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  1. "When we allow our faith to dictate history, we betray both" - Esoterica I like it
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  2. Babe wake up new Esoterica on YHWH dropped
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  3. I can't express how much I appreciate your integrity
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  4. "I bet my sky dad can beat up ur sea monster dad!" "Nuh uh!"
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  5. Man I remember people in my church growing up looking at me with disdain and demanding my mother take away my D&D books back then. Good thing she didn’t- thanks ma.
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  6. The best analysis of the event. I was a police officer at the time and the seminars and training all of us got was crazy. Everything we investigated, be it vandalism, trespassing, break-ins to abandoned buildings or anything else had to be examined through the Panic filter. Trouble making teenagers suddenly become unknown satanists. Graffiti taggers found they could whip up an entire neighborhood by painting a pentacle and random spray paint squiggles. Never, not once, was any proof found of bona fide satanists or satanic cults. I am so sorry you had to experience the hatred of the fomenter of the lie. And that is precisely what it was. You are courageous for sharing your experience. Thank you for sharing.
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  7. Direct viewer support is the best answer we have against this late stage corrupted capitalist system in which corporations and AI matters more than legality, morality or even people. Please, folks, if you appreciate Justin's work...chip in. Every $1 counts, and it's the only way I've been able to keep my work going for 10 years against this hostile social network and media hegemony.
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  8. So you're saying that his nature was not Seth in stone?
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  9. Solomon: "Don't do demons, kids"
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  10. As the owner of a high-end craft cocktail lounge, I can’t tell you how excited I am about your absinthe!
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  11. If any other channel had a video with this title and thumbnail, I'd think it would be some quackery made to push views. So glad this channel exists to talk about the occult in scholarly terms.
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  12. Well said, sir. This former Millsaps professor (History, 2009-2013) thanks you for your statement. I second your support for Dr. James Bowley.
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  13. "It's like the Cryps and the Bloods, only Yahweh and B'aal." Jeez you make me laugh!
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  14. When the man said “donor” he was speaking the only language admins understand
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  15. I tweeted at YouTube on Twitter. I hope everybody watching this video who has social media will do the same if they have a Twitter account. Dr. Sledge's videos are a treasure trove and it would be a tragedy for him to suffer any strikes or, god forbid, have his channel removed from the site. Thank you for all the work you do.
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  16. Tracing these figures back through ancient writings is incredibly fascinating. More, please!
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  17. Just a friendly suggestion. This type of scholarship and guidance is unusual. There are a lot more positive comment then there are monthly subscribers. I just became a monthly subscriber and would suggest to anyone who has waded in the pond of on line resources for real magick history and practical advice that we really don't want to lose this beautiful voice. Lets try and make it possible for our professor to do this full time. He is such a needed addition to the field.
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  18. We must seize the means of alchemy
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  19. Saint Lilith, the patron saint of cowgirl
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  20. I am glad that you ingested no Mercury!😇
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  21. The simultaneous outpouring of academic and religious integrity alongside personal honesty and incredibly entertaining content across your livestreams, videos and interviews is truly the most precious gift YouTube has received since its very inception. I hope that content like yours, Dr. Angela’s, Seekers of Unity’s, Religion for Breakfast’s, Let’s Talk Religion’s and the Modern Hermeticist’s will inspire many others as much as it has inspired me. This little corner of YouTube stands as a rock amongst tempestuous waters, and though scholarship and historical research is as fluid and evolving as it always has been, the recognition of that fact is what separates the grain from the chaff. My most sincere and joyous gratitude goes out to you.
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  22. Ridiculous, what is even the point of tenure...
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  23. "I hope you like the taste of shoe polish" isn't the type of content I signed up for but it's content I am grateful for
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  24. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. I treat my YouTube algorithm as Life putting different perspectives into my awareness. Your thoughts and theories are grounded, learned, and respectful. Fantastic work ❤
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  25. I find your videos endlessly fascinating as a non religious person. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
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  26. I love how his cadence has changed from purely lecture-like education to a dry-humored, goofy professor. He's so good at humanizing everything he teaches in a professional yet entertaining way. One of my favorite YouTubers!
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  27. My mom used to have a tote bag with Thoth on it. She used it to carry groceries home, deliver old clothes to the Goodwill, and bring snacks along for the family, which she served out with grace and wisdom She called it her Thoth bag
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  28. As soon as you mentioned Donkeys I immediately thought "oh my god this is how we get Alexamenos" and I am flabbergasted. Never would I have expected this video to cover a synchretization of Yahweh with Set, but to then lead from there to that being the origins of the Alexamenos graffiti is such a wild ride.
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  29. This has been the first time I’ve actually feel like understood what the sublime actually means.
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  30. Thank you for this video and for being such a great collaborator!
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  31. 13:09 That is from Malta, I am one of that stele's curators. Thar Phoenician inscriptions was found at Tal-Virtú, Rabat, are significant artifacts that highlight the area's ancient history as a burial site. Dated to the 8th-7th centuries BC, the stele features the controversial phrase "mlk baal," which may refer to a Canaanite god or a sacrifice. Some theories suggest it involved child sacrifice, though it could also mean a lamb sacrifice as you are saying. It was found with animal bones and vases, the inscriptions remain a subject of debate, and human remains may have been overlooked or excluded from early reports. It is one of my favourite artefacts we have on display at the archaeology museum in Valletta.
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  32. This is the most fascinating, eloquent, and intellectually stimulating pieces of content on this subject I've ever come across. I watched both videos, and walked away with a deeper understanding of the material than I ever have before; I sincerely appreciate the contribution to the academic community. I also equally appreciate the objective and purely educational approach to the material. It is difficult for people like myself (who have no personal investment in "magic" or "demonology") to find sources of information that aren't presented by individuals who have strong viewpoints and personal beliefs that either align with, or are diametrically opposed to, these ideas. At the end of the day, I don't care to watch a video narrated by a person who is obsessed with magic and demons; I prefer to watch a video from someone who is obsessed with proper research and dissemination of information with the intention of educating and enriching the community. Thank you so much for falling into the latter category.
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  33. If this whole "history thing" doesn't work out, you definitely have a second career as a comedian. Reeling out that long list of drivel about the Templars was like George Carlin meets spiritual hogwash. So funny.
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  34. Thoth seems to be a god of higher level human things; time, language, religion, etc, as opposed to elements or more natural things like fire or death. One of the most interesting gods I've heard of.
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  35. .pdf remains the fourth most popular religious conversion according to Google.
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  36. Thank you for all the knowledge you've imparted to those who seek.
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  37. This is criminally underrated. I've never learned about this part of history anywhere else before
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  38. Such a fantastic and important video! There is a tendency to view all ancient "paganism" as basically the same, but this shows the internal diversity between a lot of schools of thought in a way that is much needed. Happy to be part of this project!
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  39. If the Egyptian gods were the Muppets, Seth would be Gonzo.
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  40. So sorry to hear you're going through this. The copyright system needs serious change.
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  41. Thank you for pointing out that working class communities were specifically targeted during this wickedness. Entire streets of working class people in the north of England and in remote parts of Scotland were deliberately picked on by social workers precisely because they did not have the means to fight back against the revolting false accusations.
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  42. Great video! Thanks for the opportunity to collab!
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  43. Yo it's the sequel to the episode that got me into Esoterica! I have to watch it now.
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  44. Justin is one of the few speakers I have listened to that always notifies the audience precisely when the conversation goes from fact to speculation. And he also provides reasonable reasons for why the speculation is necessary within the context. And then he takes it a step further and gives the audience an idea of to what degree that speculation can be relied upon. Huge thanks for that. Educators of all types should be taking notes.
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  45. The fact that you both get and mention puns in ancient Aramaic esoteric literature attests to both your own mastery of the subject and to the very Human geekiness of these ancient Peoples. Humour is all too often taken lightly and underestimated.
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  46. I can’t wait till 500 years from now when society is having debates about crypto bros in the same way
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  47. So many of these Medieval Mystics seemed to walk a tightrope with "being declared a saint" on one side and "being condemned as a heretic" on the other.
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  48. I'm adding "necromancy flex" to my lexicon. Thank you, Dr Sledge, for not only enlightening but entertaining the curious-minded.
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  49. I’d never thought of that bit of irony there between Micah teaching “you don’t need sacrifices, much less child sacrifice, just do your best and be sorry when you mess up” and Jesus, if trusting the gospels, taught more or less the same thing, yet after his death was theologically transformed into the ultimate (in all senses) child sacrifice. It’s fun to imagine what kind of discussions(fights) the different authors and characters would have had if you put them all into a room together
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  50. I'm so glad that this video series exists. More people need to know about Yahweh's six-pack.
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  51. Third installment please!!! This series is fantastic and I really love the mystical origins of female figures in ancient religions!
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  52. Wow. For someone who says to have no expertise of modern occultism, I'm totally blown away. I've been in the GD for over 20 years now and you informed me of things I have never heard of. Thank you again Dr Sledge.
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  53. When this got to El and Yahweh combining, and then Yahweh vs Baal, I was riveted, like I was watching some big action movie. You do a great job telling these topics!
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  54. The best channel about occultism
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  55. I cannot overstate the significance of the service you are providing to this community by consistently offering a scholarly (and entertaining) analysis of these matters. Thank you for your time and persistence. Thank you for sharing your gift and your hard work with the world.
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  56. 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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  57. "Demon be gone! ..... but while you are out could you run a few errands for me?"
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  58. Given that Lilith didn’t appear is proof that she understands this is for educational purposes and thus, fair use, better than YouTube
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  59. I’m a firm believer that folk of the vampires was born in Maya regions. The half man half bat Camazotz was talked about in Spanish Catholic circles in the 1500s. The camazotz play a critical role in the mythology of the Popol Vuh as the Xibalba brothers defeat them. They are camazotz statues all over Mexico and Guatemala. There are underground temples where they were worshipped. There are even days in the maya calendar attributed to them. Thanks for the episode. Cheers. ❤
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  60. I'll be watching the video after work, but I want to thank Dr. Sledge for being a beacon of serious, honest scholarship in a subject that often gets dragged down by all sorts of dishonesty and lunacy.
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  61. Congrats on vanquishing the Algorithm yet again Dr. Sledge! Happy (early) Hanukkah 🕎
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  62. In some of the more extreme American Evangelical communities, Cain is portrayed as Set. He wandered over to Egypt after killing Abel and set up shop as a king, even stealing the name of Seth. Heathen Egyptians then deified him. There’s even an illustrated book. I think it’s ironic that their mythological mashup is introducing the kind of chaos and disorder Set may have approved of.
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  63. Academic solidarity - another good reason for building unions among grad students and academic workers.
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  64. As an old soldier this reminds me of the pitfalls of counter-insurgency warfare: If one does not carefully identify the enemy and accurately estimate their motives one might very well create the enemy you imagined.
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  65. "When we allow our faith to dictate history, we betray both" You have my sub purely for this. Absolute Facts
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  66. "Look at me-Im the Moloch now!" I laughed too hard at that .
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  67. "Better is your profession than all professions. It makes men great." You're doing Thoth's work, Dr. Sledge. Thank you so much.
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  68. ChatGPT could never write an introduction as beautiful and concise as the one we just heard!!!!
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  69. You the best
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  70. Vendetta cannibalism sounds metal as heck
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  71. My God this channel is a goldmine of quality content.
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  72. As a teenager during the Panic, my friends and I were hounded from location to location because we played D&D. I remember thinking, "Are we the only ones who realize this is all imaginary?" Never had much use for the declarations of authority after that.
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  73. Ah. Reminiscing of my teenage years during the peak of the satanic panic, resting against a century old tombstone while reading the goetia as if my black fingernail polish would protect me from Crowley's ghost. Solomon will always hold the keys to my heart.
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  74. I remember when I was really young I picked up Age of Mythology and started spamming Egypt and I would sometimes pick Thoth as my Mythical-tier god to worship because he had the meteor power and phoenixes. nearly 20 years later here I am watching an Esoterica episode all about him. Life's a wild ride, my guys.
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  75. 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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  76. Thank you Dr. Sledge for your kind words. I'm glad you found my edition of Arbatel of value.
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  77. Pour one out for all the Vanilla Syndrome sufferers in this video. 😞
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  78. Oh my gosh. This whole episode reminds me of Mexico. When I was not able to answer a question about redemption, the priest called me the son of satan. I loved that. 😂
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  79. As a person who comes from a background of science and logic, then without warning, thrust into the realms of Divine spiritual emergence and access, I really appreciate the historical and scholarly work you are doing regarding this subject. I don't always agree with some of your effusive dismissals of certain areas "newage" or woo information, as I have my own experience in these matters. But there are many moments where listening to your episodes have connected some dots or brought a small amount of clarity to the spiritual information I am swimming and at times feel like I am drowning in.
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  80. Science and magick are never far apart even when one is denied.
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  81. I will never forgive the Caananites for not starting a demon hunter school when they had the chance
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  82. When I was a teenager I would have done everything to have free and easy access to content like these. Your work and the one of all your colleagues are the ones that really make the time we live worth living.
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  83. I love this channel! The host takes the subject matter seriously, but does not take himself so seriously! He has real curiosity melded with great scholarship--he does the work so you don't have too--unless you want!
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  84. Another wonderful episode, and I hope the Demiurgic Algorithm enjoys this tasty comment and drops a penny in your cup.
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  85. The frequency with which you are dropping such thoughtful content is utterly remarkable. Keep it up! Thank you for exploring these topics.
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  86. Yukio Mishima is treated as an extremely sensitive topic here in Japan, where I have lived for many years. But no one here denies the genius of his writing, and all in my circle have read at least two of his works, including Sun and Steel. My favorites, which I read with the help of my university professors, are Haru no Yuki and Kinkakuji. Thanks Justin! All other controversies aside, genius is genius. ❤
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  87. I have never seen anyone make this subject so accessible and I have studied classical philosophy.
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  88. Oh man, the silent intro hurts. I just want to say I've been listening to your channel for years. Aside from finding it all interesting, I'm amazed that you make every episode as a one shot. No cuts. I'm convinced you're not using a teleprompt of any kind. Add in your quick one liners and grung metal culture refrences, and... well, big thumbs up.
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  89. This is a solid and concise summary of the origins of biblical monotheism. As someone who’s read and studied both of Mark Smiths books on the subject as well as John Day’s, Frank Moore Cross’s and the Ugaritic mythologies I can say Dr Sledge is truly painting as clear and objective of a picture as I’ve seen of such an amazingly complex and fascinating subject that I have been obsessed with for years Thank you kindly sir
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  90. This is amazing. I am a Christian and i am ASTONISHED at how Jewish traditions and Jewish mysticism has been omitted from the understanding of our faith. I do think that William Blake is maybe an exception to the rule. Cheers and thanks!
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  91. This channel is immensly underrated
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  92. I started playing d&d just this side of the worst of the satanic panic. The main effect I noticed were most of the players that came and went in that period got into the hobby thinking that it was something satanic and edgy, and many were quite disappointed. The last little gasp I can remember of dealing with this directly was working in a bookstore in 2000. Some woman asked for recommendations for children's books, and when I naturally suggested Harry Potter her response was 'No.....no, no...no, no, no.....no" she eventually stated her obvious objection, but it was her tone and attitude that I always remember. Not ranty or overbearing. She looked absolutely dumbfounded and shocked that such an abhorrent, evil thing would be said so casually in public. I had so thought that stuff had gone away, especially to the point where someone like that would just assume that their opinion was the common one.
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  93. Always a treat when Dr. Sledge talks about medieval women’s mysticism
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  94. You referenced Religion for Breakfast's coverage, but I feel like you're underselling your history of Kabbalah lecture series. I enjoyed the hell out of that over the course of several weeks of coffee time.
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  95. I'm sure I'm not the only one to say that I would love to hear more about the Kabbalistic ramifications of the Binding of Isaac!
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  96. Dr. Sledge was my philosophy professor and he was an AMAZING professor! Made me love philosophy.
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  97. Imagining the Esoterica of 4025 excitedly explaining WWJD bracelets "They made them out of plastic, which has often been attributed to their desire to express neverending devotion to God, but according to my analysis, it's actually meant to attune to the plastic spoons they were aggregating in their brains and point them to holier thoughts"
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  98. My cat must have been a member of the Clerical Necromantic Underground in a past life because she pays attention to your videos, but when I change it to something else she falls asleep.
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  99. As a french speaker, I temporarily got excited by the existence of the French edition. Then I saw the price... Damn academic publishing!
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  100. My biggest takeaway from Blake is that true imagination can only be directed outwards, and not inward. Imagination is not something we keep inside ourselves, but it’s something that flows outward to others, and embraces others. Inward expression, introspection, is a sterile, windowless prison for being. Imagination explores the world around us and embraces every new aspect it encounters with joy.
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  101. I really like the thinking here. If the demon is bothering you, this bowl will trap them on their way up and they will be forced to read your divorce command. Feels like serving papers.
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  102. Justin, I'm so grateful that you choose to share your work freely online. The research and analysis in your videos is worth vastly more than many of us could ever afford. You show faith in humanity by asking only that people pay what they can. I admire you very much. I hope you're sharing a magical holiday season with people you love. Thank you.
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  103. Shalom aleichem brother, I really don’t comment a lot on your posts Sir but I absorb every word and I very much appreciate and support what you are doing my Brother
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  104. A moment of silence for the victims of state sponsored necromancy through the ages.
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  105. History, philosophy, and RELIGIONISTHEOPIATEOFTHEMASSES. The comedic timing here is getting better and better! Hoping for an extremely niche comedy set here soon.
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  106. I'm still looking for the buried treasure. The only treasure I've found, so far, is this channel.
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  107. Thank you for the heartfelt introduction, my friend! I loved collaborating with you and I look forward to the next one! Hopefully, we'll get to meet in person as well. 😊
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  108. Were hitting quantum levels of esotericism right here. Way spookier than the clerical necromantic underworld.
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  109. A shame Anat doesn’t survive as much as Ba’al.
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  110. I had to skip back to make sure I really HAD heard you say "Joy Division is gnostic scripture, sometimes."
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  111. That awkward moment when your esoteric studies professor bops into the room, drops a demonic summoning ritual on you, and bops right back out without another word. I loved it!
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  112. “Grass grows in the cheeks” is such great evocative imagery. 🔥
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  113. So they turned from Calvinism to galvinism?
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  114. Male insecurity has always been one of the most destructive forces on this plane and we have fallen for this on almost every level by confirming it into our religion, among other things. Women are participatory to this as well, simply by aligning to this nonsense every single day. Fear is the main problem humanity has always faced, yet so few are truly capable of rising above it. It is just a frequency, a very low vibratory frequency. When you lift above it, it can't get you. LOVE is the answer here, never fear, never guilt, never shame! GOD is not fearful, why should You be? All the best! 🕊🌎💓
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  115. YouTube recommended this video and I’m so glad I watched it! It’s the first I’ve seen on this channel and I’m very impressed. I’ve been interested in how Christianity evolved into what it is today, and this was my first introduction to Yahweh history. It took over 5 hours to get through the video, with all the pauses I needed to look up something named or discussed (yes, it definitely could be a semester course and where do I sign up?!) or to rewind and listen to a piece several times. Overall, it was fascinating. Very well done, thank you!
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  116. 9:49 forgive me sir, but I have to correct you. You are in fact The Justin Sledge
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  117. I wish I knew a tenth of what you do. I love the study of ancient religions but didn't know how much until I got to be older in life. Thanks for all the book references. Very educational, and your videos are very well done.
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  118. Dr. Sledge with his mastery of both ancient myths and zoomer slang, an inspiration to us all.
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  119. Im over the moon about more Hildegard episodes. She was an absolute visionary. Catherine of Siena is another brilliant medieval mystic. Have you thought about doing an episode on Francis of Assisi? There is so much to stay about him. I am particularlly fascinated by his stigmata and the series of saints that came after him that also displayed the stigmata and... bizarre bodily changes post-death.
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  120. I thought, damn, it’s only for patreon members, and only then realized that I actually had the membership! 😂
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  121. What an absolute delight this has been, Justin, I've had so much fun chatting with you! I really hope we can collaborate again sometime soon! :)
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  122. If a philosopher, famous or not, owns a stone—perhaps as a pet, or maybe just as a trinket on shelf—does that not make a philosopher’s stone? ;)
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  123. You're the only golden teacher needed here, Doc! Thanks again.
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  124. Always interested to hear more about Merkavah. I'd been looking forward to hearing more about Paul's mysticism since you've previously mentioned it. I like that it gives a plausible explanation for Paul's otherwise quite odd life story.
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  125. What a beautiful episode. Thank you Dr Sledge for doing her justice. ❤
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  126. If I were a student at Millsaps, I would actively be withdrawing from classes and seeking admittance at another university. The ability for my prospective teachers to say what they believe to be true, regardless of public sentiment, is the entire reason I pay tuition. This kind of abandonment of the ideals of the liberal arts education indicates that the value of the education offered by Millsaps is permanently and indelibly marred. Shame on the board of governors and university regents for letting a hatchet-man destroy the reputation of a university like Millsaps. Failure to respond swiftly will only dig the hole deeper, further worsening the decline in reputation of the institution. What a shame.
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  127. Gotta say Dr. Sledge. Was going over your early videos, you have grown far more comfortable with your "stage" presence in these videos and its just an absolute pleasure seeing your growth in this space.
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  128. 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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  129. I laughed out loud when you mentioned exploring the arcane side "...of treasure."
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  130. I suspect the link between cobblers and mysticism has some to do with soles
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  131. The most ancient of wisdoms, READ INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
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  132. Yours is definitely the cooler of the two videos! A pleasure to work together as always!
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  133. Appreciate exploring the tension between Christian theological views of magic and syncretic individual practices. Bonus points for naming non-consent in "love" magic and the existence of ancient gay Christians!
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  134. My man Justin throwing thinly veiled shade at Jordan Peterson, I love this channel's mix of serious academic teachings and absolutely deadpan jokes 😂❤
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  135. There's an excellent concept here for a rougelite metroidvania where you descend into the divine palaces and have to avoid or bypass angelic guardians to reach the divine throne. I'll get to it at some point.
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  136. A bit unrelated to this video, but I wanted to thank you for your content Dr Sledge. Last night I received an email accepting me into the graduate program at my top choice school. In large part due to your channel introducing me to the esoteric and religious history of the Levant, I’m now able to take my first step into the higher-level study of pre-Judaism Hebrew religion. So thank you Dr Sledge, you’ve helped me discover my future.
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  137. Once again singing the praises of this series. Remember your favorite teacher of professor. The one that would keep you on the edge of your seat. The one who’d stretch your mind a bit every class. The one who taught you not only to question, but to appreciate the journey of questioning. This is that guy. Damn. If he were my professor, I’d probably be a theology or comparative religion/mythology major. Absolute fascinating stuff. An excellent example of the good social media can bring us. 🎉🎉🎉
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  138. Thank you for the great conversation and the opportunity to not only talk about the Vision and the Voice, but also some of my own Enochian work. It was a real honor to chat and I hope a lot people feel inspired by it.
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  139. Yahweh as a warrior-storm god really helps contextualize a lot of the myths I learned growing up. Thanks!
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  140. These depictions look nothing like Alan Rickman, the one true Metatron.
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  141. 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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  142. I really like that humility, scholarship is really just a process of "failing better"
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  143. This channel started in 2020, yet there is so much high quality stuff already
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  144. I love your final thoughts about cherishing what we DO have rather than lamenting what we DON'T. Wise words, Justin, thank you!
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  145. 1)I can see a kind of "they are dead to me" defiance towards foreign gods, much like a parent might say about children they are ashamed of, would lead to a tradition of no gods but the one worthy of respect (Yahwey). 2) Interesting coincidence that after the more-or-less banishment of Asherah from Judaism, Proverbs 1-9 (4th century BCE) and Sirach 24 and 51 (185 BCE), begin praise of Lady Wisdom who is called the Tree of Life. She is later identified with the Spirit of God in the Book of Wisdom/Wisdom of Solomon (c. 1 CE).
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  146. Dude, as a nurse, I appreciate your perseverance, but dont push yourself too hard too soon. You'll just end up relapsing. This season's flu was no joke. Get plenty of rest, fluids and proteins.
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  147. Thumbs up if you want the kings and generals video to happen
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  148. So, The Inquisition had nothing to do and so moved onto witchcraft. Once again, the Devil finds work for idol, er, idle, hands!
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  149. I absolutely love all of your content, and I love your strive to creating accessible free content in occult, and Esoteric history! I have so much respect for you.
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  150. I’m in the midst of a crisis-of-faith-fueled theological bender and this video is incredibly insightful and well made. Thank you so much.
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  151. I received unfair disciplinary action at work today and was in a terrible mood until I watched this. Thank you for defending your friend & teacher + all tenured professors!
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  152. Dr. Sledge releasing one of his Wednesday Kabbalah bangers. Classic.
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  153. Very interesting video as always. I reckon an anti academic publisher amulet would be quite popular amongst my colleagues in science academia too. These publishers are basically vampires.
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  154. Man, this is wild. I took your introduction to philosophy class my first semester of college. It so inspired me that I went to seek out methods of thought like you so diligently described in class. I found ReligionForBreakfast in my search and now feel like I have come full circle. Looking forward to binging your channel! Great video!
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  155. I’m an early career RE teacher with a background in philosophy, and this video is one of the most interesting things I have come across in any of my studies. It is absolutely fascinating and so insightful. Your comment at the start; “if we allow faith to dictate our history, we betray both.” Absolutely electrifying.
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  156. Evans here. As always, fantastic summary of an incredibly dense and difficult text, Dr. Sledge! The comment about the teeny-tiny Valentinian syzygy system had me cackling. Random factoid, the Brill edition of the Pistis Sophia was out of print when I was researching, and used copies were $600+. It took about 6 years of me nagging their Out of Print contact (and them agreeing to publish my book on the topic) to reprint it at all. Turns out people are less likely to research something they have to sell a kidney for. Amazing work bringing it to a huge audience!!
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  157. My partner, a black metal musician, has done a lot of research on Bataille and introduced me to his philosophy, especially that of the "limit experience". I'm the daughter of a Kabbalist. (Indeed my family has been Jewish mystics for at least 500 years). We love your channel Dr. Sledge and often watch your videos together, finding them a blend of our own backgrounds.
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  158. I think this might be the most important video you've made since the Satanic Panic one. Honestly, it should be required viewing for everyone in the esoteric tradition. There's so much misinformation out there which leads to outrageous claims, which are pretty much always a gateway to abusive and destructive behavior. Education shining a light on the darkness. Thank you so much for all you do, and I've already shared this one far and wide.
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  159. Everyone knocks on religion in the Middle Ages—certainly not without some very good reasons...but man. Their mystics were truly next level.
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  160. “If you’re being a jackass then you attract jackass spirits,” Words to live by
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  161. The "IKEA SEFIRÖT" is the best thing I've seen in a long time. :)
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  162. Always got a sweet spot for ancient Mideast and Mediterranean gods, keep up the great work Dr. Sledge!!
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  163. on occasion i’ve wondered if it’s some board rich kid’s art project that unintentionally ended up out in the world without context and then people do what people do and got fixated on the mystery, but a person throwing it out as a money making hoax does seem pretty likely
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  164. As long as the practitioner's heart is in the right place (not a scammer, cult leader or grifter) I think magical healing/consultation should be just as well accepted as any clergy, or any other self-improvement professional, such as a therapist or life coach.
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  165. 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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  166. You had me laughing for a full minute at the David Lynch reference. I needed that, thanks!
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  167. This channel is like a treasure trove of high-quality information
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  168. You mentioned geocentrism in the video, and in particular that theologians viewed the demonic as existing in the 'air' under the moon. As opposed to the later Protestant view that demons lived in hell under the ground. Have you considered doing a video on something like 'The midevil mind' or the 'late midevil worldview'? I think people dont realize just how different the conception of not just the world, but the fundamental mechanism of that world, is from our modern view. Thank you for the content as always!
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  169. This was a very Thothful video!
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  170. Friday night ESOTERICA brings me an unspeakable happiness.
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  171. Broke: attending lectures Woke: recording lectures Bespoke: summoning an angel to attend lectures in your stead
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  172. Another obscure part of history revealed! Thanks! Loved the captions! I guess the modern Zoom call is a kind of seance: "Marci? Marci, can you hear me? Are you there Marci?"
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  173. What if the treasure was the friends we made along the way?
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  174. Hermes Itsmeagainestus 🤣
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  175. Thanks Dr. Sledge! I’ve been a viewer of yours for sometime and have enjoyed it! I’m currently completing my dissertation at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythology & Depth Psychology. Many of your videos have been really helpful!
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  176. Again!? Gah this is so frustrating!
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  177. We’re lucky to have you as a teacher Dr. Sledge. May your strength continue.
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  178. Making out with the corpse of the unrisen Christ in the tomb is some serious Goth girl cred.
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  179. It's kind of amazing to me how much argumentation occurred around trying to maintain God as an ideal human and yet one involved with non-ideal human life that we can attempt to reach—yet never with complete success. I find it to be a sort of underlying current to what creates a sense of the divine.
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  180. Atwood: “Maybe the real transmutation was the wisdom we found along the way.” Alchemist: “…no, I want my freaking gold.”
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  181. I found this channel through religion for breakfast, stayed and became a Patreon member for alchemy. I am not really interested in Gnosticism as a faith path, but I am fascinated by ‘heretics’ and the pre-Nicena christianities. And you have made me interested in studying philosophy, will be diving into the study guide soon. The history of how people think really is fascinating.
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  182. You're an absolute legend, Dr. Sledge. You've reinvigorated my interest in the esoteric and simultaneously given me a ton of artistic inspiration. I firmly consider this one of the best channels on Youtube (for somebody with my interests anyway)
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  183. I read Mark Smith's "The Early History of God" a while ago, but while I found it fascinating, I struggled with digesting a lot of it. This video truly helped me grasp a lot of the finer points. Thank you!
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  184. speaking of what happened to people after, the last person left to be legally pardoned from their accusation, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., got it just last year (329 years late…) because an 8th grade class found out she hadn’t ever been cleared during a school project
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  185. The (sometimes) appearant connection between demons and disease pathogens makes the ability to poop out the demon you're afflicked with make sense.
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  186. I have to admit, YouTube algorithm did a great job by recommending me your channel! I have been interested in all things occult and religious from the childhood but of course, I couldn't understand much. This channel came to me like a blessing! Thank you for your work, I have a lot to watch
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  187. Very erudite, scholarly and accurate summary of our current understanding of the subject. Very impressive. Haven't seen any of this channel's videos before, so I was skeptical at first - too many uninformed videos out there.. So this was a pleasant surprise. Very nice introduction on how honest it is to make faith the handmaiden of reason once again - even if we find the results uncomfortable or troubling.
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  188. This episode was mathmagical!
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  189. Thank you for Justin for sharing your serious thinking on this subject and for pointing out the ridiculousness of the dismissal of the subject for serous consideration by so many. Your work is critical in creating the opportunity for thinking people to re-approach "the arcane side of history, philosophy, and religion." Thank you for seriously raising the of level of the discussion, (even if we disagree on some finer points ;).
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  190. Sir, MASSIVE flex showing an original Malleus Maleficarum from the 16th century… holy molly, massive massive flex 👹
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  191. In the 90's, my ex husband and his wife would not let my daughters read R.L. Stine Goosebumps, because it was satanic. I was outraged and bought my girls several such books.
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  192. "Ascended Master Kimmy Gibbler" is the line that earned you at least one more Patreon sub.
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  193. I never cease to be awestruck by ancient Egypt. Putting time lines makes it even more amazing. Humans can be impressive, even with their faults.
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  194. I've learned through the years to not hate the religion itself, but those that use Christianity to push their own bigotry and deceptive behaviors. Basically I go by the phrase 'hate the sin, not the sinner,' which is funny to me since I'm Pagan! You are completely right that anyone that wants to have a well-rounded view on Mysticism needs to look into all works from all branches of religions, and that includes all of the Abrahamic religions. That is where Mystics would've also been, and they would've been writing from that viewpoint! Despite my religious views being different, there's plenty that can be taken from the works by these authors, and I think more people need to understand that. Wonderful and fascinating video as always! ❤
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  195. You're absolutely bonkers for making these videos free. I can't imagine the hours of research it must take to make these. That being said, we appreciate you
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  196. Aristotle nearly getting everything wrong about Alchemy is Pure Alcomical Gold.
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  197. Imagine missing out on divine immortality because some lowly plebian forgot to chisel your name into the eternal prayer adorning the wall of your tomb.
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  198. An almost 40 minute video on a wordless book, this is why we need you Dr Sledge!
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  199. great topic and nice video! I'd might add that there's actually a section in the Grundrisse where Marx speaks about the power of the money-form of capital as a sort of "black magic that throw men and goods into the alchemical retort to make gold", that evaporate all the "relations and illusions that slow the bourgeios mode of production". Greetings from Chile
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  200. I just hope the world doesn't end before this series!
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  201. Ahhh yes, nothing says "Christmas Cheer" quite like an Egyptian ghost story told by a Jewish scholar of the occult. Esoterica is a wonderful channel, friends. 😂
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  202. Thank You for this episode on William Blake... One of my heros He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ~William Blake
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  203. What a superb episode Dr. Sledge. This one felt personal ;) It’s a real honour to be creating content alongside you and the rest of the wonderful gang. Glad to be giving Neoplatonism its proper place in intellectual history.
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  204. Dr. Sledge, I discovered your channel a couple of months ago and let me say that I so much appreciate your videos. Legitimate factual information about esoteric topics seems to be very hard to come by. I was thinking about this earlier today: channels like this with the more scholarly and "boring" (heavy quotations) tend to have a smaller, but overall more grateful fan base than the more "entertaining" (heavy quotations again) channels. We may not be the biggest fan base in the world, but we are eternally grateful for your extensive research and knowledge. Thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  205. I was like: No way! Justin's got sponsored! That's awes... ah. Hahahahaha! Beautifully done xD Thank you so much for bringing us these gems, Justin!!
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  206. Dr. Sledge, I want to sincerely thank you for your content as a whole. I struggle with severe panic attacks that mimic a heart attack very closely. As you can imagine the anxiety and the symptoms can form a pretty nasty feedback loop. Your content and the way you present it is so engaging to me it can pull me out of a spiral that has put me in the emergency room more than once. Im going through a period of time where i dont have insurance and so cant afford my medication. Your content has gotten me through some really terrible times recently and I dont have the words to express how profoundly grateful I am to you and this channel for that. I hesitated to post this because of how personal and uncomfortable this topic is for me but I feel that its important for you to know how deeply your words and acts have positively affected my quality of life and health. Sorry for the rambling nature of this post.
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  207. “The owls are not what they seem”… Twin Peaks
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  208. Love when you cover alchemical topics!! do more please
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  209. I really appreciate how you mention where to learn more at the end. You've contributed pretty heavily to my book shopping list. Congratulations on 100k, by the way. For the quality of weekly content, it's well-deserved. Looking forward to the next 100k.
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  210. "A Mythopoetic movement". Rosicrucianism is proof that you can meme a movement into existence. Many such cases!
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  211. "Now let's turn to the books of Jeu." Who, me? Nope, didn't skip the baptisms. In fact, I again noticed how much your presentation has improved over the years, which isn't to say that there really was a need for improvement, just that your content simply keeps getting better and better. Thanks and all the best to you, good doctor.
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  212. I'm absolutely certain that Seth is supposed to be an anteater and I'll wave my arms maniacally while cackling at anyone who disagrees.
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  213. While the erudition provided Dr. Sledge is fascinating, I have to admit, it's his desiccated humor that brings me back. He gives his presentations in eloquent, professorial style, but then occasionally slips into common speech with phrases like "real complicated", oftened accompanied by a sarcastic eye-roll. I love this. It makes the subject more accessible. It tells the listener that, yes indeed, this subject can be dry and sometimes difficult to grasp, but he's aware of his audience and right here with us in trying to understand it in a modern context.
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  214. Dr. Sledge, you are a genuine hero of your field. Not only for popularizing a fascinating subject and breaking down the stigma it has so long been stained with, but for the genuine passion and curiosity you bring. Hopefully your students appreciate just how lucky they are to get to learn from you.
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  215. You demystify so much. Every presentation you do is just full of the best information. This is fascinating.
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  216. Sky Ted Bundy 🤣🤣🤣
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  217. "I told you I'd come back to the dog," 😂 never stop! You're my favorite. So educational & fun.
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  218. The broicism shade in the intro gave me life 😂
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  219. As an alumus of Millsaps who is also in academia solely because of the quality of my education at Millsaps, I am ashamed of my college but grateful for your work here Dr. Sledge. Hopefully we can pressure them into making the correct decision.
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  220. Commenting for the first time here in huge support for your professionalism.
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  221. Having grown up mega religious (but after this era) I absolutely understand how people convince themselves these bizarre and awful things really happened. The things you and your classmates went through is absolutely devastating. We all deeply appreciate your willingness to open up about the experience. It does help this all to have the proper impact it deserves for those of us who weren't around yet.
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  222. Please make this a full semester series.
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  223. Amazing video. This is the kind of stuff I watch this this channel for. From your previous videos on Merkhavah and Third Enoch it was clear that there was an intersection between early Merkhavah and early Christianity, with hints that it might be more than just some brief contact, so this is that follow-up I was waiting for. And the connection between the 3rd Heaven vision in Corinthians with the temple vision Acts feels like the big punch line of this episode. This certainly goes a long way to explain Paul's "I know a guy" approach and talk of not wanting to boast, beyond mere modesty. It feels crazy that having been a Christian for many decades it's only in the last couple years that I've even heard of this stuff. And by all means, more Merkhavah information would be welcome.
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  224. Im an academic whose had a secret theosopohical fetish for a long time.... Stumbling across your channel has been a godsend ..... Im not sure people realize how top quality this is...... But good on you.....
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  225. If Bataille had been born as a Japanese novelist, his name would be Yukio Mishima.
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  226. This free conversation contains more information on Jeuian Gnosticism than all of Audible plus my local library and their loan network. Thanks for what you do!
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  227. WE LOVE YOU JUSTIN!!!!
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  228. 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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  229. ❤ playing your intro music in my head. it’s still there 🎶
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  230. The field of computational linguistics you described seems like it could be an excellent avenue for my own academic path. I'm really interested in the semiotic differences and similarities between how spoken languages and programming languages operate. I feel as if a more generalized, less mechanically oriented, study of programming languages could bring us to an understanding of what "magical" languages throughout history have been designed to accomplish within the hardware of the human brain.
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  231. Thank you for providing the historical context! I never knew people didn’t doubt Jesus of Nazareth and his followers had supernatural powers, but that they doubted the origin of those powers. Also, thanks for pointing out what many Christians hope to cover up: the existence of Christian magic, homosexuality, etc. I wish this video existed when I was a kid I would love a modern exploration of Christian magic, described in some of the other comments (and a plethora of other practices), especially because the practitioners don’t view their actions as magic.
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  232. “Guys, I’m really worried there is a dualist heresy in the south” “Hmm, this is a grave concern. Let’s torture this man to see if there is a dualist heresy in the south” “By St. Martin, after hours of torture he confessed to it! We need to stamp this out before it’s too late!” Fascinating video, great job
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  233. As someone raised Mormon and who still attends, it may catch you off guard to say, but I thoroughly enjoy your channel. The past few years I've increasingly explored new ideological and theological ideas. And your channel has been incredible in providing new perspectives. Keep it up man, I love hearing you bring all these ideas into question and most of us greatly enjoy that questioning perspective.
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  234. What a beautiful introduction to this topic, and have a happy birthday tomorrow!
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  235. Wake up bro, new Esoterica just dropped 😊
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  236. Your channel has become my favourite to watch before bed, I'm amazed by your honesty approaching different texts, it's really refreshing to get such unbiased religious information.
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  237. Absolutely wild that such a prolific man is hardly remembered, let alone accurately. Really looking forward to this series!
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  238. Dr. Sledge I cannot thank you enough for spending your time and making these videos. You have taught me so much in just the short time. I have listened to your teachings. I had no idea what esoterica was before last year. I've always had that drive to learn more and to be open minded. I would put my ear bud in at work while I was loading and unloading trailers. And listen to your videos. I believe it is very important to learn our history that was passed down from our ancestors that were highly educated and wanted to give us the answers to our past. And I am greatful that there are people in this world that are willing to continue that tradition and pass it on to others. Thank you.
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  239. So what I'm hearing is that the "Cathar heresy" is a very violent medieval version of the 1980s "Satanic panic".
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  240. Brilliant episode Dr. Sledgehammer. It’s an honor and a pleasure to be thinking and sharing alongside you, under the medieval shade of your wings ;)
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  241. This was so interesting, friend! I'm so grateful we have your educational content here on YouTube! 🥰
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  242. I just want to say that your youtube channel is a wonderful resource on some very rich and often talked about topics. I can't say I understand everything and because of the business of my own life I cannot delve as deeply as I would often like but I do appreciate anyone making their knowledge (and time) available for all the enjoy!
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  243. Lol. Can confirm ibis are universally known as "bin chickens" in Australia.
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  244. Ah, a heart warming topic. Fun for all the family :-)
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  245. This channel just keeps getting better and better. Really appreciate the amount of work you're throwing down.
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  246. Again, great work! I'm glad this came together so well, and that our videos complement each other in such a great way.
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  247. I just wanted to thank you for releasing this for free. You 100% have the ability and right to put this behind a paywall, yet you do not. Thank you. I would donate if I could, I hope my sincere appreciation helps keep the lights on 😅
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  248. Yahoo! I'm a big Gnerd when it comes to Gnosticism!! Thanks bro!
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  249. Your work is such a solace and a shelter. A magnificent episode.
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  250. I cast summon Dire Bear
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  251. I burst out laughing when you said she told him "I hope you get epilepsy." Maybe not an appropriate thing to laugh at, but it really caught me of guard. Very interesting video.
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  252. I have a complete colour reproduction of the Voynich Manuscript, it's called "The Voynich Manuscript" published by Beinecke Book & Manuscript Library, and is edited by Raymond Clemens. It cost about 100 GBP, and is wonderful. Its a complete, 1:1 size colour reproduction with many fold outs for the more complex diagrams. I've spent many hours engrossed in it, and would most highly recommend it to anyone with more than a passing interest.
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  253. Yes I know how important math is when you magic. I have played D&D.
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  254. As a career chemist, I genuinely appreciate the alchemical content you've presented. Thank you, sir!
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  255. Fantastic work, Dr Sledge. Thank you for continuing such divine scholarship to the masses, even despite the tragic recents events in your Detroit religious community. I hope for justice to arrive soon.
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  256. This video made me so happy. I don't even drink alcohol, but now I want to sit down and have a glass of absinthe with you.
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  257. I was one of the kids who had a daycare get an SRA accusation on them (1988). Sadly, I was actually being abused by a family member and losing my - I assume relatively safe - daycare left me in the care of a very abusive, very violent man. Unfortunately, I was also one of those kids whose abuser was able to prime to believe that I had suffered SRA from my daycare. Luckily my mother realized something (obviously not satanic) was off and she fled with me. Thanks for speaking on the topic.
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  258. Swedish archaeologist here. LOVED this episode.
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  259. Justin, if there are any shortcomings, they are certainly NOT due to your efforts. Quite simply, a magisterial introduction for the masses. Thank you!
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  260. Not looking forward to what it does to my recommended feed lol
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  261. I've been passionate about alchemy for over 15 years, which ultimately led me to pursue a career as a materials engineer. During my studies in metallurgy, I stumbled upon Biringuccio's "De la Pirotechnia," which resonated with the essence of alchemy. By that time, I approached a senior professor to explore the possibility of conducting research in this area. Unfortunately, there was limited expertise on the topic within the department. I often wonder if I'll ever have the opportunity to apply a scientific lens to alchemy from the perspectives of metallurgy and chemistry.
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  262. “huh, this looks like an interesting video” “aaaaaand there goes my evenings for the next week” great work!
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  263. Thank you, thank you, thank you! As an alumna myself, I am appalled by the behavior of the board and president. I'll be sharing this video and letting it play in the background all day to help rack up views. It's time to publicly shame the administration at this point.
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  264. 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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  265. i feel like making and wearing a talisman imbued with the properties of Venus in order to find a partner may actually work since it'd be a conversation starter
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  266. Your last video on Bataille has me spiraling down a rabbit hole. I've now read several essays and Story of the Eye. His complicated relationship with the literal sun has me fascinated.
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  267. No, brother, the honor is ALL mine! Thank you for putting in the kind of work and effort you do! :)
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  268. The fact that the descriptions of those terrifying "penetrator" demons is so torn up is just pure metal.
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  269. Dr. Sledge, I would like to thank you. The work you do here on this channel is one of the main things that has me going back to pursue degrees in philosophy and religious studies.
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  270. "The relationship between Yahweh and Israelites... Let's call it Rocky" UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, THANK YOU FOR YOU LECTURES!!! they are wonderful and very well founded.
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  271. Finally, someone separates real Stoicism from the people who've heard the phrase and just try to act stoic. I've grown to dislike people who use these ideas to be more successful. It's just shallow to the nth degree. As always, superbly eloquent Dr. Sledge.
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  272. Call me weird but your opening sequence is the only one that I don't skip through, its so relaxing and watchable that I let it play EVERY time. Me thinks you just shortened it :face-orange-frowning: Do you not care about my stress levels? Also, thanks so much for what you do.
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  273. Every video of yours is a new door opened to worlds I never knew existed. Thank you immeasurably.
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  274. As a Third Order Franciscan myself, I thank you for making this video. Most of us Tertiaries are far from Angela's commitment to Christ. This is comparable to the lives of St Clare of Assisi and St Theresa Lisieux.
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  275. Yes, congratulations Dr. Sledge. This honor is entirely deserved. I loved how the presenter called you one "of the most prominent voices" in the field of Hermetica studies. You must have felt a shiver up and down your spine when you heard those words! And maybe you thought it was an exaggeration? No, it wasn't. You clearly are a leading figure and your work as a "divulger" (as you certainly know this comes from the Latin verb "dis - vulgare", "to make public", as in the "Vulgata",) a prestigious title that applies to those who take complex and sometimes forbidding arguments for specialists and explain them effectively and honestly to the wider public. Thank you for your work.
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  276. Thanks for continuing to produce quality informative videos like this. This is fascinating to me, and it really does feel like the esoteric theological speculation of a group of people at a particular place and time influenced not only literary works like this, but also the development of early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, and as a result the nature of Western Culture itself. With my own faith background my mind immediately goes to the phrase "and is seated at the right hand of the Father" from the Nicean Creed. And since every word in the creed is there for a reason, they must have considered that important enough to include.
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  277. Dr. Sledge, really appreciate your take on all of this stuff. I feel like too many channels that get suggested to me by the algorithm are looking at gnostic christianity as a means to convert people and in all reality, I just want to learn about it objectively. Really appreciate your content. Keep it up!!
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  278. "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people." 😌 Well said.
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  279. I think the interest in the "dark side" of Kabbalah makes sense. After all, evil and suffering are the fundamental "problems" for us all. It's logical to want to understand these problems as best as we can.
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  280. The planetary seals/magic symbols on these books always look super interesting to me, and I'm glad you made a whole video on those back in the day. I enjoyed this one a lot!
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  281. Extremely unfussed Martyrdom Scenes are probably my favorite subset of Christian art. I'm not sure if it tends to be on purpose, but the bland faces on people being burned/stabbed/attacked by animals is the vibe I wish to approach all my problems with. "Well this isn't how I saw my day going, but ah well. Nothing much for it I suppose."
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  282. It seems ironic that I learn more about Christianity in an unbiased fashion from you, a Jewish scholar, than anywhere else. Thank you. I've long been distressed and disgusted by the antisemitism established early in the history of Christianity. I guess Christians didn't invent it but they sure have kept it alive and thriving. It never hurt anyone, you said. Right. I do appreciate your sarcasm. Thank you for your videos. I finally decided to comment. I've watched many of them and enjoy your presentations. You never come across as anti-christian and that speaks volumes on your character. May you and yours be blessed now and in the coming new year.
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  283. This right here is the fantasy of what the internet could (should?) be. Sharing of information, continuing to learn new things, and connecting with others. I'm so pumped for this class!
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  284. As a parent of a former Millsaps student, I am horrified by the treatment this tenured professor is receiving by the administration. They need to immediately right this situation and apologize!
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  285. This is an excellent lecture. Thank you for sharing your scholarship! Even if you are not a Christian, you present these ideas in a neutral, yet respectful manner. You have my respect.
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  286. The Pagans of Harran have long fascinated me and I’m so grateful for this wonderful episode. YOU are The Wizard In The House, Dr. Sledge!
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  287. "Mississippi Marcionites" sounds like an ill-advised college sports team mascot.
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  288. Thanks for your continued efforts to raise the level of the discourse and to create community among YouTubers!
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  289. I'm reminded of a poem I jotted down years ago by an Omar Khayyam for some reason: Up from Earth's, centre through the seventh gate I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate, And many a knot unraveld by the road; But not the master knot of human fate; There was the veil through which I might not see; There was the door to which I found no key: Some talk a while of me and thee There was-and then no more of thee and me!
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  290. Thank you Justin. It's an honor to call you a friend and a pleasure to be creating educational content alongside you on the topics we love. You set a high bar for the rest of us, both in your scholarship and your thoughtfulness. Looking forward to many more mystical, scholarly years together. With love, Zevi
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  291. “When one trades history for mythology, you do so with the currency of intellectual integrity” might be the hardest bar of the decade. 10:14 for those who want a reel-up
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  292. Esoterica is one of the very best classes on the internet. Thank you very much Justin.
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  293. I simply love when intellectuals gush about their respect for other intellectuals- it's actually pretty affirming!
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  294. Wow, I resonate with the idea of "unfaith" on such a visceral level. I sometimes tell people I went through an atheist detox - that in order to discover any kind of real faith I had to completely deny it. I feel so weirdly connected to this idea and I really want to read her work now!
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  295. My Godfather and Friend is a long time "student" of Thoth/Hermes. He stands centre on our Altar in the Main Room in our house. He even placed a pocket version of The Art Of War on it (my friend is an ex Army Officer, and as such holds a personal synergistic view of Esoterica and Martial school of Knowledge) An excellent video as always.
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  296. More recent subscriber here, and i gotta say this has quickly become my favorite channel. Its not easy to find intelligent serious looks into anything esoteric. An added plus is the humor, i laugh all the time
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  297. “Danish Navy Seal Demons” is my favorite Mercyful Fate album
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  298. I've never had a worthy reason to summon a spirit of any kind but it seems it would be more terrifying to summon Angels than Demons. Thank you for the video Dr. Sledge
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  299. Love your approach. I'm a Christian and a scientist, and hate the abuse of religion to fight against truth in science and history.
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  300. It's crazy that I've been watching Dr. Sledge for almost 2 years now, feels like I've gotten a true degree in esoterica that you wouldn't find in actual schools. My college had barely any esoteric classes besides a Mysticism of East&West course I took during my bachelors (with a dope teacher), and a lot of my philosophy course teachers knew nothing about these topics or thought they weren't important or "too spiritual/religious?" for some reason. We need more teachers like Dr. Sledge!
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  301. As a queer person this is an immensely powerful text for me. For me, queerness represents a paradoxical, negational, and fundamentally inscrutable identity to the exclusion of establishment concepts. This subversively queer nature rings eerily loud in Thunder, imo. I am thoroughly convinced this was written from a queer perspective, even if that meant something different in context than how we use the term today, it feels like someone speaking from a position outside of conventional social structures especially with regard to gender and sexuality.
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  302. In modern English we still reference the hair of a dog in hangover cures. To take ‘the hair of the dog that bit you’ means to combat an alcohol induced hangover by drinking more alcohol (staying drunk). Fascinating that the association has such a long history.
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  303. 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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  304. 'Maybe I WAS a necromancer' is officially what I want on my gravestone now 😂
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  305. "One part of the science of magic is practical, on account of how it works by operating with spirit on spirit, making those things similar that are not so by their essence. However, working with images involves spirit on matter, and alchemical work involves matter on matter " - Author of the Ghāyāt al-Hakim (an alchemist, also author of the Rutbat al-Hakim)
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  306. "Untranslatable magic words" Sounds like a good way to add locusts or more fire to our current problems.
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  307. Very unfortunate and frustrating that the first upload has to be taken down for unfair reasons - commenting to boost the video in the algorithm! This interview is very eye-opening and inspiring for an aspiring uk-based cultural heritage practitioner like myself.
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  308. "A Gnostic Rom Com with George Clooney and Julia Roberts in the staring rolls?!" I laughed until tears came down. You are a funny man.
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  309. I shall now 𝕲𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖙𝖍 my way through Burke and the Castle Of Otranto. (And yes, I have read The Silmarillion. 😁)
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  310. I was a teenager in the '80s and remember how this was just constantly in the news. Thanks for the courage in sharing your own personal connection to this topic.
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  311. You've got something about you You've got something I need Daughter of Aphrodite Hear my words and take heed I was born on Olympus To my father a son I was raised by the demons Trained to reign as the one God of thunder and rock and roll The spell you're under Will slowly rob you of your virgin soul
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  312. Thank you for everything that you do! It's a pleasure to learn new things not only from your videos but also from our conversations. Looking forward to the coming twelve months!
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  313. Only guy I have seen who can make a dispassionate and intellectual video about these subjects.
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  314. The church fathers’ writing as an RPG manual is absolutely hilarious
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  315. It's a humbling honour to be able to listen and watch your lectures, doctor. I thank you and I thank God through gratitude towards the channel supporters
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  316. I have studied the occult for the last 9 years, and this channel is a wonderful discovery. The information is densely packed and well researched and cited, with great insight offered by a professional academic - this channel is a true joy for people that love history and occult subject matter, myself included.
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  317. Your ability to take extremely intricate and normally confusing concepts and break them down in an understandable way is awesome. Rock on man l..l,
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  318. There is this neat little thing here with how modern science obfuscates its relationship with the hermetic arts. One wonders if things like the systematic under appraisal of Agrippa or idiosyncratic choices by Betz in translating the PGM are echoes of this fear of god (or rather of the inquisition's temporal justice) the inquisition drilled into the forbears of Science. (how did alchemists avoid becoming sorcerers? Rebrand! Drop the islamicate al' prefix & add the anglicized -ery the discipline name) Edit: did perhaps the inquisition indeed succeed in driving all spiritual matters to its domain, leaving the science completely orientated to the material?
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  319. I recently read about seismic forces on volcanic quartz causing piezoelectric electrolysis with underground water, creating deposits of gold deep within the earth. If that ain't alchemy, I don't know what is.
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  320. Doc, you know this is your best work yet, simply brilliant. I absolutely love watching you get better at this, it is half the fun. Thanks for including the readings, some of us are getting old and reading gets harder, you make this accessible.
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  321. Glad FIRE is involved. They do good work and they’re not partisan. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
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  322. I tried the hunger spell and an arcangel appeared in the form of a doordash driver and gave me a Howlin' Ray's chicken sandwich.
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  323. Out of all the videos you make, it's usually the medieval stuff that interests me the least, but this was absolutely fascinating! Thanks to The Modern Hermeticist as well, as someone who is legally blind, I appreciate creators like him that make these texts accessible.
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  324. Never get tired of lectures on alchemy, especially by you Dr. Sledge
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  325. I misheard the “tutorial” talisman as for getting rid of Scorpios, not Scorpions.
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  326. These are not the values I was taught at Millsaps and it is a complete public outrage. I’m so glad you’re standing up for him and I stand with you. #justiceforJames
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  327. Engaging and excellent content as always Dr. Sledge! Thanks for the shout-out to my edition and translation. Wow – I’m an O.G now? Haha. Note: In my forthcoming 3rd edition of John Dee’s Mysteriorum Libri Quinque I argue that Dee probably also owned Sloane 3854. Also, my edition + translation of Liber Trium Animarum is available in print at a very reasonable price.
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  328. Dr Sledge, your delivery of the subject matter is amazing. You bring sound scholarly analysis with a good amount of humour and explain the topic clearly enough for a layman like myself to sort of get it. Thank you for your work.
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  329. Absolutely wonderful class Dr. Sledge. As a Gnostic, you’ve no idea how thankful I am that someone covers things like Kabbalah, Gnosticism, and Hermeticism through a scholarly and historical perspective. Theirs waaaay too much new age misinformation out there, you get straight to the facts! God bless you.
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  330. Wow this was such a great video. I didn't really get how the Egyptians influenced so much of our concept of the soul in the West. Pretty cool stuff! All those Greeks going to Egypt sound like people going to burning man lol.
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  331. We're kidnapping a priest and shaking God down for his lunch money with this one.
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  332. Mithras/ism is missing from the history books. Thank you for covering it!
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  333. Favorite. Episode. Ever. I've been stuck in this rabbit hole for a while now, but this synopsis style video covering so much at once (while really only talking about a single barely recognized object) is fantastic. It gives a sense of the whole exactly in the way I think you inteded it to (for myself at least). Quite a "Gnostic" experience, thank you. Cant wait to get some HWA merch! Still debating if I wanna wear a shirt with a demon mirror on it - but maybe... hmmm... treasure...
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  334. I really can’t think of ANYONE who can insightfully name-drop David Koresh & Oppenheimer in the same breath. Well-played Dr. Sledge…well-played. A truly compelling video.
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  335. But Dr Justin you made an awesome D&D joke so you are forgiven
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  336. 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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  337.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yes, one of my curatorial missions is to bring out the dark side, the esoteric side of our artifacts since prehistory onwards. This channel inspires me
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  338. "The Goddess in the House of Night" would be an excellent title for a prog-rock album, and it would go well with the right kind and quantity of drugs to make Parmenides' revelation make sense. That was great fun.
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  339. This is an amazing video. When I was a kid, I wished I could travel back in time to when the library was in it's heyday. Little did I know that my local university probably had more texts in Ancient Greek than the Great Library ever did. I also want to reiterate your recommendation of Al Muqaddimah and also recommend Premodernist's video on this topic.
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  340. I've been binge watching your content for the past few days. Making subjects as dense as esotericism accessable is a sign of a damn fine teacher indeed. Sincerest thanks, Dr Sledge.
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  341. So good! I LOVE the idea of the 4 women evangelists. Filing that away for a painting idea down the road.
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  342. I can tell that you are still recovering. And I just went down with my own illness, again. I admire your dedication to your work, and us (thank you) and perseverance in the face of the evil microscopic invaders. Get well, kick their viral asses!
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  343. Great video! I've always been fascinated with the Albigensian Crusade, and always knew it was political (Languedoc and Provence had far stronger cultural and political ties to Catalonia than France), and felt that any heresy was just the excuse. I think this is the first time I've encountered the argument that the Cathars never even existed, and now I'm going to dive into the rabbit hole...
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  344. Hi dr. Sledge at the end of last year I found one of your videos on Gnosticism. I was losing my faith on everything my spirituality was lost . Because of that video my spirituality is stronger than ever. I’ve started studying history occultism and esotericism . I’ve read now so many books i stopped counted. I also bought the book : the mirror of simple souls because of your video on Marguerite Porete . Thank you a 1000 time for your work . God bless you and your family
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  345. Dude?! Alchemical experiments at 15 and crystal radios? You are so awesome.
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  346. Loved this deep dive! I was raised in the Greek Orthodox tradition and treasure it…with ambivalence (I also have deep Manichaean tendencies). I’m grateful for perspective your on the Early Church Fathers and for clarifying much about Zoroastrian history in this video. I can’t wait for you to do a deep dive on Zoroastrianism!
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  347. This was an awesome video. I'm surprised there isn't more on Thoth specifically as opposed to his later Greco-Egyptian forms. When I checked the citations of Boylan's book on Google Scholar, I mostly got stuff on Hermes. Weirdly, the top result was Martin Bernal's book, which I'd love to see you cover one day. Maybe that's beyond the scope of this channel, but your nuanced approach to topics like that would be very welcome. Thanks for this awesome video!
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  348. Thanks!
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  349. Hoping you and your family are all on the mend and feeling better now.
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  350.  @arete7884  I mean, he has never been well regarded by anyone other than reactionary conservatives. He became relevant for saying that the canadian law protecting transgender people would mean he would be jailed for using the wrong pronouns(the law passed and in the years since that hasn't happened once) and pretty much anyone who has knowledge of the things he says (for example, Justin here who is a scholar of history) knows that Peterson is objectively wrong in almost everything he claims.
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  351. I found your channel a few days ago and have been bingeing it since! This is definitely a video I’ll return to. I grew up a Pentecostal Christian fundamentalist, so everything surrounding Acts and Paul was extremely important. I can’t think of a single sermon I’d listen to that didn’t ever mention him or what he did. Paul being an apocalyptic mystic makes SO much more sense than just all of a sudden Jesus showing himself and he decided to not imprison Christians because of it. I’m no longer Christian, but learning more about religious history and context is always fun and this video was a huge nerd moment for me!
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  352. Very interesting topic, and a little disappointing to the deist that still lives somewhere in me. Growing up with the Bible it always seemed that God was just more active back in the day while Judaism was being established, then everyone passed down those stories/myths and did with them what they would. I was not expecting this type of origin story for Yahweh himself.
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  353. Such a great and fascinating deep dive! Honored to have shared this Abulafia project with you!
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  354. Wonderful video, as always! Thank you for your work (fellow prisoner 😉). It's great to encounter someone who knows what he's talking about! I've been interested in Gnosticism for the past 15 years and I've heard so much BS over the years... It's also nice to see some cool art (Zdzisław Beksiński, Nicholas Roerich, etc.).
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  355. Whenever I see all the illustrations of women in tubs connected by pipes, it looks to me like some sort of symbolic representation of a process. But then, I've been a computer programmer for years and have looked at lots of flow charts, process charts, state machines, and data flow diagrams, so that is definitely influencing how I process images like these.
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  356. On another topic, I'd just like to wish Jake Stratton-Kent well has had an unfortunate turn of health this week. I'm sure that many Esoterica subscribers will be familiar with his work
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  357. "Abyssated - Oh Unknown Nothingness" Man this channel is amazing for death metal song titles
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  358. something i'd recommend is setting the titles to each section as headers to populate the outline and make it easier to go through. if you switch it to pageless mode (under Format) it'll also be cleaner to read on a computer. i'm excited to have a list like this
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  359. I’m extremely happy you made a video on these two silver amulets! Ever since you talked about them briefly in your Kabbalah series, they’ve lived in my mind rent free as objects of wonder and gladness at their survival through the years and subsequent discovery. I wish their existence was more widely known because they’re such absolutely fascinating objects. Thanks for the video!
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  360. Haha, the trident of boners. That was a funny story. Robert Fludd was a proponent of the weapon salve, swore by it although many people were suspicious of its diabolicalness. One thing that blows my mind about the Renaissance is that these guys could, at just about any time, be condemned for sorcery. People nowadays are afraid of being cancelled on social media, I cannot even fathom being burned alive for my beliefs. These guys were total bad asses, especially revolutionary thinkers like Paracelsus. Fearless confidence.
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  361. So: watch this space for the classic of the late first-quarter of the twenty-first century grimoire tradition, the Malleus Justini Sledgii. ;) (Sorry...couldn't resist!)
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  362. chappel roan being mentioned in this video was NOT expected
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  363. "...and eventually become a fully Akhtivated Akh." Don't you dare think that went unnoticed.
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  364. To me the pistis Sophia is very important. Important to merit its length. Pistis sophia is the Jewish? Gnostic? Iamblikus. Here’s where we learn about the travels of the heavens. As those people traveled in the planet, they were grateful to know of the dangers they could encounter. In a similar manner the pistis Sophia is a sort of travel guide of the underworld in my opinion. Thank you for the great episode Sir. ❤
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  365. Great appreciation for the 'this is fine' joke.
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  366. This video is so much more than a great companion of the Let's talk religion counterpart video. Keep up the good work Dr Sledge and I hope you do a video on Orthodox Christianity soon.
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  367. Aka J-Ditty.... The subtle jokes on this channel are seriously the best. Thank you DJ Sledge
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  368. You had me from “deep introverted meditation.”
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  369. The AI bots have been terrible, Thankyou Dr Sledge for making free videos on collage level courses on philosophy and religion for all of us on YouTube, hope the bots calm down.
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  370. sneakily checks calendar
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  371. I'm practically furious I'd never heard of this woman before. This so throughly vibes with the representation of suffering i was taught as a child that pushed me away from the church. Just hiding her fullness to further whitewash what they taught...
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  372. This was a sublime and fascinating lecture. The hours of research you distilled here down to one video are remarkable. You've definitely earned another subscriber!
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  373. I literally didn’t believe your channel was real, that’s how cool your topics of interest are in these videos. I thought you were a nutjob. Instead, I get that good good deeply sourced academic history.
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  374. The scroll demonstration was fascinating. I know scrolls were and are a thing, but seeing one actually rolled and unrolled like that gives me an appreciation for the difficulty of using and storing scrolls. Thanks.
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  375. The scholarly and personable approach to this material is inspiring. Thanks
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  376. Great work. I enjoyed the extra humor in the episode. I'm looking forward to the catalog of books. Maybe a series on Bernard of Clairvaux in the future.
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  377. I do appreciate your subtle, dry sense of humor.
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  378. It's really interesting how the Kabbalist view evil as a sort of ontological literal thing and not just a privation of the Good like most Monotheistic theologians at the time. It almost reminds me of late Zoroastrian beliefs in a way. Thank you for the episode, Dr!
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  379. I have my popcorn at the ready. Been waiting for this the ENTIRE week.
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  380. Such a delight! (in a somber sense) thank you for posting the link to the woodcuts. Back in the good old days at University, studying art history, I tried (unsuccessfully) to delve deeper into medieval woodcuts depicting the inquisition. My professors did not consider them art. It would have been fascinating to really look into them, outside the usual religious art and do a quasi (very speculative) study on social constructs of the period and region. I love this kind of stuff and your presentation as always is top notch! Thank you 😊
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  381. It's refreshing to see these subjects treated upon in a sober, scholastic, yet sympathetic fashion, without the juvenile and frankly embarrassing claims of magical powers or dubious first-hand experiences which always seem to attend any such discussions. Thank you.
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  382. It’s amazing how much light emanates from ‘the dark ages.’
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  383. Hey Justin i really appreciate your effort in putting out weekly content that must be grueling turn-around time for such consistency and it makes my friday. I fell asleeo to a kot of your videos on paternity leave. Do you have any more William Blake in the oven? You implied you were working on more at the end of your Blake video and I'm fascinated by his mythopoeia, plus I feel like his particular brand of anarchism is some sort of starting point for spiritual reconstruction. As a rec, you should check out the band La Armada. They're a dominican punk band now living in chicago, but their sound leans more toward metal I think you'd appreciate. Thank you for always putting these up for free, helps me keep my academic aspirations alive despite the evidence for the fact that I'll never finish my degree lol
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  384. This idea of encoding (or "discovering") powerful sigils and then tapping into their potency by storing them deep within the mind reminds me a lot of the Caryll Runes found in Bloodborne, a game heavily steeped in Gothic and Lovecraftian occultism. The idea of "vacuity" of mind being a purer form of consciousness which leaves one more open to communion with greater cosmic powers is also explicitly present in the game. Very interesting―I knew little about Spare, so this was quite enlightening. Thank you, as always!
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  385. Hi Justin Sledge! Welcome to the audience!
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  386. "If you want aeons, they got aeons. They got aeons for days around here" 😂 That cracked me up!
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  387. This is among my favorite episodes on this stellar channel. Interesting and delightful thru and thru. I suppose it’s because Dr Justin is bringing his usual childlike wonder and academic rigor to a topic with which i thought i was familiar, thanks to my Protestant upbringing. I also found the inclusive closing message downright moving. That’s probably due in part to my growing affection for Dr Justin, along with (perhaps!) the Irish whiskey i’ve been enjoying while i listened. 😋
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  388. i think it would be really cool to see you go over the silent scandinavian movie "Haxan" from the 1920s (it has been translated) it claims itself to be what amounts to a documentary on witchcraft of that time and older. it would super interesting to see someone so knowledgable on these subjects weighing in on it. i also think it is in the domain for fair use now, as it is over 100 years old.
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  389. Dear Dr Sledge, You are among the only acedemics that do not treat the book of Mormon as a punchline and I am grateful for it.
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  390. "support your local occult oil maker" , ha ! I love this channel.
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  391. Dr. Sledge. Thank you for your unfailing scholarship and presentation. You never fail to impress.
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  392. 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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  393. It would have been really interesting if you brought on board a chemical engineer to try and figure out what kind of chemical compound(s) you actually ended up making at the end.
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  394. 'bird hitting a window is always a bad sign in movies' (very paraphrased) - reminds me of the practice of augurs in ancient Rome.
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  395. Great episode. I'm reminded of a long running question I've had about the prehistory of the goetia: how are the seals constructed? Like how do we get from the characters of the PGM era to the seals in Dr Rudd. Was way cool to see the earlier seal of Solomon design from the Harley MS.
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  396. Honestly you are one of the most brilliant thinkers and teachers of our time. Thank you 🙏🏼 so much ! Shalom
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  397. Please don't ever change, Sir. You have a very soothing effect on me... I'm sorry if my comments are out of place. But sometimes even simply watching and listening to a beautiful person such as yourself speak can have a very healing and comforting effect. I appreciate your erudition and sometimes I even find myself interested in the topics you're talking about, even though that's not the main reason I subscribed to you. Sending love and positive thoughts from here, from Romania. Signed respectfully, an ex-christian lonely man who tries to navigate his way through life. Cheers and all the best to you, Mr. Sledge!
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  398. If I have to be honest, coming from an East Asian background (Taiwanese specifically), I've never actually been exposed to spiritual alchemy before, and I've always understood alchemy as purely just "Medieval science", so this was actually a really interesting exploration into an entirely different interpretation of alchemy that I had simply never known before.
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  399. Can I say that I am loving this series for the historical context as a gentile. It's super interesting to see how thing progress along other world events.
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  400. Thank you Dr Sledge. I have been studying the Book of Jeu since your first mentioned it. In my opinion, the book is the foundation of Masonic, Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn traditions. The use of tokens, knowledge and treasuries is very similar to tokens, grips, knowledge lectures and grades. I think that the Book of Jeu can be used a complete magical system like the golden dawn but more beautiful and complete.
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  401. Scary/spooky stories are a traditional part of Europe’s solstice celebration. “The Green Knight”, “Childermas”, even a “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Thanks again for another wonderful upload. Happy Hanukkah to you & yours.
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  402. If all his contemporaries were wrong, then he is not foolish. He is a hero for getting things wrong, so we could learn to get it right.
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  403. This is one of the best channels that has ever been on YouTube. Quality is incredible I’m so grateful
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  404. Absolutely worth the entire 75 minutes. Details that I would never have known (and really, how could I?) give such a more savory taste to what we know about the inquisition.
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  405. I wonder... have you seen Crecganford's videos on healing magic? There's a lot of 'the microcosm imitates the macrocosm' in old Indo-European folk magic. I would love a collaboration between you two. Edit: I have on my wall a (simplified) chart of the various biochemical pathways in a cell, including how we transform food into human flesh. I wonder what Paracelsus would have thought of it, if he was brought up to speed with modern biochemistry.
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  406.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you for the kind words. In its own way, Zoroastrians and Jews being friendly feels like keeping a 2,500 year tradition alive. I agree about the Magi too, there are a lot of things debatably added by them that seem very contrary to the teachings of Zarathushtra, yet are still accepted by many even today. It’s all so fascinating 🙏
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  407. Doc is such a kind soul, hes sharing his expertise with world and creating a coalition to explore all avenues even modern . His sense of kindness illumines all that he does... i have appreciated his work since early days..❤ to Doc religon tube and the supporters. Thank you for all you do and the community..
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  408. Hi Doc Sledge. I stayed up until 1 in the morning to tell you "Happy Teachers' Day"! Hope you have a good one and thank you for doing what you do.
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  409. Kind of surreal to think of Yahweh "leveling up" especially during humanity's short existence, when we are told to think of him as eternal. Hebrew and Christian scriptures seem to be equally critical of humans creating their own gods and then worshiping them, but the big guy himself is a man made amalgamation?
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  410. Your sense of humor really adds a little something extra 😅, love your content as a new subscriber thank you 🙏🏼
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  411. I'm furious with how brilliant that interpretation was. Absolutely unmatched in scholarship.
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  412. This is absolutely fascinating. There is so much here that I feel I’d need to watch several times, and take notes, and/or look into the reading, in order to go deeper. The different forms and modes of experiencing love are quite intriguing (making me want to map/contemplate them). But I’m also struck by your (her) description of the abyss, and the betrayal of love, IN ORDER to experience it most deeply. I feel the pain and tension of duality and unity, most acutely, here. The dance of polarity, of opposites, in order to experience unity. So thought provoking. Thank you for this. 🙏🏻💛
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  413. Witches Did It is an awesome band name, or at least an album title.
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  414. Best part of the week is the new Esoterica lecture, thanks Dr. Sledge!
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  415. Happy birthday, Dr. Sledge! I hope that your day is full of blessings and joy! It’s well known you love books on treasure magic, but when you bring us your incredible work here on esoterica, your magical scholarly videos makes you the true treasure found therein! Again, happy birthday, and Shabbat shalom!
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  416. Oddly enough, the enochian stuff has been a huge influence on the band Tool, especially the drummer Danny Carey. Their new album is called Fear Inoculum which can be said Fear Enoch-ulum. There’s tons of references beyond that. Big hello from Memphis
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  417. This brilliant blend of academia and entertainment proves that it’s totally possible to deliver the latter without sacrificing the former. 🔥
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  418. I knew of Wahdat Al Wajud, but never realized there were other Unity of Being philosophies appearing from different traditions. It’s a killer for sure
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  419. “I like big books and I cannot lie” my intellectual mind in a millisecond flipped to utter hilarity mode and I almost choked on my drink🤣🤣🤣 Your channel is amazing. I’ll be rendering a monetary token of appreciation very soon…It won’t be big bucks because I’m old, ill, and poor but it’ll buy you a coffee or a beer and will be proffered to you with love and respect. Sledgemeister Magnificento🙏❤️‍🔥🙏
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  420. Side note: spiritualists in Mexico were heavily involved in kick-starting the Mexican revolution
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  421. I LOVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR!!! You're so seriously minded and academic in your content and then there's a joke, and often a witty and intellectual joke too!! They catch me of guard every time! And I love it!
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  422. Thoth is my patron. So excited for this video. He's such an important part of the pantheon, yet, there's relatively few myths centered around him.
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  423. I live in South Africa. Whilst listening to the section where you describe the types of people (mainly post menopausal and sometimes mentally ill women) as well as where you described the punishment just beforehand, I couldn't help but draw the chilling parallels to current ongoing mob murders due to people being accused of being witches in South Africa, and through other countries in Africa - also live burnings being a main tool. It completely blows my mind that it is still a practice and much more common than one would expect.
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  424. Thank you for this page. I'd give more if I could. I have a MA in Religious Studies from Union Theological Seminary and did work at Jewish Theological and Columbia as well. I focused on Syriac Christianity, early Jewish-Christian relations, and ancient magic so this page is a godsend. Thanks again.
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  425. Whenever one member of the divine council says to another, "hold my beer," you know there will be hell to pay on earth.
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  426.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Perhaps women were thought to be more susceptible to the demonic because they could both relate to the men in their life treating them like their mother 😁
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  427. God has led me on this journey of exploration and this is the first real video where I feel like the origin of something I love has been put before me in an easily digestible way. From a 25 year old student thanks :)
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  428. Thank you for your time, effort, and dry enthusiasm! I honestly can’t believe this content is available freely to us mortals. I’m looking forward to what is coming next!
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  429. Best takeaway: Never invite a prophet to your party 😂 But seriously, this is very interesting and informative, and your humor keeps the content from getting too dry, no matter how dry it (humor) is,👍
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  430. Dr. Sledge, your gentle humor makes these complex subjects much more accessible.
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  431. Ive had the pleasure of working with Dr Dzwiza through her kickstarter. She is genuinely passionate about this work, super willing to answer questions and share insights. I named one of the magic signs she had offered (an anti demon sign) and she took the time to compile some information for me on my sign, how it was used etc. Very thoughtful and just generally a pleasure to deal with.
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  432. One of the best parts of my week is watching these videos. Thank you for all your hard work!!
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  433. That paradox is also in the Picatrix: what is the goal of the sage? Perfect Nature. What is Perfect Nature? The culmination of all science and philosophy. How do you achieve perfect nature? By performing magic. How do you perform magic? By mastering all of science and philosophy.
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  434.  @TheEsotericaChannel  FAIR, my first language is French, sorry But, I do agree with every criticism you gave to academic philosophy.
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  435. Fascinating discussion! Even as a non-practitioner of anything (aka agnostic), it was interesting to hear the discussion of Thorn's and Marco's communities and how the pandemic affected. Thanks to all of you!
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  436. This guy is such a pleasure to learn from. The very best kind of philosophical/religious/what have you teacher. The kind that, while having his own beliefs, is happy to help you learn all aspects of these topics that there are, so that you can make your own conclusions and find your own way. If only all leaders of the spiritual side of life taught like this. 🙏
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  437. What a delight. We're lucky to have you here sharing this amazing work.
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  438. I found this video very cathartic... I'll show myself out.
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  439. Oh how I'd love to converse with experts, in a group, preferably alive, about these things
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  440. Your voice cadence, your entire online demeanor is so engaging. Such excellent work. Your videos answer questions that have haunted me for so long. I am so glad you found your calling, he said selfishly. And yes I have sent $$$, worth every penny. You have rounded out my Golden Dawn lessons and made them meaningful to my Jewish heritage which I struggled with and no longer do. At peace now, thank you brother.
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  441. His dry comedic delivery and overall sense of humor/wit continue to slay me (in the very best of ways, mind you). 👌👏
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  442. This is extremely well written, as is most episodes. Your research is profound and awesome, can’t wait for more about early Judaic literature and Messianic literature.
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  443. Dr.Sledge your commitment to researching theology in an interesting and accurate manner is appreciated
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  444. Excellent video! You mentioning Pistis Sophia several times really makes me want to hear your take on that massive text. That should be quite the interesting video whenever you get around to it (hopefully sooner than later).
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  445. Dr Sledge, you have no idea how much I wanted to stand up and applaud just now. Bravo! Sing it, preach it, let the not rich people have access to affordable translations of these wonderful old books. Nearest university to me that ‘might’ have copies of any of the high dollar translations of hermetics, etc…. Probably 250 miles from me. (This being ‘the south’ don’t even know if they allow such in their libraries. 🙄) I’m old now, never had college education. (Religion I was raised in forbade it.) But by crackety they couldn’t stop me from reading. You sir, are a breath of fresh air. And I thank you. (And yes, I ordered the book. 😆)
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  446. Very well done! Thank you so much, Dr. Sledge. Compelling and fascinating as always.
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  447. I am amazed how this channel can continuously put out amazing content. So many complex topics explained in a way that isn't too difficult to follow.
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  448. I've been meaning to do this for a while now. I really enjoy your material. Cheers! I can't bear to imagine what these Ancient Peoples must've gone through - you find your baby dead in the crib and then you hear a screech owl somewhere outside not knowing what it is. No wonder the Lilith figure has survived for so long. Jesus.
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  449. It would be amazing to hear more about alchemy in early America. Also love the idea of an alchemy lab “tour.” 🕯️⚗️🧪Another great video. Thank you!
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  450. Riveting! It rings so true that these esoteric teachings existed. I love the emphasis on experience in addition to book learning - being a musician, I feel music gives us to a chance to wheel through the cosmos in straight up arithmetic and geometry. Very interesting point about many present day spiritual paths not tapping into numbers much beyond a bit of numerology here and there. Also loved the notion of raising group energy and experiencing a new reality as a result. You’re making this space for us right here!
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  451. Thank you for this lecture.
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  452. The author of "The Lord of the Rings" in his notes indicated that Ravenna served as the prototype of the fortress city of Minas Tirith. However, I think that the fortress of Masada also influenced this image. The Aragorn character and the Stewards of Gondor is clearly a reference to the Merovingians (there is an assumption that the Merovingians of Jewish origin) and thе Mayors who replaced them. Elves also have clear Jewish attributes and names. It would be interesting to analyze "The Lord of the Rings" from the point of view of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
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  453. I’ve been listening to your channel for months. I came across it when the algorithm suggested it, probably because I got into more new age things? It’s been so interesting to learn the actual history, and your voice is so nice, it’s gotten me through a lot. Thank you!!
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  454. I can't believe I put Collisson's translation out there 14 years ago. Anyway, I added English translations of the Latin passages in footnotes now.
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  455. After spending so much time consuming occult/esoteric knowledge on youtube via lectures etc..THIS was the channel I've long been searching for. This video along with your incredible guest speaker made 45 minutes fly by like nothing. Thank you Justin for your contribution.
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  456. Thank you. I am a direct descendant of John Alden, who was lucky to be a survivor of the Salem Trials, but never knew about the frenzy in Connecticut. All witch trial victims should be posthumously pardoned and their killers condemned.
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  457. I’ve never heard of this guy before. Thanks for the episode. Is there a published method for his astrological method? ❤
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  458. I think you provide a very serious service to mankind, and are absolutely the only channel worth financially backing. Im in no way being a sycophant, I honestly believe this. There is a profound gaping hole in the world where finding meaning, or even a reason to continue to even exist is falling away. That is a horrible state of affairs in every nation. Here are a slew of answers ( to that condition) in a massive spectrum.
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  459. The Talmud , "Dreams are 1/60 prophecy." Agrippa, "Those are rookie numbers, you gotta bump those numbers up."
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  460. Just popping in here to say as a pagan who's patron is Set, I was pleasantly surprised by the care, understanding, and general non-hatred towards him that is not seen in most modern media. Even "educational" texts and documentaries focus on the latter demonificiation of Set, and refuse to dig deeper into the more ancient practices of his worship. You have made my Sethian heart so happy, Dr Sledge. Please accept the heartfelt hug. 🫂💜💙
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  461. Dr. Sledge is an awesome superhero name. Also? I love your sense of humor, and you'd be welcome at my D&D table any game night. Thanks for breaking down these esoteric topics suitably for lay persons; I find them fascinating, even though I don't have the time or the right kind of mind to sus it all out for myself.
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  462. I never heard of the Heptameron, but now I need it in my collection right next to the keys of Solomon. Angel and "fallen angel" magic has been fascinating to me. Something intrigues me about the kind of will and mind one must have to feel that one can control such powers. Time to grab a copy! Also, new Evil Dead sequel WHEN?! Would definitely watch that
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  463. The realm of "white magic" is one of my absolute favorites (ignoring the modern version that has many dark rabbit holes). It's a fascinating mix of esoteric practice and dedicated faith. Thanks, Dr. Sledge!
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  464. Probably become a mobile game though, "Beguines vs Witches," and be totally pay-to-win. Habit +5 vs Sorcery be like $200 with all the microtransactions.
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  465. Eeehh, I've got a long way to go :D Beautiful collection, sir! Thank you for sharing! And congratulations on 100k! Very well deserved, and many more!
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  466. Thumbs up if you also think that a blackletter press edition of this book would be a nice idea.
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  467. Outstanding! More scholarly Chaos Magic-related videos are incredibly appreciated.
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  468. I am not sure how I found your page but I have wanted to do this work all of my life. Knowledge that everyone discards, I want to know all about it and spend decades immersed in it. I am looking forward to more of your work. Thank You!
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  469. Always cool when you go into some of the Postmodernist Continentals. Do more things like this, and Deleuze
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  470. "choke slam of the Absolute".
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  471. I dig your alchemy day idea. We'll see what we can do about that.
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  472. Perfect timing Purim, new Raz, Easter’s….. so interested in this ! Again your work is fantastic !!!!! Your brilliant and intriguing presentation is wonderful,Sir. Thank you !
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  473. Man. This is soul crushing to have learned from you however thank you for this. I am not an academic in any stretch of the word in any degree other than by thy self. Yet on my hunt for higher power I find Egypt and Thoth followings to seem to be the original sums of most religious followings in most ways. I appreciate your outlook on this issue. I felt like some videos and lack of much able to find online about it hit me wrong and now I see why. Love the channel. This was the most metal gift ever!
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  474. Awesome, that Sophia VPN sounds awesome. I just can't time travel just yet.
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  475. As someone who at least once a month thinks about the myth of the library of Alexandria I'm so here for this video 🙌
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  476. Once again many thanks for your wonderful research and lively presentations. King James was one of the most highly educated men of his time... and still came up with consistently high levels of brutality. For more misogyny (and ''Biblical authority'' contra proto-science) take a peep at the case of Euphemia MacLean (aka Eufame MacCalzean). Supposedly one of the key ''facts'' which clinched the conviction and multi-execution was the use of anaesthetics during a difficult chilbirth.... which must surely be Satanic, for it contravenes the Christian mis-reading ot Genesis 3:16, supposedly setting out painful childbirth as Eve's rightful punishment. Euphemia was as you say foredoomed anyway for mixing in the wrong circles: she was sentenced to be ''burned to ashes, quick'' ( quick in this case meaing ''alive'', without the ''mercy'' of prior strangulation). I've got links to some old History-Of-Anaethesiology journal articles if anyone wants more gruesome details. Again, sincere thanks for all your hard work. M X
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  477. Thanks you so much for literally all of your hard work, and I'm so excited for the new mirror of Lilith merch! I love your work so much, and your channel a ton! Seeing this video made my day, and I enjoyed learning while on my lunch break at work.
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  478. I hope you'll do this again in the future! I'm definitely a few years away from having 'world adventure' money lmfao
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  479. Hey Justin! Just realised I never mentioned this. I’m writing a comic book within which I wanna include lots of world mythology and esoteric/occult inspiration. Your videos are not only a treasure trove for such inspiration, but really opened my eyes to the ways people have studied and perceived occult practised throughout the ages. Thank you so much for your hard work! Hopefully I’ll get to show you mine someday!!
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  480. Happy Birthday Dr. Sledge. Your content has been most enlightening and frankly helped me recover from a bad spiritual stint by sobering my mind and bringing myself out of the trenches of dogma. Thank you!
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  481. Wow, that's really fascinating! I'm very glad that we've recovered those Ugaritic tablets. Thank you for your wonderful scholarship.
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  482. I forgot to thank you for your work!! Tapadh Leat!
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  483. as someone descended from Anusim and who is getting better at deciphering Medieval Spanish Inquisition records: THANK YOU. This is extremely relevant to my interests! While some of the Mexican records are banal, others are indeed horrifying. It's chilling how pervasive this campaign was, and how many thousands of lives it touched, even to now.
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  484. I love your channel so much. Your niche videos on religion and demons especially trigger my interest, the way you deliver the information is so satisfyingly informative but also relaxing. As a coincidence you happen to look facially a lot like my older brother, who is 10 years my senior and would tell me stories from video games and sometimes real world phenomena kind of like how you do. It's a bit of a stretch but watching you makes me feel nostalgic.
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  485. As an amateur book binder, this is my JAM!! So fun to see the pictures of the process. Thank you so much for this video!
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  486. 30:37 - "and later in Canada, it would become ' Ba'al-z'aboot,' the Canadian Devil."
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  487. we out here
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  488. So nice of Dr. Sledge to throw Carl Jung a bone. 😂
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  489. Thanks for sharing, Professor. Vulnerability’s never easy, but it really cements the harm done here. I hope you’ve found some healing as the years pass. I do actually remember some Satanic Panic in the ‘00s as a kid. Mostly in talk shows and stuff in the form of emo teenagers, I think. Most prominently, I recall a trashy “Is Oprah The Antichrist?” headline from a lady’s magazine at the neighborhood public pool. White christians are super weird.
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  490. I was literally just sitting, randomly thinking about Christian mysticism this morning and then stumble upon this interesting piece of work.
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  491. A thorough examination of Kramer's period and (possible) motivation for his creation of the Malleus. Very excited to learn much in the coming series, as I already have with the Excellent Kabbalah lectures. They are singly the most comprehensive, most interesting take I've ever had access to, and that's saying something for someone who's an arcane knowledge YouTube junkie with (way) too many half-read books. This channel has done the best job of presenting solid and thoughtful information on a wide array of esoteric subjects. Can't find enough adjectives to accurately demonstrate how stoked I am!!
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  492. 7 minutes in, so far and really looking forward to this. I am not religious or spiritual at all. I shed my religious upbringing like an uncomfortable and poorly-fitting coat decades ago. I have no idea what "spirituality" means to me personally, and I'm skeptical that the word even has an objective non-personal meaning. My interest in religion and spirituality is firmly rooted in the exact sort of "historical materialist" methodology you champion - I'm interested in them purely as cultural constructs that form, evolve, diverge, merge and cross-pollinate in cultural contexts through history. I have zero interest in "becoming a Kabbalist" and I honestly doubt I could listen to a Kabbalist teaching Kabbalah for more than about 5 minutes without rolling my eyes and noping right out of there. But a 10 part lecture series from Dr Sledge on the subject? I am SO up for this!
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  493. Two Esoterica videos in one day?! Jackpot!!
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  494. Your channel is an actual gem, thank you for making this content
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  495. I just realized the set-animal is the was-scepter. From now I'll think of it as the chaos stick. Great video.
