looking up Demiurge & Sophia). Since then the abundance of information has just been one of the biggest joys. To be one (as many here may be.... maybe) who loves to dive into these things but running into such issues like: how no one knows or is willing to share; how no one is "brave" (or honest) enough to not only start the conversation (because people run in their own ways) but to see it through to a non-emotional or religiously programmed or fear driven sales pitch ending but to get just the information and enough to make an informed open decision; or even to have an overwhelming amount of those who will talk to you, but only if you bow to "the grand master" or some crap, showing them a circle, triangle, and a dodecahedron while playing TOOL to the frequency of your Merkabah or some nonsense--- THIS CHANNEL IS JUST DOWNRIGHT REFRESHING. Thank you. And now, Magento??? Yes. Yes all over again. Loads of yes. I've been working on a book for years, got "inspired" back in 1997 or '98 and started then, but life being life and living being that, taking the time (because you can't make it, it's already there) to finish it hasn't happened until recently, which I'm currently working on doing. It ended up being a book made of several other books I've written (in various degrees) over the years since the first book, and it deals with some things here on this channel so you are a huge blessing. Thank you for doing this.
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Congratulations on 10k subscribers, Dr. Sledge!
It's a glorious thing, and You certainly deserve it! Your content is truly amazing and it's so wonderful to see that Your efforts are rewarded!
Thank you very much for the energy You put into all the videos. It's amazing to see that the auditorium has responded to Your content so much more than You expected. Perhaps it can be said that, in these mad times, people of the West may be more willing to apply themselves to the esoteric and the occult, which they may have regarded as mad before. I like to think that, at least, because if that's the case, that's a rather nice change. And it's a very happy thing to see a willingness to be reminded of some great philosophical, ethical, and spiritual gems and ideas which we've lost and forgotten along the way.
I hope that an even greater audience will be attracted to esotericism and Your channel. You're truly doing a great service to the modern man.
Wishing You all the best, and many more thousands of subscribers in the future!
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24:26 What if it uses a nonstandard base?
(Standard bases being like decimal, dozenal, hex, binary etc. Nonstandard bases being like 1,10,11,12,20,21,22,23,30 and many weirder ones)
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