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  496. Thank you again for your work. When I first saw one of your videos, it mad me feel like an ignorant schmuck... which was a pretty novel experience at the time. Since then I have developed a deep admiration for your intelligence, your scholarship, and most of all for your dedication to making your work available for free to all who seek such knowledge and perspective, for whatever reason they seek it. Very well done Dr. Sledge. Your work serves as a shining example of what a great mind can do to be of service to the hungry minds (and souls) of the rest of the populace. Thank you.
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  497. Unexpected but very welcome continuation of the exploration of Abramelin!
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  498. This channel is fascinating. Delving into the esoteric while remaining grounded and not falling into credulity is a hard line to walk and I commend you for it. Subscribed!
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  499. the contrast between the intro, the content, the very host's appearance AND the subtle memery with the pictures is the best cherry on top of the cake I've seen God bless
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  500. This video is a tour de force! Got me down a rabbit hole with Spittler. He also thought the “Testament of Job” was re-worked by the Montanists!
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  501. My limited personal time due to work/life balance doesn’t allow me to deep dive into the subject matter you cover in your videos as much as I used to enjoy doing. I appreciate this channel allowing me to absorb information while roped in the mundane such as driving or currently, folding laundry, it’s through you that I’m able to continue pursuit of my interests
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  502. Your video on how Paul was possibly a follower of this movement and possibly hinted at in Corinthians was the first time I had ever heard of it and I was really happy when I saw the notification for this video because of the opportunity to learn even more about this topic.
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  503. I am not religious, but instead interested in the origins of christianity and judaism. Love your sense of humour and your references to metal ! Your content is amazing, well done !
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  504. "Ascended Master Kimmy Gibbler" I died 😂😂💀
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  505. legendary run of videos, and completely for free. hats off.
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  506. Dr. Sledge, your work is… magical. Just saying 😉
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  507. You do such an an amazing job every single time, thank you for your efforts seriously
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  508. Brilliant and beautiful!! I’m glad to see a channel that deals with very difficult/ heavy material. Thanks
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  509. Yeah i'm gonna buy a ticket for this one. I hope you're letting the camera roll for the transformation part.
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  510. Did anyone else have to look three times to unsee "Methchild"?
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  511. 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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  512. When giving out credit to ahistorical alchemical views, I think Terence Mckenna deserves a lot of credit (I love Terence but he was pushing the ahistorical interpretations hard in the 80s and 90s, and was a self-proclaimed student of Eliade and Jung) for his popularity on YouTube and influence on more recent generations.
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  513. Today is my Birthday and I feel like you have given me the best gift of another woman to look up to, study and hyper fixate on… I just purchased a few books on Hildegard and am so looking forward to diving into the deep end with them. I also very much appreciated the “Can’t we just believe her?” bit. Thank you, Dr. Sledge 🙏🏻
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  514. Thanks for sharing this knowledge and wisdom, it's genuinely staggering that content of this quality is freely available 🙏🏼
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  515. As a practicing Stoic I’ve definitely seen hints of this in the writings of the classic Stoics
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  516. It would be better if you read it in operatic with an orchestra😂
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  517. Applause. Love the opening and the ending. Yes, whenever we have a vacuum of knowledge we always fill it up with demons. That's why we value this channel ("educational institution") so much.
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  518. I wish I had taken school more seriously when I was young, I have always been interested in a lot of the topics you so thoroughly explain. I just want to thank you for what you do sir.
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  519. I first found your videos not even 6 months ago and they're always so educational and fascinating. You have a real way of giving cultural and historical context to these topics and making the past feel much more alive and relatable and much less "wut? why would anyone believe that?" Lately, I've even gotten my best friend into your videos, not because she's interested in the esoteric or occult but because she loves your (usually) low-key snark so much. Plus you always include resources and recommended reading in your descriptions (and in the videos themselves) which I just love, both because I enjoy doing my own research and because so many content creators state things as fact without citing a single source. Thank you for these wonderful, educational videos. I smile every time I see a new one from you.
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  520. "Messias never quit" - this should be printed on a shirt
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  521. Speaking as an academic, I view this channel and Dr. Sledge as a gift to the world. I'm so delighted that this channel exists and that I happened upon it. Thank you very much, Dr. Sledge.
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  522. Mah boi Thoth! Let's go! Absolutely love this video, such a wealth of information. Thank you so much for this. Of all the gods that humanity has presented, Dhwtj is one of the few that I would absolutely be okay with existing. His whole domain of truth, knowledge, and wisdom is quite admirable for humanity. His mercy as a defense attorney when called on yet also his impartiality to be a judge is wonderful. There is an audiobook on Tehuti by Markus Carabas on Audible that I've listened to that seemed to be quite good. Keep on sharing the knowledge, Dr. Sledge. You're doing The Silver Sun's work.
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  523. In the past I have tried to study the Kabbalah. I have read books and even purchased an audio training (back in the 1990’s when such things were popular). It was confusing why the teachings were so different. I never seemed to find what I was looking for. Your series here has been most informative and enlightening. Thank you for doing this.
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  524. I started watching this channel due to a fascination with early western magic. Absolutely amazing how much you've taught me about this subject. Thank you very much!
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  525. That break in the middle there about killed me! 😂 Thanks for helping antidote the poisonous nonsense from my mind. I appreciate the way you explain things and your analogies. I find it very easy to understand. The mark of a great teacher, imho.
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  526. This video is incredible! I feel like this text ties together everything between Sophia, the demiurge, Enki and Enlil, texts from the book of Enoch, etc. so the Old Testament God truly is not the God we currently know if is a God of love and compassion.
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  527. To me, the dream of the Library of Alexandria is very much alive in torrenting communities, which both make knowledge and culture freely accessible and more pervasive to destruction through their dispersion in a network of enthusiasts. The raid that killed What.cd, in my opinion, is a tragedy comparable to the fires that consumed so many ancient works. Thankfully, nowadays, rebuilding those virtual institutions is much more possible than it was to those ancient scholars.
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  528. Always have been quite amazed how Blake came up with this world-building project and expressed it in different media.
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  529. "Crowdsourced Education" is a concept I'd very much love to see catch on. The work you've been doing has been amazingly transformative for me personally and quite amazingly is having ripple effects within several esoteric communities (online and offline) that I frequent. I only just about manage to pay rent n eat month to month and wish I could do more but after all that you've done to support accessible academia this donation of just 2$ is being sent solely to inform you I'll be signing up for your Patreon at the 7.50$ tier (I can't afford to go beyond that). Not to belabour the point but you have my sincere gratitude and highest respect. "Practitioner" is a loose word. In my books anyone who furthers The Great Work is a practitioner but I won't force the title onto you XD It can't be denied you do exactly that though :)
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  530. This was just awesome, no one else gives such scholarly background on these topics, can't wait for part 2!!
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  531. Just found Rabbi Simon Jacobson's channel. He doesn't seem to delve into esotericism. Nonetheless, seems to express the wisdom of Kabbalah; for any interested in getting a taste as a lived tradition.
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  532. 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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  533. Just discovered this channel an hour ago, I watched the Metatron Vid, then Lilith part one, then I went searching to see if part two was out. It was uploaded as I was watching part one! Great vids, thanks!
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  534. Bataille is, unsurprisingly, pretty well known in the black metal realm. Deathspell Omega in particular takes Bataille's philosophy seriously and it reflects in both their sound and lyrics.
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  535. Once again you triggered my obsession with thunder/lighting and emphasized an enlightening text. I believe this is well done, thank you Dr. Sledge.
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  536. Nooo bro, you don't understand, alchemy is really about making mad gains at the gym
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  537. Another excellent seminar on Yahweh from Dr. Sledge. I've watched the original several times. This channel got me interested in comparative religion despite being myself agnostic verging on atheist.
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  538. I about died laughing about using gunpowder as a surefire way to get gold! Love it! 😂
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  539. “Rainbow magic wand combo breaker” has me cackling in my office
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  540. This is brilliant. Thank you Justin for sharing this series with us 🙏🏼
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  541. Dr. Sledge is a master tour guide into these subjects. Also, I'm dying laughing 😂🤣😭🤣😂 between "Kardashians" and admonishing Dee and Kelly with a "not cool..." I can't stop laughing. This is my favorite place to learn on YouTube.
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  542. Oh man!!! I feel like there's a bigger teaser at every episode. I can't wait for the next one. Thank you so much Dr Sledge.
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  543. Interesting. Something struck me when you talked about Yahweh not having much contact with the dead in Sheol (and not, as my autocorrect would have, Seoul). There's a troubling passage in Job where God rewards Job, not by raising his dead children but by giving him new ones - as if children were replaceable and interchangeable. Job is the oldest book in the Old Testament (?). Could it be that this was written before people believed Yahweh could raise the dead?
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  544. Peaceful people living thoughtfully based on faith? Let's get em!
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  545. I would love to hear more about those Egyptian and other bronze age philosophers.
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  546. As a child at the bus stop before any of the other kids showed up I would drink the morning dew off of large leaves. I knew it was weird but still I enjoyed it. Funny so many years later I'm finding out how serious others take something that I just sipped up for fun.
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  547. Thank you so much for sharing this deeply important video with us, Justin, including the undoubtedly traumatic personal experience that must have taken a great deal of courage to share. This is clearly one of the cyclical horrors that won't go away until we all remember. Thank you for this very solid brick in the memorial monument.
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  548. Hipster Satan playing the long game?
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  549. Fascinating video, Dr. Sledge! It's really interesting learning how the Greeks thought about mathematics, and especially how "1" and "2" are given such significant meanings. Thank you for this video, and I especially look forward to future discussions of Plato's unwritten doctrines!
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  550. I had the privilege of studying with OP Richard Schenck at DSPT doing a course on the active intellect in medieval philosophy. He often quipped "you have to get up pretty early in the morning if you want to argue with Duns Scotus."
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  551. Dr Sledge, just to confirm that as promised I have sent you the link to my now marked MRes thesis where I reference your work and channel. Your knowledge and acumen provided me with the much-needed validation that my thinking and processing were worth pursuing academically. And now, I'm off to a PhD! Thank you, Matilde
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  552. Can't figure out who is 'disliking' these videos. Feeling lucky to have found this channel. Taking critical thought into these manifestations of our past feels priceless. Thank you Esoterica :)
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  553.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Good Sabbath, my friend.
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  554. It’s alright Dr. Sledge. As an Alumni of Temple U., who watched the student union fight it out last year, I feel you. It’s an uncanny thing to be talking about The Inquisition one day and find some concerning parallels in our modern times the next.
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  555. He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
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  556. 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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  557. I’m telling you Justin, if that gig ends up not working; consider stand up ;) 😂 loved it!
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  558. Seems like the channel’s been blowing up a bit recently Justin! Congratulations man, couldn’t be more well deserved.
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  559. It's not easy to find a summary of Bataille on this platform, especially such a good summary! I became interested in him through (the early) Nick Land. Now it seems to make much more sense how Land came from a hardline materialist viewpoint, but then also became interested in magickal traditions…
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  560. Thank you Dr. Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode of esoterica,how you cram so much information into your presentation without it just becoming a long list of facts is nothing short of astounding,being educated while simultaneously being entertained wins my admiration and appreciation,thank you very very much🙏🏻🥷❤️
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  561. Deleting my social media was the best thing I've ever done for my mental health, so no insta, no regrets. I'd love to be the custodian of something that's been passed down through the ages like that book. There's an inherent magic in the fact that it survived
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  562. The limited 'history' of religion, I find more interesting than the 'dogma' of religion. The only reason people like myself get a peak is due to the insightful work of people like Dr. Sledge. So proud you refernce your Mississippi roots in your bio. Thank you for publishing some of your work on YouTube. You are an informed and gifted communicator. You have a large box of pieces to this jigsaw puzzle of religion.
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  563. Would love a video on the alchemical roots of chemistry. Where does chemistry start and alchemy end?
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  564. That was fabulous!!! Thank you for sharing your incredible demonstration of ancient alchemy. This was such a treat to watch and enjoy. I hope you do more experiments like this in the future to show us what alchemy really looked like 👍❤️❤️
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  565. Thank you so much for giving these amazing women their voices back for the modern ear.
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  566. just in time for dinner! cant wait to watch, I recommended your channel to my medievalist professor with a special interest in witchcraft and spirituality. he now shows your stuff in our class :))
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  567. Loving your content. I am fascinated by all of the historical mythos. You make the connections much easier to understand than a lot of the dry texts I’ve read over the years. I knew a little bit about El & Yahweh but this gave me a broader foundation. Do you have a book published in addition to your videos?
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  568. One does not need to engage in extreme self-hating behavior in order to experience the ecstasies of the Mystic Saints.
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  569. Another great video Dr. Sledge. Though I grew up rigidly catholic... iv come to really appreciate your honest and intellectual approach to religion and mysticism. Your videos have helped me expand my theological views greatly. So thank you for that and keep up the good work sir.
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  570. As someone who has attempted to go very deeply into Spare's philosophy myself, I must say this presentation represents a very brave and impressive attempt at understanding and summarising it: bravo, Dr. Sledge!
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  571. Wow. I knew about the scene in the Talmud where Metatron is whipped. (Which I took as a simple common sense "Don't mistake even this powerful Archangel for God!" message.) And I knew Metatron was popular among Jewish mystics, especially in the Merkavah school(s). I even knew about the tale of the Rabbis who practiced Merkavah - one going insane, another apostate, another became a heretic, and only the Baal Shem Tov returned intact. BUT - I had never realized all of these things were connected in a massive "Two Powers in Heaven" heresy that went down around the same time Christianity was getting started... Great episode!!! :) :) :)
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  572. This channel is a hidden gem, Thank you Dr Justen Sledge! ☮
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  573. Well this one certainly lived up to the Esoterica logo, covering the arcane. philosophy and religion! You've introduced me to something I had never heard of Dr S thanks for another mind bending episode!!!
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  574. I’ve been watching this series and the series on the Kabbalah you did and I appreciate how much you make context front and center. I feel like if you did a series about StarWars you’d have two episodes to start just describing the national mood of the post-Vietnam 70s to put the story in its proper time and place, and I like that.
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  575. Just listening in my kitchen, dying of laughter with my roommate. That was incredible, and I'm such a massive nerd for loving it. Well done.
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  576. The "bombastus" part of his name rocks my world, bombastic!!!!
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  577. Ever since I saw your first video on a necromancers manual and you mentioned the 'clerical necromantic underground' I have been absolutely fascinated by it.
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  578. And he gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark majesticness of his beard. O cruel needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast of their athenaeum! Two absinthe-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was alright, everything was all right, the struggle for affordable and accessible academic publications of the esoteric was finished. He had won victory over himself. He loved Big Brill. - Orwell paraphrased on the first day of April in the year of our Dutch overlords two thousand and twenty four.
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  579. Against the advice of your disclaimer, I watched the video being almost completely unfamiliar of Mishima (I only knew of him from a reference in a Metal Gear game). I have to say I totally get why Paul Schrader of all people would make an entire movie about him. Definitely will dive deeper into Mishima's work and finally cross that Schrader movie off my watchlist
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  580. Torture elicits confession, not evidence. That's more than a legal distinction. People confess in order to make torture stop. Jacques Fournier, the future pope, rarely used torture during his Cathar inquisition. Like all the best police interrogators, he preferred to develop rapport and have conversations with suspects.
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  581. As someone that’s a luciferian, ( being highly interested in any and all types and forms of magic as well as being fascinated by demonology, ) I find your content, extremely interesting. Keep up the good work and I hope your doing well.
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  582. Absolutely amazing! Subscribed! I searched so long for someone who has this level of insight! Congratulations!
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  583. Thank you so much! the clarity, precision and profound historical expertise of your presentations are beyond anything. This work is truly a unique and invaluable resource
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  584. Uneven is a considerable understatement. It’s been largely through your channel and Dr. Angela that I’ve distilled my library down to the good stuff
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  585. 🧠The retrospectively obvious insight that "the Bible" is fundamentally a library of diverse texts, diverse theologically, diverse of genres, from a massive stretch of time, etc, etc...is absolutely mindblowing to me no matter how obvious it seems in hindsight. 🤯 Fantasy authors (and D&D DMs) should be picking up calling sacred texts The X Library or The Library of X or what have you. Fires me up to think about!
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  586. Jonathan was my first mentor! He raised my consciousness from the graveyard of ignorance!! I owe him much!! Ive been watching since you started... keep going bro!
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  587. It is refreshing to see an academic video on YouTube about Plato's possible esotericism. I actually wrote my Master Thesis on the birth of the World Soul in Timaeus and during the process I came across a couple of books about this very topic that you might find interesting enough to check them out. They are Kennedy, J. B.: The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues and Reale, Giovanni: Toward a New Interpretation of Plato.
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  588. I had never seen the material explanation for the sulphur-mercury theory. Seems so strange to us now but once we reconstruct their experiments it seems very intuitive. Great lecture as always, Professor!
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  589. Commenting on this to boost it in the algorithm. This is an incredible video as always! It's a shame that your Renaissance era videos aren't doing as well they're no less fascinating than anything else you produce.
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  590. I wonder if the complex hierarchy of Christian supra-human beings has any similarities with eastern hierarchies of gods and demigods. I'm sure the language is quite difference between the two general world views, but it'd be interesting if someone has done a comparative study of eastern and western spirits and spirit beings.
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  591. I am an eye doctor. There is a condition called Charles Bonnet syndrome. It affects people primarily with certain types of macular degeneration, or other forms of partial/full blindness, especially those suffering from recent partial blindness. It is basically where the brain tries to fill in areas that used to get stimulated in the visual cortex from the visual pathway, using “imagination”. People will often see faces or other moving “hallucinations” in those blind areas. I have a handful of patients with this condition. It is similar to the same phenomenon that causes a form of déjà vu, or other manifestations of things outside the corners of the eye. The brain does some world building to predict what’s going on around it, like a priming of the pump so to speak. It’s a leftover protective measure, according to theory. Macular degeneration is four times more prevalent and people of northern European descent than other populations. One could assume that this is a contributing factor to some of the ghost stories.
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  592. This is so fascinating. Your teaser yesterday sent me off down the history of Yahweh rabbit hole. As an… em… rather agnostic person, I've for close to 30 years been interested in origins, and specifically how did all these Abrahamic based religions come to be? I've always held the notion that there was some connection between the Bronze Age collapse and the birth of "Israel". It makes so much sense that divergent nomadic groups/tribes would have banded together afterwards, and in time a melding of cultures/gods would take place. We see much the same happen after the Romans left Britain, and the Germanic Angles/Saxons/ etal moved in. In Britain, the native Britons and Angles/Saxons etal eventually melding – many of my own families customs have their roots in both. Needless to say, thank you muchly, I just found the titles of my next few e-books.
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  593. Do you realise that you have, by far, one of the absolute best intro-music snippets on YouTube. It's short, sweet and well played and recorded. Is that your playing, Dr. Sledge?
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  594. This has got to be one of the best channels in the whole YouTube Universe. Thank you!
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  595. Always support a fellow academic of the occult. Love your channel.
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  596. In last few years,archeologists found vampire burials in Poland.
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  597. As someone who spent a lot of time studying Thomas Müntzer and the peasant revolt 'When your strategy is "God will save us" stay home' made me laugh way harder than is appropriate.
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  598. 23:42 : "Gardener of the Flesh" sounds like some kind of horrific cosmic horror character. Alternatively, it's also the black metal band name for the episode.
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  599. 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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  600. Your description and examination of the writings and history of esoteric matters in a scholastic way is exceptional and much appreciated. Your channels aim to educate the viewers on the historic nature of esoterism is a more relatable way for people in the modern era. 🙏
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  601. Doctor, you have a gift for teaching and speaking that you should never take for granted. Many people, including myself, would love to have your talent for spoken communication.
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  602. Wonderful stuff, Dr. Sledge. Thanks. I'd love it if you took a deep dive (high ascent) into The Cloud of Unknowing sometime. That text shook me up in ways I'm still working out. Baptized, raised, and educated as a Catholic, I note that we were overdosed with doctrine, seasoned with a little church history, but almost completely starved of exposure to the considerable body of Catholic mystical texts.
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  603. I've been looking forward this year's Esoterica Ghost story. The blizzard has left me homebound and anxiously anticipating this content. Hope you don't have to go out in this weather today! Keep up the great work Doc!
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  604. Excellent video Dr Sledge. I've been studying all aspects of ancient Egypt for over 40 years now and it's just wonderful to hear someone pronounce the words Djehuty, ogdoad and hekka. I can't add anything to your scholarly presentation here except the theory that I once read that the early ancient Egyptians may have noticed the marks that the ibis makes in the mud with its bill as it forages for food - suggesting writing. Please consider doing a video on The Book of Coming Forth by Day. btw I'm convinced now that you're a fellow metalhead. Cheers from South Australia.
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  605. Fantastic overview, Justin! I'm so glad we have such high-quality content on YouTube. Thanks for all of your hard work.
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  606. Fascinating stuff. Have you ever looked into Hamptonese? The "language" used by American mystic and outsider artist James Hampton in his notebooks? Also he tried to construct a divine throne room.
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  607. Terrible etymologizing is a time-honored tradition stretching back to the ancient sages, so it's definitely good enough for us.
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  608. I was absolutely thinking of Hellraiser before you brought up the book! These themes are exactly what that series, and most horror in general, explore. I am also reminded of German Expressionism arising out of the first World War, which led to some of the earliest horror films as we might recognize them today. A lot of Expressionist film is what deeply influenced artists such as Rolly Crump and Tim Burton. And of course the Nazis, in their pro-war zeal, took anything that detailed the horrors of war and labeled it "degenerate art", which they had an exhibit of in 1937
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  609. Straight outta Canaan.
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  610. Nietzsche struggled with debilitating headaches as well, and we should use this fact to categorize him among women philosophers to irritate him as punishment.
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  611. I spent a short time attending an evangelical church as a teenager in the early 1980s. The Satanic panic was definitely part of that church and their Sunday school training. And there's no way to avoid it, their prejudice against rock and roll was explicitly racist - to the point of depicting non-Europeans as jungle-dwelling devil worshippers. I don't recall anti-Semitism in that church, but I only attended for a short time. I think of it as a psychological inoculation against the type of brainwashing that these cults do to their members.
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  612. RPG campaign idea: a scroll detailing the locations of hidden artifacts from your nation's glory days has surfaced and the party is on a mission to collect them. The first one is relatively easy to obtain but complications arise in tracking down the subsequent treasures. The quest giver might also have ulterior motives, and the party might have to deal with the consequences of gathering a collection of artifacts that grant such great power when assembled in just the right way. They might have the opportunity to indulge in this power themselves, and then they will have to contend with holding on to this power and what it does to them. It could go in a lot of ways depending on your group! Lots of opportunities for the players to make meaningful decisions about the way the plot goes.
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  613. The owls (and the donkeys) are not what they seem. A really great episode. I just finished Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger” and it dovetails nicely with that novel’s chaotic tone.
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  614. “The pretention of neutrality is often the velvet glove hiding the iron fist” BARS! BARS! BARS! Really though, you come out with some extremely insightful quotes out the blue! (I’m stealing them)
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  615. Thank you for all your meticulously researched and highly produced video essays. It is the cherry on top of my workweeks each Friday. You are truly a godsend ❤
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  616. One of my favourite episodes so far! And that's saying something, endless gratitude for the time and effort you put in to making these they really are excellent and a highlight of my week, this one was so enlightening and your thoroughness really enriches the subject, thank you 🙏👍👌😎🖤☯️
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  617. I was first exposed to Blake's mythology and prophetic poetry when I rewatched Blade Runner earlier this year and decided to find out what Roy Batty meant when he said "Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc." That brought me to Blake's "America: A Prophecy": Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc And Bostons Angel cried aloud as they flew thro' the dark night. I am glad today to finally learn who "Orc" is!
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  618. Heterodoxical Lutheran Stuff and the Acrimonious Rivalries is the name of my metal band, we play Landsknechtcore.
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  619. never gonna get tired of the light humour that Justin serves in the most delightfully dry way. Also, thank you for yet another interesting lesson in history.
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  620. This has been a fantastic lecture series.
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  621. Not only have you provided useful information on the nature of Sheol but you have also added the word Necromantrix to my vocabulary. Thank you on both accounts
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  622. Good intro! The ability to wield critisism and sympathy at the same time is by far one of the more spiritually respectable things in life, the best aspect of it being that one doesn’t need to necessarily hold any specific metaphysical views to justify it. Kudos Dr Sledge!
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  623. Oh, good! Now I have something to do after lunch. Answer emails, eat ramen, summon Lilith...
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  624. Discovering this channel this year has been one of my most treasured finds, and am so happy to see it grow. Keep it up Dr Sledge, you have been a great gateway to diving into the esoteric and arcane. Looking forward to another year of great content!
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  625. you, sir, are incredibly based
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  626. Dr. Sledge you are an amazing teacher. History becomes a story that is entertaining and funny. You have this special form of humour that makes listening to you a real treat. This episode was interesting and I will now ask my special trained dog to start searching for treasure in our garden.She is especially good in digging pits between my flowers - she never found a treasure though 😄 Still you never know. Maybe someone has buried some golden artefacts that were recovered from the temple in my backyard. It’s as good a place as any to start looking.
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  627. I feel like you're the only voice on the internet on these niche subjects who actually cites his sources, so I appreciate the link Dr. Puca's channel because the more the merrier.
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  628. What a most pleasant surprise to see you touch upon the Far East, and Japan in particular. While I am no expert, by any means, I have been enamored of Japanese culture since I was a child, and have learned a thing or two. I can see the threads of Bushido, Shintoism, Buddhism and ancient historic Japanese paradigms running through Mishima-san's personal beliefs, and actions. It's like he embodies a kind of essential Japanese Superman. Thank you for bringing this fascinating character to my attention.
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  629. WOWOWOW. I am FLOORED . With this video topic. With the way it was taught . With the book sources displayed at the end for further inquiry if desired . I have not been moved by a teacher on YouTube like this in YEARS!! Had to come in here and personally THANK YOU 🙏🏼 for being so refreshing and with a sense of humor ! I loved school so much and this video reminded me of what I loved about having great professors in my lifetime . Teachers are a gift from God , especially eloquent ones! Just found this page tonight and I am SOOOO excited to delve into more of your videos ! Thank you & God Bless 🙏🏼
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  630. I'm a historical archaeologist mostly researching Early Modern Scandinavia and I'm learning So Many Things relevant to this period - and there is certainly an archaeological = material culture aspect to much of this. Thank you for teaching me things I didn't know I was interested in!
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  631. The main appeal of your channel for me is your unbiased presentation, and I don't feel like I'm watching a Hot Topic employee telling me about the life of Alister Crowley.
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  632. Thank you Dr. Sledge. I sincerely appreciate the time and work you put into the content. This was very informative. Have a blessed Shavot.
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  633. Thank you, dear professor, sir. This was truly gorgeous. I’m going to head outside on my lunch break and see what the skies have to say now, because I feel our entire world is at a Crossroads currently and the Sky is The Mirror through which I will see my Answers after hearing your reading and translation! I pray you are blessed, dear sir, for the Heavens still Declare the Glory of The LORD! Shalom and much Love!
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  634. Great video, thanks! You might have come down a bit hard on Israelite prophets who resisted syncretism. I’m a Catholic priest, and in seminary we were taught syncretism tends to be very destructive, although obviously there is a level of assimilation (as you pointed out) that does happen especially in prayer formulation and such. Again, GJ! 👍🏻
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  635. The history of religion is a history of religious syncretism
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  636. I love how you thread very complex and very skewed ideals, options,notions of magic, esoteric all in one channel and inspire the spirituality of our own unique growth can now begin to bring in all aspects of study and then begin to wipe away much distortions, discriminations, and judgments - thank you for your channel -
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  637. I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again, this channel is by far the most educational and the quality is outstanding.
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  638. As a fan of Solomonic Demonology and medieval grimoires, I absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much.
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  639. “May he let your place be at the front of all time-honored ones. May thine Ka successfully champion all things against any enemy. May thine Ba know the ways that lead to the gateway of the mummified deceased.” Thank you for diligence & contribution to academia to say nothing of your Saturnian humor Dr. Sledge
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  640. The sad withering of The Library echoing that of academic institutions (especially in arts and humanities) is... Well something that more people need to hear. The Library looms large in popular imagination as a symbol for civilization itself, & to know that it is not the fires of war but the much more insidious fire of apathy that burns our libraries now...
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  641. 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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  642. I’m too young to have any cognizant memories of the Satanic Panic so I have an entirely hindsight view of the situation, but it’s always been fascinating to me that Michelle Remembers, a book that comes off as a grift to be perfectly honest, set off the powder keg like that. Thank you for sharing your story, can’t imagine it was easy. Gotta say, now I wonder if any others got into this field of study or at least as a hobby from being accused or knowing someone who was🤔
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  643. This presentation was an intense and most eloquent dive into the mind of Yukio Mishima. Thank you for your successful efforts!
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  644. Enlighten me Daddy Jewish Merlin the willing possession sounds a lot like the Loa riding their subjects almost up to 7k subs lets go
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  645. If you didn't have me at "vendetta cannibalism" you DEFINITELY had me at "physical forensic recreation" (My special interest is forensic reconstruction of textiles)
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  646. During my anestisiology residency i came upon my favorit paracelsus quout "nothing is poison, everything is poison, it depends on the dose".
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  647. Thank you kindly sir for keeping such content free and accessible to all. 🙏
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  648. Simply wonderful. It's especially interesting to me, since I perform several Hildegard pieces regularly in our marionette concerts. She was a great composer, who was unaccountably not even mentioned in my university studies of music history. cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
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  649. As somebody who reads Epictetus almost weekly I thank you very much for making this video. I can't tell you how excited I was to see this title as one of my notifications
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  650. A class on Merkabah mysticism sounds very interesting! What would you recommend to have read beforehand for such a course?
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  651. This channel came highly recommended and it did not disappoint! Great stuff here, informative, hilarious, one couldn't ask for more.
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  652. The yarrow certainly has an intense medow aroma when I pass it in a field. That was the most tension filled video you have done. Need a follow-up to see you are alright.
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  653. Thank you for this enlightening video on the Lesser Key of Solomon. I also have a fondness for Qohelet and, as part of my bachelor's curriculum, I wrote an exegesis on Ecclesiastes 1:4-11.
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  654. Super fascinating! I actually really like the story of the testament. The allure of demons has always been a bit lost on me. I would love to go back in time and ask the anonymous writers, of all the subjects...why write this? Maybe it made them feel powerful or in control in times of uncertainty? And why the hierarchies? It would be interesting to size up the time periods in which many of the original works were written to possibly find a correlation between societal or political factors that maybe would motivate the texts? I'd also want to ask them if they believed in demons. I would guess most would, but you never know. Thank you Dr. Sledge! So much to think about! Hope you get back to tip top form asap so you feel much better!
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  655. Fascinating! Thank you for sharing these more obscure voices. Pain in Conway's life gave her motivation to find meaning in or behind it. This was super inspiring! Thank you 😊
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  656. I recently ran a mile for the first time in my life and actually broke down crying afterwards as I looked at the sky and trees directly after. Everything seemed more beautiful than it ever had in my life
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  657. Thank you for sharing with us all of this knowledge. Even after listening to this particular episode 6-7 times, I am still gleaning new information - this is what I love most about your channel. Thank you, Dr. Justin Sledge
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  658. If my kid began practicing Alchemy on his own, I don't know if I'll be proud or scared, probably both. Great video doctor Sledge!
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  659. Thanks! I work 12 hours a days 5-6 days a week. These videos help keep my mind occupied so well as I chip away at what needs to get done :)
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  660. Terrific intro. It’s a pleasure to be creating alongside you Justin. You’re second to none. A scholar and friend. With love, Zevi
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  661. 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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  662. I'm a long time cinema geek. Murnau's Nosferatu is one of my favorite early movies, along with Dreyer's Vampyr. I learned a lot from the video you've offered us here. Cheers. ✌️
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  663. Great video, Justin! I think early modern Hermeticism and Puritanism, while seemingly so ideologically opposed, were comparable in their utopian and apocalyptic ambitions because they both came out of the earth-shattering zeitgeist of the transition from feudalism to capitalism – as colonialism created the first truly global market, there was a palpable sense of the old order dying and a new world rising to take its place. Both radical Protestantism and alchemy had individualistic ideas of understanding nature and the divine through direct personal observation rather than (as you said) ancient authorities like Aristotle or ecclesiastic authorities like the Catholic Church (or even the Anglican Church...). Can't wait to hear more about colonial American alchemists in future episodes!
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  664. I like the way "descending" to the throne gives meditation the feel of a dungeons and dragons type experience.
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  665. A truly under appreciated channel. Both in quality and quantity of all variables.
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  666. And then the modifications that alchemists made to their cars in order to outrun Inquisitors and contract enforcement eventually leads to organized racing circuits.
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  667. An amazing episode! The magi were my favorite part of the Christmas story when I was a kid. That's probably because they were portrayed in bright colors though! 😂 Thank you for all your work this year on the channel! I can't wait to see what you have planned for 2024!
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  668. What an incredible moment. Proud to be there with you Dr. Sledge.
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  669. Your channel means a lot to me. My dad was a Southern Baptist minister. I clearly remember all of the 80s and 90s Satanic Panic. Distinctly the West Memphis 3 because I grew up (and still live) nearby. Channels like yours have helped explain, but not excuse, why I was raised the way I was, though I’ve had to spend a great deal of time in therapy dealing with what can only be considered mental abuse by the church. Thank you for such a personal ending to what is otherwise still a very educational video.
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  670. Thoth was a CEO (Chief Everything Officer) of a computing company, like Apple, Microsoft, or Intel. He designed the hardware, softwares, programming languages, operating system, and all.
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  671. The Buddhists say consciousness is a sense organ for thoughts, which is consistent with my experience. Here we have imagination as a sense organ for so-called arcane forces, also consistent with my experience with my understanding of arcane. Next, here we have self-recognition as the restorative power of the divine.. well I don’t do any “divine” but I do think self-recognition is restorative because my life experience led to loss of self… and regaining that sense was restorative. It is just wonderful to have articulated what I might have managed to,articulate in about ten years or so. What a brilliant set of remarks that dr sledge pulls from the muddy paracelsian exposition. Really impressive. Thank you!!!
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  672. A very spooky topic for a fitting time of year. I'll definitely be re-watching this one after the winter storm hits. Also, I think I know what the next item in your store will be: Esoterica Gin! Each bottle comes with instructions on how to soothe the sufferings of ancient Sumerian ghosts. 😄
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  673. This is the first talk where I can feel your deep deep reverence for the peoples on this spiritual path. Very touching, really enjoyed these insights.
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  674. Everyone working in Enochian magic seems to say that everyone else is doing it wrong.
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  675. I so wanted to serve you a cup of herbal tea with honey the whole episode. I admire your determination to be dressed and appear functional when you are clearly ill which you have done more than once. (At least you are doing so behind a camera at safe social distance). Thanks for tackling this subject, I remember seeing ads for the Rosicrucians in the backs of magazines growing up. Have always been curious, though they kept company with the sketchier ads in those magazines back in the day.
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  676. I worked in a library for seven years and studied in a religious school for nine years. Your comparison of the Bible to a library is so accurate. It gave me flashbacks of the religious section in the social sciences room. So many books, so many opinions, so few hours to absorb them all!
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  677. Thanks for such in depth free content. You are an excellent teacher good sir!
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  678. Nothing better than a Christmas ghost story! Growing up I thought only our family did that cuz we were dark and weird, glad to know its actually a normal thing!
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  679. Thanks for continuing to produce these videos. I learn so much!
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  680. I love the core of empathy that ties so much of your work together (and the smattering of nerdy historical jokes). I particularly like these more high level, accessible conversations, and would love to hear you talk more about your thoughts about the relationship humans have with magic and technology 💙 One thing I have been thinking lately that seems a bit counter intuitive is that when looking at the world through the lens of magic, my impression is that the cost of that control or understanding is front and center to the person involved. Whereas I think in modern times, we have a tendency to overlook the costs of our technology. Things appear on our doorsteps and disappear in our trashcans, without too much thought from us (until maybe the pandemic or supply chain issues). In a way, one of these seems to be much closer to the disparaging interpretation of "magical thinking" than the other Just a thought. Keep up the great work and have a nice day!
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  681. Dr. Jackson Crawford has many excellent videos on the runes from the historical and linguistic side.
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  682. Gosh, yes! Was listening to this recounting, and thought of Finkel. Anyone who hasn't watched any of his lectures/presentations (available here on YT) is sorely missing out. The man is a treasure.
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  683. ESOTERICA! Literally every one of the last 10 videos have been things I've been wanting to learn more about in the last few months. Thank You for what you do and keep on doing it, whatever it is!
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  684. When my grandson was in elementary school, he had a spiritual experience one day at school, and heard the voice of God calling him by his name. The school sent him home and as I picked him up, he excitedly told me about it; however, his parents when they got home from work, they took him to their catholic priest, who told them it was demonic and kicked them out of "his congregation" saying it was heresy.
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  685. I am an Egyptian Muslim and can not thank you enough for this amazing journey through this rich history .
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  686. Excellent choice of theme, this manuscript has always intrigued me. I’m so glad you decided to do this , your channel has filled a void in this algorithm that to ppl like me interested in everything and anything occult, hidden, or not known would otherwise not be found , thanks!👍🔥
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  687. Not only a great video, but a beautiful new intro/outro recording!
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  688. This pleases my Valentinian heart.
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  689. Growing up in a Christian household I was always interested in the fringe ,read everything I could find for the past 15 years ,I wish I'd found this channel that long ago
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  690. Okay, I love this guy! He recognizes these ancient religions as mythology and calls them that. He sees that many of these stories are downright hilarious, and that more than anything they often reveal the insecurities of the authors more than make any useful point or moral stance. (Lilith was 'evil' because she wanted to be on top sometimes during sex!) Anyway, thanks for the good information to brush up the finer points of my familiarity with the the Abrahamic religions, and also for several heartfelt laughs out loud. SUBSCRIBED!!!
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  691. Great explanation of the akchemical foundation... I especially like the in-depth reasoning of what they were seeing & their model. We forget... They weren't idiots, they were just wrong. Wrong in the right way & you've all kinds of evidence to prove the misunderstanding.
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  692. 'Life, Prosperity and Health' to you too Dr Sledge. This was an excellent presentation of a very challenging collection of concepts from an era far, far removed from ours. I've been an amateur Egyptologist for over forty years and I'm still learning. In a discussion once I remember telling an elderly Christian friend of mine about the famous 'Cannibal Hymn' from The Pyramid Texts where Unas ritually slaughters, cooks and eats the bodies and the spirits of the gods. "Oh, like the eucharist...", was her surprised reaction. Excellent episode, Many thanks.
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  693. Probably the most conceptually interesting video I've watched in years. Thank you for putting all of this together! It was a joy to watch
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  694. The algorithm as a demiurge is such a good metaphor for a corporate internet. It really is a trap, like the material world to gnostics, which creates a world of opportunities while limiting possibilities overall. The creation of illusions of competition and an obfuscation of shared person-hood and genuine community not filtered through an overbearing all-seeing eye.
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  695. I really enjoy the obscure ancient/historical artwork you display, it's always stuff i've never seen before. also, I notice you're using much fewer edits, looks great!
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  696. Dr Sledge, you make solitude spirituality more bearable. Thankyou for sharing your knowledge.
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  697. What a fantastic episode, Justin! I truly enjoyed it. As a fellow scholar located in between Philosophy and Religious Studies, I totally agree that we need more philosophical investigations of religious experiences. Luckily, the online space has you to mend that wound! ;-)
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  698. Knowing me if I cast a protective circle the entities will sneak into it behind me and then I'm stuck with them.
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  699. This was soooo good.
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  700. If you ever have a chance to piddle around in a lab there at the university, take the "white stone" silver chloride and dissolve it in concentrated ammonia. When you add copper to the solution, you'll get the most beautiful shade of blue and you'll precipitate pure silver. The blue color is actually produced by solvated electrons, so what you're seeing is the closest the human eye can come to experiencing an actual interaction with a subatomic particle. It's an absolutely magical experience.
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  701. The red light of dawn being the Sun being birthed, blood and all, is such an INTENSE image. Thank you for the insight!
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  702. "simple piety" and "ethical duty;" basic but profound magic right there. Thanks for another enjoyable deep dive!
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  703. A couple times it felt like I was pooping out a demon, now I know the truth. Thanks Esoterica!
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  704. ok so I recently learned the history of the word "awful" it used to be positive, literally meaning "full of awe" but basically the British used Sarcastically so much that it eventually took on the opposite meaning
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  705. Double trouble. Thanks for sharing this epic scholarship Dr Sledge, it’s a real treat. Keep em coming.
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  706. I love this channel yes! So satisfying to clarify I’m not a negative person because I believe in magick and metaphysical things. My family looks at it so negatively.🤦🏽‍♀️ thank you for the informative videos!
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  707. Thanks! Massive fan Dr. Sledge. You bring a strict scholarly perspective to subjects that rarely receive it. Can't get enough of your videos!!
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  708. So when do we get "the Pistis Sophia for dummies"? Or is this it?
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  709. I appreciate the irony of the subject matter more than ever after being told that " Nostalgia is a form of depression " by someone who chooses a career teaching such a specialized topic of History. 😉 This channel is sincerely the best single source of ongoing esoteric instruction in human history . I appreciate your dedication, your content, and the community of amazing, curious and sophisticated people who congregate here to learn. Cheers!
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  710. As an educator, thank you. This kind of support makes a difference.
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  711. This was suuuuuper interesting. It's so close to the stuff I'm working on (16th century Italian Christian Cabala) and yet soooo far... I will definitely have to pick up the Ogren book. I read his last one not too long ago "The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Thought" which is largely about Pico, Alemanno, and Abravanel.
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  712. Such a wonderful and truly compelling episode. You presented the relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint in a way I’d never really heard before and it’s utterly fascinating.
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  713. Yes! First time I've seen my name in the end credits. And quite well worth it. I miss being at a university and getting this kind of detailed knowledge; thank you truly.
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  714. Nietzsche slide: "not pictured, the void, on the left" so good
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  715. Honestly the bit about fanatics being terrified of witches making peoples penises vanish feels oddly on brand even today.
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  716. 🖖🏾.. I Have listened to, and Watched the Entire video..!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Bravo! Bravery and Strength of Conviction has been Shown.!!🤘🏾💖👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 ..In response I have posted it on My Facebook page... I pray for the Best, but prepare for the Worst!🙏🏾... This year is showing itself to be a Mental fight at the Very Least.. Blessings and thanks for your Work.👐🏾💕
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  717. As a Christian, i love learning about jewish demonology and tradition in general. Every so often i study parts of the talmud online. Thank you to both of you for making this easily and readily available. The typical historical mindset from Christians about the jews, is that they had secret knowledge but were unable to do anything with it because anti-semitism. I agree that the Jews have knowledge about our god, and we may live our lives differently and worship God differently, but I know that I can learn a lot from Jews and Jewish customs. I'm very thankful for you Dr Sledge, this channel, and everything you've done for my intellectual and spiritual walk.
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  718. aw man i was just hankering for more 19th century american heterodoxy, a birthday miracle 🥹
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  719. I just discovered this channel. I'm now on my 4th video. This content is almost too good to be true. I really can't express how impressed I am - impressed, enthralled, fascinated and generally overjoyed! Thank you so much for sharing your considerable talents with us all.
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  720. Thoth would totally make an epic name for a power metal band... or perhaps Egyptian glory metal?
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  721. I’m from the Netherlands (East Netherlands) and didn’t know we had such a thing as the Bibliotheca in our country, now visiting is on my to-do list for the near future 👍 I’ve been fascinated by Hermetica, Kabbalah and Religions (similarities and differences) since I experienced an altered state of mind after my father passed away 7 years ago, but never knew where to start looking to learn more. I’ve been following your channel for a little while now, and I want to thank you as your videos have also been very informative and helpful in understanding what I experienced.
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  722. Wow what a fantastic episode Dr S. I love this stuff. Having gotten a bit lost in ‘traditional’ Stoicism I went the path of bro Stoicism only to realise it’s ‘trendy’ nature fits right into the personal development vibe. Look forward to more of this if possible…please!?
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  723. I am so excited for the rest of this series. Paracelcus is one of those esotericists that I feel like I should know more about, but couldn't tell you a whole lot about (other than his awesome name). The other thing I know about our friend is that his name makes an appearance in the first Harry Potter book. He has his very own chocolate frog card, for those who are interested in that. Thank you as always, Justin. I hope you enjoyed Wolves in the Throne Room and Blackbraid when they were in your neck of the woods. 🤟
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  724. Genius research, Justin. I love the way you teach and explain these subjects.
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  725. This was a great episode. I'm really enjoying how your choice of subject matter is spreading. You've been covering a lot of great topics recently.
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  726. I can't begin to express my gratitude for your channel. I love all your videos. Thank you.
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  727. They totally missed the opportunity to claim that their esoteric knowledge allowed them to locate the buried treasure of the tomb.
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  728. Just added Stories from Ancient Canaan to my reading list! Thanks for the great intro to the topic.
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  729. Dr. Sledge! Love your videos and how you present topics and coverage of books. This one was my most anticipated video of yours and you delivered well above and beyond. Thank you good sir.
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  731. Catharsis is a high energy word and the story behind it is just magical ! Mesmerized of how you depict it . Thk u again , Dr. Sledge ❣️
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  732. Fantastic analysis as usual. Could it be the time that Anglo-American occulture finally discovers how laboratory alchemy never disappeared in non-Protestant countries? Maybe in the future you could look into Principe Raimondo di Sangro and in the esoteric orders that he inspired.
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  733. Dziękujemy.
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  734. I grew up in a high-control Christian sect that emphasized evangelizing. Now, after a sojourn into strict atheism, I am reconstructing a sort of metaphorical liberal Christianity in my own life. Understanding more of the breadth of this faith tradition is a truly healing and powerful part of my life, and Dr. Sledge has been a key part of that growth. !
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  735. So glad you got your music back. Thank you for all you do. ❤
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  736. Thanks! Can't wait for the Merkabah series! There's hardly any content on the topic, on yt.
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  737. I’m a scholar of modern English language literature, and these close readings and explorations of foundational written texts give such great context for reading modern texts and exegeses thereof. Thank you again for sharing, Dr Sledge!
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  738. I cannot imagine the pressure of trying to create an introduction video to such a complex topic with contradictory and obscure information. In my humble opinion, Dr. Sledge, you did a fantastic job. And you have inspired me to read the text myself. Thank you!!!
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  739. excellent analysis! Bataille's one of my favorite writers ever. his philosophy is both gorgeous and chilling, totally absorbing
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  740. Thanks for addressing the demiurge and archons which are hot new topics for people to discuss incorrectly in metaphysical/paranormal spaces nowadays.
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  741. I could tell from early on in the video that this was a very personal upload. It’s a topic that you deftly demonstrated to be at once timely and timeless. Thank you for sharing your experience—it’s the personal touches of channels like yours and others in the religious studies space that make for a truly special place on the internet.
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  742. I loved this.... I love golem stories and any occult or mystical literature on the golem. Back in the 90s when I was in college I wrote a report on the golem. I remember I talked about the humonculus, frankinstein, and how shelley used the golem story as part of her story. I also added modern golem stories from movies. Like terminator, terminator 2, and data from ST TNG and bladerunner. Then saying that data, robots and androids are just future looking golems.
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  743. Awesome episode Dr Sledge. I applied a Sephardic key by changing the letters that are not Solitreo ie, Greek and the weird ones. And this is what I got for the first line, Front page First Paragraph First line Word My person who represents my ancestors begins this which I’m able to understand in my mind that it changes in its cosmic cycle of life and death. as we traveled he directed our attention to everything that moved in the cosmos. Everything that is has their place and state He said that everything changes and it's impregnated with the primal force of its source. Its physical existence and response is impregnated in this world with the achievement of its vital impregnation. It contains the seed or its place and state. He said that life and death is the precursor of the life and death of the universe and this is the state and place of the life and death of the universe. He said change is the origin of the state and being of the universe. The response of life in the universe originates from what is made in what it holds and how it changes.
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  744. Keep up the exceptional job, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  745. Looks like I have my lunch hour planned! 🖤
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  746. I love how supportive you are of other channels and people.
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  747. Yeah we are told explicitly not to play with any of this, which is like telling children not to touch something
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  748. This one is going to be one of those I get to enjoy multiple times. Thanks!
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  749. Whether actually written by Paracelsus or not, this sounds like a text begging for a modern, scholarly translation.
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  750. Welcome all to the academic esoteric center of YouTube! Enjoy!
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  751. This is my second time visiting this video, after reading more literature on the topic, and just like the first time, I am in wonder and my curiosity is only enhanced. I will try and read all of the books you recommended at the end, and I can’t thank you enough for providing such an impressively educational content here on YouTube, for free.
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  752. Immediate fundamental truths about reality are rad to the max - 26:49 Welcome to compromising your core values time. - 33:24 Everyone talks about your knowledge and wisdom I want to thank you also for your humor! 😂 I love your channel!!
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  753. One of my passions. Portugal templar monuments and essiteric symbolism is mind blowing. I would give anything to study this ! More plz!
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  754. I took a medicine in medieval European literature course last year. This video is awesome and would have been a jewel to reference in my final paper.
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  755. This is so amazing! Massive congratulations to you and Dan! 🤗 Can't wait to get my copy of this one! 🤓
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  756. Brilliant, synthetic but very detailed. It's far better than the courses delivered in Coursera. I wish you, as always, all the best in your journey, Dr. Sledge! You have a real vocation for what you do and you're passionate in what you do: that is, sharing knowledge to others. Your videos always make my day :)
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  757. Thank you for bringing a much needed rational lens to a subject that provokes so much misty-eyed speculation. 🙏
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  758. One thing I’ve noticed in my study of history, and just through observing others generally, is that there is brilliance in all social castes/classes. It’s a shame technology has only allowed us to read the works of wealthy and powerful people. Technology like the internet is slowly changing that though, since anyone with access to it can publish stuff if they want. That’s still a big barrier for a lot of humanity at the moment, but we’re building the infrastructure necessary for the brilliant minds of the lower castes to recieve the recognition they deserve. Thanks for the work you’re doing. This has quickly become one of my favorite youtube channels.
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  759. You might not do social media, but I do. Just posted this link on a friend's wall, with the simple caption, `Kid, meet candy store.'
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  760. I absolutely adore discussions like this. Thank you for your recent round table discussions.
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  761. What is this gem of a person?! I love history of medieval philosophy and esoteric tradition, but so often you have nutjobs on YouTube taking it at face value. Thank you for this amazing perspective and awesome explanations!
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  762. "If you want Aeons, they got Aeons. They got Aeons for days around here." ~ Dr. Sledge
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  763. your Chris Brennan joke/reference made me almost lose my Coffee man. I have his hellenistic course and i've been trying to get through a two-part, cumulatively like 20 hour lecture for a year and a half now. I felt it deep.
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  764. I lot of people don't understand the depth of the amount of victims of the satanic panic. I was raised in the aftermath in the 90s in a small town where the accusations still got flung around and my mother accusing everything and everyone (which was funny considering my father use to play D&D as a teen and still wanted to but held back because of her) so I never learned of the worst until I was older. Figures, I'd grow to love most things that would have had me attacked. I knew this. But the day I found out the amount of teachers and beloved members of communities having their lives destroyed because of these accusations...how many were queer and especially targeted (and we still see the impact of that to this day from far right conspiracy theorists that gay people are part of satanic cults aiming to sacrifice children)...it was all very devastating. My mother would have put me at the stake. She still would if she discovered a lot of my life now. So many were never freed from prison, so many false confessions because of hours of grilling and harassment from cops, and if they did get out their entire life was uprooted with reputation destroyed. The lack of accountability hurts every time to hear about. I'm sorry you had to deal with that first hand.
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  765. Today is my birthday. Beyond all hope I have made it to 64 today. And Dr. Justin puts out this wonderful work. Plus he name drops Lovecraft. What a happy birthday to me!! 🎂
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  766. The Sledgester strikes again with another interesting video!
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  767. The opening got me thinking. We're going to need a crossover with you and Dr. Jackson Crawford helping out at the Townsend's homestead.
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  768. Thanks to this video, I found Conway's text and she really, really, really should have taken advanced math and physics training. She's knocking on the door of things like number theory, cosmology, and calculus, in an idea-driven sense. Her definition of time as that which comes to an end when everything stops moving is pretty interesting. Should you do a video on Elisabeth, I would not complain. :-)
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  769.  @TheEsotericaChannel  love your channel. Thanks and keep up the good work!
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  770. As a moderate fan of that “Jungian guru”, I have to say I felt similarly about his interpretation of the bible. How one can interpret something like that without taking into account the esoteric, multicultural, multi-linguistic origins makes no sense to me. This channel has been so incredibly eye-opening for that very reason!
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  771. Hi. For a while iam following your channel and as an ex chasidic person who became atheist (or very strongly agnostic) i have to say i love your channel. Here i get thoughts that i could not discuss with the rabbis. Also i can learn more about christian mysthicism that i also love. I wanted to say thank you and please keep up the good work זיי געזונט ,שקויעך
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  772. Two videos in one day! Truly, we have been blessed.
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  773. We just went over this in my Jerusalem class! I'm majoring in archaeology, so its exciting to see you do a video on these awesome pieces of history
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  774.  @TheEsotericaChannel  in these cases, people are always looking for a new antagonist, or just a new source of spiritual power to revere. People who casually "chase" mythologies get burned out and then ultimately disillusioned as they miss out on any meaning or lesson and realize that it's yet another shadow that cannot soothe their existential loneliness. I see the internet getting more and more extreme with their "beliefs" which is why I love your channel so much because you give us meaning with "boring" schools of thought.
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  775. Always been very interested in the Gnostics and their gospels. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
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  776. This is swiftly becoming my new go to channel for just winding down while still acquiring new knowledge. Subscribed yesterday and I'm binging this stuff like its Twin Peaks.. Especially loved your video on the satanic panic and your neutral and chill tone overall! Peace, love and respect from a Danish Satanist! <3
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  777. "Maybe it's you.Maybe it's Maybelline.Maybe it's horrid demons" 🤣
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  778. LOVE this series on Yahweh. I cannot wait for you to cover Ashera. I have always thought that the Holy Spirit somehow evolved from her. I feel like it was originally a female or female coded. Idk. I can't wait to find out! Thank you SO MUCH for all your hard work and putting hard scholarship into language I can understand as a non scholar.
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  779. Would you ever consider making a video about any esoteric commentary or traditions surrounding the Akedah? It's a wonderful story that I've always felt has a deeper meaning and subtext, but I've never come across any good content about it. Great video, keep up the good work Dr. Sledge 🙏
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  780. Love love love LOVE your work, Sledge! Have you considered covering Eastern magic and religions for future content?
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  781. What a fantastic video! Never have I been more excited to do some chemistry research and crack into my old o-chem books.
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  782. I always love these alchemy videos, the light it sheds on the early history of science is so fascinating
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  783. if you do transmute gold :) remember me. made me smile
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  784. This is too good
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  785. Wow. You really had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Well played, sir.
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  786. Man. What a great episode. ❤ thank you so much for not neglecting us practicioners. Ever since my time in PRS I have taught philosophy, magic and math are interrelated. Yet academia only has space for math and philosophy. Thank you for talking and covering those who also use the arts. ❤❤❤much love. Thanks for what you do.
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  787. Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge 👍 I second that Mark Smith's Early History of God is a must-read on the subject
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  788. The part around 39:00 that brings up the side-notes, marginalia, and contradictory instructions reminds me of something very familiar: modified food recipes! I have all sorts of notes written in cookbooks, often don't bother crossing out steps I already know to skip, and might leave in contradictory advice or failed substitutions for reference later on. Delightful to get the sense that these ritual references may have been modified in similar ways from practitioner to practitioner, or even within the lifetime of a single magic-user.
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  789. I found myself trying to figure out Bataille's ideas after reading "Story of the Eye." It was recommended by others, and made for...intriguing reading. I didn't love it or hate it, just found myself wondering what exactly he was driving at. Reading up on some of his other ideas, it made more sense, but Bataille is a tricky one to wrap your head around. He is a bit of a maverick in the philosophical canon. His influence was definitely there in a lot of the post-structuralists, along with Heidegger. A lot of people that have trouble making sense out of Derrida and Foucault would probably benefit from reading some Bataille, Heidegger, etc. Thanks for the video!
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  790. Excellent work. The patreon subscription has been a great investment
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  791. Completely agree about Dr. Litwa's book. His YT channel is also fantastic! We Are Being Transformed also has a bunch of awesome interviews with scholars about this topic.
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  792. I cannot express the rush of joy I feel every time I hear the intro “Welcome to Esoterica”. Thank you, Dr. Sledge!
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  793. In the future people will be doing esoterica videos of Dr. Sledge's Esoterica videos.
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  794. In Greece, Μιχαήλ Ψελλός(Psellos) is among the most famous/known intellectuals of the Byzantine era.
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  795. Each episode just gets better and better! Thank you Dr Sledge!
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  796. I remember you also mentioned in a previous video that the polemic writings of Irenaeus were used to fill in the holes in Gnostic texts discovered in Modern Times. And likewise, the discovery of the Gnostic texts gave us a way to evaluate the historical accuracy of the proto-orthodox polemic writings. History is like a matchmaker with a weird sense of humor.
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  797. 20 videos in 2 days. Your works on the topic are absolutely gripping, and the references along the way are much appreciated. Cheers
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  798. "This angle of Dee's thinking..." I see what you did there, Magus.
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  799. You have a gift for descriptive language that is delightful!
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  800. I think the direct source for the Hermes = Enoch business is possibly from the Book of Six Principles of Things, or the Liber de compositione alchimiae by Morienus, but it's also in Abu Mashar which Agrippa was certainly no stranger to.
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  801. The sass level in these episodes!! Feels like you'd enjoy r/trippinthroughtime.
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  802. i love the dry dead pan comedy you squeeze into such great knowledge. so glad i subscribed to this channel
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  803. I’m getting into Greek stuff. It’s so awesome so peer into the minds of the creators of our religions and see through their bs. I find it useful to skim through the bs and appreciate the lessons and history. Thank you Sir. ❤
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  804. In all of the discussion of spiritualism I've seen before now, there has never been a nod to the radical social reform messages that have often come through. In modern spiritualist circles (with which I don't have direct contact; I've only seen documentaries or heard about certain aspects of them, and have met a few spiritualists semi-casually), I haven't heard about much of a carry-over of this aspect of the tradition, either...which is a great pity. Considering where it was happening and when, it shouldn't be a surprise; and yet, in the History textbooks that I've used in the college classes I used to teach, the Second Great Awakening's connection to some of these more radical ideas is not always emphasized, outside of ideas like the Oneida community's free love and so forth...and spiritualism doesn't get much mention at all. :( Also: as ever, your jokes in the captions are always fantastic...that password was brilliant! ;) And I seriously hope folks around our age get the "Yo! Fox Sisters Raps" reference as well...!
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  805. ''Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.'' - Ghostbuster full of awe
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  806. Great video, as always. I had a professor in college who claimed that the early medieval church (pre-1000 CE) didn't have that much interest in what common people actually believed, so long as they were nominally Christian and didn't adhere to any major hetereodoxy, like Arrianism. It sort of made sense to me given the relatively limited reach of the church in Rome and the population shifts throughout western Europe. I never did see a source on that though, so it could have just been his wild speculation. Thanks so much Dr. Sledge. Your videos and livestreams are the best!
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  807. Good day to you Dr. Sledge. I would like to once again thank you and everyone else for creating this channel. I really appreciate the work you do and that you're willing to do this for free. I wish I was in a better financial situation so I can throw a ton of money your way to help you keep going.
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  808. Watching this wearing a Bauhaus shirt- nice coincidence moment.
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  809. “Lilith laughs last” Omgg I’m cracking up 😂😂😂😂
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  810. I think that remembering episodes like the ones you documented here is an important exercise for us believers. Sometimes, in our fight against our own bad tendencies and disbelief, we can develop a tendency towards extreme dogmatism; while I don't consider dogmatism and ortodoxy per se as a problem, we have to always pay attention to what it can become if we are not careful.
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  811. Blake is one of the most fascinating people to learn about. I'll admit I'm not terribly familiar with his work but you've got me hooked now. Last time I read Blake was over 10 years ago in high school so I'm looking forward to cracking open some of his lesser known works. Thanks Dr. Sledge!
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  812. Double Feuding Liliths would be a great Manga.
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  813. it is so refreshing to hear esoteric stuff without all the reactionary bullshit
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  814. After watching this video, I went back to reading Moby Dick, and Ishmael starting talking about Paracelsus. Weird coincidence? Thanks, as always, for the informative and amazing videos, Justin!
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  815. Roast you? Great Scott Man, the more I learn about you the more awsome I find you. It is becoming increasingly apparent that you are one of the most learned, most skilled indeed most impressive human beings that I have ever even read about much less had the honour, the exquisite delight of actually achieving a communication with. I know that the acknowledgement of a comment in a You Tube series is not quite a communication but you get the idea. Thank you for everything, you are deeply appreciated. I hope that your life is as full as you make other people's.
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  816. You should give us a tour of your library and give us your suggested reading list. That would be fent!
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  817. 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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  818. Thought-provoking - The World as Will and Representation - it's been a long time 🙂
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  819.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I do. Mostly on early modern sites. Bureus is well known for being the first "riksantikvarie", i.e. head of the National Antiquities Office and of course for his impressive documenting of rune stones and other ancient monuments. But I don't think we talk or think much about him as a mystic. I learned a lot from your episode! And I HATE thas his work is being misused by the nazi racist crowd.
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  820. Make sure to check out the other episodes in this Collab: @Angela's Symposium - https://youtu.be/zAQp0htYVOY @Let's Talk Religion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPihRoMVyaI @The Modern Hermeticist - https://youtu.be/A1fROdAhNTA
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  821. I only recently discovered this channel, and at the same time Mr. Mythos and the content of both is top notch and I find they compliment each other very well. Happy to have stumbled across this stuff!
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  822. I'll be adding some reading lists
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  823. Thanks so much for diving into this, especially the first half of the video. The approaches of Eliade & Jung are interesting, but not very historical. You briefly mentioned Lawrence Principe, and I highly recommended his course on the history of science to 1700 and his interview with Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP. Him & Matteo Martelli are doing some amazing work. Thanks Dr. Sledge! Ill definitely be coming back to this video. Side note: I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm excited for a potential class on Merkavah/Hekhalot literature!
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  824. "The phallus swallowing version" made me laugh out loud.. some of the dry humor he injects is priceless.
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  825. Love me some Mesopotamian myth and of course any staple ghost stories. Definitely about to appease the goddess Ninsaki after this video too. Happy holidays
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  826. Growing up, I would've never expected education like this to ever be on demand and free! Again, beautiful work as always Maestro! Fantastic!
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  827. Really love this episode! Even though from a scholarly angle the Newton translation has some issues but in terms of poetic imagery I actually think it's my favorite version of the Emerald Tablet.
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  828. I've been searching for content like this everywhere! Thank you so so much!!! 🙏🏻
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  829. as a booklover, book hoarder and bookbinder, this is simply mouthwatering
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  830. You know, before your channel, I would never had imagined that learning about the occult in history could be this much fun. Thank you again for what has become one of my favorite channels ever on Youtube.
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  831. Absolutely amazing, man. This series was amazing and you should be incredibly proud of your work (and everyone involved.)
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  832. Fire content, as usual. Thank you Justin.
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  833. This was incredible! You were on fire. So poetic and informative. 🔥🖤🔥
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  834. Honestly, so enlightening, frankly disturbing 😳 Your content and fabulous research once again blows my mind. Your presentation delightful. So grateful.
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  835. Fratre Rosae Crucis here 🙋🏽‍♂️ Been watching your videos for quite some time now and have found them very insightful and beautifully and masterfully constructed. I really love your work which has definitely contributed to my own spiritual education and journey while being a member of the Rosy Cross Order for the past 6 years now. I just want to thank and commend you for all your hard work and dedication to bring forth very credible and highly scholarly work on such complex and sometimes very mystified topics. Keep doing what your doing brother in helping contribute to the GREAT WORK. Peace profound brother 🙏🏽🌹✝️
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  836. This has to be the best explanation of paracelsus's thought Ive ever heard. His theories confused even some of the best alchemists of his own time, to have such a carefull and thoughtfull disection of them is really a gift to those of us who have been trying to wrap our heads around his ideas! thank you!
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  837. There's a thing I love about you, Dr. Sledge: you always call your colleagues "kind" and "friends"... This speaks volumes about your own kind soul ❤
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  838. This is now one my all time favourite quotes: "...The chaos of creation and the routine of consistent productivity—too much of either is probably destruction: through the disorder of pure difference, or the living death of pure repetition..." - Dr. James Justin Sledge
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  839. Excellent as always, very comprehensive. About the pescetarian thing, if I'm not mistaken, many a species of fish reproduce by external fecundation (that is, formally, a sexuated reproduction but with no intercorse) in a way that there is no body contact or "act". I don't know if they had this scientific knowledge in Antiquity, but it's an interesting fact to know.
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  840. The fact that my favorite YouTube educator and I share a birthday is thoroughly delightful! Happy (early) Birthday Dr. Sledge!
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  841. I may have skipped class today, but at least I can spend my morning coffee learning something more important like this anyways. Appreciate the videos! I'm also currently reading Philosophy of Mysticism by Richard Jones because of you, half way through and is a very excellent book on all the views of mysticism.
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  842. One of the recent popular pointers to Stoic philosophy is the Cognitive behavioural therapies and especially the ACT and Mindfulness techniques, which reminds of those magical techniques of thought control presented by Franz Bardon in his step 1 in Initiation to Hermetics.
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  843. So i've been marathoning your channel for the better part of a month now and honestly one thing I like is with how complex the topics are theres a bunch of videos I feel I need to watch a few times to fully understand, and as someone who gets hyperfixated on one sub topic on youtube a lot I quite apricate the depth!
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  844. I'm actually a Christian but enjoy the videos very much. Your library is better than mine. All I have apart from the Christian books are the Midrash Rabbah, Artscroll Siddur, and English translation of the Shulchan Aruch and a swathe of academic books on the intertestamental period and Jewish and Roman backgrounds to the New Testament. My favourite books are on the Pharisees by Neusner and also by Saldarini.
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  845. I am Coptic orthodox Egyptian I am loving every video you put here what an amazing content I am hooked. Keep up the good work Doctor
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  846. Its great to hear that intro music again!
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  847. Another quite splendid episode, pitched just right so as not to overwhelm the non-specialist, nor to bore those with a little more familiarity with this dauntingly dense topic. 🙏
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  848. I am 100% making an ancient Wizard NPC for my Dungeons and Dragons who’s a scholar and historian of gods and ancient powers based on you and this channel. AMAZING.
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  849. Now that I think of the time I was doing this type of magic i realise now that it’s similar to the magic of the book of saint Cyprian. Except in saint Cyprian the hierarchies are not as mathematical. Again. Awesome episode. Thanks.
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  850. Thank you for this episode. It was Thothful of you to do it.
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  851. you know there's something wrong with the world when on a scholarly video on Canaan you get a commercial for "ancient aliens"
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  852. What a great episode, food for thoughts galore, thanks Justin <3
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  853. Wonderful video! There is so much content in the Kabbalah, it’s nice to see a scholarly unbiased approach!!!
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  854. “Like Elmo on MDMA” I just stumbled upon this video while looking for a way to pass time and I’m now hooked. I dont really know much about esoteric history, but this is looking like a great maze to get lost into. Thank you for your work!
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  855. 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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  856. I am so grateful that I found your channel. It's like being back in college I especially appreciate your sense of humor
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  857. LETS GOO! More vids with Dr. Skinner please!
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  858. This was fantastic, thank you so much for putting this together, it's about time Sir Isaac Newton was recognized for his alchemical and occult contributions.
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  859. In a country going increasingly insane, this channel is providing me with some much needed end of day relief. Thank you Dr Sledge
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  860. This was an incredibly educative video. I've studied various mythos my entire life and Yahweh and Ba'al have never been on my reading list. Likely because I am Christian and would often get beaten for daring to question the origins of the stories as a child. Regardless, if you can't study the history and origins of these religions and find a good reason to stay devout you were never truly devout to begin with. There are many reasons to stay faithful, none of which relys on fear or peer pressure. These stories represent some of the greatest minds to have ever exist through thousands of years studying and explaining the human condition and how to both prevent and overcome every destructive state of mind you could possibly have. These writings are instruction manuals on how to lead a good life and how to keep your society prosperous. The human mind is complex and because it can contemplate any and all concepts, it needs a God to help it stay sane and true. No one individual can get through life alone. No human is perfect. It's not enough to rely on an imperfect creature beside you. You need a concept of perfection to keep moving in the right direction.
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  861. gosh I get so excited every time you post… you’ve done it again Dr. Sledge, thank you. Your videos have been helping me through a seriously difficult time, being able to take a beat and ponder the spiritual is so incredibly comforting and no one does it better than you.
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  862. Bromancy, with spells like Essential Beer and Summon Ride. 59:13 Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
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  863. Thank you Dr. Sledge for covering this fascinating period in American history. The Metropolitan Museum had an amazing exhibition in 2005, with a truly stunning catalog - “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult,” which I cannot recommend highly enough. Please consider doing a lecture on the uber fascinating Pascal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875).
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  864. There are only four authors to which I have dedicated more than one bookshelf: Blake, Goethe, Jung and James Joyce. Your videos are a refreshing drink from the waters of the depths, and I thank you.
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  865. Fantastic! This is about as good as it gets, this side of Umberto Eco's resurrection and his completion of sequels to both Name of the Rose and Foucaults Pendulum. Thank you thank you, thank you.
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  866. I wonder what he would thought about people like Bohr and Wigner proposing that consciousness is what causes wavefunction collapse and thus, in a way, makes the world exist. Edit: Philosopher Tim Maudlin has called the tests to solve the measurement problem "empirical metaphysics".
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  867. Thanks for this lecture. I am a 7th grade geography teacher, and we just finished monotheism, next up to polytheism, but I had mentioned some of these points in my class to the more curious that brought up YHWH.
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  868. Got a copy of this bad boy back when it cost a normal academic book price. 900$!!! What a return!
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  869. Dr sledgehammer putting in that work for us again! Teaching us profane plebians about the sacred without offering up any kool-aid in the process.
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  870. OH MY GOD IM SO HAPPY YOURE COVERING THIS TOPIC! You’re like one of my favorite history channels and I’ve been looking for explanations on William Blake’s stuff for so long I can’t beieve this is actually happening aaaa I havn’t even watched the video yet but I’m so excited thank you ^^
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  871. this is absurdly good, first thing tomorrow is supporting the channel
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  872. As someone who grew up in the 70s and read Murray's Witch Cult book as part of the curriculum in my very fancy mail order witchcraft course, I can really relate to the folks who now have to question their narratives. Nonetheless, I'll take the current state of Paganism, Instagram and all, over the hard fought crumbs of inaccurate pseudo texts we had to work with any day.
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  873. This is very fascinating. I wonder whether the narrative of the 'fallen ones' and their 'relationships' with human women may refer to actual historical events, as in that case they must have been humans themselves in order to produce offspring? Average stature for men has increased about 4.3" since the mid 1800s in some places, and presumably even more so compared to ancient times. If that were the case then any 'tribe' of people of around 6' or more may very well have been seen as 'giants'. Thank you very much for making such high quality material available to us.
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  874. Thanks a billion for this one, Dr. Sledge! "Yes, please!" to the reading/study guide list for this text! I'll say more elsewhere! ;)
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  875. I'm in agrippment with you: I think the corpus has expanded! Move over, "Fourth Book"! ;)
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  876. What a great video! I'm new to this channel and am so glad I found it. I had been listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast and wanted to find some other scholarly resources that didn't require access to a university library. Thank you so much for all your work on this channel!
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  877. This was a great video, Dr Sledge. Imma listen to Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil tonight in honor of the subject. That's a heavy situation you went through - thanks for sharing and you seem to be stronger for it. Keep up the great work 👏🐢🙏
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  878. Impeccable work as always. I agree you could make like 10 videos lexploring Astrology’s rather odd connection to Christianity. Maybe your next playlist? 🧐 Cheers!
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  879. I've been waiting for this one! Thank you so much. I've recently been studying Hilma af Klint. A Christian Theosophist now credited with being the first abstract artist in Western painting who received the insperations for her art during séances. Truly fascinating.
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  880. Isaiah 45:7, baybay Love the abundance of Blake in this one. Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  881. Tbh, after listening to both sides, I find myself coming down in the middle. The ppl we call Cathars don’t sound like they would have had an organized religious order as portrayed by traditionalists, but I find it hard to believe that the crusade would have taken off over a few peasants being misinterpreted by ignorant xenophobes. On the other hand, I find myself more and more persuaded by the “witch hunt” analogy, so I want to learn more about the skeptic side. Thanks for the great video!
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  882. It's always an automatically great day when Esoterica uploads! Fantastic video, as always!! Thank you! 😁
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  883. This definitely calls for a follow up movie review of The Ninth Gate.
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  884. I could see Paracelsus on an informercial at 3 am hocking books about WHAT THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WON'T TELL YOU
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  885. Thanks for having Lynn on the channel. What an amazing discussion!
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  886. So I no longer need to experience anguish every time the subject comes up? Sweet! On the flip side, I can no longer justify dreams of ancient halls of wisdom. They are so much more romantic than googling something on my phone.
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  887. Man pulls chained demon from under bed “Where did you get this?! Who taught you how to do this?! Answer me!” “You, alright?! I learned it by watching you!” Parents who chain demons have kids who chain demons.
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  888. Great opener for spooky season!
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  889. ¡Gracias! Hey Doc, happy to heing able to chip in, great scholarly work, keep it coming, your work, weirdly, has helped thru the dementia of both my parents, wich btw, my Dad loves ficino and pico now. Thanks for giving me a means to keep a thread of recognition and lucidity in my work of love, as my parents interest on the subject seems to push them to expect me and your friday videos impatiently wich forces them to remember and hope. Thanks Doctor Sledge.
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  890. I think this has been my outmost favorite video on your channel. So deep and clear!! Thank you so much!!
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  891. “When we allow our faith to dictate our history we fail both” such a healthy mindset!
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  892. As always, I am in awe of the depth of your knowledge and how you are able to explain such a dense and often baroque body of philosophical work in such an engaging way. Thank you.
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  893. 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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  894. It’s always a great pleasure to peruse your back catalogue for things I’ve missed, like this gem. Thanks for all you do!
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  895. This is fantastic content as always. Thank you so much for all your efforts!
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  896. I am Catholic and I love your channel. My niche within the Catholic tradition is the teaching of the Mystics and the Mystical tradition. Honestly, I appreciate all the information you provide; especially knowing, you are not going to gloss over the bad behavior (and there has been plenty of it) within Catholicism. Thanks for all your work!
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  897. Imagine doing all this to summon Lilith, compelled her and her servants to tell you were the treasure in you area is, only for them to laugh at you, tell you that there is no treasure and vanish. I mean, they wouldn't be lying, but you just wasted all your time reading an hour long incantantion just to get NO for an answer.
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  898. We visited the Chicago Field Museum and saw the reconstruction of Unas' tomb! It's like walking into a pyramid's chambers on the first floor and you descend further into the exhibit seeing tomb goods until you exit in the Egyptian collection on the 2nd floor. It's really wonderful, and now I have a visual of the king's pyramid to identify him with today. I had no idea it was that ruined until now.
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  899. The aforementioned "those Coen Brothers" would make a great movie, I think. Maybe Lilith as a anti-villain, due to her being demonized just for wanting to be treated equal.
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  900. Absolutely love your channel and just subscribed. Been doing a lot of reading from the various Hermitic texts and I am currently reading the likely botched translation of the book of the dead, but it's nice to occasionally take a break from page turning to just listen to the wisdom others have already uncovered with their own research. Thanks for the fascinating and informative videos!
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  901. What an amazing channel. How did I not know about you before!?! Just perfect.
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  902. A hermetic theory of health, involving balancing astrological talismans, curatives and tinctures. . . Absolutely fascinating. (And lol so funny about the trident!! 😂)
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  903. I know this was posted years ago… but if you do read this Justin. It would be quite interesting to do an episode comparing death and afterlife concepts in the 3 Abrahamic Faiths. Judaism ✡️, Christianity ✝️ and Islam ☪️. Being a Muslim it will clear up lots of misconceptions or commonalities we might have in the process and after Death. Thank You Justin. Watching this during Ramadan… very insightful. May the All Mighty Bless You.
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  904. Thank you for tackling the books of Jeu. Looking forward to the eventual Pistis Sophia episode. ;) The "untitled text" in the Bruce Codex is a wonderful piece of gnostic cosmology. There are, at least 3, that I am aware of, translations.
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  905. This is going to be a huge hit with Diablo 4 players. For the uninitiated, Lillith is the new big baddie of D4. I'm looking forward to casting this spell in game.
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  906. 2:30 When an Esoterica episode starts with angels lashing out and turning people into puddles of their own bile, you know it’s going to be another banger.
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  907. Great work as always, Dr. Justin Sledge. Fascinating to see all of this tireless research explained, and my own personal love for Angels and Astrotheurgy is certainly stimulated. I look forward to your next video on this subject eagerly!
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  908. I’m so glad you made this. I was afraid to ask you for the transcript of the Latin and the English. Thank you. ❤
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  909. It threw me for a loop when I realized that most ancient books weren't these huge, biblical tomes, so 700 books might be a very reachable number for an ancient writer.
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  910. I had an acute episode of schizophrenia at 26. Still have it daily all day. But i see it as Divine Madness now that has brought me countless riches in spirit.
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  911. Ha! I literally said to myself, "This is confusing", and then you said "Are you confused?" right after. That was hilarious, lol. Great video amigo. Time to go sailing!
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  912. So much history of the stepping and killing of Spanish Jews. History is so depressing.
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  913. Thank you for the episode dr sledge. It seems that there was a lot of confusion as to what Kabbalah really was.
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  914. I looked at your recommended reading. I figure you have read all of those books etc. I have two master's degrees but I want to give you and every PhD scholar MAXIMUM props for the monumental body of knowledge that you guys read etc. in your training and ongoing studies. Much of the books and other media that you consume are very difficult and advanced reading. I really appreciate the work you do and especially that you boil it down into such understandable chunks for those who listen/view. I appreciate your well-informed content. Please do continue your excellence! I edit so as to add that you and many scholars like you are so very humble. You never venture to speculate about material that you are not an expert in. I salute you guys.
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  915. coincidentally, just started reading a Kybalion... got the distinct feeling that the brain is the philosopher's stone? transmuting metals (heavy, earthly, shadowy thoughts or/and feelings) into gold (light= positive, altruistic, compassionate thought and/or feelings) Reading Thunder perfect Mind blew my mind, thank you for that recommendation! Wish I could do more for Esoterica, dr, it's amazing to have this on youtube. Best wishes ✨
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  916. I am 100% a Goonie about this stuff 😅 Your videos and presentation style is fast becoming my favorite! Thank you for all that you do!
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  917. Honestly I have to say thank you - I am a twenty something raised in a Christian household turned spiritual/witch in training, and I've always been somewhat intimidated by the vast amount there is to learn about... well everything. However you've just surmised a a very dense and complicated history so that even I can understand where the roots of this deity which has shaped so many of our lives has come from, and actually made me curious about studying more. Never would I have said "hey I'm interested in esotericism" but now, I might actually take those first few terrifying steps into the deep hole of historical and arcane research. Thank you for making this interesting, and far less daunting than it could be to beginners like me.
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  918. This is a phenomenal tour de force. I truly appreciate your work and admire your integrity in presenting this topic. As you said, the field is stunningly complex and requires a lifetime of study and research to grasp even partially the myriad of related issues. You did a fantastic job. Bravo.
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  919. I've got a dearest friend that's just like Agrippa. Academic, sharply intelligent, a bit of a polymath, with a deep sense of fairness, and endless curiosity and drive for discovery and self-improvement. He's also neurodivergent and has absolutely no idea of when to shut up and lie low. Somehow he's so far escaped being killed after crossing the wrongest possible kind of people. He's just about to publish his stuff and upset a couple more people in the process, but he doesn't care, because "this knowledge has to be out there". Let's see how far he goes.
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  920. Absolutely unacceptable! I will share this on my channels, hopefully we can make Google notice.
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  921. These lectures are only getting more and more compelling. Thank you for sharing your intellectual talents and blessings with us! BTW: Hope you’ll consider doing an episode on Nicholas of Cusa.
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  922. Wonderful discussion! Thanks as always, Dr. Sledge and Lynn! "Fischer Price Aethyrs"--imagine if some bits of Crowley's invocations were written by Dr. Seuss to go along with those! ;)
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  923. 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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  924. Dr. Sledge your doing the lord's work.... Literally.
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  925. Great channel! Love the symbolism. We are all as humans Sol/soul-of-man. The hidden meaning and messages in these ancient texts are fascinating. Solomons temple is our body and we must know/learn ourselves. Thank you!
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  926. Below the crystalline spheres of the wandering stars is top tier prog content.
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  927. I'm so excited for this!!! I just uploaded a "my notes" on my occult blog about spiritual alchemy and I plan on doing another one after going through your videos and resources about the topic! Thanks so much <3 Edit: With credit, ofc, I'm always linking people to Esoterica <:
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  928. Absolutely moving! Another fantastic, very well researched lecture. Thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  929. Every time I'm going to play one of your videos, they look too long on paper, but then when they are coming to an end, they seem too short. Truly magical.
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  930. This was so interesting! I enjoyed both interviews and thank you for mentioning me, Justin. You're always a lovely friend and a knowledgeable scholar. 😊
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  931. I would have never connected The Hell-raiser series into academia of philosophy, muchless add that into the same video about Freud, Schopenhauer and the traumas of war. 🤔 Amazing video as always, professor. This one really has a little of bit of everything.
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  932. This type of video (on Zosimos) is why I started watching Esoterica! Thanks Justin.
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  933. I truly wish you were able to find that AutoCAD model of God that one of your students made years ago. Thank you for another amazing video!
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  934. Love it when you collaborate with Dr. Puca! I always learn something completely new when I watch her videos and interviews. I was not terribly familiar with the Sworn Book of Honorius and I look forward to learning more about it. Thanks to you both!
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  935. Please do more videos on contemporary philosophers influenced by Gnosticism / esoteric thought!! Rene Girard, Cyril O’regan, etc
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  936. Thank you Dr. Sledgehammer keep rocking these educational videos you are amazing. Such a wonderful academic resource for everyone your one of the fathers of a new era in making academic occult studies available to all. You are in your field what Agrippa was in his!
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  937. On an extremely shitty day like today, this is a comfort. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
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  938. I know in modern gnostic groups, IAO along with other groupings in practice tend to be for intoning each vowel for a few seconds in a magical/meditative method kind of way. Unsure if historic Gnostics practiced this way, but the screenshot of the text about halfway through, with like 5 “O”s followed by multiple “E”s etc, may be another way of expressing those sounds being intoned….. or not 🤷‍♂️
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  939. I love how nervous and respectful you are of a bottle of absinthe. Right you are. It was made to be consumed. Just like your videos!❤️
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  940. this is wonderful. i love the history of early women mystics
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  941. This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to share this information with us and providing further reading.
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  942. The idea of the gates and Sheol and preventing the demons from light sounds very Pistis Sophia to me. Man I so wish that whole ritual could be published. This sounds like a great magical experiment.
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  943. I shotgunned this 14-part lecture series on the Kabbalah over the weekend thinking I would learn how to interpret the weird mysticism found in Neon Genesis Evangelion or Final Fantasy VII or possibly learn how to summon a golem. What I got instead was a 14-part lecture series on how people's lives across the world were transformed by a powerful body of theology that influenced Judaism just as much as the works of Aquinas, Augustine, and C. S. Lewis influenced Christianity, and an inspiring message on the ingenuity, intellect, and amazing resilience of the Jewish people across the centuries. Thank you, sir, for your eye-opening content.
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  944. Thank you!
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  945. Fantastic ! The Maya must have had a tremendous array of very successful medical treatments and knowledge of herbal preparations. Considering the types of wound care and the life span, so well documented. Truly an amazing people. Awesome segment, and answers the question of your channels glyph :) thank you!
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  946. Irving Finkel is a treasure to be sure. I have enjoyed watching him speak. Much like yourself, Justin, his humor makes the topic so much more enjoyable to absorb.
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  947. So glad these videos exist... Saves me years of banging my head against impenetrable books and getting nowhere...
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  948. Beyond excited for the Esoterica perspective on Chaos Magick with a “k”!! Thank you, Dr Justin Sledge! You rock!!
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  949. In a beautiful moment of synchronicity, you come out with a video about exorcisms on the Friday before I teach a class on Matthew's Gospel next week. Beautiful! Shalom!
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  950. Is all of politics a veiled theology? Fantastic episode. Didn't expect to learn as much as i did
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  951. An Eggers/Sledge production? YES! Feature length, mini series, anything! Yes, please!
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  952. Along with the great books by Bohak and Harari, I might also suggest Michael D. Swartz’ The Mechanics of Providence: The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), Part I.
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  953. Thank you for this nuanced presentation. I especially appreciate the illustration of science becoming divorced from ethics as well as just the history of the evolution of chemistry.
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  954. PARTICULARLY John the Baptist. Dang… 😆
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  955. Reupload just means I watch it all over again!
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  956. I'll never be righteous enough to perform a ritual to ask the Prince of the Torah to explain the deeper mysteries of Judaism to me instantly, but I can fall asleep with your playlists on and wake up able to follow your livestreamed discussions with other theologians. I'm putting that in the close enough column.
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  957. What a true treasure this channel is. Thank you Dr. Sledge
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  958. Dr. Justin you bring heart, humor, and humanity to your work and we appreciate it so much. I'm not bashful in saying that you are my academic muse and a huge catalyst for returning to finish my master's. I can tell you that the academic rigor and compassion that you inspired in me has improved the very program I'm in because it rubbed off over the course of one semester. We all challenged ourselves including the professor who is also the program director, stating that in his 40yrs teaching the same material there has never been such thorough discourse and thoughtful writing. The final class was emotional as my colleagues and mentor attributed to me the very spark that was ignited right here in your class. Talk about flattery -- in my 7yr stint at Jesuit institutions I say confidently this wasn't a typical response to a dissenting voice. You have shown what happens when authenticity meets scholarship - it pushes through barriers and speaks right to the soul. Also goes to show how seismic shifts can occur from just one soul bravely stepping off the wheel of convention. Your success is more than deserved. Congrats🙏🏾
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  959. Dr. Sledge, I am enraptured by your channel. I very much enjoy your work, the research as well as the delivery are appreciated... well, as much as a non-specialist can possibly grasp your subject matter. Thank you for your exhaustive efforts toward secular education, giving this lowly student a chance of understanding. Were I granted the legendary dinner party with 12 people of my choosing, you would be seated between Marie Laveau and Joan of Arch. Peace, Shalom and my wish for the kindest rest of your visit to these dimensions. As predicted by the profits, We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
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  960. Enochian Magic seems to be the sort where, if it works, you'll wish it hadn't.
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  961. I'm an amateur chemist, a professional psychologist, and a quiet Gnostic. Alchemy is the historical pursuit of all 3. I think the modern professions would gain so much from drawing upon their collective historical basis.
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  962. ...mit schmeer
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  963. You are one of my new favorite teachers. Probably the only person on earth that can articulate material like this on a level that can cross cultural boundaries and crack some pretty thick ice using intellecutal humor. Thank you for your work.
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  964. This is amazing because the secrets of alchemy by professor Principe is the first book I read after a frustrating search for a reliable author on the history of alchemy and chemistry more broadly. I’ve often wondered what a discussion between professor Principe and Esoterica would be like and then out of nowhere it actually happened!
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  965. It would be interesting to compare and contrast this sort of embodied mysticism with the kind described in Caroline W. Bynum regarding women and food (or the lack thereof), and how the body and its suffering becomes a way to participate in the embodiment of Christ.
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  966. Cathartic as always.
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  967. "1000 subscriber special" +500k over 3 years? Well done.
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  968. This film has always been one of my favourite horror films since childhood, I'm pushing 50 now! You should also check out another vintage classic, The Night of the Demon from 1957, fantastic film.
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  969. Completely absorbing, Dr. S., thank you! I realize there was a great deal of material to cover, but I must have stopped the video at least a dozen times so that I could read the on-screen examples, which made for a somewhat "choppy" experience. Worth the effort, regardless. 🙏🏻
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  970. Instant like and sub, this was absolutely fascinating and helped fill in a ton of holes in my understanding of what I was taught at church and Christian school.
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  971. I almost cried when you said wisdom is a human right. I did cry when I saw that this volume is already available.
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  972. Loving the content on the history of Abrahamic esoterism! I have a big question on Thelema, one that I haven't really seen addressed directly: Crowley's Black Brotherhood; I know they are personified human enemies of 'true magickal adepts', and are also 'failed adeuptus majori' in that they take the false sephiroth 'Da'ath' to be the true Godheat during their attempt to cross the Abyss between the upper 3 and lower 7 Sephira --- but that's about it. Why do they exist? What role do they play, other than a conceivably convenient shunning for those that Crowley disagreed with? Are there other similar roles in other mystery traditions? Why are they so dangerous to the path of the "Aspirant"?
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  973. You are absolutely my favorite channel. Thank you Dr. Sledge for sharing your wealth of knowledge and providing your sources.
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  974. Interesting facts: Blake was influenced by Thomas Taylor, which might be where all this Demiurgical business derives from; and since you mentioned Wollstonecraft, Taylor and his wife were landlords to Mary Wollstonecraft's family. Possibly why he composed his Declaration of Rights of Brutes the same year Wollstonecraft put out her Declaration of Rights of Women (1792).
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  975. Y'know, if you start talking about the Kuntillet Ajrud inscription, you're going to have to get sucked into doing at least one video about the history of Asherah. I'm afraid those are just the rules of studying ancient Near Eastern religion. You'll even have to discuss that @$?*#!! pronominal suffix.
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  976. I was literally thinking about how it’s almost like a game genie for life and I just can’t believe near the end of the video you also made that connection. 🙌
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  977. I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your content, it is absolutely phenomenal. I am of very meager means, but I felt good about contributing to this channel. This episode spoke specifically to my heart.
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  978. Thank you for not using the inflated figures of estimated witches who perished during the trials. The lower numbers are certainly significant and we gain nothing by exaggerating them. Your position on the "flying ointment" question is also sensible. I don't close the door to there having been use of hallucinogens by certain "cunning folk", but we need to separate attractive ideas from ascertainable facts if we have too little evidence to make a reasonable conclusion. As you say, "scholarly content" is found here.
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  979. Someone: "How many times can you say love before it starts to sound weird?" Hadewijch: "Hold my beer"
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  980. Fantastic as always. Couldn't help but think of that one bronze statue that was originally Set in a typical Ba'al pose that was retrofitted to be Amon (ears removed, horns added, neat hat added) as you were talking of the different "applications" of Set.
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  981. We are all so lucky to have exposure to so many videos of this type of info!
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  982. I love this topic, and your presentation of it! Brilliant and at times hilarious, as always! Thank you for presenting it. (The Harba de Moshe reminds me of when I was a young witch just starting out, and I went around collecting and creating as many spells as possible, so as to become sort of a human Swiss-army knife... good times!)
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  983. Thanks! Im building a ladies Field Hockey locker room today on Staten Island. With no A/C.. A new Agrippa lecture is making this day far more enjoyable!
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  984. I discovered recently the youtube lecture series by Ronald Hutton (who is sort of the dean of witchcraft and neopagan studies) and have been blown away how far the field has advanced since I dipped me feet in grad school. That said, the Formicarius wasn't even on my radar lol. Oh and speaking of grad school. My advisor was a Waldensian!
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  985. These types of resources were once just completely impossible to find. This channel not only makes it accessible and easy to understand, but also jumps straight to the point and gives you everything you want to know. This is top tier content, thank you for making it.
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  986. Thanks for all the work you do making these! May the next year be great.
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  987. Yes...Love it...I was raised Christian and I practice healing magic. I often get called a satan worshipper particularly by older aged Christians😔 Thank you for the video🖤💫🤍
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  988. 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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  989. Thank you so much for your dedication to uploading these obscure topics that aren't adequately documented on YT, or anywhere outside of higher learning facilities, so that layman such as myself can continue learning!!! Your work is most welcome & appreciated by me and so many others
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  990. My mom just got me your mug for my birthday, I'm so happy!!
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  991. That was a fast climb to 99k. When I first came here after your interview on The Magician and the Fool, I thought of your channel as being on the smaller side.
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  992. The recipe for the Philosopher's Stone is simple: Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Creams with Gobs of Chocolate chip Cookie Dough & Fudge Brownies, aka Ben & Jerry's "Half Baked"
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  993. WAR 'What is it good for?' SCROLLS! And a great overview of one of the most evocative, in my opinion, pieces of religious literature from ancient times. I am inclined to agree with the notion of the lengthy detailed descriptions as a kind of magical formula, I imagine that maybe they would recite from memory and in a sense conjure the coming events, at least in the hearts and minds of the community. That's the thing with this Apocalyptic stuff it's very inspiring, but look at the outcomes!
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  994. There would be other rivals to Yahweh, but this one really got the Baal rolling! Hi Justin! Great channel!
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  995. I first read Hadewijch last year and immediately fell in love with her writings. Very glad to see some great commentary on her!
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  996. Such an amazing discussions. Truly highlights the pertinency of open discourse and multifaceted aspect of history vs or with interpretative/creative processes. Thank you.
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  997. 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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  998. Your mention of Janus and liminality got me thinking about Hekate, and how she evolved from a similar figure to Janus but evolved through association; through the underworld and contacting spirits, to witchcraft by the Roman period, perhaps an interesting topic you could explore in a future video
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  999. Well... I'm grateful... Deeply grateful for you. Your channel showed up in my feed today and I'm more than impressed with you. The way you break things down, the nuance, the frankness, your sense of humor. You're a real scholar, and a breath of fresh air in an environment that can be extremely bigoted and fascistic. I'm a chaos magician who's deeply troubled with how stuff is going down nowadays and I'm often confused. You're a light in an otherwise very dark, often hazardous, hostile place. Please keep it up. This video damn near made me cry.❤
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  1000. 11:46 There's just something hilarious about "I need a freaking drink" delivered in the academic-lecture register.
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  1001. I can’t believe that, since I grew up Catholic, that I’d never hear of Angel of Fellinia until now. But I can clearly understand now, since most, if not all of her accounts are either redacted or mistranslated either on purpose or on accident, since she was a woman, and men were the ones who could translate any religious texts. A lot of her recounts are very poetic: “The earth is pregnant;” which is one of my favorite lines from her.
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  1002. I came from “Let’s talk religion” and loved it , thank you 🙏🏻🌹✨🙏🏻
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  1003. Great video! The brief mention of Mormons was very exciting for me lol (I was raised in the church). Is there any chance you’ll ever do a video about early Mormonism?
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  1004. Wow. This was amazing. Her account offers a mirror to middle ages and beyond. You have shed a light into something that most of the cushy modern people can never dream of grasping. Not that they would even want to, sadly. I also love how once again the church took a rational position while acknowledging that this woman could be onto something. Thank you.
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  1005. When you try to summon Lilith but just summon her cousin Beleth instead.
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  1006. I absolutely love these videos my friend!
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  1007. 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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  1008. I was befuddled trying to figure out the context for the joke “dwell with gods in the gay bars.” Thank you, closed captioning. Day barge.
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  1009. Pretty sure if we bring up this YouTuber at our local mages meeting at least a few people will also be fans. We suspect that many wizards who take their craft seriously, are fellow fans of this man's work.
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  1010. I'm glad nothing permanently bad happened and you here to be our teacher.
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  1011. This channel is amazing. I'm a fiction author that writes a lot about demons/demonology. I'm hooked on your work
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  1012. We're happy that, even after watching these videos for months, we can find something that drastically changes our view of the "pre-rational" world. So much of Western math and philosophy is so deeply entrenched in Near-Eastern thought and yet we're taught these ancient Greeks came up with it all themselves to combat the horrors of religion. Thank you x a million for the perspective
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  1013. Superb work Dr. J. It’s a pleasure to be creating alongside you. Papa Freud would be proud ;)
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  1014. Morning coffee tastes much better with your videos, thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  1015. As a descendent of a banished colonialist, I find this fascinating
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  1016. “Go jump off a pyramid, or something.” — I laughed way too hard.
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  1017. impeccable timing, just finished replaying Eternal Darkness for the first time in like a decade the synchronicity 😀
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  1018. Wishing you a speedy recovery from COVID. It lingers!
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  1019. Great video! I'm a fellow philosophy PhD working outside of academia, and love learning more about the topics you cover. I'm very glad that the algorithm recommended your content.
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  1020. very few channels are concise like this, thank you
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  1021. "true astronomy" here = Dionysius the Areopagite's Heavenly Hierarchies
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  1022. Sometimes I dream of works being discovered in places like Herculaneum and we can read lost works of Heraclitus or Parmenades
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  1023. Thank you for this wonderful work Dr! As a rebuilding Christian, I have found it necessary to study all aspects of Christianity (as best a layman can); and have decided to deep dive into Gnosticism, which this video will surely help with.
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  1024. Another great episode. Thank you
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  1025. Loved the body without organs joke XD The little bits of humor you slip in make this channel extra fun
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  1026. The next iteration of patent trolls have emerged. It is ridiculous that you have to deal with it.
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  1027. May I be saved from mystical messianic benders -- great metaphor
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  1028. Gotta love Paracelcus! Fantastic work as always, Dr. Sledge. ❤
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  1029. Oh man. You just skim so fast by something so deep to my heart. “Enrollment by genealogy” like my dad who introduced me to my familiar because I was the oldest son. We inherent familiars. We enroll into our house of spirits through genealogy. ❤❤❤ thanks. Another Great episode. 😊
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  1030. plot twist: it's part of the Missionaria Protectiva spread by the Bene Gesserit
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  1031. Wow...connecting these persecutions as a dress rehearsal for the persecution of native Americans...just wow.
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  1032. Thank you for this series on Enochianna. I am very much enjoying it!
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  1033. My personal favorite video you've done so far, great work! Please make more videos on connections between psychoanalysis and the occult
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  1034. Thank you Dr. Sledge for an incredible year of content. It's been amazing to learn with you. Looking forward to many more good years together :)
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  1035. Thanks! This is the clearest and most informative explanation of the Cathars and who they were I have ever heard. I have known and read about them but until now nobody ever explained who they were and what their beliefs were. Great channel.
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  1036. So at your recommendation, I just watched the interview with Monsieur Bataille. It was intriguing to say the least. His assertion that it is childish to engage with literature and eroticism, but an inevitable compulsion of our innate curiosity to explore beyond our own experiential understanding until there are Dire Consequences for our behavior is quite fascinating. It smacks of mischievous truths.. but the consequences reign in the majority of the explorer’s tendencies for the majority of the folks in the world, for which I am personally quite thankful. I know that the shadows dance across from the flames in a most alluring fashion.. but they give no hint of the Pain offered up by the Source of their projection, much like the Moon, who gives Her Light in reflection of the Sun.. within the Shadow of the night or day, without intimating the Heat from The One to whom she may attribute her own glory. Thanks for expanding the horizons for my mind, Dr. Sledge. Yours is a truly fascinating Exploration of Esoterica. Blessings!
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  1037. Such an excellent episode dear Justin, had a blast listening to you while working! Thanks!
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  1038. Its so fascinating to imagine being in the shoes(or perhaps maggot ridden iron shackles) of someone from so long ago who both feared and hoped for the future in such a strong way. Though his fears are so much different than those of a modern person there's something so familiar about them. You can imagine his excitement upon treating wounds with alcohol, feeling his beliefs physically justified in such a visceral way.
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  1039. This drops just as I'm getting to the gym. It's going to be a good leg day
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  1040. your channel is literally the most important esoteric channel on YT rn
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  1041. Thank you! Really appreciate your works.
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  1042. Very fun lecture. I like that it goes from Canaanite mythology all the way to rabbinic lore.
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  1043. While I'm VERY new to the world of magic and occultism, I could understand everything you've said in this video. You made 24 minutes seem like 5! You've definitely got my subscription. May many more come to you!
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  1044. I just listened to Canticles of Ecstasy (prompted by this video) the whole album. I meant to only listen to one song just to check it out… I love this. Thank you.
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  1045. I love listening to conversation between two intellectuals
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  1046. Around 8:40 I think you meant to say centimeters instead of millimeters. Although, I think having a teensy weensy copy would actually be way more magical!
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  1047. As a dialectical-materialist and Marxist, I couldn't agree more regarding the drive-by shooting here done on French post-structuralism.
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  1048. Would it be fairly accurate to say that "mainstream" science (Aristotle) and "esoteric" science (Hermes) were pretty much the same field in the ancient world? Your video leaves me with that impression. Though Hermes brought in some personal mysticism that Aristotle probably would not have endorsed.
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  1049. The subtle "magnets, how do they work" reference gave me a real world LOL. Superb as always.
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  1050. This is one of the best episodes I've seen. Utterly fascinating and informative. Your passion for the subject shines through.
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  1051. Another banger. So, I want to be extra careful with this as comparative work that just looks at surface level connections is generally pretty messy & ham-fisted in nature but with that said: Is there a potential connection between the notion of “descending” into different levels of the heavens and experiencing frighting angels acting as a precursor to later concepts of Hell having different levels full of frightening demons?
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  1052. The deadpan dungeon master delivery is awesome. I laughed out loud thru the first half 😅
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  1053. As a Catholic I love learning about the roots of my faith. Thanks!
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  1054. A great discussion, RENSEP is one of the most worthwhile projects dedicated to contemporary occulture, very much in the same spirit as ESOTERICA. Onwards!
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  1055. My favorite academic talking about one of my favorite subjects! I swoon! As part of the Norse heathen community, I can’t thank you enough for this episode. The misinformation that many people have about the actual history of rune use as far as we currently know it and conflating later innovations with The Way The Vikings Did It(tm) is a pet peeve of mine. I notice that you mentioned Flowers as an esoteric scholar working on this material at the end and I’m supposing that you mean Stephen Flowers. I would be very interested in your opinion of his work. He has been becoming increasingly persona non grata within Heathen circles for awhile due to his problematic associations. I’ve always wondered how esoteric scholars without a dog in the fight analyze his work.
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  1056. Cheers Dr. Sledge! Getting stuck into this one now. Massive thanks for helping me along with my journey of Esoteric knowledge, it has influenced & helped me grow as a person so yeah can't say thanks enough (I have subbed to patreon ofc). Also your modern-lingo descriptions crack me up man 'Hermes the thrice-based' lol!
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  1057. !!! 😮 Ok. Let me go find some money. This ain't gonna be cheap... but this experience? PRICELESS !!
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  1058. I only just started watching your channel and admittedly binging a lot of the content. This is giving me a great connection to the spiritual curiosity I’ve had for the last few years now. Even if I never end up practicing things talked about here I have really been enjoying learning about the practices of different people and ancient cultures! Congrats on 100K Dr. Sledge!
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  1059. Yo new gnostic beef just dropped
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  1060. leaving a comment for the algorithm. Thanks again, Dr.Sledge.
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  1061. I had no idea who Agrippa was before I started watching this series. You saying you didn't want to summarize and just prepare students for a critical read of the source text, has made me start reading the D.O.P. and many other relevant texts. Can't extend my appreciation enough, you have achieved exactly what you have set out to do and it's astonishing, truly wonderful and puts history as a whole into perspective for a neuroscientist like me with an interest in religiousness.
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  1062. I always look forward to your uploads, you pack a lot of information, but break it down so it’s understandable to death of us who aren’t academics. Please keep it coming :-)
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  1063. So Jake Stratton Kent, has a wonderful booklet published on this particular ritual. I would really love to see you do a breakdown of some of his analysis in contrast to some of your theories. What a wonderful way it would be to remember him. Thanks, Justin, as always for the wonderful and engaging content!
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  1064. When it comes to getting your monies worth watching a video there is no better value on all of Youtube than right here. You are legit getting scholarly grade quality knowledge here in a digestible form that you would have to pay for a whole college tuition to even come close to getting it elsewhere. If anybody deserves a patreon donation or super thanks its this man right here. Thanks again as always Doc for your hard work.
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  1065. "Compared to the anti-Canaanite propaganda from the Hebrew Bible". Once again, Dr. Sledge slaps those tough truth grits down onto griddle! I'm buckled up, I can tell this is gonna be a good one! And I get to enjoying this from the northern shores of Cannaan, here in Beirut no less!
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  1066. Our ancestors got high all the time. Why the church felt getting high or drunk was so bad? 😂
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  1067. Join RENSEP 50% off with the code ESOTERICA - https://www.rensep.org/ Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel One Time Donation Support - Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store New to Studying Esotericism? Check out my Reading Guide here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caKNlW7sogEF7lAeYNbOQF9pt5O5b70yAXa-icUJO3o/edit?usp=sharing Rare Occult Books - https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/
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  1068. The more I listen to this episode, the more important this particular episode seems to me. I believe I will read the recommended reading list, then come back to this video. Thank you for the upload 👍
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  1069. Thank you for the distinction of sublime and delight,food for thought.
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  1070. Univocity of Being seems to share some ideas with Wahdat al Wujud put forward by Ibn Arabi in the Sufi metaphysics tradition which I find interesting! Thanks for the video Dr Sledge!
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  1071. The difference in personality from then to now is palpable. I still love your old content, but I love how much more of your personality shines through in your new videos. Keep up the great work, Dr. Sledge!
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  1072. Your channel is helping me become a healthier person! One thing I absolutely hate to do is working out. To make it more tolerable, I started listening to your videos when I'm exercising, it helps me take my mind off how much I hate doing it. Thanks for your fantastic content!
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  1073. Excellent as always!
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  1074. A million thanks for some truly important and transformative work on this magnum opus manifesto of magical reformation!
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  1075. You covered what took me over 25 years of study to gleam from Agrippa's writings as an occultism researcher and practitioner. Well done, Dr. Sledge! You're truly an inspiring scholar.
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  1076. I love how the more you guys dig on gnostisism the more it sounds like modern physics explanation of reality. The world it’s not real, it’s a super positioning of a fractal holographic reality that seems to be animated by consciousness. gods are not entities but conscious states of reality. Like ai programs that create other simulations. Thank you for these videos. ❤love
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  1077. Incredible! I never imagined myself eagerly studying subjects like this. I also never imagined a scholarly doctor of esotericism using “hella” in a presentation. I knew I liked you! Your relatability, professionalism, and credibility make every video a spoonful of knowledge! Truly, thank you for your time, humor, & education. 💌😊
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  1078. So grateful for the quality of this course, that I had to become a Patron last night in order to support the work!
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  1079. I could never put into words how much joy it brings me to see a materialist and an idealist be able to sit down and converse in such a respectful manner. Far too often people from these two camps seem to be able to do nothing but argue and disrespect the views of the other. I would also like to thank both of you for all the thoughtful and insightful videos that each of you have produced. I can say with total confidence that my life is better because of the content that has been produced be each of you. Bravo, gentlemen!
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  1080. Dear Lord, this man is on fire!!!! This is the best approach to Agrippa i ve ever met.
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  1081. As a Benedictine monk, I probably should not enjoy your programming as much as I do. Thank you for not only your great information, but your great sense of humor. I almost spit out my ginger ale at the David Linch slide.
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  1082. You do not give such a detailed account about something you hate, unless you want others to grasp it. He even offered an explanation of the tears of Sophia by his own understanding and added to it. Sometimes the adversary is your best friend.
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  1083. Always a class act - thank you Dr Sledge!
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  1084. Holy book-moly! 😱😱😱😱 That Vol. 1 1616 edition is AWESOME! Absolutely fantastic! And no! I cannot believe you were able to acquire such a gorgeous tome for less than the Brill edition! That is absolutely crazy! Oof...
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  1085. Thank you for this part 2! Enjoyed the education mixed with some humor. Part 3 would be a watch from me.
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  1086. One of the things I love about this channel is that it's basically a course in the philosophy of Western Civilization, tracing back to the Greeks and Egyptians through the transmission and preservation of such by the Muslim world. Sure it's about alchemy and magic, but that was the quest for knowledge in the centuries before "Enlightenment".
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  1087. What a wonderful explanation! I had no idea what Maimonides contributions to philosophy were. PS: The jokes get better with each episode.
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  1088. Stumbled into this video and really appreciated it and the context. Thank you so much for doing it. I have always wanted to know more about this evolution and your ability to look at it factually is phenomenal. Excited to view more of your stuff!
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  1089. "You know damn well we're not gonna get out of this episode without complicating things a good bit more than that." This. This is why I tune in.
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  1090. Thank you for all your hard work!
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  1091. I own so many of your books Mr. Peterson I am truly grateful for all that you do! I've been reading your edition of the Arbatel lately and it's phenomenal.
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  1092. There is no Light without Darkness
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  1093. I realised yesterday that I was really looking forward to the next Esoterica upload. This episode was worth waiting for. Great stuff!
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  1094. I am currently reading one of these Jungian alchemy self help books as assigned by my magical curriculum and while it has some interesting ideas, it's hard to take seriously because the history in it is just atrocious! Thank you to Esoterica and all the other academic YouTube channels for educating me!
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  1095. Your videos are one of my favourite parts of youtube... I just want to highlight how good your delivery is, not only with all the amazing curation and explanation, but also including the awesome quips and humor. Damn, if my teachers were good like that at uni I'd have paid more attention to the classes.
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  1096. Mary Wollenstonecraft has a character called Agrippa in her 1833 story "The Mortal Immortal" so I'd say it's a given that she had read it.
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  1097. a new Esoterica classic
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  1098. Your channel is a hidden gem of YouTube 💎 📚
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  1099. I love this channel so much and I have never regretting becoming a patron. It’s not easy finding academic occult resources.
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  1100. 11:11 You almost have your Zoomer terminology correct. It's called "vague-posting". I love the idea of the Guide to the Perplexed being a medieval vaguepost lol.
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  1101. I've been looking for a thorough academic analysis of this subject for years now, thank you for doing it.
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  1102. Thank you for the continued high quality content! You fill a space that needed a stamp of authority in the sense of a man not caught in delusions, but presented everything from the academic perspective . I appreciate your work and may you keep going strong!
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  1103. Love the channel. Dr. Sledge's dry sense of humor really shines through. Keep up the good work, it's important. ♡
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  1104. Watching your videos every Friday has, since I first found your channel around maybe your 3rd or 4th video, become an integral part of my daily Friday routine. It’s like my more academic version of Saturday morning cartoons as an adult. Thanks so much for all the work you do, the content you and your colleagues produce on this website is incredible in itself and incredibly needed more and more these days.
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  1105. Just stubled across this. Ex-Christian/religious person (now atheist) with a liking of Hebrew and history here. I found this a great presentation. Many thanks for takign the time to do this. I can understand why the two tribal areas would want to merge their deities into one, and it seems to happen a lot in other contexts. Such as Artemis being equated with Diana, various other Roman deities equated with other Greek deities that were similar, or held similar positions etc. So I get the thought process of, "Your god is king of the world, and so is ours, so they must be the same being.".
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  1106. Thank you for this episode... I have been looking for someone to do a deep analysis on this subject. My favorite channel find so far in years. Keep up the good work, A fellow Historian, -TJQ
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  1107. Another interesting video. Hmmm, an Incantation Bowl against Brill... Hmmm...
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  1108. 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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  1109. Great episode. Would love to see a discussion between you and Damien Echols, who sat 18 years on death row after being acccused for the murders of 3 children for being that wierd kid dressed in black and practicing magick.
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  1110. You should do a video covering other early Christian women like Junia, Priscilla and Thecla!
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  1111. Thank you for this. I love the way you frame the rebinding as giving the book a new, comfortable home that would feel familiar to its original... that nearly animistic respect for the book shows you are a worthy steward.
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  1112. Thoth, also known as Lord Soth’s younger brother. (Parents were an unimaginative lot. Aoth, Both, Coth, …Roth, Soth, Thoth [they stuttered when they gave him his name])😂😂😂
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  1113. Dr. Sledge, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your work here and for making it accessible to everyone. I've learned so much from your channel and can not thank you enough for that. Your channel, and a few others, have inspired me to further my education in religious studies. Thank you!
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  1114. Fascinating video! I'm not very familiar with the thinkers you talk about beyond your videos and some other brief "secondary sources" of people mentioning them, so I'm sorry if my questions are misguided, but did the philosophers in this "Realist revival" that came with the Renaissance present arguments for Realism or was it a more descriptive endeavor of showing what are the linguistic universals that shape reality and how they do so? Did they mostly rely on Plato's (and neoplatonic) arguments and ran with it or did they provide new arguments for Realism and rebuttals for Nominalism? Were these rebuttals more experimental, by showing their mystical experiences and magical experiments that would confirm that a Sacred Language does indeed govern the world?
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  1115. "y'all talk about it but I be about it" is sending me 💀💀
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  1116. How ironic. I just got back from Basel and visited the Pharmacy Museum, which is in the home Paracelsus shared with Erasmus. There is a nice bust of him there too. It is interesting he was at the pinnacle of his power when Pluto entered Aquarius; which is where we are about to do again.
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  1117. Do you think decades from now there will be videos of people discussing the legend of Dr. Sledge's esoterica knowledge? Because I want to be that old dude who said he knew him even if the kids laugh and say I'm crazy!
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  1118. James is living my dream
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  1119. OMG the VPN thing had me absolutely cracking up. Beautiful episode. Love it
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  1120. "When we allow our faith to dictate history, we really just betrayed both." Wow!
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  1121. I’ve been waiting for this.
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  1122. Came here to say this. IP pirate can't take that from us.
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  1123. Thank you once again Justin! Commenting mostly for engagement as I really appreciate the attempt being made here to crowdsource university level seminars which do more than a cursory 20-60 min overview of a subject. Could not be happier having have donated and signed up for your Patreon (only one I can afford to do). Wishing ya all the best Cheers
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  1124. I’ve discovered your channel because I’m teaching a novel by Patricia Wrede that uses Dee and Kelley as characters. This is more way more than my students need, but I think a few of them will really appreciate this deep dive into these historical figures, alchemy, and magic.
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  1125. I'm just so hesitant to call on any beings; I don't know that I could ever feel confident that I know who I'm working with and what the consequences could be. I prefer to trust in my own energies and intuition and always act in service of the Most High, seems to get the job done for me!
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  1126. 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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  1127. I've donated via paypal - I appreciate your work and efforts - and enjoy how you have developed as a presenter over the years. Thank you.
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  1128. such a delight! I m just in the middle of watching The Name of the Rose for the 235th time
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  1129. You sounded fine. I’m loving this topic.
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  1130. Thanks! Great lecture! Fascinating. Disturbing. You sure stay busy.
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  1131. I love the idea that "upwards social mobility" wasn't common, so people were more likely to make up stories of secret alchemists making themselves rich by strange and accelerated means. Being a merchant and making your own fortune wasn't easily understood by both the upper and lower classes. It's also a good excuse if you actually just stole all your wealth from Jews or other peoples and you need a better explanation for your progeny. Enter, alchemy! PS I love alchemy and hermeticism to be clear
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  1132. I completely agree with your comment.
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  1133. As I was listening to this in the background while working I had flash of Evil Dead. Like Oh crap what I am having this dude summon into my house. Too late I guess :) love your stuff even if it's gonna devour my soul.
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  1134. Excellent presentation as always! Thank You as always Justin
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  1135. Easily the most comprehensive video on the subject of the evolution of YHWH I've ever seen. Liked, subbed, and notifications enabled. I've taken a very particular interest in the subject of the ancient Hebrew scriptures, and this is the only channel I've ever seen come close to approaching the topic in the way I'm trying to study it. Edit: I know this will probably get lost in the ether but I figured I'd leave the question here since I don't think it's worth putting in an actual email. But after Reading Beyond Good And Evil I couldn't help but noticed one of the main ideas of the book (That the renunciation of false opinions would be a renunciation of life.) and that the title of the book also shares the title of one of the trees in the garden of Eden (The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.) Maybe I've been listening to too much Jordan Peterson; I'm just curious how much significance I should put in this coincidence.
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  1136. Love your ideas and effort you put into communicating them
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  1137. Thanks! The time has come for more Agrippa!
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  1138. Knowledge is the real treasure… well that & “the friends we made along the way.”❤
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  1139. I named myself Lilith when I transitioned, with her being my direct namesake (my grandma thinks of Fraiser), and when I began studying the sephirot I kinda struggled to pin them down and (despite being warned away from them consistently) I really only gained a meaningful understanding when I also considered their opposing klipot. Those came very naturally to me, as if the Sephirot were the question I didn't understand and the Klipot being an answer I already knew and only needed to associate.
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  1140. I really love the format of your videos in which you ALWAYS offer reading recommendations. Thank you so much for your work!
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  1141. I now have formed a habit of sitting down on a Friday afternoon or evening and having an absinthe while listening to Dr Sledge.
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  1142. My husband just said “this is such a once in a lifetime experience that the Dr. is doing it twice” 😂 We’re super excited to be two of the lucky ones to get in the first session! No better way to spend our honeymoon then by diving head first into subjects we know little about but find absolutely fascinating!
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  1143. Great content as always Dr. Sledge. I’d love to see more videos of specific “divine/deity profiles” in relation to your content on Seth, Baal, etc. I’d particularly love to see you tackle something like Leviathan/Tannin/Rahab. Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan’s work from 2020, The Storm-God and the Sea: The Origin, Versions, and Diffusion of a Myth Throughout the Ancient Near East would likely prove to be foundational & I can’t recommend it enough. I also think there’s some precedent for this due to the seal from Tel Hazor recovered in 22’ depicting a figure in combat with a 7-headed serpent. The seal was (iirc) introduced to the wider world in an article from 2024. It’s dated to the reign of either Jehoash or Jeroboam II. As far as I’m aware, it’s the first & only indication of a tradition of a 7-headed serpent from within Israel prior to the Common Era which I thought was a big deal. I know the Hebrew Bible speaks of the various sea serpents/dragons having multiple heads but 7 specifically is a missing distinction that is evinced in traditions elsewhere. I’ll link the short article below: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/727582
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  1144. I'm so excited for this! I co-run a streetwear company called FEED ME KITTENS and after doing a deep deep dive into every one of your videos, I've started working on a mystical/magical/esoteric collection of shirts.
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  1145. I've found that being a novice in this field comes with the barriers of the fact that formal education via institution is few and far between; both primary and secondary source books can be expensive, untranslated, or potentially dubious in a way that is difficult to determine to an untrained eye; and the social stigma of anything approaching witchcraft in a culturally Christian nation keeps people relatively isolated. It's very heartening to see these conversations being had by people older and more experienced than I. I really can't express how much I appreciate you Dr. Sledge and every resource you've introduced me to!
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  1146. Ah yes, was looking for something of high quality that's entertaining and informative and you Sir, do not disappoint. Thanks for the video. ❤️
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  1147. That Roerich painting is the best High Priestess Tarot card that never was....Great talk as usual.. Thanks Dr. Sledge
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  1148. In Arabic folklore and Qur'anic legend, the djinn are said to love desolate ruins, abandoned wells and other lonely places, preferably places where humans once lived and then forsook. Owls also are so strongly associated with ruins and the like that they're a poetic and artistic trope, almost a cliche, that'd common to this day.
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  1149. Thank you very much for putting the founder of Christianity in his true context of simply one among many miracle makers. The New Testiment leaves its audience clueless that the saintly Rabbis of that time drew miracles continuously in their wake.
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  1150. We must defend academic freedom for both right wing and left wing views, especially for tenured academics. The right to say things that arent popular is extremely important in a freedom society.
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  1151. Excellent. I didn't know they had such presentations at the Ritman Library (aka Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica). Dr. Sledge is definitely in his element!
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  1152. Let Justice prevail on sharing knowledge without the tentacles of corporation attempting to drag the ship of learning into its abyss. That said, a return to an early beginning is quite edifying and inspiring in breathing new life into fundamental learning. 📚🎉📖 🌌 🚀🌟
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  1153. Compelling story-telling. I was captured by this - thank you, Justin! More on women mystics would be great.
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  1154. Little Yahweh = Yahwee 😂😂
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  1155. 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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  1156. My fav thing is your dry wit. You get me everytime.
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  1157. Watching you narrate makes me feel like less of a history nerd. Always enjoy your videos and many thanks.
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  1158. Once again, we reach into deepest, darkest history to model the contemporary. Fun to hear you talking about the “modern” in the spooky season 😁
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  1159. “This needs to be a show” my attitude towards all of our history ❤️ thank you sir
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  1160. This is a fantastic video! Sharing your personal story is a great addition to the Satanic Panic as a subject. It helps to really drive home just how devastating this mass hysteria was to so many.
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  1161. The content is super interesting and enlightening, but I also want to compliment your presentation. Your narrative is easy to follow and I appreciate your dry and subtle humor. Definitely subscribing!
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  1162. Sumerian necromancer: Why have you returned to haunt this place? Ghost: Because I died on a day ending in Y
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  1163. Like if you too feel a spark of pure joy every time Dr. Sledge says the words "buried treasure"
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  1164. This channel has definitely helped me level up my academic studies. Much appreciated Dr. Sledge. #SMiB
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  1165. I absolutely love old universities ❣️ Transylvania has a few and Sorbonne is just breathtaking. That energy just makes me high ☺️ Cool subject ! Thk thee 💕
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  1166. So fascinating to hear this through a historical lens, rather than a religious one. Great video👏
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  1167. How can anyone help but love your channel and be jealous of your PhD path. It's genius Justin. I wish I had thought of studying this for mine.
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  1168. I'm only half way through my second video, but I already know, this channel is fantastic! Your presentation is so clear. And I love the fact that you strip all the nonsense away. Just brilliant! Thank you Mythhvision for this recommendation.
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  1169. I'm smelling some gematria in your choice to air this exactly 366 years after that date. You've been on about Shabbatai Zevi for a hot minute. Can't help but feel like there was a reason you waited.
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  1170. I love the whole Solomon saga. I have two books on practicing the magic in the Goetia, but I've never attempted use, probably out of fear. I'm usually interested in the demons and their different attributes, but I'm here for ALL of it.
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  1171. It's fascinating how many martial enthusiasms seem to be tied to really poor understanding of the military. I'm not qualified to comment on the mystic values of his ideas, but in a military sense, as a matter of strategy and tactics... Self-annihilation is generally regarded as the hallmark of a Bad Plan. In a military sense, the nocturnal mindset is pretty attractive... "Let's you and him fight!" is a time-honored strategy of success, and talking about why the other guy and the other other guy really needs to make it into a death match seems to epitomize Special Operation Forces philosophy in specific. Self-annihilation tends to be a field you don't get many senior leaders in...
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  1172. Your ritual for manifesting a hot cup'o coffee is very impressive!
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  1173. As of January 2024, Newman's critical edition of the Summa Perfectionis is available in its entirety on the Internet archive in pdf (since July 2023). Grab it before Brill finds out and has it taken down.
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  1174. Awesome video, as always. Thank you Dr. Sledge. For those who need more of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Kipp Davis just started a new series on that. His whole channel is awesome so go check him out!
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  1175. Dr. Sledge, I love you so much for everything you've done with this channel. Thank you!
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  1176. Excellent video. Cordovero's attitude reminds me of something that St. Thomas said in the Summa Theologiae: "maius est illuminare quam solum lucere" or, "it is better to illuminate than simply to shine." That is, it is better to instruct others than to simply contemplate things for oneself. A good attitude for all, in reality.
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  1177. A conversation between Newton and Goethe would be worth the eavesdropping.
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  1178. Discovered your channel today. What an absolute gift. Would you consider making a video about esoteric influences on music? Bands like Current 93 for example. Thank you and keep up the precious work!
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  1179. Again, absolutely mesmerizing and interesting topic. Thank you very much. I must confess, your "programs" became a staple of my weekly rutine, which makes them ever so much importnat. Looking forward to the next episode on YHVH, Will dive into Smith's material, as I am not sure about "unavoidabliity" of monotheistic conclusion. Maybe I even report back...
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  1180. I ordered in praise of the new knighthood by Bernard of clairvaux after i saw the notification for this video. Thanks for doing this one. Knights Templar are so interesting that people will make stuff up just to talk about them. It's great to have the real thing!
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  1181. So glad you're covering Paracelsus. He was a strange narcissist but he was pretty brilliant. Some of his work seemed to include holistic medicine (understanding the whole person, what they ate, where they lived, etc.). And I think an episode on Mummy-mia would give you a quick cannibalistic ABBA vibe (All Hallow's Eve is coming_.
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  1182. Aaah I see the intro music is back! Yesss! :D
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  1183. The real magic is what's behind that beard care routine? ⚒🙏
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  1184. I’d love to see a video about Julian of Norwich. No judgement if you have to reuse some pictures of Medieval nuns.
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  1185. This is important work. The study and exposition of the true philosophies of the Gnostics and great thinkers not commonly known. As Jung said we must, at times of intense crisis especially, leave reason behind to explore sense and nonsense. It is in the Gnostic and spiritual traditions that have been 'cancelled' that we will find the missing pieces of our selves that we are all looking for. Meaning and value are found within, but like a so much of the human experience we only appreciate what we have lost... Shatzen ist shauffen. Meaning is value, creation is meaning/value.
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  1186. A community under the control of such zealous fear and anger can cause so much destruction. I'm sorry for what you endured. Your bravery and candor are proof of your tremendous strength of character. ❤
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  1187. Been looking forward to this. I love the "Moses to Moses, there's none like Moses" line.
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  1188. When I think of Simon Magus I can't help but recall Jack Palance's hilarious portrayal of him as a magical conman in the movie The Silver Chalice, starring Paul Newman. I think it came out sometime in the 1950s and had these interesting Art Deco sets. Newman reportedly hated the movie so it's not well known, but it is worth watching for Jack Palance's acting alone. Also Helen is in it, portrayed by Virginia Mayo!
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  1189. This video is a gold mine for Jewish Magic. Who knew there was a Jewish spell to walk on water? In the witch community on another app there are always people arguing about Jesus being a witch. I can't wait to share my knowledge about this subject. I will definitely give you full credit. Thank you for taking the time to educate us on this topic, the links, and the book recommendations. I cannot get enough of Esoterica.
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  1190. I love this too much!
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  1191. I adore your entire all that you are. The verbiage that you choose along with your witty sense of humor is very appealing and to say the least award-winning. You’ve brought and continue to bring new knowledge to I and many others in a very phenomenal way. I cannot tell you what your reasoning for this world is, but with out a doubt the reason is with high purpose. Thank you for all that you have lived through bringing you fourth upon this day for your Works are highly appreciated and you are just way too cool! ❤
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  1192. I recently introduced my father to your channel. He's now collecting some of the books you've recommended! He showed me the ones he had chosen, then said it was my fault he was buying even more books! There is no such thing as to many books and too much learning! Thank you, Dr. Sledge for your amazing channel, and geeky references!
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  1193. Amazing video Dr. Sledge! ❤
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  1194. Love the long videos BTW. Should be a good hour in length; you exude that good academia I'm enamoured by. Keep it coming, I can't get enough.
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  1195. Thanks so much for these. I am from kerala , india. Your work is phenomenal .I wish someone as knowledgeable as you always started a youtube channel about my local dieties and myths in this land.
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  1196. Thank you so much... You are so important to us all my brotha..... Your work is un matched , your referrals "the doctor" is so amazing too. I will be supporting and joining when I can , like another comment said ,am strapped for the moment , but soon can be involved in helping once I sort out this mess we are in . Have awesome trip , and hopefully you do it again so some of us can not get left out . 😂
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  1197. i must admit to binge watching your content
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  1198. Lol nice intro.
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  1199. I purchased a bowl fragment and I treasure it. Thank you for this background!
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  1200. This channel is an absolute goldmine. Well researched, and with wonderful delivery. Well done, Dr. Sledge.
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  1201. Fascinating and thought-provoking, as always! The alchemists managed to bridge three worlds, the ancient world from whence their Hermetic ideas came, the medieval world in which they worked, and the modern world they helped give birth to.
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  1202. Alas...Mohr Siebeck books: almost as expensive as Brill, but paperback and with the most boring covers. :( I have burnt a few offerings at their altars, so to speak, over the years, and while I don't regret it, I do wish they were less pricey. This video is one of the many reasons I love your channel: I don't know much about Kabbalah and other Jewish mystical movements and theology--probably more than the average person, but far less than specialists and also less than many others--but I love hearing your discussions of these things; and in the present case, I love how granular and significant it was to certain movements to make distinctions of this nature. My typologizing and systematizing brain, and my polytheistic hair-splitting tendencies get to have a party when they listen to you elucidate these matters! (And there I go, making distinctions of my own about my own particular intellectual faculties!)
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  1203. Yep I'm from NYC we have a Hospital in His name In Brooklyn, my mom was there once or twice!
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  1204. I've always assumed "Jeu" was essentially a loosely-coded form of "YHV" (Yod Heh Vav) - the Tetragrammaton with the repeated Heh removed (so, therefore, a Trigrammaton). That's also the origin of IAO (Yod Heh Vav written in Greek) - and both of these have the Gnostic associations you mentioned. :)
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  1205. Another great video! I feel like it would be easier to forgive the 20th century channellers if it seemed like they had done a little more homework and reading beforehand (or sometimes any at all).
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  1206. Great video! The new version of the Chopin & outro are perfect! You are a veritable scholarly Lenny Bruce, Dr. Sledge.
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  1207. You are a wonderful lecturer, Dr. Your approach to a series of serious topics was always touched by humour as well as important insight.
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  1208. The contents of your shelves are wonderful, thank you for sharing your space with us.
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  1209. 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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  1210. Eeeeey, it's the crossover we always need 😊 Keep up the exceptional work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  1211. Yes, please more recreations! This was so fascinating. Also excited to try your absinthe. Ive never had ot before, and after watching your videos on it i want to try.
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  1212. "well, chistians are nor supposed to be gay. Well, sorry, they are." as a queer chistian that made my day
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  1213. I love how well you convey such huge concepts to be understood by non-academics, and the fun bits of humor along the way!
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  1214. Sorry your intro music is still under siege. But thank you for your continued amazing scholarship.
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  1215. Christian mysticism and Orthodox/Church doctrine research, the hard mode of Occultism. Thank you for guidance and insight, you do good work Dr. Sledge.
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  1216. I love this channel! It's wonderful to be introduced to concepts and history I never knew existed.
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  1217. Great video! I LOVE this subject and pretty much everything you cover on your channel…the “Recommended Readings” section in the description is truly appreciated! Thank you, you are scholar and a gentleman!
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  1218. Je ne connaissais Bataille que par ouïe dire, par des citations ,des références, et c'est finalement grâce à vous (et en anglais !) que j'en apprends , enfin, plus sur son œuvre ! Merci - également félicitations, plus globales, pour votre travail...
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  1219. Without a doubt, one of the best episodes on alchemy and a must watch for anyone interested in the subject. Great job Dr.!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  1220. WOW. I always wondered about the Esther Ishtar connection. Asked so many scholars and now someone cracked it!
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  1221. This episode is excellent, and at the same time bitter medicine. Huge fan of paracelsus and especially his concept of the seed of metals, but facts are facts and it was obviously wrong. Doh!😂
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  1222. 14:33 Whenever this Brabant Thaler was shown in a previous episode, I went online to find out more about it. I didn’t find much, but I DID see it was for sale, so I bought it. It’s a very cool coin, and the gold tint is far more apparent in person than the images can do justice.
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  1223. I'm loving seeing how much more comfortable your presentation has become. The cuts/edits have decreased and the flow of the presentation seems more natural. Great video!
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  1224. Your closing comments sent shivers up my spine, thinking of Cornelius Agrippa standing at the door of illumination, pointing the way to infinite Joy!
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  1225. I'd no idea the Scottish gov't had issued an official apology. Goes to show how little attention I pay to the news... Joking aside, the whole phenomenon should really be an essential part of the national school curriculum. Growing up, we learnt more about colonial Australia and Salem than native history of the same period. We might as well when for instance there aren't even enough Gaelic speakers to teach it as a third language. Anyway, I've visited (by chance) a few places where trials took place. Strange how even the most picturesque places can be the sites of such historical trauma. Thanks, Dr Sledge, for another fantastic video.
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  1226. Hold my mead 🤣
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  1227. Duuuude what a rollercoaster! In the 2000s, we glossed over Zvi in high school Euro history but I am blown away at the far-reaching impact of the Sabbatean movement. Thank you Dr Sledge for this unexpected overview! I come to your page for Kabbalah & magic but got treated to a revelation re:a previously hidden pillar of our contemporary world. Bravo! ALMOST tempted to move to Detroit to sit through your real-life lectures
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  1228. You channel is like a glass of clear water in the swamps of esoteric literature. Thank you for your integrity, your scholarship, and for the additional effort of bringing that scholarship to a lay audience.
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  1229. Lilith vs Lilith: Demonic Dance-Off... Not a band name as such, but potentially a good album title.
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  1230. This has been my favourite video that you've produced, thank you so much. Your eyes tell the story just as much as your words. Your concise descriptions were eloquent!
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  1231. Great work, Dr Sledge 👏 thanks for all you do!
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  1232. Thank you for this extremely interesting and enlightening video, Doc. Though I'm not too familiar with Agrippa's DOP, I read it a long time ago and mainly use it as an example for how knowledge can be hidden in plain sight (eg. Book I, chap. 44), there is one question regarding DOP that came to my mind several years ago: Here in Cologne we have a culture of humor, subtlety in the use of sarcasm and dancing on the fine line between being serious and making fun of something/someone is bred into kölsche people from the day they are born. And in the foreword to the first book of DOP there are passages that remind me of this kölsche humor. Now the question is, has any one ever looked at the text keeping in mind the humorous culture Agrippa probably grew up in? Of course that would require to know the degree of humouristic way to handle things was part of Cologne's culture in the days of Agrippa, it was probably not so far evolved as it is nowadays.
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  1233. Thanks! Sorry, best I can do right now. I really appreciate your channel and the work you put into it.
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  1234. Thank you, Dr. Sledge, as always, for sharing your learnedness with all of us out here amongst the masses! I would never have been able to construct my medieval doctoring parlor without all of your delightful suggestions of reading material. I'm kidding of course, but with healthcare as hard to come by as it is in this country nowadays, the thought of treating oneself with alchemical potions does have a certain appeal. All the best to you, sir! --N
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  1235. Truly excellent video as always, Dr. Sledge. Invaluable material for all Kemetic reconstructionists and modern followers of Thoth.
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  1236. Doctor Justin, this may be your most engaging video yet, for the way you pivot and grapple with these texts and traditions, realting them and increasing our understandings of both at the same time. Thank you for your work.
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  1237. Never have I laughed so hard while I learned so much! Thank you
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  1238. I recognised the others, but who were the last group you listed as targets at the end? The Cult of... Galema?
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  1239. Professor Principe is shepping nachas. Beautifully done Doc.
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  1240. Another whirlwind ride over the rainbow of esotericism!!! Your work brings colour into the material world Dr S!!! Very Metal
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  1241. Hey Justin, as a fellow academic teaching in Indiana this is a real crisis for American academics. Administrations in red states have begun putting tremendous pressure on faculty for reasons that are explicitly political and violate the principle of free inquiry that is supposed to define the Academy. Godspeed to James Bowley and yourself resisting these outrages against freedom of speech and academic integrity! Sharing this with my (admittedly small) circle.
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  1242. Three hours?! I know what I'm doing tonight! Thanks much to both of you.
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  1243. I will support you on Patreon. Thanks for the vast knowledge.
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  1244. Fantastic! That is amazing and very sensible in terms of how you prepared this, and it was beautiful to see these historical instruments and what they do happening! I also have to say: the ASMR-quality to the turning of the pages of the texts you consulted was surprisingly pleasing! I am not an ASMR fan, but when it comes to almost anything having to do with antiquarian tomes, I am fully in. ;) A few of my doctors have been trying to get me to take antidepressants for a while, and I refuse to do so because several of the side effects are things I don't want to trifle with. If the alcohol content of what you produced is low, I would consider taking a few sips of it to see if it actually helps!
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  1245. Yes please DO explore this topic and it's central importance to Western Magic.
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  1246. If I ever win the lottery, your catalog will be my first stop.
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  1247. I have watched dozens of your expositions, but this was by far the most passionate Masterclass on any of your subjects. Very eye-opening and I don’t even have words to express that kind of insight.
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  1248. Forgot to mention, the image jokes are on point this episode. Some levity to go along with the dark theme! lol
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  1249. Appreciate the Directorial credit. 😂
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  1250. Thank you 💘
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  1251. Thank you, this was wonderfully inspirational. I went to a Benedictine high school, so powerful women and mysticism were front and center. The rest of the world is missing out. Sister Mary Pious (who was later known to me as “Bernice”, once told us all belief and knowledge is both wonderful and terrible, and certainty is dangerous. That memory came back today.
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  1252. I’ve been watching your channel for a few weeks now, and I’m just struck by your brilliance and generosity. This is basically what I’d imagine a graduate-level philosophy lecture sounds like, and you’ve given it to us on youtube for free. I’ve been perpetually drawn to ancient mysticism and religious history and this channel has opened up a whole new world for me. I’ve learned such an absurd amount in the last few weeks that the word “gnosis” feels personal now😂. Just wanted to give a sincere thanks and express how impressive your knowledge, insight, and communication are. ✌🏼
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  1253. 11:08 Thank you for this mention of the Q-Anon conspiracy! The recycling and repackaging of those exact old slurs were the first thing that I pointed out when I learned about that nonsensical movement, remembering how it had been used against Jews, against early Chirstians, against "Gnostics," againts Cathars, against witches, etc. To me it was the epitome of the US Alt-right, so-called Christian conservatives who are so ignorant of their own history that they would believe such an obvious pile of lies.
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  1254. I feel ya on that opening point about anti-Christian (or anti-abrahamic) sentiments in occult, I see the same thing often in modern pagans and atheists, with the three groups usually having in common that they're "driven" to their new beliefs by bad experiences with Christianity (only partly - I'm not trying to devalue their interests). Considering Christianity's pervasiveness in the English speaking world, this makes a lot of sense, as unfortunate as it is.
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  1255. Thank you for your kind words, Dr Sledge!
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  1256. My jaw actually dropped when I saw this video. Even my mother was worried if something happened, haha! You're talking about my favourite mythological god Thoth! So cool!
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  1257. One of the things that would make taking these potions so dangerous is that even with precise measurements, there is no way to tell the potency of each potion without testing every dose with modern laboratory equipment. The potency of the chemicals found in these plants can vary in orders of magnitude, not only between plants, but within the plant itself. So even if you prepare a potions and it is fine, the next potion you make from the same plant could contain 10 times the dose.
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  1258. I am so proud to have subscribed to this channel when it had like 50k subscribers. Mazel Tov on the huge success Dr. Sledge!
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  1259. Thank you for that episode. I had no idea there was no actual archaeological evidence of the library! The computation of how many rolls or volumes could have existed was really illuminating too. We need facts!
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  1260. I've got to say I love your intro so much. I need more antiquarian things to stare at to make me feel good. And the piano gives me goosebumps every time. Thanks for being here.
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  1261.  @TheEsotericaChannel  bit o' this bit o' that 😆
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  1262. I faced a massive fear watching this video and idk if any cares but I’m so proud of myself
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  1263. I never thought I would listen to a talk on such an esoteric subject and break out into laughter. Brilliantly done. So interesting this topic.
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  1264. Always like it when you talk about Abramelin.
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  1265. This is my first time to your channel and I just loved your exploration of this text - clear, accessible, even entertaining. Thank you!
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  1266. Just finished watching it. THANK YOU SO MUCH Dr Sledge. Esoterica is by far my favourite channel!
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  1267. Kabbalah episodes are always bangers. ...also, first!
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  1268. Props to you Sir. You always come up with the good stuff. Thank you 🤟🤟🤟
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  1269. Nice. One of your best videos yet. Also, I'm totally up for that alchemy day thing.
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  1270. I appreciate this video, but I think my favorite part is the quiet moment of enjoyment and contemplation after your first drink. You don't try to explain it or intellectualize it, you're just being present. I think that's something I could use more of. well done.
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  1271. Your personal history with the VMS is so heartwarming and nostalgic to me. I never did any serious work on it, but I also got that scratchy Yale copyflo as a gift when I was 17! Interesting discussion about the hoax possibilities as well, of course. I agree it seems unlikely to be a medieval cipher or any exotic language. But if, as you say, the "cryptological horizon" at the time was low, the cryptanalytic horizon was the same. I have to wonder why even a dedicated hoaxer would go to the trouble of devising a system clever enough to show language-like features to even present-day tests, when no prospective buyer would have the tools to distinguish the results from something purely arbitrary. And how likely would someone with such a different mindset from that of our own era be to come up with such an "algorithm?" Still, it's possible, which is more than can be said for many Voynich theories! I do also hope it's not a hoax, though. (Especially if it turns out to be something nobody's even thought of yet!)
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  1272. Your research and dedication to truth is unparalleled
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  1273. I’m so excited and astounded to hear that not only another Genizah full of such treasure has been found (how can you NOT be excited about textual culture being uncovered?) but that fragments of the Zohar on Esther has been discovered resting within! I couldn’t be more thankful for you bringing this into my knowledge, and even more so, I’m just thankful for your channel overall. It’s been your incredible scholarly detail and religious/cultural respect that has reignited my own passion for scholarly research on religious and cultural esoteric topics, and it was your videos pertaining to Jewish topics that has ignited my newfound love for Jewish history. You’ve even inspired me to take classes from the Biblical Institute of Israel to learn Biblical Hebrew, and it’s so far been an absolute outpouring of joy for me to learn! I can’t say enough how much I respect and admire your perspective on every topic you cover, and I hope you’ll keep up the amazing work you do. As a rather funny side note, I make jokes all the time about Brill now, with their pricing always having been a plague on my life, and my colleagues are starting to hop on the Brill-despair-joke train as well.
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  1274. I was so excited to see another video about angel magic! Angel magic is just generally one of the most fascinating topics to me, the idea of reaching to the divine for power. It emphasizes to me that "magic" is a very vague and nebulous term encompassing a wide variety of ideas and rituals and stories. Fantastic work as usual!
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  1275. I'm glad you point out the problem with dude-bro internet Stoicism right from the beginning.
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  1276. Awesome episode Sir. Thank you for setting the record straight. There's so much BS around misinterpreting one thing for the other. May truth prevail. Thank you. :thanksdoc::thanksdoc::thanksdoc:
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  1277. 😂😂😂 I almost pissed myself at the Lynch reference, that’s why your content is so cool and unique. Scholarly and funny AF! Thanks! 🎉
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  1278. Thank you Dr Sledge for your work. Since graduating with a degree in religious studies I have drifted away from its study but your videos have rekindled my enthusiasm for the subject.
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  1279. Gender is a grift 😂😂😂 I simply love your commentary. So educational and so entertaining!
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  1280. I've been binging this channel and I love how these videos are so well thought out. Thank you for making content like this readily available and enjoyable!
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  1281. I have traveled to most of the archeological sites mentioned here, and hold a library of hundreds of texts on this history of god and its religions and this well presented scholarly piece stands tall. Nice work from a lifetime of expertise.
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  1282. The best place to start studying alchemy is this channel, no doubt 👌🏼
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  1283. Thanks you for another informative and entertaining presentation. I also greatly appreciate your support!
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  1284. Thank you for this and all your videos! I have learned so much from your sharing your work.
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  1285. Excellent once again, Dr. Sledge! Well done! I haven't read any Schopenhauer, but have wanted to for over 30 years...Joseph Campbell seems to have been a big fan of his, but it seems to me that their overall approaches (though Campbell was no philosopher, despite what some people try to suggest) are radically different, based on what you've said here. Campbell is many things, but a radical pessimist he's not. I'll have more to say elsewhere...! :)
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  1286. I really like this format of the Dr. just being in teaching mode and I might even prefer it over the more compactly produced videos. This series has better flow than the other videos.
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  1287. My people (the Calvinists) were obviously predestined to make the best grimoires.
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  1288. Super stoked to see this one 😁 thank you as always for your scholarly content, Dr. Sledge
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  1289. This one was emotional for me. Thank you Dr. Sledge. 💜
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  1290. Realism lives!!! (Even if it’s just Mathematical Platonism in cosplay). Great episode Doc Sledge!
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  1291. Gotta love those Cathars
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  1292. Dr Sledge, I stumbled upon your channel about a year ago, and amazed by the well of knowledge you've been sharing. Thank you for the quality content and humorous delivery. Love from Hong Kong.
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  1293. Now this is where the rubber meets the road! As much as I appreciate your erudite summaries of the scholarship that's available (and not exactly easy to access) you are really "adding value" when you bring us the untranslated and otherwise extremely esoteric stuff. This will help me with a long neglected project of studying the influence of Agrippa on the English alchemist Thomas Vaughan, who made a proto feminist argument when he designed a sort of "sigil" (if you'll forgive me) combining his and his wife Rebecca's initials to indicate that his alchemical findings were her intellectual property as well
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  1294.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yeah, that "instant learning" seems to require a big time commitment.
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  1295. A blessed day anytime Dr. Sledge uploads! 🙏
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  1296. As a Christian, this is heavily illuminating concerning the history and inner workings of my faith in Christ. Thanks
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  1297. I Love your passion. These ideas are important for us now. They need to be acknowledged and incorporated into our modern understanding. Perhaps even re-inserted and use them again in our current spirituality.
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  1298. This channel is amazing
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  1299. What a phenomenal episode, thank you Dr. Sledge for truly bringing the hammer on this one :) Surely this analysis will be written in the akashic records of Thoth the Atlantean!😬
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  1300. Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  1301. I gotta say, I love your humour, not because you make jokes all the time, but because you don't. It's like it all sounds so formal and erudite and out of nowhere you go like #NecromancySlideHussle 🤣 I remember the first time one of your jokes took me by surprise because I thought everything was 100% serious and I was like ¨Wait, did he really just said that?¨😅
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  1302. What masterful coverage of so underated Gnostic texts. I'm just blown away, Dr Sledge. I will have to watch this 10x more, once is not enough.
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  1303. Before I finished the video and heard the term "Astral Necromancer", I thought to myself that it sounded like it was a term out of the WH40K universe. Some cockamamie heretical scheme from the Imperium to resurrect stellar corpses. Turning them back into main sequence stars in an effort to slow\prevent the Chaos induced heat-death of the universe. The historical explanation is just as metal though, thanks for that!
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  1304. This guy is amazing!.. everything he does is very interesting.
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  1305. I really LOVE this series. Very well done!
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  1306. Thank you for the term “shaman Jesus” and laying out this knowledge like a final fantasy journey to the crystal kingdom. You are a gift.
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  1307. Watching this was so incredibly heart-warming that I almost cried - it seemed like such an emotional experience. The reverence and respect Justin has towards the bottle, it's history and the liqueur itself was an absolute joy to watch! Thank you so much for sharing it with us, your appreciation is so wonderfully immersive! Much gratitude, Dr. Sledge, for this episode and all of your work. A gentleman and a scholar!
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  1308. The oldest book I own is a cookbook that is well over a hundred years old, compared to a modern cookbook it may as well be a piece of esoteric literature. I am so happy and so lucky to have it
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  1309. I understand why you don't want to go into detail. From my own experience I know that being at ground zero of a major news event and seeing the public understanding of it completely and obviously off the rails is infuriating. This was a very good episode and I am grateful for your work.
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  1310. Chaos Magic is so incredibly fun.
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  1311. Brilliant, as always!
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  1312. As one of those Enochian workers I'll tell you: we're all right. But I'm the closest. ;)
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  1313. Currently reading the three books, sincerely appreciate these videos. Absolutely love hearing you speak on these subjects. 🙏
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  1314. Awesome. Thank you Dr Sledge.
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  1315. "Ramses II against Zombie Apocalypse ... I mean the Sea People" sir, you made my day :)
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  1316. I remember this time period very well. I was that kid, the outsider, in to metal music, d&d, the occult, COS, and wicca. To look back on it now and consider it similar to waves of panic like the witch trials makes a great deal of sense now. There is so much of our cultural and perhaps genetic history that lies deep in our subconscious that can be triggered in the right environment. Perhaps even an astrologically induced environment. Thank you for the great video on this and all you have on here as well. I have spent a great amount of time listening to your stuff.
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  1317. Dr. J Sledge bringin the HEAT to a snowy Detroit Winter 2.0. Much appreciated brother.
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  1318. John Dee = the real agent 007.
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  1319. Historically and esoterically accurate and at the same time deliciously ironic and even sarcastic at times. In short: it couldn't be better! Very recommendable!
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  1320. Can I just say how much I love and appreciate the reading list you provide with each video? Thank you for providing your viewers (and students) the resources to further explore these topics on their own.
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  1321. 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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  1322. 🤙 Mahalo for all your efforts. I'm so into your episodes. I become relaxed & yet energized. Not much online does that.
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  1323. you know the esoterica vid is a banger when the title is incomprehensible to you
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  1324. When referring to the Zodiac part, you mentioned that it's Egyptian origin and not Palestinian. Thank you for acknowledging the Palestinian people, it's hard to find Jewish people who mention Palestine. You've earned a fan and a sub for life. ❤️
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  1325. Thoth is my favorite ancient god. This video is a treasure.
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  1326. "You know that some lives are worth continuing, but none are probably worth starting." Man, that's so Metal!
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  1327. Really appreciate these videos on Gnosticism. They illuminate such a difficult and complex topic in a very accessible and enjoyable way. Thank you Dr. Justin Sledge for your thorough research. I recently got myself some of the recommended literature from this video ( the Steven Davies translation of the Gospel of John with commentary and Roelof van der Broek's short introduction) and they are both amazing. I find Steven Davies's notes especially insightful. Looking forward to more videos on topics related to Gnosticism on this channel.
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  1328. Thanks for all the fine content. You, sir, are a treasure!
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  1329. Anyone else singing "living la liber loga" while watching this??? No. Just me? Huh 😂
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  1330. I literally died laughing around 7:51 with the "DEEZNUTZ" written in Enochian 🤣
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  1331. Fascinating video, as always. On the subject of Fraktur, folks might be amused to hear that in sufficiently esoteric branches of pure math, it is in fact still somewhat in use! (In particular, they are used in algebraic number theory to signify ideals in rings of integers of number fields.)
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  1332. Dr. Sledge, I was laughing all the while. Again! thanks for your time, your work and being in this time and place. I absolutely cherish you! Blessings and keep on keepin' on.. Cuz it's the best thing on!
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  1333. You seem completely different doing lectures. Like the cool twin brother 😎
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  1334. I guess you could say, Dee and Kelley were Livin' The Liber Loagaeth...
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  1335. Love to hear the Hildegard shoutouts
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  1336. Absolutely love this 💚 Praised be the blessed birb!!!
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  1337. You’re awesome! I don’t know where I’d be without your scholarly videos!
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  1338. Time for some Gnostic Drone Metal?
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  1339. I gotta say, seeing the title, seeing you and then hearing a 99% objective re-telling. Was not expectiny that my man. Donated some of my money because of that :) Always fun hearing this from a religious person (I am to, but as you said, history is history) but seeing history for what it is. Does not take away the divinity of God. Even though we probably won't ever agree on what or who God is lmao. :)
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  1340. i couldn't have hoped for a better episode, this is going to be incredible —3hours: time to kick back and be amazed! —thank you both for this collab and your years of research.
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  1341. Must confess I've borrowed half a dozen song titles form your lectures. How do you pass up such Lovecraftian gems like Yaldabaoth? Or the existential cosmic horror of Measurement of the Vastness?
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  1342. What an awesome project! Would be cool to visit the house someday.
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  1343. SO glad I found your page as I am on a new journey of learning. Thank you for these excellent discussions into these traditions and texts.
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  1344. Even as a nice, Reform, Jewish boy (okay albeit a rabbi) but one who did his MA in Jewish Studies at a famously anti-religous UK university, it is amazing how uncomfortable this is making me.
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  1345. I love information about Lilith! Thank you for the never-ending intriguing content! It's amazing that you can read so many different writing scripts.
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  1346. Never as happy about a YouTube notification as from one from Esoterica. Thank you Dr. Sledge 💚 Golem is a gateway drug to occultism. A positive in my book.
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  1347. As someone who has suffered from epilepsy that crap can be rough.
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  1348. Thanks! It is so refreshing to find an actual authority on things! I’m fascinated, but rather ignorant in this space
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  1349. "Hey Maimon, what do you believe" "Various things" "Like what?" "Like things.." "Like the stuff you write about in all your books" "Oh no, I dont believe in any of that at all" "So...what do you actually believe" "Various things.."
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  1350. Yes! The full name of Paracelsus as uttered by Justin Sledge! Need an upcoming spoken word album! Coming into Arbatel by way of Paracelsus and the Olympic Spirits (band name?) from tomes by Frater Acher and Joseph Peterson's book featured on Foolish Fish, my interest is now lately piqued as happens synchronously/serendipitously as also recommended by Josephine McCarthy on Glitch Bottle Podcast! I love the thumbnail! I am beginning to appreciate Justin Sledge's independent rigorous stance on the provenance of tomes, grimoires and practices, often presented by practitioners, however rigorous and studied. What sets Esoterica apart from participant is Dr Sledge's essential academic esoteric lens! Otherwise I might think mystical Quabala or Qabalistic magic, for example, might just be the end-all without a clue as to how to study the Kabbalah!
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  1351.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Ain't no D like pseudo-D.
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  1352. Ooh I enjoyed this one, Justin! Thank you for your incredible dedication to research, quality and fresh material! 🙏
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  1353. I cannot fully express how much I appreciate your channel, Dr. Thank-you for all your efforts and offerings.
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  1354. I'm absolutely shocked how tightly my mystical beliefs align with hers. I'm not a Christian (they would call me an Apostate I suppose), but the idea that Love is literally "all there is" and is the prime substrate upon which everything else emanates from, is my own personal belief born of one indescribably profound spiritual experience plus years of searching. I feel like I could sit down with her over some beers and we would totally bond haha. Thank you for teaching us about her...
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  1355. Absolutely amazing, I agree the Zohar should be reclaimed, it’s aspects explored and teaching revealed to benefit all who seek. There are to many “Gate Keepers” to the ability that I am able to I am making videos covering section by section esoteric levels of it starting from book 1. I would love to hear you discuss your thoughts for the reason most versions have redacted the faithful shepherd as I believe this would bring for very interesting commentary points. Also there is a Harvard Paper on Isaac the Blinds commentary on Sepher Yetzirah which you may want to look at!!!
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  1356. Asafetida!!! I remember when I was a boy, a piece of asafetida was hung by a string around my neck to ward off my catching a cold in winter. For those who don't know, it's a brown resin, supposed to smell really bad (I sort of liked the smell, actually). I never head that head colds were caused by evil spirits, but I suppose asafetida has been used for that for thousands of years
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  1357. At least one excerpt of the Heptameron is mentioned in Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, especially in the said "grimoire section", anonymously added to chapter XV in the 3rd edition, published in 1665. Even the 1st edition (1584) shows some possible influence by having a reproduction of the names and seals of the planetary angels. Considering that Dr Dee drew inspiration from the Heptameron, it seems right to say that the book has elusively paved the way for the development of esotericism in Britain at least until the XIX century.
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  1358. So is this sort of gnostic speculation what gives rise to the christian narrative of the Rebellion in Heaven against the Human Son & Fall of the Vanquished Angels
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  1359. So flippin good. Rewatching now
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  1360. Fire content 🔥
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  1361. Absolutely loved this episode- great job Dr Sledge 👏 Many ppl don't realize the huge debt the Allegorical method owes to Stoicism; also how Neo-Platonism wouldn't be what it came to be without those developments. Second Brennan (thanks for the recommendation); don't forget Boys-stones'Post-Hellenistic Philosophy though. Great overview there as well!
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  1362. First time watching any of your videos and I've immediately subbed your channel. Wow. I appreciated you sharing your vast amount of knowledge. Kudos. I'll be watching all of your videos and again, I appreciate the knowledge because at 56 yrs old I can never get too much knowledge in life and I love what you're doing. Kudos.
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  1363. Marvelous. I'm delighted by the in-depth ideas, and the more enlightened perspective that accompanies the ancient text. I am an instant fan of this series. 🙂
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  1364. For any metalhead reading this, you're gonna have regular chuckle-inducing moments. Dr. Sledge is quite the charming geek about that specific topic. I'm so glad this channel got to the point where it needed a new introduction video. Long and happy life!
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  1365. Right up my alley, always a joy to watch your videos, hope Fall's good for you and the family dear Justin!
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  1366. Happy Esoteric Holidays! I just love the deep dives of Esoterica and your wit, intelligence and story-time! 🌅🏞📚
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  1367. Surely they were trolling us.
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  1368. Dr. Sledge, you made me choke on my coffee this morning when you said bidnis. 😂 Love the the channel. Please don’t stop. Shabbat Shalom
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  1369. I used to be mormon, the "Mormons are still adding books" killed me
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  1370. Angela of Foligno!! 👀 🕳 🌠 My goodness!! Medieval mysticism is no-holds'barred breathtaking, I'm gobsmacked! The badassness of Esoterica truly lives up to the channel's name! It's practically Esoterica obscura! 🕳 👀 🌠!
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  1371. Shekhina had the apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur. But in all seriousness, amazing video, thank you for bringing this to us Professor Sledge.
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  1372. Pontius Pilate a saint? Googles “Bruh….”
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  1373. 9 more episodes??? You're treating us
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  1374. Thank you for this. It's a real pleasure to find a channel approaching this subject with rigour rather than simply quoting the most sensational passages from the best known books and taking them at face value. I look forward to exploring the rest of your work.
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  1375. You deserve an award for what you do truthfully. thanks 100x for having such an amazing channel
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  1376. keep fighting the good fight.
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  1377. Please share this video far and wide!!!
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  1378. Cannot express my appreciation enough. I’ll continue to help as much as I can, though paling in comparison to the value you’ve given us all
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  1379. Great video- thanks Dr Sledge! This video gave me an idea for a TV series set in ancient Sumeria with two "ghost dealer-with persons" ritual specialists who exorcise and hunt ghosts and demons. It'd be like the Conjuring universe, but in Mesopotamia. The buried dolls could be the Annabelle.
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  1380. I've been watching sporadically, and always sensed welcome. Thank you, Dr. Sledge, for the formal welcome.
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  1381. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel  the Blessed Algorithm suggested your channel just today. First video and I'm subbed.❤👍 Outstanding work.
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  1382. It was truly wonderful to find this learned corner of YouTube!
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  1383. Of all the hilarious references you make, I love how you breezed by a reference to THAC0 from 2nd edition AD&D. So funny!
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  1384. "Dee's Wax". I will never stop laughing now. Thank you Justin!
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  1385. Tying this all in with the Asclepius (which I'm also working on) was chef's kiss
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  1386. Hey Doc, I can't afford a T-Shirt but I can buy you a drink, thanks sir, you are a great teacher. love from New Zealand.
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  1387. Hot damn, what a pep talk at the end! I'm gonna go take a selfie with my library card now!!
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  1388. I remember even in the mid to late 2000’s my very Christian grandmother trying to tell me that my Magic: The Gathering cards were satanic. That was the beginning of my distrust of her blind faith and cultish behavior. Worship your god, not your religion, folks.
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  1389. Absolutely watching right now to distract my anxiety from Gaza, but damn this is an amazing episode Thank you so much ❤
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  1390. We need a new channel: Speculaterica
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  1391. Thanks for all your hard work, Dr Sledge 👏
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  1392. This was gnostic GOLD loved this ESOTERICA ❤❤❤❤
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  1393. Love this, the idea that Rambam would himself be influential on an idea on mysticism is just a great topic to talk about. חג פסח שמח!
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  1394. Looking forward to seeing if she links this being to the constellation Orion as having the remarkable context of having both the Sun and Moon take position on its "shoulders" a couple of times per year, and thus considered "headless" the rest of the year and those Great Lights constituting its head roaming around the cosmos, defining the Zodiac, and "Heaven" in general... Looking forward to more detail from her, even if that isn't supported in the records. It certainly seems to give the ritual a lot of potent oomph for me when the Moon rides His shoulders.
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  1395. Every time I watch one of your videos, I am impressed by your presentation, the detailed content and the "where to find out more" bit at the end. Amazing work.
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  1396. OUTSTANDING 🤘❤‍🔥🤘 it has cooled off here in PA too thankfully, thank you for all your work doc!!
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  1397. Not even 5 minutes in and we have already broached heart eating, cannibalistic blood feuds. Im intrigued.
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  1398. You are bestowing a great benefit upon society by making these videos freely available to everyone. It seems in this modern age that we often times mistake that which is simply sensory, with That which is sincerely sublime. Your content truly helps in distinguishing between the two. Thank you for your service.
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  1399. Thank You Dr. Sledge. I love your channel
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  1400. Keep em coming!
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  1401. Fascinating that Trithemius disparaged the Key of Solomon.
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  1402. That first six minutes where the subject matter is being introduced was remarkably humble & linguistically excused beautifully.
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  1403. The project of Maimonides and its transformation by Abulafia reminds me of the relationship of Spinoza to Schelling. Both examples of a rationalist philosophical mysticism being refurbished as a positive mystical philosophy
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  1404. This is my favorite class
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  1405. Yes! I've long been hoping for something that would trace the influence of Plotinus and Neo-Platonism through Western/Abrahamic Esotericism & Mysticism!! This is fantastic!
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  1406. thank you so much for making this accessible to the public. the work you do is genuinely a treasure for the world.
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  1407. Another awesome video sir. Thank you. ❤
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  1408. Losing control of oneself is a very universal fear.
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  1409. I needed this so much thank you you’re the only guy on YouTube that give true concise accurate information on what is needed and how to understand and comprehend the information given again thank you 🙏🏽
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  1410. Oh, have I been waiting 4 this! Astrologers are in big need of this series on Lilith :) Thk you, Doc! 🙏💜
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  1411. Thanks for what you do.
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  1412. Gotta say, by the end of this Part Two, I'm seriously wondering whether the subtitle should be "When Vanilla Syndrome Gripes About Cool Aunts." I mean, babies giggling in their sleep is adorable, people!
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  1413. This was a great episode. Yahweh scholarship is always fascinating given the vast number of voices on the subject. I just picked up Dr. Josh Bowen's the Atheist Guide to the Old Testament (vols. 1 & 2) and Dr. Francesca Stavrokopoulou's God: An Anatomy. This video is the perfect prelude to starting those books!
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  1414. This video is exactly why I'm pleased to support this channel on Patreon. Thank you for your personal authenticity, and also that more detailed exploration. Many occultists won't know those kinds of details about Jewish history and language, and those details are obviously extremely important. Thank you for for highlighting without oversimplifying. I look forward to a time when the hebrew manuscript is the center of academic focus.
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  1415. The myth of the great lost library full of unique ancient wisdom continues in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and is a powerful symbol.
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  1416. You are a great storyteller
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  1417. I enjoy listening to you talk of your history, We Inuit First Nations have a rich oral history on the creation of the universe and world. I believe that religion arises from a traumatic challenge to humanities self identity. We once had a Civilization that dwarves the one here today, and we lost it, and most of the population at the time, leaving only scared traumatized pockets of survivors scattered about the globe.
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  1418. Thanks Dr Sledge. I’ve come back to this video a lot with a mind wanting to understand. Please keep up the great work of educating. Shalom l’atah.
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  1419. That is a dream-come-true meeting of great minds! My two favorite Youtubers together, thank you soo much!
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  1420. I never realized there was so much for the dead person to do and super interesting how they thought of the spirit as participating in the ceremony so literally, always thought you got to lay back and your freshly sacrificed servants would just get on with feeding you grapes
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  1421. This may well be a question you've been asked before, but have you considered making these videos available as an audio file?
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  1422. Great episode. Now I know what Santa is going to give my daughter for Christmas. Thank you.
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  1423. 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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  1424. 11 Days in Egypt with DR. Sledge...am I dreaming? I can think of no better way for Any student of the Esoteric to expand their knowledge... and, to have the BEST itinerary arranged for you!
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  1425. Pinocchio was a golem, no? He had a rough time but turned out ok.
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  1426. STILL one of the absolute best channels on YouTube! Maazel-tov...🙏
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  1427. Dr Sledge thank you for making texts intellectually accessible
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  1428. Waking up to a notification for a new Esoterica video is the best way to wake up!
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  1429. I watch most video at 125% speed. I watched this video 3 times at 75% speed. This video was so informative, thank you. You've given me a burning desire to do more research on anthropological religious studies of the bronze age collapse.
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  1430. Criminally underated channel. The inquisition should do something about this!
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  1431. Excellent, Dr. Sledge! I was not aware that there was a concept in Kabbalah that is similar to Origen's (and John Scottus Eriugena's, amongst others!) concept of apokatastasis panton, and that it involves Samael and Lilith. Very interesting indeed! Thanks, as ever, for your fantastic and illuminating work! :)
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  1432. The depths you dive and the passion you speak on the subject of Enochain is inspiring Doc! All that and an old school phone phreak? Nice.
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  1433. Beautiful rendition! Happy Halloween! Congratulations to ESOTERICA and may its success know no bounds!
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  1434. Obscure mythology AND linguistics...sploosh! For real, another great video, Thanks!
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  1435. Great Video!! didn’t know how much people really scarified for the divine
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  1436. This is one of the most interesting pieces of gnostic literature I've heard of. Thank you for bringing this to us!
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  1437. James Bowley compassionately cancelled a class for three students the day after the 2024 presidential election. He knew these students personally and understood that they would have been deeply affected by the results of the election. His message to his students was part of a sound and empathetic pedagogical practice. The administrative actions taken against James Bowley were not just an attack against academic freedom (for which we should all be duly outraged) but against the project of empathy itself. I find this unfortunately in keeping with the particular, right wing character against which Bowley spoke. James Bowley isn't under attack because his words were inappropriate; he's under attack because they were salient. Students and academics, please unionize, because admin are not your friends.
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  1438. If you're serious I'm a software engineer with puzzle game development experience and I'd love to help!
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  1439. Crossing the finish line today and the milestone so close! It’s so biblical in seeing the destination just on the horizon! Thank you for this insightful foundation springboard of authentic rigorous study of Jewish mysticism!
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  1440. One of the best channels on YT without a doubt!
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  1441. Thank you Dr. Sledge 🙏❤
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  1442. Thank you for a very exciting, IMMORTAL episode. Something caught my ears about the Sea of Reeds. I am actually suprised some astral archeologist hasn't noticed the connection between the Sea of Reeds and the Moses story. Anyway keep up the good work!
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  1443. Thank you for covering this bizarre and fascinating episode of Jewish history.
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  1444. This was very interesting! I really appreciate the scholarly perspective :)
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  1445. Just when I think things are getting predictable here, a great show like this shows up out of the blue. I am sure there are a number of clever quips that could have been made to say that, but I am not clever in this material. Thanks for yet another interesting episode.
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  1446.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Same here! Classes start on Monday =)
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  1447. You're awesome, Dr Sledge. Thank you!
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  1448. “Be careful of what you create because what you create can uncreate you.” I like that
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  1449. This is so fascinating. Love this series
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  1450. Today I randomly stumbled upon The Apocryphon of John in Coptic Museum in Cairo! I never thought I'd be so excited seeing two ancient pages :D
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  1451. Stoked to watch this one. Thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  1452. Just remember: you may have to sell a kidney (or two) in order to afford this stuff, but it doesn't have to be your kidney.
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  1453. 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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  1454. “A wild Jesus Appears!” I love this channel 😂
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  1455. This has got to be one of the most fascinating and informative sites online. To anyone interested in history, particularly the middle ages, this information is a wonderful godsend and fascinating to the N'th degree. Thank you, doctor and keep up the good work.
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  1456. I absolutely love the scholarly work you put into every video you create! They’ve become my childhood “Saturday morning cartoons” for every Friday morning now in my adult life.
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  1457. Yes I'm obsessed - this is what I've been hoping this channel would get to. We are using quaballistic math to understand software architectural integrity, this what we call in modern day Applied Category Theory!!!!!!
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  1458. I love heretics! ❤️
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  1459. I'm frankly flabbergasted you got through that without using the word "masochism" once.
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  1460. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these amazing videos.
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  1461. Wow, I had no idea about this Connecticut witch hunt! Thank you so much for shedding a light on this! This was incredibly fascinating to listen to on a slow work day. 🥰
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  1462.  @TheEsotericaChannel  lol! Just need to win that lottery I don't play 😅
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  1463. That'd be quite good in a D&D adventure - a trap, or secret door, which you can discover, and perhaps take advantage of, but which kills you instantly if you try and tell anyone about it. There'd need to be a way to get around it, of course (just keep your mouth shut, and tread on the flagstone?)
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  1464. Maybe the treasures of Solomon's Temple were the friends we made along the way...
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  1465. Thank you Dr. Sledge as always for exposing us to things I never knew about! Do you think you'll do a video on Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi also?
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  1466. Followed a suggestion from Jimmy, the Welsh Viking channel, and instantly subscribed. Looking forward to exploring videos here.
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  1467. Happy belated Rosh Hashanah, Doc! Thanks for making such wonderful content freely available and accessible!
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  1468. Anat being so... terrifying and bloody strikes me as evocative of the old greek worship the Mother and the Mistress where sacrifice by tearing apart was part of the cultic practice. but as one looks at later notions of death and the overcoming of it... the way the human-blooded sons of Zeus are seen to overcome death and even age itself, saviors in a transcendental sense... doesnt another storm god also have a demihuman son that can do that some centuries later?
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  1469. Love your stuff Dr. Sledge.
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  1470. Congratulations on this remarkable effort to create content accesible to all
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  1471. Okay when ever you say "Above in the card and below in the description" you should just say As Above So Below
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  1472. A rigorous and for me revelatory Esoterica treatment of Stoicism! And insightful overview of the study itself and its framing, in the blurb alone! Signature Esoterica badassness and along with The Modern Hermeticist, seems sleeves were folded and this video was the result and hopefully the beginning of a badass Esoterica playlist!
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  1473. Laughed during this one probably more than I should. Lots of love dr. Sledge!
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  1474. I'm literally binge watching all your videos, you're so freaking awesome! ✨
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  1475. These are some of my favorite episodes, following a character development across texts and traditions. I'd also be interested to see episodes about some of the mystics, prophets and more "human" characters, like the one who shot lasers from his eyes. I'm here for the academic study of Esoterica and I dig a deep dive, but this more nearly narrative approach is easily consumable on days when I have less mental energy but still want to learn something new. Keep up the great work! Edit: Wearing my Clerical Necromantic Underground shirt recently gets great reactions.
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  1476. Fascinating video, looking forward to more presentations on Hildegard and Bernard of Clairvaux. Not sure if you'd come across it, David Lynch produced an album of Hildegard's music with the singer Jocelyn Montgomery, Lux Vivens. It's one of my favorite albums, kind of a cross between Lynch's musical style & cinematic sound design with her medieval music, and I think the vocalist is fantastic.
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  1477. You are the MAN sir. Thank you for all that you do❤❤❤
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  1478.  @TheEsotericaChannel  happy birthday!
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  1479. Thank you for this incredible knowledge! I'm not religious, but have always been fascinated by mysticism and psychedelic experiences. It helps so much to broaden my knowledge!
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  1480. I am randomly listening to all of your lectures. How marvelous to find my way back to how you began this whole incredible adventure. What a great beginning. Such a fine second lecture. Thank you.
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  1481. Hooray! So glad we did this.
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  1482. mahalo sir most assuredly
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  1483. Are there any similar hoax documents that you're aware of? Like, Voynich tends to be treated as a singular object, but if it's a relatively uncomplicated process for the creation of the text, then I would have expected other people to come up with the same idea.
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  1484. This may be a short rendering of a Deep subject; but I consider it Masterful..!🙏🏾 Much thanks for the information! I could well enjoy a full class of the subject..! This and other things you've produce have been a wellspring of knowledge I've Never had access to before. Again, thank you!😊🙏🏾
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  1485. I am a recent subscriber of your channel and I just joined your Patreon! The education you are providing is truly indispensable 🖤
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  1486. Enjoyed this one! Hope there will be more episodes on women philosophers / theosophers
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  1487. O’ my 🧚🏽‍♀️one of my favorites. Thank you ! So grateful for you work. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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  1488. From one Justin to another. Great work as always!
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  1489. I think it’s fascinating the way the cultures and deep spiritual thought and metaphysics and stuff all came together in Alexandria. I’ve always been so fascinated with it and Platanus and Neoplatonism especially. I’ve probably read and reread The Enneads like a dozen times or more
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  1490. Thank you so much for this episode Dr Sledge. The Chaldean Oracles are my bible. I first became aware of them since my time in the GD. Happy holidays and happy new year.
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  1491. Very interesting Episode Dr Sledge. The demons feeding on the soul of the pious part reminds me of the Xibalba brothers. Thank you for all the work you have done.
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  1492. That phrase to not sell the secrets is in almost every rite of freemasonry.
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  1493. Finding a repeatable and consistent feasible method for achieving Gnosis and/or Henosis would be idyllic. Those fleeting epiphanies do seem dependent on the willingness and/or grace of God's particular emanations....will they make an influential appearance or not?
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  1494. It sounded like you said "alchemist governor" :)
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  1495. "Totality of the Fatherly Abyss" is an amazing band name, but I find it really shines as a pet name. Imagine hearing that in a dog park. Or betting on that name at horse races.
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  1496. Great episode. A small point: When Reuchlin weighs in on (pseudo-)Abano, he is probably referring to the Lucidarium Necromantice, not the later Heptameron. "Roberthus et Bacon" probably refers to the explicitly necromantic text De Nigromancia sive Thesaurus Spirituum attributed to Roger (alternately William) Bacon and Robert the Turk (e.g. Sl. 3885, Ad. 36674, Wellcome 110, Chethams Mun.A.4.59).
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  1497. Tremendous respect for your approach (and humour). This is education at its best. Probably the first YouTube video ever that I clapped when it ended!! Instant subscription!
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  1498. That moment when you're listening, and you begin to see Bernard's influence in the rhetoric and rationale of the War On Terror era you grew up in....
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  1499. Thanks! I absolutely love this channel and deeply appreciate your commitment to providing this content in such a rigorous, informative way!!
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  1500. 😂😂😂 Your dry sense of humour half-way through was very much appreciated! The acting world has lost a star, it truly has. (And thank you for another informative video too!)
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  1501. Thank you Dr Sledge for expanding my list of youtubers who talk about topics like these seriously and legitimately. Its always good to know that the next occult/mysticism youtuber I'm about to click on is not a nazi or other raging bigot type before I click, and sadly in these topics that is a risk you repeatedly take without the right people giving you recommendations
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  1502. The Lilith Porject is a reproductive rights charity in the US that I have donated to multiple times and would recommend other people donate too as well because women’s reproductive rights are being heavily limited or just abolished in many states.
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  1503. It’s very surprising that HPL considered himself a strict materialist given that he said “All rationalism tends to minimise the value and importance of life, and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. In many cases the truth may cause suicidal or nearly suicidal depression”. Did he differentiate strict materialism from rationalism somehow?
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  1504. Thanks for the Reupload ❤
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  1505. Dude, I know you're Jewish, so presumably you think the Resurrection didn't happen; nevertheless, like a boss, you just drop the word into your description of the robust core of the Christian worldview, presented as that worldview, on its own terms. Thank you, kind sir. I noticed 🙏
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  1506. Mostly women died and scapegoated?!?!?Shocking
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  1507. I found your channel from Religion for Breakfast. So amazing to have cool stuff backed by academic rigor to watch while I eat my toaster strudel. Thank you to both channels for your amazing content.
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  1508. it's easy to whip the populace into violence. Once done, it's easy to convice those left unpersecuted to stand by and ignore it. Once done, it's easy to get them to be verbally complicit. Conspiracy theories still prey on the stupid and complacent to this day - especially in countries with state-propgandized purity tests, like the USA, Russia, Hungary, China etc. It's alarming and tiring at the same time
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  1509. The most fascinating, captivating videos with some dark humour moments ! :)
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  1510. Thanks!
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  1511. Your research is impeccable 🙏 thank you for pushing education 🙏 🕯️
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  1512. REALLY appreciate this format. Lots of times I can't watch in a whole sitting and this is great. Cheers, homie.
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  1513. Again I'm struck with how metaphysical thought and writings can often be directly overlaid on theories of quantum physics. Conway's "fields of spirit particles contracting" to create matter and Schrödinger's quantum field theory where wave functions collapse temporarily to pinch off particles of matter ( admittedly high levels of reductionism for both examples ). There's even an unboxed cat in that painting of her, up on the stairs. I'd love to see a conversation between Dr. Sledge and someone like Dr. Sean Caroll on the topic of Ontology. Am I wrong about the seeming similarities here? I'll go back to dancing with the Wu Li masters now.
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  1514. I love this channel. It's so intellectually stimulating. Your knowledge is imcredible and sense of humor an enjoyable accompaniment to the lectures. Thank you. Great poem too.
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  1515. Great video as always, thank you so much! Böhme was a very interesting dude... I used to be a Jung and Eliade fanboy in my 20s... and then I grew up... 😅 I wish I knew then what I know now. I still find these guys interesting but it's now harder for me to take them seriously... I see them more as "philosophers" (in the broadest sense of the term) than anything else; their ideas are very interesting but they shouldn't be seen as historians. Joseph Campbell also needs to be mentioned. He was heavily influenced by Jung and his work on comparative mythology is often simplistic and wrong. What annoys me is when film critics and cinephiles use Campbell to basically show off and give some kind of authority/legitimacy to their analyses ("Ooouuhh look at me, I just mentioned the monomyth, I'm so smart!"). But it is so obvious that they actually know nothing about Campbell and what he was writing about; they may know a lot about movies and have interesting things to say about them, but as soon as they mention Campbell I roll my eyes and sigh... It's just cringe. Full disclosure: I have to admit that I once was one of those guys... What you say about Jung (7:51 to 8:23) perfectly summarises his work (the same can be said about Eliade and Campbell): cherry-picking and manipulating facts to feed their own ideas on alchemy and religion...
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  1516. Congratulations, Doctor. I love how the subject matter of your channel has been expanding. More please!
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  1517. Women everywhere say Thank you Dr Sledge 🙏
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  1518. You’re doing God’s work here Mr. Sledge, thanks for the fantastic material!
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  1519. Just discovered this captivating site. Your grounded and scholarly analysis of esoteric material is a breath of fresh air. Thank you for these wonderful contributions. Subscribed!
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  1520. Another little known Catholic Kabbalist duo are the American-Italian immigrant brothers Mario and Luigi. Through their presentation of the princess always being in another castle, they performed a Zoharic myth of the exile of the Shekhinah. Sometimes they even descended through fearsome tunnels into the realm of Sitra Achra
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  1521. So much knowledge free.. Incredible. Thank you for that!
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  1522. Awesome stuff, Dr. Justin Sledge. You are amazing on this channel and I've devoted many hours to your content. You do not disappoint
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  1523. “When we allow our faith to dictate our history we betray both” Wow.
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  1524. I've been looking forward to you eventually covering this subject. Outstanding work yet again my friend!
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  1525. The line of “Lord, make me chaste but not yet” is such a fire line
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  1526. I’m really drawn to Blake’s work but it’s honestly impenetrable to me. So complex but seems genuinely inspired. Hopefully you can help me make sense of it in future episodes - I can’t wait. New patreon member here as well.
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  1527. Off to check out the catalogue now, Mmm...Apuleius. Love the channel.
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  1528. I kind of feel bad for Celsus. Some dude gets to be known for being "beyond Celsus" and that's really the only reason many of us know him.
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  1529. “Why can’t you have a miracle working career like your brother?” -Mary
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  1530. Interesting and illuminating indeed! You could spend a chunk of time lecturing on the Quadrivium, and hear no complaints from this guy:) Well done.
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  1531. "We have been trying to reach you regarding your cart's extended service warranty..."
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  1532. This came up in my recommendeds and I was super worried based on the title. A lot of people really misrepresent Scotus’s theory of univocity to make it seem more radical than it actually was. As a Scotist, I will say that I think you did an excellent job correctly explaining Scotus’s positions. I very much agree as well on the Copleston recommendation. He heavily follows early 20th century Scotists who are usually much better than contemporary literature on Scotus. Thank you for this video. Glad to see more discussion of Scotus around the internet. And glad to see you actually read Scotus.
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  1533. Me: Let's play Goat Simulator! Rabbi: You mean let's play Goat Sinulator! Goat: 🐐
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  1534. Radically different that's for sure; Not my cup of tea but certainly important in the larger sense. Thanks for the awesome video Justin!
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  1535. 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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  1536. I remember reading about her in Inner Experience by Bataille and being utterly captivated by her experience. Thank you for this!
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  1537. Sad to see it end but it's been an amazing ride! Thank you Dr Sledge!
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  1538. 2:32 I do believe that if we could see what’s around us, we’d freak out, there are so many demons, spirits , creatures and god knows what else existing in and within our space. I do like Solomonic magick, I’ve used for years some of the protective hexagrams, seals, one hangs behind my bed on the wall for protection while I sleep 😮
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  1539. Such a fascinating topic- keep up the great work, Dr Sledge! 👏
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  1540. גמר חתימה טובה!
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  1541. I never Thoth you'd make a video about this!
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  1542. I'm so sorry that this happened to you. It is scary to see the Satanic Panic come roaring back.
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  1543. A sort of Christ-Sophia-Chrysopoeia one might say.
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  1544. Thanks for another great video 💙 As a kid, I used to spend most of my summer and every weekend at my little local library and it opened up so many new worlds to me. I learned much more there than I think I ever could have at the library of Alexandria (mostly because, as a female and a commoner, they probably wouldn't have let me past the threshold at Alexandria lol).
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  1545. Thanks for providing valuable information!
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  1546. Structural Marxist, John Dee Expert, Black Metal Dude, Psychedelics Advocate and now dat artistic and mysterious sequence at the beginning, are you real? Tell us from what dimension do you come! >=( (Can't find the words to thank you for all this content, it's a dream come true)
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  1547. Excellent as always
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  1548. You’ve done it again. Something I knew nothing about, is now spreading through my mind like a mushroom cloud. An area I had no interest in, medieval philosophy, is suddenly interesting. Although it all stills seems like desperate apologetics to maintain a god concept, it’s is certainly of an order far beyond my ability to critique. It leaves me wondering, exactly who is the dunce here?
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  1549. Thanks! I always look forward to your work sir!
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  1550. I love your channel Justin! You should make merch! I want to sport an Esoterica t-shirt!
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  1551. ESOTERICA is the BEST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE. great work:)
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  1552. I'm really loving the channel. This is the video that convinced me to become a patron. Keep up the amazing work. You've joined my pantheon of entertaining academic YouTube creators!
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  1553. Dr Sledge, if you ever plan on making merch, please do one about buried treasure, it's apmost a running joke in this channel by now
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  1554. Hey, if you had 700 wives and 300 concubines, you'd probably turn to the occult too! (1 Kings 11:3) Awesome to be part of this community. Thank you, Dr. Sledge! (ROMVLVS)
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  1555. I really want one of those demon bowls.
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  1556. A sorely needed academic approach to a topic often ignored by the mainstream and muddied by new age interpretation overshadowing actual primary sources.
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  1557. 🤙Dr Sledge loved this! Looking forward to more of Esoterica's high calibur content. In the name of my past necRomantic (read Isaac N. etc here) Attachments, my self begotten happy sunny transformations & in the Spirit of finding pure gold treasure I say aloha, adieu, ciao until your next upload You are awesome
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  1558. In a strange time in our history, you’ve arrived to remind us that it’s ALWAYS been a strange time. Or rather, that we’ve always tried to find ways to articulate and explain the deepest knowledge and truths of existence, often in some very unusual ways. I find meaning and resonance in much of the concepts you describe, and your presentation, humor, depth of knowledge, and humanity always gives me joy and comfort even during the darkness. Thank you for making my 2021 brighter. I am proud to be a patron and so grateful to you.
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  1559. yess just what I needed to make teusday a bit more interesting
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  1560. Thanks for all your work.
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  1561. Thanks! Would you do a side by side comparison of the Egyptian and Tibetan books "of the dead"? Looking for shared or similar themes, differences, etc. Or do you know of a good one?
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  1562. Thanks for this interesting video dr. Sledge, I've always had an interest in these sorts of moral panics, especially because they don't seem to play out as much in my own country as in other countries recently, so its interesting to me to analyze what sort of factors come into this and if there are any factors closer to home that might eventually lead to something like this occurring. I was raised very christian in a european country but we have never seen here the absolutely unhinged antics of the fundamentalist christian movement, perhaps because they are only 2-3% of society. Also very brave of you to talk about a topic in which danger lies this close to your own personal experience, I've been in a few such situations myself and whenever I want to talk about them I find that's its hard to formulate what I want to say clearly. PS: do you have any plans for making a video on William Blake? I find his critiques of religion and the connection he had to the occult scene of the time very fascinating but comparatively few people seem to be talking about his viewpoint on religion at the time.
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  1563. Sorry for your bad past experience, I'm glad that didn't drive you away from studying obscure history. Your channel is a huge source of information and inspiration for my work
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  1564. Not only incredible break-downs of every subject, but also a bit of comedy in easter eggs (12:34) "17th century pokemon" :D Thanks!
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  1565.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I honestly do NOT understand how you can make one these a week. Are you a fast reader, or do you rely on good memory and previous studies?
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  1566. First comment! This series has been fantastic, and I'm not sure I would've read the Three Books in the correct way (and I do believe this has been the correct way) without it.
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  1567. Thanks! The community owes a great debt, to your work. Thank you for introducing me to the good works. It's greatly appreciated
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  1568. The perks of being one of the cool kids! Hit that like button cuz!
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  1569. Talk about timing! We just watched the WF? episode of The Knights Templar (One of the shows that debunks conspiracy theories) and now I have this pop up in my feed this morning! Another excellent presentation. I'm off to order one of those books. Much Peace from your friendly Third Order Franciscan!
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  1570. Blimey! I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
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  1571. As an atheist witch I love learning about any kind of mysticism. I found this really interesting!
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  1572. Thoth is a main homie. This video has been very enlightening. Thank you for your service.
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  1573. Thanks for this, I've not heard of this man before, always learning from this channel
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  1574. Utterly speechless. Well done, Professor. History does repeat itself. I saw a car today with a Qanon sticker and I couldn't help but shudder. I don't think fear/hatred/prejudice/true evil ever really dies. I think it keeps coming around every so often to show its hideous head. Even though we are entering into the Age of Enlightenment....we must always keep our vigilance.
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  1575. 💯 % agree that February 11 should be a day of celebration for Alchemy. #alchemyday
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  1576. 🤙Welina (Hawai'i for Welcome) everyone especially new viewers!! Ho'omaik'a (congratulations) Dr Sledge
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  1577. Thank you for another year of great content!
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  1578. Thank you for the amazing content.
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  1579. THIS video is THE video I was wanting to REVISIT (and complete) from your intro that stayed with me awhile even duringthe dark distracted not long ago! I searched the Qlippoths episodes (themselves epic!) and almost thought I was having a "never seen" jamais vu moment. Again. Thank you, Dr Justin Sledge, for revivifying this landmark episode of Esoterica! Good call!! 📖 📚 🌌 🔑 🗝 🎉 😈 Oh, it's updated! Thought it came alive and live on its own!
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  1580. I rarely comment on videos but I'm compelled to do so here. Bravo! Through the years I've often wondered about this very subject and I hadn't come across any solid scholarship for it (although I wasn't really looking that hard, either). About 6 months ago I was reading Margaret Barker when she suggested Paul had a Temple vision in the same vein as Isaiah, where Isaiah sees the LORD high and lifted up on his throne. Paul even uses the same word Isaiah uses for being sent, "Apostle." This must be where Paul receives his claim of Apostleship and I'm sure he argued for this case when in discussion with the Jerusalem "pillars." The Jerusalem leaders certainly would have understood this claim from Paul's perspective within the Isaiah prophetic tradition. And the equality with the angels one must have to behold and survive this vision might also help explain James Tabor's claim that Paul may have seen himself as an actual Christ himself. Why else would he say he is completing Christ's bodily sufferings? You mean the scourging and crucifixion weren't enough?! Paul's angelic understanding of himself could be understood within an angelic resurrection body resurrection tradition or teaching/understanding in that milieu. Just some thoughts for further exploration. Once again, thank you for this video and bravo!
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  1581. A person who can deliver a truly objective and intellectual presentation on YouTube is so rare, like a pearl of great worth. Dr. Sledge is that pearl. He is simply a great pleasure to listen to.
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  1582. Thanks for sharing your story. You don't hear about the victims of these conspiracies nearly enough.
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  1583. I visited Cobá when I was in the Yucatan and it was absolutely glorious. It's in a fairly remote part of the peninsula and all of the local tour guides were speaking K'iche Maya. It was truly like travelling to another place and time, but it was also an encouraging reminder that the Maya culture is alive and well in the modern era
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  1584. 39:59 I can’t wait to see more. This series changed my and a lot of my loved ones lives. Thanks again for covering this! Next paycheck I plan to sign up for the patreon, I wanna support! 😤
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  1585. Such an awesome episode! I d like to see a more thorny issue dealt with, the thesis that there is a missing figure in the Solomonic chain of transmission, namely The Sage Solomon, a ByzantineJew who would have had his deeds mythologised in the Clavicula, Honorius and De Quattuor Annulis.
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  1586. I love everything about this!
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  1587. Thanks!
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  1588. Thank you for this enlightening lecture!
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  1589. Wonderful. I'm about 200 pages into Labyrinth by Kate Mosse and really needed this background!
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  1590. 14:45 I have heard at least some Christians discussing a sort of combined system of demonology, where fallen angles/devils are one thing, and demons are a different thing, specifically the spirits of the giants in that Enochian system. But I think the last time I heard that system discussed was on Christian talk radio way back during the Satanic panic, when demons were frequently the topic of discussion.
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  1591.  @TheEsotericaChannel Not only do I learn a lot from you, sometimes you help me get a good’s night sleep. Both of those are treasures in my life. Thank you so much. 🙏🏼
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  1592. From Egypt, i really enjoyed this video, tons of information without the psuedo-science thank you!
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  1593. I've become very interested in the kind of stuff you're teaching recently after finding out about the fact there are such things to learn. You are the most informative and grounded to education rather than something purely entertaining. It was my own work in the arts that peaked my interests in this, won't speak of why right now, but if you would like to know, would like to know if you could point me to something even closer to what I'm looking for.
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  1594. Big Thank you as always Dr. Sledge, don't know if those ideas are common in academia, but would never would have reached me if it was not for Esoterica.. Being native in greek helped me maybe absorb around 7% of the episode, the next 10 times I hope I 'll be around 50%.. Please follow up on the item with additional episodes!
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  1595. Thanks, here's that 🍺
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  1596. By far the best occult based academic channel. Great episode.
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  1597. I have learned more information and history from this series than any lectures I've attended.
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  1598. Thank you for trying to help us with our anti-Christian prejudice. It is something I struggle with all the time. As you say, it is a complex history, as with all older religions. One has to see it in its entirety-the heinous and evil as well as the beautiful, inspirational and even sometimes progressive. Not an easy thing to do.
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  1599. Thanks for making the Shabbat before Christmas especially sweet.
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  1600. Chuck Norris doesn't get accused of worshipping Satan. Satan gets accused of worshipping Chuck Norris.
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  1601. I believe Eliphas Levi reproduces the "trident of exorcism" in his "Dogma et Ritual" and may very well be the source of an alternative interpretation of the trident as being for something other than boners.
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  1602. An absolute delight of a video. Grateful that the algorithm added this to my page, after efforts to curate away from the chaos youtube’s become as of late. The quips scattered amongst calmly presented information from the books had me cackling unexpectedly while listening and cleaning; I had to sit down and re-watch with focus to appreciate all that you’ve presented.
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  1603. Hello dr.sledge i was wondering if you have came across the works of micheal mcgaha and the likes of paul B.fenton and ronald kiener? If you have which you probably did i am hoping you can explain thier work in a more accessible way considering the connection between islamic mysticism and Jewish mysticism is often neglected or ignored, it would be a breath of fresh air!
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  1604. I'm surprised skulls as a device for conjuring the dead or communing with them hasn't popped up more frequently, it's a cool idea and logically makes sense. And the idea that it has it's roots in ancient messopotamia make me wonder how it hasn't had more of an influence on sequential magical philosophies.
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  1605. I was just looking for more information about Lawrence M. Principe and realized I'd bought his 2012 book "The Secrets of Alchemy" years ago without realizing who the author was XD Also it turns out he did a teaching company lecture series on the history of science from antiquity to the 1700s that I will absolutely check out. Very interesting discussion!
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  1606. I have found another source that attests that this was written by a Rabbi named or called רוכב על זרימות (sorry, I cannot read Hebrew, nor do I know how to transliterate it well), but using online translators it seems to interpret his name as being “Rider on Flows”. A “rider” being a possible reference to the chariot of Merkava mysticism!?
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  1607. Exciting times, I can't wait to see what else comes from this find. For some reason the "straps" on some sort of magical garment/weapon makes me thank of Athena's Aegis...she being another of the many goddesses with ancient connections back to Ishtar...I wonder if Moses De Leon or the Sephardim in general could have ever seen iconography or read myths depicting goddesses with such garments? Or perhaps a goddess tradition was preserved in Judaism itself, known to De Leon et al., going all the way back, that was scrubbed out by orthodoxy. I know Tanakh contains references to this, but nothing so specific as describing her features or clothing... PS. You totally need to start a Stoner/Sludge metal band called "Dr. Sledge". The album cover would be a black light poster art style depicting the Ezekiel vision, with your face in front, glasses totally white, surrounded by mushrooms and blue smoke
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  1608. I really enjoy your lectures! So great to hear the occult discussed on a historical level🙏🏽 so interesting
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  1609. We really need a Kimmy Gibbler joke counter, alongside a "wonder what happened to that Josh guy" joke counter.
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  1610. Love your work Dr. Sledge! I’m currently working on a dissertation in the Myth Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and have found many of your videos crucial in my research on enigmatic wizard figures in myth, religion, and fantasy. Many thanks and Happy Festive Season!
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  1611. I've been trying to get into the spirit of the season yet also interested in such topics at this time. Wonderful to know that traditionally the two are related.
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  1612. Great quality of information and production! I appreciate it, thank you ❤
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  1613. I was once successful with the invocation of stolas. Kind of a chill demon if you're trying to get your toes wet, but he carries a profound sadness and loneliness as he walks the outer reaches of hell.
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  1614. It's always a great time for ghost stories!
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  1615. I love this channel, I always learn something new.
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  1616. I have read several of his works, watched his film, read Sun and Steel, watched the available youtube vids on him. I got to say this is the best essay/comment on Mishima i have read. Very nice work.
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  1617. Great video as always. Seems like as good a time as any to ask if gnosticism is sus? Linked with anti Jewish sentiments. Have you done a video on this?
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  1618. Thanks! The first 2 were great, been excited waiting for this one. I will be building platforms in an Amazon today listening to this lecture!
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  1619. As broad a statement as this is, I still feel compelled to say: you are my tutor, my “sensei”, my scholarly role model. I’ve always been passionate about the acquisition of knowledge. You, and this community are something I thought I’d never find. Thank you Dr. Sledge
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  1620. I have been enjoying these so, so much. Thank you!
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  1621. I got onto your lectures because I was researching some of the elements of the demons in Warhammer lore. There are so many little references in the lore and the function of warp magic, as well as the names of characters that it is apparent that the writers are knowledgeable on the esoteric. I just wanted to say your lectures have become a staple for my painting listening as your explanations are easy to digest and your voice is perfect for the calming background noise needed for creative work.
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  1622. You upload this when I just visited the Jewish history museum in Amsterdam. What a treat.
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  1623. There's a lot I love about this talk, but what rises to the top for me is seeing Dr. JS brimming with excitement at talking with an admired colleague.
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  1624. I've always loved the ghost/Christmas connection and I was just about to put on your other Christmas ghost story episode for my last long ride before the storm sets in. Happy Holidays!
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  1625. Thanks for the year of great work! I'm an ex-vangelical, and despite leaving the faith years ago, I still have an insatiable appetite for learning about spiritual matters, so your work has been a massive boon.
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  1626. Maestro, you gotta take some of this content on the road. Ritual theatre jams. Initiations and Transmission Tour.
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  1627. Words cannot describe how thankful I am to have people like you go about diligently digging, researching, and presenting information about one of the most inaccessible subjects in history. It truly means a lot to us, Dr. Sledge.
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  1628. Thanks!
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  1629. 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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  1630. Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk wrote almost 1000 pages long historical fiction 'The books of Jacob' based on Frank's story and she got a Nobel basically for that. Worth checking if somebody likes magic realism kind of literature
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  1631. Awesome episode, Dr. Sledge! :) :) :) There's a ton to comment on in here for sure - but for now I note that you pronounce "Gebofal" as "geh-BOW-fall" (with a hard "g"). I have tended toward "JEH-bow-fal" (with the "a" as in "apple"). But, I admit, that has always been a complete shot in the dark on my part, as Dee left us no pronunciation notes on this word. Meanwhile, your pronunciation strikes me as more "in tune" with what the Language actually sounds like. Is there a reason you settled on that pronunciation? I'm already finding myself pronouncing it more like you do! LOL
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  1632. I feel like I should watch this video...
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  1633. Keep it up Justin 🙏
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  1634. I've found this channel super useful as a Jewish convert. Seeing the history and context of Kabbalah and the religious world in Europe is like studying the soil contemporary Judaism grew from. Also, I used to be a witch/occultist, so I get to see all this from both perspectives, which is fun.
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  1635. Really brilliant video. I went to the BM* several months back for their special exhibition on Egyptian hieroglyphs and having watched your videos really appreciated how much they gave me another richness in looking at the amazing collection of artefacts and manuscripts they've gathered for it. One that stood out to me at the time that I'm sure I would have looked right past is a little leaf from the Bodleian [MS Arab. d. 221 fols 48b and 49a] that has two great little illustrations of what I think must be Thoth/Hermes Trismegistus as he has a bird head. Which made me more interested in Thoth and... here we are again! Thanks for your work - I really appreciate your rigorous approach to such a massive subject, and the jokes for a bit of leaven. *Yeah. I know. I ordinarily boycott it. I did feel guilty. But didn't stop me enjoying the hell out of the exhibition.
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  1636. 🙏🏾👁️‍🗨️🙏🏾
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  1637. Booze and maggots are the best medicine for skin ulcers. Don't try laughter.
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  1638. Thanks for all the amazing content Dr. Sledge! It will be useful in my Tolkien dissertation focusing on Gandalf and enigmatic wizard figures in myth & pop culture at Pacifica Graduate Institute. I watch so many of your videos and love them!
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  1639. Dear Dr. Justin Sledge, I can hardly begin to tell you how much your YouTube channel Esoterica has truly enriched my life. The amount of scholarly information you give to the community for free, on your own time is so selfless. And to be honest, the education you provide on these topics is something I figured I could only ever receive in a classroom I could never afford. Your lessons on things like alchemy, theology, rare books, magic, and philosophy are invaluable to me. Because of your channel I've developed such a love and admiration/appreciation for old books; and owning a 400 year old occult book would be truly a dream come true. Regardless of the generous giveaway you're conducting; I wanted you to know how grateful I am for your channel and all of the education and happiness its brought to my life. I've just purchased my second t-shirt from your store and I can't wait to wear it proudly!!
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  1640. What a great conversation, you guys were almost entirely in sync and Principe seemed delighted by your questions, I hope we get another stream when his next work comes out or whenever a relevant topic arises.
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  1641. It is so refreshing to hear this man talk. I thought that academia was light years behind practicing magic. Most scholars concentrate on safe and facts. Few talk about the light the connection with ourselves and our higher selves. ❤❤❤. Thanks for this.
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  1642. Wow man, this was great. Thank you for telling your story. I love how you constructed this video, specifically how you broke down each part of the system that harmed you with such empathy before leading into the specifics with such vulnerability. I’ve been enjoying your videos as an academic curiosity, and didn’t expect to be hit this way at all. You do great work!
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  1643. That's amazing, my friend! You'll have such a fantastic time!
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  1644. "Not pictured: the void, on left" i love you dude
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  1645. Eeeey the team up we always need! Keep up the great work, gentlemen 👏⚒️ This discussion is timely- I'm nose-deep in Hanegraaf, Bull, and Fowden for the talk coming up next month
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  1646. Been on a binge watching your videos this last week. Love learning all new things
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  1647. Dr Sledge, you remind me somehow of Dr Strange. So much old wisdom
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  1648. I remember when Echo in the Abyss opened for Heretical Witch Army. That was a good show.
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  1649. 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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  1650. Grateful once again! The topics are currently above my hebrew level so greatly appreciated. Looking forward to the sabbateanism episode!
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  1651. Very fine - and only semi-specualtive - scholarship Sir! To my mind, the central problem with tracing origins is this: thinking theologically, we tend to look for mono-genesis... like tracing all humanity back to Adam and Eve, then God. But thinking genealogically, the further back we go through a family tree the more multiplicity we find. So when we try to map the path to the origin(s) the ''traingles of branches'' run in different directions. I think this goes for texts and ideas as much as fleash and blood. Arguments pile up, scholars argue ''past each other'' rather than against each other, each forgetting that either apporach is a model, a map. Sometimes a useful one, but i suspect ''the truth about the origin'' is encompassed by neither. Many thanks for your wonderful and perennially thought provoking work.
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  1652. Dear Dr. Sledge, Thank you for this fascinating episode. I have a question; around 19:48 in passing you mentioned Zoroastrian incantation bowels written in Persian! Can you please provide any references that you have? I'm only bothering you because I couldn't find them myself. Cheers, M
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  1653. Your knowledge and delivery of complex subjects are superb. The imagery, texts and artworks are beautiful. Great talk.
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  1654. He had to have something to do during the pandemic lol. All jokes aside. I love your channel. Your a great teacher. Your Intelligent and have a great way of explaining things, without sounding snobbish, boring, or condescending like most highly educated people.
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  1655. Love her depiction in the incantation bowl!
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  1656. Honey wake up, Esoterica posted
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  1657. This channel is my therapy.
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  1658. I want to thank you in other videos for discussing your southernness, because it can be frustrating as a Memphian living abroad to be seen through such a reductive lens, and I think that your presence online really adds depth to that image. More importantly thank you for teaching information that can't be found many other places and with such professionalism
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  1659. Absolutely beautiful work! I discovered book binding on YouTube about one week ago (Four Keys Book Arts - amongst others), so watching this wonderful work from Mr Jones at Green Dragon Bindery makes more sense in that context. Just wonderful. Thank you for investing in securing the future of this book.
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  1660. Kiitos!
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  1661. Noticed you briefly mentioned Manicheanism in the video regard 1468 years being a Manichean number. Will we ever see the Cologne Mani-Codex or the subject of Manicheanism covered more broadly on this channel in the future?
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  1662. As someone who has studied the Bible for decades, I find it incredible that this is all new to me. Absolutely fascinating and enlightening. I’ve asked various people (people who make their livings as NT experts) what’s going on in Paul’s visions/OBEs. Never got any insight even 1% as illuminating as this.
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  1663. Refreshing!! Unbiased, straight forward history. Captivating, wish I had found you earlier. I appreciate you.
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  1664. Sighs Heavily That really was what eventually caused me to leave the Orthodox services. Since I know myself to be absolutely heretical in a number of respects, I chose not to become a Catechumen. And because I chose not to become a Catechumen, I couldn't receive the Eucharist. So services would sometimes make me weep, I felt completely isolated.
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  1665. I love your videos on Gnosticism! it gets me thinking, if these Gnostics that he claims participated in physical debauchery, just used the concept of a separate body and soul as a form of excuse to do those things. Many magical teachings which I'm sure the Gnostics of that time were at least aware of; teach that the actions and activities of the physical body do affect the soul in many ways.
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  1666. I like how the intro starts at 3:33! Is that intentional?
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  1667. This was very interesting. Never heard of other miracle workers in that area during that time - I need to read up on this some more. Just subbed to your channel recently, I know I can learn a lot here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Dr. Sledge.
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  1668. The idea of gravity now starts making more sense from the monist perspective.
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  1669. If I ever find any Solomonic treasure, Dr. Sledge will be the first person I'll call about it
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  1670. I have always found David Lynch's film "Eraserhead" to be delightfully sublime. "Blue Velvet" also veered towards the sublime. I'd call the recently departed Mr. Lynch a master of the sublime. You will be missed, sir.
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  1671. Hey doctor, I just wanted to say your channel came up in my recommendations and this has been the most pleasant and informative rabbit hole, thank you so so much
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  1672. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel  I mean, the fact that you're clearly very passionate about all the topics you cover is one of the things that make the material so enjoyable. So if you're implying that you might start talking a lot about things you're even more particularly interested in. That just sounds like threatening us with a good time.
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  1673. As someone who follows many Wiccan/pagan beliefs, thank you for saying that these beliefs are not Satanic! So many people have the wrong idea unfortunately.
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  1674. A video about "martial magic" mentioned around 24:00 would actually be very interesting.
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  1675. Put me down as the “just looks for stuff good teachers teach well” audience. Give yourself more credit for the growth of the channel independent of people’s interest in specific subject matter.
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  1676. I love love LOVE your lectures, you are amazing at what you do! I got a little scared by the intro you have that it might be dry and boring, but nothing further from the truth. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
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  1677. It's astonishing and amazing that the 13th entry of an Agrippa lecture series can drum up nearly 10000 views in 3 days
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  1678. By the way I bought your invisibility cloak shirt and it's cool and all but people can totally see it. :)
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  1679. Wow, I was thinking Hellraiser just before it was brought up. Something else I thought of is entropy. All these philosophers seem to be trying to describe a dichotomy similar to existence of life: life is an ordered system, and therefore an area of lower entropy. However, entropy must always increase. So for any organism to maintain the order that is its existence, it must increase the entropy of its environment. When you think about that in the context of the heat death of the universe, the ultimate state of entropy, it really makes you wonder what the hell we’re doing by being alive.
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  1680. “I’m an alchemical weirdo”- *remembers the diagram of the alchemical furnace you built as a child*… yup. Absolutely.
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  1681. lazycommentforthatalgo
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  1682. Your educated speculation is more valuable than most.
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  1683. "Painstaking revelation. What do I mean by 'painstaking'?" Really really really slow download times. Angelic internet running on early-modern pen-and-ink hardware.
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  1684. Based on how much I have seen this shared all over Social Media, I predict this will be one of your most popular videos. Great stuff.
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  1685. Simon Magus, can't wait 💛
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  1686. discovered you through Alex O'connor and instantly became a fan. Great stuff as always doc!
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  1687. Every church I've ever attended claimed to be (or aspired to be) "just like the original church". I wish I could make these pastors and elders watch these videos.
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  1688. I have played so many games of Carcassonne and I never knew about its history!
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  1689. Your content is so interesting and illuminating. I like to listen to you when I'm on night shift at work.
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  1690. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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  1691. Fascinating and entertaining as always, thank you!
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  1692. Great stuff. Very much appreciating your emphasis on the neglected women's history of alchemy.
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  1693. Thanks again for bringing a relentless scholarly rigour and depth that, along with your dry wit and clarity, opens up the fascinating depths of things I haven't thought of for many years, or at all.
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  1694. So much fun to see you interact with your audience. Your humor shines through. Also, the terror of some of these subjects do, too. You are willing to make your audience uncomfortable if it means speaking of uncomfortable things that are always there and isually ignored. I love that more than anything, even the humor. Keep pushing all of our boundaries, please. And keep on working with these brilliant and hilarious minds!
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  1695. Fantastic, Justin! Have a pleasant May Day!
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  1696. I’ve been doing automatic drawings for about two decades out of inspiration from Austin Osman Spare. Psyched to see you covering him!
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  1697.  @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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  1698. 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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  1699. This helps me contextualize a lot of things I’ve been thinking about and makes me want to study more
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  1700. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SORRY FOR SHOUTING IM JUST EXCITED
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  1701. I went to community college so I'm always down for speculation. Hell, I'm just a random dude who went down a rabbit hole and ended up here 3 months ago. Jokes aside, I personally appreciate all you're doing with this channel. It helped me spark a new love for history, especially that esoteric side.
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  1702. I had heard Dr Finkel of the British museum talk a bit about this before, so when you announced this video it made me very happy!! Cheers and thank you for the good work!!! Happy holidays!
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  1703. Thanks for sharing this Dr. Sledge. This is always been one of those things that's always been interesting to me, but haven't looked into that deeply. Thanks for directing all of us to James' blog!
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  1704. As someone who loves the simple hippy message of Jesus, I pity the fool who literally tortured and killed people in his name.
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  1705. Thanks for the honesty in opening up on what had to be a terrible chapter of your life. Mad respect
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  1706. Love the jokes!
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  1707. Happy Samhain!!!
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  1708. 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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  1709. This is a great video! I became interested in the occult nature of Stoicism since I found out that Austin Osman Spare used to call himself a Stoic ("the Stoic smilingly awaits the shitstorm from Heaven" also his correspondences with Kenneth Grant talking about this) which made me curious since I always thought Stoicism was supposed to be really materialistic, but looking at people like Posidonius as you mentioned this isn't true at all. Really great channel, love everything you talk about!
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  1710. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Fantastic Information! Great Job!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 🤗Thanks!
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  1711. At around 18 minutes I genuinely thought Dr Sledge had just ended the channel out of despair for a second
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  1712. I am in awe of you personally translating this material to make it more available. Thank you, I love your channel!
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  1713. Always Illuminating
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  1714. I love watching your videos before going to work!
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  1715. If Lovecraft heard his poem being read so well by a Jewish guy, he would experience some serious cognitive dissonance - which is exactly as it should be.
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  1716. this guy would 100 percent have been a joe rogan guest if he was alive today. lol
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  1717. The story in the beginning reminds me of when the US army made night vision goggles with red instead of green and everyone who wore the goggles went crazy and said they seen evil looking scary creatures everywhere.
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  1718. I always wondered what some anti semites were talking about. Man! What a round about way to find a way to hate. Thanks for the episode sir. I’m glad things are getting better. Keep on rocking. ❤❤❤
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  1719. Your channel is simply excellent. I learn a lot and find inspiration for my own creative endeavors 🎉
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  1720. Thank you for making this video. It is unfortunate that it is "the Different people" or "Them" who are the targets for the evil that men do. Quite often it is our differences that make us strong and new approaches to things bring progress. One day I hope we can celebrate our uniqueness (all of us) and bring ourselves to "The table" without fear.
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  1721. This has got to be one of the most educational videos that I've seen in a long time. Good job.😊
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  1722. This episode was a particular masterpiece. Thank you so much Dr. Sledge
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  1723. 3 Hours!? OMG YESSSSSSS
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  1724. Missed you dear Dr. Sledge! Great stuff, as always, thank you. :)
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  1725. My wife and I are excited to go and have this opportunity. We made this work for this second trip and are so excited!
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  1726. Bought this one a while back looked into King James, threw up in my mouth spit it out, and had a bitter taste for him ever since.
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  1727. That's amazing, I love all three channels that participated in this colab before it occurred, and it did not disappoint. Love that nickname too.
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  1728. I was delighted with the message from your VPN sponsor . Thanks for this presentation. It was helpfully informative!
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  1729. 1:31 You did this same thing for me back in the beginning of esoterica and sent me on my current academic trajectory. You took that which was granted to you and passed it on to others which is amazing. I want to do that myself one day since I’m still grateful for the rewards I’m reaping because of it! Glad to see your efforts pay out and the channel thrive and prosper.
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  1730. I was introduced to Blake through Ulver's album "Themes From William Blake's the Marriage of Heaven and Hell". If you happen to be into "electronics, industrial music elements, progressive metal, avant-garde rock and ambient" (according to Wikipedia), check it out.
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  1731. I just want to say: you rule. Thank you for all your hard work. Your content is entertaining, educational, and thought-provoking. You deserve a lot of credit. Thanks again, and: Peace!
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  1732. In a world of Chaos, Dr. Sledge, your channel is a needed reprieve. <3
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  1733. Excellent as always, Justin! You need to publish this for Lovecraft scholars. It adds so much to the field.
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  1734. Lmao the dude-bro Stoic manosphere-redpill callout 😂
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  1735. lovely collaborating with you again! 😊
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  1736. Thank you, Dr. Sledge for this video. Because of this video I have purchased the Peterson/Pseudo-Abano Elucidation of Necromancy/new translation of the Heptameron. I am also a big fan of Peterson's other works.
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  1737. This is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking text I have seen you cover!
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  1738. Thank you, this learning space that you've created is excellent and truly educational.
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  1739. The way you narrate to your audience sounds like the way someone speaks to a friend. So pleasant to listen to
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  1740. 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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  1741. Fascinating, thank you! If I can make a request, plz do a deep dive on Samael. All info I’ve seen on him is full of debate & confusion. Your style of thorough analysis + esoteric knowledge could clarify a lot!
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  1742.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yes! Oh well, many more videos ahead then :)
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  1743. I love how you are able to relay this information in a scholarly way that is accessible, and still maintains the spiritual essence of the texts you are discussing! Thank you!
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  1744. Paracelsus is the owner of the greatest full name of all time
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  1745. I'm a printmaker and seem to get more obsessed with medieval art and illuminated manuscripts every day.
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  1746. I'm watching all ur vids I just subscribed last week ur the only one who does this type of content love it it's amazing! Also side question u said in a Q&A ur reconstructionist religious Jewish but u don't believe in God how does that work how can u be religious without believing in God?
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  1747. 💪💪💪💪
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  1748. Paracelsus aka Mr. Boombastic
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  1749. Cultic Combat sounds like the greatest fighting game of all time. Imagine Ba’al, YHWY, Thor, and the Thunderbird in a 4v4 match up
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  1750. Just imagine how big of a magnet Aristotle's mom would have to use to put one of those scrolls on their fridge.
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  1751. Thanks! What a rare gem your humor is. And what a rare treat, no… nourishment your entire channel.
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  1752. Great episode! Thank you for bringing this part of history to light.
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  1753. Fridays are for fine spirits, magic, and Esoterica!
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  1754. It is odd to have Pele in English instead of Hebrew but the reason is the angels told Dee to have Pele in Angelicall which he simply didn't do, like many of his tools. It's always funny to see the angels chiding him for that.
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  1755. Some videos, you know you can safely press the like button before you even watch.
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  1756. Thank you for another great episode. You tell those History Channel Loonies. Do you know of a book, in any language, of templars in Portugal? Thank you again Sir. Nice new tune too. Keep on rocking. 🤘
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  1757. Excellent, well researched video. Whether the Cathars really existed or not is secondary to the greater truth that history is as much created as discovered.
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  1758. 21 mins in....'James: 'Do you have a copy?'' Justin ''I have two'' ha ha remindes me of the Python's Holy Grail sketch ''No thank you we already gotta one, its-a very nice''.. :)
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  1759. Just started my research on this yesterday and wow here you are with this upload! Haven’t watched yet but can tell I’m in for a treat! Thanks
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  1760. Another interesting video. May you never run out of PBR while head-banging to "Echo Of The Abyss." 😁
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  1761. human beings are a very panicy bunch. it's our worst trait and the cause of so many deaths
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  1762. That's why I love this channel. You can't find information like this especially for free.
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  1763. Excellent video! The lack of mysticism* is part of the reason I've really been enjoying Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. I always appreciate your listing of books for further reading! As a (once) Ancient Greek student, I especially love to learn more about Parmenides esp. *I mean being covered in standard Philosophy classes/books.... mind got a bit ahead of me!
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  1764. Woooo!!!! Always excited about a new Esoterica video!
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  1765. A 30 minute summary of what it took me 30 years to affirm...🧐 Always excellent work 👏
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  1766. The book size comparison segment made my day. Thank you. I feel doubly rewarded for watching this video.
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  1767. So glad YouTube exists so I can have access to such wonderful information.
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  1768. Just want to say, I love the idea of the spirits having to obey laws like elecromagitism. That's one thing that's never really made sense to me as to why knowing a being's true name gives you control over them...
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  1769. Your best video yet ! Our evolution lies within the word. The transcendence of our language into a higher form. A language where you can "see" what the person means.
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  1770. So stoked for this one!
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  1771. That was a fantastic lecture. I am new to Spinoza's thought, and this talk has pushed me over the edge towards now purchasing his Ethics. Thank you!
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  1772. Thanks for your important work.
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  1773. I wonder what Agrippa would think of the fact that some people nowadays trust his writings because they are old?
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  1774. Well Happy Birthday, Happy Alchemy Day, and Happy Valentine's Day, here's hoping you get the gold!
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  1775. I am a grand daughter of Goody Bassett.
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  1776. Your videos on Kabbalah are always my favorites
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  1777. Really enjoyed this look into the publishing timelines, placements, blends and editions of the Corpus Hermeticum. At the risk of triggering both scorn and praise, perhaps The Kybalion can be referred to as Hermetic 2.0 or a Hermetic app. Does Windows 10 have anything to do with DOS? Yet, its roots grew from DOS and all the later windows versions could be considered of the same flock with DOS being the primer of those operating systems. Some people curse with fury when The Kybalion is mentioned...others find it to be useful in their practices.
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  1778. If you’d have asked me last night what I needed in my life, I would not have answered “a three part video series on John Dee and alchemy”, but OH MAN did I need a three part video series about John Dee and alchemy in my life! Excellent content my friend. Thank you!
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  1779. This is my first video of yours and your quote about leaving your personal beliefs at the door has gained you a new subscriber. That’s exactly how learning and academics should be. Question everything and don’t allow your personal beliefs to color your understanding of things.
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  1780. Thank u, doctor, for your dedication and willingness to share your knowledge and passion with us .
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  1781. “I pity the fool” who didn’t like this episode
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  1782. Another great analysis, my friend! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all. 🖤
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  1783. You're awesome. Very intelligent, articulate and you crack me up. Thank you! Keep doing what you do!
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  1784. You know shit about to be real when yah boy uploads a part 1 😆
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  1785. Great video. Have you ever looked into the Codex Seraphinianus? Wonder if it's similar to the Voynich manuscript
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  1786. 😂 this guy is AWESOME! Outstanding delivery of interesting history. Love his sense of humor mixed with his ability to be professional.
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  1787. Just upgraded my Patreon membership, I’m so grateful for all your work, Dr. Sledge.
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  1788. Loving your stuff, Dr. Sledge! You have a pleasant voice to listen to, and you always pique and satiate my curiosity in equal measures.
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  1789. Where's my "subjected to the inquisition" medal. Can I have a hat too? Maybe a hair shirt?
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  1790. Already a Patreon, and everyone should support this channel!
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  1791. Wow dude! I have listened to many of your videos and as someone born in the 90s so kinda missing most of this first hand, it’s strange you always hear witch hunts and think of that could never happened today and to hear it was happening across the country 30 years ago is insane. Thank you very much for always sharing your knowledge with us as impartially as possible. Love the content!
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  1792. Fascinating!! I’ve been researching my family’s tradition of pennsylvania dutch folk magic, called brauchari. Very clear where that tradition comes from now. So much of that tradition is present in this video
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  1793. You had me when you said "demons". LOL . Thank you for making this wonderful video. I always love your content and need to back track on the last few months of what I missed. Hope you are doing well and dark blessings
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  1794. That was a feast. I hope I can digest it before the next episode.
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  1795. Just wow! What a treasure trove this is, I'm going to have to watch this again there was a lot there to absorb, thank you 🙏 👍😮🖤
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  1796. Another fascinating video. Half the watching will be in the rewatching. I got a lot out of your Kabbalah series - 10 pages of journal notes actually. Keep up the good work man.
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  1797.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I know the feeling, trying to balance exhausting the self with an inexhaustible subject matter. Much love and appreciation for those who ride that line ;)
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  1798. “A pioneer in the swinger scene” under the pic of Edward Kelley is hilarious.
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  1799. Thanks again for another informative and educational video. As a person raised in the RC church, you gave me a much clearer understanding and insight to Paul and my religion.
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  1800. Cool episode. Thank you Sir ❤
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  1801. Thank you for this 🙏🏻 Looking forward to more on Orphism. Something about it pulls me in. I’ve been reciting the Orphic hymns. Good stuff. ✨
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  1802. This is one of your greats! Jesse
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  1803. I appreciate that you provided source material at the end for people looking to find a copy for themselves!
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  1804. Thanks! I love the way you teach - you make me want to dig deeper. And your sense of humor while teaching makes learning fun. Keep it up!
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  1805. Great story! And the book recommendations look interesting. Thank you for reviving the Christmas ghost story tradition. Light and joy to you, too. ✨
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  1806. Proud to be a supporter of your incredible and inspiring work ❤
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  1807. Thanks!🙏🏾 A Beautiful review of an impossible bit of Occult knowledge..!😛👍🏾 I tried to work with the system earlier in life... Wow! Mind blown.
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  1808. ​ @bunjijumper5345 Dr. Sledge has a far more nuanced relationship with religion than most folks are familiar with. He doesn't fit into the standard box our society tries to put "religious" people in.
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  1809. I've long considered doing a reading of de sphaera but it's kind of a snooze.
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  1810. I always listen to your videos while cooking and cleaning, you make my daily routine so much more interesting! I always learn something.
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  1811. I'm a couple months late to the party, but thank you so much for doing this lecture series. I mainlined it in about two days. As a gentile there was so much Jewish history and concepts that I had no idea about, and I was hooked. I have found this to be very illuminating and truly fascinating. Thanks again!
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  1812. Epic collab 😎
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  1813. You are putting out some absolute bangers lately Dr. Sledge! Keep up the good work sir. 👍👏
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  1814. My great scholar, could you do a video about The Ethiopian Magical Scrolls?
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  1815. I find the art v nature thing is interesting. An example that comes to mind is lab diamonds being superior to natural diamonds, or so I'm told. Further, it's said that people won't buy lab diamonds because the perceived superiority of natural diamonds. The idea is that anything people make cannot be as good as that which comes from nature. I have no idea what is true, but the idea is interesting
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  1816. I first found this channel from Atun Shei, love you both!
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  1817. I struggle to find authentic esoteric texts that cut close to the 'spirit' of a subject. Doubly so when I'm unfortunately ignorant of the language (maybe someday - Hebrew is neat!). Thank you so much for all the work you and your collegues do to make esoteric works and knowledge more accessibe. Also your judicious use and delivery of humor is top notch!
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  1818. Great episode! Love your explanations, it all makes sense. My question would be what they might do for pets? Did they have the same spells written on their sarcophagi? Like for Nedjeh? Did "Sweetie" have his own spells and prayers? Curious.
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  1819. the best part about your magnificent channel is that you dont do the whole speaking in a sultry low voice while talking about demons. I swear some of these channels take themselves far too seriously. PS. you should change the piano intro music to Peter Gabriel's "Sledge Hammer".
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  1820. Ah ha yessssss more demon content. Any chance you will cover more videos on more notable demons such as Belphegor and Beelzebub?
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  1821. Wow, I imagine it makes sense since I had already been a Lovecraft fan that a symbol could make it into the mind and unlock knowledge. I wonder if Spare was a direct inspiration, or one of Lovecraft's writing circle. I share your thought that Spare would find it disturbing to learn that people took his method of symbol creation and dogmatized it; even using his as their own. Imagine someone saying your prayers, for courage and fortitude against your daemons, and saying them as if they were you? That wouldn't make any sense at all.
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  1822. Thank you for making a episode on this because It feels so relevant still sadly. As a Transgender Non-Binary person i'm happy you make your channel a space where we're welcome. Your channel is a immense source of comfort personally
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  1823. Thank you so much for producing this series. It has been my favorite series on YouTube to date and one that has produced the most excitement and anticipation of each new episode. Thank you thank you thank you
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  1824. I enjoyed your overview on these confluent topics. Thanks!
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  1825. Today of all days; you decided to post this. Stoicism is hiding behind every corner that i look around these days. Today I noticed a connection between the Stoics and the Gnostics in the way that they each hold the "I am" or "Self" as the source of all and knowing what is not "Self" as the way to fullfilment. I would love to listen to a conversation between you and Miguel on Aeon Byte Radio. I feel you would be a good scholarly balance to his...lack of.... Thanks!
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  1826. So that's why in first edition "detect treasure" is a cleric spell
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  1827. I so need to do actual reading on the Shekinah and the Book of Esther and on the Qlippoth so I can be better informed and vigilant about untrue stories. Future note to self: avoid content on April 1st.
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  1828. Thank you for your wonderful services, and providing such amazing and easily digestible content Dr. Sledge!! Your humor is just....the best. You're the best. Plus you speak so clearly and straight to the point that it is just refreshing to listen to everything you say. What a great video and a great teacher! 💜 perhaps you could one day cover some myths with asherah and el?? 🥺🤍
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  1829. Thanks!
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  1830. Another awesome episode, Dr. Sledge! <3 <3 <3
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  1831. 23:19 very interesting , I wonder if there’s any connection with the Eastern Orthodox Church’s tradition of waiting 8 days after birth to baptize the newborn.
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  1832. Your description of the Stoic Sympatheia to my mind sounds like a reflection of current physics theory of Entanglement. Everything in the Universe is entangled with everything else. Everything old is new again.
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  1833. Could it be that Adam's rib was bruised hence the refusal for Lilith-on-top and so the Biblical Creator took that rib to make Eve in the evening for Adam...personal interpretation of biblical mythology in the most deferential sense of the word. That aside, so much excellent distillation this episode! Epic!
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  1834. maybe i'll finally understand Xenogears after this series
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  1835. I love this channel it is like reading something weird with someone for a change HAHAHA here's wishing you the best in the coming year.
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  1836. Thank you for another fantastic video Dr Sledge. You have a beautiful speaking voice by the way. I was a big Isaac Newton fan as a kid, now I have a renewed interest in him. Also, Thank you Dr Sledge for teaching me how to pronounce ' Tristmegistus' ⭐
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  1837. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, research and ideas.
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  1838. Speaking of theological Anarchism!!! Something fascinating that I can't shake is how the Hebrew prophet leading the anarchist revolution against Egypt's puppet-monarchs in Kanangan/Cana'an was called " 'Abdi Ashirta", or Servant of the Goddess in the Amarna Letters. "Kill your kings, join us, and forever live in peace." This was following the mysterious death of the crowned prince of Egypt and the succession of his younger brother (the eventful mono-theism-crazed Akkenaten), but before the Anarchistic period of the Judges (Samuel echoing those values through his advice to not take on a king). On the one hand, I see Deuteronomy being what Judaism has always done: an attempt to salvage the values of our ancient heritage through re-interpretation and re-contextualization. ...and on the other hand, I really want to know who this 'Abdi Ashirta was (the historical Joshua?), where he came from, and what relationship Ashirta had with the spirit of prophesy! (Spirit itself being a female noun.) I'd actually be interested in you doing a deep dive video on the divine feminine in Judaism. Like, was Spirit of God thought of as feminine in Hebrew in more than just the grammatical sense?
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  1839. Thank god Paracelsus never had access to Twitter. Or maybe it’s tragic he couldn’t have Twitter. An ego mixed with intelligence could’ve seen insane meme potential lol
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  1840. Absolutely incredible, on one of the best videos i’ve seen on this topic. I speak for us all when i say that your dedication to true and honest history is a gift.
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  1841. When I strike it rich, Esoterica, Mystery History, and Praveen Mohan are getting their dues for so many hours of fascinating content I've consumed
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  1842. Great video, fantastic stuff. I wouldn't mourn the dude-bro Stoicism, what I'd call pop-stoicism, all that much; plebs are going to pleb, people will always lean on the misunderstandings of any and all systems of thought to validate and color in their worldview arising organically from their interaction with the world, to lament it even a little seems to be the utter opposite of the apatheia espoused by Stoicism. I think it's a great thing, because initial exposure will beg for more clarity by anyone competent enough to seek it and those people will find the original texts and scholarly analyses of those texts, alleviating misconceptions and clarifying confusions.
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  1843. Fantastic video! I can’t wait for more content about Newton. What a fascinating guy.
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  1844. 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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  1845. The beast’s heavy steps, echo in dread, I tremble in fear, wish I were dead. I trip in the dark, struggling to flee Only to realise, the monster is ME!!👹 Lol😅. Thank you.✌🏻🧡
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  1846. Mary Magdalena is such a fascinating figure, the more I learn about her the better it gets. I could almost see a feminism-friendly new Christianity as told by her gospel sprout-up somewhere in Oregon.
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  1847. CHECKMATE, DEMONITES!!
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  1848. 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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  1849. Thanks!
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  1850. "...those knees that are fatigued even though one did not exert himself is from the demons; those clothes of the Sages that wear out, despite the fact that they do not engage in physical labor, is from friction with the demons; those feet that are in pain is from the demons." I feel u bro...
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  1851. Lol. As a Mason, I can appreciate your comments towards the end about anti-Masonic conspiracy theories.
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  1852. What a fascinating topic. I'm a huge fan of the latter stoic writers, but never read up on the origins of stoic thought. Appreciate your insights and your book recommendations!
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  1853. Literally the best YouTuber in the world.
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  1854. This was *awesome*. I don't know how, but you just keep getting better and better. Now I just can't wait for the next video. Cheers!
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  1855. Hit me, Sledge.
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  1856. Esoterica at his finest!
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  1857. hell yea new esoterica joint
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  1858. I absolutely am in love with your channel it’s been pivotal in my study of the great work thank you sincerely mr sledge you are an inspiration to generations I can only hope to educate myself enough to have a discussion one day
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  1859. Thanks! I get so much work done during my day installing commercial lockers and amazon mezzanines listening to your lectures.
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  1860. Keep up the amazing work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  1861. Thank you for this content and your scholarship. Your insight constantly inspires and enthralls me.
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  1862. It cant be described how profoundly impactful your channel can be
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  1863. So Plotinus would have viewed the Gnostic project of gnosis through the acquisition of secret or hidden knowledge as fundamentally misguided, since he would have believed it could only be achieved through philosophical contemplation and the pursuit of the Good?
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  1864. Love you and your work! Need to say that i am #Gnosticgnerd and #TeamSilmarillion. Keep the great work!
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  1865. Just discovered you through the “Let’s talk religion” channel, and as a Catholic I’m happy as all heck this was one of the first vids I found myself with here! Looking forward to watching the content, and thanks for what you do!
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  1866. Spinoza couldn't afford to be a hard atheist. The people of his time didn't look gently on those folks and he wasn't rich enough not to care. Free choice of religion didn't exist in Spinoza's world, yet. To look at it any other way is to be completely blind to historical reality.
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  1867. consider for a minute: have we seen mr rogers and nietche in the same room at the same time?
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  1868. These introductions are great. I've been liking your stuff for a while now, but I've been missing a good chronological introduction :)
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  1869. So good! Definitely ordered the Early Kabbalah book! This episode was super helpful, thank you!
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  1870. Dr. Sledge, thank you for such captivating videos. I laughed out loud several times whilst learning some historical information and of the demons. I love your shows. I just signed up as a Patreon member. Thank you so much.
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  1871. For real. So, so much of this obscure, unusual or - more damningly - critical knowledge is hidden behind paywalls and gatekeepers in various organizations. It's refreshing to be able to find an honest scholar who still believes in the importance of passing on knowledge gained, and the sanctity of that endeavor above and beyond the importance of personal avarice.
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  1872. I think you're only the second person I've encountered in my life with a really funny dry wit.
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  1873. Fascinating dialogue! Just what the doctor ordered for an icy afternoon in Texas. Thank you for your efforts!
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  1874. There’s so much stuff to read. 😅
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  1875. Love your channel, your knowledge is priceless. Thank you for sharing this passion and profession with us. Can't wait to see what you do next!
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  1876. Thank you for these videos, I found them very informative and well done. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
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  1877. If anyone does the evocation of the Lady of the Mountain (The "Fairy Princess" Dr Sledge mentions, my research points to her being a minor Greek divinity) I recommend being careful of wasps, although I would count my experience with it as an otherwise pretty successful experiment.
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  1878. My favorite YouTube channel ever.
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  1879. Going on a year of familiarizing myself with Kabbalah and the Zohar, still definitely just scratching the surface. Keep up the great vids Dr.Sledge!
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  1880. hahahaha i bursted out laughing the moment you mentioned that the esoteric spelling of christ can repel pirates XD
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  1881. This channel is absolutely fascinating. My some odd Great Grandfather was a Hex Painter and Exorcist in early 19th Century Ontario, so besides my own fascination with folklore and mythology, I feel a personal connection to counter magic rituals.
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  1882. I have mean spiritedly described Leninism as Calvinism for atheists, and I stand by it.
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  1883. Brilliant!! Thank you Dr. Sledge. And looking forward to the channel reaching a million viewers!! There's my prophetic view. Happy Halloween.
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  1884. Marxism with Occult Characteristics? count me in!
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  1885. I appreciate you so much. Thank you. 🖤
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  1886. Two videos back to back? Today is a fortuitous day!
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  1887. ADAM’S VANILLA SYNDROME!! I about fell over 🤣
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  1888. Wolves in the throne room… wasn’t expecting that. Saw them live a couple of years ago. Amazing band! Great channel man!!
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  1889. Alas, I do not instagram, but I am a book-loving fool and just the thought of the smell of an old book brings me great pleasure. Thanks for launching the site!
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  1890. Thank you again so much for all of these. I signed up for the Patreon solely to support this.. but unless my job application is accepted soon I will sadly have to cancel purely due to personal circumstances... I am sorry for that... but I wanted to help in whatever small way I could for as long as I could. I just also need to eat (I have lost 50 pounds and am 32 year old and hovering at 100 pounds now due to financial struggles). What you do is so very important, I do not want to unsub from the Patreon. Especially as I know the views as this goes on will decrease as all long term classes do... I will do my best to keep supporting you ASAP.
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  1891. Amen As a Christian I agree so much. There is so much spiritual beauty in the church fathers and scripture. They say sometimes the worst part about Christianity is the Christian’s not the faith. And to me that is regardless of whether Jesus was historical, not , or immaculately conceived and was resurrected. The story beneath the scripture and the spiritual foundation has been life changing. Or put another way filled the hole in my heart only Christianity could fill. Even if many may see me as a heretical Christian. But hey maybe that’s why I’m so in love with the faith. Thanks for the video.
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  1892. I'm deeply grateful for your work and super happy that you will publish more about Paracelsus. I'm a truth seeker and support the approach of holistic healing as a shaman and cosmic healer. I actually live in Nuremberg and can tell you, that there is now a Paracelsus University existing, a private medical school 😊
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  1893. Justin you are absolutely awesome man! Not only do I love your intros and your theme music and visuals, but your delivery is priceless.
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  1894. Missed your videos dear Justin! Always so fascinating! Thanks again!
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  1895. Your channel is such a fresh breath of air! When I first found this channel I was so surprised and felt I had struck gold! Truly you deserve the views and I am so happy that you are able to financially benefit from your knowledge. Keep up the good work :D
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  1896. Edge core? I love you and this channel, Dr. Sledge. Also Nietzsche Rogers.
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  1897. Thanks! I'm a (low rent) Patreon member who loves your Esoterica program. I just wanted to show a little extra monetary appreciation. All your episodes fascinate me and I love learning from you! Long may you run!
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  1898. Love the knowledge this guy has wish i could pick his brain forever
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  1899. Filip Holm @LetsTalkReligion : What is Neoplatonism? (followed by Neoplatonism and Islam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEUo_sHoBw Dr Angela Puca @drangelapuca : Plotinus and Iamblichus on Theurgy and Magic: https://youtu.be/lNqnNjsGExM Zevi Slavin @SeekersofUnity : From Neoplatonism to Kabbalah, A Mystical Journey: https://youtu.be/UmkZ383LcW8 Dr. Dan Attrell @TheModernHermeticist : The Platonic Philosophers' Creed by Thomas Taylor: https://youtu.be/Wzd98YSG6Hs Dr. John Vervaeke @johnvervaeke : Levels of Intelligibility: Neoplatonism & 4E Cognitive Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbk3lA6zCic
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  1900. Thanks you for your content, Dr. Sledge. I am a constant consumer, I have learned so much! Keep up the Great Work 😉😊
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  1901. Do you have Dungeons and Dragons dice over your left shoulder?
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  1902. I’ve replayed this video three times and I still don’t feel like I’ve retained a quarter of the information presented. My mind is too blown. And YEAH! Where are the video games and metal bands?! I’ve said before, I’ll say it again; to the pastors wondering why the teens today aren’t interested in your Bible studies, it’s too milk toast! Lean IN to how metal the Abrahamic faiths really are! 🤘❤
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  1903. Not that it matters a jot, and perhaps there are global variants, but in his case, Spare rhymes with air, mare, care rather than rhyming with star, bar, car. Excellent video regardless.
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  1904. Great stuff. Always excited to see your videos pop up.
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  1905. What a great episode. Thank you:) It is fair to recognize the insights and great deepness of Christian Mysticism. The weight of the exoteric side of Christianity seems to have outshined the great mystics this tradition has given us, such as Ruysbroeck, , Hadewijch, Teresa de Jesús, Juan de la Cruz, Meister Eckhart, all-time giant, etc.
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  1906. This has been on my want to read list a while. It's just graduated to a priority. Thank you once again for sharing your wisdom.
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  1907. the trident was made famous by Eliphas Levi, in Transcendental Magic... its quite and elaborate interpretation, which also avoids the impotence part, but is almost a western kind of kundalini magnetism, ie sexual energy I suppose, like the khatvenga, but Levi makes out to be the letter Tau etc
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  1908. The books of Jeu are definitely the deep B-sides of the "Gnostic" corpus. To make a musical analogy, they belong in any sojourner's record collection as much as any Smiths.B-side, so to speak Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge! 👍⚒️
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  1909. Your use of the frame from Natural Born Killers about Yahweh and Anat on a date made me laugh so hard I almost choked on my food. I wasn’t expecting the sense of humor when I clicked on this video, and it’s very much appreciated.
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  1910. Could find a good picture of the World Spirit? I love the subtext on your pictures! 🤣
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  1911. Thank you so very much for each and every morsel of treasure posted, Dr. Absolutely fantastical to feel the little mouse listening in on your wizard speak. 🤓 Kudos, sir.
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  1912. That was hysterical!
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  1913. thank you so much, dr. sledge. this subject...literally is immense and created waves and waves of the intergenerational traumas of many families. As a descendant of various diasporic migrations and forced movements, I thank you for your candor, courage, and your wisdom in finding a way to heal.
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  1914. Greetings from Chattanooga, TN. This wealth of information gave me the first understanding of Christianity that made any sense and was like a key, so to speak, they gave me the 'ears to hear' the New Testament. Thank you for your time and sharing your wisdom and knowledge.
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  1915. Hi, thank you for your clear honest and unbiased explanations. I feel better informed. May you and your family live a blessed life.
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  1916. Thank you so much for sharing this series with us, Dr. Sledge. Keep up the great work. Much Love and Blessings!
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  1917. 'We also have Hegel here, in the original German of course, much easier too understand.' 'Ah, my hand-crafted D&D drinking horny, very trusty'. Holy shit this guy is talented.
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  1918. Justin, you lay out the information so masterfully so as to allow us to make our own connections and conclusions and for that, I applaud you. Many thanks!
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  1919. Thank 😊 you 🙏
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  1920. Absolutely heavenly - feels like I'm in another dimension listening to these divine sounds :)
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  1921. Köszönjük!
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  1922. What's your favorite band, sir?
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  1923. Amazing video as always!!!I love these topics and I really dig your aesthetic.
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  1924. Today has been such a fun day checking out you and your colleague's videos. I'm super grateful for the work and scholarship you guys do! Have you ever considered adding timestamps to the videos or do you seem to categorize your ideas based on the images shown? Either way, I'll be tuned in! Thank you again Dr. Sludge!
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  1925. I realize this is a comment on a 4+ year old video, but I am currently binge watching all of your content after becoming a Patreon supporter your sense of humor is amazing and very refreshing thank you very much
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  1926. You're good people Dr. Sledge. Thank you for the work you do!
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  1927. Time to go temporarily sate the Will's desire for leftover hallowe'en candy.
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  1928. One Of My Favorite All Time Topics :) THANK YOU, DR SLEDGE!!!!
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  1929. I made a Patreon account just to donate money to this man. Thank you for all the knowledge!
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  1930. 38:49 You read me like a 2nd century polemical manuscript
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  1931. Thank you for this! I've read those scriptures but you have provided me some important context that a non-academic like me wouldn't be able to find! Once again, from this old Sorcerer's heart, thank you!
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  1932. I am absolutely thrilled he is covering Paracelsus!!
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  1933. Very interesting info about ancient magic 😍
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  1934. Thank you for making such fascinating videos.
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  1935. You got me with the Playdo image. 😂
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  1936. First letss gooo
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  1937. literally watching this as I do 'leg day'
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  1938. Does the Staten Island ferry fulfill a messianic role? Well-timed Malevich shout-out, btw. This episode was like a wonderful, rich meal❤
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  1939. At 12:55, I love that you took the time to insert an ICP meme. Your post-production must be wild.
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  1940. Great video! I love your storytelling 💗 I found this video hilarious and highly informative. The humor grounds the topic which I really appreciate. 🙏🏽
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  1941. Fascinating episode, I enjoyed it immensely. Sign me up for that special edition for sure!
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  1942. You know, I was going to show some experts this nifty ring I found that can summon demons, but it's probably nothing
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  1943. 🤙 Aloha Dr Sledge My new holiday greeting "Happy Whatever Doesn't Offend" ( Poem⤵️) "Scratched on Pottery or . ." Chiseled in quarried stones Absorbed by papyrus Quilled on skin parchment Stated by Oracle bones Read in numerous tomes Printed pressed pine dust Uploaded the net Here all have found homes 🤙Mahalo Dr. Sledge !!!
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  1944. Thanks!
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  1945.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Definitely does, I have a 13 year old daughter.. Off topic-I’ve heard you mention living in Michigan, If you’re a hockey fan, I’ve been listening to Agrippa today while installing the Hershey Bears new lockerrooms. Your hard work is contributing to so much work done around this country.
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  1946. Fantastic interview! Love Dr. Dzwiza's genuine passion and enthusiasm for the subject. Yall doin great work!
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  1947. As someone who was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition and who has since become fascinated with the Valentinian stream of Gnosticism, I’ve become convinced that much of what distinguishes Catholic sacramentalism and in particular The Mass, was actually adopted into the developing orthodoxy from these same Valentinians who were eventually rejected and suppressed.
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  1948. Awesome series. Condensed, logical and referenced Poe :) Rolling Stones song in background ( conjured ) all in under 35 minutes. Bravo!
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  1949. This is just SO fantastic. Lucid, dazzlingly well-informed, and utterly compelling. Thank you so much!!!
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  1950. As a fellow Jew, this one made me sad. Every time you paused for "the jews" everybody round here thought that was funny. I just felt the weight of all that tragedy and blood shed weigning on me more and more. עד שימחה ה' דמעה מעל כל פנים
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  1951. lazy comment for the algo
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  1952. 50 min ep on alchemy, we are not worthy! Thanks so much for your work in alchemical historiography and bringing attention to others working in the field. I’ve been on the edge of ‘practical Lab alchemy’ practice for the better part of a decade and trying to find any useful info even 5 years ago was difficult. It’s really exciting to see the development in that time and seeing academics pursue some of the work in the lab is so illuminating. Thanks for all the work Dr. Sledge ❤❤❤❤
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  1953. I bought a shirt to support you, Justin. I’m 6’6” and 350. The 4xlt didn’t cut it 😅. I need an Esoteric diet plan.
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  1954. I’ve been on an Agrippa binge ever since you dropped part 1 of this. I appreciate it🤍!
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  1955. Doc!!! U had me craccin' up with da Chappelle/ Rick James , unity ring!!!!
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  1956. WOW… what an astonishing amount of research it took to make this happen! Kudos!
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  1957. Thank you for all you do!
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  1958. Stigmata is such an amazing phenomenon
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  1959. I feel bad for the ghosts. I will have some gin for them and they can hang out in my clothes any time!
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  1960. Shalom to all of you: This is one of the greatest and best channels about esoteric and metaphysical subjects. Thank you very 🌹
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  1961. It seems like the cultural Agrippa is more like Johnathan Strange, while the historical Agrippa is more like Mr. Norrell.
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  1962. What? No, I never tried to ask this video a question out-loud. I am a Medieval Historian and so far this channel is how I get my esoteric academic needs met. It is so taboo where I work/live. Keep up the awesome work! I look forward to buying a t-shirt when fall semester starts.
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  1963. Finkel book is excellent. I picked up the audio book, where his character adds so much of a ghost story feel to the history lesson.
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  1964. I saw a performance of this movie at an arthouse cinema years ago. It had a live piano and theremin accompaniment. The eerie theremin performance made it unforgettable, and I still occasionally think about it.
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  1965. Another juicy one. Again, thank you for the amazing work and pristine delivery. Have a terrific weekend dear Justin!
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  1966. I am so happy to find this channel! I am going to binge everything.
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  1967. A comment for the YouTube logarithm, and to thank you for this series.
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  1968. Well researched (as always) but more importantly well presented from an obvious fan of his work. THANK YOU
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  1969. Been a fan for about a year now and this has to be one of your best videos yet. Such a sobering look at one of my favorite topics in history, thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  1970. As usual, wonderful video! Thank you for your service to make esoteric texts available for our enlightenment!
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  1971. “Selecting the wrong people is like revealing (….) Lilith “ that took me on a strange ride 🤦🏻 “The divine kiss” is a topic I m very interested in , I think that’s why I bought the Zohar , hoping to find smth on it … me being raised catholic… Very much enjoyed all the info! I ll listen to it again :) Definitely needed it … and the laughs :)) Merci Beaucoup Doctor ✨
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  1972. The D&D references make me giggle every time 😂 (thank you so much for your amazing videos!)
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  1973. Love the new opening ! Excellent video....I enjoyed it very much :)
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  1974. Thank you so much for making this freely available Dr. Sledge, I plan on rewatching the whole series and taking notes as I go. This was a wonderfully cohesive and accessible history of Kabbalah.
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  1975. Let me ‘like’ this before I watch, because you’re that good 🥰
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  1976. You have such a pleasant voice.
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  1977. This channel is such a gem Thank you Dr Sledge!❤️
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  1978. Dude the meme captions you do are hilarious. I'm still laughing about zeek on the research chemicals bought with hashem coin
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  1979. You really have to wonder who wrote that text. But, I kind of love the idea it was written as a prank, because that would mean it's one of the most successful pranks in history!
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  1980. Excellent content. Thank you for exploring these ideas and people.
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  1981. Thanks! Best series yet!
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  1982. Dr. Sledge - Thank you for talking about the sublime. This is my favorite of your videos. You speak about the Gothic and the sublime like a poet. 26 years ago, I was in grad seminar on 19th C. American Lit. that incorporated the sublime in literary criticism. Thank you. I'll post a longer comment below.
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  1983. Enoch is a homeboy. Lol.. love your work!
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  1984. he is incredibly consistent
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  1985. Dr. Sledge, I have been watching your content for many years and I wanted to just say thank you for doing what you do. I know myself and many other fans have bought merch and support you in other ways but you’re truly a selfless servant to provide quality content on such a niche interest.
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  1986. Surprised me how you pointed out how much we don't know ...
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  1987. 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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  1988. Best YouTube channel of all time.
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  1989. I am curious if your academic studies have ever caught you off guard by religion? Learning that this mind bogglingly ancient belief in Lilith being passed to Judaism is very surprising to me. It just seems such an unlikely series of happenstances
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  1990. Cool video Sir. I thought since Halloween was coming up it will be creepier. Thank you.
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  1991. Always fascinating, Dr Sledge! I would love to see an episode diving into the very fascinating and mysterious character of Lilith and just exactly what happened with her genesis in ...Genesis. 😉 It's very difficult to actually find explanations of her confrontations with both Yahweh/the Elohim, and Adam. Nobody wants to talk about how she stood up to both of them and asserted herself, and for that she was both banished from Eden and yeah, literally demonised. With regard to that, it would also be nice to hear your take on her connexion with the Lillitu of Mesopotamian mythology. And if an episode is not possible, could you recommend some reading material dealing with this topic? Thanks as always for your extremely educational and occasionally hilarious episodes, I am an ardent fan of your work. ♎
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  1992. Wow, thank you for condensing this material into one video. I bought "Yahweh and the Gods and Goddess of Canaan" and Mark Smith's " The Early History of God." Can't wait to dive in!
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  1993. Fantastic video Dr. Sledge! A question, since I’ve been debating on it for a while: the collected volume of the Nag Hammadi Library, specifically the most recent volume, is it accurate for lay reading? I know many people criticize it for being “too translated” or more precisely “sanitized”. Is that true in your mind or over blow? I just want to clear that up before I buy it.
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  1994. "He got drunk and murdered a guy...Oh, loveable Edward Kelly. I love you, Edward." I'm sorry this part got me hysterical
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  1995.  @TheEsotericaChannel  😂
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  1996. Justin - You helped inspire me with my last novella with your wit, knowledge and presentations. (yes, it's about an old book and witchcraft). I love your work and truly appreciate your efforts.
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  1997. Dr. Sledge, you are a brilliant light blazing in a bleak wilderness! Bob the Dread Pirate joins his voice to the chorus of those who are grateful for your penetrating insight, your fair-minded and non-prejudicial analysis, and your noncompromising commitment to meticulous research.
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  1998. Hey is this trip at all accessible? Would love to go but I'd be in a wheelchair.
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  1999. This is a wonderful channel! Fascinating video, as usual.
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  2000. Another treat from learned scholar Sledge. Very interesting video.
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  2001. I love Jakob Wassermanns novel "The Jews of Zirndorf" very much. A tragic and powerful novel about Sabbatai Zevis activities as the messiah and his followers. You gave a wonderful introduction to us. Thank you! What do you think about a review of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, by Professor Daniel C. Matt (along with Nathan Wolski and Joel Hecker)?
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  2002. The great thing about Magico-folk Traditions, even in a modern ceremonial context, is that it's so diverse and almost all aspects can be interchanged or augmented. So, what is the true Magic? The Operator. As we see in many cultures spanning thousands of years there are so many Magical formularies and operations that as long as there is a sense made from of by the operator things can come of the work, most of the time. There are some things that are absolutely meaningless and bunk, but just as poetry if there is a meaning in the formula, there can be meaning derived therefrom to bring about desired change. Such as the subtle red string tied around the finger, or carrying hidden seals of protection. Magic is real and works. Even if only on a subtle level.
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  2003. Excellent program. There do seem to be some interesting parallels between the effect of the Dominican Inquisition on our understanding of the Cathars and the effect of the Roman Inquisition on our understanding of the benandanti in the Friuli area of Italy a few centuries later, giving some added credence to the skeptics of the traditional narrative.
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  2004. Thanks to modern internet culture, it took me way longer than it should have to realize there are reasons to appreciate stoicism. Thanks for clearing it up, Justin. You saved a great teaching from the Linkedin Loonies.
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  2005. Beautifully presented, passionately argued. A chance meeting with the YT algorithm turned into a thing of beauty. Thank you, Dr Sledge. Enjoyment while learning is the only true learning ❤.
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  2006. i'm going to start my collection with the voynich manuscript
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  2007. Thank you for showing your Aristotle scroll--not only because it gives me an idea of some of the calligraphic work you've produced, but because unrolling the papyrus was turning your video into an ASMR video...but in a good way, as I love the sound of literary media! ;) I have written smaller bits of papyrus, and at one point I had a small scroll that I wrote out a hymn on (in Latin), and that took a while, and was nowhere near the quality of what you showed here...but nonetheless, it gave me an idea of the kind of work the ancient scribes did. I wish I still had that scroll...I gave it to a former friend, and I regret it now (not only because the friendship went sour!).
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  2008. I'm an atheist who enjoys talks such as this. I've learned more since my deconversion from Christianity than I ever did when I was a believer.
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  2009. I just included this episode in my first year bachelor course "Diversifying Philosophy". It worked very well to show the students the exclusions that are generally made in the philosophy curriculum. Thanks for your valuable work!
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  2010. Thank you Dr Sledge. I appreciate your work and the time you put into giving superb academy.
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  2011. The strictness of these rituals seems more feasible than getting the money for brill books fr. In all seriousness thank you for helping democratize this knowledge by not just making it free but also in an easy to consume format. Your lectures have gotten me through many a work day.
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  2012. 🤙Aloha Dr Sledge Mahalo Might the Gira, a stone, the Girard de Lilita or the the arrow of Lilith be kidney stones? Wow, owls huh? (glad I'm a Patreon)
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  2013. I appreciate your content. I remember a philosophy teacher saying alchemy and astrology was charlatanry and should be dismissed, even if Kepler dedicated time to those things. I always wondered why those topics were not studied if so many relevant philosophers and academically accepted thinkers dedicated time to them, I am glad you provide this knowledge in an academic perspective. Thank you
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  2014. It was a demon! Essene it!
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  2015. @TheEsotericaChannel  I live in fairly rural Texas, so no compliments but lots of side eye for sure. I don't care, I like it. If you can't wear/read/watch what you want then you aren't actually a free being.
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  2016. Arbitrarily stumbled across your channel today, and love this video so much. Also my daughter’s name is Juniper so the more ancient lore I learn about the plant’s importance just fills me with so much happiness. Thank you…
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  2017. A Templar vid? This should be fire 🔥🔥🔥
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  2018. You had me at "death", Dr. Sledge. Thanks for wading into Vastness and Sorrow for samhain.
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  2019. The Tomb of Horrors comment was hilarious!
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  2020. Another great video, of particular interest to those Thelemites able to read between the lines to see how Set is always present in Thelema, even if (almost) never named directly.
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  2021. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your work with us in such an approachable and down-to-earth manner.
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  2022. Who doesn't love "added Eldritch effect" LOL ;)
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  2023. Tremendous start to a much needed project! I didn't know about the missing stuff from the end of DOP.
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  2024. Thank you for making/posting brilliant content which helps me stay sane... Gives me hope for my own absurd internalized conversation... Gives me hope for all y’all millennials to assist our GenX minority... Gives me hope that the quest for knowledge & loving kindness is stronger than what negative forces seem to be flexing during “these uncertain times”... Just. Thank. You. (Correctected for autocorrect correcting me & my polysyllabic expressions. Hein?)
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  2025. I don't tend to post comments on YouTube, but I have to express my gratitude for this series! I'm Israeli, and your lectures gave me of insight into ideas that I think are ingrained in Israeli society, and through the historical and academic lens I could better see them in context. both for their richness and also for their dangers, and I don't think I need to explain to YouTube how difficult and problematic life in Israel are... anyways, I think this series in gold, and surprisingly relevant. Thank you!
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  2026. This brings back memories. I was not allowed to play D&D as a kid. Now I see the silliness of it all. Great report here!
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  2027. When I first saw you I didn't expect this kind of humor from this channel at all. All your videos are laced with it. It's unexpected but welcome. You're hilarious dude
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  2028. Ascended Master Kimmy Gibbler !! So frickin funny I love it. Great info, and love the content.
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  2029. This is perhaps one of my favorite videos of yours (although every video is great)! Thank you for this amazing research!
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  2030. God bless you guys; I love these types of videos. You really help me connect with my Judaism in ways I never expected Justin.
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  2031. Awesome. More like this please!
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  2032. Hoping this is taken only with the utmost respect and love in which I am stating it, Jewish sarcasm is second to none and you sir are at the top of the proverbial food chain. Thank you!
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  2033. Wonderful as always. Hoping you’ll eventually cover my personal hero (of the highest order!) Teresa of Avila.
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  2034. I'd render Immortal Fire as "Flame Imperishable" to bring it back to Tolkien.
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  2035. 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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  2036. St. Hildegard: "Oh look! I invented this speech! -- or did I?"
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  2037. You should consider making a discord server for your Patreons to discuss the topics in your videos with each other. It would also encourage more ppl to support your work, not that they should need more encouragement since your work is simply amazing.
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  2038. So glad you are covering Yukio Mishima! Thank you.
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  2039. “this episode is a testament of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good…” Humility after achievement. Nice. Ist episode, new subscriber. Lets’s learn…
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  2040. 11:14 I expected to have a great time with this video, even if I already knew the basics of this subject well enough. I didn't expect this explanation of Timaeus to be so succinctly beautiful and illuminating.
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  2041. It seems weird to encode calendar info but maybe if their religious practices were being persecuted it would be helpful to keep the adjustments for their calendar a secret. It would be a lot harder to figure out when their holidays are happening. The adjustments for lunar calendar problems are found as far back as neolithic wooden post calendars in Europe and even the Egyptians faced the same issue and wrote about holidays falling at the wrong time of the year. Meanwhile, I have enough trouble keeping track of everyone's birthdays as it is
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  2042. Very insightful video, as usual, Dr Sledge. Keep up the exceptional work 👏
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  2043. Now that I have almost finished this series I want to take a minute to thank you.  As an atheistic, swiss man, who has been raised far from anything remotely jewish, the only thing I ever associated with Judaism was the old testament. You can't imagine how many "oh is that so?" "so, thats were this is coming from" "how more versatile can judaism still get?!" "no way" moments I had during the last 2 months. I even started annoying my friends, trying to make them watch this series so I have finally someone to share all these little revelations with. I even bought a special-edition of the Tora (Plaut) to learn more about certain stories and their background. I also had no idea how beautifully creative mystics seem to be, I feel like I've missed a very deep fountain of inspiration, regardless of me being religious or not. One can't overestimate how valuable a project of this kind and quality could become and I hope many others will see the beauty behind this as well. I wish you and Esoterica all the best! Thanks for your awesome work!
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  2044. Awesome video brother! I'm sending this to a friend of mine who does research on this and is a Wiccan high priest.
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  2045. This should be a movie
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  2046. Thanks for the intro Mr. Sledge. We didn't know how we all got here..lol
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  2047. This channel is absolute gold
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  2048. Thanks
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  2049. Bravo professor!!
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  2050. Another possibility for "dogie", which makes more sense, is that it's a back-translation of princes, "duces", via dogi ("doges") and the spell has an Italian origin. Looking back at it, this makes the most sense in context.
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  2051. (Me watching this apparently 2 years later) "Menachem down the street, he's up in the middle of the night doing some weird stuff? He might be up to some magic." I snorted my tea. 😂
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  2052. Thank you for defending women. The kind of silence you mentioned, of the men having a knack for just not mentioning us, is true for so many fields. Fine art has been lousy with it forever. So I just like to shout out and say thank you to those who include us! Thanks
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  2053. Fantastic video! I actually wrote my seminar piece this past year on the Crusade and the validity of it even being this war on heresy that skeptics have put forward. And while I can't exactly say whether Cathars did or did not exist, I definitely believe the war was fought on the ground of controlling Languedoc and the larger, autonomous Occitan sphere. Even the way primary sources of the time describe the sort of hatred many fighting showed towards each other hints quite a bit at some of the dislike French lords and Italian clergy had for a group of people "harboring heretics," let alone the Song's more patriotic second author painting the Occitan people as defenders of the righteous. All I can really say in the end is the case that the history of the French sort of just beating up their southern subjects is a bit telling considering the language is spoken by less than one million and at the time of the war was one of the most influential Romance languages.
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  2054. Nothing scream "Early Modernity" like setting fire to midwives! 🤮
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  2055. The pictures provide a nice counterbalance to the subject matter 😆
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  2056. Don't worry Dr. Sledge "Top Men" are on it ... "Top Men!"
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  2057. Dear Dr. Sledge, it always blows my mind all the love and passion you put in your work. I truly love being your patreon, please keep producing these marvellous pieces.
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  2058. I had to rewatch this listen concentrate 2-3 times just to get what you were saying Scotus was talking about:hand-orange-covering-eyes:
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  2059. So many of the best history channels are Jewish, thanks fellas!
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  2060. I absolutely love this channel! Having having the historical, mythological, and theological elements laid out so clearly is refreshing. It makes me want to study so much more
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  2061. Thank you for your work! I love that you are doing this give away. It reminds me of something my crystal healing teacher mentioned in class about crystals sometimes going missing or calling out to a new owner. Sometimes when we've recieved the download, it is time for it to move on and enrich someone elses journey. I am so glad you were able to get a new song composed for your channel. Sound and vibrational healing is my favorite way to meditate! I hope that keeps youtube off your back as far as the copyright restrictions are concerned. 🙏 Thank you again for sharing your time, energy, and knowledge. 🌈💜
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  2062. I feel so at home in a channel where our Host references Pokémon and D&D while talking religion/history.
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  2063. Bravo. Easily my favorite episode of Esoterica. My two favorite channels working together on my favorite subject has me smiling.
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  2064. can you suggest a daemon to summon for having enough money to give you a good tip for your patreon? your videos are amazing. thank you in advance for the answer.
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  2065. Very interesting. Happy New Year Dr Sledge.
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  2066. Thank you for this great episode! I really love Stavrakopoulou and Levenson’s scholarship and will be sure to check out Dewrell as well. Just came across a nice used Septuagint yesterday and will be delving into this whole fascinating issue of its’ pre-Masoretic sources and content.
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  2067. 26:20 Do you mean that business partner.... ghosted them?
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  2068. One of the finest scholarly and refreshingly dense channels in the whole YT world. Thank you for the work and the time that you dedicate to the subject
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  2069. Happy Holidays Doctor
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  2070. Thanks for another amazing video!
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  2071. Need to get me some Lubavitcher "Black Lotus" Rebbe playing cards. Or better yet, a Rambam NFT...
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  2072. Well done Justin. So epic to see your amazing channel continue to grow. Looking forward to 100K soon ;)
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  2073. A tour de force presentation that is highly detailed, nuanced, persuasive and passionately argued. Whereever our beliefs intersect with the material here, we are educated and provided a historical framework. Thank you again, Dr. Sledge.
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  2074. This was so well done and informative, showing the continuum of some really pernicious destructive ideas. When it's happening, it seems so far-fetched yet motivates horrifying acts against people and against sense and reality. I lived through Satanic panic and see the current madness with even less tolerance. People's stories they've shared here are moving and brave. I actually know someone who still believes the panic was/is real. Thanks to all for your guts and the education! 😊🦋🌹
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  2075. Wow! Just wow! Thank you!❤
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  2076. That catalog is the coolest thing ever!
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  2077. Love your videos so much man made me change my major in college to start looking into this stuff it’s so amazing
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  2078. Thank you for the extended knowledge about Bureus! Love from Sweden
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  2079. Principia femela , of course,a tormented one … I m glad I have modern medicine for my migraines ! Beautiful depiction, dr. Thk u ! 🙏🏼💞
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  2080. Perhaps the geometrical patterns found in much Islamic art are more than decorative ('arabesques'). I suspect that Muslim esoteric schools (Ismailis, Sufis...) found an ideal form of expression in geometrical art. As aniconic as any pious Muslim could wish, but carrying a complex set of insights which could be unlocked by a living teacher. Just speculating...
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  2081. What a great episode and Man! you are funny. (silence) Kybalion (silence) I could not stop laughing.
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  2082. Another awesome piece of enlightened knowledge. Dr Sledge bravo ❤❤❤. Thank you 🙏
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  2083. Always love your work Dr Sledge. Mostly commenting today to appease the U̶n̶k̶n̶o̶w̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶D̶a̶r̶k̶ ̶G̶o̶d̶s̶ algorithm after having to reupload.
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  2084. Thanks for the dedication Sir. Get better.
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  2085. I guess we are continuously chasing to grasp that fish like in your logo. Some harder than others. Thanks for another great video. 🙏
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  2086. If I hold an Orval for you, don't blame me if I drink it! And more on topic, I'm fascinated by some of the ancient Greek philosophers' more esoteric ideas. One of the best classes I took at college was History of Western Thought 1. It took a pretty in-depth look at a lot of those ideas. And now I want to go read up on Empedocles again...
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  2087. Man, this collaboration is amazing! :face-red-heart-shape:
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  2088. Thanks!
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  2089. Clicked on this because I’ve had a recent interest in things like this and I also watched the show His Dark Materials which had Metatron as the antagonist of the series so I was fascinated to find out the character wasn’t made up for the book series they based the show on. Apparently the writer based it on actual mythology! Fascinating. No wonder so many religious folks absolutely hate that series 😂 gonna have to research it more.
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  2090. My guy, you are a wealth of information! Been binge watching for days. Love your unapologetic extensive rhetoric. Very refreshing and informative.
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  2091. Wow! Thanks so much. As a non-Jewish seeker, I found your explanation of "Jewish text" clear and very helpful.
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  2092. Absolutely fascinating, and I thought I knew a lot about the history of witches to begin with! What a lovely way to start off this weekend! 🥰
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  2093. Dude your channel exploded. I remember watching your YHWH video last year and to see how much your subscriptions have grown is wild. You deserve the success
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  2094. I must say, I recently finished Principe's 'Secrets of Alchemy', and it was really top quality, really enjoyed it.
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  2095. The Beguines vs the Witches: mid 1500s, they are at war, using various forms of magic, either divine or demonic. Until they realise who their true common enemy is: Patriarchy and Capital.
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  2096. Unrelated, but I lived near Luray, and those caverns are gorgeous.
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  2097. Hi Dr Sledge, re-viewing this before jumping into the kabbalah series. I liked the opening you used for these the best. Then I know I haven't missed anything at the start. You sure have come a ways in your delivery, u keep getting better. Peace 🙏.
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  2098. I think what you doing is phenomenal. I would come to classes for sure.
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  2099. Thank you Dr. Sledge for your amazing work!
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  2100. I love your work! Honestly the parables of history, religion and society are so awe inspiring to the creative artist. I had a request for you to maybe consider making a video on the Avesta: Yasna and the effect of that on the middle east and subcontinental oceania. It's the only known collection of Zorostranic text and I can understand the genuine skepticism at looking at a Sanskrit text. But please could you consider giving it a try incase you can help showcase some of its relevance in the history of alchemy or the Magi. Stay blessed wise one! Truly you have a microcosmic gift! ❤
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  2101. I can't wait to get off work so I can watch this! Thank you Dr. Sledge and whomever works on ESOTERICA for the wonderful videos. God bless you all.
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  2102. The juxtaposition of reason + mystic union w God, is SHEER GENIUS. Ask yourself: what would Plato have said to Jesus Christ, or vice versa? At his final trial before pontius pilate, the question was posed: are you the King of the Jews? The answer: My kingdom is the Kingdom of Truth. To which pilate replied: "What is Truth" (platonic tradition)
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  2103. Glad you've been get the much deserved recognition! 🙏⚒⚒
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  2104. Thanks for the lectures your making a 18 year old nerd 🤓 happy
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  2105. I just came across this video today. But I have to say it is one of the better ones I have seen touching the subjects of the esoteric and philosophy while remaining grounded on common sense and not dwelling down a rabbit hole (aka conspiracy theory).
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  2106. Thank you for this vid. I've wondered about how true the library of Alexandria is. Side note: you could totally do a papyrus scroll asmr.
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  2107. Thank you for all that you do.💜
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  2108. Already a Patreon and I highly recommend anyone thinking about joining Patreon to go ahead! Dr. Sledge’s work is amazing! It’s been wonderful following along and doing independent research while perusing a degree in Anthropology and minor in Philosophy and Religion. You certainly cannot find these types of topics in your average university and certainly not for free. It has been wonderful to have these videos. Thank you for all your hard work!
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  2109. The living death of routine. Yeah, sounds like capitalist alienation to me. Worker zombies.
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  2110. This is awesome. I can’t wait for your other alchemical endeavor with the green fairy 💚
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  2111. Thank you so much for your scholastic and academic approach to the esoteric you're a fixture in my home for intelligence
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  2112. Sorry you're having to go through this all again! I really hope you can keep your music. Damn algorithms...
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  2113. That made my day, I love anything Dr Sledge does on Gnostism.
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  2114. The best talisman story, EVER!
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  2115. Wow, the algorithm finally sent me something excellent! These videos are very nicely presented, I love the occasional wry aside (I’m looking at you Augustine). Probably my most exciting find since The Modern Hermeticist Thank you and subbed.
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  2116. Thanks!
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  2117. I cant believe this is free
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  2118. I think a collaboration with someone like Atun Shei Films would give us a pretty solid necromancy after school special
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  2119. Used your video for my 300 level British Lit After 1800 class. Great job. Students can follow this and you present it in a way that makes it interesting to them.
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  2120. Damn Angela, you're so close to 100k!
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  2121. That new theme music is hauntingly pretty Doc. Nice work that composer.
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  2122. CONGRATULATIONS, my dear friend! You deserve it all and, I'm sure, this is just the beginning. It's going to be marvellous seeing you reach the stars. 🖤
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  2123. Excellent work bringing Maxwell's Equations into it... Maxwell had a daemon too!
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  2124. Doctor sledge "the Hebrew hammer" taking us to school on the weekend. Does anyone remember that movie on comedy central? " shabbat shalom mfers" 😂
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  2125. Happy Samhain Dr Sledge 🖤💀🖤. Blessings to you, your family and your ancestors ❤️. Blessed be 🌒🌕🌘
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  2126. Thanks for the wonderful content again, and, in general, we at Anathema wish you and yours a wonderful Holiday season! Long live Esoterica! (PS: Eagerly awaiting my mug + t-shirt to rep the heck out of your channel!) :D
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  2127. The alchemy playlist has been super helpful. Admittedly, non-academic, but I'm working on an alchemist persona for renaissance faire/SCA purposes, and I'm one to do my homework but with little time. Many thanks.
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  2128. Thanks for all the fascinating videos about rtopics like this!
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  2129. Thanks!
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  2130. In-depth and insightful as always!
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  2131. Dr. Sledge! Haven’t been able to watch in a while, but I wanted to stop and say what a blessing it is for what you do! Hope you and yours and well.
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  2132. I find the Satanic Panic so interesting and I think it parallels a lot of what we see today with conservatives and conservative Christians pushing back hard against the LGBTQ+ community. Their arguments always come back to we need to protect our children from these people and the LGBTQ+ community is like the only thing we want to tell your children is that we exist and it is okay to be who you are. But back to the Satanic Panic, I was just a baby when it was nearing the end of its fervor so I don't remember it, but I've tried to ask my parents about it and neither of them remember it either which was disappointing but I chalk it up to neither of them being religious as adults.
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  2133. Fantastic! It's curious to consider how this thinking of being arose (either independently or alongside) the eastern traditions... Would this then be the total inverse of the vedantic approach (where the true self/being is realized as distinct from mind/thought), or is it rather the exact same thing where "thinking of being" is simply another way of expressing the focused state of mindfulness of inner being/the self?
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  2134. I love your yt channel. It is very interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.
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  2135. i was an ancient Egypt kid, every few months I have to stop and wow what an incredible place and history. great vid
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  2136. Thanks! Im looking forward to listening to this and 9 next week at work! My acetylcholine is tapped from Neuro and Symbolism Christianity, i’ve been hitting their lectures hard while i’m off work this week. Thanks again, I really appreciate you, and people, who put their university level work online without charging for it!
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  2137. You need a patreon tier that includes a workshop where your followers all produce their own lead curse tablets for Brill and throw them in a well together
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  2138. Loved this video. I've alwasy found the dogmatic and eschatological elements of marxism an interesting contradiction within a school of thought that is often so aggressively atheist. It has always struck me as a fatal flaw that an ideology that desires to build a better society than the one it finds itself can be so inflexible. Its something i credit as one of the many reasons the Soviet Union failed.
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  2139. Thank you for this wonderful and concise presentation. I love the clarity of your videos.
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  2140. Your continued D&D references only increase the joy of viewing.
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  2141. I love these Dee episodes. Genius pants😂😂
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  2142. Excellent episode - very engaging, thank you!
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  2143. I know how to banish an Egyptian ghost. All you gotta do is "retuuurrrnn the slaaaaaab"! Since you like black metal I heartily recommend The Horn, they use spells from the Egyptian book of the dead for lyrics. See you next year Dr Sledge!
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  2144. Very powerful episode - excellent job!
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  2145. Could it be that the Kabbalists did not resist evil (as the common paradigm was), but showed it to be a natural phenomenon that must be known to be transcended?
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  2146. I respect your integrity. This is a very insightful lecture
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  2147. I cannot describe how much this YouTube page is what I've wanted since I was a kid. Thank you so much, praise and thanks to the Eye-in-the-sky for this golden age of the esoteric study! Holy Holy holy! Whooop!
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  2148. This'll probably drown in the comments, but nonetheless. I just wanted to thank you for making an episode on Swedish history in the subject here. I find the esoteric subject to be highly fascinating , and being a Swede myself, this is doubly so. And to drive your point home. I've always been interested in runes, and the viking era (could be because I lived just 10 minutes bike ride from 3 of them when I grew up). I've unfortunately often been accused of being of a member of a mid 20th century German ideology for wearing rings or necklaces with runes on them, when my own ideology is just about the opposite.
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  2149. I genuinely looked forward to their weekly release.
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  2150. I was wondering how you were going to proceed with Cathar scripture after presenting the sceptical version. I get the impression the historical scholarship has basically adopted the sceptical version and moved on, but I personally still enjoy hearing older versions of historiography. They don't become less interesting for probably being wrong.
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  2151. Excellent video! Thanks for taking the time to give this video an updated remake.
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  2152. Happy Samhain! Doctor! Bless You!
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  2153. As Chem Engineer who took 2 semesters of Hist of Science, I'm in the "making better gunpowder generates more gold than the Philosopher's Stone" camp. I guess I'm your one NON-Jungian NON-spiritual alchemy person! Very interesting to learn about the twisted paths alchemy took as it progressed through time. Looking forward to the next video. Even the Jungian projection of psychosis, er, psychoanalysis into alchemy is interesting. ;) And I'm glad to hear that a paradigm shift on the study of alchemy is occurring.
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  2154. People haven't changed much, the conspiracy theories just spread faster.
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  2155. Thx fer sharing dis great work of Art
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  2156. Thanks!
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  2157. Im so glad I found this channel. Thank you Dr. Sledge and everyone behind this channel!
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  2158. Show us the pile of mysteries...
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  2159. Professor, would you say YHWH sides with the Crips or the bloods?
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  2160. I really need to do more experiments with this. Thank you for your effective examination as usual <3
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  2161. The "Western Occultist" within me... gives you a very respectful nod. 👍😏
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  2162. Great episode, as always. Loved the dnd references and your attitude towards Christianity(s) was funny.
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  2163. Thank you for these wonderful lectures!!! Greetings from Vienna!
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  2164. Has anyone tested the immortality function of any of the Pyramids? Put a stiff in there (suggest Graham Hancock), then check again in 1000 years to see if it worked.
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  2165. This southern Baptist self; appreciates truth in meaning, in which you unselfishly teach versus the untold uneducated doctrine of the ignorant that I had been subject to. If you seek you will find. Lately I've come to enjoy my journey because of the search for truth. I have eyes and ears that long to see and hear. For real knowledge must be sought not taught. Thank you sir.
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  2166. This is the most complicated guide for getting a loot drop I've ever seen. Anyone had any luck getting the Mirror of Lilith to drop in game following this?
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  2167. thank you for making this video this is one of the topics that interests me the most
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  2168. Amazing presentation. Now I want to watch Darren Aronofsky’s Pi and I don’t know why!
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  2169. Thank you for releasing such a great video!
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  2170. By then, I hope to be an active regular tangible supporter of the channel, and dive in headlong into both Kabbalah and egyptology so as to stay connected topically with the channel's new adventures! 🎉🌌 🏜 📜🌳
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  2171. What's Skinner's argument for Agrippan authorship of the fourth book? I'd be very interested to get your takes on the contemporary grimoire scholar practitioner scene more generally. I've always had trouble reconciling their claims about magic with the evidence that's extant.
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  2172. Excited for this :)
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  2173. Best one yet (I know I said that last week too, but it's true!) :P
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  2174. Thank you, I am learning so much :)
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  2175. I so enjoy your videos. I LOVE your quirky sense of humor. I also highly appreciate how you present the information. I never feel as though your video is pressing the creator's own religion, which many on YouTube do. I was raised as a Christian, so the vast preponderance of information about the Jewish religion is unknown to me. That is why I am here. I have learned so very much here. I appreciate that you present information on not only Judaism but other religions as well. One of the things I really like is that you do not present a "I have all worthwhile knowledge" attitude. You freely admit when you do not possess certain information, when you've been unable to locate certain sources and such. Personally, such an attitude in someone from whom I seek knowledge actually makes me trust their information more. I wish you the very best of luck with your channel. Please keep them coming.
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  2176. You are so cool Dr. Thank you so much for your amazing ongoing work!
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  2177. Another year is added onto my life every time another Book of the Dead is discovered
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  2178. Ridiculous. Sorry Justin…
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  2179. This was a great video. One of my favorites so far. Keep up the good work and keep sharing your knowledge. Many thanks!
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  2180. They might not be giants.
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  2181. Excellent as always, I may have to take you up on that challenge to read Codex VI with a beginner's mind, sounds like an intriguing endeavor. Gotta say though the Julian comment seems anachronistic, in contrast to his predecessors he made a point of never violently suppressing Christians or banning their books, he just banned them from teaching Christian theology using classical works, which might've made them reeeeeee but it certainly wouldn't have caused a Nero or Antiochus-like loathing found in earlier works. Julian employed Christians and took them on campaign with him, he had contemporary shade thrown on him for his apostasy specifically and for his perceived barbarity in reinstituting sacrifices but on the whole he was remarkably tolerant to Christianity given his pet project of undermining their influence in the Empire.
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  2182. Amen, this is gold! Thanks so much for sharing. ✨🙌🏼✨
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  2183. Yes 🙌🏾 this is a much anticipated episode!
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  2184. Thank You for the Work, and the Revelation's!..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾 [and] I was not disturbed by the lack of Intro Music.. Just Saddened about the trouble you're experiencing.😫 Carry On!!!🖖🏾💕
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  2185. I can really recommend Sophia VPN. Protects my soul from the Archons since 2022.
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  2186. Can I just say, you're helping me define what I want in my next lover. :) Your irreverence, insight, and scholarship are positively titillating! Subscribed and looking forward to more of your takes on the things that interest me.
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  2187. Dark Shadows was my favorite Soap Opera too. I watched the very first episode when it premiered. Yes I am that old.
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  2188. I love GOD I love the universe and I love the Angels ♥ I love you. ♥♥♥
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  2189. Esoterica goes eroterica
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  2190. A double surprise! Love the subject💜 and just realised that it s Friday 😁 Thk u Doc!
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  2191. Another amazing video with some awesome collaboration partners. I'll definitely be watching those next. I may even have to listen to the SHWEP episodes on Plotinus again to get my full fix of Neoplatonism/Late Platonism.
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  2192. Just found your channel and boy am I happy! Been looking for some good religious history, demonology, kabbala, etc educational content and boy does it look like I came to the right place.
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  2193. thank you so much for your meticulous readings and summaries of these texts and their histories. your integrity and humour does these works (as well as, like, us) a great service. pace and intention are key when working with this stuff. so many mystics and scholars miss this. when we drive at night we cannot drive faster than the distances our headlights allow us to see - that's how people drive into trees. lol
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  2194. Let's take a second to appreciate how much content of a very diverse and thorough nature Dr. Sledge pumps out on a regular basis. Thank you and thank God.
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  2195. Absolutely love your content and presentations brother. Have been following your work for some time. This is long overdue.
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  2196. My god man your content is amazing but I only wish it didn't fill my recommended up with conspiratorial and anti-medical bullshit.
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  2197. Rock on!!!
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  2198. Didn't expect this as a topic! Nice one. Greetings from the land on which those feet in ancient times
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  2199. Wonderful content. Finally a channel dealing with Esoteric and magic without bombast.
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  2200. I read the JF version last year. It was a difficult read that took 6 months of daily study. I read every foot note and researched subjects online. It helped me get through some pretty deep depression by adding an attainable goal to my life.
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  2201. I'm so happy that I found your channel randomly. Thank you for everything you do, all the hours of research. We appreciate it greatly.
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  2202. As a Christian, I very much appreciate your channel.
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  2203. Thanks!
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  2204. Interestingly enough, a jet was flying over when you mentioned the "Puritans rolling in their graves" bit where I am as I watched/listened to your video! (It's a common experience here, but still, that it was happening at that very moment and not much before nor after it was intriguing!)
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  2205. Yes I watched the whole video!!! 😁... Btw... I really enjoyed it as well ☺️... As always, you've done a great job and your work is much appreciated... Thanks 🙏💯...
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  2206. This episode is both rich with information and dry wit.
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  2207. I actually heard a disembodied growl under my bed once... 😱
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  2208. This channel is not good for me, I am at risk of becoming addicted to youtube 😍
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  2209. Skinner has some interesting things to say about the isopsephy of the Olympic spirits in the appendices of The Complete Magician's Tables (a book I cannot otherwise recommend for reasons I don't need to go into here). Anyway, great video as usual. Long time viewer. Started a Youtube account just to interact with your channel because I adore it so much.
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  2210. Edit: that Tony manages to do this so boldly a sign that his book works? This is fascinating; with his clearly practice oriented bent (courting abjurations seem so pragmatic) & insistence of non universal maleficence if e was starting (🤣) to hit up against the limits of Christian metaphysics and even monotheism
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  2211. @ 09:20, “one of the most comprehensive works […] is finally available… Good news and bad news there…“ oh man, I’ve watched this channel long enough to know exactly what’s coming in for a landing on Runway Brill. 😫
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  2212. Thanks!
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  2213. This is awesome, thank you for sharing!
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  2214. Stoic metaphysics and esotericism?! Best. Day. Ever.
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  2215. Dude, you HAD me with that D&D .05e joke. That was an 11/10.
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  2216. Great job, Dr Sledge 👍 Seconded: 'Apocalypse of the Alien God' is 🔥
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  2217. Thank You for This..🙏🏾👍🏾
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  2218. Absolutely amazing video, but I think there might be a mistake in it? You said deuteronomy 39 16 minutes in, but no such chapter exists, because deuteronomy is only 34 chapters long. But if I misunderstood, i am sorry and feel free to correct me😔
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  2219. This is really fascinating and well-presented. 🙏
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  2220. It sounds like the Stoics saw God as Nature, much like Spinoza?
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  2221. I believe this video is more important than ever, given where the United States seems to be heading and the seemingly neverending power that conspiracy theories have on many people. People gladly reach back into cultural memory to explain why bad things are happening because explaining/accepting the truth doesn't make them feel better. Having someone to blame and/or hate gives them this false sense of power when they are, in all actuality, powerless. I also want to give you a hug. Thank you for this video; it was a very generous gift you gave us.
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  2222. Another fantastic video. I have to admit to finding the quality of these videos a little unsettling. I am a professional academic, I am employed by a Russel Group University as a lecturer. I often say to my students that it is far from clear that paying to attend a university is necessary to gain a quality education, and I think this channel shows very clearly how true that is. These short lectures are university standard, and they're free. I should make clear that I think this is a fantastic thing, a very good thing, but unsettling for anyone who makes their living through a university.
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  2223. I would have never guessed this would have been the topic for your next upload but I could not be happier. Keep up the amazing work 🙌
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  2224. Speared to a wall? Haha it doesnt matter what time period writers have always had a flair for the dramatic. So hollywood.
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  2225. This channel and respective videos really helps navigate this type of literature in a objective way. Thank you all for what you do.
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  2226. We must say Mr Sledge, we have enjoyed and returned to this video many times over - and congratulate you on 1 million views. Thank you sir, this video is indeed a seminal work of analysis.
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  2227. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel 😂
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  2228. Excellent! I'm looking forward to watching this, but I'll save it for later when I can be home and follow along with my beloved volume from Ouroboros Press.
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  2229. HELL YES DR SLEDGE! I’m so down with 3 hours of AKEPHALOS!
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  2230. Thank you for all you do. I am so grateful! Have we ever explored the similarities between the Kabbalah, Tibetan Tantric traditions, and astrological and astronomical phenomena. The planetary bodies Lilith moons, asteroids, and binary stars. Please excuse me if my text is unclear.
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  2231. That at the end there is the most fitting use of the word demiurge I've heard.
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  2232. Incredibly fascinating. Thanks for another one my good man & already looking forward to the next. I wonder do you have an opinion on Robert Bartlett’s book ‘Real Alchemy’?
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  2233. Dude, you KILLED IT on Alex O'Connor channel ❤🤘🏻
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  2234. This also got very silly in the UK too. People had their kids taken into care because they identified as pagan. Sigh.....
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  2235. Just started my formal education back up and currently taking a class on the Philosophy of Science, been thinking about researching Alchemy as protoscience and thought about digging through your channel for inspo. Crazy timing!
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  2236. I imagine Lilith being busy right now... with all you trying to actually summon her lilith be like: not that summoning YouTube video again
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  2237. Absolutely love the content and appreciate all the knowledge and information you provide but my favorite part of this channel has gotta be the captions beneath the photos lol
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  2238. You and Zevi are my favorite channels on YouTube. Really, truly diamonds in the rough. Thank you for all of your amazing work.
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  2239. Howlers and yelpers...my grandkids?
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  2240. Excellent work, Dr Sledge. Keep it up 👏
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  2241. The headless* series continues, with no hat necessary. Much Love.
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  2242. Fascinating video
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  2243. your channel is the absolute best
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  2244. Thanks for another great episode Dr Sledge. I look forward to more on Blake in the future. Blake's poetic works have long influenced my political outlook, but until now i knew very little about his mythological system and often found it bewildering. Excited to delve in further now that you've provided some bearings.
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  2245. Agrippa sounds like a puzzling purist! There is something about Agrippas unwillingness to buy the farm that I like. For the sake of survival, it's good to be wary. May there be Magick to be Wise and felicious!❤
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  2246. These are just fantastic!
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  2247. Now I am imagining the golden tree that produces golden fruit in the list of d8 rumours at the beginning of the D&D adventure module.
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  2248. One of your very best episodes: very well paced and structured. I was hanging on your next word.
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  2249. A moment to appreciate the fact Dr. Sledge is responding to so many comments.
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  2250. I was looking forward to this one!
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  2251. Doc is really droppin some Bangers of late!
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  2252. The comparison to Punk... just one more reason I love this channel!
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  2253. Thanks!
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  2254. Finally, my time has come.....😈
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  2255. Thank you both! Yeah this is a fascinating topic that is perfect for anything from further academic research to a wild web comic or animation. Hopefully you keep going with these texts!
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  2256. Appreciate the discount. Thanks!
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  2257. Enthralled! And thrilled for this amazing conversation with Dr Kirsten Dzwiza of Antikemagie! From her kickstarter, youtube channel and fascinating content! I'm excited for this series on The Headless One, The Bornless Rite, from the The Greek Magical Papyri, context and history and formation and provenance.
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  2258. Excellent video. Unfortunately the same modus operandi is used in schools today to groom children, and to instill in them irrational fears.
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  2259. 🤙Aloha Justin hope all is well
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  2260. Thanks for all the great learning shared.
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  2261. Thank you for this channel. It's wonderful to learn of people and philosophy I never knew existed.
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  2262. 🤙Aloha Justin I will be reading "Satanic Panic" mahalo. This episode took courage! It has the makings of a Tarantino movie. the dances of evidences ✔️ the timings of Primings ✔️ the address of incest ✔️ And Hell-bent to Prevent ✔️✔️
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  2263. Love these deep dives!! Keep it up! 🙏💙
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  2264. Thank you for your wonderful and engaging teachings 🙏
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  2265.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Coming back to this comment after reading Sun and Steel, and now I want a lifting shirt that says "Suns Out Guns Out" with Mishima flexing because he truly was the embodiment of that motto. Time for more Sledgehammer tire slams for Dr. Sledge ⚒💪
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  2266. Thank you for the appreciation you have for all beliefs. Thank you so much for wanting to learn, and share with others, everything that you discover.
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  2267. I should say as a donkey myself that I find this highly inappropriate, and even shocking. We are not “pure evil”, as this human suggests. We donkeys are in fact highly intelligent quadrupeds who happen to be partial to a carrot. Does that make us evil? You ass!
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  2268. I love all of your videos. Thanks for making this content and sharing not only interesting topics but also your keen sense of humor lol
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  2269. I know it ain't directly related to your video (and that you're no fan of the advertizer), but these Gaia TV or whatever ads are pretty amusing. "Let me tell you about the Immortal Kings of Sumeria, who lived for 3000 years". Like my brother in Christ if they lived 3000 years they ain't immortal lol
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  2270. Great collection. Which ones are essential for serious Kabbalah student with almost no Hebrew knowledge?
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  2271. ...loving the last comment on the slide at 13.03, totally agree! Btw, I love your non confirmation bias presentation - documenting facts and possibilities with no conclusions. Great work. I hope I can keep watching and learning such amazing scholarship from your channel. Toda raba!
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  2272. Thanks! This was VERY Timely and Interesting!.. Honestly I probably won't get the Book. But the interview is Fascinating..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🖖🏾
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  2273. comment for the algorithm, stay for the PhD level dad-jokes
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  2274. peace to all people☮✡✝☪☸🕉
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  2275. Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge- I always learn something new watching your videos 👏
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  2276. I love the shade thrown and seen by both some of these texts and the modernization humor. If I go to costo for a generic, should I have got my ring from perhaps home depot, so I may inscribe it myself? Not super serious, but still fun.
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  2277. Doc, you're such a Chad. You've accomplished the feat of attracting hundreds of thousands to people into the subject of the academic study of the occult. This is quite remarkable given the stigmatized perception people have of the occult and the religious in general. Thanks for the top-tier content, God bless you.
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  2278. Thank you for sharing these lectures, and all that you offer.
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  2279. Another brilliant video and your channel is growing by the thousand, by the day. Wonderful 🙏
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  2280. First like and first comment?! Score!
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  2281. Would the Gnostic worldview allow for the possibility that physical reality could be understood and mastered by humanity through science or even alchemy? It seems like the answer would be no, since it's all tricks and traps set up by the Archons?
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  2282. I'll be listening to this again tonight, when the lights are out.
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  2283. Thanks for all that you speak on here, I have much to study, may peace and blissings be upon you!
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  2284. Epic rap battles indeed
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  2285. dude!! you have some of the most intriguing and pleasant discourse on the bible. I'm one of these new subs and im stoked to comb through your catalog and edge of my seat for hte new stuff
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  2286. The very fact that he had no measurable loss after all those steps is testament to his lab technician prowess, if nothing else.
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  2287. I love your videos so much! Thanks for all your hard work! So educational
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  2288. This dropping has helped my Friday afternoon a lot. A really good channel. Any time you want to tell us about your library, Dr Sledge, I'll be more than happy to listen.
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  2289. Thank you for the dungeon map at 19:17, I needed that for my campaign.
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  2290. Hi Dr. Sledge. Thank you for commenting on the Tech Dood-bro brand of stoicism that has permeated the self-improvement industry. Awesome commentary on classical Stoicism as well. I've only read The Meditations, so I was unaware of the depth of the philosophy. Thumbs up!
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  2291. QUESTION: Is that term for community, Yahad, common to other jewish sources? Does it mean something? Ya(G-d?) Had? something else. Thank you. Great episode Dr Sledge.
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  2292. Who knew that magic was a combination of all the joys of the U.S. tax code and the Soviet political system?
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  2293. Just superb.
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  2294. great as always, thank you. Not going to visit the tombs unfortunately, but read the monography 1,5 times and enjoy it. I am in a bit of need of a comparative study of the rituals trans the third millennium middle east and egipt civs. Shall you guys know a worthwhile book on this subject plz do replay to my humble comment. thanks again, and do not forget to support the channel... actually it is worth it!
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  2295. Do the Skeptics draw any parallels to the heresy charges against the Knights Templar? I may have misheard, but it sounds like "Cathars" first get named in sources around the time of the disbandment - the Templar heresies seem like a more blatant fabrication, but maybe that's simply because their secular opponents lacked the ecclesiastic training to (intentionally or otherwise) invent coherent beliefs/practices... (And on that note, I'd kind of feel bad for esotericists/occultists if they lost both the Cathars and Templars...)
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  2296. Just in time for Dr Angela Puca's New Book 🤓
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  2297. I’ll be honest, I’ve avoided this video for a week or so because on the surface it didn’t seem as near to my interests as your material on Dee and Kelly, but this morning I’ve checked it out and within two minutes once again I am gripped! Thank you!
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  2298. I was a young child during the latter half of the Satanic Panic. My parents thankfully didn’t fall for the Halloween = the Devil’s birthday BS my relatives were spouting (and some still do) or the church book bans for magical references. But they did make me keep a lot of our spiritual experiences closeted until recently. (I say “our” because it did affect my parents too even if they were not perpetrators)
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  2299. A must-learn for everyone being seriously interested in the history of esotericism.
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  2300. 2021 was the year I discovered this channel and I've watched almost every video. It's one of the most intellectually stretching channels I watch, especially the philosophy, and the reading lists are stimulating.
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  2301. as an organic chemist this channel is super interesting
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  2302. Amazing video. Wow. Congrats on 100k you far deserve it.
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  2303. Thank you!!! This was such a fun convo!
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  2304. It took a few guesses at the spelling but finally managed to search for the meaning of Has Vehalila / Chas V'chalila. That's a useful expression.
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  2305. Interesting subject. Thanks for covering it!
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  2306. Great work Doctor you are very aspirational for all who have absolutely no idea… Thank you.
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  2307. Thanks, Dr. Sledge! This one was a lot of fun!
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  2308. this is one of the best religion & occlut & magic channels on the youtube. Its pure information without the bias. Thank you.
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  2309. Great interview! ❤ Prof. Principe discusses contemporary practitioners of alchemy. Whom would you recommend following on YouTube or elsewhere for further exploration of this topic?
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  2310. I'm so glad to come across this channel. Can't wait for the incantation bowls video
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  2311. I was wakened in the middle of my sleep in order to remember a 4 digit number that is very important ... My first thought was playing the lottery lol ... Then I checked my YouTube account and this video popped up ... I have known the importance of baptism for quite a while now, so the title drew me in ... Imagine my surprise to hear you talk about the ciphers! I'm going to get the Books of Jeu ... Thank you!
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  2312. Just started watching - excited for the topic!
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  2313. Great video! Occasionally, you said stuff like "if you're a viewer of this channel, you probably already know that...", such as when you talk about prohibitions around studying Kabbalah too early. This channel is actually my first introduction to much of Western Esotericism (though I know a bit more about Kabbalah specifically, since I'm Jewish), and I suspect there are probably a lot of others like me, so you may want to avoid language like that since it might make people that are new to this information decide your channel is too advanced, even though you give a good rundown of that context right after stating that you think we already know it. All that aside, I really love your channel and all the great information about Esotericism you put out!
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  2314. Such curious and brilliant timing 👏
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  2315. Beauty can be terrifying if you're a teen boy with a crush on a cheerleader.
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  2316. One more thing, this whole thing sounds so Gnostic to me. Scotus seems to be talking about G-d as the Monad. The primal Genus being, G-d, with archons and aeons in between, and the us. Holding the precepts of BS categorization proved to be such a powerful tool for the powers that be. Who said philosophy was not of much monetary worth?
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  2317. Thanks for all you do dude, im now writing an occult fantasy novel and your channel was the main inspiration. Now I gotta figure out how to include this mirror. You’ll be getting a huge shoutout in the dedication section my bro
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  2318. Epic
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  2319. Absolutely awesome content as always! Thank you kindly Sir 🙏
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  2320. That cookie monster demon would make for some great merch...
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  2321. "Positively puzzling".... I see what you did there. ;)
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  2322. Yessss Justin!!!
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  2323. Yours is the best content on YouTube.
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  2324. This is amazing 👏 🙌 😍
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  2325. I just shared this on Twitter and Bluesky. We're in for four years of this, and I've studied enough history to know that we're dancing on the edge of fascism in this country. It will only be stopped if we all say no again and again.
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  2326. Awesome as always brother Dr Sledge!! Thanks 🙏
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  2327. It’s brings me great joy that you mentioned Magneto endearingly to be included in the hypothetical Solomon vs Asmodeus movie. Also, I don’t how but I very much want to make this and other awesome legends and stories into some kind of media for all us esoteric nerds. Maybe a comic series? A modern “strange tales” with insight and advisement from the good Dr himself?👀
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  2328. I am a new subscriber, and I immediately liked this video when you said "God forbid... the Twilight series" 😂 but I watched the whole video and loved it, so if I could like it twice I would!❤
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  2329. Complete healing
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  2330. Thanks! What a nice surprise at the end of a long work day! Im saving this for my lockerroom punchlist tomorrow.
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  2331. I love your work, I'm in between jobs right now, but when I'm financially stable I just want to say thank you and support you as a patreon, but I would like to be even more helpful.
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  2332. Thank you for great episode, especially the obsure Davidic exorcism texts. Thank you for amplifying those "echoes from the abyss"!, lol
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  2333. So blessed to have found your channel!!
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  2334. Oh HECK yes. Thank you for another great lesson!
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  2335. AHHH I was just staring at the image the other day. This is so exciting! Thank you, teach 🙏 we are going to fight for the rights of those who have taught us so much
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  2336. Powerful opening image ❤
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  2337. Got through the first four before realizing I hadn’t commented. This has been the perfect audible company on a gloomy fall day in Oregon. Working on cars and learning about Agrippa from Dr. Sledge. 👍
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  2338. I return from my several months of hermiting to now binge watch the videos I missed. 😂 I did wanna say thank you for all your work on the channel and in the wider community. It, among other things, inspired me to go back to school in the fall. I've been accepted to my local university for anthropology 🙌
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  2339. i wasnt expecting that ''bad saving throws'' comment at all, it was hilarious. very interesting video by the way, i found this channel very recently and its great, keep up the great work and thank you very much for sharing all this info with everyone!
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  2340. Chuck Norris doesn't participate in Satanic rituals. Satan participates in Chuck Norris rituals.
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  2341. Food for the algorithm. Another excellent video Justin!!
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  2342. Happy International worker's day
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  2343. I am having problems with the word 'nous.' It seems to me to be one of those words that changed over time leading to multiple definitions today. A rational intellectual faculty, I get but when I read Festugière I get a contemplation in which the soul unites with being. In the Gospel of Mary, Jesus explains that visions are not perceived in the spirit or the soul but in the nous, which is in between the two. In her interview with Hanegraaff Angela described it as, "the skill within us that allows us to grasp the source" which he confirmed. So if you are at the ESSWE can you get hold of both of them and get them to nail this jelly word to the wall - preferably on camera.
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  2344. Thank you for this encouraging serendipitous video especially beginning this year on studying Kabbalah! A treasure trove of complex esoteric knowledge and means of expanding learning of what would normally be inaccessible tomes and topics to navigate and comprehend!
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  2345. Thank you so much for the content you make. 10 dollars is hardly representative of the amount of worthwhile information you have provided to me.
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  2346. Fantastic video as always!
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  2347. Shredding of dude-bros starts @ 3:20...
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  2348. I was not expecting an extremely metal history lesson to be the intro to this video
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  2349. Sleep is 1/60th of death. No wonder I resent it so much.
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  2350. I also suspect we can draw a line from Neo-Pythagoreanism to the Sepher Yetzirah, which is funny because it's just how they thought the history of thought developed back during the Renaissance, but backwards.
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  2351. Fascinating stuff, the distinction you make is such an important one. Thank you.
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  2352. Thank you so much, Doctor, for an amazing episode.
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  2353. Jonas Ceika has a great video here on yt explaining Bataille based on the original Hellraiser, y'all should check it out. I was very excited to see a video recommend of you talking about him :) thanks dr sledge
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  2354. Thank you for this video Dr. Sledge! Bless you! I confess that I was unaware of the existence of the Therapeutae, even though I believe Philo of Alexandria was one of the most important Philosophers in history, and have (apparently only partially) studied him. I have no excuse since I have Philo’s complete works as an ebook. You induced me to actually read “On the Contemplative Life”, which is a compelling read! Again, thank you!😊
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  2355. Casually drops an Omar reference while talking about Yahweh. I love it.
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  2356. Do Thoth and Khonsu have any deeper connection than just both being gods of the moon or is it merely that they are two deities presiding over the same thing but from different times or regions?
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  2357. Thanks so much for this! I had certainly encountered Angela of Foligno in my previous studies, but had never gone into too much depth with her; my focus was more on Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, and a few others. This is an excellent appetizer for studying her further! McGinn is awesome, and one of the highlights of my time during my M.A. in Religious Studies was when he was an endowed lecturer in my program at Gonzaga (this was in '99, if I am not mistaken), where he gave a presentation on apocalypticism (which he was just beginning to do major work on at the time), but we also had a sort of graduate "ask me anything" session with him one day, and of course I asked him several things about mysticism and particular mystics (like Marguerite!). I have two of the volumes of his work on mysticism (including the one you referenced here!) on my shelves next to the "Marguerite Section" and various other Christian mystics and works on Christian mysticism. An amazing scholar, and a damn nice guy! :)
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  2358. I greatly appreciate your historical materialist approach to these topics, Dr. Sledge. It provides so much depth of understanding. (I also enjoyed your contribution to this mornings Societas Magica discussion - especially your comments on the academic publishing cartel...) Thank you for your work.
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  2359. A feast and this is the cherry🍒 on top 🍧 Yummy! Enjoined to the max! Thk u Dr. Sledge 💞
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  2360. Continuing to film while you’re sick is a sacrifice — thank you for your service! I also really appreciated your recent discussion on post-theism and would love to learn more about that, as my own thinking has been headed in that direction.
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  2361. Brilliant, carefully researched presentation. As a metal head I have to thank you for that Anat footnote. That sent me on a fun excursion to learn more about her
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  2362. "...Reed, who looks like he would be an awesome DM..." LMAO! I come for the weird esoteric shit I dont have any grasp on, and stay for the throw aways! Thanks for the content!
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  2363. Man, it's amazing how much my lab owes to Maria - we study the organic chemistry of wine and whiskey, so her tools and skills are invaluable for us
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  2364. Good job Dr sledge on getting almost 700k subscribers
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  2365. Good livestream today - even if it got a little weird - looking forward to future colabs.
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  2366. Thank you
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  2367. I love the new perspectives that this channel has given me on epistemology, what would it be a good definition of "supernatural" for a debate that I've been having with a mystical-minded person that believes in this type of stuff? At this point we just happened to come across the analytic-synthetic distinction and the question of epistemology as a priori foundational or not. He probably doesn't have that much foundations, neither do I really, certainly more than him.
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  2368. thnx, i admire how you put together (or rather separate) scholarly rigorosity and deep involvement in religion (i am agnostic or even atheist myself). i started to be more interested in the topic some 35 yrs ago after finishing waltari's egyptian sinuhet. i has thrown me into the history of near east as a slingshot. well, i have discovered yr channel today and surely i'll come back 😉 as my another big hobby is alchemy (me being a chemist comes with no surprise then).
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  2369. You need to know that the von Hoenheim joke/easter egg did not go unnoticed. Had to literally stop the video to catch my breathe from the laughter! Thank you!
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  2370. Another fantastic video, Dr Sledge. Well done 👏
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  2371. I just found that you have a free Patreon level, so no excuses, I joined with plans to upgrade and bought a $ Thanks $ on this video and I'm checking the merch. Edit: Ordered my Clerical Necromantic Underground shirt! Woot!
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  2372. Thank you, again, as always, Dr Sledge
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  2373. Hi, this Is Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David. Yasher koahh! Interesting thesis and well presented. I teach Merkavah text, specifically Maaseh Merkavah, and practices/meditatons based upon Merkavah and Heikhalot. It would be interesting to have a conversation
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  2374. AMAZING TALK, I never heard of this branch of gnosticism. And I agree, the Pistis Sophia is one of the most intimidating pieces of esoteric literature out there. On an entire different topic, since you mentioned you appretiation for D&D, have you ever played Mage:the Awakening/Ascension? I don't know why but it seems like something you might enjoy ;)
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  2375. Precious work...thank you for exploring these old texts...love from west coast Canada
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  2376. I agree , so much that I am considering in becoming a patron , no bs, no mumbo jumbo , precise ,direct and concise information .
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  2377. Best series yet. I get excited for each new episode. Thank you for doing this, it's just incredible.
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  2378. Really like this one. The reason I signed up to patreon.
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  2379. Omg Dr.Justin Sledge schooling, edgy, indie rockers on their talismans 😆 Too good.
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  2380. Its so amazing to have somebody like you in the world, who donates their labor selflessly to inform a curious audience. Your work is so important for helping people without access to critical academia understand the world of the past and see how it's beliefs have influenced our own, for better or worse. Thank you for everything you do Justin! You're an absolute ICON.
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  2381. you're officilly on my list of drop what you're doing theres a new video, youtubers. you make even the boring stuff interesting to learn about!
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  2382. Happy birthday!
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  2383. Ancient Mesopotamia is my wheelhouse. Good to see people talking about the titanic events of ancient southwest Asia.
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  2384. I'm an evangelical Christian, and Ive heard bits and pieces of this information, but seriously enjoyed how you expounded on it all and presented it. So interesting! Thank you. ❤
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  2385. I don't know about other countries but here in Sweden some alchemical symbols (the signs of the planets and their associated metals) are still used as a kind of romantic thing in out metallurgical industry! It's not commonly known outside the metals industry but it's something I love and always look out for. The most notable example is certainly the Volvo logotype using the mars symbol to represent iron/steel, but it also occurs in "kommunvapen" and many other logos for industrial companies and books/art/etc representing practical metallurgy rather than alchemy.
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  2386. 22:30 - this reminds me of that time Maimonides said your stool should be mostly liquid if you're aiming for optimal health.
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  2387. ¡Gracias! I appreciate the effort. You are giving us a guide to follow. I love this world but as an anthropologist I know more about Mesoamerican cultures. I'm learning a lot.
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  2388. You created a fantastic synthesis. Thank you, my friend. 🙏✨💛
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  2389. I really enjoy that Conway is so bold as to propose a solid mechanism of emanation. I love all of your videos that cover this era of philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, etc.
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  2390. Happy to have found your channel! An Episcopal Deacon here who loves ancient history and the many forms of its teachings. Much Peace!
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  2391. Great job per usual, Dr Sledge! 👏
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  2392. New subscriber here and absolutely loving the content. Very helpful in regards to a consolidated location for learning and understanding. Just curious, knowing your knowledge is quite extensive, what do you make of the research of the late Laurence Gardner? Been fascinated with his work over the years but never delved into the accuracy too much. His references seem extensive but was always curious about other scholarly opinions. Anyway, Aloha from the Big Island! Keep up the great work!
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  2393. As always, a very solid video! I always heard then name's pronounced as in "spare change" tho!
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  2394. Excellence video as always. With your impassioned rant towards publishers at the end you’ve definitely cemented yourself as my favourite scholarly channel on this site
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  2395. Thanks for the video on one pillars of my philosophy! I, for the most part, reject his ideas of “magic”—However this is a great primer for those who want to delve into that aspect of Schopy’s work
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  2396. Thank you for the wonderful presentation and introducing me to a new dark mystic.
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  2397. Superb, as always! I look forward to the final installment! :)
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  2398. I first came to know the word “Demiurge” from its use in the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons. This seems highly interesting and I’m excited to learn more about the word’s original use and meanings!
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  2399. Thank you Doctor. I appreciate your academic view on the esoteric.
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  2400. Absolutely fascinating. I'll need to check to see if there are any good translations available or if I need to start crunching a few Latin textbooks. 😅
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  2401. Your sense of humor makes this channel so much greater. Loved your beer joke
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  2402. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel honestly, I don't even need to know your exact personal beliefs. Addressing this topic is difficult enough, and even more so in the open platform that is YouTube, so just that is already praise-worthy. But obviously, covering it in such an academic way (although it is clear this video is but a mere introduction to an impressively vast topic) while being able to leave your religious feelings aside is the cherry on the top. It was a fantastic video, especially now that I am diving into the puzzle of influences in ancient literature, and I really hope there will be more parts added
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  2403. Another great video Justin, thank you for making these. Looking at the illustrations of the magic circle I can't help but be reminded of the Lesser banishing/invoking ritual of the pentagram from the Hermetic Golden Dawn with the names of God (tetragrammaton, ADNI, etc.) and the archangels being attributed to different cardinal directions.
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  2404. Thankyou so much for the link, I've downloaded a whole heap so I can run it through calibre to change the font. While I truly appreciate the work of Dr Attrell and Altrusian Grace Media, it will great to be able to read this stuff again.
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  2405. spent the year reading Freud, this video planted the seed. thank you.
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  2406. Dennis Prager is an intellectually dishonest grifter. There are far better examples of Christian Conservatives that would actually engage in healthy conversation.
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  2407. THE BEST YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATION
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  2408. I am truly privileged to have such a proficient and heighten intellect such as yours exploring these topics with much of the details I was always deeply intrigued in and were scarce in many other indirect sources who merely scrape off the click-batey surface, exploiting its intrigue and wonder, and leaving those wishing to be inspired with the work of a professor to sink any deeper into its mystery, having to decipher symbolism, bias proganda, jargon, and not the mention a large mountain of literature to even reach a fair basic summary of the topic. So having someone with the knowledge, skill, and passion to help ignite the potential seekers/students to give a dense-ified and digestible launching pad is truly a gift. Wish we had you sooner hahah, but glad your here now🙏
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  2409. This episode blew me. I have never had the pleasure of STUDYING philosophy and this information was new to me and so informative and incredible.
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  2410. Thank you! Happy Halloween to you too! 🦇🖤🎃🦇🖤🦇🎃🖤🦇
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  2411. Thank you!
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  2412. This is exactly what I needed. I appreciate your wonderfully, cultured presentation on the history of absinthe as I drink my absinthe slow drip louche sans sugar.
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  2413. Commenting to say you are amazing -- thank you for everything -- and looking forward to the absinthe
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  2414. First 🎉
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  2415. Thank you so much for this episode very informative and even more entertaining. So much information packed into 40 minutes, amazing!
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  2416. The gigantic Sefirot chart/drawing at 06:00 ... are there any resources someplace that translate this massive work to English? I would ADORE a large poster of this. 🥵
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  2417. So excited for this
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  2418. Thanks!
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  2419. Fantastic video as always professor. I’ve always found Blake interesting but I was always terrified that I wouldn’t get it so I didn’t start, a self fulfilling prophecy at its finest, so thank you for this introduction.
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  2420. Thank you for this episode and for sharing your story, Dr. Sledge. I'm sure this couldn't have been easy for you and I appreciate it.
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  2421. You handled youself quite well, had no idea your wife was a Rabbi. I guess she keeps you in line😎
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  2422. I broke down and picked up the Purdue. Gonna need to hustle some Tarot readings to pay for it! Anybody wants a Philip K. Dick Tarot reading hit me up.
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  2423. Always a good day when Esoterica posts🖤🖤
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  2424. And that is how diablo IV was made
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  2425. Thanks for your work!
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  2426. This chat is the shizz. This is exactly the sort of content I come here for.
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  2427. Dr. Principe's Great Courses lecture was one of the main items that got me interested in the history of science. I ended up buying 3 copies over time as I gave the first ones away to friends.
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  2428. This was excellent !! I've gotten some of the answers to the things I've been asking about and in search of. I am thrilled.
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  2429. I am enjoying your channel immensely !!! Thank you !!!
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  2430. I'm seriously proud of you Dr. Sledge! 👏 I hope more people help support your work.
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  2431. I'm doing construction while listening to this, and it's like we are all on the same job.
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  2432. Starting the year of light in force 👍 A blessed 2023 to you Doc❣️ 🙏
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  2433. 1:09 I like how you used the proper subjunctive case. Using the past tense rather than present tense. A lot of people say, "If it was..." I never correct them because, you know, I dont want to get shoved into a gym locker.
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  2434. I like her a lot. Some of her stuff is so psychedelic and almost animist (tho pretty much every thing I've read that has a vitalist element makes me think of animism which i've been obsessed with lately).
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  2435. This video just made something in my heart, mind, and soul light up. Thank you.
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  2436. Whoa I had no idea this video was coming. William Blake is one of my biggest influences. I appreciate you doing a video on his mythology
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  2437. Dr. Sledge making me rethink my major so I can do the research that will help him create accessible, scholarly content here on YouTube…for free.
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  2438. I thank you for your humility!
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  2439. Dr Justin appeared to me in a dream last night. I was back in high school and he was a visiting teacher. I snuck out of class to see him. He wore red wizard robes and I got to tell him that I enjoyed his presentation on Sherlock Holmes. He was very appreciative and then I had to sneak back to class. There was way more to this dream but this was the part with him in it. He looked absolutely fabulous in those robes, let me tell you.
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  2440. I'm Swedish and I've been following your channel for quite a while now, really enjoying expanding my knowledge in these areas. But I never would have guessed you would one day chose Bureus as a subject! Utterly fantastic! He is barely known in Sweden these days, unless you study archaeology or runology. I had no idea he was so well read on kabbalism ("IKEA Kabbalah" 💀👻). A fascinating person, active during a fascinating period where Sweden was partly becoming more assured as a major power, but still self-conscious about the lack of deep written history and big civilisations in our past. Hence - Gothicism. 14:45 - 100% correct! 😄 Also - many thanks for the recommendation for the channel NordicAnimism. As you say, the worst kind of boring racist idiots have hijacked so much about the topics on ancient Scandinavia that I don't dare search for or click on videos, for fear of what that will do to my psyche and algorithm. <3
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  2441. The Voynich Manuscript is as about as legit as the The Holy Foreskin
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  2442. as someone who makes a living on youtube the comparison of the algorithm to the demiurge is hilariously apt
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  2443. Awesome
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  2444. Your work is timeless and magnificent Maestro, bravo once again with this great piece of work!
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  2445. Really appreciate this, been interested in Hermes/Thoth since early this year! That jab about "Ancient Aliens" to disregard African achievements was appreciated too 😂❤‍🔥
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  2446. I'll definitely try to be there - keep up the exeptional work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
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  2447. Dude, I almost choked on my coffee with your summoning / hating, ICP, and #NecromancySideHustle jokes in there. Always a pleasure to watch your videos, but that was just deliciously sly icing on the cake. ;)
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  2448. I love your insights and dry hilarity. Many thanks. I finally stopped crying and feel, once again, inspired this day.
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  2449. as a powerful witch i approve of this channel
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  2450. Your dry wit and delivery positively slay me. 👏
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  2451. I appreciate your wonderful and informative videos more than I can say. There is some intriguing fact in every one that makes my jaw drop. Much love for all you do. ❤
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  2452. First time I’ve seen one of your videos. Like a breath of fresh air. (And using Mr.T as the image for gold made me more than a little happy on this ‘Christmas Day’ in Japan.)
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  2453. This is brilliant. We need more like it. Thank you Dr Sledge.
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  2454. These videos get me through the day. Thank you again
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  2455. Consistently one of the most interesting channels on YT. Thank you for your hard work.
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  2456. Got the whole gang on this. Already watched Philips episode on the subject. Going to check out Angela's show now. Love you guys.
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  2457. Fantastic stuff doctor sledge, thank you for this enlightening information 🙏
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  2458. ☮love all the research you do.
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  2459. wow, Justin - did you have insider info about the Dr Who finale??? o.0
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  2460. I feel like I'm the DMT guy lol maybe my name gave me away.I must say that combining DMT and ceremonial Magick has been a game changer. The ability to see the angels and demons that show up is great one up. Seeing is believing
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  2461. I’m black, and my family practice Haitian Voodoo. I came across this channel because I was researching about how voodoo is different and similar between cultures.
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  2462. Niiice. How was Ireland? They like drinking don't they? 😂😂
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  2463. Thank you for a scholarly look at Renaissance and reformation of magic. 🙏❤️🌈🌹
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  2464. This is Amazing. This is The best channel on YouTube on these topics, I said it before and I'll say it again. He puts well known subjects up if you study the occult but then episodes like this which very few of us have head of.
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  2465. Thank you Dr. These are the real questions
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  2466. I could listen to you read the phone book. Amazing! Just picked up the new Lilith shirt. I can't wait!
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  2467. Wake up bro, new Esoterica dropped 😊
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  2468. "Religion is weird" that was golden Dr. Sledge!!!
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  2469. 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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  2470. The episode I’ve been waiting for!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 SERIously!! Solomon magic is the most epic wizardry. Take it as thou wilt. I can’t think of anyone else that can do this justice. Cheers with a virtual glass of mead
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  2471.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I love your badass musical influences, man!!
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  2472. Andrew sent me!
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  2473. Great intro, Dr. Sledge. I've been a follower for a while now and your content is some of my favorite in this area on YouTube. Thank you for what you do!
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  2474. Beard gap. Your so awesome!
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  2475. Wow, your introduction was very thought provoking. As always was a pure joy listening to your work. You help keep me grounded as I navigate my spiritual journey 💕
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  2476. “Anat “I make dudebro warrior gods look like Elmo” the Goddess” is an under-appreciated side note
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  2477. You are in the service of The Angels, Dr. Sledge(even if they wanna wear my red shoes).
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  2478. Thanks! Was waiting for the notification
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  2479. Apocalypse bagels with cream cheese I’m in as long as there’s espresso
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  2480. Thank you for your content I have learned so much. and look forward to learning more
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  2481. Thank you for bringing these women and their beliefs to our attention. Very facinating and thought provoking.
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  2482. Couldn't click on this fast enough. Congrats on 100k Justin!
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  2483. Sledge on Bataille! Dream come true 🤩 Can we have Sledge on Land? Please, please, pretty please.... 🙏
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  2484. Appreciate the love for the Black Metal lovers out here in the religious studies side of youtube:)
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  2485. We love this channel so much because it is so well-presented, structured, and so well understood and researched. I had been looking for this specific material, what a great find.
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  2486. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
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  2487. Dont start yet, let me grab my absinthe!
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  2488. My potential Patreon list keeps growing, thanks.
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  2489. Music Intro is BACK! YES! I cannot stand the plague that is copyright pirates.
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  2490. Come for the forbidden knowledge, stay for the deadpan humor
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  2491. I’m glad I’ve been on the right track building out this large portion of my library. Many of your recommendations are already on my shelves or on my wishlist. Some of these have definitely been recommended by other scholars I follow as well. Thank you for making this video and list!
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  2492. Love this stuff.
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  2493. Needed this video today! Thank you Dr.
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  2494. Really appreciate this. A topic that I'm interested in but have little time to put into researching. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
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  2495. Here to buy you a beer!
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  2496. I love the foundational tone and setting of this springboard episode, and I feel like it can be the primer for the Solomonic Magic playlist! And it seems to draw out of the woodwork the busy beavers 🦫 of the internet. Is there a parallel between the subtitle of The Abramelin as a note to his son and the subtitle of the Lesser Key of Solomon?
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  2497. Thank you for sharing. This is a deeply sad episode, for all involved, for all mankind and for you personally. It needs to be said, though, and thank you for saying it. And yes, these undercurrents exist today. Let's all be vigilant and do what we can.
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  2498. *Cries in utter nonsense... "Sorry, I checked out there for a minute" 😂 Hilarious, my friend
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  2499. Some damn fine recommendations here, folks! Many of these are absolutely essential! Great work as usual, Dr. Sledge!
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  2500. I too hold out hope this manuscript is more than just a hoax. Thanks for all you do! Esoterica is an amazing channel💛
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  2501. Everything I've watched from you vefore this has been your most recent stuff. Your channel is restoring my hope in youtube with how you hold true to the mission of your channel and consistently refine your content and delivery. This man is, as the kids say, standing on business.
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  2502. Jeez I needed this video in my life. Well played Dr sledge
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  2503. Brilliant. I feel like moving to Amsterdam!
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  2504. Great ep! While a lot of Spare's works are pretty befuddling (as you said), some (especially The Book of Pleasure) have some really inspiring mystic insights. I'll be on the lookout for some nice scans, as the edition I read was a pretty terribly put-together self-published joint.
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  2505. This is fascinating. It’s also really funny. I normally have no interest in the esoteric and occult.
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  2506. Ahhhh brother, love this channel so much. 🙏 Would love more PGM content. 💖 Greetings from Bristol, England.
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  2507. Wow thank you so much for these great videos 😊 you explain things very well and definitely encourage me to study deeper into these subjects!
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  2508. Wow, what a journey. Thanks for all the work in presenting this course. I have to be honest though, the Merkabah and Hekhalot literature interest me the most. Just the idea of sneaking into heaven and recording all that stuff is so fascinating lol. I'm still really interested in seeing that image from the CAD file of YHWH if you ever come across it. Thanks again.
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  2509. this class has been a wonderful daily cardio companion.
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  2510. Keep up the great work Dr Sledge! 👍
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  2511. Can't wait for this. I've been working my way through Arnemancy's podcast episodes on this, but I think this will be an even deeper dive than that! Thanks for all you do Dr. Sledge.
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  2512. Mr. Sledge your brilliant! I don't care what anyone else says..lol. I love listening to your lessons. I always learn something new. Thank you!
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  2513. You're in fine form tonight sir.
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  2514. We know so much, and yet so little, about the past. Great video, great channel. Thank you.
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  2515. The topics you discuss have inspired my next novel. Thank you for inspiring me to move forward with my passion!
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  2516. Now that a franciscan is the Pope.. maybe OUR time is THE time for aopcalypse? Maybe all the hunger, war and misery we are experiencing now is that time of peace before the storm? I love that phrase: "You didn't see that coming" along with prophets and seers, we need a lot of humility to be part of the universe without losing our minds (or our heads).
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  2517. Valeu!
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  2518. Omg! Just burst out laughing in the middle of my neighborhood listening to this. "Devil's poop" Some of us never grow up...
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  2519. I really enjoyed your video. Your scene of humor is great.
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  2520. Thanks!
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  2521. I recently started “attempting” to collect occult books and I figured a good place to look would be in New Orleans since I was traveling there at the time. One store was completely bought out… another had their occult section only bought out. I was discouraged. The latter shared the same block as a Jesuit cathedral. Things that make u go “hmmmm” 🤔🤭🤫
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  2522. Been watching you for a while now and last week had the great pleasure of recommending you to another YT content creator. You just ooze scholastic integrity which I very much appreciate and your dry humour of just a raised eyebrow or tilt of the head is hilarious, thank you so much.
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  2523. You know what would be really awesome? If you and your cohorts (Angela, sevi, religion for breakfast, etc) could do a video specifically on how to properly vet content. For me, I love that your channel is trustworthy information. It's a huge boon to not have to spend time vetting your content because you vet the information for me and explain the nuances of the research. What would be awesome is if yall (the religious study all-star team) could teach us viewers some techniques for seeing thru bullshit and finding indicators of legitimate research. Within this topic specifically, religion, the amount of bullshit to cut thru is disproportionately high compared to other topics. Yall do GREAT at cutting through it for us. I want to be able to see another content creator and, relatively quickly, deduce their trustworthiness. Keep up the great work. This channel is my fav! Edit: I know this is probably against your best interests since yall have a fairly secure "monopoly" on trustworthy info on the topic. But with 300k+ subscribers, you are pretty set on that anyway. :)
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  2524. Love this channel!
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  2525. I love your channel because you present the most complex and deep subjects with the magic art of a great storyteller and teacher. Your voice is so calming. The content so interesting. Thank you for sharing a little about your own life. Wishing you and your family an excellent 2022. With appreciation and love. Karen, from Israel.
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  2526. Always love your alchemy videos
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  2527. It seems that this motif of the Divine Feminine descending into the Underworld to battle the forces of evil is currently manifested in number of political situations around the world. Even in my country, the Philippines, this is currently being played out again as it has in our recent past. I find that fascinating.
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  2528. Because of this video I discovered The Mirror. It has become one of my favorite books and I go back to it often. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, it has greatly changed my life.
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  2529. Can the Satanic Panic be seen as an example of mass hysteria?
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  2530. I absolutely adored this subject being covered! This was an awesome video! But quick shout out to your kids shouting in the background. That was adorably funny!!!
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  2531. "I doubt Jesus or Siddhartha Gautama would even recognize the religions founded in their names." Jesus: See?! I called it! Right there in my bestselling book! I knew they weren't going to listen! Buddha: You're preaching to the choir.
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  2532. More on the neo-shabbatean movement please🙏
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  2533. Excellent episode! Wow. There's a LOT more here then expected. So, it sounds like the Stoics very much did have several significant under-pinnings in Western esotericism. Perhaps, it would seem, unwittingly. I fucking love it.
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  2534. "Behold! Angelic beings descend upon us, as if from the very heavens! Surely, g-d is with us!" ... "Wh-where are they going? The enemy is at the gate! Oh I see, they rush to protect the temple!" ... "What do you mean, they are repossessing the temple pillars? The Babylonians have breached the gates! "
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  2535. Thank you for making this!
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  2536. I'm proud of such a profound task undertaken, by a man who evidently faces an intrinsic, honest and deeply heartfelt digital treatise gifted free here on YouTube. Sir, wow. Opening with the straight and breathtakingly refreshing "journalism?" or fearless relaying of facts, despite the landmine strewn schism filled clout-sphere. Dr J, you are a true sage. 🙂
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  2537. here we o!! heck yeah now i got a reason to not get out of bed for another 45 min
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  2538. They're turning the frogs goetic necromancers.
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  2539. I have thoroughly enjoyed this channel and will certainly look into supporting it. Thank you for the fascinating content and the many wonderful book recommendations.
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  2540. Nicely done... the saving throw reference caught me completely by surprise as I was in fact writing about saving throws while listening and had to double check that its what you actually said.
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  2541. Thanks!
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  2542. I finally got merch for Christmas!
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  2543. Very intense and shocking.
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  2544. 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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  2545. Intriguing and well put together video as always! What was the hebrew name of the angel of death that you mentioned at the beginning? Malach something. Hehe, the podcast "Sunday School Dropouts" have also mentioned that these magical spells with their erratic combinations really seem to be cheat codes for the universe. I think you'd like them if you're into religion and/or podcasts with a humorous twist. I love how you keep the style of these videos like you're reviewing the books more than lecturing about them. "Sounds unsafe (but let me know if anyone makes it work)" :D
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  2546. damn mad respect for the cathars and the gnostics!
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  2547. I actually laughed out loud when you discussed homosexuality in Christianity. “Well… sorry… there are!l
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  2548. This was so interesting. As a former charismatic minister, I've seen and done a fair number of exorcisms in my time. I no longer believe in at anymore, but it's so crazy to see how people have been into this stuff for a long time.
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  2549. "There will be a video on the ring and seal of Solomon" 👀 "Soon" 🚬👀
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  2550. As a Catholic priest, I had a similar hat, though not the beard. On the subject of being, have you ever read the Catholic philosopher of the early 19th century, Antonio Rosmini and his idea of the order of Being?
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  2551. Just wanted to say thank you for your show. I appreciate the way you put the data out, you gave me a way to understand some very interesting subject material I would never have the ability to investigate. I’m checking out your “enochian language” video now.. thank you again. I appreciate your time and effort’s
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  2552. Brilliant as usual. One of my favorite parts of Esoterica videos are the little, subtle jokes and references (the hashtag perfectlygoodpagans, for example). Looking forward to the next one, keep up the good work!
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  2553. I've been a Patreon supporter for a couple of years and I'm taking a Latin class, so I totally deserve a free book!
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  2554. Thanks!
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  2555. Thanks for video man. They are always very informative, and thanks for the study guide.
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  2556. it is actualy ameizing for me as an atheist Israelian Jew to see a clearly religuse Jew tolking so clearly and coherently about יהוה. Something that even secular Jews hear will never do. Graeat Lectur, read about most of it in Igal Ben Nuns book "the short history of yahwe". Thenk you! you have your selfs another subscruber.
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  2557. Dr. Sledge, I absolutely love your lectures. I listen to your videos everyday at work and I just want to thank you for your extensive research. Keep crushing it, Ben Pilarczyk
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  2558. Happy Halloween!
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  2559. I'm grateful for the existence of this channel 🙏
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  2560. Love your content, keep doing what you are doing!
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  2561. I've been fascinated with the subject since youth. Thank you, as always!
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  2562. Don't forget lunges and squats 😉 💪🏽
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  2563. I enjoyed this. Thanks.
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  2564. Your videos are so much more exciting and interesting than my so-called academic training. I'm so grateful you are in YouTube. Thank you!
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  2565. one phenomenal lecture after another! Agrippa really seems to encapsulate so much of early modern thought in one life, this must be one of the most interesting biographies ive ever heard!
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  2566. This poem rocks! Thank you, Justin. Don't get hung up on the genders, folks - this is a treatise against binary thinking, among many other things. I am not a face side, I am not an obverse side - I am a coin.
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  2567. Thank you for this beautiful birthday present! 💙💐
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  2568. Oh, I was really looking forward to this one!
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  2569. Wow this is gonna be great, when I saw the title I thought it was going to be on one of my favorite authors Levi again. I love this channel so much next year I'm gonna support it financially meaning next month once I'm back to work, right now I'm lucky to pay rent and eat lol.
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  2570. I listen to you at night! It takes a while cause it lulls me to sleep but it's how I like to watch your video. I've learned so much!
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  2571. This video is incredible. Thank you so much. You’ve earned a subscriber.
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  2572. What a fantastic idea, thank you Justin!
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  2573. This episode is particularly well written, and your vocabulary is exciting and thrills the poet in me.
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  2574. DUDE, I am dying from laughing so hard. THIS is your best video yet. Bravo! "Queue harpsichords" Love it!
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  2575. Great video. That opening section about Thomas Muntzer was intruigung. I'm reading through the works of the English writer Thomas Nashe, and in his The Unfortunate Traveller, I think he depicts the quelling of that rebellion. Nashe also mentions Paracelsus in that novella (something about the hilt of Paracelsus's sword containing spirits) as well as mentioning Luther, Agrippa, Erasmus and other figure of the time. Nashe even makes Agrippa a character in the story, riding along with the protagonists and summoning images of people for them. Anyways thanks for your work on Paracelsus, it's helping with my understanding of Elizabethan literature. Nashe's relation to western esotericism is interesting to me: he's constantly quoting from Agrippa's De Incertitudine, and seems to make a defence of John Dee in the early 1590s.
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  2576. Beautiful intro and aesthetic 💕
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  2577. Brilliant, intriguing and inspiring, thank you very much for this work.
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  2578. The one important thing I took from this video and will ever carry with me: reading occult texts is just like walking into a House of Mirrors, or as one can make up, occult texts are like Roschard texts. I came here to learn about the Emerald Tablet, but the most valuable insight came from you, the creator of this video. Thank you!
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  2579. The most interesting observation was that miners were talking to Balrogs. Puritan ground tornadoes are fairly fascinating as well.
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  2580. Having found this channel was like finding burried treasure on youtube. Thank you Doctor Sledge!
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  2581. Finding this channel was an excellent Christmas gift.
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  2582. Dziękujemy.
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  2583. this guy is amazing. Thank you so much for putting out such great content!
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  2584.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Aww, mom is also happy now
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  2585. Thanks!
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  2586. I just want to say this I don't normally leave comments on YouTube but I must say I love your site esoterica Ive always been fascinated with the esoteric subjects i love how you reference popular culture and humor to help people relate to your subject matter i was thinking maybe one way you could reach out to the public would be to work with designer's to come with an esoteric video game with actual real esoteric ideas in stead of pop culture dribble also I like the idea of cabalist dungeons and dragons module
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  2587. The amount of respect you show for the person of Cornelius is making history come alive in a fascinatingly relatable way
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  2588. I’m a total amateur, but I love this channel! Dr Sledge, greetings from west Michigan. I’m from Grand Rapids!
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  2589. I come here specifically for the esoteric full house jokes.
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  2590. Happy Halloween
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  2591. Thank you so much for this! There is an anecdote concerning the after-life of Lady Anne Conway, and that is that her body was kept on view, immersed in alcohol in a special casket, by her grieving husband. It doesn't say for how long. Also, toward the end of her life, it is written that one of her eyes was noticeably sunken in its socket, which maybe gives a us hint about the pathology behind the headaches.
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  2592. Always love your videos!!
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  2593. Glad to hear you "demystifying" the Vatican Archives, since I've even seen videos on "general information" channels on YouTube about the Vatican Archives that take on a very conspiratorial tone. I've heard it said about the Vatican Archives, "We have books from before books were invented" (scrolls). So I'm sure over the years plenty things have been mis-shelved and lost for a while.
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  2594. Thank you so much for this exploration of the extraordinary creations of Hildegard of Bingen. She was one of my earliest musical influences. I wrote a short work for six-part women’s choir using her lingua ignota as part of my dissertation concert. I could not imagine concluding my formal education in composition without acknowledging the extraordinary woman who had inspired that education in the first place. ❤
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  2595. I am PSYCHED that you're doing Rosicrucianism, but also feel bad that you recorded this while things still sound rough with the flu.
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  2596. Dr Sledge, scolarship like this is rare on youtube. To be honest, it's rare anywhere. Thanks so much.
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  2597. Thanks
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  2598. Perhaps it’s beyond the scope of this fantastic video, but this same thread of Platonic/Pythagorean number mysticism shows up everywhere in Philo no? It is central to his allegorical approach to “Moses” and supports the idea of the existence and continuity of the esoteric doctrines we are speculating about here.
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  2599. Some Medieval Dude: "Lilith, I summon you!" Lilith, presumably from very far away: "Only if I get to be on top."
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  2600. I started watching this channel last year in 2022. I have found this to be nothing but helpful and enriching. I have even started reading books covered on this channel and beyond what is covered. I can say for myself that I have gained a greater appreciation for world religions and have had my own faith and spirituality grow. This is an incredibly valuable group of subjects that all people should know about.
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  2601. I'm terrified of this woman. How can one person do such things? I'd like to buy the CoWS book, but I'm afraid it would just sit on my shelf tormenting me with how inadequate I am.
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  2602. El Maestro Sledge! #Esoterica is A fact-based cornucopia of occult and esoteric information at its finest! Greatest channel on YT!
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  2603. Blake was a remarkable poet (and man). On the one hand, he wrote some of the most limpid, most beautiful, and on their face utterly simple, lyrics in the English language. On the other, he wrote some of the most bizarre and impenetrable. I know several of the former by heart, but have never been able to get more than a few lines into his prophetic verse. I warmly recommend Benjamin Britten's settings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtyJJ-BawdIP5b804ntr_wJ7IWe3172VJ
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  2604. (You're A Wizard) ...beyond wise... thanks for the lessons!
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  2605. Leper soup?
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  2606. bless and thanks
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  2607. Best channel in the multiverse
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  2608. I would love episodes on various items. I'm slowly going though your video's - and if you talk about items, I'm converting them to D&D specs. :)
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  2609. This has to be one of my favorite episodes, just for the funny quips and stories!
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  2610. Thanks! I like how the Christians out pegan the pegans. 🤔🤣
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  2611. “Valueless Antisemitic grifters”. A.k.a. Robert Sepehr’s channel.
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  2612. Another wonderful and informative video I sacrifice a comment to the demiurgic algorithm in hopes that it favors your content ✨
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  2613. This whole channel is amazing and I am currently going through the entire backlog. Thank-you for the wonderfully produced videos and the book recommendations! Please, keep going.
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  2614. Love the new music, and the books look great! Keep up the good work.
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  2615. Been waiting for this one...thank you
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  2616. Thanks for your objective explanation!
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  2617. Thank you for bringing this frustratingly difficult to research belief system to light. I've long wondered what exactly made the Cathars so threatening to Orthodox Catholicism. There are some aspects of Cathar philosophy that are intriguing considering the very muddy genesis (pun intended) of the identity of "the one true god". Your episode 'Who is Yahweh' provides compelling historical context for why the identity of 'the one true god" was so passionately "debated".
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  2618. Dear Dr. Justin Sledge - once again thanks a lot for this great video. Have you considered making these text available (text in languages that most people don't know) into audiobooks? would be a cool thing to put on patreon. Maybe too much effort? - the material is allerede there, and you for sure have the language skills. Since the texts are really old, there should be no copyright issues. Once again, thank you from Denmark.
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  2619. rocks, stick, and a pot, that's funny. interesting way to put it.
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  2620. Awesome! I love the videos you've been making over the Renaissance.
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  2621. Bravo! Thanks for including your thoughts on dating the text.
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  2622. Best team up ever! My two favorite scholars!
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  2623. Please tell me there will be a part two!
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  2624. Always love your work, especially on Gnosticism!
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  2625. Thank You Dr. Sledge for your amazing Channel and Scholarly documentaries. I have been watching them for several months now, and you are one of the most enjoyable educators on this topic on YouTube. I feel I can also speak in a more educated manner on these topics as a result of your high regard for historical and anthropological accuracy. I just bought one of your Thoth shirts to support your Channel. Shana Tovah and Blessings for the New Year.
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  2626. Its either my way or the Yahweh
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  2627. Just saw the singing spell irl at the NYC Met for their Africa & Byzantine exhibit! It made my heart pitter-patter connecting the dots. Thank you!!
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  2628. Metal band name #86439: dweller within the archive
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  2629. Thank you! All the discussions of censored/carefully edited texts make me want a fantasy novel in which an unsuspecting would-be mage uses one of these texts to summon angels, thinking they'll be good beings and helpful to him, but ends up summoning demons instead with no way to exorcise them, all thanks to an unfortunately edited manuscript.
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  2630. I love this channel
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  2631. Dr Sledge you read my mind ! Thank you thank you, this is exactly what I craved 💟💟💟 thank you for everything you do sweet Dr Sledge!!!
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  2632. The thumbnail looks like a shot straight out of Re-Animator.
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  2633. Your videos are so inspirational. Thank you
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  2634. I love you so much for this. 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂 I feel like you should receive some kind of reward for this. This is the most perfectly executed April Fool's joke in the history of EVER.
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  2635. For what little difference it makes, I have posted about this on my Facebook feed. I am a Patreon member and love merch, will increase my donation or buy more stuff as budget allows.
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  2636. This man said "...The Ascended Master, Kimmy Gibbler." 😫😭😭
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  2637. Would it make sense that the reference to holding the tongue would approximate a whistling sound in the grave due to wind?
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  2638. Oh wow! Awesome convergence of streams and meeting of milieus to dive into, Dr Sledge! Esoterica's edifying excellence!
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  2639. Damn..!😱 That was Shocking in it's revelational idea logical illumination of the True nature of Marxsis Thought..! Yeah; I was blown away! Thanks!👍🏾🖖🏾
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  2640. Towards the end of the video, thank you for your solidarity Dr. Sledge!
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  2641. I don't see how the dead sea scrolls should differ much from our modern translations of biblical literature. If they do drastically alter from our currently subscribed to texts -- is that not a cause for skepticism towards the dead sea scrolls' legitimacy from a doctrinal point of view? For one, I believe that if apocrypha is dismissed as belonging to a sect separate from modern day belief, then so too should the dead sea scrolls... unless there's something that I missed. Anyhoo, I am grateful for the time and effort you put into compiling together in an easily comprehensible manner the most reliable information on these historic subjects, Dr. Sledge 👍 Your scholarship does vanquish the prevalence of online quacks
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  2642. Thanks so much for sharing this highly educational and amazing lecture series Dr S! I have learned so much about Jewish history and Kabbalah, and these presentations have given me a much greater understanding and appreciation for both,
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  2643. Try "Bill Duvedack" he was a diamond in the rough in regard to the authors mentioned, with which I totally agree. Feels like theirs 100 Charlatans to 1 honest seeker. Another reason why your channel is valued so much 🙏✌
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  2644. 📖
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  2645. An absolutely beautiful film. Thanks for the review!
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  2646. Thank you. I can't think of anything better to say, sorry. But, thank you.
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  2647. Happy Hallowe'en and Blessed Samhain!
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  2648. What @forksandfreaks said. Cheers doc, eloquent and well researched as usual!
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  2649. Thanks
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  2650. You just earned yourself a subscriber
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  2651. An awesome channel, such a repository of the kind of knowledge I was seeking. Thank you so much!
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  2652. Thank you so much for this profound information and beautiful doorway...so much gratitude🙏🏻🌹
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  2653. 𝕲 𝖑 𝖔 𝖔 𝖒 𝖙 𝖍
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  2654. Thanks!
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  2655. I just joined your Patreon to watch this! Love your content so much!!
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  2656. Hi Dr. Sledge, love your work, and very happy to see Bruno in one of your vids. I was wondering if you would do a deep dive into Trithemius, his work I find fascinating, for example his tabula recta led to the development of the Vigenere cipher which went unbroken for 300 years. His books are also the first we find the Theban or "witches" alphabet
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  2657. Thanks
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  2658. Ohio is woe in Enochian and I was born in Cleveland Ohio coincidence I think not. Sorry In bad at humor.
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  2659. Thanks!
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  2660. Many thanks! You, Sir, are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
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  2661. Thank you so much Dr. Sledge, and yay on the good life news! Blessings upon you and yours in this season!
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  2662. So between here and heaven is the cosmic Backrooms?
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  2663. Absolutely ridiculous. I hope that things get sorted out. Your content is among the best on YouTube and I love supporting your work.
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  2664. Great video, on a related note do you plan on doing a future one covering the Elephantine Papyri and/or Papyrus Amherst 63 (the latter is especially interesting as it contains hymns, one of which appears to be an early version of Psalm 20)? Such texts were produced by a community of Judeans and Arameans garrisoned in Egypt and gives more hints of the syncretic polytheistic worldview of these people and how they don't mind worshipping other gods alongside Yahweh (called Yahu/Yaho in the text that mentions him). Interestingly, it does appear that the community of Elephantine did connect Anat with Yahweh on some level via their mention of "Anat-Yahu".
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  2665. The subtle jokes are amazing and thanks for this history lesson
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  2666. Yo new drop from our favorite alchemist
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  2667. Justin I love how you use comedy in order to teach, and I hope that I could so this well when I get my channel off the ground in Political Science.
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  2668. My favorite part of your videos is your sense of humor. And your sense of comedic timing when you’re breaking a concept down to analyze it . Good stuff
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  2669. I'm loving the Cathar text, but could you please make a short of the sponsorship segment?! You hit the LMAO mark.
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  2670. Thank you so much for exploring these. This is important information to get out.
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  2671. Someone must have eaten all the hamantaschen at Purim and got whooped? Lol I love this historical stuff. Great content!
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  2672. Hmmm...so Lilluth was a "little mermaid"? 😂
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  2673. I love your content, I've learned so much about so many subjects, I've been a advid reader of tye occult, paranormal, mythology, and religion, you've taught me so much more. Thank you.
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  2674. Almost 100K subs!!! Nice!! Love your work more with each video. --Tim
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  2675. Great work! I have years saying; the bible talks about two different gods.
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  2676. Loved this episode!
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  2677. Yes+ Yes+ Yes Trismegistyes Love it
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  2678. Just gorgeous exegesis. ..
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  2679. This is great! Please get Adam McLean on soon! Living treasure
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  2680. one of the best intros really dig the channel and the subjects-one of my favorites good work be safe, be happy, work hard peace \m/
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  2681. Tak!
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  2682. Thanks for mentioning that gender-nonconforming people did indeed exist in ancient times. 🙂 Even Paul said "there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". I wish orthodox Christianity had put more emphasis on that kind of nonbinary thinking that seeks to integrate apparent opposites.
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  2683. I love this topic. Thank you for all the work done on this. ❤❤❤
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  2684. Excellent. I knew some of this based off of John Days very good book Yahweh and the gods and goddesses of Canaan but still learned a lot from this talk
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  2685. I love the analysis of the separation of the modern new age and the scientific interpretations of alchemy, and how there's a spark of the original purpose hidden in each side. The separation, purification, and reunification of both aspects to recapture the true purpose of classical Alchemy is to me is a sort of lovely example of the Alchemical Marriage. Side thought, I think I have a half-read copy of that Atwood book in my library, if memory serves... might have to pull it out and give it another try sometime.
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  2686.  @TheEsotericaChannel haha thank you for giving us what we asked for
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  2687. Super interesting lesson! Thanks, Justin!✨️⭐️🔥
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  2688. I love this place!
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  2689. This is my favorite channel on YouTube. Thank you.
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  2690. I'd also like to add, for any Dutch speaking audiences that maybe watching, the work of Roelof van den Broek and Gilles Quispel ''Hermetische geschriften'' (2016), which is published by the Embassy of the free mind in Amsterdam. If you happened to have mastered the Dutch language, the book is a perfect compendium in Hermetic philosophy. The book includes translation of: -The Corpus Hermeticum -The Asclepius -The Hermetic fragments of Stobaeus -Fragments of Vienna, Berlin and Oxford -Hermetic Testimonia of several Ancient writers (Zosimus, Tertullianus, Lactantius, ...) And besides these translations, you also have a ton of references and commentaries from the authors concerning Hermetic texts and history.
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  2691. The spirits always seem to accompany the dark months... the Solstice is no exception! Merry Yuletide to you and yours 🎄
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  2692. Yay! New video, i'm very thankful of your work
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  2693. This was very cool!
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  2694. I enjoyed the video! This may be similar to how in more recent times the Catholic Church, or at least elements of it , have imagined a vast, organized Masonic Conspiracy, when in fact actually real-life Masons actually have trouble organizing whether to have ham sandwiches or turkey sandwiches for dinner, as a well known Mason has quipped.
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  2695. Is that monk holding a TARDIS at 8:40?
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  2696. Thanks!
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  2697. Fantastic. Thank you.
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  2698. I just found this channel a few days ago, and I love it.
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  2699. Some might say that YouTube is dead. Not if you're watching the great Dr. Sledge!
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  2700. Thanks! What a nice surprise at the end of a long work day! Im saving this for my lockerroom punchlist tomorrow.
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  2701. Sir, every time I watch your videos, you get more than one hearty belly-laugh from me, you are a comedian in disguise....😆
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  2702. I'm supposed to do things today. How dare you do this to me.
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  2703. great presentation. I wonder if magical words are easier framed as simply magical sounds and not probe into what they actually might mean. These sounds do magical stuff.
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  2704. Dr Sledge, I wanted to tell you that your channel is my favorite out of 100 or so that I have subscribed.
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  2705. Migraines are associated with visual disturbances and dissociation. There might actually be something to the idea that migraines and an inclination to mysticism are associated. As I watch this video in my office with the lights off and the screen dimmed.
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  2706. Fraud and Junk lmfao
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  2707. Thank you so much for going into the linguistic details of the manuscript and situating it in the known context of other manuscripts of the time. This is material you never hear from traditional videos or documentaries about the Voynich Manuscript, and I feel like they’re really important to settling on a theory of its production. Thank you!
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  2708. Cultic combat is a game I'd play, hahahahah
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  2709. I effing love your work! When I can, I'll give to your patreon. I've always loved Classics. Are you hiring?
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  2710. Yesssss! Been waiting for this!
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  2711. feel like i'm drinking absinthe again w/ you when i was about 16 years old... and, your mom has been taking care of my grandma. glad to see you have a channel!! know what i'm binge watching for the next couple of weeks.... peace and love
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  2712. This was my favorite find on YouTube this year. Thank you for sharing with us Dr. Sledge. You're awesome.
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  2713. You had me both wanting to and fearing reading this text... until you gave a Silmarillion comparison. Sold
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  2714. great video, Dr Sledge Lil' YHWH is my Sound C---d rapper name
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  2715. Happy Halloween! Love this channel! I'm learning so much. Coming from a Scandinavian Lutheran upbringing (but fighting with God for decades) I'm starting to see new ways of thinking about the Divine and it makes my head spin, though in a good way.
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  2716. Wonderful presentation as always Dr! Thank you. I can’t wait to see what you bring us in 2024. Happy holidays ❤
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  2717. Has anyone here read Simon R. Green's Nightside series? They are a kind of comedy(?) satire of the kind of eldritch world of Lovecraft. I loved them.
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  2718. Hey babe, I must admit, I started watching this video with great skepticism. I'm impressed by your ability to present such complex topics. You're a new favorite :)
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  2719. I know this was a tough one to tackle, but i am glad you went for it, and ...i reckon the resulting content quite helpful!
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  2720. Thanks! And Here's My vote yes for such a class!..👍🏾🙏🏾🖖🏾
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  2721. I love this channel, thank you!
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  2722. Beautifully done, sir! Thank you for your sense of humor and your delightful erudition.
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  2723. Blake seems to have had such a significant influence in a variety of realms, but strangely, little seems to be written about his philosophy in the grand scheme of things. Great video.
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  2724. I'm watching this stoned af and I got to say this is a truly beautiful presentation. I mean that in the neoplatonic sense.
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  2725. Appreciate ur channel ❤️
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  2726. As I pressed play I thought, I wonder how long it will take for somebody to bring up the ergotism in the comments. I like that you shut it down right away and I hope no one here bugged you about it. This was a great video, thank you!
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  2727. Thanks
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  2728. Thanks!
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  2729. Love this poem, happy Halloween everyone!
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  2730. Similar to Gandolf the Gray going down with the monster, and coming back up from the depths of the abyss as Gandolf the White?
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  2731. I think you are literally the most well informative channel on the topic. Congrats and thank you
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  2732. Ultimately you've been showing your deeply franciscan inclinations, doctor ;) I like that. Is there any chance for a video on the mysticism of Blessed Heinrich Seuse? (not franciscan but equally interesting).
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  2733. Another instant classic.
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  2734. We better see that coin collection one day, everyone would love it!
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  2735. Thank you SO much for your incredibly fascinating and scholarly videos here on YouTube. I have been binge watching and hopefully learning and getting wiser. Thank for the phenomenal link to read further.
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  2736. Always amazing content Dr!!
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  2737. With this one, single video, really only the first 5 minutes helps me fill in the blanks on the human and religious historical time line I'm sure you have much more to offer. I've done much research on this subject and others, but with te being what it is on this one particular subject I've been stumbling. Thank you for this video. Subscribed and liked have a great day
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  2738. I'm getting flashbacks to the wonderful movie version of The Name of the Rose , both the debate about whether Christ owned his own clothes and the older Franciscan explaining gently to his young protege that a lot of what was considered sainthood or heresy was a matter of dumb luck. What was important was that in that time and place people were desperate and would support anything that promised a better life.
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  2739. The rarest of rarities—the elusive feminine jouissance! :0
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  2740. I suddenly understand why your videos were getting recommended to me when i started watching elden ring videos. Man.
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  2741. Dr. Sledge. Sir. You are a great man. Your contributed articulations of deep history, and character are worthy of some form of eternal recognition. Consider this stranger your friend. Thank you.
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  2742. Thanks again for your work on the cathars, a subject very dear to me as I am from that particular region of Occitania. And... I like Holy Blood Holy Grail :) I consider that it is fiction, but it is a great story that I read like a novel. (I'm not sure that in the fortean philosophy of the authors it is important that things are true, as long as they present an alternative.)
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  2743. Brilliant video. Just stumbled on your channel (and now realize I have much to catch up on 😊). Truly fascinating and well presented. As a Catholic in recovery (like an alcoholic, one is never fully cured once the damage has been done), so I don't consider myself religious, but have always been fascinated how the legends and lore of all religions came into being. My appreciation here, is that you never rely on just one source religion, but many in attempt to give more complete picture. Lilith has always captured my imagination, probably because so much of her story is a mystery. She seems to be almost a footnote anywhere she's referenced and quickly glossed over in any sort of story. Thank you for this wonderful and comprehensive look into her origins and beyond. Awesome job and keep up the great work. Much thanks.
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  2744. This was a much needed video. Thank you!
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  2745. Praise be Kimmy Gibbler the Thrice Great Jesus dude you sneak in surprising jokes.
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  2746. The truth always resonates in our hearts and brings to light every shadowed and dark corner of our shame, melting it away in one moment of epiphany. Surely this vision of Mary is true. One just needs to look at the church that grew from peter's "authority"
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  2747. Just came across your channel. Great intro, now subbed.👍
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  2748. Dr. Sledge; can't wait to receive my cloak of invisibility!!! I shall be arranging my Widows' Mit of a budget to add to your Patreon. If 10 thousand ppl could support you with a dollar a day.... wow!!! You offer so much to the layperson from your cache of expensive and time consuming education. Hope you feel appreciated and Appreciated $$$$. School ain't cheap y'all!!! Dr. Sledge could be spending his time writing grants, papers, and books to impress his peers for a living. Instead he slides it out to us. Thanks man!!!
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  2749. Never expected a video on Yukio Mishima. I'm so glad that this just happened!
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  2750. I love Spare. I get many don't but there is so much there in how I do my work.
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  2751. Thank you for this wonderful presentation of HPL's occult literary consultations and their use in his fiction. Outstanding!
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  2752. What's the history of having no distinction between Soul and Spirit? Was there no distinction? Did the notion of the Torah's living soul (the interaction of breath and earth) survive in any philosophy during this period? וַיִּ֩יצֶר֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃
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  2753. Thanks for what you do and for your honesty.
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  2754. Thanks for sharing, Justin. I’m sure it’s not easy revisiting this but your candor and insight are appreciated.
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  2755. Always love your content, Dr. Sledge. Also, can you please, pleeaassee, produce merch of “thicc” spelled with the thorn! 😂
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  2756.  @TheEsotericaChannel  as we should be. A few years ago I would have had a different stance but after having natural mystical experiences I learned quickly how wrong I was lol spiritual spankings leave a lasting mark and are a great learning experience
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  2757. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I can't thank you enough to put this properly into words on top of the wonderful research.
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  2758. Keep the great videos coming
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  2759. Love you and the work you share ❤️💛💚🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏
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  2760. Already a Patreon supporter but wanted to make sure it gets a view on YouTube too! Great stuff can’t wait to see more.
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  2761. Thank you!!! Can't wait for future content on this trail.
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  2762. Best channel on YouTube
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  2763. 😉🎉
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  2764. So if a school of thought struggles with the concept of a soul, it's a philosophy, and if they just trust it implicitly and run with it, it's a religion??
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  2765.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you for your kind and quick response!
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  2766. I know it isn't much, but something's better than nothing I guess (wish I could give more!). I hope if lots chip in a little, it will all add up to sustain your high quality academic work of schooling the misinformed YouTube influencer bros 😅. Thanks so much!
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  2767. I wish this background knowledge could be as standard a part of Christian religious education as memorizing the 10 Commandments. It's wild that you can spend a lifetime in the Church, even attend theology classes at a Christian college, and never learn the origin of the deity at the center of your life.
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  2768. You are becoming my favorite teacher of all time.
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  2769. Thanks!
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  2770. You are the best teacher I have found other the Micheal sugrue lectures on YouTube. Thank you
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  2771. Nuclear physics: Ok so we made this bismuth sheet into gold Hermes Trismegistus in his grave:🥳
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  2772. I got my Clerical Necromantic Underground longsleeve! It's pretty sweet!
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  2773. I absolutely LOVE your channel and happy I can finally chat in the livestreams you do. Enjoying your knowledge and variety of content. Blessings to you and yours. Steph
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  2774. Well crafted. Loved this.
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  2775. Thanks for all the content you create. Are there any spells we can cast to bring low the beast of profit?
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  2776. I finally got what I subbed for. An attempt at reconstruction of history from evidence. So, do what fascinates you most. All serious students will love it. Very good lecture. And we definitely need more nonconfomist ideas as well. Albeit the Orientalist view isn’t the only one. More from religious and occult sides as well. Yahweh literature is vast.
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  2777. Outstanding!!! Thank You 😊 🙏....I adore this, so clear and concise, much appreciated....
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  2778. excellent , 10/10 ... fantastic orator ... really easy to understand a very complex belief system strewn with mystery and intrigue .. fantastic dry humour .. not a religious brow beating or divine judgement... just a well put together piece examining the evidence and very well presented, well worth a watch!!
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  2779. Thank you, & brilliantly, spoken. I would tend to agree on everything covered in the video. Love & light. 🥰❤️‍🔥💜🌹🕯️🤙🏻✨
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  2780. Bravo! Fantastic episode.
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  2781. Thanks!
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  2782. Awesome video.
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  2783. Best way to spend my lunch!! Love your vids Dr.
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  2784. Esoterica is a wonderful exploration of topics so rarely treated with such a clear eyed academic view, and I'm glad to see such a fine and simple channel description vid to share.
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  2785. Is MITHRIL a gift from Mithras?
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  2786. Thank you so much for the videos and all of the invaluable knowledge you have to share!
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  2787. Peace be with you, brother!
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  2788. Fascinating episode as always Dr. Sledge, it is a shame that the Bogomils and the supposed Cathars abandoned the infancy narrative found in the ascension of Isiah. I mean what's the point of being a heretic if you don't get a good infancy gospel out of it 😛 Also whatever happened to the Bogomils? Was a crusade launched against them or did they die out another way?
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  2789. They certainly wasted time doing those extra distillations, they could have been making more whiskey!
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  2790. Her poetry is a great gift to both the world and the Dutch language. Thank you so much for this video. Moogt ge baden in minne!
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  2791. This video is fascinating to me as someone raised evangelical who has since converted to Catholicism (and then gotten very loose about that). I have heard hundreds of sermons about verses 6-10. The thorn in Paul's side has been interpreted as everything from heinous sin to clinical depression to closeted queerness. And the boast in question is always seen as boasting that he's saved because he has a Personal Relationship With Jesus (TM). Verses 2-4 are either skipped or given vague "isn't Paul's grammar hard" hand waving. Universal evangelical interpretation is that you will suffer because you believe in Jesus even if you're a Really Good Born-Again Christian (TM). The boasting bit gets tied to Matthew 5:5-6 where Jesus says not to pray flamboyantly and left at that. That never really made the passage make as much sense as this does. I let out a screech like a pterodactyl at the Lutheran Paul line because it's SO TRUE. I've never heard of Paul having a mystical experience (though it's obvious after thinking about it for 0.2 seconds). Not the vision on the road to Damascus, not this passage, and never the scene in Acts, which is seen as the "quiet voice of Jesus in your heart" that they teach in Sunday School. This video was like having something that's been slightly tilted my whole life getting snapped into place. Because most evangelicals can't tell you what the difference between belief in God as a fact and faith/trust is. The whole concept of being transformed by faith makes so much more sense in the context of Merkavah mysticism. (I'd be really interested by your translation/take on Romans 12:1-2--it might not be related in the Greek, but it's another place where Paul talks about being transformed through faith.) Thank you so much Dr Sledge for making excellent videos as always. Learning about Christianity so far outside the bubble of my upbringing has been immensely helpful and satisfying
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  2792. Yes, I would like the book that tells me where to find the treasure so I can afford to purchase more occult books.
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  2793. great collection of books thank you for showing them
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  2794. Wow, I watched the entire series and your knowledge seemed so incredibly vast to me, yet you ended all this by saying "I am honored and privileged to share what little I know" this is probably one of the single most humble things I ever whitnessed. Thank you Dr. Sledge for this wonderful lessons, blessed be.
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  2795. God I love this channel
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  2796. Wonderful episode!! Looking forward to whenever you get a chance to do the Pistis Sophia one :)
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  2797. This is truly fascinating! I see Descartes in a whole new light.
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  2798. I really like the idea of "appeasing" the dark side to prevent it becoming overly "enraged". It reminds me of how fictional villains often represent a challenge to the social status quo. Their malevolence is often motivated by some form of objection to the established order that the protagonists inhabit. The most blatant example is perhaps the comic book character of the Joker - the modern mascot for violent extremism inspired by the ubiquitous chaos and suffering in the world. Denying such critiques only reinforce their prescience. This doesn't mean that the villains are correct. Evil is still evil, and must be opposed. But sometimes even the devil makes a good point, and we ignore this at our own peril.
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  2799. The new music is also awesome. I wish good luck to everyone for the contest. Brilliant and very generous from Dr. Sledge. Thank you!
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  2800. I'm always like there's no way this can keep being fascinating but it really does!
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  2801. Just found this channel. I haven't stopped diving into videos since. Thank you for the high quality and scholarship of everything. It's very encouraging. You touched on the raqia/dome in a separate video and I was wondering, after listening to this, I was wondering why or how ANE earth beliefs evolved to our current models and if there is, in your opinion, any esoteric reasoning for the more recent comeback of those beliefs.
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  2802. Valeu!
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  2803. Finally, I find out how 'Mircea Eliade' is pronounced.
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  2804. Fascinating video. I've been studying Kabbalah for 20 years. The only information I've seen about the Klippot has been through dark esoteric traditions inwhich some have little connect to the Tree of Life. This brings great information to bridge this information. Thank you!
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  2805. Wow! This is my fav. Thank you 🙏
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  2806. Wonderfully done. Thank you. Respect for your scholarship. Love your humour. We need more channels like this.
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  2807. This is my favorite episode so far. You're doing great work my friend. Love it <3
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  2808. I really need a set of incantation cereal bowls. My day would be so much more interesting if it started that way.
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  2809. Your amazing !!! This is mind blowing fantastic ! Exactly what I’m into !!! Thank you so much !!! More!!!!
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  2810. What a fascinating couple lectures! Listening to these lectures, along with alot of other professors have encouraged me to join Peterson Academy, where I can listen to even more lectures at work and work toward a certification other than my construction experience. Thank you so much for all the fascinating lectures and the time spent putting them together.
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  2811. My introduction to the Kabbalah was the Sefer yetzirah I wouldn’t recommend that as a first book
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  2812. Wow! Thanks for this blockbuster presentation.
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  2813. I appreciate someone who is on their path and willingly shares it with others. Kudos. That's called Love.
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  2814. As someone who majored in a philosophy around the same time as you, I remember anything from before the 17th century was ignored. You got a little Plato in 101, and then that was it. Maybe something between Plato and Descartes would come up in a Special Problems class, but other than that, not a peep. No Stoics, no Neoplatonism, no Confucianism, nada.
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  2815. I found one spell to drive out deamons that may be related. I found it in Ancient Christian Magic edited by Meyer and Smith in page 43. Thank you Dr Sledge.
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  2816. Love this episode and love the ending notes. Thank you <3
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  2817. The real divine madness is that false copyright strike.
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  2818. This is really informative, I’m looking forward to more of your videos
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  2819. Dr, I had to press pause just to say—I have always enjoyed your content on a 10/10 level but it has gone up to 11/10-and here is why. I feel like I have been watching these videos in a scattered manner and I can see a HUGE improvement (not like you were ever bad) in your skills as a narrator!! You weave great stories and jokes into your content with, what seems like ease and total confidence, to the point where I NEVER catch you stumbling on a word,ever, anymore. You also seem to know just how to make your stories and asides quick and concise, where I am laughing or agreeing, but then have to quickly focus again (good for me bc I have mad ADD) Weather it is you, or your incredible editor (or both), I just want to say I am so proud! I am such a supporter (Please forgive any typos)
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  2820. thank you
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  2821. Oh ya wee beauty. Love a long Esoterica video. Nice on a Friday. Love from Scotland 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  2822. Thanking Egon Spengler 👏
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  2823. 80k congrats well deserved you will have millions ,👆up you go DR
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  2824. Absolutely Amazing ❤
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  2825. thank you for once more sharing your knowledge with us all. Grateful for you 🖤
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  2826. Ayy new intro!
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  2827. The first separate priestly writing system was Sumerian cuneiform. The gods retained their symbolatry even as the language became more phonetic and akkadian cunieform replaced sumerian in the Akkadian and subsequent periods.
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  2828. Crowley, Jimmy Page, and the Loch Ness Monster > the Avengers. Change my mind
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  2829. I had to rewatch the first 10 minutes of your video after deciding which T-Shirt to get. But this is fine, rewatching your videos is one of my favourite things to do. Thanks again!
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  2830. 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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  2831. Seems silly, this humble offer to your incredible mastery of this literature. Always a pleasure, beyond monetary value. Many thanks.
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  2832. You and Papa Ted are awesome. It's wonderful to hear how you both played some part in reintroducing my favorite beverage to the world and Ted is of course a legend for his efforts. I've been ordering to the USA since 2001 (mostly from Spain back then; Deva, Lasala, Serpis, etc.), and I can still recall my first bottle of 1901 years later. It all feels fateful. Pouring one now in honor.
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  2833. I will always think of Curtis Armstrong when I hear the name of Metatron lol (Supernatural).
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  2834. Thank you for another wonderful episode. I like to imagine a plane of existence where Scotus and Tillich discuss the univocity of being and God as the ground of being/God above God... but out of Christian humility I'd have to admit only grasping a small amount of the discussion.
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  2835. Again, another well done scholarly presentation by Dr. Sledge.
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  2836. Idea for an episode: Papyrus ASMR 🤣
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  2837. This channel is top notch!
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  2838.  @TheEsotericaChannel  lmaaooo classic lacan
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  2839. I could never make sense of Sun and Steel, but this helped a little. Thanks. Being superficial, I wondered what you think of the movie Mishima by Paul Schrader.
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  2840. Best channel on yt
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  2841. Amazing history, thank you so much for spreading the knowledge!
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  2842. This video was surprisingly accessible for someone who is new to understanding alchemy! Very excited to start watching my way through your videos, thank you SO much for all this fascinating content!
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  2843. Dude shared a text chain with the Devil. All sick.
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  2844. Everybody loves the Dee
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  2845. Better Than Ezra
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  2846. I am late to the party on this, having just stumbled across this channel, but I still want to let you know how fantastic this video - and the channel in general - is. I'm currently deep in research of so-called "Biblical" events, toward the goal of writing of them once I've attained enough knowledge to speak confidently; and the academic, detailed, and easily accessible source material used to construct this narrative are all incredibly valuable to me. Thank you for using your time and energy to share your knowledge with all of us!
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  2847. Thanks! Merry Xmas!
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  2848. That was a hell of a 40 minute trip! Thanks for your work.
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  2849. Thanks for sharing Dr S, I thought I was the only one who didn't get the Parmenidies!
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  2850. This is a weird compliment. But I got totally lost a lot. That is the best compliment I can give because it is absolutely readily apparent I am drinking from the firehouse of someone who has complete mastery of this field. It’s like learning physics right from Bohr. I clearly don’t understand most of this, and you are just running from one massively important note to the next. It’s absolutely staggering how well read you clearly are on the subject and I look very much forward to listening to this all several times until I myself understand it. This is the kind of educational material that really matters in the world.
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  2851. Thanks!
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  2852. 9:27 "Why don't these feature at more Renaissance Festivals?" Lol, that's great, wasn't expecting that biting humor.
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  2853. Thanks!
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  2854. This has got to be one of the most compelling youtube videos out there that consists of speech only
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  2855. I love these videos, I just wish they were slightly more accessible. I am not at all uneducated, I just have completely unrelated fields of expertise and hence I find it a little difficult to follow some of what you say... I feel like it would help to have a few more maps and timelines - not just images... also when you mention specific texts/sources maybe remind us of time and place of origin (of these sources) as well as how they were preserved/discovered (etc).
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  2856. ESOTERICA, I love your channel so much, I just had to subscribe!
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  2857. Awesome video. Your content is amazing! Glad I found you through Gnostic Informant!
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  2858. I LOVE this episode! The mystics of the Abrahamic faiths are often overlooked, I think because their experiences challenge the 'orthodox' view, all the more reason to study and understand them.
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  2859. Fun fact: In the 1750s, the young Chaim Yosef David Azulai, when he was in Germany during his first travel to Europe as emissary, got himself entangled into the Emden-Eybeschütz controversy while in Fürth (at the time, Fürth was an intellectual center). His Maagal Tov is quite the interesting read. I myself read the Cymerman edition for a term paper in Regional History, and a fellow student is working on her Master's thesis about the Hida's travels, and posits that he was a kabbalist.
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  2860. Dayum
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  2861. You are possibly my favorite content creator, each and every video is so well thought out and well explained, thank you for what you do! Do you have any plans to make a video on djinn and the various beliefs and practices centered around them?
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  2862. I wish I had my money to give you for bringing light into the darkness of modern day ignorance. Please take my like, and my comment 🙏 to give props to the Great Algorithm!
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  2863. "Not those Cohen Brothers"😁
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  2864. Thanks!
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  2865. Great timing, I've just turned in my chapter on Terence McKenna and Alchemy which has a section on the spiritual alchemy historiography debate
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  2866. Nice
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  2867. This was a wonderful presentation, studded with your usual anecdotes and deadpan humor. Thank you!
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  2868. Bravo! Thank you for doing all that you do and sharing freely.
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  2869. Funny, I just rewatched your video yesterday on Abramelin, and I was looking forward to this! I think your educational content is absolutely invaluable and should take the forefront on esoterica, but I think some shorter form episodes based on your educated speculations for certain topics could be so incredibly fascinating. I think as long as there's a disclaimer, you shouldn't worry about making videos like this in the future!
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  2870. Yeah yeah... Throne of God, learning stuff fast, yada yada... Cut to the important part. How can I use this to find buried treasure?
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  2871. Thanks!
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  2872. thank you so much for doing these videos! ive been having so much fun binge watching them. im glad there is a scholarly channel that is into all the "weird" stuff i like but i have not had the chance to really look into.
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  2873. You are one of the few sources i've found that really talks about the subjects i'm interested in at such a high quality level. Great job in growing! And I am so thankful to have found your channel. :)
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  2874. Dear Dr, I’ve had this question for a while now, this last December I was interested in acquiring one of the rare books that were available for sale from your store but by the time I found out this information you had sold them already, this is where my question comes in. Is it necessary to store these rare antique books within a specific special environment, at certain temperatures and levels of humidity? Something like where you store special costly tobacco? I imagine it is necessary to do so in order to maintain the integrity and value of such items, I’d appreciate it if someone could answer me this question, thanks!!! Btw, excellent material and delivery ( explanation) !, as usual!😃👍❤️
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  2875. Love your channel, friend. All sorts of interesting and useful information.
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  2876. I'm taking a shot of Mountain Dew everytime he says "100 year old absinthe." I don't plan to sleep tonight 😉 Thank you for sharing your experience!
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  2877. whines softly in anticipation of the winter catalog
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  2878. I feel like I have been given a wonderful gift. Thank you so much, I am at a lose on how to express my appreciation.
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  2879. I'm gonna need me a black metal esoterica shirt.
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  2880. Kirkland- brand demons...
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  2881. This channel is like a weed that sprouted through concrete to become a tree. It must live.
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  2882. Now back to number 1 and do it all over again...thanks Doc 🫡🙏
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  2883. Really cool stuff! Thank you!
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  2884. SO EXCITED TO WATCH THIS!!! Just when I thought this Friday couldn't get any better!! 🎉
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  2885. I've never clicked so fast!
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  2886. Valeu!
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  2887. Another great video, as always. How do this text and the Acts of Paul and Thecla interact? Are there any indications that they either knew one another or were from the same communities?
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  2888. Thorndike at the Internet Archive for the win
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  2889. Doctor Justin I respect your work, very ethical, clean, transparent. Carrier of the truth. I love all of your videos! Thank you for your knowledge. I’ll make sure to donate to this noble cause! Thank you again ❤️
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  2890. I would love to hear Agrippa rip into the pretention of modern society
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  2891. Great job, per usual Dr Sledge 👏😊
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  2892. This video is not only a great introduction to the history of the ocult but a great lesson on the history of philosophy
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  2893. Great video! I have recently discovered you and I have watched several of your videos and really enjoy every single one. I definitely need a T-shirt! Thanks again
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  2894. it is now my Mission to start the deathmetal band "Anat", i've been a metal head and musician for over 20 years, this has been an inspiration! love the channel, thanks!!
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  2895. Evil Dead... wait. Dr. Sledge, are you a horror fan? Dude, you gotta check out The Boxer's Omen, if you haven't already seen it. The visuals, despite the low budget, are completely insane. But even more interesting is that a lot of the depictions of black magic and buddhist rituals are supposed to be a bit more rooted in real tradition and folklore than what you'd normally expect.
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  2896. Hi Justin, I would definitely like to take classes on Merkabah Mysticism, if you offered them. I took a class on it with the professor/writer Zvi Ish Shalom, in his 'Kabbalah and Consciousness' class at Naropa University a few years back. Also, you were able to change my mind about Paul! Learning this important bit about him really changes my whole view about him! Thank you again for all your work! -Daniel L.
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  2897. The Colour Out of Space movie features the Simon Necronimicon which I thought was a really fun wink.
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  2898. Would love to see a Goliard drag show
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  2899. i think about you and Irving Finkel way too much, respectfully
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  2900. Men in the street : 'What are you supposed to be ? Some 19th century Rabbi ? Dr.Sledge : 'Euhm..No, i'm always dressed like that. 😉
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  2901. Once again, thank you Sir for your in depth and invaluable scholarly work on the origins and history of esoteric thought in western and European cultures. I wish you and your family and loved ones a joyous, beautiful and meaningful Hanukah and Yuletide season.
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  2902. I’ve been digging through your channel for months know as I work on pretty convoluted wizard shenanigans (trying to make my own magical circle) and it always blows my mind how accessible your content is without having ANY of the pseudo mystical stagecraft present in other ppls content. If esoterica has a million fans I’m one. If esoterica has 1 fan I’m that fan. If there are 0 esoterica fans it’s bc I’m DEAD.
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  2903. So happy to see you at 99k!!! Congratulations, Dr. Sledge! And definitely looking forward to what new and wondrous content you put out next! 🖤🖤🖤
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  2904. Thank you for your work, Doctor, this is very informative
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  2905. The Goonies reference kills it. Thank you again sir your channel is better than a lifetime supply of baby ruths.
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  2906. 🤙aloha Inspiring! To 2023 "may beer pour .... like the onrush of the Tigris & Euphrates" *hymn of Ninkasi (Note2Self: drink only G&T spooky season) my @3:03 rabbit hole〰️omg Death Wish Coffee Co. !! Mahalo for giggles @1:13, 11:55, 20:36 & 24:35
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  2907. @TheEsotericaChannel  I know you have far greater tasks to do than customer service but I appreciate the reply. Love your work always!
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  2908. Great video again. I appreciate the recommendation of The Digital Ambler. I've been enjoying my readings. Kudos.
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  2909. So many of your videos have gotten me through dull work days. Thank you so much for providing such eloquent, and academic explanations on otherwise confusing occult subjects. I've learned so much from your channel I'd otherwise have never known.
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  2910. Chaos sigil magick has always seemed to me to be the closest to an actually pragmatic system of purely esoteric psychological craft capable of tying the empirical to the metaphysical in an effectual manner. Because of the results-based principles underpinning the loose set of methods and theory it can both be the safest in the sense of the less likelihood of harmful spiritual bindings hidden from the dabbling practitioner and the most dangerous in the sense of it quickly manifesting your goals (unlike other occult systems which typically lead a person to and fro like an empty wind) no matter how foolish and self-defeating they may ultimately be.
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  2911. Well, thank you. Your lessons are worth far more than I send, so you have my eternal gratitude. I guess I have been interested in the origins of religion since I first learned about Mesopotamia and Egypt in the…. third grade? In my adult life I think I have been on a search, walking backwards through where the beliefs I was taught came from, and you have brought me all the way back to the Egyptians, again. I came here because, alchemy. Staying because of surprises like this. You said somewhere that it was good for the brain to have a sense of wonder, and I think the wonder you bring back into my life is kinda keeping me in it. Thanks!
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  2912. It is amusing to think that scholars found the Jeu books to be overly decadent and baroque but find the apcryphon of John to be worthy of study, it’s not like John has page long lists of angels that corresponds with each body part or anything lol.
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  2913.  @TheEsotericaChannel  totally not a vampire
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  2914. I love your comments on Brill. Many of us think the same...
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  2915. Thanks for the wonderful university lecture content I can enjoy from home with a cup of coffee ☕ Cheers!
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  2916. Interesting knowledge, thanks for sharing.
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  2917. Ngl, when you said "monster-mancy" I had to rewind to catch everything I missed while yelling "We did the Mance! We did the MONSTER MANCE!" 😂
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  2918. This is the first video I watch on this channel and honestly I'm kinda enraptured about it, will watch more soon!
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  2919. Love the Christmas Ghost Story tradition you have going.
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  2920. The green flash with the "Your guess is as good as mine" was easy to identify the cause: you had an urge for absinthe and it came thru on the video. Green as a bean. Another interesting video.Thanks.
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  2921. Adding a couple extra bucks here on top on my Patreon subscription to say thanks. I’ve got a stable job now and I’m excited to return to supporting you. I watch your videos every week and I’m excited about the new Agrippa course.
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  2922. 🧿🙏💓
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  2923. I just watched the first video and was eagerly waiting for the followup. Great timing!
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  2924. Oh man, you got em Doc. You rock.
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  2925. I'm so happy to find your channel
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  2926. Thank you, Dr. sledge, you offer a truly enlightened education in the Arcane that is worth no less than thousands of dollars to people like me who could never afford such a valuable experience. You are a true friend to the seriously interested.
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  2927. 'Nother stellar episode! Thanks!
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  2928. An absolute banger 🔥
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  2929. Excellent content
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  2930. Third time watching this episode. Dr. Sledge really dropping the hammer on this one! Views per unit time is HUGE
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  2931. Excellent episode. After all of these years studying etymology, how the word “museum" escaped me… facepalm. Thank you, kind sir. 🎩
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  2932. I believe the figure in the Burney Relief isn't likely a common "lil" (spirit), because she is wearing the Crown and carrying the Ring and Rod. Ishtar wore that Crown, but so did Ereshkigal - because it was pretty much the standard crown all the Gods seemed to wear. The Ring and Rod, however, are what make me lean toward Ishtar here. I'm not sure if we ever see Ereshkigal holding those.... but I could easily be wrong there.
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  2933. Fantastic work as per always, Dr. Sledge, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the insight and knowledge I have attained through your videos, and I look forward to continuing this fascinating journey into the esoteric and Arcane. I also would love to see more collaborations with Atun-Shei films, perhaps diving into New Orleans voodoo or the native American contributions to hoodoo and similar southern folkways that are sadly often overlooked and understudied.
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  2934. Sweeeet! Great follow up to your last video! Thanks for all the great content.
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  2935. 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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  2936. YES! an esoterica on the headless god!
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  2937. @Esoterica While also Jungian-centered, how informed do you feel James Hillman was in traditional alchemy as compared to Jung or Elliade?
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  2938. oh my god i just got this video recommend to me after i finished my final research essay on noches lúgubres by jose cadalso and the gothic!!! fantastic video and such a fascinating topic!!!!!! edit: also. i remember watching one of your videos on alchemy last year when i was writing another final essay on frankenstein and alchemy. thank you for these videos again!!!!
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  2939. 🔥👊💯🙏
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  2940. I grew up with the craziness you’re talking about in the fundamental Christian church in the Deep South in the 1970s . It was so scary and yet, I’m at 5:52 of the video and I am laughing! This is very good therapy. Thank you 😊.
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  2941. best VPN commercial I've ever seen
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  2942. I love how this video appeared underneath every news vid I watched with Liz Truss in it today! Great vid too
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  2943. Happy All Hallow's Eve
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  2944. Just found your channel yesterday and am already 7 or 8 videos deep. Thanks so much for your work! I would love to see you do a playthrough of Cultist Simulator or Book of Hours to hear your thoughts on their lore. They've got a really great, fleshed out cosmology and I imagine there are a lot of real world influences on their worldbuilding that you could share some insight on. Every time I hear you mention "Mandean" i can't help but think of those games. Thanks again!
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  2945. Fascinating video! I had no idea that Freud mentioned Weyer, that is so cool, true father of psychiatry, even. Great stuff as usual, just bought 2 of your t-shirts, too! :)
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  2946. Ah death. My favourite topic
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  2947. My copy is arriving tomorrow. Amazon is selling it for €25 though their EU shop so if you're an eu citizen and want to save on postal costs, it's here
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  2948.  @TheEsotericaChannel  one thing I'm noticing, is that old esoteric texts are anything but dry. Or Neerav is a screed against critics with a side of insight. The apocryphon of john is basically a dale gribbled version of genesis. The mirror of simple spuls is a one humble nun dunking on her idiot male contemporaries Ancient religion is full of shade and I'm here for it
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  2949. Lol! Dude you're hilarious! I Love your academic approach and intellectual humility.
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  2950. Thank you Dr. Sledge. Timely and apropos. Really top shelf! It’s fascinating to me that just a couple of weeks ago I put together my own weekly ritual practice guide based in part on Francis Barrett’s 1801 “The Magus.”
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  2951. By the end it turned in a Cathartic Hahaha ! Luv thy humor 🙏🏼
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  2952. Thank you for that insightful and educational video. I have interested in alchemy for a long time but never knew exactly what it was about, now I have (at least) a clearer understanding of it. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
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  2953. Absolutely beautiful as always ancient Egyptian magic and religion is one of my favorite subjects thanks so much
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  2954. Hehe! Hi Gabriel! Great to see you here! Yes! we had some fun! ;) Your name got dropped more than once ;)
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  2955. I had to get out a dictionary to figure out what you were saying in your first few sentences. Lol
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  2956. Hey Dr. Sledge, QQ from a layperson: I've heard you use the word 'register' in many of your videos. I kind of intuit this (by context) to mean something like 'layer or tier of reality,' but I was wondering if you could clarify this term? It's a difficult one to google since it's a word with meaning in many other contexts.
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  2957. Makes me think of the memes that are basically "lol why can't i be dead".
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  2958. What a blessing this is
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  2959. This was a fantastic dialog and very comprehensive! Your content and presentation are always top notch!
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  2960. I am Christian as well and I dare not say this within our congregation but having read the Old Testament again, sometimes I feel like it was just a justification of ancient Israel for all the raiding and genocide they did. Having "divine right" to the land and being ordered to slaughter all those who are not them. It's not easy for me to type this.
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  2961. Dude, I was drinking a glass of absinthe while watching this. Crazy! And yes I'm absolutely interested in getting a bottle.
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  2962. Ghost stories for Christmas? I've always thought that was more of a Halloween tradition. Lol
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  2963. Your work is so valuable, thank u! Is there a way I can make one-time donations?
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  2964. Neurodivergent Agrippa = Confirmed
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  2965. Thank you so much. I love this work, and going into the academic work around the wise men and the star.
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  2966. Funny solomon spoke of a Headless demon/jinn as well Could be 1 in the same 😎
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  2967. codex that were not burnt.
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  2968. Epic series so far. Incredibly insightful and accessible. I look forward to finishing it.
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  2969. Fraud and junk :)) Big LOL just because I studied psychology and then I was : And now what? I could listen to you, unpacking, for hours :) Thk u ❣️
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  2970. Thanks for another great episode. Do you know of any books on Templars in Portugal? Like the new tune. Keep on rocking. 🤘🤘🤘
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  2971. I was thinking being mummified was part of their way of becoming immortal, somehow. I remember trying to read more about Seth on Google and read the story about Horus being killed so Anubis helps to kinda bring Horus back to life by mummifying Horus. Didn't realize their burial chambers had something to do with it too.
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  2972. Barbelo and the pleroma - immense fun
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  2973. 540k views in 5 days and already over 300k subs. Congratulations from a long time viewer, and get ready for the trolls and normies!
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  2974. Whew!
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  2975. Thanks for another interesting and educational video. To me, it is interesting how many of the ideas you speak about in your videos still permeate our world and our culture. Read about the subjects you present but the people who write about them only skim the knowledge you present.
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  2976. Thanks!
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  2977.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh sorry - I was assuming that’s what “heart surrounded by a serpent” meant. It was in one of the text boxes you put up. Was that something different? This is so fascinating!
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  2978. Thanks!
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  2979. Shalom Dr Sledge! I thought I had commented before on this so I apologize if I've spammed your video. I wanted to add engagement and offer my thanks for your time and willingness to share your knowledge. I went through a satanic panic in my own teenage years in the 90s. I don't want to go far into it but it caused years of confusion in my own personal and spiritual life in order to distance myself from the accusations of a mentally ill family member and the subsequent panic of my deeply religious Christian family of Catholic, Mainline Protestant and Charismatics. I remember some of the con men who were happy to encourage fear for personal gain like Mike Warnke and Bob Larson who were happy to sell their books, tapes and promote their tours.
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  2980. Lisa needs braces!
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  2981. Hey professor thanks for opening up to educate us. Takes balls, takes heart... takes a real one. Love you man.
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  2982. Thank you for your generosity, knowledge and relatability. You make it so digestible and nourishing. I for one would love to see a course on Merkavah Mysyicism.
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  2983. Been waiting for this video since you announced it. Love learning about Thoth.
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  2984. madness doesn't know time periods
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  2985. I greatly respect you and your channel. Really excellent, fascinating work. It has also allowed me to speak to my highly religious relatives on a new level. Keep it up! @TheEsotericaChannel 
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  2986. Can't wait to watch, I love your vids Doc. Have you considered covering Enochian Chess?
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  2987. Thanks!
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  2988. Thanks for opening up about your experience at the end. Sounds really horrible.
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  2989. "The More You Gno" Da da da daw (rainbow star)
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  2990. Oh man. Saying Christianity stemmed from Judaism? Prepare for some backlash.. Haha :p
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  2991. "Good Guy Stoic Hunk" lol 🤣
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  2992. Mahalo Dr Sledge for your well researched and succinct offerings. You are making a difference for my spiritual sisterhood, as we make the etymological discoveries of ancient history during our sojourn into the forensic study of the Dominant Paradigm. Your work is by far my favorite Esoteric source, bc you are so amazingly thorough and thoughtful. We are blessed
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  2993. Love your channel & the terrific information you share! I also really appreciate your levity... so many scholars are either egomaniacs or overwhelmingly dry in their presentations. I feel neither from you. Thanks for the wealth of knowledge, and for keeping it real! 🤙
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  2994. Necromantrix IS an awesome word, and will surely be a character name some day
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  2995. 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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  2996. Happy to see your growth Dr. Justin Sledge X 😎😊👍🏻🙌🏻✨🔥🔥🔥✨👌🏻✊🏻
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  2997. You seem so cool man, been listening to you for hours. Love the way you instruct, your passion about history, specifically the texts actually warm my heart. You sir, we're a great find. Also, videos are tight man - from intro, to lesson, to conclusion you have a nice lil 30 min window for each of these nuggs. Keep up the great work.
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  2998. Some YEARS Ago, I would have Screamed: "This Is What I've Been LOOKING For!!" As for now..? Yeah, I'm definitely interested! Thank You for your time and Work! Ohh wow!.. 😳
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  2999. Thank you for another fascinating and educational video
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  3000.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Holy Malleus Maleficarum Batman, I paid less than $1200 for a good used car. Whew, Brill is crazy
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  3001. lol. I’ve done the super thanks option and gotten one of your awesome black metal t shirts ( look for me wearing it all over X), but what I want to know is when will you be teaching classes or doing lectures on your Patreon channel? Because, you know, that would be an awesome addition.
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  3002. dark academia vibes
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  3003. In a thousand years, how will YouTube videos be found? The mind boggles.
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  3004. Such a delightful treat for us today. Thank you for presenting.
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  3005. Superb, utterly superb! For those interested in taking it further the divine Alphonso Lingis has a fine essay on Mishima called ''The Insistence on correspondence'' in (I think) ''Foreign Bodies''. Also well worth a look for the body-mysticism of Mishima, Daniel Paul Schreber and others is Brian Dillon's ''Nine Hypochodriac Lives''. The whole set of connections between sickness-unto death, convalescence and a mystical ''higher health'' is fascianting, from Plato''s Myth of Er to the lives and works of Nietzsche and Artaud and Lenkeiwicz's oddly sexualised identification with Saint Antony. Many many many thanks for this episode!
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  3006. L'shanah tova. :)
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  3007. Binge watching 😊 feel like I'm in a college course class with every vid. I work with my hands w/Bluetooth headphones phone in pocket but even so it doesn't do me justice without the visual aspect, the images that are shown give a better picture 🖼️
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  3008. Fama Fraternitatas fans after searching for the Rosacrucians and not finding any: "Maybe the real Rosacrucians are the friends we made along the way."
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  3009. Oh my G-d you passing by in the Netherlands, should offer you some Orval beer
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  3010. As soon as you said 'Born Again' my brain sparked and started to wonder about the connection to modern day evangelicals, so glad you brought it up. So many of the explanations, images and exact words in the text you presented is strikingly similar of the salvation process and how the the power of Jesus is explained within those churches today. I've known that many of those branches started in germany in the early 19th century but I've always wondered where they got the idea. For over 30 years I've never understood where they've come up with this talk as I never was able to directly correlate it to scripture. And trying to wrap your head around it as a kid without the backstory of how these interpretation came to be, I always felt it being very detached and hard to make the connection. Of course most people in those circles do not care and do not know how these thoughts emerged historically. And trust me it's not encouraged to go study for yourself. Thanks for Finally bringing this piece to the puzzle to me! People in these groups always speak about their teachings as immutable facts, and it's so awesome to see the progression of how these concepts evolved over time and the connection to alchemy. This made me warm and fuzzy inside :) (Is the transformation happening)
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  3011. Maybe a video on Wilhelm Reich? He had a lot to say on the death wish, and was also a mystic
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  3012. Just found your channel. This is fantastic. Really enjoying the depth and articulation of the ideas.
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  3013. 🙏💜
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  3014. Great video! I’m a comic book creator and I’ve had so many ideas for a female villain listening to this haha 😅
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  3015. The ascended master Kimmy Gibler!!😂
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  3016. Sir I am totally impressed with all of the languages that you know and understand! Thank you for sharing your knowledge of and understanding of the beliefs of humanity a long long time ago!
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  3017.  @TheEsotericaChannel  You're very welcome and thank you again for all your hard work on the channel 💙 May the Algorithm Demons always serve you well 😈
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  3018. Happy you and Angela are covering AOS 🥰❤
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  3019. This is my jimmyjam.
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  3020. A true mathmagician. A practitioner of mathemagics.
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  3021. This video is brilliant, thank you for posting it. I am struggling through the Mackay consumer edition myself, and when you were introducing the topic I couldn't help but think "It sounds like he's read the same one I'm reading!". I keep getting stuck in the argumentation though. I almost feel like I need to write a summary of the argumented topics as if I were writing an undergrad paper just to get my head around what's being said. It can be hard to keep track of whether you're reading the "false" or "true" arguments.
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  3022. I have just recently read a book by David Rankine on how to conjure treasure spirits for the purpose of finding treasure. So.......
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  3023. By coincidence got done with work early today so I have three hours to sit and listen to this while I organize the 3,000+ character portraits I downloaded for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I'm a sad man. Anyway, I'm sure I'll have comments on the video by the end.
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  3024. Thanks
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  3025. "The first rule of קַבָּלָה Club is: You do not write about קַבָּלָה Club." -Rabbi Saggi Nehor, probably
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  3026. I'm a liberal arts/religion professor too. Academic freedom is imperative.
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  3027. I'm trying to get some reliable books on ophitic gnosticism at the moment. Any pointers?
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  3028. The renegade physician-alchemist Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenheim?
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  3029. Sir you are a national treasure
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  3030. 24:00 got her breakthrough in the industry, proud of her
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  3031. Fantastic episode! Illuminating and inspiring to further reading on related topics 👏🏼🔥❤️
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  3032. Thanks!
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  3033. Let’s goooooo!
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  3034. That was brilliant
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  3035. I’ve recently come to your channel and I gotta say I’m loving everything on here. It truly is excellent. I’ve read Montaillou and was fascinated by that world, but I was left scratching my head wondering how these peasants in the mountains of Languedoc became enmeshed in the complicated theology of gnosticism replete with a counter-clergy. Not that peasants couldn’t come to believe in heretical or even intellectual theological ideas, but I was really curious about the process by which that happened - especially with it’s supposed origins in Bulgaria. This idea that it was a misreading of local idiosyncratic religious practices and weaved into a grand conspiracy to destroy the church makes a lot more sense to me. Cheers, and keep up the good work!
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  3036. Thanks for the video. I worked with The Arbatel in 2016-2017. I successully summoned Spirits and they gave me knowledge of many things and insights.
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  3037. Now /that/ is a cliffhanger
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  3038. Love it! 🤟
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  3039. I would be interested, if you haven't published one yet, in a video on how one can reconcile faith with a knowledge of the mutation of the nature of the mythology around God over time. That's the major question in my head these days: how does one maintain or justify having faith when the evidence invariably leads one to make the conclusion that none of these gods exist, that they are all man-made.
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  3040. 🌞
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  3041. Love your honesty- and professionalism. Thanks for this post! Very interesting.
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  3042. When I saw the commujity post, the 8-rayed symmetry of 3 of the aion sigils immediately caught my attention, as did the name "Jeu" which I thought of as "the hieroglyphist in his letter". I wonder if there is some type of resonance between Venus/Inanna and these aions, and I wonder if there is any etymologicsl connection between these two "Jeu"s.
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  3043. Thanks!
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  3044. Absolutely masterpiece from you. Why you're so cool? pff. One of my favorite channels. Like to drink a coffe while listening to this wonderful piece of media
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  3045. My man you are so prolific. Do you do nothing but eat sleep and shit history? I appreciate it nonetheless
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  3046. “Every time I see a bright eyed 25 year old communist quoting the divine scriptures of Karl….” Not me a 25 year old who recently got into Marxism after becoming irreligious haha 👀😂 beautiful episode, thank you Dr. for your sharing this content, and would love to see videos on the various topics you mentioned!
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  3047. Back in the 80s I loved heavy metal and D&D. I am a compulsive drawer, not very good one but I enjoy it, and was drawing Eddy from Iron Maiden. The old man was sure I was satanic. Maybe the beatings had a bit more oomph to them afterwards? P.S. Satanic panic and air raid sirens being tested every 6 months didn't make for a great adolescence.
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  3048. Thanks!
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  3049. No words can express the gratitude I have for your channel.
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  3050. I'd love some more speculative videos you do a great job of making clear it is speculation but make a great argument I feel like someone could take this and work up a thesis
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  3051. Thanks! I really appreciate your work.
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  3052. What about the book by Francesco an anatomy of God
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  3053. I've learned to adjust my expectations and now I learn much as I expected from every one of Dr. Sledge's episodes 😁
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  3054. Dude, you get a like and sub just for that dry ass joke. Great lecture though. So many talk about the mysticism of it all, but you give cold facts which is hella cool. I really like your style too.
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  3055. “What is now proved was once only imagined.” William Blake. He just saw things in brilliantly different ways and opened doors "To see the world in a grain of sand..."
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  3056. I totally agree with you sir concerning the best book, Eclesiastes,👍
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  3057. Christianity is very difficult. This is not to say the other religions are not. But it is not praying for wealth and judging others or condemning so-called Pagans or other faiths.
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  3058. 27:18 i love to see the inclusion of homosexuality as it was and also in a scholarly fasion. bravo
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  3059. "by nathan's hammer!" could be a blessing uttered to find secrets in unexpected places or after such a find. have a wonderful day.
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  3060. One of these but for like Archangel Michael would be dope
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  3061. Ya gotta start somewhere,...even if it's...wrong!
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  3062. A history of Halloween and Samhain video in the works lol
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  3063. Thank you so much for your continued dedication to this work. It's indescribably appreciated. Thank you
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  3064. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo Your screen tags are especially good, keep having to pause to fully appreciate them
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  3065. Thank you for the humility. I think you are right.
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  3066. Thanks!
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  3067. Most enlivening! Thank you for this introduction.
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  3068. Will be including you in my special thanks section in the book!
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  3069. Dude I just want to say thank you so much! This information is something I've been interested in for a long time but not something I would take the time to sit down and study and depth in detail. I'm so glad to be able to listen to this while I work. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing the information! I'll be listening to the whole playlist, came on to this from your Solomon seal lesser key video as you might imagine 😁
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  3070. Stoicism is the crown for which enlightenment stays humble. It is possessing all the strengths of this world and the spirit one, but choosing to participate and thrive in society and not become a “hermit” It’s how the enlightened stay humble with their newly given powers. It’s the “antidote” to having so much power and not being able to contain it. It’s the set of rules he enlightened are forced to go by to thrive in a world of ignorance in practical society. We can’t always stay in the heavens… we must build an outter temple as well as the inner. 🙏
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  3071. "Edge people" made me giggle.
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  3072. You study hard wow your knowledge is amazing
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  3073. Well, this series is just phenomenal!!! I am listening to it in a loop and intend to come back to it to take notes and look into the suggested readings (affordable ones of course), as it is fascinating to me to study up on the practices of my forebears. Practices which were sorely lacking in my own upbringing, and to note are of great interest to me. Thank you so very much Dr. Sledge!!! Your expertise and summations on these very complex subjects is/are most appreciated!!!!
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  3074. Very interesting episode on your wonderful, binge-worthy channel, thank you so much for your work and greetings from - of all places - Leipzig
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  3075. Thanks!
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  3076. Slavoj Zizek’s lecture on Todestreib is impeccable.
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  3077. THANK YOU!! this is all so helpful to beginning the journey of alchemy! God bless
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  3078. This is great stuff. Thank you.
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  3079. Can you please talk about all this with Dr. Richard Carrier some time? I would give my soul to see it happen.
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  3080. This channel is it's own form of treasure magic. All you got to do is click one of his videos and you're rewarded with the treasure of knowledge. Also every video boosts your wisdom by +1.
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  3081. Considering both my Mormon parents grew up during the height of the panic, imagine their horror when I came out of the closet as a metal fan. Still love them tho, imperfect but solid parents
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  3082. Always had the sense that Dr. Sledge was one of the best but the mention of the Peleset really crystallized this for me.
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  3083. Thank you both, gentleman🎉
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  3084. I really appreciate the huge amount of work you do for your research, it's really complex and informative of such diverse aspects of a topic. I'm astounded.
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  3085. One of my favorite texts from this period, and the best of all time against what Nietzsche called "other world theories."
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  3086. Aquinus reference! Everyone take a shot.
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  3087. Rabbinical can do Southern! There's no Psychic Association in NOLA or Biloxi. Makes the mystical difficult. You'd think people would group up to sell psy defense to stop getting random phone calls to the forehead in the middle of the night. Gotta be a thing.
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  3088. "Spearshaft Like a Weavers Beam: A story of one Amazon women's insatiable wander lust" The fans of Esoterica can write it here. Even the title and premise are open for suggestions!
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  3089. I've listened to the whole "Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism" playlist at 1.25 speed while driving from saint petersburg to tambov, 1100 km. Time well spent. Thanks for the content.
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  3090. Nah I’m definitely firmly nestled in team “proto-orthodoxy.” St. Irenaeus is a hero of mine and my local parish has a historical connection to him. I just enjoy hearing what the other sides have to say.
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  3091. this is a classic!
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  3092. Thanks!
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  3093. I am shocked that this is the first time I have watched one of your videos. And that I wasn't subscribed! But I am now! And as soon as I get my little girl back home and back on my feet financially, I will be donating. How very fascinating!
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  3094. I wonder if Thoth being thrice great (and master of Heka) has any association with Hecate, the triple GodDess of the Moon and Magick.
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  3095. Stellar Ray Theory is an absolutely fascinating subject and completely new to me. Now I am so obsessed. Thank you.
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  3096. Me, an Old Rite Catholic: cackling at the Latin and crazy stuff we snuck in
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  3097. Now I want an astrolab😂
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  3098. Have you considered the gnostic influence on esoteric Islamic philosophy?
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  3099. I know I'm late to the boat, but this content is what I've been craving for many lives.
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  3100. Hey Doc....I just purchased one of your long sleeved Sigilum Dei Aemeth shirts (I hope it's good cotton) and a couple of stickers for my chopper.. I don't usually put stickers on her..however... I'll be showing these off... I just wanted to say how much I love your channel and have been watching for a long time.. I apologise for not being able to support your work more.. you do deserve it that for sure..but ..you know..moneys tight for dummies like me.. Your work certainly expands my knowledge and..well....cheers ... I love your work....alot.
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  3101. If I didn’t already say so, this was an excellent and concise run thru much if what I was aware of and curious to hear, and some excellent additional notch in my knowledge — the reminder that a Biblical description was describing the Heavenly Host, Elohim’s “Children”, Gods. Also nice to he reminded of the schism regarding the loss of Asherah.
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  3102. My penance today is hearing the description of the leper scene, just after I take the last bite of my sandwich 🤮
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  3103. Thanks!
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  3104. Just bought your gnostic and alchemical balance shirts. As a non religious student of history and...revolutionary thought? (generally marxist or radical thought) i really appreciate how you contextualize these texts, as i find the contents fascinating, and i greatly appreciate the context and sourcing . Its very interesting to me to see how so many religious texts are in some way a revolution in either religious/mystical thought while also having note worthy impact on the socioeconomics of the time these ideas emerge ❤❤❤
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  3105. Can you see if Anderson Todd would like to be on the channel. He’s a criminally underrated youtuber and colleague of John Vervake. Love his content on alchemy.
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  3106. Truly fascinating. I'm a huge fan of your lectures-- especially Gnosticism and the Cathar heresies. In other words-- how the Catholic church reacted to those who had differing beliefs. The Inquisition falls into the category. Great work.
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  3107. I wish more of my university professors could lecture this well
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  3108. i really enjoy your videos! very informative and i love the humor you bring to them. thank you so much for sharing all this information <3
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  3109. could you please do an episode on Florence Farr? She's pretty awesome and I'm always surprised by how few modern occultist even know her name.
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  3110. Flowing, Flirting, Falling. Thanks for this insight!
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  3111. 007!
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  3112. I really appreciate your willingness to grab the third rail here. I especially liked the statement that public education is the furthest thing from vainity.
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  3113. I don't know that the appetite for "secret knowledge" has ever left the Christian community. Books that claim to "decode" the biblical predictions for our future sure seem to sell well today.
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  3114. Person: how are you ? Me: tattering into non being
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  3115. Dziękujemy.
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  3116. 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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  3117. Awesome teaching today!!! Thanks, Justin! ✌️🦄
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  3118. I don't think Rabbi Akiba wouldn't be amused finding himself aroused and suddenly in the body of a fanboy... I imagine him being a grumpy old man with a "Get of mah lawn!" attitude. 😂
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  3119. Brilliant work! I finally ordered a tshirt from your shop! Love your delivery and well thought out presentation.
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  3120. - Darn... 45 minutes of yet another video on god... and I am atheist... I love history but I'm definitely not going into it. ... 45 minutes later ... - JUST 45 minutes? I could have easily gone into 6 hours of documentary in episodes for such a well presented, honest academic content, reviewing every corner of history. THANKS!!!! Minor suggestion: Edition... having a small map on a corner flagging places as you talk, and an always displayed century indicator/timeline at the top as you advance in time, would definitely be very helpful.
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  3121. really enjoyed this!
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  3122. You rule dude. Thanks for this channel, thanks for all you do. $20 a month to get you out of the poverty wage cycle is easy enough for me to do. I was stuck in that once upon a time. If I had an ask? Content that actually goes into text/ritual analysis would be amazing (I may not be articulating this well, you do this fairly often, but like, leave procedure and such unsaid a lot). At this stage, my learning bottleneck is a willingness to sit the hell down and read books (still need to read old testament parallels cover to cover), but I dunno, you've pointed me towards some pretty amazing religious works (hi, mirror of simple souls), and I can't thank you enough for that.
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  3123. Thank you for doing a video on Thoth!
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  3124. Thank you Dr. Sledge! We are grateful for your hard work, and for holding a space on the internet for informed discourse on big ideas...a virtual haven for respectful, thinking people. You, sir, are a lighthouse. Please except my small periodic monetary contributions though they are not reflective of the compensation you deserve (i'm am but a humble artisan!) Truly, thanks you!
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  3125. Excellent
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  3126. Dee was obviously a genius and Kelley obviously a reprobate. Either Kelley was more clever than we think, or less of a reprobate than we think - or Dee was so absorbed by the possibilities that he gave Kelley far too much slack. It ended badly for them both, unsurprisingly. The whole ear cutting/wife swapping/treasure hunting thing is really hard to swallow whole. I think Hollywood would only add to the confusion, with drastic alteration of the facts to suit some love interest character that the producer has slept with.
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  3127. Thank you for this set of summaries in particular and for this channel in general.
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  3128. If I find anything, I'll be calling you from the antichamber to get us through the traps. "The Pentient Man Kneels!"
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  3129. Excellent discussion!! I came for the devil but stayed for the demon semen
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  3130. Sir. Your videos are a breath of fresh informative air. Completely objective and unbiased and your humor is great. Female autonomy being the terror of basic bros everywhere is a hilariously golden statement that I am going to propagate whenever possible moving forward.
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  3131. Outstanding! I’d love to see a deeper dive into the connections in the future. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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  3132. I've been learning quite a lot! Thank you so much.
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  3133. Such a phenomenal video! Syncretism played such a fascinating role in this period.
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  3134.  @TheEsotericaChannel  - That's the treasure that keeps on giving!
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  3135. I attended a Victorian seance reenactment and educational talk on Victorian Spiritualism at a local history society last Halloween season, and the woman acting as the medium (who also did the educational talk afterwards) touched on many of these topics, but not in this depth. I was fascinated then, and am incredibly grateful for the added depth of information you've added here. Much food for thought.
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  3136. Thanks!
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  3137. Who in the comments section has used the ars notoria?
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  3138. Thanks for your heartfelt wishes. And for this wonderful holiday present. And in my tradition, I wish a Merry Christmas to all.
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  3139. Thank you for covering this subject and sharing your knowledge. I first encountered these works of Blake in, of all places, a tabletop Role Playing Game Lords of Creation (1983), by Tom Moldvay. He even went so far as to include stat blocks for the Family of Los! I don't know Moldvay's background, but it might be worth looking at LoC from an esoteric perspective. There is a LOT of strange and unexpected stuff in there.
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  3140. sheol
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  3141. Pretty intense.
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  3142. 112k subscribers now. Well done!
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  3143. My only question is what drinks pair with marathoning your videos
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  3144. ... 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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  3145. the answer is booze! I KNEW IT!
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  3146. “Checkmate Stoicism.” Awesome!
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  3147. Great Lecture my friend, thank you
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  3148. Book came in the mail yesterday and just from skimming through the introductions and the first dialogue I know could spend the rest of my life pouring through these pages, that I’ll probably do that.
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  3149. Finally overcoming my laziness and happy to thank you and support you for all your hard work and excellent content!
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  3150. Thanks! So happy you called out the New age Atlantean B.S. lol . Any book recommendations for the Heka practitioner? I have a couple. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice by Robert Ritner Magic in ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch PGM & PDM Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World by Richard J. Reidy The priests of Ancient Egypt by Serge Sauneron Heka by David Rankine Ancient Egypt magical Text by J.F Borghouts
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  3151. A beautiful, fruitful, and harmonious New Calendar Year to you, my friend! Cheers!
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  3152. Hadewijch definitely had strong wimple game - thanks so much for such an interesting and well-made video, Justin.
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  3153. I got so much out of this video. I really hope that you have more in the future with this kind of depth and wonderful explanations of things that someone like me who is not a scientist or scholar just a curious person who just wants to know can fully comprehend and appreciate subjects like this. Thank you 🙏
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  3154. I really appreciate how easy you made it to digest all this really good information. Thanks so much
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  3155. I love your channel. You're amazing. Thank you so much.
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  3156. Well this was unexpected! ;)
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  3157. You and this channel just get more and more awesome with each video you post. Kudos sir!
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  3158. This video was incredible. The Bracha Shehakol before drinking the alchemy medicine was a cherry on top!
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  3159. I’m excited for you to get 1 million subscribers!
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  3160. I enjoy your antiques and knickknacks 😊 I appreciate you and your team, Good Work!
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  3161. This techniques of interrogation sounds a lot like Mexico jails today. 😂
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  3162. Thanks! Its been a great lecture series!
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  3163. Thanks, brother! :)
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  3164. Thank you! I always enjoy your expositions and really appreciate your wry sense of humor.
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  3165. Greatly enjoying...
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  3166. Love your work!
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  3167. Thank you, Dr. Sledge. I think you just helped me find my "spirit animal" in Lady Anne. If there's anything that doesn't resonate with me later on, I might add an addendum, but from your initial summarization, it certainly sounds like she's hit upon many of the same issues as I've figured out.. only it's taken considerably long, it seems, from the look of her portrait, but the minds of the era seemed somehow broader for many diligent students of every discipline. Thanks so much for sharing your insights and information. You're definitely the best resource I've found with regard to these topics. Many thanks 🙏.
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  3168. Frontal lobe epilepsy has already been linked to mystical experience.
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  3169. Thank you so much for this video! I truly loved the conversation. ❤❤
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  3170. Great episode as always! I like your suggestion to identify copies which exist. At least 11 of these texts are extant in the ms Ghent University, BHSL.HS.1021. I updated the notes in my web version accordingly. More to come.
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  3171. Thanks!
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  3172. This was fascinating
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  3173. Thank you, from one Justin to another. Ive already got a pint for the occasion! 🍻
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  3174. Wow, this sounds so fascinating but I must admit I had trouble understanding most of it.
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  3175. I love this channel. These videos are so fun, with the Chopin and the woodcuts. They just have a great "feel" to them that's perfect for the subject matter.
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  3176. Awesome
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  3177. Thanks for making this type of stuff accessible by a pleb like myself. You were the first place I was exposed to the esoteric and I’m not sure how I would have been able to get to the point I’m at now without you as a resource.
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  3178. You make the day of Venus complete 💕 Deep high this one 🙏
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  3179. The bible makes game of thrones look like fisher Price! 😂😂 Might need this printed on some merch. I just discovered this content and I'm loving everything about it. There are so many hidden gems in these videos. Worth watching through them twice if you have the time.
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  3180. I wanna see this video reach a million views.
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  3181. Great presentation! Thanks as always for further reading recommendations
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  3182. You keep expanding my mind in directions I wouldn't have known to go. Thank you, Dr Sledge.
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  3183. It took me few unfortunate minutes trying to figure out how dueling fit in with a sect of Christianity. Maybe too much D&D and duelist clerics? Fascinating history though
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  3184. Dr. Justin lights up like a firefly when he gets to talk about alchemy. 🤩
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  3185. These videos are great. Keep it up
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  3186. As someone that taught themselves into a decades long tech, infosec to be specific, career, I’m always blown away by your channel. I wish I had access to this level of information on every topic I find fascinating. I appreciate the insight you provide to someone that’s just starting down this particular path of knowledge.
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  3187. Jibber-Jabber?!? 😆
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  3188. Absolutely great video. Very, very informative. Well laid out. Just a great video. I was on the right informative path all the time.
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  3189. Surely the name of "the Esoterica ... place" would be the Esotericum.
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  3190. Whenever i hear stories about some kind of "Perfecti" based on a moral purity fetish rooted in the rejection of the "earthly valley of tears" i always am reminded of the "Skoptsy" sect... * shivers *
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  3191. I’ve been getting these too
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  3192. Another spectacular intro!
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  3193. I really enjoy your videos. So glad I have found your channel!
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  3194. Thank you to everyone who supports him financially! I'm at the poverty level and could never be able to access this type of content without you!
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  3195. Christians practising magic is normal.cuz. he is supernatural......we trust the unseen........not what is seen! Every Christian suppose to see beyond the human mind.....meaning in spirit......if u can not see in spirit.it means u don't know who he is.. He is invincible and a a ghost! The holy ghost. To fight evil ....we can only do it in spirit.....if we want result. Gd will answer any request if we are holy holy holy........we can kill enemies get rich ECT ECT ECT.......If we know the rituals......when u don't know the rituals....Satan owns u.cuz he knows .u don't know the deep mystical secrets. Jesus. Was prophecied. By wise Men....cuz they were magi. And they knew the stars and the heavens. They saw his star in the heavens ......SPIRITUALLLY..............but others could not see.cuz their eyes were closed to see the unseen Gd is the 1 who. Opens your 3th.eye........when u are prayerful and are close to him. Nobody else can see wonders if their eyes are closed
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  3196. You and your work are much appreciated, Happy Samhain Dr. Sledge! 🎃
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  3197. exactly the information i was looking for, happy i found your channel!
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  3198. Thank you sooo much!! I had no idea to be honest that there wasn't much historical evidence for Alexandria or that basically what I thought of its history is myth. I was really happy to hear you mention Ashurbanipal, as well. Books, libraries, writing and languages are all very very dear to me. Who knows maybe we will find more lost works in places like Herculaneum, especially as our technology grows to try and recover them.
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  3199. I yelled ghost busters lol
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  3200. Your mileage my vary lol
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  3201. This video flew by, was crammed with insight, and I got a new band name. Then I remembered its a 25 minute video. I'm glad I found this channel.
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  3202. I am looking forward to more on Paracelsus’ processual thought. The idea of thing-as-process instead of thing-as-substance has captured my mind repeatedly in recent years. It brings to mind Nagarjuna’s interpretation of the concept of Sunyata (emptiness) in the Mādhyamaka buddhist tradition. To summarize, the concept claims all things as we see them are actually a bundle of interconnections with other things. Nothing is independent, nor made up of itself. Connection and interrelation give all things their nature. Filip Holm had a great video on it on his channel Let’s Talk Religion (I know Dr. Sledge is already well-acquainted with Holm). I really should make time to read Paracelsus. His philosophy and dynamism may yet yield valuable tools for looking at the world.
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  3203. Love this channel, hope this introduction will help bring in more viewers. Have an immense amount of work to the rigorous academic educational content you bring to a subject matter too often fraught with misinformation.
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  3204. I just finished reading Skinner’s work on this. Thanks for making a video on it.
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  3205. I was in tears as I read Parapvnk scrolling up the screen when it finally hit me what it said.
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  3206. 🤙 Aloha Dr. Sledge a banquet for contemplation MAHALO !!! to all who $$$ support here. For there are those of us, who at this time can not. Getting my 2nd 'rona jab today there is an opening yay yay yay I may miss the live stream if happening (order & chaos) Shalom Hoaloha 🤙
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  3207. Awesome and super-informative channel. Thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  3208. Always look forward to your videos ❤
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  3209. always enjoy your talks. just FYI in case you are unaware, the (auto-?) captioning in some spots on this vid seems to mistake the word "esoterism" as "terrorism". in case you find your work inexplicably demonetized, maybe something to check on. (Though as they say, you can't spell "demonetize" without "demon".)
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  3210. Thanks for the tale. Very interesting as always on your channel.
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  3211. >Echos of The Ninth Gate intensifies< Love the channel! Peace and blessings from Vegas🙏
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  3212. overall a really scholarly and well done video, good job!
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  3213. Talk about finding what you love and let it kill you.
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  3214. Such an amazing book for such a low price compared to some of the brill books in my personal library. A great holiday gift for myself. Also, thanks for bringing this content to us. It's humbling to be a part of this discourse and I'm happy that you got to meet one of your heroes. I'd feel the same if I ever run into you in my wanderings.
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  3215. my guess is the risk of being burned alive by reading these books is from an irate librarian who saw you lick your finger before turning the page
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  3216. Thanks good man. I appreciate you and your channel much, the learnings you share are gifts to the mind and soul.
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  3217. No matter the particular topic of these videos, the rad humor is always there helping me not only make my brain more awesome, but also making me chuckle, then cackle like a witch myself sometimes… Thank you for all the great material, educated knowledge, inside view of this world, and balanced entertainment. Truly appreciate your humor. lol
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  3218. As a boy, I was thoroughly indoctrinated by Mormonism. Whew, glad to have escaped that nutty cult. Nowadays, standing on the outside, looking in, religion remains fascinating in a car crash kinda way. But today's Christian nationalism is far more terrifying than some ancient devil-guy. Evangelicals (claiming prophetic power) have become modern-day inquisators in tailored suits. Love your scholarship. Keep shining your bright light!
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  3219. What a gem of a channel to come across. Subscribed!.
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  3220. Kidneys do be at a premium these days...
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  3221. @ ever uplifting doc lmao
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  3222. Technical question: using demons to build the temple wouldn't defile it? Make it unusable?
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  3223. I found your channel early this year and I had a really rough year and my mom, brother, and I had a falling out with our extended family and we had to strenuously move out then back into our modular home right after m high school graduation and now we are poorer than ever, but this channel has given me an escape into the riches of the spiritual past and made the hours feel productive and entertaining. It really feels like you are my teacher and I love your sense of humor. Thank you for doing all of this work and giving us these beautiful lessons for free.
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  3224. Thank you very much Dr. Sledge!
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  3225. Fascinating overview of Hermeticism (let's just hope you don't suffer the unforgiving wrath of the Ascended Master Kimmy Gibbler lol) Thanks for the great content!
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  3226. Thanks!
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  3227. Madd props, Doc, channel is fiya! Thank you🙌🏻
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  3228. On a mother trucking Tuesday!! Dr sledge you shouldn't have.
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  3229. I'm late this week.....
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  3230. JOHN DEE WIFE SWAP MOVIE WHEN???
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  3231. Great analysis, thank you
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  3232. Kudos 👏 I love your objective observations and the care you take with your material. You are doing a great job. 👍This is exactly what I was looking for.
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  3233. What a treasure 🙏❤
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  3234. You are a fantastic gentleman and scholar and I appreciate the videos you make. I love playing them while working out or cooking.
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  3235. Thanks
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  3236. I do prefer the Silmarillion, thank you sir~
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  3237. Thank you so much for this series!
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  3238. 32:38 . Something about this @ESOTERICA episode has encouraged me to immediately support the channel on Patreon. Also, can we get an ESOTERICA D&D group together? Running a campaign now, and after 50 applications, I still have 5 spots open. Love to have you Dr. Sledge! Mondays at 6 starting on the 9th of October 2023!
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  3239. ❤‍🔥Agape est LUX ❤‍🔥
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  3240. Wonderful discussion! Your depth of knowledge and passion for the material really shines through. I almost did the same MA program in Amsterdam, I don’t doubt we would’ve been friends. What was your overall impression of the program and your time there?
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  3241. Thank you Sir. The more you describe these text the more connections i see with Rosicrucianism and freemasonry. This text sounds a lot like the alchemical wedding of Christian Rosenkrutz. ❤❤❤
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  3242. amazing! your videos always seem to be so timely for me, I've just bought a collection of blake's works to read over winter break!! ive always loved his artwork but haven't gone more in depth with him than the marriage of heaven and hell so this was an awesome primer :D
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  3243. I bought myself a book on hermes trismegistus for Christmas thanks to you. I'm super excited
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  3244. I always revel in the amount of scholarship you do on these episodes, but I appreciate the use of humor too. Thank you.
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  3245. Thank you for your great videos!
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  3246. Agree!
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  3247. This was a great episode. It seems that science has not departed far from alchemy since it is still hypothetical speculations mixed with some truth and the ever present clash between different interpretations of experimental results.
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  3248. You are such a gem. Don't stop with your content.
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  3249. I have it as a bit of a side project to try to find anything that Aristotle didn't get wrong. I haven't been successful so far
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  3250. Wow. Thank you.
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  3251. Thanks!
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  3252. Hands down thee most interesting and knowledgeable video of the vms and def a breathe of fresh air finally a real researcher with actual level headed conclusions that are worth listening to — love this channel
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  3253. Thanks!
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  3254. I like the way you present the topic and how your message is delivered. I will do my best to support your channel and spread the word of what you are doing. Thanks for the effort.
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  3255. Fantastic video! How have I missed you so far? Subbed.
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  3256. Tak!
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  3257. I’m understanding more and more that the origins of Christianity comes from Judaism. All of the “casting out demons” gets blamed on the Greeks and Romans. People forget about Solomon.
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  3258. Wonderful guest and discussion, thank you! Just subscribed to her channel 💙✨
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  3259. Gotta love this channel. Always leaves me with curious questions to ponder and the desire to learn more. Keep doing what you're doing!
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  3260. So when is the Frankism one coming? If I get emailed another Robert sepher link by another person I'm deleting Facebook
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  3261. Could you consider moving the text for your sources and additional information to the top of the screen or even just slightly higher than the bottom in future videos? I need to use closed captions and I have to start and stop the video all the time with CC on and off to catch what you've written down there. I super appreciate your videos and all the study that goes into them, I just wish they were slightly more accessible. <3
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  3262. Really grateful for this work, and have subscribed to Dr Dizwiza's page! I'm a clinical social worker. I have been reading cards since I was 15. I learned on the Crowley deck. As someone who works in an oral method (talk therapy), as well as an image based one via cartomancy, I truly appreciate this opportunity to more deeply connect to this side of this kind of spiritual work and to connect to our ancient past. To me, it speaks to the collective unconscious.
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  3263. This was fascinating-thank you! I learned so many things. Didn’t expect the humor, which is wonderful.
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  3264. People come here because it is INTERESTING!! Humour: dry, droll, very good. Straight faced. Content: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Thank you for taking the time to inform us and teach us (the Kabbalah series was really interesting). I came here from Zevi's channel, so thanks to him too! Live long and be happy.
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  3265. Missed you posting the last week. I always look forward to your vids, Justin. You are much appreciated.
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  3266. You're truly appreciated in my house, thank you so much for your hard work!
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  3267. Right Livelihood you have found seems to suit you. Keep it Lit. <3
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  3268. Definitely going to read that Smith book.
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  3269. I know next to nothing about anything and understand even less. But the sentiment that we "descend to primordial power" feels oddly comforting and maybe even more oddly, sensible, after all the dissemination of information over time. I paraphrase Eliphas Leví here, "..only words can explain an unexplainable.." wonderful sarcasm there! maybe Spare thought he'd be better served to think for himself with an uncluttered brain...?
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  3270. 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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  3271. Be yond.
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  3272. What a fantastic series of videos. I've been watching them piecemeal in the past few weeks but today I spend a lot more time in one day History becomes more fluent and touchable after these, I feel a sense of empathy to these historical figures, not in the general meaning of the word but more like a window to view them as people in another time, living just the same as I do now, experiencing their fascinating genius through you. What a profound experience, I am eternally greatful for this knowledge, thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  3273. Thanks!
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  3274. Outstanding episode
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  3275. Medieval big Farma, that is new.
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  3276. "A lich named Acererak", well played Dr. Sledge. Better watch out for cave-ins and Spheres of Annihilation.
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  3277. Loved it as always Bro! Keep up that wit and humor of yours!
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  3278. Ok is it Go-et-ee-a or Go-ee-sha?
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  3279. Thanks! This is just SO incredibly ENLIGHTENING 🤩🧩
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  3280. I can picture two demons saying it's a conjuring for you. No it's for you. Well, i don't like his grammar. So ..no one shows up.
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  3281. You have good sense of humor. Funny dude with lots of interesting knowledge.
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  3282. Did not expect the Wire reference.
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  3283. Thanks!
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  3284. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo Wonderful observations & explanations
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  3285. Please keep these metal band names coming! Top quality. All jokes aside, love the channel! ❤
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  3286. Dr. Sledge, I always appreciate your work but as an artist who is enamored with the esoteric and symbols this blew me away. Thank you so much!
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  3287. Thank you so much and keep up the amazing work! A fan from Lebanon.
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  3288. Dosis sola facit venenum
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  3289. Just goes to show intelligence and emotional maturity are not coordinated sometimes. "Poopy mcpoop alchemist" 😂
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  3290. Thanks!
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  3291. Perfect introduction! Thank you
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  3292. Thanks for the great video very insightful! I am currently studying kabbalah online at KabU I highly recommend it' especially for beginners.The studies break things down in a scientific way making the concepts more accessible. Have you ever considered perhaps starting a Kabbalah study group for your channel? Thanks again for your video's! 🙏
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  3293. I absolutely adore you Dr. Sledge. Thank you SO much for your content!
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  3294. These books cost hekhalot
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  3295. Per your recommendation, I read Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss where he analyzes Maimonides' techniques of "writing between the lines", as he puts it. It was quite the thinker. I'm very excited to hear your take on him.
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  3296. Been eagerly awaiting for the one :-)
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  3297. Great stuff once again! I really enjoy the content you put out. The origin of the Abramelin ritual has fascinated me for quite awhile. I always had the notion that the text was not written by a Jewish author, mainly because the whole notion of a ''holy guardian angel'' seemed quite catholic-folk-magic-ish to me, and i could not really find a similar concept in Judaism, but the Sar Torah seems like a decent fit with regard to the Abramelin HGA. Do you have any thoughts on the whole demonic evocation buisiness in Abramelin, would that not be quite indicative of a link to Solomonic magic? Could the Abramelin involve a merging of Sar Torah mysticism and Solomonic magic? Again thank you for your great work, it truly is a amazing!
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  3298. Thanks!
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  3299. Thank you very much for this video, and the attitude of respect with which you approach the topic and the faith of Christianity.
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  3300. Omg! You said Diné Bizaad!! That was so awesome. I’m Diné and I wasn’t expecting that at all haha!
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  3301. Thank you so much for this episode.
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  3302. Just discovered your channel, brother. You are an amazing teacher and historian! I CANNOT WAIT to hear more of your analysis of Newton's work and it truly could not come sooner! Thank you and you have a new subscriber! 🙏🏽🤓
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  3303. This was amazing
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  3304. Had just recently hopped off a kind of beginner's introduction to Gnostic by Foolish Fish and had William Blake and Perennial Philosophy in mind at time! I'm thrilled for this focus on Blake's Gnostic worldview! I just know of the evocative Goya artwork!
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  3305. ....A very painful video- the very thought of the fires and its multiple destructions cause a pained feeling to erupt from my mind.
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  3306. I will be in class but please tell me you will be recording the lectures 🙏🏽
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  3307. Thanks!
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  3308. One of my favorite channels, I'm also a Patreon member to help get this info out there. You could literally play these videos in a college class.
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  3309. I'd give thumbs up for the harpsichord music, but I already hit the thumbs up.
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  3310. Excellent and interesting.
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  3311. You are seriously amazing. Thank you so much for your dedication, and allowing us to enjoy your words. You rock Justin.
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  3312. I wonder if there is at least a little of William Blake in Tom Bombadil. Apparently Blake sang his poems and was wont to scare his neighbours with his Edenic nudism in the confines of his garden. Many thanks for this video. I've struggled and failed to read Blake's prophetic poems. The Silmarillion is like a primer book in comparison.
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  3313. This channel is the best resource for esoteric subjects on youtube, and there's no competition. I'm grateful you decided to share your knowledge with the world
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  3314. Thank you for covering this, and I'm glad you found some of the real stuff here in Salem. Dr. Baker was my advisor in undergrad, an absolutely fantastic professor and person, AND the archeologist who led the search for Gallows Hill that was just found a few years ago. Oh and fun fact about Danvers State Hospital, the horror film Sense 8 was filmed there when it was still a ruin. If you ever come back the Rebecca Nurse Homestead out in Danvers is a good visit too!
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  3315. 🙌🙌
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  3316. Over COVID and first :-)
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  3317. Altogether now! Zohar class! Zohar class! Zohar class!🙌
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  3318. As a professional educator, thank you.
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  3319. 10/10
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  3320. Scholar & a gentleman good job my friend
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  3321. "She'll come back as fire/ to burn all the liars/leave a blanket of ash on the ground"- sorry, this video reminded me of this song. Now I wanna re-watch the VVitch. Great job, Dr Sledge 👍
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  3322. I do not practice any known/unknown magic. But have always found it interesting.
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  3323. 17th century Pokémon 😂
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  3324. I love your bluntness and acceptance of what istruth people need t do this so much more
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  3325. Thanks!
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  3326. Officially watched every episode that came out in the order they came out
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  3327. Badass. Gonna implement this in my Vampire: The Masquerade game ASAP
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  3328. Christian sapphic, perhaps?
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  3329. Damn, I love the "I love big books and I cannot lie", this goes straight into my mixtape
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  3330. loved this episode so much! extremely informative. Spare has always been an occultist I’ve wanted to delve deeper into but would just end up getting completely lost, feeling like I could never even scratch the surface. Excited to try to find the book recommended!
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  3331. Another fascinating video. I came for the history of alchemy but stayed for the arcane history!
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  3332. Really good episode dude. Thanks
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  3333. Hope you're feeling a bit better from the stomach bug
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  3334. Very cool. I was introduced to the Cathars through Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by Zoé Oldenbourg. Obviously much has been written since this book. I enjoyed your analysis of this new consideration, it does make a lot of sense. Thank you for the reading lists as well, I think the skeptics and you might be on to something.
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  3335. Glad to see an episode about this. There is so much misunderstanding of evil in (Jewish) Kabbalah in contemporary occultism, and I see the errors repeated all the time. No doubt there is a whole episode in, for example, Golden Dawn misreadings of Kabbalah and evil...
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  3336. Another wonder slice of scholarly content pie. Thank you Dr. Sledge.
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  3337. Great episode. Thank you Sir.
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  3338.  @TheEsotericaChannel  All your fault my dude!
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  3339. Phenominal content every time, Dr. Sledge!
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  3340. "Count me unblessed because, da fuck did I just read" perfect 😅😅😅😅
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  3341. Been waiting for this episode, (always) looking forward to more on occult philosophy and Dee in general. Many thanks.
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  3342. Dr. Sledge, your humility is only exceeded by your scholarship. It's a pleasure to support your channel.
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  3343. How are you putting out so much amazing content? I have work and kids (as you do) and I am trying to figure out how you are pulling this off :) Happily a humble student of this channel.
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  3344. OMG! That scroll is so cool!!! ✨️🌟🤩
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  3345. Another gem of learning Brother, many thanks. Amor Fati
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  3346. Basic bros should be terrified of an on top Lilith. She is a badass.
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  3347. Thanks!
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  3348. Damn..when it comes to their view on the first humans, I literally got chills (not the pleasant kind) as it reminded me of the Nazi Aryan BS! Must admit, I'm more with Aristotle on that particular subject. Very cool you called out the dude bro "stoicism"...not that it's much worse than the original though. ;) Extra points for defining a myth properly. 👍👍 Loch Ness monster and UFOs aren't myths. They are folklore.
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  3349. Dr. Sledge: talking about material records of Jewish magical practices My pre-coffee take away: Damn, I can't believe that ancient Jews were so obsessed with Friends that one of them liked Rachel Green enough to magically make her love them.
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  3350. Thanks!
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  3351. 💯👏👏
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  3352. Danke!
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  3353. Just curious, is it accurate to say The Merkabah has spinning rims, and that them shits don't stop spinning?
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  3354. Bedankt
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  3355. I cannot congratulate you enough; this is a wonderful undertaking dear Justin! Long live Esoterica and everything related!
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  3356. My man keeps it consitent, crazy hard working
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  3357. First again. :-)
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  3358. Haha bro I remember when you had tens of thousands of subscribers now look at you. Congratulations.
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  3359. Thank you for your excellent educational videos as always Proud to be a Patron
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  3360. By far my favorite and most often to recommend YouTube channel. Proud to be a long term patreon supporter of yours and an even longer term subscriber. Great work Dr. Sledge, here's to you 10x your subscribers and supporters in 2022 :)
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  3361. Just so you know, I'm still not over "Corny Gripps", and I may never be the same again
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  3362. I have a strong stomach. I dont get grossed out, but that story with the lepers....ugh that got me. Needed a minute and a sip of water. But great video! I'd heard of Angela but was not familiar with her story.
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  3363. Thank you Ted for your efforts and wonderful creations. I am a beneficiary of those toils and your amazing recreations. You are truly a legend.
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  3364. I had to chuckle as Dr. Sledge looks like a kid to me, I guess it's all perspective. 😂🤣
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  3365. You have brought me to tears! Your words are GOLDEN and should be emblazoned upon every library in America for sure, but let's fantasize... the world. Thank you and for what it's worth, I love your teachings!
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  3366. You're awesome This is awesome Great video as always Justin
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  3367. I really appreciate all the book references you give. I take snipits of all of them and am currently building a "buy List" ... much thanks...
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  3368. Such a wonderful discussion! I’m so glad you did this! 🥰🖤
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  3369. Thanks!
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  3370. Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be here 🤘🏽
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  3371. Great introduction Dr Sledge- I second picking up a shirt and joining the Patreon! 👍
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  3372. If you can just stick a shin in there and its majic, what about a maim or aleph? Why just fire? I love esoterica channel!
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  3373. DR SLEDGE YOUR INTRO ALWAYS GETS ME HYPE
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  3374. Very informative channel
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  3375. Wow, One of the very few channels I'm actually glad popped up on my recommended list , fascinating stuff, definitely gonna enjoy watching more of this. .
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  3376. wow, and to think I just got the Abramelin book today!
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  3377. I knew very little about Spare before watching this. For some reason, I was often reminded of William Blake and Michel Foucault - an unlikely duo.
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  3378. first
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  3379. "The ascendant master Kimmy Gibbler" 🤣😂
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  3380. Awesome video Sir. Thank you. 🤟
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  3381. Yeah, never got a Bar Mitzvah 'cause I too had some issues with Moshe Avinu went up to Mt. Sinai and got some rocks 🤣.
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  3382. Thanks! Another interesting and enlightening video on western culture and history that goes untaught in schools.
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  3383. Thanks for a neo-platonic new year!
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  3384. Great video. Informative, un-biased, factual (at least the facts as we know them today) . Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
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  3385. Thank you so much for a year of wisdom and insight. Your work of making this knowledge accessible has helped me to process my own experiences and trauma from growing up in and leaving a cult and understand the world around me even better. Your work has broadened my philosophical and moral horizons, and has left me with less fear and even more questions (dropped right onto my own pile of mysteries). Your openness about your struggles during the Satanic panic was eye-opening, as someone whose family and development has been shaped in part by it. I am especially grateful to you there. I hope you had a good Hanukkah and that the rest of the holiday season is merry and bright for you.
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  3386. Another cool band name: Theological convergence
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  3387. So how did it turn out? Any effects aside from what you would expect from drinking that much distilled alcohol?
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  3388. I think there were prerequisites to this video... And I plan to have a migraine on the day of the quiz...
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  3389. We are lucky to have you good sir
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  3390. I'm intrigued by independent scholarly perspective of Jesus as an "apocalyptic" preacher! As I understand the word colloquially? I wonder often how much of organized religion (with power as its goal, of course) has appropriated I will say and strayed from on-the-ground teachings by Jesus of Nazareth. A tangent topic for me in its own right. And dig the rigorous source titles! Will explore further the noted videos in Esoterica channel! I called it! I do know something. That there would be a great Flood? 17:15 I cannot wait for THAT story! So on mating: if it's possible then is it...natural? Like..ligers? Or is it just a cosmic power on level of "nucular" research? (Just because you can...) ...checking date today before pondering as actual the mention of the "B" dude. I'm still wary from Esoterica's April 1st... fascinating to track the names for Sheol...a ton of fascinating references here today to unpack! Epic overview journey video, Dr Sledge! Thank you!
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  3391. Justin, I just read a news article about a Jewish leader killed in Detroit. Please stay safe—and your family too—in these crazy times. I’m sending good vibes your way and I hope you receive them. Also signing up for Patreon to support you and your much-needed voice of sanity in these insane times.
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  3392. Belissimo
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  3393. 7,777 views watching this 🤙🏽 absolutely love your content & appreciate the work you do, thank you again for deciding to release these lectures on YouTube! We need more information packaged like this in the world D:
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  3394. This was excellent, you've got a new subscriber!
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  3395. Just subscribed today, lul
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  3396. "11 is not a great roll for initiative". I can see you really are a pessimist.
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  3397. - Oh *yay*, the 16th century's answer to Claude Levi-Strauss. - Not the first time Waite's botched a translation, at least this time it doesn't sound like it was out of spite.
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  3398. Poor demon indeed good doctor.
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  3399. Dude this work here is outstanding. Your delivery is fanatastic. 👏
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  3400. I think people have always been fascinated with esoterica, look at how popular spiritualism was in the Victorian era. The problem is that popular culture combined every trope from these ancient texts into one monolithic, obscure, poorly explained lexicon. You are providing a REMARKABLE service by not only parsing these concepts into their proper spheres but also explaining the history of their development. Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do. These texts are not only complicated in their own right, but many, if not most are in foreign and sometimes dead languages. The majority of viewers simply could not understand these subjects without you. Again, thank you and god bless.
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  3401. I appreciate the discussion of golem and fetus. I read the passage cited decades ago and have marveled that all these Christian fundamentalists missed this scripture.
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  3402. Thank you..that was amazing..I enjoyed your story telling and I have learnt many lessons in just over an hour!! Wonderful work across the board.. Kind thoughts and blessings. Sinead 😊🌷
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  3403. Loved the subtle Sabbatai Tzvi joke.
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  3404. @19:33 brb have to read Kant's Suplex of Pure Reason.
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  3405. I’m a big fan of Fulton Sheen. One sermon he had on the demonic he mentioned possessed people stripping their clothes off when in the presence of a holy relic.. whether that’s true or not is interesting that Angela’s impulse was to strip in front of the cross. I’m sure to bare her whole self as she gave her life to Him. Great content: subscribed! ❤
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  3406. I really like the way you make the people who watch these videos feel good about themselves (myself included) intellectually, lovely bit of subtext
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  3407. Thank you for the amazing content (as always)! Best wishes
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  3408. As somebody with a deep interest in the occult from the perspective of RPGs like Call of Cthulhu, hope you can get some Taco Bell!
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  3409. Thanks!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🤗🖖🏾
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  3410. Excellent work on a sadly unknown aspect of Hermeticism. I learned a lot. Thank you.
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  3411. they’re hiding comments on instagram as well.
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  3412. A “Hell” of a family business. Perfect prose.
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  3413. 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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  3414. I really enjoy your collaborations with Dr. Angela. Thank you. May God bless you and yours🙏
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  3415. Thanks!
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  3416. Blimey, I haven't seen anyone using tow for tinder in many a long year.
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  3417. 🤘
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  3419. So good to have you to share the last Friday of 2022,with! Thk you Doc for all the explained Ism's along the way! May you have a blessed and prosperous 2023!🎊🌟💜
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  3420. Epic episode Dr. Sledge.
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  3421. 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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  3422. Wait wait wait: so Thoth and Ma’at are literally Law and Order 😂 Seriously I was really looking forward to the day you covered Thoth. Excellent video, as always!
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  3423. Don't worry, Dr. Sledge, maybe someday some of Jesus fans and his highschool friend will take from were the book ended and give it a proper ending.
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  3424. Thank you. This is one of your more fascinating videos in an area that I am very interested in learning more about.
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  3425. Bought some merch like a good Esotericia girl 😂
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  3426. This was great and I love the Eminem picture up there when you said and the Mathers lol
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  3427.  @TheEsotericaChannel  This is actually an interesting point since to me, it really looks as if the figures on those bowls often appear silly, or humorous, compared to how frightening and menacing demons would look in the depictions of later centuries. And that makes me wonder if I'm just misreading their depiction due to changing artistic sensibilities, or if they were deliberately drawn in a way to mock them or defuse their power.
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  3428. This is the first I heard of her. You told her story so beautifully. Thank you ❤
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  3429. Internet and digital information is the revolution in human history. It is an amazing era
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  3430. "Hide thine children" I cackled!
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  3431. what a woman
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  3432. Want to see her just play Diablo 4 😂
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  3433.  @TheEsotericaChannel  😮🔱⚡️😂😂
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  3434. Can you do a video on the Rosicrucian Order?
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  3435. interesting, would you say in some respect the creedal christianity is actualy closer to the neoplatonics more than we would assume?
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  3436. Spitting out bangers I see.
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  3437. I've been watching a lot of your videos, thank you!
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  3438. I love this! You should read more stories, you have such a rich and moving voice!!
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  3439. I came to Esoterica for Yahweh but stayed for the humor. I wonder what the world would be like if female gods would have survived. It seems like a really bad plan to promote a warrior-storm god to universal, absolute god.
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  3440. Epic convo.
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  3441. Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things. -AW Moore
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  3442. "I know you don't got Harvard money, but still!" The unmitigated shade 😈
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  3443. You videos are like poetry to my ears! Thank you for the incredible research, good humor and beautiful philosophy
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  3444. Excellent episode (as usual). Really enjoyed the Mythvision episode last night too.
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  3445. Wonderful… thank you so much, Justin! I’ve already approached my publisher about writing a novel about Hadewijch. So inspired!
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  3446. Thanks!
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  3447. Great intro video Dr. Sledge!
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  3448. How do you know what exactly i want to watch and release it at the relevant time .Thank you Esoterica and Universe!
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  3449. Me too lmao
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  3450. Loving this series!
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  3451. It has taken me four DAYS and multiple attempts to get through the first two minutes of this video. I keep laughing so long and hard that I need to stop. I'll expand my comment to something worthwhile after I finish the video, but for now just know that you, Dr. Sledge, have made my entire weekend.
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  3452. Doctor, this might be your most foundational and contextualizing video yet, in respect to categorical Western practice. Amazing stuff, thank you very much.
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  3453. Love this stuff. There are unique ritual and magick practices in all regions, I never seen Hebrew though.
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  3454. Looking forward to this lesson!
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  3455. There's no "I" in Necromancy
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  3456. I feel so SEEN
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  3457. I'm starting a new job tomorrow, had hard time to relax and watched the episode - I cracked up when it came to the ad, hahah, love you Dr. Sledge <3
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  3458. Joined patreon just for this video. Thank you
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  3459. the satanic panic really messed me up as a child thank you for covering this from a historical and Indepth perspective
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  3460. At approximately 38:26, it's somewhat amusing that the more the Israelite/Hebrew kingdoms were conquered, overrun and crushed, the larger and more omnipotent their fantasies about their tribal god YHWH became. The deeper that the Hebrew culture was subjugated, the more that deity went from a subordinate god to the one and only deity who supposedly created the entire universe. It was almost a case of the bullied child screaming ever more loudly that THEIR 'daddy' god could beat up everyone else's 'daddy' gods - and then it went roughly into 'Our god is the only one that exists!'
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  3461. Excellently presented .
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  3462. I dont mean to sound so childish, but I jumped out of my seat when I heard you mention etymology and Stoicism being tied together. I love looking up the etymology of word for 1)increasing my vocabulary but 2) understanding the meanings of names and how words and thei connotations shape our p we perceptions of literature. I had no idea that Stoics and etymology were connected. Also, your point on the Stoics being wholly callous vs cognizant of their emotional state feels like a criticism of Nietzsche, who summarized the Stoics as essentially statues.
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  3463. I'll leave a like as I decide
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  3464. Thanks
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  3465. Fabulous episode this week. I really enjoyed listening and learning all about the history of the gothic. Regarding The Castle of Otranto, yes indeed, it is a bit difficult to read. For me it’s all the wacky names. There are soooo many names and after page 15 it gets really confusing. I lose track of who’s who and who’s chasing after which character and why. I even lose where they’re doing all this stuff, which room or tunnel or tower or dungeon. However you have given me renewed strength. I will once again pick up this tiny tempting tome and do my best to power through it and make it to the end. Perhaps I’ll make a spreadsheet of all the characters and their relationships to one another 😅 That way I’ll have a kind of reference chart 📊 to look to when I loose the plot 😅 Wish me luck 👍
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  3466. This is one of my favourite Hammer films so it's good to see that both Hammer and Wheatley used the knowledge well. Really must read the book again with a new perspective. Thanks for your videos, ideal mix of information with a sense of humour.
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  3467. Strong assent to the kataleptic phantasiai is cool, but being a prokopton contracting the oikeiosis circles is where it's at.
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  3468. Thanks for taking the time to explain it as you understand it . That is a lot of education. Quite amazing
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  3469. Wonderful episode as always! That is definitely a book I will be checking out! Always a joy hearing your scholarly take on these subjects!
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  3470. Thanks!
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  3471. Sadly the witch hunts have never left us. I see a lot of witch hunting in conspiracy theories, a lot of Inquistion hunters in Q-Anon types. I am so sorry for what you and others gave been thru.
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  3472. 🙏
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  3473. I appreciate your work sir!
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  3474. You’re making the world a better place my friend… ❤ thank you Doc.
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  3475. Never knew I needed to read Philo, Origen and especially a reader of Stoic fragments (Hackett- got it). Loved this video. Absolutely wonderful.
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  3476. Thanks!
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  3477. Weirdly mirroring personal research topic like last week...... Nice. What software are you using for the transcript btw? Cheers
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  3478. Dark Song was actually the thing that first got me interested in this field at all. I realize it was a Hollywood treatment, but a gateway drug it was.
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  3479. Oh wow, why did I skipped this video when it first came out? Esme Partridge is here. I've read quite a number of her articles and have been interested in her work for quite sometime. Awesome work to Esoterica.
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  3480. I paused so many times to explain the math part to my wife. This was great.
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  3481. Are there any books on this topic? I am interested in learning more.
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  3482. Love before and after the abiss, always :) Medieval Trinity story, suspended in time by you, beautifully❣️ Thk u 🙏
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  3483. As a woman from the current age, I really enjoyed your beautiful sigh, thank you for expressing that feeling 17:52
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  3484. Thanks!
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  3485. Another walk off home run. I think I’m going to do the patreon thing. I’m just starting to feel guilty now.
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  3486. Wonderful episode! Thank you sir!
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  3487. I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard.
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  3488. Danke!
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  3489. Absolutely fascinating - many thanks.
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  3490. 20:05 He's right... in the bible when it talks about the Elohim coming like flies smelling the burned fat .. is a evocation. Instead of Frankincense... burned flesh. And YHWH loved that. Ence.. the bible is a grimoire.
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  3491. Invaluable understanding and a wealth of knowledge about esoteric subjects. Thank You.
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  3492. That is fascinating. I would think the "Malleus" would be one of the last things to wrap in human skin.
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  3493. Thanks!
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  3494. 🙌🔥🪶🔥🪶🔥🙌
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  3495. As always, thanks again Dr Sledge...' you're a brick ' 🙂
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  3496. I like how relevant this is to learning anything these days, with gatekeepers and unqualified teachers in every field. Also plenty of underrated geniuses mixed that you have to wade through the rest while you teach yourself how until you find the right teachers
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  3497. You mentionned the Hebrew started as a social group and not an ethnic group. Is there some sources I can read about this? Thank you so much for this video!
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  3498. Wow this is really intriguing
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  3499. Longest esoterica video so far? I think so but I'm down for longer content <3
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  3500. Thanks!
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  3501. so beautiful, respectful, loving, helpful. Thank you.
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  3502. Fund raising for some more 100 year old absinthe? :). Love your channel and watch it often. If you ever do an episode on astrology try to get author Steven Forrest on. He's a real interesting guy and well versed in astrology.
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  3503. OUTSTANDING lecture series 🤘🔥🤘however upon reading your FAQ was compelled to support you via Patreon as well so that stuff like this doesn't disappear! Already have two of your most excellent shirts and will have to cue up two more I have my eye on. Thank you doc for all your work!!
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  3504. LOOK!!! ITS TRAINGLES!!!! ITS HERMETIC!!!
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  3505. Great video!!! keep it up 👍
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  3506. I too have a strange passion for antique books, I find it fascinating that the pages and cover of a book from the 1500’s can look WELL newer than say one from 1818… or even 1930 for that matter. (It’s the acid, or lack there of) I’ve only seen 3 books pre-1700 in my life, all had very white pages, and more curiously white…ish binding ,but no matter the age, as long as it’s a true antique and leather my favorite thing is the way they smell. 🤣😁
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  3507. excellent stuff!
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  3508. Looking forward to the next one!
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  3509. Thank you so much for this video which feels so complimentary to my journey, while being completely over my head! Voila.
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  3510. Great episode, friend! Nice to hear about a homonymous connational mystic! 🤓
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  3511. Hi, I just found your channel and am really enjoying it. At 8:50 there is a tablet, can you tell me what language that is? Love the channel!!
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  3512. God Bless Ukrainian People, No Surrender No Retreat, The World support Ukraine👍 Putin the war criminal, go to hell 👹 - To Volunteers around the world who want to help Ukraine, Please come to the Ukraine Embassy in your country. 👍..
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  3513. Take your upvote for the hilarious first 60 seconds of this video
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  3514. Stoked to see you're still going with this! I've been immersed in a commentary on Pico's nine hundo partly inspired by what I'm learning about the influence of Pico on Agrippa through this podcast. You rock. Keep up the Great Work.
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  3515. Thank you for yet another wonderful video
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  3516. Thanks
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  3517. like this video yu weirdos
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  3518. It was crazy. Got looked down on for playing D&D for 20 years
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  3519. I wish sometimes I could reach escape velocity
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  3520. Thank you for the encouraging video:)
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  3521. You are the coolest guy ever
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  3522. I am endlessly grateful for the education you are providing me 🙏 Sincerely, thank you, Dr. Sledge 💜
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  3523. Jedi vs. Sith
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  3524. Heck yes my day just got so much better! Justin your the man.
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  3525. Thanks!
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  3526. hahah pretty vanilla legend
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  3527. was waiting for this video. thanks
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  3528. ah yes, semen demons; we are acquainted
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  3529. Enlightening stuff, indeed!
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  3530. As salaam aleikum & shalom to you all inhere.
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  3531. Another interesting character from that era is Thomas Morton, founder of the colony of Merrymount. He scandalized the Puritans by treating the local indigenous people as equals and basically practicing something that seems quite akin to modern neopaganism, as unbelievable as it sounds (the authorities accused him of worshipping Aphrodite and Dionysus with drunken orgies). After he was eventually banished and the colony broken up, the Puritans then took the positively Lovecraftian step of renaming it Mount Dagon.
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  3532. I love your work, man. Tysm for your videos
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  3533. Wonderful video and very informative, thank you for putting this together.
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  3534. This is helping me recontextualize my Christian bible education. It makes the Bible interesting again, and for that I thank you.
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  3535. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
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  3536. Shalom miportugal Dr. Sledge. I love your videos and I was anxiously waiting for this one. It is awesome, I wouldn't expect less from you. Cheers.
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  3537.  @TheEsotericaChannel  this is a very deep episode, and I learned new things even though I'm a well-read layman. I appreciate your work very much and I hope soon to donate to the channel even if it's just a little.
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  3538. I had no idea any pagan philosophers addressed "gnostic" Christianity, this is a goldmine of info seriously. Have we always had this treatise from Plotinus? Because I've never heard a religious studies scholar bring it up when discussing early Christianity.
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  3539. Thanks for the knowledge !!
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  3540. What a mind he had.
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  3541. Wow, once again you dazzle me with your calligraphy skills. Man, you go dense - I love it. Ink on the page probably weighs more than the papyrus itself. I'm working on a Tehilim scroll in my own Hebrew southpaw fist, so I feel you!
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  3542. its been a pleasure watching your channel grow! Well done and congratulations on your success
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  3543. Thank you, Dr. Sledge as always! Lovely content. I am linguist and mathematician; I have been going through all your content, and I love your scholarship and attention to detail. Wonderful work! There are so many exciting aspects to explore... I would love to apply some AI to these texts... do you know anyone else who might be doing this that I could connect with? Phillip Hammonds, PhD.
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  3544. Your passion is palpable. And influencing.
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  3545. Excellent, interesting, and entertaining as usual. Keep it up.
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  3546. Loved the film thanks for sign posting to that. I felt it was a really realistic reflection on attitudes to magic and typical things you see among practitioners. Drawing shapes on the floor, talking about numbers, psychology and purging. Taking people to the edge through fasting etc. And then treating it as though "things are happening" when very subtle stuff starts showing up which is possibly just a coincidence. You mentioned Chinese symbols draw on her back. They appear below two commonly used Reiki symbols so I imagine they part of a Reiki treatment he is giving her and they're probably Japanese written in Chinese symbols. This is also surprisingly common among modern Occultists too ... mixing traditions without any idea what the difference is between them and without good reflection on their purpose. lol. I really appreciate your channel! I too try to write about these topics in a factual, analytical and detached way without too much pathos and ethos getting in the way of the message, but my aim is to create advanced content for practitioners so the result is different. I tried to support your work through Patreon as hopefully it will inform mine! Don't worry, I will make sure to quote your channel and link to your videos!
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  3547. Amazing class! Hope you do more classes like this in the future!
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  3548. I am a union pipe fitter and a Marxist. This was cool
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  3549. Just a fantastic channel - shines lights on figures of the Geistesgeschichte (History of Mind / Spirit / Ghosts - choose your translation .-)), which normally are just named in the margins of other texts....but nonetheless are important in the long chain of human thoughts and ideas. Thanx
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  3550. Fantastic video!!
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  3551. My wife won this book! We've had a blast showing it off to our friends (including our local bookseller and some friends who collect obscure, abstract, and macabre items). The font was the first thing that really struck me, and it seems to be the thing that really strikes everyone we've shown. Dr. Sledge, this was such a kind thing you've done. A book like this would have seemed so out of reach for us, and now we own a beautiful piece of history.
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  3552. I just don’t get it, humanity is…are we just under mind control since the start of this round of humanity or are we just an evil species, idk.
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  3553. wonderful! This Lamblichus vs Neoplatonism debate also echoes in Jewish circles. Consider Maimonides vs. Kuzri & and the Kaballists, on if commandments are just educational and nominal or also have an effect in higher plains.
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  3554. What an incredible video! Surprisingly soothing as well. You remained elegant through the whole process, don't worry!
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  3555. We are coming to save you and your family.
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  3556. Been here awhile, love your channel keep up the great work! Came here from, Religion for Breakfast!
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  3557. Your approach to the mystical and magical, using both a critical and an open mind, is immensely refreshing, and very much needed. Rock on Dr. Sledge! BTW, what does 4=7 mean?
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  3558. So close to first. Ah well. Shoulda woaken up before dawn.
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  3559. This work is incredible. Please know that God put you here to teach us. Thanks!
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  3560. Well this is rather well timed......
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  3561. "Where's Mary Magdalene when you need her" you get points for that lovely joke, another good episode
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  3562. Brilliant as always, thank you for this most illuminating and fascinating gem of an episode! One question and this might be somewhat random but do you think or is there perhaps anything to suggest that Josephus Flavius was himself practicising some form of Merkhavah mysticism?
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  3563. Always so thankful for your videos and the knowledge you share every single time. When I get my next paycheck I’m going to add a few of your merch products to my closet asap.
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  3564. Down with fraudulent claims, best wishes for continued success on your channel!
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  3565. 🙏
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  3566. Excellent. Really appreciate the links in the description too!
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  3567. Here for Solomon, stayed for Dr Justin!
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  3568. 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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  3569. People who enjoy this film should look out for the audio version of the original book recorded by Christopher Lee.
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  3570. Thanks!
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  3571. I've watched a few of your videos and although I don't hold any explicitly supernatural beliefs, I love the study and I've found all the subjects and manner in which you discuss them to be very fascinating and enjoyable. The small jokes also played a big part in the enjoyment. So, like with most things, it's better to start from the beginning.
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  3572. Doc I'm glad you covered this well.
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  3573. The description around 1:30 sounds like most near-death experience stories. I wonder if some saints and teachers died and came back momentarily.
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  3574. 🤙Aloha ⚒️ Mahalo "interested" "important" ?? Oh hell yeah !!
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  3575. Thanks
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  3576. You missed the opportunity to call it super saiyan Gnosticism
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  3577. Limning the Liber Logaeth? Eat your heart out, Ricky Martin.
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  3578. Your a treasure and are an immensely great source with your real intent to answer the difficulties in the head of the beginners. Thank you! Btw you had me cracking up like 10 times in the this😂👌
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  3579. would you make a video about John Scotus Eriugena? He seems to be little well known, but he was a very important chrisiaan mystic
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  3580. Hildegard being a fair and just abbess, would often say to her sisters "Let Aigonz be Aigonz"
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  3581. I think he's under the weather today
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  3582. The Final Fantasy 6 comment was strangely poignant, as I've recently become re obsessed with the mythology of this game and the manifestation of the final Kefka as an amalgamation of magic that illustrates the confounding principle of the exertion of the particular, peculiar explicate will and the inability, or perhaps ambivalence, of implicate reality in resisting expressions of malevolence.
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  3583. Thanks!
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  3584. I always enjoy your channel. But this one blew my mind. You connected so many dots and dropped so much knowledge I had to rewind the video three times to make sure I caught everything. Wow. 🔥
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  3585. Special way
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  3586. Thanks!
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  3587. Thanks!
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  3588. Thanks!
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  3589. Glad to have found this channel this year! Looking forward to another year of learning!
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  3590. Thanks!
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  3591. Thanks!
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  3592. Monstermancy sounds like it should be a song by Lordi. You give us such an incredible opportunity to dive into ancient People's minds. Cheers.
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  3593.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I think that’s a good call and adds a lot of value to the channel ❤️ I’ll check out your website, thanks!
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  3594. Man I love your work. You are a great presenter, teacher and inspiration for intelect. Blessings
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  3595. I love your channel and insight into these fascinating people. Have you considered spotlighting Pamela Colman Smith? Thank you for the information and humour! :)
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  3596. Thanks!
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  3597. I love this channel!!!! 😍😍😍😍
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  3598. Thank you dude!!
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  3599. Good to see you again
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  3600. Speaking on behalf of Gnostic Gnerds everywhere; Thank you, Dr. Sledge! Your are our hero! --N
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  3601. As a woman who follows this channel and suffers migraines (not big on trepanation or mercury, but that ancient Israelite bowl to trap the splitting-headache demon sounds promising), I would watch the hell out of a video on esotericism and headaches.
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  3602. I am a follower of the Nazarene. I am not a fan of the business that the church’s have become.
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  3603. I have to say I really like your approach, I was about to change the channel when you explained yourself enough for me to feel very comfortable with listening to you, thank you for your video
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  3604. Thanks!
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  3605. Oh crap, I didn't realize that there was tall grass in the Gallilee back then. I totally left all my Poké Balls in my other tunic.
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  3606. Is there a "Mysticism of getting them gains" t-shirt?, because I want one.
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  3607. I am listening to this as I walk to the Blackbraid concert in St. Louis. I wouldn't be doing that if it weren't for you Justin. Thank you so much for all your work!
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  3608. as a Millsaps Alum, this treatment of Dr. Bowley is an outrage. Millsaps should be embarrassed by their actions, and especially their hypocrisy in regards to free speech
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  3609. Sabbatai Tzvi was such a cool dude, I love him so much
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  3610. Excellently constructed.
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  3611. Omg I just realized Doom Guy is Nathan of Gazas version of the messiah.
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  3612. I could watch a 12 episode series on this topic, easily.
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  3613. In my personal opinion this is the best video you posted yet. Thank you and keep up the good work!
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  3614. Why does "it's an illusion" always feel like a copt out.
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  3615. Black Metal Style shirts! Okay, now we are cooking with gasoline!
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  3616. Perfect. Just when I had an urge to read The Three Books Of Occult Philosophy again.
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  3617. Always great uploads....thank you.
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  3618. Most engaging. Liked and shared. Thanks for posting.
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  3619. 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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  3620. Just what I go to my YouTube channels for: an introduction to great thinkers I’ve never heard of before. Thank you, Justin!
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  3621. "not pictured: the messiah" 😂😂😂
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  3622. I love this topic but I'll come back to this when I feel like watching a 50 min video
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  3623. this is perfectly timed for a break from some particularly bothersome work, thank you Dr. Sledge
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  3624. Usually, I will skip recommended videos until I finish the video Im on, but you talked me into it lol
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  3625. Oh that Prada Ad.... i thought it was some sort of short movie by Riddley Scott when it came out. Man, was i wrong, what a paradoxical experience was clicking that play button, never my expectations were so wrong in my life. But great video, your channel is amazing, thanks for sharing so much knowledge
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  3626. 🫀🖤🫀
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  3627. I rather like the idea that Hezekiah's reforms were inspired by an alliance with the Aaronid priests of Jerusalem to cope with the influx of northern Levites, given that Hezekiah destroyed Moses's staff. This was argued by Friedman in his book, Who Wrote the Bible? in a section arguing for a dating of the P source to Hezekiah's day.
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  3628. Valueless antisemitic internet drifters they are lmao
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  3629. I've been to Harran! There are of course no pagans there now, but the goats are very friendly.
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  3630. Great job on this on Justin , I've sent a lot of people your way as I'm in NYC and we get into heavy discussions about the difference between real light and conspiracy crap. Once I pull out you and Angela , and religion for breakfast, and let's talk religion , and TMR , it's a rap . I'm very grateful for the work you do here and I plan to send you and Angela something special. Not money that will be spent and forgotten, but a thoughtful gift that will last forever like an award. When every time you see it you'll think , I changed someones life for the better. I'm like a monk with vows of poverty, but I will get you guys something nice soon. I love you all and again many thanks. ⭐
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  3631. Sub-Lunar Sprititual Creatures, a good name for a band
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  3632. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge best wishes Belated Happy Mother's Day, Rabbi. Wonderful imagery selections. Inspiring post !!! Mahalo for sharing (but I shan't put graphite to paper & post a poem - just in case I be flirting with, um, "one of them those".
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  3633. Congratulations in advance for a well deserved 600K.
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  3634. I am reminded that felicitas as unio mystica is not unlike the unio mystica of st deny
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  3635. I have been watching several of your videos and just wanted to comment on 2:00 (roughly). I appreciate the information you give. I am a Catholic turned agnostic and I have to admit that your video on the Thunder God episode (my introduction to your channel) explained one of the major reasons I turned from organized religion in the first place. (The two faced nature of God, largely between the old and new testament.) The church has done some horrific things. Rather, corrupt people with power in the church. But even today, people use the church as a front for their various bigotries. Yet no one seems to blame these events on the church. You manage to point out the atrocities without blaming the church itself, and I oddly find that refreshing. I hope to be able to contribute, in some way to the channel, once my financial situation improves. Until then, I will continue to watch the videos you have made and like them at the very least.
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  3636. Thanks
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  3637. Thanks!
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  3638. Knowledge is Power! 🌟 Medieval Magic! 🔅 Ars Notoria? Angelic Names? 😇 Patreon Member! 💸💸💸
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  3639. Thank you for the amazing insights. My favorite video yet!
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  3640. Happy Halloween Dr. Sledge! Thank you for all the great content!!
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  3641. Thanks
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  3642. At 23:58... JUSTIN SLEDGE: The closest thing we have to a critical edition of the Sefer Yetzira is a text by Peter Hayman, which, if you can find used, is only six hundred and fifty dollars... - Narrator runs out of steam, takes his glasses off, rubs his head and groans. CUT: Esoterica logo and title page for a few seconds, and... - JUSTIN SLEDGE: Welcome back...
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  3643. 🙂🙂🙂
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  3644. I love both of you guys.
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  3645. Dr. Sledge: "Which has won universal acceptance everywhere people are rational about such things". Me: cries in American...
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  3646. Looks like Tolkien had a past life.
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  3647. This was a fascinating video and I did not skip the baptism tangent. Gonna binge watch your Gnosticism videos now. Side note, I ran my first ever non stop 10k to this video. Hell yeah
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  3648. Love your content, thank you🙏
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  3649. New subscriber here. Thank you very much for these posts, especially this one about Lilith. I hope you will do a part II.
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  3650. I was wondering.
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  3651. I love this approach man, great run-down of the subject at hand.
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  3652. Hah, Dr. Sledge beat me to it. Perhaps I should've listened to the next 30 seconds before writing.
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  3653. It is still very common in Appalachia for “blood stoppers” to stop bleeding by reciting verses from the Bible and performing various small rituals. The use of holy words written in a grid is also common and can be found in old barns as protection spells still to this day
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  3654. the wimple flex slayed me
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  3655. Thank you dr.Sledge!
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  3656. Though I am a Neuroscientist, I can absolutely agree that academic publishers are the true Archons of this world. Thus I am surprised that ‘Sci-Hub’ was not one of the necessary phrases Jesus taught to his disciples-perhaps that’s somewhere in the lost text?
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  3657. I'm a bit slow today.....
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  3658. Apropos of nothing: your calligraphy is absolutely gorgeous, Doc. Good grief that is just beautiful.
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  3659. I would like to say that I’ve inspired by this amazing lady but i didnt even know about her until this presentation. Thank you very much I agree with alot of her writings. She loves GOD and is willing to go through some hell and highwater to reach divinity using the Christ-mind. Pretty cool and a great way to get closer to the most high.
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  3660. Thanks!
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  3661. Excellent series!
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  3662. You are the Best! Love it. Can't wait to watch the rest of this video!
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  3663. I certainly respect you for the landmines you'll have to dodge with this topic.
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  3664. Good thing this went away and never came back. Imagine a world where in 2023 people still believed all that nonsense and even becoming part of the political discourse. That'd never happen, though.
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  3665. OMG, acedemia fangirl moment! <3 Or something like it I dunno... I just read a Paper from Hermann Straßburger, he taught at my university. He did some nitty gritty work on the chronoloy in Herodot. I have major respect for the dudes and dudettes that sit down and actually work shit out mathematically. Hell, if I were any good at math, I probably wouldn't have studied history.
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  3666. Virgin Modern "Trad" Stoic vs Chad Ancient Esoteric Stoic
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  3667. Thanks. Now its getting so good.
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  3668. Peter sounds like he was fun at parties, but the type of "definitely not a necromancer" your mom warned you about hanging out with.
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  3669. Thank you for the work, Justin! I am completing a Winter School programme at HHP Amsterdam and found this to be a great complement to the lecture on the Emerald Tablet, especially for a beginner. Appreciate your research and effort!
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  3670. Love the way you wrapped it up at the end! Another job well done 👍🏼 Peace, Dr. Sledge!
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  3671. Your work on this channel is what I always dreamed YouTube could do to bring us our hidden histories
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  3672. Well hey now - it isn't a true battle between ancient deities until the semen starts flying.
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  3673. Come for Blake, stay for the Pullman shout-out ❤️ Also damn they didn't mention this in English lit. Blake rocks. Lemme get a copy of the book of Urizen. And yeah it hella sounds like the demiurge accidentally manifesting itself.
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  3674. You are doing God’s work and you are a master at your craft. Thank you for making these videos for the world. Mahalo Brother 🌺💌😊
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  3675. Brilliant knowledge. Thank you Justin.
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  3676. Awesome. Thank you!
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  3677. Great episode
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  3678. I loved this episode
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  3679. This is nothing short of thrilling.
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  3680. Your awesome for the d and d comment. Lol
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  3681. Great video!!!
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  3682. Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year to you and yours Justin and ESOTERICA
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  3683. Fascinating, interesting, and compelling
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  3684. What a cool fucking episode. You've got an amazing channel, man. I'm a nontheistic agnostic, but I have great love for the academic study of religion (I focused on linguistic anthropology, but also anthro of religion/magic/witchcraft). You have such wonderful and digestible episodes. You're doing a fantastic job, and I can't wait to dig into all your content.
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  3685. Thanks for this excellent refresher course, I'm flashing back to grad school when I had the great honor of studying Kabbalah with Lawrence Kushner and did a paper using the Idel book. One thing that I'd like to go back and research further was a chapter in Patai's The Jewish Alchemists which discussed some kind of alchemical text written by a Shabbatean, maybe Nathan? Do you know anything about this? I can't help but compate the sorta depth psychology resonances with Boehme and Milton.
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  3686. Awesome video as always but I still don't understand how it influenced the religions of the Caribbean. There are many and the ones I'm more familiar are the Orisha and gods based ones. Gods like Ogun for example. I have seen some of the Arbatel imagery in the Echiridrions which are used in Mexico at least. Needless to say I wish I knew more about that part of the world. Thank you.
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  3687. Amazing guest! Thank you.
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  3688. Thanks!
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  3689. Thanks for the information you provide
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  3690. good video
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  3691. I stand alone in this desolate space In death they are truly alive Massacred innocence, evil took place The angels were burning inside (Iron Maiden, Montségur)
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  3692. One of your best videos yet, and I’ve seen a lot of them lol
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  3693. I need way more of this kind of saturn and neptune in pisces shit
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  3694. I could hear you talking about Nag Hammadi library for hours... I'm really glad you made an other great video on this topic !
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  3695. Thanks!
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  3696. Thanks!
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  3697. The earliest depiction of playing a nickel back cover made forget what I came here for😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  3698. Wow. Blew my socks off.
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  3699. Thanks!
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  3700. Great video
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  3701. Playing D&D with the good doctor would be absolutely awesome!
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  3702. Three videos in a week!
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  3703. Thanks!
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  3704. The archeology of horror.
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  3705. The subtle Mormon reference made me laugh. I'm picking up what you're putting down, man.
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  3706. I ain't going to lie, para-Paracelsus made me laugh.
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  3707. Thanks!
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  3708. Quite good. I am going to assign this to one of my university classes on the History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Occultism. I also had my own brush with the authorities and a satanic accusation, despite being from a fundamentalist christian family and the accusations were made because of an anti-satanism book I had! Thanks for this, for I was trying to do too much in my own lectures. Now I can make my own main points, and I will have another voice in the classroom. Especially nice to have a Jewish voice, and I swear the reading Modecai Kaplan in my undergrad had me almost ready to convert, embracing the faith of one strand of my ancestors.
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  3709. LET'S GOOOOOO
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  3710. I have been watching your channel for a while now but It was really great seeing you on with Neal on Gnostic Informant and I hope to see an interview with Derek of Mythvision. The work you do is extremely valuable and it has rekindled my own fascination with the occult and esoteric.
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  3711. Another great video! Very excited for this new series!
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  3712. Great idea, this, offering little gems of insight, sidebars to the longer videos. Off to an auspicious start with this one!
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  3713. I love your channel so much, i look forwards with a big yessssss when i get a notification.
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  3714. Thanks Esoterica for all you do.
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  3715. Thanks! Great video.
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  3716. I don't mean to be crass, but this is absinthe porn of the highest calibre. I'm both envious and so happy you got to do this all at the same time. As an avid absinthe fan, I don't think I could record something like this; I'd just cry the whole time and mumble "beautiful, exquisite....shut it off...."
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  3717. I've been watching your content for some time now and I can't believe that I've just now realized that I wasn't subscribed. Time to fix that.
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  3718. I LOVE THE MERCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE MY MONEY AND ALL MY LISTING TIME
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  3719. I've watched most of your videos. I've always loved that you are NOT biased
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  3720. Sorry I'm poor. Tons of love from your Canuck neighbour in Windsor Ontario! ❤
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  3721. Thanks!
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  3722. Thanks!
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  3723. Your efforts to supplement esoteric information/interpretation with comedic elements are both noted and appreciated. This stuff is great 👍
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  3724. Thanks!
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  3725. Hello! Thanks so much for your work ❤️
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  3726. Brilliant stuff. Many thanks!
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  3727. Dr., have you ever thought about doing translation of these books your self?
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  3728. 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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  3729. Thanks!
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  3730. Thanks!
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  3731. Okay so old as. I come from a Catholic background. And I'm as open to anything as anyone could possibly be given my background and a Severe history of LSD use. I also totally love mythology theology in any form and just great stories. What I'm asking is in the beginning of this video you mentioned grabbing some drinks and reading the Talmud, is drink permitted for accepted in this context?
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  3732. Outstanding Work, Thanks.
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  3733. True about Christianity, Judaism and Islam. They seem to have deeeeeeeeeep spirituality.
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  3734. Best channel on YT right here folks. Let's do this oh yeah!!!
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  3735. Thanks!
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  3736. ha yeah demotics is tricky!! not there yet but impressed by those who've made any progress in it, especially mastery on the subject...hopefully I'll get there someday still though!!
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  3737. THANK YOU excellent as usual.
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  3738. Awesome
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  3739. “Safely dead” 🤣🤯
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  3740. This is great! I've been on the waitlist for Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism for awhile and this sounds like it would be great in the mean time!
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  3741. Viewing this on Feb 11 2025. Happy belated birthday Dr Sledge!
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  3742. Im standing with you sledgehammer. Im just a lowly construction worker. But your channel and others like it have allowed me to stand on my own in any debate with "educated" persons. I cant tell you how valuable this channel has been to me in the last few years.
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  3743. We need a crossover with nile red to see if we can make a real philosopher's stone.
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  3744. Incredibly grateful for this series. Brought me back to my roots. Thank you🙏🏾💯
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  3745. As someone who’s been binging years of content, I cannot describe the leap from the lows of abysmal hopelessness transforming into the heights of cleansing amusement from SophiaVPN. I’ll meet you all at the DeLorean!!
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  3746. I just wanna movie on this so bad
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  3747. As in the card above so in the link below.
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  3748. The books of Jue, so you want to asended to there the 14 emanations. Step one learning German step two get a loan to buy books from Brill then jump through these flaming hoops. Got it clear as mud. Love it, I really do but I can't do all this. (waves arms at everything.) lol
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  3749. I seriously thought he added demonic rumbling sound effects at 20:00. On closer listening I think it was a plane in the background.
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  3750. This channel was created at exactly the right time, for me especially! What was hidden, is being revealed. Thanks
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  3751. After a long night of drinking I always need a couple Alka-celsus, which is certainly an alchemical miracle if you have a horrible headache.
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  3752. ooooh, vaseline glass. someone's been thrifting
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  3753. Whee!
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  3754. Great video Dr I'm new to Judaism and have not heard anything like this before it seems that the Orthodox Rabbis suppress this kind of information.My guess is to not validate the dualistic views of Christianity.Thank You for all You do...Shalom
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  3755. Thanks!
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  3756. I love your call to action in appreciation of the existing current libraries, and the amazing existence of historical writings. I truly enjoy your channel!
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  3757. 29:46 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! Also for your book recommendations, it helps greatly , as people like me are get an idea where to start.
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  3758. I'm not surprised at the growth of your channel. Many of us are suffering from intellectual starvation. With this channel I can finally remove the tin foil hat I need for most other channels.
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  3759. Wonderful conversation. Important work! Thank you 🙏
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  3760. 🙏💜
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  3761. Algormancy!
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  3762. Great channels!
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  3763. Well done my man. It's appreciated.
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  3764. And yet nobody remembers the library of Pergamum, which we have archeological evidence of.
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  3765. "Quick to Judge, Quick to Anger, Slow to Understand, Ignorance and Predjudice and Fear Walk Hand in Hand". Rush - Witch Hunt
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  3766. Grace Sherwood aka the Witch of Pungo is celebrated in Virginia Beach today, Witch Duck Road leads to the pond in which shes was ducked. There's a Sherwood Lane, Witch Duck Bay and Witch Duck Point. There's a statue of her is the city as well.
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  3767. "Better than Celsus." 🤣
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  3768. Engaging and concise ... you summarised the essentials of the text wonderfully well...
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  3769. man, I enjoyed this video so much. what a double horns badass theme and poem, cheers for the recommendation
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  3770. Thanks for everything you do, Dr. Sledge. This channel has been extremely valuable to me in ways that are hard to fully express. The academic rigour, candour and subtle humour you bring to these topics is sorely needed and deeply appreciated.
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  3771. Amazing source of unbiased information Justin. ❤
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  3772. first
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  3773. I really appreciate how well thought out these are, as well as explained in a way thats easy to understand.
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  3774. This is fascinating to me--we covered some Blake poems in my lit courses but nothing like this. I recognize the lower-right image at 12:07 but had no idea where it came from.
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  3775. Fastest click in awhile. Thanks doc!
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  3776. Fascinating! I was taught that the Klippot emmanates from Gevurah (as you discussed), but I can see the alternative ideas of Keter, Binah, Malkut, etc. all playing a part in the Klippot. I've also studied gnosticism - so interesting ties there (so many between Kabbalah and gnostic texts).
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  3777. hidden gems. 36:48 Any plans for a best of compilation? Would love to see the ones I've missed
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  3778. Thanks!
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  3779. Thanks!
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  3780. Your videos are a light in every week, but yeah, your personal story truly hit a nerve and I got shook out of wrathful compassion for what you lived. It hit home, hard. My best to you still... reminds me a lot of my youth, and I mean; a lot.
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  3781. Thanks!
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  3782. Thanks for de new BDSM idea "beaten whit angelic shovel"
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  3783. You are triple great my friend
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  3784. A nice warm cup of coffee, wrapping presents, and listening to a holiday ghost story told by Dr. Sledge is the best
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  3785. Hello Dear Dr. Sledge, I'm in an initiatic order and I'm a nerd in the field of the occultism. I just want to thank you for your beautiful videos which I just discovered yesterday
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  3786. I want to be there with you sampling that amazing spirit
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  3787. Great "nota bene" to the previous Abramelin video. Thank you!
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  3788. Thick with two C's and a THORN has absolutely reconfirmed my determination to subscribe to your patreon as soon as I have money. PLEASE, put that on the back of some booty shorts and leggings and any other kind of merch you can think of, cause I need it on my body, ASAP. Like, OMF*BBQ, you just solved my knuckle tatt dilemma, you brilliant, wonderful Mad Mensch. And thank you for everything else you do on this channel, as well! I wish I could properly convey just how much good it's doing for me and my other trans witchy friends as we help our friends and family flee to relative safety in our escalating pre-holocaust that's going on down here in the South. <3 #ÞiccBitç #HereticalWitchArmy
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  3789. Well-timed. Brilliant as usual. Milegrazi.
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  3790. I'm so excited!!!!!
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  3791. The Sophia VPN bit was muah chef's kiss
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  3792. Love your sense of humor
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  3793. I was really psyched for this one!
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  3794. Thanks! ❤
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  3795. I just want to say that you, as well as Let's Talk Religion and Religion for Breakfast, are freakin incredible. I had no idea that such immaculate deep dives into the history and philosophy of religion and mysticism from accomplished PhDs in the subject are available on YouTube. Simply amazing. I've watched all y'all's stuff (the history of Kabbalah + Merkabah/Hekhalot course stands out especially), and I'm going to support you on Patreon shortly. I hope you keep at it for a long time, and I hope more accredited experts and university-level educators are inspired by your example and start successful channels of their own.
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  3796. Thank you for your work, you are greatly appreciated 🙇‍♂️❤️
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  3797. Thanks for these lectures! Such great content! Greetings and love from Brazil.
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  3798. Another glorious episode.
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  3799. I love your videos. I always learn something new. So cool. Good work!
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  3800. Thanks!
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  3801. 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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  3802. Thanks!
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  3803. Thanks!
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  3804. Love the sense of humor! ❤
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  3805. Thanks! And WOW..! Just Wow!!!😶🖖🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗
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  3806. Subscribed 👍
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  3807. This is my top topic last 2 weeks :-) So curious to add possibly precious different points of view to my limited knowledge. Let S start then. Thx in advance 🙏
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  3808. What's the arrangement for someone already in Egypt who'd like to tag along?
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  3809. I was just thinking yesterday I wanted to watch a video by you about this very subject.
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  3810. First
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  3811. the intro you gave was extremely poetic <3 i love ghost & the collision crossovers of melancholia mixed with the artifacts of history not yet forgotten of the taboo (necromancy, however i dare not practice it)
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  3812. I'm from a highly orthodox background and your wonderfully honest and well rounded coverage of the history of religion is just deliciously refreshing and helps to put my prior learning into perspective. Thank you!
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  3813. Second edition DnD best edition of DnD
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  3814. Enjoyable, good job!
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  3815. Thanks!
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  3816. I’ll take one Christianity, hold the Christians.
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  3817. Merci!
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  3818. Thanks!
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  3819. Wow this is amazing and super fascinating! I need to read the gospel of Mary now. Great work!
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  3820. Hi there Justin! Love your channel. I am a 21 year old Jewish man from the UK. I came to my roots as a Jewish man when I was turning 20 after learning I was halachally Jewish. I am part of a masorti shul. I also see that you are Jewish. My background, funny enough, is Magick and I had delved into many left and right hand paths over the last 10 years. However, I am in a conflict with myself. I see myself as observant but I also want to practice Magick/Kabbalah. Is it kosher or safe for me to practice Magick as a Jew according to Halacha? Thankyou :)
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  3821. A lot of lost gems in asylums...and the Vatican... They have that in common 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  3822. I may not be, first but at least I showed up within the first 13 seconds :)
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  3823. Love these videos what a wealth of information I learn something new every time thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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  3824. Happy Holidays!
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  3825. Thanks!
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  3826. Thanks!
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  3827. Asking an angel about where to find treasure is strong dungeons and dragons party energy
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  3828. I saw someone above say that you are the Bob Ross of philosophy and laughed so hard. 😂 But just a positively wonderful video!! I look forward to more on the subject. Off to buy a shirt to support right now!
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  3829. *I care what Manny thinks.
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  3830. Thanks! keep up the good work.
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  3831. 1:19:00 I have a very similar tattoo: the two eyes of horus. I have Apophis represented as an ouroboros around the right eye. Some of the imagery is different, some is similar. It's at least interesting. My tattoo artists kinda messed up though as the eye is on my right as though the eyes were looking at me rather than looking out from me. David Shoemaker's Living Thelema contains an image if a snake around a heart if anyone is interested in a reference image. Kinda cool.
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  3832. OH MY GOD. I ASKED YOU FOR THIS VIDEO LIKE 2 YEARS AGO AND YOU FINALLY DID IT!! Thank you Frater Justin Sledge!
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  3833. "they've got aeons for days" You're killing me 😆
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  3834. Laughed out loud -
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  3835. Thank you for yet another fascinating video! I have always appreciated your respect for women and their sizable contributions to esoteric and occult subjects as they are often overlooked or dismissed. Hadewijch's daring view on a divine abyss of love is haunting and you've inspired me to learn more about this innovative, visionary woman. 🖤
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  3836. i love you man
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  3837. Dope AF🙌🙌🙌 unbelievably enlightening hour on the mysterious Tribal Deity turned International PopStar. 👏👏👏
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  3838. Excellent!! So profoundly insightful! A blessing!
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  3839. Brb, gonna try summoning Luther.
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  3840. Just to say, been following for a long time but never comment - all this is just a goldmine in the utterly fascinating. Thanks
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  3841. These never come up in my notifications. Very annoying.
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  3842. Got me good with Kimmy Gibbler.
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  3843. Happy Halloween Doc! 🎃
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  3844. I can honestly say you're right. We all claim we believe and love him
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  3845. me, a PhD in Oriental Studies, earing the intro: LOL... wait, spooky season wasn't in Summer?
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  3846. I enjoyed your analysis and discussion., Thank you for sharing your ideas.
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  3847. Anat! Of course! I've been looking for a good name for my metal band. Thanks dude!
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  3848. This channel has come such a long way, Dr Sledge..., and the opening music just brings... In an odd way, warmth to my heart after the years of listening.
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  3849. Very interesting video! I look forward to more on Hildegard
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  3850. Well timed! Just after St.Joseph Petersons fantastic edition, which I assume you've already dived into. It's great to hear it discussed AS I'm reading it, thank you!
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  3851. First. :-)
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  3852. Dr S bringing the Sledgehammer to my brain. Great video
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  3853. Brilliant!
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  3854. Now I know how the peasants felt during mass 😅
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  3855. Best youtuber I've come across
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  3856. I was really touched by your homage to Carlos Gilly, and I will actually go and get some of these books. I signed up for the ‘lessons’ they used to offer in magazines back in the 70’s. I still have a few of the mimeographed pages they sent, complete with symbols.😊 So when I saw this, I was excited to get the real information! Thanks Doc. We are just getting o er that flu, and it really is a mean one. We had really bad sore throats for around 3 days. Stay safe it’s getting scary out there.✌️But it’s NOT the END! (I think, as no one knows the day or time.)
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  3857. Giant Worm emerges in the French countryside Creepy little girl walks into Avingnon “How can this be?! For his IS the Kwisatz Haderach!”
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  3858. Love a good Acererak name drop 👍
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  3859. Oh dang, I'm early to this one! Thank you for all the work you do, Dr Sledge sir!
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  3860. Just over 15 min in and i jeep yelling WHAT? in surprise and enthusiasm
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  3861. Thanks!
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  3862. Very interesting Thank you for sharing
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  3863. Thanks
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  3864. Happy birthday once again! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for your awesome work!
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  3865. In the medieval netherlands all that were not following the roman catholic's narative was called a 'ketter' and I always been wondering about the name 'cathar'.......
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  3866. 😍🤯❤️ yass!!! ...now to win the lottery...that I need to start playing... a library of dark wood, heavy fabrics and old occult books (that I probably couldn't read). I'd love to make replicas though, like old school monks, sans the time period! LOVE this episode!!!
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  3867. Treasure sorcerer/wizard needs to be a class in D&D
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  3868. Why do I have such a strong urge to go to patreon and support esoterica. Must be Satan making me do it.
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  3869. This was truly a joy to listen to! And I'll definitely have to look into this show!!!
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  3870. "anti-semitic pseudo history".... yeah he definitely means Robert Sepehr. 😂
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  3871.  @TheEsotericaChannel  good point, thanks for free academic answer!
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  3872. Thanks!
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  3873. "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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  3874. Thanks!
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  3875. This has become my absolute favorite channel on YouTube in such a short time. Subscribed about 8 months ago and feel such personal growths with the specific helpful lens you also provide.
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  3876. Thanks!
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  3877. Dr Justin - when all of us out here sends you (each of us) ten bucks - what sports car will you be buying, dude?
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  3878. Here’s a cup of Co-op coffee. ☕️
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  3879. Im now here after the Diablo4 release :)
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  3880. first 15 minutes again babyyyyy
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  3881. 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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  3882. You are my favorite YouTuber, also I can’t stop buying your merch it’s so cool to be able to express my interests without having to speak lol
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  3883. Thanks! love your stuff. this video is life changing for me. I hope youre doing well <3 thank you for everything
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  3884. So…. how does one salvage the pieces of a blown mind! Fantastic presentation!
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  3885. Thank u sm for this series I’m new to esotericism & Paracelsus has really stood out. We need more videos on him
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  3886. lol I love how uncomfortable you got at the word exoterica.
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  3887. 💛
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  3888. This is the sort of thing that YouTube was made for....where else could I find a scholarly presentation about a "recently " discovered manuscript from a necromancer/academic? The good rebbe lays it out very clearly and cleanly, and I have already learned more from the video than I bargained for. Well done.
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  3889. Hey speaking of vengeful angels and supernatural mystic fictional story, the movie CONSTSNTINE with Keanu Reeves would be enjoyable unless you've seen it already. Plus I given appreciation to you and Philip with PayPal donations for your intellectual rational transmission of religious philosophic info 🙂
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  3890. Hi Dr. Sledge! I'm ordering a bunch of books on alchemy for a potential work project and your reading list was very helpful. I couldn't use your affiliate links due to how our ordering system works so I wanted to make sure to say thanks for creating that resource. (And to make a comment relevant to the video... I grew up Lutheran and seeing a Luther rose in this context knocked me down flat! I'd love to learn more about early Protestant esotericism.)
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  3891. I must admit with all respect, I may have a tiny crush. ☺️ Gratitude 🌞
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  3892. This video is an early Thelemic holidays present.
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  3893. 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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  3894. haven’t watched yet but imma have fun with this one lol
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  3895. My favorite video yet! I'm finally going to buy a shirt, as a thank you for this enjoyable and intellectually interesting half hour (well, I've watched more than once, so half hours). Thank you, indeed.
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  3896. I never had to futz with a Torah scroll, but I imagine it isn't pleasant.
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  3897. commenting for the algorithm
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  3898. Thanks! Food for thought with an occasional side of wry.
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  3899. Im loving those lectures! Keep up the awesome work!
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  3900. Thanks!
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  3901. Thank you for all that you do.
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  3902. i for one would be interested in any class you teach on Mysticism. Especially ...is it Merkavah and Hekhalot?....thanks for informing us on these interesting and fascinating subjects!!! I look forward to more!!
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  3903. Thanks!
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  3904. Thanks!
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  3905. I've been waiting for you to get to Blake. Thank you. You may have changed my mind on Blake's "Prophetic" works.
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  3906. Deleuze as "interesting but wrong" made me cackle
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  3907. Let’s goooooo! This is going to be an amazing series
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  3908. Omw breaking into God's house so I can measure his eyebrows while he's asleep
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  3909. Thanks!
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  3910. Haha Francis Yates OG love it :) Great channel and sense of humor
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  3911. My second listening. Incredible presentation & summarizing. Wow! TY! I toast you Dr. Sledge 🥃
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  3912. Trident of erectionism
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  3913. I luv this plug 🔌.
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  3914. The 6 watcher of each treasury, 3 on the way in and 3 on the way out, could be 1 for each zodiacal degree of the Egyptian Terms/(Bounds) 60 total, 5 per sign 6° each, that seem to play an important yet obscure role in Egyptian Astrology
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  3915. Thanks!
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  3916. "Making magic great again"
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  3917. Thanks!
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  3918. Great format and wonderful content. Learned a ton. 🙏
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  3919. I don't know whether to bless you or curse you for awakening an interest in old books in me. Probably bless as I'm too cash poor to afford the things 🤣
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  3920. Dr. Justin: "Published by the real Archons of this world: Brill" Me: loudly FUCK!
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  3921. Good one! Can't wait to learn more. Hope you got some lunch. I think i heard your belly growling toward the end there.😋🤘
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  3922. I love reading the neoplatonists, while application in praxis is quite difficult, it’s a great endeavor. I’m aware that The Dr is familiar with them I just hope more people can learn if nothing else their logical methodologies, even a semiotic understanding amongst the many would be so helpful at healing deep social ills through providing a modular application within via induction, reduction, deduction etc… as a means of navigating the umwelt.
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  3923. Don't forget your third viewing demographic 'practicing occultists' who want a better understanding of the texts we use💚🇮🇪love the channel💚🇮🇪
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  3924. Wow! What synchronicity! Just as I was looking for the Blake quote about systems to post it here, you throw it out in the video. Truly spectacular!
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  3925. Out of the 17 bazillion (and counting) YouTube channels, yours is the only one that I support with my hard-earned filthy lucre. I can’t thank you enough for the service you provide to us seekers, finders, scribes, scholars, and wacko Californians (yes, I am one of the latter).
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  3926. Super awesome video :D!! I agree with you about Blake being his own thing instead of a "Gnostic", the term itself i am fine with as it serves a specific service, but calling anyone outside of Antiquity a Gnostic just creates a big mess. Blake i believe got his focus on Imagination through Böhme, and his more "anti-material" stance i think comes from him just living during an era of materialism, and through trying to combat it he leaned more towards the direction of seeing mater as bad, it's like how Louise Claude de Saint-Martin argued for Christianity but wasn't a big fan of the Catholic Church.
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  3927. Awesome channel and content 👍 Been binging a lot of your videos! Thanks!
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  3928. Re-reading Jaynes Bicameral Mind and this is a topic of interest for me and really relates to it.
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  3929. Thanks!
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  3930. Great video!
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  3931. FINALLY MY LILLITH PT 2
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  3932. Hey hello, I've been watching your videos for few months now I think, I found the channel while I was reading about canaanites gods and Yahweh, I really like how you present your opinions, how you approach the topics and how you avoid the bs most people fall into when they talk about similar topics. I checked your website also which made me read about more stuff, I read also about Kaplan on Wikipedia, very interesting. Anyway, What I wanted to say is that I'm Egyptian and this is very exciting. Im not sure if I can afford it to be honest but maybe if I deducted the plane tickets things might work out as I'm already in Egypt lol. Seriously this is so cool.. And in case I didn't make it I hope you all have a wonderful time. welcome to Egypt ❤
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  3933. Dude I've listened to about a half dozen of your episodes and understand about half of what you say. I bought a tee shirt anyway because intelligent discourse is hard to find anymore, especially about the subjects you cover.
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  3934. Your content is weird but very interesting I wish I could support your channel but I don’t have enough money right now :(
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  3935. Thanks
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  3936. Maybe his law of non-contradiction? He seems to have gotten that right.
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  3937. Thank you! Happy Halloween to you too. I really appreciate this channel. Xxx
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  3938. Best video yet.
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  3939. three hours!!!!! Yes!!!! Going to have to wait till Thursday to have time to watch the whole thing. Now I have a reason to look forward to Thursday!
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  3940. Thanks!
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  3941. Thank you for making this difficult material accessible.
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  3942. Dr Justin Sledge I hope you can see this message, what is a good way I can learn to read biblical hebrew? I've even considered an university but Id rather do it online if possible. Really looking forward to your answer! It has been such an amazing time listening to both of your answers I am a fan of both of your channels for a while now.
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  3943. Grain of Salt and Abra🍉
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  3944. No really though. I love this channel!!!
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  3945. I absolutely love the jokes you crack here and there in your videos. 🤣
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  3946. Excellent lecture as ever.
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  3947. Thanks!
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  3948. Necromantrix is a fantastic translation ❤❤❤
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  3949. Thank you so much for your work! You can’t imagine how much you are helping me! Thank you!
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  3950. 👌
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  3951. Thank you so much for braving through that episode. You are incredible!
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  3952. Ayyyye I love my new shirt! 🎉 Been summoning demons to help me finish my capstone art exhibition
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  3953. Thanks!
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  3954. Thanks for this episode Dr. Sledge! My favorite episode yet! As I love reading over the Arbatel over and over. As per my comment in the community section of this channel: Of all the Grimoires I read, it feels like the Arbatel is the most “Christian”, (for the lack of a good descriptor, whatever that means*) of all the grimoires. At least it feels like a Grimoire written and intended for someone who has a devout Christian world view. Like for Clergy or observants of the Christian faith. In my own channel I intend to visit the Arbatel and De Oculto Philosopia Libre Tres of Agrippa and how it casts a incredibly long shadow on the syncretic Philippine magical tradition.
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  3955. LORD RNUA
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  3956. This video was.....cathartic (no relation) :) Well done, once again.
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  3957.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Many thanks Justin. Keep up the sterling work👍
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  3958. May 👏 his 👏 name 👏 be 👏 blotted 👏 out 👏
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  3959. Still waiting on that one 😂😂😂😂
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  3960. Goonies Squad 👑🪙💎
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  3961. thank you for your sharing it with us !
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  3962. The Magi , Munipulating the sympathetic structure of reality since time in memorial. Dr. Justin you do have a way with words.
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  3963. Impressive video!! One question remains for me. What did those mystic rabbis actually DO? Some form of meditation with 'jewish mantras'?
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  3964. Love your channel. Please keep the content coming.
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  3965. Thanks for always producing such informative and interesting content, I’ve really learned a lot with this channel.
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  3966. I'm happy to have discovered your very valuable channel.
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  3967. As regards the statement that Zoharic material was invented in the 13c that is a matter of intense debate. There is little doubt that the basic concepts of the Zohar including the Sitra Achra and Kelipot have there roots in early Rabbinical and even Zoroastrian teachings. The question is one of authorship which Scholem et al ascribe to Moses of Leon late 13c.
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  3968. Huzzah, Sir! I couldn't agree more!!
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  3969. Hurrah! If non-being cannot be, then we explain why is is, straight a priori no chaser, no god, and sit on it Dr.Kant.
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  3970. I totally agree with you. I think it would be awesome if there were evidence of any of it. beyond the mundane reality. I don't care about treasure lol. I'm only interested in the history.
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  3971. Thanks!
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  3972. Thanks for the shout out Justin!
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  3973. A) How did you keep a straight face? B) how many takes did that require to keep from laughing on camera? Brilliant! Job well done!
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  3974. If I ran out of kidneys to sell after buying books from Brill, do I have to give up an arm and a leg? ;) ... right I am gonna show myself out
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  3975. Happy New Year!
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  3976. I respect your work and awesome content!
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  3977.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I figured as much lol Thank you for your passion and dedication!
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  3978. Way cheaper knowledge than that stupid student loan got me....Thanks Doc, you are the man, bless up.
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  3979. Thanks!
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  3980. A thorough overview as always, appreciate your well researched quality content.
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  3981. Just found this; Shanah Tovah u'gamar l'chatimah tovah. Or Neerav was one of my first introductory books when in yeshiva. I'm very interested, and hope this is a series.
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  3982. Thanks!
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  3983. The proper translation is a little harsher than bumpkin, let's be honest. Nothing will ever quite disappoint me so much as Plotinus attempting to win an argument by using what amounts to the Hellenic equivalent of the n word
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  3984. So technically I can blame Aristotle for "Azoth"?
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  3985. this video was great! not only are you very knowledgeable about your topics but I can see and hear that you deeply care about the work you're doing as well. Your descriptions in this one paired with the pictures you chose to include made for a very enjoyable watch. thank you!
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  3986. Good stuff bossman, keep at it
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  3987. LMFAO the trident story
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  3988. Good stuff! You have the best content on YouTube.
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  3989. Nice WITTR patch! I never took you for a black metal fan.
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  3990. ❤
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  3991. 🌜
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  3992. I actually did guess leviathan 🦈
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  3993. I wish I had teachers and instructors like you, Dr. I’m really enjoying this series. Thanks.
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  3994. great content! keep up the good work, also some of that comedy really shines thru sometimes, don´t be afraid of it
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  3995. thank you for enlightening us! can you dig into origins of indian mythology also?
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  3996. Just shared your video on my community page & social media! Thanks for the deep-dive…still watching!
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  3997. Another wonderful video!
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  3998. HERE FOR YOU!!❤️
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  3999. Not all heroes wear capes.
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  4000. Your lecture is very helpful.
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  4001. Good afternoon everyone
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  4002. This is an Awesome Channel. Keep up the Cool & Interesting Works !!
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  4003. Awesome stuff man. Thank you for the work you put into these.
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  4004. Wait, what was the name of that Ashkenaz family? Calaminus? Anyway, this informed speculation seems like a good platform for exploring the development of these forms of magic, as either pointing towards clues or as things to contradict and bounce off towards more evidence. And like you said the deep structure of these texts and their rituals are strikingly similar.
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  4005. There is still a kind of practice of this in the UK. Every Christmas there is an adaptation of a ghost story on the BBC - usually something by MR James or written in that style. Mark Gatiss is usually involved, and he knows his horror. We always make sure to watch and discuss it with friends.
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  4006. Thanks 😊
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  4007. very interesting and informative,,thanks
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  4008. First. Ha ha. And great topic!
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  4009. 👍
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  4010. Thank you for this foundation, historical roots.
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  4011. thank you. great content.
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  4012. Divine Black Hole. A nice concept, really... 😆
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  4013. Thanks
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  4014. Happy New Year Dr Sledge and thank you for your exceptional Esoterica lectures on fascinating topics. Your Egyption, occult, Maya & Gnostic religion insights are very fascinating. I bought The Blood of Kings Dynasty & Ritual in Maya art that arrived today & looks superb. I would like to recommend you interview Richard Stanley the filmmaker about Gnostic religion, mysticism, voodoo, alchemy & anthropology, for your shows or podcasts! I learned about Esoterica from his Terra Umbra Group that you should join. He has a wealth of knowledge about the Cathar's & lives in France near the Montsegur castle ruins.
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  4015. Several Circles is amazing! If you haven't, binge their channel lol
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  4016. How do I get to the merch store? I can't find a link anywhere
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  4017. ❤ I love this one so much I had return and watch again. 😊
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  4018. Thanks
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  4019. Thanks
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  4020. Very cool. His Dark Materials helped me escape Christian Evangelism which is an enemy of imagination. Blake truly wrote his own gospel and said we should do the same.
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  4021. Yay double Yay finally got on patreon for Dr Sledge.
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  4022. I am so sorry that you had to go through that ordeal. I’m glad this somehow made you the awesome person you are today.
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  4023. Ahh the evocative images are like headlines
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  4024. Dude, these 1 hour lecture is awesome. Went by really fast. Thank you for posting.
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  4025. That’s awful! I am sorry you went through that. I just got mildly harassed playing D&D and that was the extent in New York.
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  4026. TGIF!
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  4027. I've been to Beit She'arim a few times, very cool necropolis! My daughter dressed up like Lara Croft had a blast there!! 😆 I know you deal mostly with the Hebrew Bible but it would have been interesting to note Jesus resurrecting Lazarus...
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  4028. I really loved this video, great presentation. More Mary please 🙏 Thank you
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  4029. 🔥❤️🔥 Much love to you all at Esoterica! Thanks for the learning! 🙏
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  4030.  @TheModernHermeticist  thank you so much for everything Dan! I've watched both your channels from early days and appreciate the efforts to make people aware of more primary sources
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  4031. This will be rich indeed! Doing my own illustrations for my novel soon! Inking them both physically and digitally!
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  4032. Hey man you’re awesome ! Would you ever make a video about your personal beliefs regarding magic ? Or your successes? Thank you !
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  4033. "Not pictured: the void, on left" 🤣😂😂 I love you brother....thankyou for such a great channel. ❤👏🤌
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  4034. I'm glad to see you making this video, unfortunately with all the fluff out there people miss the real stuff. The Shomer Emuneim is the go to book. Thanks for setting the record straight! Regarding the antiquity of the Zohar however, the correct book for that is "קדמות ספר הזוהר" unfortunately I don't know of any English translation.
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  4035. Awesome series, thank you Dr. Sledge!
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  4036. Green one,great one, this one :) Thk u, Doc' 1❣ 👍
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  4037. Thanks
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  4038. 👍👍👍👍👍
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  4039. Big Like ❤🙏
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  4040. I am shocked and saddened that I have never heard of her before. And she's English! Are we destined to hear of the occult significance of Leibniz, doctor?
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  4041. Thanks!
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  4042. Thank you!
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  4043. Thank you for the lecture, what a joy to learn this. Plus, loving your delivery and sense of humor. Well done!
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  4044. On most days, many would go for an elixir in the evening. Some would prefer concoction in the afternoon. But today is special, the first of April and it's a "no cube necessary" Absinthe breakfast. :) Brilliant!
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  4045. Uh Yeah don't be a religious gate keeper. I can't stand those elitists! Keeping sacred knowledge from the people should be a freaking sin!
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  4046. Amazing video, first video i saw of you from recommended. Which is funny because i was thinking about this subject earlier today. Really like how you state your purpose intentions and disclaimers clearly in the beginning. Awesome content I'm subscribing
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  4047. @ESOTERICA  wow you responded quick. Just finished that part!
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  4048. Thanks! I truly appreciate such interesting, high quality, extensively researched material presented for free on YT. And your quirky dry humor and presentation makes it that much more appealing. Great job!
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  4049. now im 1000x wiser thanks ;)
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  4050. 😀😀😀
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  4051. It's a delight to know that I'm not the only person who sought out and acquired as much as possible from Roderick Usher's library. :)
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  4052. Good reason to head back to Egypt ;) Epic opportunity yall and who better to guide it. Kol Hakavod Dr. Sledge.
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  4053. Holy shit man I'm so sorry you went thru that. I live in Aurora Co, so i remember Columbine and I was a few blocks away from the theater shooting. I'm glad you made it thru all that. 🫶
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  4054. ".... Died many times ever since " Thk you very much, again, 4 another jem 🙏💜
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  4055. what could go wrong?
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  4056. Wonderful lecture! I don't know if you ever double-back to these comments, but I want to ask you this question. You presented several images created by the eclectic poet/engraver William Blake. He seemed to have a fantastic imagination. I think he created his own mythic cosmology, which featured beings like "Urizen" and "Los." Was he inspired by gnostic texts? I have also heard that Blake drew upon the writings of a Swedish Mystic named Immmanuel Swedenborg. Was Swedenborg aware of the concepts of 'gnosticism,' somehow?
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  4057. Chokeslam of the Absolute is the greatest book title I've ever heard LOL
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  4058. :)
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  4059. You and @nilered oughta collab on recreating some of the Alchemical experiments to see what happens.
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  4060. As usual Dr. Sledge, the content you provide gives a balanced perspective on the subjects you teach. The bro stoics have always been very off putting to me and the skewing of the philosophy as a whole has become very misguided. Thank you for the clarification and the facts on stoicism. Par excellence
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  4061. Well shee-it! 😱
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  4062. I already listened to a lot of things about the manuscript, but I just never tire of it honestly :) thank you for a cool video
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  4063. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾! And Thank YOU..!🙏🏾🤗🖖🏾💕
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  4064. I am really enjoying your videos. You pack a lot of information in clear, understandable packages. I am learning a lot.
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  4065. Yeah 💎🙏 thk u💜
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  4066. I ❤️u!!!!!!!
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  4067. If I ever start a band I'm naming it "Clerical Necromantic Underground" 🤣
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  4068.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Idk, I never thought I would hear the term "got hands" in a lesson about Kabbalah 😂 this video is next level
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  4069. “Thank Paracelsus” - Newt Scamander
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  4070. Your channel is so special—dare I say magical?! You are a gifted teacher.
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  4071. Where could I send some research papers I wrote and had published? I would love to get some feedback and discuss them if you are interested.
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  4072. Sounds like this headless one could use some... nvm not gonna say it.
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  4073. But...but...but....it was so perfect!
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  4074. Thank you for drawing attention to her, her work and her salons - Blessings!
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  4075. Loved this one
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  4076. Dr. Sledge! I respect you very much. In particular, I appreciate your historical rigor balanced with an appreciation for people's own spiritual pursuits. You went out of your way to say just that about alchymy -- all the while wonderfully clarifying presentation of alchemy as legitimate proto-science simply participating in the symbolical and cultural milieu of its time. It's a treat to find scholars and thinkers like yourself, particularly on a popular platform like this.
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  4077. Congratulations to you and LTR's on your excellent videos. I would also reccomend Melvyn Bragg's BBC's Radio 4"s In Our Time episode on this topic which you can listen to on Youtube. If l remember correctly they go into the popular unrest/ unease in the region at the church's ruling that the sacrament of communion was so pure that the priest giving the sacrament didn't have to be that pure themselves. I find the sceptic's arguement compelling because any "evidence" that has been gathered through torture is worthless as many contemporary miscarriages of justice have proven.
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  4078. Found your channel through the Neoplatonism collab. Your videos that I’ve seen have been very interesting thus far.
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  4079. hail SET, the ancient god of rock n roll....
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  4080. This is the best video I've seen on the topic. Only thing I wanted for was more Bible passage references for my own note-keeping. 3/3 stars. Also, I might take you up on writing a metal song about Anat and the plague bringers.
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  4081. This is one of the most interesting channels on mostly vast wasteland that is YouTube.
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  4082. Learnt a lot and enjoyed every minute. Thanks. 👍
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  4083. I'm so glad I found this channel by accident it's become such an important part of my morning with coffee
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  4084. I appreciate your effort to be honest about levels of certainty and the sources of that certainty.
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  4085. "On the Threefold Way of Knowing God" is such a profound work for me, as a nondenominational Christian who sways toward Orthodox belief (akin to the mysticism of St Symeon the New Theologian and St Gregory Palamas), as well as a student of a society which claims Agrippa as one of its originators. I prefer its straightforwardness to the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, not that they are in competition. What a great and surprisingly affordable publication Invisibilia Dei is!
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  4086. Sorry, just a nitpick; at 7:41 the caption reads 'Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Impression from the 18th century bce', though the Neo-Assyrian Empire was not around at this time. It is Neo-Assyrian, but from about a millennium later https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0619-1
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  4087. I just want to say that I absolutely love watching these. I often put on these lectures when I’m on a long drive. I love the way you teach this stuff!
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  4088. It’s wonderful to learn such things as this, Dr. Sledge. Thank you.
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  4089. Thanks!
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  4090. Thanks
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  4091. Just found this channel. You had me at demoness fornication bender. You make this stuff so accessible, so thanks for the great work!
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  4092. Super excited about this publication and I applaud you for valuing accessibility and being real about the scam that is academic publishing.
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  4093. Such knowledge 👍. Thanks dr Sledge for sharing.
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  4094. Thank you
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  4095. Plotinus was just jealous cuz his mom only gave him three hypostases.
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  4096. Thanks
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  4097. Valeu!
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  4098. Another great video!
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  4099. Thank you for this video. This inspired me to buy Das fließende Licht der Gottheit in German. It’s a shame that in Germany she is basically forgotten.
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  4100. Five minutes in, and I'm startled to see that large parts of early modern witchcraft theory parallels 21st century Qanon and other far right conspiracy theories.
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  4101. are you planning an episode on Samael any time soon please?
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  4102. That's a nice cup of coffee, black and hot! 🙏😎
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  4103. Fantastic work, as always. Have you read Eliade's "The Forge and the Crucible"? I'm enjoying it so far but a little wary that it may culminate in the "revisionism" you mention.
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  4104. Put on the spot, I once said yes, Blake was probably gnostic, but I've since changed my mind, because I am now under the impression that gnostics regard matter as evil, whereas I think Blake was more inclined to regard it as a point of view produced by dark satanic mills.
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  4105. I always wondered where some of the politics of this channel lay, especially in light of recent events on the world stage. Part of me still wonders... but if this man is using language like "direct action" and boot licker allusions, then I am more confident that the ideals behind the channel are sound. His mentor shared a negative opinion about the direction of the country after the election, and although I believe that BOTH candidates in that election were war mongering fascists, his point about academic freedom stands.
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  4106. great video! nicely woven goonies reference as well!
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  4107. ❤I recently started binge watching your channel.❤ Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills. I will be joining your Patreon soon.❤😊❤
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  4108. Thanks! I have watched hours of your lectures.
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  4109. Thanks!
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  4110. Thanks!
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  4111. Blake's Newton is só awesome
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  4112. Greetings from Chattanooga, TN. Dry? Boring? Not to me, this is where I choose to spend my free time, right now. What's that quote "Those who say, do not know.....". Have a good day and thanks for sharing and for your time and wisdom.
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  4113. So glad you made this video! I have been wanting to learn more about Paracelsus but as a 9 to 5 sort I haven't had the opportunity to dig into the morass. EDIT: After the initial ecstatic comment...and having finished the video...this was super well done. I am going to have to watch this again to absorb everything. Fantastic once again Esoterica! Looking forward to the future vids!
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  4114. Thanks! Been super busy listening to school lectures while working, just started last week! I can’t wait to listen to this and part six next week at work though!
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  4115. Along with everything else, you teaching these episodes I feel I am learning academic integrity of thought and research. You are a shining example. Grateful.
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  4116. Fascinating and disturbing. Although I'm familiar with this bonkers chapter of history, this is the first time I've heard a first-hand account by someone affected by the utter banality of the Satanic Panic. Thank you for having the courage to share what must have been a deeply scarring experience. It is horrifying that there are people in positions of power today still peddling this dangerous nonsense.
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  4117. Choke slam of the absolute is so good hahaha
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  4118. Thanks! ...for your passion for history of religious practices.
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  4119. Lmao "They didn't" haha love it.
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  4120. You make great content. Rare to see these topics discussed so well! Thanks.
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  4121. I’m so glad your channel exists. Not only are your videos wildly fascinating and full of information, they have also helped me so much in my own writings. I love incorporating religious and mythical symbolism in my poems and I have to thank you for providing in depth coverage of such topics. You’re blessing me with limitless inspiration! 🧡
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  4122. So we got created by mistake. Major Monty Python vibes. No wonder the meaning of life is 42.
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  4123. Needed this today! Thank you Justin
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  4124. Regarding the slaughter of the Cathar's was it said kill them all God will know his own...? Great video by the way 👍
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  4125. "Christian Side-Hug" has me rolling!
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  4126. Thank You for all the wonderful work and knowledge i love your channel
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  4127. Hi Dr. Sledge. Thank you for awesome contents, I went through all your videos in your channel and couldn’t find the video you mentioned on 12:10 in this episode (occult power of mathematic and geometry), I appreciate it if you could direct me to that episode please.
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  4128. Wow! I love this channel more and more. I especially appreciate learning about this history of women. Can you do a video of Mary Magdalene? 🌹❤️
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  4129. I listen to your channel instead of watching the video and the second you mentioned those furry boots I had to look at the screen and the hebrew text made me laugh so hard אוהב ממש, מעריך ממש ותודה על הסרטונים זכיתי להכיר את הערוץ שלך, כל פעם מחדש אני נדהם מכמות הידע וההומור שלך יא ג'סטין איש הפטישים
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  4130. Logged into a Unix terminal as Root 😂that was great
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  4131. Thanks!
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  4132. Electromagnetism is a little more predictive than say ... A demon. Perfect.
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  4133. wait, did dr sledge just drop lore about how he knows technical details of ballistic plates and tactical gear? AR500, spaulding, trauma plates…sir, lol
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  4134. Thank you for shedding light on the cultural and historical aspects of religion. I enjoy your videos very much. All the best
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  4135. Thanks!
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  4136. i adore the water clock...excellent intro....weel done.....alway I have enjoyedy your presentations.......thank your for your superior lectures.
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  4137. Thanks! Awesome content as usual. Im in the middle of your Kabbalah series and I must say it is quite fascinating. I can only imagine the hours of research it took to produce such an in depth series.
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  4138. Another scholastic masterpiece
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  4139. One of my favourite topics you’ve ever touched on, very happy to rewatch :) excellent video Dr Sledge
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  4140. Thank you for literally calling out the bullshit for being what it is.
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  4141. Thanks
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  4142. Thanks for making this less complicated for common folks like myself
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  4143. I absolutely love your demeanor lol
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  4144. Uh, I somehow missed the heads-up on this segment. Other comments indicate that other viewers were aware of this meeting of the minds.
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  4145. Ayy yes it's that time again. Off work and nothing to do. Esoterica it is. 😄
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  4146. Shame on me! I am SO jealous! Biblio-envy!
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  4147. Omgggg I’m hooked!!! I subscribed ❤❤❤❤
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  4148. Tak!
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  4149.  @TheEsotericaChannel  i will check back in when the ball gets rolling, i'll send you the first demos! lyrics will be based on history/mythology and the things i have been learning from this channel! Cheers!
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  4150. Thanks!
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  4151. Sounds like a fantastic channel!
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  4152. Thanks!
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  4153. Love it. Thank you for all you do Justin 💫
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  4154. 😋
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  4155. Really liked this one :-)
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  4156. This is my favorite channel for the esoteric . Cheers!
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  4157. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
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  4158. I guess everyone or most people have had a dream in which they are speaking clearly a language they don't know. It's a fascinating experience, a gift.
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  4159. Thanks!
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  4160. I've been a big fan from the very beginning. Absolutely love your channel. Congratulations on over 300k subscribers.
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  4161. 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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  4162. Thank you for sharing this.
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  4163. New sub here. Looking forward to future content.
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  4164. Holy shit. I didn't notice the big subscription increase until you posted this. I guess you hit some threshold with the algorithm. Awesome job. This channel belongs at THE TOP!
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  4165. Been a subscriber of both Esoterica and Foolish Fish for some time now. Esoterica has been great for an in-depth academic standpoint. Dr. Sledge shows his amazing breadth of knowledge in every video. Everything is always succinctly explained yet always pleasantly lighthearted. At Foolish Fish, I've also found incredibly insightful information but from a more practical standpoint which is equally amazing. This was definitely a pleasant surprise! Please continue making this much-needed content!
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  4166. Thanks!
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  4167. Thanks!
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  4168. Thanks!
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  4169. Punkacelceanism
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  4170. I work for West Virginia University, where they fire tenured professors as part of "academic transformation."
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  4171. Accessible scholarship is my favorite
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  4172. Thank you
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  4173. I gotta say, I owe a frankly fucking dramatic deepening of my religious/esoteric exploration to you and like three other guys with youtubes. Thanks so much man.
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  4174. Team gnostic thanks you for this video!
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  4175. That is very interesting, thank you.
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  4176. I would love to see you do a teasing out of the influence of this book on the various practices that succeeded it, such as hoodoo. This was a wonderful video! thank you so much!
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  4177. Give a like if you saw the King of the Hill reference! :)
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  4178.  @TheEsotericaChannel  - I can't wait! As long as you don't mind me being a total fan-boi for the first fifteen minutes or so... :) :) :)
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  4179. :D
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  4180. The "ol' Pete, might be a necromancer" was great! 😂
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  4181. The Book of the Acts of Solomon A Wes Anderson film
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  4182. Thanks!
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  4183. I'd love to see you talk with PlasticPills, who's got a yt channel and I love him talking about 20th century philosophy, I bet it would be incredible and better crossover than Marvel and DC.
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  4184. This by far the best channel I've come across that offers genuine knowledge of occult science's and literature thx for the content.
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  4185. I have a bunch of alchemy books thanks for the scorpios I have met I got more into the occult stuff and somehow end up finding occult stuff randomly from a rune book to a talisman and where I live I found some interesting things too
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  4186. Absolutely love this video!! I love the power point with it it helps me to learn and absorb the information !! Thank you so much for this!!
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  4187. Thank God for Zoroastrianism and Freddy mercury ☺️ let me go 🎶 bis-mill-ah 🎶🎶
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  4188. Oh yes. Been waiting for this one :-)
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  4189. Excellent series. I feel I’ve learned a lot, as brief as an overview as it is. Outstanding!!
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  4190.  @TheEsotericaChannel  That makes total sense, and thank you for doing more depth. I can see how that's a trade-off, and I definitely prefer what you've created to "Shat is X?" videos.
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  4191. Much appreciated!
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  4192. Absolutely fascinating and most enjoyable lecture on this phenomena. My favorite so far. I have very much enjoyed this playlist you have created here and will be sharing
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  4193. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is a beautiful sculpture. It's perfect for this video.
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  4194. Is there more of this kind of stuff on your patreon? Plz tell me you won't remove this from YouTube. I generally love your videos but this lecture series FABTASTIC Really awesome content
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  4195. Thanks!
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  4196. Dr. Justin Sledge: you have had an absoltely profound influence on me. I'd really have to say this is my favorite channel on the whole platform.
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  4197. Just love your voice ❤
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  4198. Academic Gold Dust wrestler is the meme we need please and thankyou nerd with time who sees this.
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  4199. Such an exciting find! Regarding the image of trousers w apples and the fur by the feet... Is this description indicative that Shekhinah has undergone a process of transformation from pure light to a manifestation that can operate effectively within the Sitra Achra (and thereby "do battle upon" it)? Is this story perhaps a metaphor for what the adept practitioner will encounter when they do battle with their own Kiippots? Better bring a bunch of apples; not just one!
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  4200. Oooo nice helloooooo❤
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  4201. 🔮
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  4202. i wear a djehuty pendant alongside one of a sistrum, so this personally means a lot that you extended upon the moon of beautiful risings, himself! thank you!!
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  4203. This was excellent. Your command of the language is as impressive as your command of the material. Yasher koaH
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  4204. Ms. Esmé L. K. Partridge is a delight to listen to. Please have her back again soon.
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  4205. Love me a good treasure hunt. Thanks Dr.
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  4206. That's amazing!! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!!
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  4207. Fellow scribe here, thank you for sharing your scribal work! Wonderful upload as always
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  4208. When you read the Old Testament you can see what you are talking about unfolding. The conflicts the convergence and divergence very interesting
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  4209. I have absolutely looked forward to this video, this has given me a lot to chew on.
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  4210. Realmente aprecio mucho tu trabajo, para mi son perlas preciosas que veo y guardo con mucho amor
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  4211. As a weird redheaded American Druish Hindu who studied theology in her free time, appreciate the perspective you give. It has branched my understanding into new directions. I'm already strange. Let's get weird.
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  4212. WOOoo! I have some merch coming for the holidays! 🤘🏻
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  4213. Thanks! You’re awesome!!
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  4214. Thank you very much. 😊
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  4215. This almost sounds like they're explaining evil as the relic of a kind of divine debugging process prior to the deployment of the Creation app.
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  4216. That is a spectacular piece of explaining of extremely complicated ideas! What a great channel this is...
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  4217. Your videos are so pleasant to listen to and informative. Thank you.
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  4218. Excellent. Thanks Justin. Happy Halloween everyone.
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  4219. Awesome. Another great entry in this series. I can't wait till next week and diving into Jewish magic!
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  4220. Thank you, again, Justin Sledge!! Love these videos.
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  4221. So much knowledge, so little time...
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  4222. So cool, thank you for doing this!
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  4223. I have watched your channel since it started. 👏 Always have appreciated your integrity, teachings and humor.
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  4224. Are there any analyses of Neo-Platonism's influence on Abinavagupta and Kshemeraja's Trika/Kaula Tantra out there? If this was going on in the 3rd century CE Hellenic World, how did these ideas spread to 8th century CE Kashmir if at all (I would be more surprised if they didn't as cultural diffusion has always occurred.
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  4225. briliant info
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  4226. Amazing work! Thanks a billion for sharing this! I can't believe how much of this process I didn't know about, and/or had never seen photos of before...
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  4227. "Dollar Store Marcionism" - that's a great Sledgism❤
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  4228. in the last few years I've had insights that line up with the gospel of Mary without having read it but know it just from listening to your talk in this video.
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  4229. How ironic that today we think the classical Greek philosophers understood way more than we do today and yet they thought the same of their 'ancient' predecessors.
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  4230. Thanks!
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  4231. Where had this channel been hiding for so long ??? Top quality content. Bravo! Subbed half a month ago. The intro is killer❤❤❤
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  4232. Good on you for clearing up all the Robert Duval confusion before it started Justin, that would have caused who knows what had it a mere moment to take hold. I myself totally knew you weren't talking about Tom Hagen from The Godfather...
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  4233. That place sounds like a real Sheol
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  4234. Thanks!
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  4235. Dear Dr. Sledge-Thank you so very much for your wonderful work. St Irenaeus was the first Father of the Church I read in detail, and remains one of my favourites. If I may ask, are you planning upon working upon the Neo-platonic mystics of the Later Roman Empire ? Figures such as Maximus of Ephesus, Iamblichus Chalcidensis and of course Flavius Claudius Julianus are very interesting in their reinvention of classical Paganism.
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  4236. Congratulations Dr. Sledge. Very excited for this new venture. May it prosper with tremendous Mazal.
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  4237. 🤣Good on that scribe who, I'm guessing, tested that buried treasure spell before finishing it.
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  4238. Thanks to you and others for making this information so accessible!! Really great for expanding your knowledge at work or the gym, been listening non stop since I found the channel! ❤
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  4239. Loved this lecture so much!
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  4240. Thanks!
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  4241. Thanks
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  4242. Happy Halloween! 🎃
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  4243. Thanks! I really enjoy your delivery, very enlightening!
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  4244. Sir, I need the address of whatever store that is that has that massive Loeb wall A.S.A.P.
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  4245. I love you so much! Thank you for everything you do; absolutely beautiful work!
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  4246. The unexpected Missy Elliott reference got me.
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  4247. This was a really fun conversation. I'm glad there is room in the Esoterica channel for this type of content and even more glad to find another Jewish esoteric (? Is the Talmud actually considered esoteric?) content creator
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  4248. Thank you for uploading this video - so grateful to creators like you who help satiate my curiousity
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  4249. I JUST REALIZED DR SLEDGE IS A FELLOW MICHIGANDER Respect from your brother up north.
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  4250. As usual, great content!!!
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  4251. Love your works, Dr!
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  4252. Thank you so much for this video
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  4253. ...where we explore the arcane in history, philosophy, and the flavors of the 18th century.
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  4254. Excellent video with well researched material presented in an accessible way, including making it come alive with the informative images you put in. Your speech pattern sounds very similar to Seth Rogens so it made it even slightly humorous as well. However. And mind you I do appreciate the separation of church and state here so to speak, the academic from the believer. But how do you then reconcile these findings when what you have found academically suggests it´s just two make believe beings being welded into one? Or perhaps reconciled into one, holding to the topic of reconciliation. Your findings certainly seem to point to a conclusion that would require reconciliation with belief in El, Elohim, Yahweh or whatever name you prefer for the Jewish God.
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  4255. Super interesting topic. Thanks for all your knowledge
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  4256. Ha. 😂 As the son of an archeologist, I can confirm that archeologist do indeed love trash! They get very hot and bothered over remains on any kind, and have highly developed analytical processed for trash, remains of latrines, etc. Ancient residue of any kind, really. And for exactly the reason Dr Sledge says: it tells you lots!
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  4257. I've always seen Blake as a proto symbolist a precursor of A.o. Spare.
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  4258. You are too funny. I must admit, I had to settle for a nice IPA over the whiskey. You crack me up.
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  4259. Whew!
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  4260. I have recommended Esoterica on my channel, because I admire the quality of your content and your scholarly and unbiased approach. Thanks for all the great information!
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  4261. Just discovered your channel. I got a lot out of this video and look forward to reading further. I also appreciate your sense of humor.
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  4262. Blake’s understanding of the devil is heavily influenced by Milton. The idea of materialism, ego, quantitative/qualitative duality and symbolism as a rift between God and man.
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  4263. #necromancysidehustle. ;) Amazing job, yet again. Dr. Sledge!
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  4264. Thanks!
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  4265. Ads for oppressed speech of bible-based bakers who don't say G*. I think Christians should not be so touchy about making g* cakes.
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  4266. Youtube randomly recommended this to me and I really enjoyed it. Subscribing for more interesting subject matter!
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  4267. As a literature PhD who wrote my dissertation on fanfiction.... I love your references to it here. Completely accurate. :)
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  4268. Anyone else catch the Abraxas cameo?
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  4269. You must of explained this well because it was very understandable to me.
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  4270. great episode. Very lively and your example with the papyrus made iit mode special!
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  4271. What would Lacan have to say about this one?
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  4272. I remember sharing your videos to my group on Facebook when you had only a couple thousand subscribers; you grew fast.
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  4273. Just something small to thank you very much for all your work. Love your videos 🙏🏻
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  4274. Same thing with the antisemitic belief in cultural marxism or cultural bolshevism thinking that the jews are conspiring to take over the world by teaching gender identity and feminism to destroy american conservative values they were saying that it was all linked back to the Frankfurt School who were a group of Jewish intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and are spreading theses Marxist values which is crazy. Also the Jewish space lasers conspiracy on how the wild fires started so much anti semitism on the conservative right.
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  4275. Just discovered your channel. Can't wait to dig into your videos. Thank you.
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  4276. Thank you so much for your continued work! I’ve discoreved your channel through Atun-Shei’s and I’m always amazed by the detail, depth and breath of your videos!
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  4277. Thanks! I loved this episode, and I continue to be deeply impressed by your scholarship and deeply grateful for your insightfulness and willingness to share your vast and fascinating knowledge! I also want to say that your commentary on the tragic nature of racists hijacking indigenous symbols and perverting them for evil purposes was RIGHT ON!! Racists are a disgrace to everything they touch, and they defile the very air they breathe! The runes don't belong to those pinheads, they belong to the world, and that includes everybody with an interest. On another note, I am never happier than when I run into somebody else who recognizes my Esoterica shirt for what it is, because your fans are the most interesting people to talk to. Thanks for that- you're bringing like-minded people together all over the place! Blessed Be! --Naomi
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  4278. Time to come back to Newport amigo, lots to chat about…
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  4279. Smells like Spinoza!
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  4280. Thanks!
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  4281.  @TheEsotericaChannel  brother your word smithing has me looking forward to a book from you!
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  4282. If religion is the opium of the masses, does that make esoteric circles psychedelics?
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  4283. I believe that the only way to truly give justice to the notion of the death drive is through the elaborations of Jacques Lacan
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  4284. This southern Baptist self; appreciates truth in meaning, in which you unselfishly teach versus the untold uneducated doctrine of the ignorant that I had been subject to. If you seek you will find. Lately I've come to enjoy my journey because of the search for truth. I have eyes and ears that long to see and hear. For real knowledge must be sought not taught. Thank you sir.
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  4285. I first came across Religion for Breakfast about 2 years ago when falling down a rabbit hole of ancient religion stuff (initially ancient Mesopotamia, think I have Irving Finkel to blame for his work on Mesopotamian ghosts) - and only just recently come across your channel - both channels are fantastic for different reasons! It's also been fun to see how the production has evolved, and I really dig the style of your videos now. It definitely has a fitting vibe! Keep it up!
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  4286. Thanks for making this video.
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  4287. 4:11 Paimon goes to Hollywood
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  4288. Thank you again Dr. Sledge. Beautiful work.
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  4289. Thank you for the mindful presentation of these subjects that are not mainstream!
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  4290. This has to be one of the most fascinating channels I've come across. Thank you for this.
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  4291. Thanks
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  4292. When I subscribed to your channel, I asked myself why I did so, being an atheist. Now I know. Fascinating, erudite, polite, funny. Kudos. Lunch is on me if you're ever in town. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
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  4293. Your a legend
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  4294. Fantastic channel, Dr Sledge! Totally fascinating and very well presented. Much respect and appreciation.
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  4295. I love you channel. Just found it. The way you teach and explain is amazing. Very professional and easy to follow. New fan!
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  4296. Thanks so much for your work! (Sent here my Dr. Anthony)
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  4297. If you write it down you kill it! This works good with Zevi's current stuff on mysticism. When the one become two, what will we do? I bet it was a lot about ratio.
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  4298. its a manuscript to summon demons to find... yep, you guessed it... buried treasure 🤣
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  4299. anybody claim to get it to work?
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  4300. I heard that the were multiple repository of manuscripts in Alexandria that were held by patrons of the city as both status symbols but as a mean to attract foriegn dignitaries and intellectual elites as to extend their spheres of influence.
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  4301. Damn those accursed academic publishing cartels!
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  4302. Kabbalah is perplexing when you first try to study it. The new agey way is simple and probably not going to hurt you but it isn't really Kabbalah. It helps if you can find a good guide or group near you. There are online groups that are pretty good. It also depends on the individual's background, existing knowledge and why they want to study in the first place.
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  4303. (Rarely did I rewind Youtube to understand that often.) This video is a great work you know why? Because it makes it like a thriller. You may read of all notable philosophers in Wikipedia or some student's book, and you know some statements or even systems they made. If you like philosophy and stuff like that, you probably like these statements/systems already, they are fun toys for you, you collect them in your mind as you did collect Bionicles as a kid (and you probably like Greek and Descartes-Locke generations more than Medieval one, just as you like original Toas and Toa Metru more than Toa Nuwa). But dr. Justin Sledge make it pulsating, you feel what all these people lived for, what thrilled them, why they felt it important, why it was the drama of their lives. That's wonderful. ...But I guess you have to be nerdy enough from start to see it as a thriller (and to make that philosophers-bionicles comparison).
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  4304. I really enjoy your wry delivery.
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  4305. Galethog sounds like a name a black metal musician would use 😂
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  4306. How did Dee and other Mercury Alone theorists view eastern alchemy and philosophy where mercury is seen tied to life? As a complete layman in any sort of alchemical subject, it seems to me that the far east is already well down this line of thought at least as far as the importance of mercury.
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  4307. We're in a new saranic panic. Now against transgender people and gay people. Nothing like being told I'm literally demonic and worship Satan for just existing in a way they don't like lol
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  4308. Pierce carried this through to contemporary thought. He’s esoteric also. I did my grad work at saint louis u so i devoured Scotus.
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  4309. Thank the Primeval Divine Androgyne it's Friday
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  4310. Thank you so much for sharing.
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  4311. Good stuff. A lighthouse if you will ,a candle to shed darkness and ignorance. Completely enjoyable.
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  4312. I remember the last time you made this video 🎉 Been here ever since. There’s no one like you and your team to cover these ideas academically and also fantastically. I really appreciate it❤
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  4313. I came for the beard...I heard this was a viking channel...turns out dead sea trolls are not a thing! Thank you anyway lovely stuff.
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  4314. Thank you!
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  4315. Thanks! I'm thinking
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  4316. The sigil of poverty, heh.
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  4317. Thank you for your services, good sir.
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  4318. Fricative. That was worth the watch. I ❤this channel so much
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  4319. Your scholarship and approach is the best I've seen on YouTube so far; a true gift to the field. your work is much appreciated. You've filled in so many of the gaps that are out there.
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  4320. I knew Paracelsus's bibliography was large and sprawling, but didn't realize that it was second only to Luther for the 16th century. Crazy.
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  4321. I'm seriously disturbed by the thought corporations can control art. Wouldn't want the peasants learning anything, would we?
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  4322. Fantastic video… I was a teenager so completely remember my mom and church friends running around with their hair on fire 🤦🏼‍♀️
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  4323. Thanks!
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  4324. Thanks!
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  4325. Awesomeness! 😎 ☕️ Thank you for all that you do. 🔥❤️🔥
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  4326. 46 minutes🥰 I’m already loving it
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  4327. how is dr. justin sledge kinda just the coolest person ever?? not only is he EXTREMELY well studied and knowledgeable, he seems so down to earth! he cracks jokes like it's nothing. if i could share some drinks with anyone alive on this earth at the moment it'd 100% be him. thank you for doing what you're doing!!
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  4328. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge definitely interesting Mahalo ⚡I appreciate your efforts⚡
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  4329. Fantastic as always! I'm psyched as this is the sole time I have already had a text suggested in an episode! My wallet will be a bit happier at least. Now, time to pick back on with On the Heptad. Guess I got burned out around Seven middle of last year.
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  4330. Love the lowkey Scott Weiland cameo 😆
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  4331. Thanks!
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  4332. I'll remember not to drink tea while listening to you Justin. Twice, it spluttered out of my nose while listening. Admittedly it was laughing but I do hold your humour responsible. Great shortform intro my friend 😂👏
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  4333. loved this very much. we knew the Abramelin Ritual came from the modification of some other practice - and I don't mean that in a negative way. Virtually all religious and/or spiritual practices come from something much older than what we know.
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  4334. Blake pounds! as does your new gear, Justin!
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  4335. Danke!
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  4336. Thank you Dr. This has been a wonderful class.... Zohar lab LET'S GOOOOO
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  4337. The Emerald Tablets are the most amazing creation and doctrine. If the spirit of Horus exists on this earth today, there a great chance that the spirit of Thoth still exists as well, universally speaking, if you know what "I" mean😎🤘👁🍀🌞♠🕎🔥😎.
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  4338. Hearing the intro music brought a tear to my eye! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
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  4339. Just like today, not everyone can read, hence the symbols
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  4340. Anthroposophists clickin so fast 🎉
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  4341. Brilliant sense of humor 👏🏻👍🏻. Priceless handling of the topic . And educational. #Necromancy Side Hussel # 🤣 Necromancy E ..
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  4342. Wow just found this channel! Brilliant! I have so much trouble understanding some presenters this was perfect I’ve learnt so much and now I must watch more! Thank you
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  4343. As a lay person and Christian, your content is certainly intriguing and informative. Keep up the good work!
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  4344. I’d love an acts of Solomon movie in which Jeff Goldblum is Solomon
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  4345. I suspect that some of this same need to control women is operating in the current Anti Abortion movement. A good many of the fringe weirdos are obsessed with myths of child-murderers and pedophile rings. The dark side of history repeats itself
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  4346. yaay!!! what a great way to end the week with this fresh upload on medieval theological beef
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  4347. hermes triscuit-biscuit
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  4348. New thumbnails are looking good! Question: Have you considered making an episode on Giordano Bruno? He's a personal favorite heretic of mine...
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  4349. Fascinating topics, clearly presented and relatively easy to follow regardless of prior familiarity with the material. I'm enjoying exploring past episodes very much.
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  4350. Thanks for your fascinating explanations!
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  4351. Thanks You! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰 For Your Work..!🖖🏾💕
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  4352. Happy holidays to you too!
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  4353. l love your big book. You must be thrilled to have it.
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  4354.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Historiography of Alchemy and Importance of Myth-making (in psychological and spiritual milieus/practices) but not to the detriment of its history.
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  4355. How accurate are the Pyramid rooms in Assassin's Creed: Origins? I realise some of that is obviously sci-fi, but is any of it accurate?
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  4356. Fantastic Video. Watching this was reminiscent of my experience with a college lecturer delivering.the understanding of English Literature. He was excellent at portrails. Also your style of narration makes complexities or difficult to digest information accessible. Thank You.
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  4357. Mulțumim!
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  4358. Thanks!
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  4359. You should visit Cornwall. There's something very much alive here that never died out. Spooky 😈👽👻🎃👹
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  4360. I'd love to and try some of the local Gwires!
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  4361.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I'll send you some. Cider here is better but potentially lethal. In a good way though
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  4362. It’s interesting how some strands of Feng Shui also considered heavenly bodies to have personhood and direct power over earthly fortunes. For example, the yearly Tai Sui (太岁, often translated as “Grand Duke”) is whatever star is opposite Jupiter as it goes through its orbital cycle, and some animal signs are particularly “offensive” to whichever Tai Sui reigns in a given year and thus must be propitiated.
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  4363. Christmas Eve and I am listening to a ghost story from the Roman Period. Thank you so much Dr Sledge!
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  4364. I appreciate your channel, small donation as a thank you
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  4365. you do make me want to run out and buy absinthe :-)
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  4366. Happy birthday! Thank you for all the content. You inspired me to go back to university for postgraduate studies in the near future :)
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  4367. you are both too charming. thank you for a beautiful conversation
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  4368. Happy as always to get a video from my favorite channel, especially with some HPL on this spookiest of Samhains. Wishing you the best today and all the other days ✌️ (Dunwich Horror would also be a sick if not long follow up reading lol)
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  4369. Thank you so much for your fascinating and inspiring videos!
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  4370. Lirty mercy, teach, Dr. Sledge, teach!!
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  4371. Your work --and this episode in particular --is so very good. Thanks!
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  4372. I guess since the title clearly says April Fool, I can only blame myself for not reading it. I was sitting here watching the beginning of this thinking WTF is going on here? I always appreciate your videos and your, for the most part, unbiased approach at knowledge. I found your channel about three years ago and it has been one of my favorites ever since.
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  4373. Great stuff...I've learned so much watching these videos.
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  4374. Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s Nephilim. 😂😂😂😂😂 Available now at the discount demon store!
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  4375. Always wanted to read up more on William Blake, unfortunately I can't find many books on him, ones that are affordable that is
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  4376. 😂😂😂"...Bad saving rolls..."😂😂😂
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  4377. Thanks
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  4378. Great video! I really like how it sheds light on the biblical story of the golden calf. While it pretty clear that El was merged onto Yahweh, its also clear that merge was messy and there was pushback. Mostly though, I am surprised how civil your comments are given the subject of this video. I imagine you must have tireless comment moderators?
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  4379. This actually fucked me up. I cried for an hour
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  4380. I’m glad i finally have a use for all this donkey piss 💀
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  4381. It is an honour to be here.... As for support, I am poor, but give sporadically when I can. I think next time I will by a T-Shirt, I can never have enough as a bachelor lol.
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  4382. Yessss
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  4383. Perhaps the fur on the boots, with the apples just above, show the descent to Assiah, as Adam and Eve put on their "coats of skin" in Gen. 3. The "apples" (apples, really?) above them could be a a reference to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in Eden, where Adam was "formed" (in Yetzirah). This would show a full descent through the Worlds.
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  4384. Thanks!
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  4385. 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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  4386. This has answered a lot, but also has given me a lot of questions. Thank you for sharing this.
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  4387. A question for you, Dr. Sledge: A few months ago, I read I, II, and III Enoch in addition to the Book of Jubilees, and I couldn’t help but notice that both Enochian literature and Jubilees has a strange emphasis on the use of a specific 364-day solar calendar, apparently as opposed to the standard lunar Hebrew calendar. Were Enoch and Jubilees written by the same sect? Was there a controversy over calendars in postexilic Judaism? What’s going on here?
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  4388. This may be the one person on YouTube I legitimately consider supporting. Great content!
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  4389. Thank you for making my long drive commute to work enlightening with your videos!
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  4390. Thanks!
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  4391. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this doesn't work.
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  4392. Gotta get in on that denaridollar crypto
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  4393. Amazing! I never kbew the neoolatonists and gnostics duked it out! I love Plotinus but never read him on the gnostics!!!
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  4394. Yes indeed!!! “ Religion is weird” !!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing. Very informative.✅
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  4395. great content as always! Though as a geology enthusiast, I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a bit disappointed to find the text about stones didn't contain any information on stones.
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  4396. Thanks!
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  4397. thank you
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  4398. Thanks!
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  4399. Thanks!
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  4400. Thanks!
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  4401. Another #SexyHermetic video, way to go. I especially enjoy your videos on women, and I've watched each multiple times
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  4402. Thanks!
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  4403. Thanks!
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  4404.  @TheEsotericaChannel  deeply appreciate you and what you stand for and very much enjoy the way you express it ! Post Scriptum would love to hear more about your feelings on the D Kiss :)
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  4405. You're the Bob Ross of philosophy! I put you on in the morning and relax all through the workday! Seriously, thanks for calling out fake dudebro stoicism!
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  4406. Blessed Samhain! Thank you for all your work. 🎃
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  4407. Thanks!
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  4408. I’m a Millsaps Alumna. This situation is a complete outrage. I’ve written emails to the president, and I wish there were more I could do.
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  4409. Ah, well I'm glad to have a new video to learn from 😅
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  4410. Thanks!
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  4411. Thanks
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  4412. These are great discussions and (constructive criticism) would be great to do share screens with text or pictures.
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  4413. Thankyou for this video, it definitely put my experiences with older teachers at my roman catholic school into context. Even though it was the 2010s, those dirty looks and comments for listening to rock music make more sense now knowing what happened a few decades back. I’m almost 19 now and even though I knew about the satanic panic phenomena, I had no idea it was quite that bad. Thankyou for this very informative video and for sharing your experience.
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  4414. The segment on Sophia VPN is one of the high points of the internet. I have tears of laughter in my eyes. I can't imagine how many times it must have taken you to do that entire segment without laughing. You legend
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  4415. Also for realistic, thought provoking entertainment there's none better than thou sire. Another absolute belter, thank you
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  4416. hi i heard about your chanel from Dapper Dinosaur im kinda stoked to go through your back catalog!
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  4417. What a great introduction! I learned a lot(and lot was confirmed). You have a new subscriber😊
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  4418. Thanks! I imagine I'm one of few, if not the only, Gambian subscriber you have. I'd love this book so much as, not to brag, I'm an award-winning author who uses esoteric practices in generating prose
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  4419. Oh damn! Parmenides and Duns Scotus in such a short window! Two of my favorites. Nice.
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  4420. Glory be to Saint Sutton. May his spirits lift ours. Amen.
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  4421. You are no shirker sir. Thank you for unbarring the doors to esoteric knowledge for the rest of us! Also, a pox upon Brill.
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  4422. Thanks!
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  4423. I’m so sorry this happened to you, my friend. I’ve just shared the post and tagged YouTube in the hope that it helps. Best of luck with this 🫂
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  4424. Thank you so much! Samhain is here and it's time to put milk out for the Cat-Sidhe so the crops come in abundant next spring. :)
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  4425. Your cadencing is almost hypnotic, which seems to accord well with the occult themes! Lol
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  4426. Thanks. When I was much younger & even more foolish than I am now, I thought of such things as astrology & alchemy as laughable. Gee, we're so much better than those superstitious idiots, aren't we?? These days, I recognize that astrology & alchemy led pretty directly to astronomy & chemistry; very laudable endeavors. I also now see such things as being a kind of growing-up process for humans. We played; then gradually we got serious. Further, there was a penchant (born perhaps of necessity) for bold experimentation involving one's person & safety. This attitude would later lend itself to great strides being made in everything from diving technology to anesthesia to flight. Suffice it to say: I don't scoff any more. tavi.
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  4427. Thanks!
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  4428. 🔮
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  4429. Brill owes you a sponsorship
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  4430. I would love more lectures on ba’al!
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  4431. Demon s*x binder . 😂😂😂😂😂 I can’t handle this. It’s like a juicy telenovela
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  4432. I also read that another catalyst for the Spiritualist movement was the post-civil war era in which so many people had lost loved ones whom they were grieving. Contact with them was very appealing, this source indicated. Also Cora Scott (aka Cora Hatch) became one of the very first women in America to obtain a divorce based on cruelty. Her husband had married her when she was just 17 years old and saw her as a meal ticket because she was packing the house with her "readings" at a nickel a head or some such. He became more and more controlling and abusive until finally she left and eventually filed for divorce and after a long struggle got it. Another mile stone for Spiritualist women.
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  4433. Thanks!
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  4434. Very interesting. Subcribed 🙏
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  4435. ☀️🦾💪🇯🇵
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  4436. Tickets bought, will be a pleasure to offer you an orval (and maybe have a brief chat about AI application develop in esoteric studies ?!)
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  4437. I love Chelsea Joy Wolfe por vida with out a doubt!!
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  4438. Brilliant.
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  4439. My shirt just showed up!
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  4440. yay!! more to come. thank you thank you!
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  4441. Thanks!
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  4442. I’m so grateful you made this channel
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  4443. Love your work. Thanks.
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  4444. So many words...how do you just keep giving thru words?? You just flow & conjugate & are a vessel of clarity.for our comprehension !!
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  4445. Very nice discussion
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  4446. Thanks
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  4447. I do have in my bucket list meeting you Dr Sledge, love your work and (creepy touch) we share birthdays.
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  4448. commenting on a nother account because i love yu dude, had to scroll through atleast 50 videos of satanic panic stuff to find it, would be great if we got to show education before showing movies about satanic panic
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  4449. If I've not said it lately, thank you. Your content always makes me think. And now, I want to try calligraphy again. DFTBA!
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  4450. Thanks!
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  4451. Dr Sledge you’re the best👑 💣💣💣
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  4452. dueling prophets with banjos
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  4453. Dude! How are you this knowledgeable!?🤔
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  4454. Thanks!
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  4455. This is such a treasure. I'm thrilled that I found this content. Thank you ❤️
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  4456. This video is great really congratulations! I came here to hear about neoplatonism but I was not disappointed! Scholarly!
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  4457. Thanks!
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  4458. Yes! The idea of crowdsourcing funding for the publication of highly specialized academic research (that's not held captive by special interest groups and is available/accessible to the public) gets me excited for the future and both my wallet and I are here for it! The institutional monopoly on truth (ie, academic racketeering) is an infuriating fire that burns deep within my soul. Is there a particular mailing list or group for those interested in directly supporting this type of research/publication?
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  4459. 31:50 Because he dropped that MFn mic, baby! {took me until the third viewing to catch on, lol} Peace 🙏 Edit: I wish that the SCOTUS was as adept as was Scotus.
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  4460. Thank you for your service to humanity ❤❤❤❤
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  4461. Your videos are great. You have a great voice to listen too as well and make is easier to understand.
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  4462. I thought I was prepared for this video bc I could follow the other two mostly. My brain hurts.
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  4463. Thanks! I just caught up on the last couple. What a great lecture series!
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  4464. You are one funny enlightened man Dr. Sledge I love you so much ✨🙏🥰 😅 Oh my goodness.
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  4465. Thanks!
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  4466. Thanks!
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  4467. Tenure is dead. The time for faculty unions is long overdue. Speaking from the perspective of a former tenured professor at a major state university with a tenured father retired who had a long career at the University of Tennessee and a tenured father in law (deceased) from Louisiana State University I can unequivocally state that the upper administration of most universities is populated by morons and bullies. Any person that is at the level or dean of higher should be assumed as an enemy of mankind until shown otherwise. Suggest you never delete this video by the way.
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  4468. Thank you for publishing such captivating and well-researched materials. I really enjoy your channel, and will donate to you again as I am able.
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  4469. 12:13 Haha, you’re a gem. I wasn’t expecting a laugh.
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  4470. I did send $$$$ on patreon, thank you.
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  4471. Thank you
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  4472. Thanks!
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  4473. Merry Christmas ya filthy animal.
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  4474. New game: Kultik Kombat
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  4475. I love how entertaining the good Dr. Makes history... specific history but still history
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  4476. Wonderful content! I stumbled onto your channel a while back, subscribed, and have really been enjoying what you are doing.
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  4477. Thanks!
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  4478. Thanks!
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  4479. Yoooo
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  4480. I could wax lyrical about any number of positive take-aways from your channel but I want to specifically mention & highlight your affinity for always including humor & convey my appreciation for doing so...long may it continue!
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  4481. your channel has been among the reasons and resources for me to overcome religious trauma and know more about spirituality in a more secure and chill way. thanks dude. youre a real one.
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  4482. As a mystics I I really appreciate your work and I come back many times in this channel. It as helped me to understand the mystics on much deeper way and had putted in more reasonable way. It’s easy to bee fooled by your own mind (the ego) when one has experienced mysticisms. Many takes it tooo much. And I love that this channel are more based facts as it is. And For the non- mystics so it’s more easy for me to explain how mysticisms works. Thank you so much! ❤
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  4483. Thanks!
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  4484. Oooh baby, I'm excited about this one! Thanks again for your wonderful work, dear Dr Sledge!
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  4485. Free live stream seminar!?!?! Whattttt!?!?!? I would PAY for that.
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  4486. Please do a video on Yahwism! I know your schedule is probably tight but I don’t think there is anybody better on Youtube for it!
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  4487. This was very educational
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  4488. Adding a new comment to an old upload, because spiritual enlightenment should not be so hilariously funny. But here we are.
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  4489. Thanks!
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  4490. "Flowing, flirting, falling, [ . . . ]" 😳
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  4491. I find it really odd that The Book of the Two Principles doesn't have its own wikipedia entry.
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  4492. Gasp....gay Christian magic....oh my 😳🤭
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  4493. That's my fault for trying to be "hip" (do kids say that still, I'm going to stop embarassing myself). Thak you for tolerating the asinine ephemeral comments of man whos brain should have been put out to pasture a lomg time ago. And sincerely, just thank you for being the seed to a new world of knowledge for me. I used to pray to the great architect "Please, just show me one wise American, please!!!!" Then I found your channel. Synchonicity? Serendipity? or just a stastical "well, duh of course".... Geez, Imma gonna really stop now. TY.
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  4494. So grateful for your content
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  4495. I think after this video I'm going to listen to Therion's album Sitra Ahra. Always nice to have a bit of entertainment after an interesting lecture.
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  4496. Doesn't the emanationist and Neoplatonic character of the Emerald Tablet suggest that interpretations through the lens of psychology and spiritualism are not only valid but congruent with the text's philosophical roots?
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  4497. Thanks
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  4498.  @TheEsotericaChannel  awww!
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  4499. That assistant manager analogy was spot on in being descript 😂
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  4500.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Fair enough. In that case, keep up the good work! :)
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  4501.  @TheEsotericaChannel  that’s fair lol
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  4502. Thank you sir, I appreciate and admire your work.
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  4503. Love what you do, how you go about doing it, and how well you do it; and I'm a fan of the type of humour you utilize as well. Keep it up & keep them coming! (Please!)
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  4504. Can someone explain what he’s talking about at 4:10 with the pronominal suffix problem? I’m trying to Google that but I can’t quite understand what he says and I think the auto captions are wrong because nothing turns up
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  4505. Thank you so much for this video. My heart goes out to you.
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  4506. This is my favorite part of the week
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  4507. Keep on keepin on. The world is a richer place with you in it
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  4508. Thank you, Dr Sledge!
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  4509. All your videos are beautiful Masterwork. You have all my respect Dr. Can we hope to see a video about Lycanthropy ?
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  4510. Thanks for being so super rad.
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  4511. This was not what I thought it might be ; however it is what little i remember of those years and my family's reaction during that time and past that.
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  4512. so many metal references lol
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  4513. Thanks
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  4514. I have heard that Los was intended to be pronounced "loss"...
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  4515. Dr. Thank You, admirable work, very few if....... have such a detailed knowledge and willing to lift the veil.
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  4516. Thanks ! These are sold in $2.00 increments only it seems . So thanks again !!
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  4517. Thanks!
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  4518. Okay THIS is ontotheology. 😁 This is fascinating though. Reminds me of empedocles
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  4519. My family is Jewish and moved from the Netherlands to the US in the 1840's to flee religious persecution. Very interesting to hear recent family history in the study of Kabbalah. I used to be of the understanding (until watching your introduction) that Kabbalah was ancient history at this point.
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  4520. So the corpus hermeticum is basically a shared google doc
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  4521. Thanks!
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  4522. @justin When does Dan's translation drop? Will it be in print or digital only? If print, do u know how accessibile it will be in terms of cost?
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  4523. Hezekiah's reforms were so unpopular, that it took a rival -Israelite- priesthood of Shiloh at ngAnathoth to re-introduce i.e.u.e. -exclusive worship under Josiah. Note Jeremiah's opinion of the Priestly (Aaronid-Judahite) Torah: "A worthless scroll cheapened by the lying pen of dishonest scribes!" ...Jeremiah was a priest of ngAnathoth.
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  4524. i just finished this series and wanted to say thank-you so much! <3
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  4525. Wow, I am loving getting new content weekly... Please keep coming Doc. Shkoyach!
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  4526. Thank you so much... You are the best, Doctor! And you are definitely right... At least for myself, these texts empower One to get out from abysses and hells. In a very special ways this becomes part of The Faith and gives light to the positivism in the actual Academic world... God bless you! ❤
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  4527. Thanks! Really fascinating.
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  4528. Thanks!
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  4529. Great video and I feel for all who have suffered at the hands of people ignorant enough to believe in the satanic panic hysteria.
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  4530. Can anyone read and translate the cuneiform caption in the ghost photo at 19:38? It has a question mark so I guess it's a question!
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  4531. Fantastic video as always Dr. Sledge. Thank you for releasing so much good content, it has been a huge influence on my ideas and perspective lately, and helped me think about my own religious tradition and skepticism in radical, different ways. Looking forward to the next episodes!
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  4532. Albertus Magnus was another doctor of church with links to the esoteric, wasn't he? That could be an idea for another episode.
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  4533. "Begin the Beguine" -- Cole Porter ? "All Is Full Of Love" -- Bjork .
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  4534. Thanks!
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  4535. Thanks!
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  4536. Thanks to you dr. Sledge; it was a wonderful journey and surely I will watch the 14 episodes again and again. God bless u
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  4537. I'm so glad this account came across the new to me section. I've found my community 🙌 ♥️
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  4538. In 620+ years, I see that things have not changed. The university administrators are were, are, and always will be a bunch of killjoys!
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  4539. I am soooo hyped for the trip! 🤩
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  4540. You rock! Love sharing these video's with my friends :D
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  4541. You are so awesome for making this.
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  4542. Book of Coming Forth By Day sounds so much kooler than book of the dead.
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  4543. WoW holy cow fantastic stuff
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  4544. Thanks for the videos big bro. We really appreciate it. 😎👍
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  4545. Thank you for this channel
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  4546. Early Christians clearly had a bag of holding for magic spells.
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  4547. "Messiah: the game where nobody wins!" 🤣 I love this channel, your voice is so pleasant and I appreciate that the videos are very calm and slower paced but still packed with information. I find some other producer's styles to be a little overstimulating and I am too old for that lol!! Thank you so much for teaching Esotericism this way.
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  4548.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you for your response. I hope it wasn't a rude question.
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  4549. So, nothing to do with Julius Caesar. Typical.
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  4550. I love your videos!
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  4551. Nigredo, then Albedo, are all I see. In my infancy. Rubedo then Citrinitas then came to be, reaching out to me. Let's me see.
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  4552. Thank you...Awesome!!!
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  4553. Thanks!
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  4554. Thanks!
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  4555. Thanks!
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  4556. Please define "sexual combat" lol.
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  4557. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel  Thanks for clarifying! Your videos are great. Thanks for all the work you put into them!
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  4558. Thanks!
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  4559. Paracelsus, or the author of the D&D monster manual 0.5e. Bravo. I am now laughing and people are wondering why.
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  4560. Wow, Newman's Critical Edition of The Summa Perfectionis is apparently wildly rare! I'm curious if you have thoughts on the Philip N. Wheeler's text (RAMS Library of Alchemy), as it's pretty cheap and readily available.
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  4561. All new to me and very interesting.
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  4562. I guess you can call syncretized Baal/Set/Yahweh... Baaljack Horseman
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  4563. Possibly your best video ever 🤫🤫🤫
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  4564. ❤PERFECTION!!!❤ What was the WiFi Password again?...I bet Marry Magdalene knows 🌈💁‍♂️ Thank you for this video 🥰
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  4565. Thanks!
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  4566. The Catholic church went so far as to rebrand the Consolamentum as "Heretication"! The Dominicans truly were the disciples of Nyalarthotep. Oh and would you please consider making a video on the Essenes?
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  4567. Great, thanks
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  4568. This was a fascinating episode and honesty made me find Paul far more interesting than i ever have. Also, that class sounds interesting.
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  4569. I love your content. I just read your bio on your website and got some great chuckles. You seem like a really cool dude
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  4570. Why does that green lion keep swallowing the sun? 😂😂
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  4571. Tak!
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  4572. ESOTERICA @27:20 is it just my thinking or does the centre piece of said example shown (Early Seal of Solomon), depict Icelandic/Nordic/shamanic rune(s) or not?! Just curious as to what that WHOLE symbol could mean?! X 🤩😎😁😊👌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👍🏻✨💎✨❤️❤️❤️
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  4573. What an incredible introduction / gift you have shared - along with great sense of humor and wit. First time viewer, forever subscriber. Many thanks from PA
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  4574. All hail the Stagirite, and the Spagyritic Art!
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  4575. 🙏
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  4576. Thanks!
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  4577. I love the idea. I also happen to love the abramelin and Jewish mysticism so......
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  4578. Thanks!
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  4579. Is there an edition you would recommend of Plotinus's works?
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  4580.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you kindly! Your recommended readings have been absolutely amazing in the year I've been watching. You are the best!
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  4581. This fine video was made the year before Eric Purdue's translation of the DOP. I am still relying on the 1651 translation by J.F. (who I take to be John French (translator of Sendivogius and others). What do you think of the new translation, if you have consulted it?
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  4582. Here for the Joy Division reference!
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  4583. K this episode earned my sub. This was very very interesting and informative. Newton like Einstein and other great minds , changed the world..i would love to read his manuscripts... I am grateful for the links. 🙏. Very good episode.. alchemy and magic is a topic close to my own heart as well. ❤
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  4584. Dumbledores army!
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  4585. This is interesting. I look forward to checking out your other videos
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  4586. That was, in a word, brilliant. My complaint: It was too brief! Would love a longer edition...
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  4587. i had a prof who was a big William of Occam guy, he talked a little about some of these and disputes about the pope and how the MAN can be fallible even if the POSITION cannot 😛
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  4588. Ohh!! can't wait to listen! (wonder what the chances you've referenced Naked City's Leng Tch'e for us metal/doom OG's!)
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  4589. Congratulations, Justin! Your work is fantastic and I'm sure your channel will keep growing and making a difference.
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  4590. A delightful experiment, I felt like a fly on the wall to an authentic recreation of ancient alchemy. I loved the planetary associations of the herbs in the concoction, and the beautiful alembic glassware. The reference materials, being the authentic primary sources, added a depth and magical allure to the experiment. Your wry and professorial demeanor is like a page out of Middle-earth. Thank you for a marvelous episode of ESOTERICA. 🤩
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  4591.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Okay, I see where my confusion is coming in. I found the mention of pneumatics, psychics and hylics - it was so brief I missed it the first time around but I googled the terms. It's weird that none of the Gnosticism 101s I've encountered before spelled it out. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions!
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  4592.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thanks for answering! I've recently gotten into the subject again with the viewpoint it was about mental states but of course I had to refer back to your channel as it has been my go to for finding reading material and quality information about these sorts of things. Thanks again for what you do.
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  4593. Thanks for all the work you do and for the open-minded, enthusiastic and rational approach you bring to all the topics you share with us. And yes, that was a terrifying concept of an afterlife!
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  4594. Thanks
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  4595. What is a "beatific vision"? (or however you spell it)
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  4596. Mmmm gnocchian magick. Creamy goodness.
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  4597. "So, tell me about Gnosticism." "Um, it's complicated."
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  4598. I love the Rom-Com at 15:25 Your casting is off by a couple decades though. much love.
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  4599. ‘The above proposition is occasionally useful.’ Lol. (Nice one, Doc: I suspect the page on Cardinal Arithmetic is from Russell’s Principia Mathematica.)
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  4600. Excellent video ! Next to Dee and Paracelsus, Newton is up there as one my favorites alchemist also.
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  4601. Possible metal band name from Esoterica #1314135: "Treasure Sorcerer"
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  4602. Great videos! Did you ever make a video about the Ba'al cycle/rise of Yahwism?
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  4603. I tuned in to all 14 episodes and truly learned a lot. Thank you Dr. Sledge for your most informative and well presented video series. I appreciate it very much.
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  4604. Justin Sledge, I must say I love it chanel, and all the interesting topics you cover.
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  4605. love your work. it is so right on. you have one of my favorite disciplines just like you. keep it up. can't get enough of the truth. {q}
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  4606. Kiitos!
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  4607. This is amazing. As to your study/recording studio reorganization, I'm sure we'd all love to see the before and after! Also, do you have some sort of wish list? I'm sure there are those of us on here who would love to contribute a book or a piece of equipment to help with your amazing work. Love all this stuff and I can't wait until next week's collaboration with Dr. Puca!
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  4608. FANTASTIC and important video. Best hour I've invested all year. Remember Dr Sledge.
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  4609. This sounds very like modern magical practice in a lot of ways. There's not a lot of summoning and binding spirits; people invoke them and look to partner with them instead. More of an emphasis on experimentation (in modern practice, this focus comes from chaos magic), and using relatively simple ceremonies of symbolism that is comprehensible and selected by the practitioner rather than an old and half-unintelligible spell from an older text.
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  4610. This series was great! Thanks a lot bro.
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  4611. Thanks!
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  4612. Thanks
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  4613. So glad I found your channel. Wildly fascinating and expertly crafted lectures. The whole John Dee legacy is endlessly bizarre and confounding to me. Great work.
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  4614. I really appreciate your service and just had to send a super thanks! You really have no idea what this channel has brought to my life! Listen mostly at work too lol but thank you again
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  4615. Amazing episode!
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  4616. ecstatic content
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  4617. Woww mann beautiful copies on your scrolls there! Tht's amazing!
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  4618. What a wonderful video. Drs Sledge and Skinner together. Please Justin do a one on one with him I beg. The other guests were wonderful too and I’m sorry that I cast such great light upon Dr Skinner and Dr Sledge so much that it overshadowed them in my praise 😂
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  4619. Thanks!
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  4620. PDFs of both of the books whose expense he laments at the end of the video can be downloaded for free from Library Genesis. Brill has no right to embargo this information.
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  4621. Thanks
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  4622. Fantastic, thank you!
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  4623. That Krallice track is quite invigorating ❤
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  4624. I love your work but you're not helping my book problem 🤦
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  4625. I really like your channel thanks for sharing this
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  4626. Thanks!
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  4627. Wish I had a guide in the magic world.
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  4628. As always 👌
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  4629. Waiting for Speculoterica channel
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  4630. Thanks!
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  4631. Does anybody know where I can get a bilingual book just like the one at 6:36 ? Having the Greek and Latin side by side is very cool !
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  4632. Justin Sledge, your videos are proper good. I've started watching them from the start so I've got a way to go until I'm fully up to date. I don't know how quickly you output these vids, but might I recommend you do so fast enough that I never run out of esoteric videos to watch.
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  4633. Academic publishing cartels had me weak 💀 😂
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  4634. I'm going to subscribe to you partreon for a while for this one. This really was one big task. I'm not going to use it. It is just because i enjoyed it so much it is bry much deserved
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  4635. Dear Dr. S, it was due to your channel that I discovered Dr. P's channel. I believe the source was a livestream from a couple of years ago. She's smart AF, cool and a total badass! Thanks to you, I am one of her subscribers. Here's to many more collaborations! Also, apparently, this October has a Friday the 13th, solar eclipse, and full blood moon lunar eclipse on Halloween weekend. (This from a friend's FB post. I know the 13th is a Friday. It's when Twin Temple drop their long- long- long- LONG-awaited second LP, and when Netflix launches the limited series "The Fall of the House of Usher".)
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  4636. Thanks!
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  4637. I just finished a 2 day binge watch of all 14 episodes. I didn’t plan to do that, but I was transfixed from the very beginning. I am a frequent listener to all of Esoterica’s content, but this 14 part Kabbalah series was the pinnacle for me. Thank you, Dr. Sledge, for making your vast knowledge so easily accessible to us all, and in such wonderfully friendly manner. You rule!
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  4638. Why don't you begin with Mary the Jewess?
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  4639. 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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  4640. I love re-listening to your podcasts Dr Sledge👍
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  4641. Definitely my favorite of their settings! I could see how a love of historical theology and mysticism would tie well into the world where belief creates new subplanes. Fun! @TheEsotericaChannel 
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  4642. Thanks!
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  4643. I was mentioning to my son last night that I know the names of all parts of the human body, however I struggle to retrieve the information from my mental library. Moral of the story, read written words more often and your memory will be stronger
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  4644. Btw the director of CERN is in fact a woman, Fabiola Gianotti)
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  4645. Hold my beer! ... And apparently mathematics. Great short video, absolutely intriguing!
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  4646. Great show!
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  4647. "The Clerical Necromantic Underground." Playing soon at cemetery near you.
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  4648. Amazing content and such clear delivery on Stoicism. Thank You.
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  4649. Season's Blessings to you, Justin, and your loved ones. Thank you for bringing your gifts to the world. 👻🧡🎃
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  4650. It’s the season of grant funding and I’ve got a few in the pipeline. Who wants Justin in a film or a series?
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  4651. We're all going to acknowledge that this sounds like a name for a Transformer, right?
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  4652. Are those texts taken seriously in orthodox jewish Kabbalah?
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  4653. It fascinates me that in the Arbatel's time, hydraulic machinery is held on the same level as transmuting base metals into precious metals and wonder-working. I'm also surprised and disappointed at the lack of means of finding buried treasure, though the resistance to exploiting the demonic proletariat for wealth is refreshing. (Maybe that's what the hydraulics were for... fracking for treasure?)
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  4654. The best occult content on youtube, by a distance
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  4655. Nice summary of a complex topic!!
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  4656. What an awesome story !! Thanks for bringing this to us!
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  4657. 23:16 😂😂😂 Such an insightful video, thank you 🙏
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  4658. After watching the sublime Agrippa course, I'm delighted that this seems to be equally as good!
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  4659. I wish YouTube would just let me donate without having to make some public comment. Have they never heard of tip jars?
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  4660. Thanks!
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  4661. That was really cool and super interesting! Thank you again, Doctor!
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  4662. when are you releasing the 'don't feed ghosts donkey urine' tshirts?
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  4663. Thanks!
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  4664. Should I return to my home after a journey to find it burnt to ash with all that I treasure inside. I would not weep for nothing of value was lost.
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  4665. Wow, great lecture! Ive been checking out the channel and this might be my favorite yet. Reminded me of a philosophy of science i took in my undergrad.
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  4666. I was searching this yesterday, perfect timing
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  4667. Thanks!
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  4668.  @TheEsotericaChannel  odd. I could've sworn you already made a video in it lol
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  4669. Yes please, Doc.
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  4670. Thanks!
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  4671. I come for the occult knowledge - I stay for the languaging and rhetorical bullfighting
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  4672. Thank you for your work, you help me understand.
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  4673. As a church sexton and last working ornamental hermit who was also thrown out of seminary for what was described as "an unhealthy interest in the occult", I've never seen anything remotely "niche" about this channel. Esoterica been an absolute godsend for me from the first time I encountered it and Dr Sledge is my idea of a YouTube superstar.
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  4674. Hello Dr. Sledge! New fan hear! Have you considered uploading your longer episodes to podcast services, like RSS? I’d love to download these!!!
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  4675. 29:11 the sign of the philosopher's mercury looks an awful lot like the Monas Hieroglyphica, if memory serves. Is that where part of the MH originated?
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  4676. woooo, i have loket forvart for william blake for some time now.
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  4677. Evelyn Underhill should be read by any one interested in mysticism. the best that i have found . You are only as good as your search.
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  4678. Hey there, I just subbed today after watching the yahweh video. Your channel looks packed with interesting content.
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  4679. This has gotta be one of the funniest channels on youtube. I love it.
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  4680. I'm so mad at my you tube algorithm for just now giving me this gold. This channel is priceless. Thank you for your work. 🙏🖤🥰
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  4681. Keep it up 👍
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  4682. If these teaching don't exist, we will have to make them.
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  4683. This video made me cry. I love you, man. You do such great work.
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  4684. Something about this video makes me want to join your patreon... I feel a suppressed memory coming on.
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  4685. He should definitely form a black metal band called vendetta cannibalism. Blast beats and guttural vocals over hava nagila. Awesome.
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  4686. Thanks!
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  4687. Your mention of phreaking...oh yeah, that was very much a thing. Thank you for all the work you put into this channel, it has been so enlightening!
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  4688. 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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  4689. This is shocking! Thank you for saying something!
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  4690. You do great work. Thank you for your work.
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  4691. This is most excellent. Great spotlight on this issue.
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  4692. To think I postponed this little gift cause I couldn't exactly type even half the gratitude I have for this channel. But in the short, thank you. I hope you continue making videos like this for many days to come.
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  4693. Sad times we are
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  4694. Fascinating as always! Thank you!
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  4695. Fucking finally getting some insight on cabala! I use that system for my tarot practice,and been having to study it myself. 😖
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  4696. Thank youuuuu
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  4697. Thanks!
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  4698. Appreciate the highly knowledgeable and passionate teacher.
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  4699. Thanks!
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  4700. Sophius Perpetuum. Deus Christi. Thanks!
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  4701. Just a quick question, Dr. Sledge: According to this Jeuean fate, what happens to the soul, if a person doesn't practice, what Jesus preached?
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  4702. "A subject that still strikes terror in ... basic bro's everywhere." That's some fucking gold right there!
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  4703. The bredth of knowledge on the backgrounds of texts you have is remarkable! Thank you
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  4704. Im so in love with this video 😍. Thank you!
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  4705. I prefer your long form videos: You get more relaxed and funny! I love them all though 😄
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  4706. Just passed Organic Chemistry with an A, now I’m on my alchemy arc
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  4707. Excellent channel, congratulations for your work, keep the quality coming.
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  4708. Wow!
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  4709. Thank you for your wisdom. This video is not only remarkable for it's content. You have reached a broad spectrum of people who have shared their experiences below. Esoterica is perhaps more than a body of knowledge that can be critiqued as one might casually discuss a movie or a newspaper article. Your videos reach for a richer plane of commentary. After watching other episodes of your work I begin to understand your passion. I am inspired by your journey as many other responders are too. Spinoza and Plato would be proud. The light shines brightly on Esoterica.
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  4710. Thanks!
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  4711. “17th century Pokémon” 😅😂 u the best Dr J
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  4712. Never been so early!
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  4713. I amazing of your knowledge it fornonable.
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  4714. I can't believe I got 12 min in before I clued in.
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  4715. Thank you so much for starting this channel!
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  4716. Came for the Arbatel. Stayed for the Paracelsus jokes.
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  4717. is that Ulstadt book Helena Blavatsky's?!?!?
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  4718. I love it
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  4719. Happy Halloween! Just discovered your channel, and enjoying it immensely! Should keep me entertained for many an hour 😄
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  4720. Your dry humor cracks me up
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  4721. Exciting video!! Thank you always for such quality content🎉
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  4722. Bedankt
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  4723. Thanks!
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  4724. 🤘💯🤘
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  4725. Love your style brother, thank you for shareing your passion! Keep it up.
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  4726. Thanks
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  4727. This is a remarkable series. I can't thank you enough. ❤ from Wisconsin!
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  4728. One of my main reasons for going to you is for your honest non-partisan take on the history, texts, figures, and religions you enlighten. It felt very refreshing having someone else who took a step back and just looked at these as the fascinating and beautiful mysteries our otherworldly past amazingly hosted.
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  4729. Another great video, thank you!
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  4730. Woohoo nothing like the holidays to catch up on the very few of your videos I have missed! Have a great New Year!
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  4731. Huge like !
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  4732. Brilliant as always 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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  4733. Thanks
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  4734.  @TheEsotericaChannel  you should really have one, you're a supreme asset to the field of esoterica! Your following will soar, this Im in no doubt!
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  4735. Its refreshing to see blatant passion on a topic so steadily tempered. New sub. A+
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  4736. Nothing mysterious about it. Sales numbers on the older toy lines were declining so they rebooted with new characters. They pulled the same thing with Optimum Christ.
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  4737. Yup, gained full spiritual illumination as we passed the beard gap
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  4738. That was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, I learned quite a bit. Thank you!
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  4739. Thanks!
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  4740. That picture of Descartes is so French it looks like Rowan Atkinson pretending to be French
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  4741. Personally, I would say punk is The Sex Pistols and The Clash, but that's just getting started obviously. On a philosophical level, to me punk was the beats 40 years later with more drugs. I am glad I got to listen to that in college when the music wasn't a decade old.
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  4742. Above the Earth but Below the Crystaline Spheres of the Wondering Stars must be Godspeed you, Black Emperor's new album
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  4743. Thanks!
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  4744. Random jars of radioactive material on (your) right? Esoteric essentials? Rock on. Love your research and info as always.
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  4745. Thanks!
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  4746. That's some real Anne Rice kinda stuff right there....I love it! Us of the "Strigoi-Viu" persuasion actually still kind of do this. When we have a coven member die, we promise them to leave little drops of our own blood on their graves periodically (please don't tell OSHA) so they never become the "hungry dead" or die the "Second death".
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  4747. Thank you very much for this overview. It is quite refreshing to hear an academic perspective on the influence of pop, weird tales as not instantly dismissive for a "trashy" intellectual diversion. Indeed, the evocation of feeling is the fiction writer's goal. And fear is a fundamental component of the human condition which we all connect to and with at some level in all aspects of life. And that kind of connection, that kind of emotion, is a powerful wavelength to explore truths about ourselves, the world, the cosmos and beyond.
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  4748. I'm very new to the channel. I joined about 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure if you have made videos on potions or old medicines but i would absolutely love it if you gave full demonstrations. If not or plus alchemical experiments 😊 congratulations on the the very successful year!
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  4749. This is an ambsolutely amazing video. Thanks so much.
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  4750. Thank you for the education.
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  4751. Who doesn’t love a good demonology!
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  4752. Yesssssss!!! I just love hearing you dive in deep my man no homo much love Dr.sledge.
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  4753. Thanks!
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  4754. love all the shade thrown at the poser stoic bros! made my day :) Really great video thank you!
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  4755. Congratulations!
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  4756. Thank you so much, I just wrote an essay on this exact piece! very helpful and validating. I look forward to more Blake mythos material on the channel.
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  4757. Fascinating! I would describe myself as a practitioner of stoicism and I had very little idea of the link between the philosophy and western occultism, though on futher thought there are snippets in the surviving texts. Really enjoyable, educational video.
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  4758. Welcome to all those new viewers (and myself would be included there I guess as I only got here like last year or so)! This is a GREAT channel for the esocurious
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  4759. Love this ty
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  4760. Came here from religionforbreakfast. Thanks.
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  4761. Algormancy!
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  4762. excellent stuff!
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  4763. Thanks! I love your lectures, Justin Sledge. I appreciate learning more about your depth of knowledge you impart with on these topics.
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  4764. Thanks
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  4765. Hey Dr. Sledge, big fan of the channel! I want to learn more about the connections between/influence of the Arbitel on the practice of Hoodoo. Do you have any specific reading or scholar(s) that you can point me to ? Thanks in advance!
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  4766. Thanks
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  4767. Great video!
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  4768. Thanks!
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  4769. Incredible job Doctor. Keep up your awsome work. Peace ✌️
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  4770. Thanks!
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  4771. I love your channel so much it brings such a quality aestheticismto the scholarly look at the esoteric history that we have that has flourished our own history and structure of our countries and life.
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  4772. LOL I literally discovered your channel yesterday so your timing is perfect.
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  4773. Thanks
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  4774. I was really excited for this episode. Thank you, Dr. Sledge!
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  4775. Oh God, oh God! Its here, its finally here! Everyone calm down, CALM DOWN! AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
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  4776. Music for your "heure verte" 😃 : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBlhZoUg9bljfhzdBbl0aiE8LPEDfIUkv
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  4777. Wow this channel is one of the Very Best.
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  4778. 23:47 "A fenestris ad parietem"—I'm concerned by how funny I find this.
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  4779.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Will you consent to be vastly classy?
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  4780. You have a wonderful sense of humor sir! Thanks for the great videos
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  4781. Thanks!
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  4782. Completely ridiculous. Keep fighting the good fight.
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  4783. Thanks!
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  4784. So basically the Hypathia of the Esoteric? 😜
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  4785. incredible video!
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  4786. 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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  4787. I already have been loving these videos but the final fantasy reference sealed the deal. Incredible content, really easy for outsiders and newcomers to learn.
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  4788. I’m one of patreons! But I want to say an extra thanks🫶🏽
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  4789. Interesting you mentioned Suarez in the beginning because I've seen the school of Salamanca mentioned in some things I've been reading recently, (mostly just cursorily mentioned in regard to some early modern economic theories). But it was something I'd never heard of before at all, and it's piqued my interest.
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  4790. As a fan of black metal music and the occult in general I found your channel utterly fascinating and as in-depth as nothing I have ever experienced before. I like to listen to these videos while training or cooking :) thank you and keep up the good work! edit: donated too :)
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  4791. I can't wait to tell my doctor to stop worrying about my inhuman coffee-drinking habit because it's absolutely necessary for my education
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  4792. Down with the vanilla syndrome 😂😂😂
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  4793. Loved it! What a pleasant surprise to find your channel. I was watching something on pre-dynastic Egypt and this popped up next. I did not know the Egyptians had so many aspects to the "soul". Too bad about the ending. I hope the Ach .... lived happily ever after. Subscribed.
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  4794. I could only imagine how disappointing it would be for an alchemist to fast forward to today and realize that you need compression at the scale of stars exploding to effectively create the metals they were trying to make.
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  4795. I'm a bit confused... Around the 16m-mark you're saying Plotinus is misinterpreting these Gmostics by attributing to them the belief that soul could be alienated from the One but just five minutes later you go on to say there were indeed Gnostics who believed that the majority of people were entirely unable to return to the one. How are you reconciling these thoughts? Do you suppose for our purposes those Gnostics to have believed that the irredeemables who weren't open to Gnosis were entirely soulless to begin with?
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  4796. YAY! im so glad for this episode
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  4797. A Prosperous New Year to you, and may your channel grow! Thank you for providing solid, well-curated, and thoroughly researched content delivered straight with a pinch of humour. Greetings from a 2021 subscriber in the Philippines!!!
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  4798. You shall lead the perfect ones and govern the westerners, for you are an akh of great strength who lands for yourself at the causeway to every place you wish to be.
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  4799. Thank you!
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  4800. Thanks!
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  4801. Thanks
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  4802. This was interesting. I thought you did a great job if explaining it. I've hear of him, but never knew anything about him.
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  4803. Worth a cup of coffee, for sure
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  4804. 🙏💜
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  4805. Thanks!
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  4806. Thanks!
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  4807. This video popped a question in my mind: let’s say these craftsmen produced the yellow metal (which chemically wouldn’t be gold) - were the people of the time aware that it wasn’t gold or for all intents and purposes it was seen as gold? I am an ignorant in the field so excuse my question if it is silly. Loving your videos - watching them in order from the first available (also already a Patron!)
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  4808. Ah yes crawling things or in vernacular, court officials
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  4809. Hope, gotta have it. LoL Goonies
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  4810.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I will make sure to watch them too, once i've finished this series. Thank you again Dr. Sledge.
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  4811. This series has been a wonderful way for a gentile like myself to learn about the Jewish world. A fantastic place to start studying.
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  4812. I want this heavy book :):hand-pink-waving::face-pink-tears:
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  4813. A great story! Always excited to get a glimpse into the afterlife (our window into greater reality)!
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  4814. I'm so excited to have found this channel! I am diving into the deep end, and I LOVE it. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
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  4815. your presentation is superior..not a single ah..or ommm...I have gone to other site..and only the islam guy is comprable...to hear the knowledge and not be burned to the steak is one..but no political statements is a big plus..you even us humor ..something lacking is most channels....best to the family with the new arrival...thank your for you humbleness...I think it is sincere...and you have not judged the audience....an example ...your suggestion to just read the zohar....so simple I made it complicated...so keep up the excellent work...
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  4816. Can I live in your basement as a gardener?
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  4817. Funny you say that...I have insurance coverage for therapy and I brought your video, Mystic Divine Madness to share with my therapist (Jungian analyst) earlier today. We've also been discussing your video on the Monad Heirglyphica.
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  4818. My parent was forever changed by this nonsense. She makes life decisions based on dreams, angels, and spiritual warfare. Of course she didn’t get the covid vaccine; that was part of the Microsoft plot to turn us into adrenochrome factories. She forbade my dad from getting it as well, and he got covid and died because he was unvaccinated. It all fills me with disgust.
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  4819. It’s hard to hang with zeek when he goes off about crypto… but he does know what’s best to order. Also is that uranium glass I spy?
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  4820. I can't decide between, 1631 very rare volume of astrology, magic and natural philosophy or 1634 Johannes Taulers Rhineland mysticism. If only I had the money to read them all that catalog you have is unreal!
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  4821. Man I love your channel
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  4822. Perhaps you might play D&D on here one day. It would we fascinating to watch a game or campaign where the setting and lore behind magic is all derived from real world occultism. Thank you for this nuanced take. While for almost entirely different reasons, I am, perhaps, more leery of Gnosticism than Irenaeus was (although the school of thought which much of my own beliefs were derived from were also under that suppression).
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  4823. Chokeslam of the Absolute. Another dope metal song name
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  4824. "not these guys, thats who'
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  4825. Ahhhh! My bestie wrote his doctoral thesis on Hadewich! He's gonna love this!
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  4826. Thank you for your work! Very much appreciated!
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  4827. Thanks!
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  4828. You WOULD be a Silmarillion nerd! I am SO not surprised. lol
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  4829. My duder! I thought learning alchemical processes would help me understand where my fingers went to while I was asleep. Boy, was I wrong!
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  4830. The semen demon thing, so seems like some thing a boyfriend would come up with either as a reason to or an excuse for. But I am not a scholar. I just love these videos.
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  4831. You have a Hebrew accent when you speak Latin
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  4832. Very well explained..
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  4833. Thanks!
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  4834. Thanks!
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  4835. This might be my favorite episode. I want to listen to this one a few times!
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  4836. Very nice conversation.
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  4837. Thanks!
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  4838. Love your content, thank you for all your work into this!!!
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  4839. Timely
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  4840. Yes Krallice is awesome!
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  4841. Great as usual, Doc
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  4842. I just discovered your channel. You had me at "The Choke-slam of the Absolute"
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  4843. it has been wonderful listening to your posts....have Black eyed peas on new years for good luck...live long and prosper..to your , your partners and the kiddos......Selah ..pause and reflect...
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  4844. Excited for this. For the love of books. Rock on Dr Sledge.
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  4845. Please let me add my thanks to the pile of treasure here. I’m so grateful you’ve decided to exert your own sort of magic over the modern elemental forces of “the algorithm” to offer us plebs some quality instruction. From my parasocial vantage, it fills me with great pleasure to see that sharing your talents & hard work has brought you & your family prosperous joy. Well done you. I look forward to more of it all in 2022.
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  4846. Albert the Great is also surrounded by legends about him being a mage... He was a Dominican friar, so his magic was more like miracles.
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  4847. I'm all pro copious notes.
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  4848. Just finished the entire series today! thank you so much for all your work in sharing us this knowledge! Looking forward for more! Going to finish @Lets Talk Religion on Jewish Mysticism right after this now!
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  4849. Thanks for the fascinating discussion here, it's hard to find good sources talking about the Qliphoth in depth. I'm really curious if you've read "Qabalah, Qliphoth, and Goetic Magic" by Professor Thomas Karlsson where he talks about some of these origin theories from the Zohar? And what you think about his idea that the Qliphotic tree can be used as an initiatory path where the forces act like alchemical solvents that can forge the soul into what he calls the "Black Diamond" (which I think can be seen as the Philosopher's Stone)?
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  4850. Thanks Justin, much appreciated and always informative and interesting!
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  4851. Man I love your channel
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  4852.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yeah absolutely, the new translation of the Abramelin was celebrated with a lot of folks in that community as a refreshing update from Mather's less than expert edition. I never got the sense that it was so bad however that using it was tantamount to 'not understanding the ritual at all' however. Especially from people with a pile of experience in classic solomonic evocation. But hey, all good learning, and I appreciate your show for that!
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  4853. If you haven’t done so already, would you make an episode on Theosophy and its association with occultism? Thank you for all your work❤
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  4854. Thanks!
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  4855. Always such fantastic insights 🔥
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  4856. Thanks! I love this content. Super Gut. ( gut, gut Super gut)
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  4857. Love it so far ❤
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  4858. Amazing
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  4859. I just found your channel. I am so happy I did. I've listened to several videos... You're answering questions I've had for years and even decades. Also, I greatly appreciate your into music.
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  4860. Awesome episode. Very informative. Thank you. ❤❤❤
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  4861. A fascinating episode. Happy Holidays and best of luck in the coming year!
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  4862. Just classs... It's all the content what I expect during thinking on my own about mystical things,, or from sacred books. Justin sledge🙏
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  4863. Thanks!
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  4864. You are the best Dr. Sledge! Shining a light on all things esoteric and occult. Really appreciate the work that you do.
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  4865. Thanks!
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  4866. Thanks!
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  4867. Love this channel. Check out Bedtime Stories too if you enjoy art also.
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  4868. Thanks
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  4869. Fantastic series! 🎉⭐
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  4870. To the host, Thank you for this post.
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  4871. ❤❤ God bless thank you for all your beautiful insights very smart I'm Soo grateful God bless your channel bi pray it becomes very abundant and prosper ❤❤❤
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  4872. Genuinely Intrigued by the story's you give during the holidays and yes I concur that the ghost story's be re-traditioned a new... Thank you Dr sledge
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  4873. Respect the beard gap
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  4874. My brain melted.
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  4875. Thank you for filling a gap for me. I recently watched "the witch of kings cross". When it was over, I had a want for a good documentary on ol Spare.
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  4876. Not a slog! Fascinating! A speaking tour of the Midwest cities is still a hope of mine. You could go to game stores, breweries, and libraries. It would be awesome!
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  4877. Thanks
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  4878. Insidious goober🤣🤣🤣
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  4879. This is hands down the best educational show on YouTube, thank you Justin.
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  4880. Paracelsus is an interesting figure to me
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  4881. Thanks!
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  4882. Thanks so much for this. More stoic videos please :)
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  4883. Who created the second image you showed during the first couple minutes of the video?
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  4884. “Exorcising a boy possessed by a demon”, from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 15th century.
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  4885. Very interesting! I'm glad I found you! The algorithm finally threw me something good.
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  4886. This sounds like the controversial E. Orthodox Christian teaching of Toll Houses/τελωνεία on steroids 😅
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  4887. Just the best
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  4888. Wow. This is probably the most interesting topic you’ve covered so far. Dude never stop making videos really appreciate what you do man
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  4889. This is the most title of any video title that has ever been titled as a video. I also know I am a dork because I understand it.
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  4890. Thanks!
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  4891. More than 2 years ago, dear old Solomon got me in this bench :) with u, dear Doc, helping me picture the picture 🙏💞 Congrats on all the subs/studs🐜!
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  4892. Are those pieces for a Go board on your table? Go is one of the best games I have ever played.
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  4893. How many people do you suppose actually know what a golden teacher is? On that note, the Dr. must know. Unrelated to that, Doc, are you married? Will you marry me?
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  4894. Thanks!
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  4895. i love your content i just wanted to say thank you for being you and teaching me.
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  4896. Thanks!
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  4897. 🙏🏻
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  4898. Who grew up during the 90s and remembers the Lilith Fair?? Lol
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  4899. I forgot Boudet did a lot of the legwork on this in his /Entre science et nigromance/ 2006, pp. 539-556.
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  4900. Gosh, I want to have money just so I could promote you, but I'm barely making a living myself 😅 all I can do is extend to you my warmest thank yous - I found your channel in its earlier days and it was so absolutely what I was looking for, I think I've watched most of the videos 3-5 times. All that knowledge I have and love is all thanks to you and I'm so grateful. I know you're one of those americans that know Lithuania is actually a country that really exists(most don't 😁) and if you ever choose to visit I'd be glad to be a guide for you(I promise I am not a weird creep)
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  4901. You shouted out The Hitone and Lamplighter! Nice! Big up from Memphis
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  4902. Wassup professor! 😊 hope all is well thanks for another ⚠️entertaining🫨 educational video. ❤️‍🔥
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  4903. Growin up, a teen in the early 80s ... in conservative west Michigan ... I saw this crazy hysteria go down ... Smh.... So silly .... Mom' s had tooo much time on their hands ... Lol
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  4904. Thanks!
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  4905. Have you ever checked out Glitch Bottle? and if so what is your opinion?
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  4906. If this is what actually happens when you die then I’m royally f**d
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  4907. Here kind of hoping someone else is watching delta green, and being spooked by this coinicidence. Awesome video dude, thank you so much!
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  4908.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thanks doc, much appreciated. Wonderful video as always.
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  4909. Great video! Looking forward to the next part.
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  4910. conagrats on the channel growth dr. sledge! well deserved and earned. this has been one of the best channels i have found on youtube. so much to learn out there and so much that i didnt even know i didnt know. i wish you continued success <3
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  4911. Thanks!
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  4912. Thanks a lot for this content! I'm a fan of your relaxed style of narration; I could listen to you for hours.
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  4913. Wow! What a wild ride. Do the Cathars exist? Dr. Sledge: "Hold my grail and watch this...."
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  4914. This reminds me of the new spiderman movie when Peter outdid doctor strange with his knowledge in math
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  4915. Lol! Creepy is an understatement!
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  4916. Jack pot! Thx Doc.
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  4917. <3
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  4918. #angelicproletariatunite :)) 👏
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  4919. The cosmic spheres are the fidget spinner of the demiurge
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  4920. The Septuagint rears its weird old polytheistic head yet again! What books or monographs would you recommend for delving deeper into Septuagint vs. Masoretic issues? This episode was worth every second that you put into it: a deep and thorough tour de force!
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  4921. Thank you for the alchemy videos! Love them.
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  4922. i wonder if brill pays the authors that much as well.
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  4923. Sorry to double comment, but I just needed to say 'They're coming for you, Barbara." nearly put me on the floor laughing.
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  4924.  @TheEsotericaChannel  that’s a tremendous shame, I no doubt believe his transformation of alchemy into his theories of personality have tarnished the anthropological reality/validity of alchemical practice. As an avid follower of Jung (and massive fan of you) I’m now even more interested to hear a more in depth discussion on your take about him, if it fits with the theme of Esoterica. I’m about to read his book Psychology and Alchemy so I’ll make sure to keep this at the forefront of my mind. Thank you Dr Sledge!
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  4925. A friend recently sent me a link to your Yahweh Storm God video, saying he didn't understand a word you said but thought I'd like the channel. He was right, and I spent the next 6 hours or so falling into a pit of content. I find this an endlessly fascinating area of study, I don't know much yet but I'm learning. Thanks for the list of creators, I already followed a couple and now follow the rest.
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  4926. Really enjoyed this commentary. Very engaging and I appreciate how open-minded the narrative is. Will have to watch more videos on this channel.
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  4927. You explain things clearly.
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  4928. I was lucky enough to have my school offer a historically grounded course on witches and witchcraft which finally gave me the opportunity to learn about some of these topics in a way i felt was truly satisfying. Discovering this channel just a handful of months ago was a true treasure trove, so thank you so much for your work and good luck in the future!!
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  4929. I visited Abremelin on my personal spiritual journey. Thankyou for sharing your thoughts on this subject. 😊
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  4930. Thanks
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  4931. Any particular English edition you would recommend? I have Cambridge university press one but not sure it's any good. Also, I don't suppose you can remember the part of the Talmud where the Shamir is mentioned?
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  4932. Thanks
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  4933. I am very proud to support this channel. Seriously among my most trusted voices on these topics, and that's greatly appreciated 💌
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  4934. This content is so interesting! Thank you.
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  4935. Thank you, very much! I've waited for this presentation!
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  4936. Thanks!
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  4937. Done!
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  4938. Really happy to hear the channel has made such a difference in your life!! I’m looking forward to more potential lecture series - I personally loved the less scripted tone, especially hearing your accent come out more haha
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  4939. Glad to hear you are doing so well! We appreciate what you do.
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  4940. I usually learn things here for my spiritual practice. Today I got a bunch of inspo for the TTRPG I am dm-ing. Great channel.
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  4941. I’m not scared of the horror movies I’ve seen, but the idea of Lilith scares the shit out of me
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  4942. Dr. J Sledge, it feels informal to call you Justin without an introduction, and you've earned the Dr... that being said, I have a low key academic crush on your brain. The Goonies references and nods to D&D are fantastic. And your sense of humor is Wonderfully refreshing in the way it balances the serious nature of the topics and your professional attitudes towards them! Thank you for being you and for bringing us all some much appreciated Edutainment.
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  4943. That was awesome, thank you.
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  4944. By the way, it took 15 minutes for me to get noticed at the restaurant today due to wearing my invisible cloak shirt. Will need to remember when I should wear it lol.
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  4945. The design is very Harry Potter
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  4946. Thanks!
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  4947. Always informative, always learn something new. Thank you 🌄
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  4948. Finding your channel has made me incredibly happy! I thoroughly enjoy listening to your videos. It’s so refreshing to have something of depth to dive into. 🖤🖤🖤
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  4949. Love the video title 😂 Between your Agrippa class and this video I get why this doesn’t look like Agrippa’s work. 📖 Any chance someone was working off his unpublished notes? 🪶 NB I keep hoping some of his letters will be found hiding somewhere 🤞
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  4950. Thanks!
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  4951. Dr. Sledge you have some of the greatest content on youtube, and I'd like to thank you for that
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  4952. Thanks!
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  4953. Thanks!
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  4954. Catholic Church (at least in Poland) emplores the same tactics right now, against those fighting for equal rights for LGBT people. They are framing it as some sort of grand conspiracy to destroy catholicism. They say that the proponents of the "gender/LGBT ideology" on the highest levels of the EU, pay off their followers to organise marches and spread their "ideology" in schools to corrupt the good people of Poland. They would organise a crusade, if the could...
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  4955. If you haven't already, could you do a video on Hypatia?
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  4956. I lost it with "semen demons". I had to stop the video just to laugh and comment.
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  4957. Thank you for plugging your merch Dr. Sledge. I couldn't pass up the "Heretical Witch Army" shirt. As soon as you mentioned it, my eyes popped wide open and I had to get it! As always, your content is excellent! Thank you.
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  4958. I'm loving this channel and am excited to learn so much more about topics that I can share with my friends of other religions :D I'm not at all a spiritual person, but learning about the beliefs of others is a great lens through understanding their worldviews. (Sidenote: I'm a huge fan of the SCP Wiki and this channel will be a goldmine for ideas!)
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  4959. 🤯.......... my ignorance is boundless.....but I feel smarter somehow 🤓 Thank you Dr. for the time you invest in them 😎
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  4960. I really appreciate your humor in this video! You are making learning more fun that way. :) Thank you. 🙏👼💗
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  4961. Yay I love it!
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  4962. First time watching your stuff, dang you are good at this. Excellent melding of information, context and personal take. The best 'content creators' seek to inspire thought, just wanted to say that I think you're doing a great job.
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  4963. Thanks!
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  4964. I absolutely love your content Chefs kiss for worldbuilders Thank you so much
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  4965. Thanks!
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  4966. the joke about bad saving throws got me rolling!! overall this is a great video, thank you :)
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  4967. This channel is rapidly becoming a favourite of mine. Keep up the good work!
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  4968. Happy Birthday!! Thank you so much for the content you provide!
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  4969. Coming back to this after you broke half a mil is surreal, your success has been tremendous (and incredibly well deserved) over these last handful of years.
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  4970. Band name… Rough and ready Paracelsian theory of Transformation!
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  4971. Thanks!
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  4972. what if I am an Egyptian living in Egypt. Is there any way i can just meet you at the sites?
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  4973. One day I would really like to be able to afford being a patron. Hopefully if I get a better job than I have now,
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  4974. Regarding the omission of Ars Notoria from the list (referred to from 15.32), Trithemius does devote some critical remarks to 'artis notoriae' at the beginning of book 1 chapter 2 of Antipalus Maleficiorum ('De secundo maleficarum genere, vano & superstitioso, quod implicite illuditur a daemonibus'). The Liber florum celestis of John of Morigny ('Ioannis monacho de morigetato') also gets a mention.
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  4975. Superb presentation.... Thank you & Cheers from Seattle!
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  4976. I deeply appreciate your telling of the events and sharing your story. I was born around two decades after the Satanic Panic, but I grew up with a family and a church community that still held much of that hysteria and beliefs surrounding magic and Satanism. It felt strange needing to get into things like D&D and Magic the Gathering basically in secret. I appreciate, however, that I have only experienced the lower end of the hysteria and that I am not alone in my experiences. Nobody but a Dungeon Master will kill my Orc Paladin
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  4977. Danke!
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  4978. Thank you for your time and dedication Dr.Sledge 🙏🏽
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  4979. Beautiful
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  4980. I bought the Merch, Thoth - God of Magic
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  4981. ✴🔶️🔷️🔹️〰️ all good
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  4982. Thanks!
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  4983. Thanks for your time and knowledge.
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  4984. Thanks!
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  4985. Did you say, "Black Philip?"
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  4986. I do appreciate you and your time 😇🙏♥️ thanks doc sledge
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  4987. Thanks!
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  4988. Pity that Yogev's book is so expensive and inaccessible.
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  4989. This was great.
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  4990. Amazing, my friend.....Love your channel and content!
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  4991. Thanks!
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  4992. True Dr. Sledge quality
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  4993. The book of game as jeu is translated in utube. How fitting! Just found this channel today and you're hilarious! Def going to check out more of your vids.
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  4994. Thanks!
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  4995. At the time of writing, there are 278k subbed to this channel. I will bet all the money in my pockets that Im the only one listening to this while slamming iron at the gym xD.
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  4996. Maybe its an ooooooold school shit post? 😂
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  4997. Your awesome Doctor Sledge.
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  4998. I am by now beyond words. It's as if you d give all of us free lectures on Masterclass level and on doctorate intensity whilst, through the reference to black metal, being wholesome a f . How...why!! But any ways ..thank you so much. By far one of the most important channels out here Xoxo
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  4999.  @TheEsotericaChannel  my apologies if implied any blasphemy on your part, that wasn't my intention.
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  5000. This is wildly facinating. Thank you.
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  5001.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Looking forward to that bit especially, but also the rest of it!
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  5002. I am either going to sound like a broken record, or the boy who cried wolf… This is one of your best. I always say that. I loved the hands-on with the book. Thank you so much.
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  5003. Thanks!
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  5004. Wait how did i never know the waldensians still exist. Why aren't they talked about nearly as much as the Cathars? That's fascinating. Almost as cool as the Ismailis are the modern descendants of assassin's. I always love to learn about tenacious survivors of a minority group that was continually trying to be wiped out. I feel a sense of kinship with that as a Jew.
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  5005. Can you do a video about Eleazar of Worms? I'd like to know more about him and his work. During my research on Golems, his name came up and I wanted to learn more about his life to use in a book I'm working on.
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  5006. Outstanding. The only thing I genuinely want to know is how many takes were required in order to deliver such incredible lines without displaying your tongue which was firmly placed within your cheek. Seriously, until you started describing her distinctive apparel, I was sold...
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  5007. I am glad that your channel is growing. I have been watching you for a couple of years now, and recently my girlfriend has been marathoning your videos.
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  5008. real LOL for the singsong, “Primeval Evil in Kabbalah”
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  5009. Your content is wonder--full,your presentation exceptional and always enjoyable.thanks very much.will gladly support when able,i want to be the first in my town to "rock"your cool shirts😊
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  5010. 3:42 It's time for YouTubers to unionize. That way, you can fight together, pool your resources, and win victories for all of you. Presently, you are divided, powerless, and at the mercy of the company.
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  5011. And just like the apocalyptic Christians, Marxists always imagine that they live at the very end of history.
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  5012. I just found your channel. What an awesome video. I look forward to listening to the rest of your content. Thanks.
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  5013. Just FYI Monk played piano not drums. Just saying. Peace
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  5014. Just subbed keep up the good work
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  5015. Thanks!
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  5016. Lmao... Que the harpsichords... 🤌🤌
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  5017. 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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  5018. Thanks!
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  5019. You’ve never played Final Fantasy X? As a scholar of religion you really should, religion is one of the main theme of FFX and it’s (in my opinion) the last really good one (non-MMO) in the series.
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  5020. This was by far one of the best videos on this channel, imo that is. You had me in tears at the end. Not only with your story but with the truth of what is to possibly come. I wish the absolute best for you and for all of us, present and future ❤
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  5021. Thanks!
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  5022. Timely and helpful thanks for sharing!
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  5023. Awesome lecture. Thanks for sharing.
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  5024. Love your channel
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  5025. This is a great presentation; it is clear and cohesive. Thank you for sharing this!
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  5026. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel  I will eventually have those, as you and Doctor Puca have made me want to attend University for the first time in my life....I had no idea I could be a Doctor of Magic and Mysticism! That is so perfectly hairbrained that I have to do it, it is my new life path, no more hobby witching, gonna become a real Doctor Witch. Then in like 8-10 year, I will go root in the Vatican.
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  5027. "torturous detail" 🤣🤣🤣
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  5028. Sublimate that 🧊 ice, Aristotle! 🔥 no, not the dry 🧊 iceThat'll burn! 😬
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  5029. Throw a rock and hit it.... I see what you did there.
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  5030. This was definitely in my top 5 videos you've produced. This whole insight would make one hell ov a movie 🤘😎
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  5031. "…spent like a 132 year creating demons by fornication with them" and them whispers "sounds fun…" 🤣
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  5032. Excellent video 🍻 have you posted part 2 yet? Haven’t found it, thank you!
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  5033. Thanks!
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  5034. Þicc
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  5035. I love the work that you are doing, thank you for giving your videos to the world for free!
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  5036. Thanks for this video! Watched this on Christmas Day with the family. What a fascinating wealth of detail and insight, as well as humor. Found out from my young adult sons there is a video game called the Binding of Isaac, which prompted a lively discussion. And the ending of your video-wow! Your videos are always thoughtful and informative, funny, and provocative! As a former near eastern studies major, as well as being raised Catholic, I love your deep dives into religious and historical esoterica!
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  5037. Stoicism is when you go to the gym LOL
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  5038. This is why we subscribe. Keep up the great work 👍
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  5039. Thanks. Keep this up, my friend. Your bravery touches me deeply.
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  5040. id like to hear more on how hellenism molded judaism's idea of god into a cosmic one
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  5041. It's me again commenting a comment
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  5042. If your new your lucky..Doc is excellent..
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  5043. He had to do it, if the Egyptians successfully transmuted gold Diocletian's new cabbage based currency would become worthless.
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  5044. It’s where I got my drag name: Abra Melons
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  5045. 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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  5046. ALL HAIL BRILL!
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  5047. (4:44) I laughed at the succinctness in the eye movements, hilarious. Watching this after watching Dr. Puca's presentation, I thank you, Dr. Sledge.
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  5048. 👌👌👌
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  5049. yet another banger video by dr. sledge. all your work puts so many fleeting ideas into my mind that it's hard to formulate any sensible feedback/share any concrete thoughts, but in short: i love the channel
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  5050. Very glad to have found this channel over a year ago, and very glad to support your work. YOU ROCK!!!
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  5051. Wow, great work and approach (as always on this channel). Thank you, can't wait for any follow-up on this🙏👌
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  5052. I'm so thankful for your channel!! Thank you for studying so hard to be a teacher to us all
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  5053. My wife and I love your videos, but this one in particular was our jam!
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  5054. My favorite channel on YouTube
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  5055. Love your content!
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  5056. Thanks!
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  5057. Yay! Esoterica is talking about my favorite nerd topic again ✨
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  5058. On occasion words strung together create a chemical reaction in the mind of the receiver you have a special gift and I have to say that the fact you share it with everyone makes the whole thing shine
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  5059. Just brilliant!!!
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  5060. Oh man, Esoterica AND Third Man Records?!?! This is actual Divinity...for me, anyhow.
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  5061. You need a podcast! I love falling asleep to your videos but I don't pay for YouTube so can't play you on lockscreen 😔
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  5062. There is an Bagijnenhof in my street in The Hague (Netherlands) They are fascinating places. You only see a big gate in a big wall. You can pass by them for years without noticing it. But once the gate opens, you see this small garden paradise in the middle of city life. They are like a time capsule . Beautifully preserved.
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  5063. They got aeons for days. Ah that was smooth
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  5064. Thanks!
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  5065. you got a spell book wel golly gee mister must cost a lot of bucks n by Latin do you mean catholism which i can't read or reg latin but real latin i can underrstan conically like audible
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  5066. I’ve just noticed that even though I am subscribed to your channel, and the bell icon is on “all””, I haven’t been made aware of your recent uploads, I’m i the only one going through this?
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  5067. Excellent content, Dr. Justin. Outstanding. 👍🐱
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  5068. I’ve really appreciated this series.
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  5069. The surest way to banish demons is to have a loved, snoring dog.
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  5070. Thanks!
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  5071.  @TheEsotericaChannel  That is true! thank you for the feedback!
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  5072. For a "Mad Max" god of raiding to become known as "the god that IS" and proved the most adaptable to the point of subsuming and outlasting all other gods is... sobering.
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  5073. Your philosophical foundations class will serve a whole host of areas of study. Lately I've been a resource for many people (Christian and Jewish) on the origins of the Jewish/Christian "split" and the emergence of the category of "religion" in the Graeco-Roman world during the 2nd c. of the Common Era (if I understand the topic at all well). So, please, that class will serve lots of folks' interests.
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  5074. Thanks!
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  5075. Hahaha you got me The apple bottom jeans prank from like two years ago was epic too
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  5076. Thanks!
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  5077. 🤙Aloha this episode refreshes the pallette, reaffirms the harm none ethics AND the Waite deck ⚡Magician✨ Mahalo ⚒️
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  5078. Thank you for sharing. Beautifully concluded my friend.
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  5079. 😁Thank You; for your work, knowledge and Information I've seen NOWHERE Else!!😶🤔 Take your Time.. Don't burn out. This knowledge is Important..! May you and yours have a wonderful New Year!🎉 I'll be watching in the next year, no matter how slow it goes!🤗💕 Till Next Year 🎉🌟👍
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  5080. Thanks!
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  5081. Sledge mate your depth of knowledge and erudition is an absolute delight. Blessings from UK 🇬🇧
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  5082. Thanks
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  5083. Got the ears reference, thanks.
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  5084. You are smart and entertaining
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  5085. Crushed it. Great work!
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  5086. Congrats on 100k subs! I love your vids so much, you da man.
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  5087. Hey, isn’t there a translation by Martin Goldman? “On the Art of Kabbalah” it is somewhat old tho, 1993
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  5088. Who in their right mind would open a can of whoop ass when you can have a Dr Sledge!? Awesome channel, amazing work!
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  5089. I sent emails, Dr Sledge. I will be praying, also.
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  5090. Awesome channel!
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  5091. The timing of me find this video particularly is kismet. 🖤 Instantly subscribed and looking forward to watching more.
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  5092. Honestly this Channel has been a Gateway for me into topics I Always found interesting, but never Had the focus and dedication to deep Dive into. Fascinating and entertaining.
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  5093. 6 you so much for an introduction to some amazing and powerful works, but also the fascinating history of this Medieval women's movement!
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  5094.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you!
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  5095. Weird..... What I was looking at yesterday.
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  5096. An Egyptian ghost story for Christmas? The most thoughtful gift ever 💝 Happy Holidays Esotericans ☃️✨
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  5097. 🎉 :)
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  5098. It's absolutely fascinating—albeit a bit disheartening—to see so many people in the comments not understanding that the modern "Lilith" is a purely fabricated amalgamation of various mythoi—after literally watching a 30 minute video that expounds upon the concept, no less! It seems very clear that the original "liliyyoth" were a class of negative-energy supernatural creatures and nothing else.
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  5099. Really want to listen to this one but not entirely sure if I can handle it, as much as I want to. I feel like its going to be filled with going over the horror of historical misogyny.
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  5100. Incredible 🙏 Thank you @antikemagie and @esoterica 🌌
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  5101. Thanks!
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  5102. Hahahah good joke at 13:00 min, love that pedagogic humor lol
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  5103. Thank you so much
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  5104. Once again, many thanks for your work. It is much appreciated.
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  5105. New viewer here. I watched your video on yahweh the other day and really enjoyed it. I've browsed through your videos and added many to my watch list. I look forward to watching more.
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  5106. thanks for the lesson
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  5107. Gotta love how genuine that appreciation was at the end of the video!
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  5108. Several Circles is such a great channel. I wonder what the world would be like if Blake's mythology had taken off as a new religion or offshoot of Christianity.
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  5109. Well worth my tiny $5 a month
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  5110. I really appreciate the wider context on translation and history you've provided
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  5111. Awesome series!
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  5112. Thanks!
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  5113. Shots fired Brill! 😂
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  5114. Apparently all six volumes of del Rio in translation are now out. If you have access to a library with Brill Books and Journals Online, they can all be downloaded there.
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  5115. I have a question I developed only ten minutes in would the norse ragnarok event be viewed as apocalypticism even though there's no direct "mesiah" figure?
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  5116. I really hope Arun Shei Films is already storyboarding that film idea of yours.
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  5117. You came through the farce forced upon you in your youth to become even more of the terrific person you are today. Perhaps it had to happen that way in order for you to be able to teach us. Or in the least provide us with the information so that we may decide for ourselves. Thank you for being the you that you are. As I tell myself everyday, you too are enough💛💛
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  5118. 18:37 do-doo-d-do-d-doo (wonderful video btw!)
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  5119. Good to know that the “global means globe baal” etymological nonsense flat earthers use to claim round earthism or “globalism” is secretly Baal worship goes back thousands of years. Amazing video as always Justin. I promise you once I am no longer horribly dirt poor I will donate monthly to your Patreon. You do such amazing videos and are my favorite YouTube channel
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  5120. Thank you for your hard work and excellent content, comrade. Use these dollars to defend yourself from the vampiric monstrosity that is capitalism.
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  5121. Just wanted to wish John Dee a happy birthday, and thought this would be the place to do it.
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  5122. Thanks
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  5123. Your addendums under the photos made me cough up my water on three occasions before I finally quit attempting to drink at all until the video was over. Trying to keep a straight face with that existential crisis kitten, exactly that type of dark humor keeps me returning. Thanks for the healthy dose of wisdom and sardonic laughter.
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  5124. Thanks!
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  5125. “Matter..😝🤢” you’re so funny. I love your work, insight, momentum and specially timing for little humorous clever parentheses. I’ve learnt so much with you!!
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  5126. I love Gnosticism and I love this video!
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  5127. Thanks!
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  5128. Francis Yates OG? Is that OG like original gangster? It can't be original gangster. Oh my god.... my ignorance. 🥴
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  5129. The jokes in this video alone made the decades spend studying the angelic system worth it. Now my belly hurts... thanks, Doc!
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  5130. Thank you for this. Gnosticism is endlessly fascinating.
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  5131. I must say, thank you for the channel and the clear voice and prononciation (and application on every language) as a non native english speaker i must tell it to you.
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  5132. Thanks!
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  5133. a christmas eve ghost story! Thank you Dr. Sledge! Stay safe in this weather 🖤
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  5134. Thank you so much for all of these videos. I appreciate all that you do
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  5135. Thanks!
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  5136. Thanks!
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  5137. With friends like Plotinus, who needs Orthodox Christianity? Poor Gnostics.
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  5138. You did great in this video
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  5139. That business, call it God's Damned.
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  5140. Thanks!
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  5141. I'm glad i joined the other day.
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  5142. Thanks for this upload! I tried the holding-the-lion-by-the-ears gig and was wondering if you know of a restoring-the -fingers spell.
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  5143. love this channel, very well spoken and thought out commentary. Keep it up please.
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  5144. Thanks!
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  5145. first five minutes gangggg
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  5146. Got to love the Papyrus ASMR lol
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  5147. Rameses II against the Zombie Apocalypse...
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  5148. First :-)
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  5149. Holy cow esoteric archives is INSANE thanks for that link
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  5150. Brill also published Weeks' new translations of Jacob Boehme. Also the cost of a mortgage payment.
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  5151. This is your most interesting so far. Thanks much. Really appreciate this knowledge.
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  5152. Happy holidays! Love your channel!
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  5153. Practice safe Yechodim!
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  5154. Your closing statements are as though you are summing up this time of living in the World. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and concepts. Nice to meet you.
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  5155. love your channels icon! very fitting!!
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  5156. Keep up the good work
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  5157. It's a bathsalts manufacturing manual written by someone on bathsalts #dmtreductioniststrikesagain
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  5158. I'm screaming at the "make it rain" comment 😂 "not like that—like rain, rain."
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  5159. Thanks! Could you do a video on IFA?
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  5160. Do you have any book recommendations on a introduction to alchemy for the layman?
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  5161. 👍 :) it is challenging, that s what makes it interesting. Thkx
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  5162. Deep appreciation for your straight forward delivery of this text. Its difficult to fathom that after thousands of years its still 'preferred ' that women are to be "quiet and submissive" . I've often wondered why it is assumed that Jesus was not a man in every sense of the word . Just because he was the deliverer of information that has evolved into a religion, it is 'assumed', ? expected ? , that he was also celibate...?? Is it impossible to imagine that a person who has a close relationship to their God then can't possibly have a relationship with another person....?! And if not Mary then someone. He was still very much a human being who loved and cared for his fellow beings . I can't imagine that he spent his life not knowing, giving or receiving human love and affection that is seen in loving relationships, upto and including sexual relations. His being an actual living ,breathing human person and not a ' legend, myth or fairy tale is what truly makes his teachings and life experiences all the more remarkable. Again ,my appreciation for your insightful analysis.
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  5163. Thanks!
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  5164. Love the channel, but I think you missed a category of viewers while listing them. People who are curious in general, not specifically interested in esoterisism but drawn to your channel because of the great way you tell this topic. I had no prior interest in esoterisism and do not consume any other media or literature related to it, but find your videos very interesting to watch, you have a great voice and it is clear you tell this topic with passion. I love learning stuff but hate having to learn stuff, and this is far removed from my field of study. So i can just listen away with not obligation to pay attention, ironically learning a lot
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  5165. We appreciate your ORIGINAL music & content, keep up the good work.
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  5166. We'd never want to cover that glorious beard of course
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  5167. Merci !
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  5168. Excellent material. I would be very interested in attending a class on Merkabah mysticism. Please let me know how to sign up
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  5169. Amazing essay(s). Great humor too. Just became a Patreon member!
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  5170. thank you for refreshing my knowledge on metatron. it's been a while.
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  5171. Ooohhh, 3 hours of PGM596 , you spoil us.
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  5172. im glad you did this the way you did cuz i would have tried them! lol
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  5173. My college teacher put me onto your channel. Thanks Dr. Coleman!
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  5174. Thanks!
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  5175. Very cool, I love videos about antiquity
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  5176. Can you guys do me a favor and share this episode with a friend? I want to see if we can get the views up, because this is one of my favorites.
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  5177. I discovered you while watching your very interesting chat with Jimmy Akin regarding the kaballah. I look forward to discovering your content!
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  5178. Hei! Love from Finland! I am quite interested to know about real historical spells. I am planing a role playing campaing set during 30 yers war And having flaworful spells would be nice, but I have not found any good resource about individual spells (except you). Do you know sny sourge that has at least summary of spells found in real grimoires?
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  5179. Thanks!
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  5180. Subscribed. Thumbs up. This must have been a hard video to script and deliver. As another weird kid growing up in the 90's, I appreciate what you've said here. Thank you.
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  5181. Thanks!
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  5182. Excellent treatment of the subject! I’ve been working through McClennon’s “Wisdom of Hypatia” a complication of Epicurian, stoic and Neoplatonic practices.
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  5183. Thanks
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  5184. "It is not published by Brill, so… it’s affordable": 😂🤣😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 simply lovely! Excellent video as all the videos on this channel are btw. Dr. Sledge is very a generous scholar (and also a calligrapher and home brewer! Can you immagine that??). And with the usual hints of light and delicious irony here and there. Really indispensable for anyone who wants to understand and start studying Gnosticism. Highly recommended! I really take my hat off to Dr. Sledge! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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  5185. I subscribed when you said Black Metal and D&D! 😆 Excellent as always friend 👍
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  5186. Thanks! So much. As I get older and closer to my own summation of life, as a person with the option to hear more of where we come from by understanding; I myself feel more grounded. Thank you for working so hard.
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  5187. Looking forward to this one
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  5188. While I am generally not keen on people deriding things as 'conspiracy theories,' in this case, he more or less has a point. A lot of the people who talk about this material promote speculation contradictory to hard evidence as fact. One example (among others) that keeps coming up here is Robert Sepehr, a Jew (who hides that fact) who puts out Neo-Nazi apologia, claims that basically all of the 'great' accomplishments were by whites (including the Egyptians, West and East Asians), and spouts lots of easily-debunked nonsense. In this particular case, the shoe mostly does fit.
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  5189. I wonder if Nebro is the root of Nebiros in the Grimorium Verum?
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  5190. Dr Sledge, just a quick note to say I loved your recent interview with Douglas Batchelor. I’m now subscribed.
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  5191. Agree: "Not much but not nothing" Very wise indeed. I wish that one day I can scholarly disagree with you and separate myself from the amount of academic praise you receive in these comments, but as of today I'm pretty much speechless in agreement with this speculation corner and have a feeling somewhere there is something that can end the speculation. When if ever that will be revealed again is speculation at best I would imagine. Great episode.
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  5192. Dr Sledge, Baal Keshaphim
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  5193. This video was just suggested to me, I'm already a subscriber but found you long after this video was made, and I never went back and watched the stuff you'd already made. I'm commenting because the charisma you have these days in your videos is a drastic difference from these earlier vids.
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  5194. Thanks!
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  5195. Thank you 😊
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  5196. Random observation: I absolutely adore the set of marquetry boxes in your collection.
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  5197. Thank you, Sir, for sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us.
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  5198.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Hahaha :D I hope the bathroom turned out great! :)
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  5199. Wow, I can’t explain how much I enjoyed that. Yeah I know I’m commenting on a presentation years old, but hopefully you still pick up the comments. Thanks.
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  5200. funnily enough, my family make a tradition of watching horror movies on christmas eve!
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  5201. Dr. you are delightful!
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  5202. https://youtu.be/4njhZa6E5OY?t=427 I'm curious about how to process the transliteration for the word that appears at this time, I looked into where it appears in "The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts" book, and tried to figure out Wikipedia's article on transliteration, but I don't have any relevant academic experience on how to properly figure this out. It was just a really interesting word to me and started to pull me down a rabbit hole trying to find more.
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  5203. And then this is the storage platform afterward. Got it. I’m less upset with YT now than I used to be during the early parts of the pandemic. I was quite upset with them with their censorship. I don’t mind paying for premium anymore, I haven’t seen much censorship from them in a couple years. It seems that when they do such things it’s because of pressure from our government anyway. Thanks for answering my question. I may sign up for Patreon in the future. More likely to just support you occasionally on here. I listen to all of your lectures numerous times on my earbuds while I’m working, they’re great! My favorite is the long series about Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. This one has been very intriguing so far also.
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  5204. 🙏🏼🕊💖
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  5205. Thank you for being so rad and doing such rad stuff. 🤘🔥👍
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  5206. 🎉
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  5207. Your intro isn't the same without the music.😞 Boooo YouTube you suck for backing a scammer, and not Dr. sledge.
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  5208. Baruch HaShem Justin thank you for all you do
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  5209. Absolutely banging. Great scholarship conveyed with both clarity and dry wit. Excellent.
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  5210. Dr. Justin, your work is truly remarkable. 🤯 I came up to your channel recently because I'm researching a bunch of subjects and quickly became my favorite.  If you ever consider dubbing some of your videos into lat-am Spanish, please consider me, I would love to do it. ¡Saludos! Orion
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  5211. Thank you for your expertise and insight Dr Sledge
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  5212. Why were there so many publishing magicians during the medieval period when all of their efforts would have been far more challenging?
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  5213. Thank you Dr. Sledge for everything...
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  5214. Thanks!
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  5215. Now I am picturing giant Marx battling the Gnostic demiurge Kaiju-style. To the Soviet anthem of course.
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  5216. Thanks!
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  5217. i always have the greatest epiphanies about reality when i watch your program! ty for this!
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  5218. I hope to be half as learned as you are. Thank you so much for all you do.
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  5219. Treasure hunter went on to found a religion, more about him in a min.😆🤣😆🤣 It may have worked since they are now worth +$100billion.
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  5220. Soo what you're saying is that post-nut clarity is a way to obtain enlightenment?
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  5221. Thank you for the presentation and for the link! I appreciate it!
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  5222. You are an inspiration! Please keep being the wonderful teacher that you are.
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  5223. Deeply moving. Thank you for this video and sharing your knowledge with us.
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  5224. thanks
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  5225. Well, this channel rocks heavily. Subscribed.
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  5226. Happy Halloween and thank you for your great channel :)
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  5227. Thanks!
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  5228. Your channel is amazing. I didn't know I was even interested in this stuff until I found you on YouTube. Thanks for doing what you do, Dr. Sledge!
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  5229. That was a great episode.
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  5230. It is unbelievable how @esoterica can bring and relate hundreds of references, to present one of the best contents on YouTube. Thanks a lot for everything 🙏
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  5231. Great lecture. Todah!
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  5232. Your YouTube channel is mind boggling good. Fantastic work.
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  5233. Thanks!
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  5234. in my country, we call ”snake” a man who seduces your wife. What if preparing a barbecue for the snake that is still inside your woman is a metaphorical rendition of a common revenge tactic for a sleepy lover? :D Anyways, fantastic episode!
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  5235. Excellent introduction.
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  5236. Well that is amazing. I remember hearing about this book at uni (classical Philology Major here) from my upperclassmen, as they were reading it. I was always super interested in it, so I hope I'll be able to hold it in my hands 😁
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  5237. Thanks!
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  5238. I'll take the Hangover one!!!
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  5239. Thanks!
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  5240. Man, Egypt has been under colonislm for a long time now. The Greeks, then the Romans, then the Eastern Roman Christians, then the Arab Muslims.
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  5241. you're awesome
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  5242. I laughed at "Not that Cleopatra".
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  5243. I like the idea of kids playing the roles of the poop-people. I have come to the conclusion that the human race is all high school. The immature insults, (stupid t.v. sitcoms rub off), serious decline of respect, cliques etc.....
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  5244. 🔥
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  5245. I'm so loving the Halloween episodes.
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  5246. Dungeons & Dragons is why I'm here listening to your YouTube station.
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  5247.  @TheEsotericaChannel I think “spurious” is the most polite possible way of referring to that bunch of nonsense
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  5248. love his sense of humour
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  5249. Thanks!
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  5250. I really love this channel. I'm one of the skeptics you mentioned. For a while I had no idea why I was so fascinated by your videos. But now I realize that I understand history a lot better now. This part of history has always been left out of courses, and I think seeing what's going on esoterically in different strata of societies adds that missing perspective of /how/ people are thinking, what the zeitgeist is, and why things are happening. Listening to your presentations and also Religion for Breakfast and Let's Talk Religion has made history something alive, full of fascinating characters and wild ideas. Thank you for your hard work, and I hope the success continues. Also -- play Go and D&D more. You need to recharge too!
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  5251. Epic 😲thank you
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  5252. bro, you're an amazing teacher. Love your sense of humor yet so knowledgeable and well articulate. Love this channel and you, God bless brother!
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  5253. Thank you, very much. I always enjoy your channel.
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  5254. Let me rephrase the MOST important statement of this beautiful work given for free on the tube: "use good manners with ladies, you deranged motherpuffers, not demons." Aaaand Amen to that.
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  5255. Thanks!
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  5256. Can you tell us about the symbols that are on the circular depiction as well on a few other pages of text. I have found the same type of script on a manuscrpit from the Spanish kabbalists in the national archives in paris. It's thought that the 72 names of the angels are written using this script. I've been searching desperately for information regarding this. Can you contact me with more info please
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  5257. Outstanding presentation on an important subject.
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  5258. Haha nice Rick James meme "Math is a helluva drug"
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  5259. Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge! 👏
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  5260. Thanks
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  5261. I'm absolutely in love with this channel as a whole, but specially this series; I was just rewatching the previous episodes yesterday and wondering when this one would drop! Just know you are at the tippy top of my list of creators I will definetely support as soon as I have enough money to do so 🥹
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  5262. Am I the only one whose pissed that I didn't get Conway before Blake??? While I was bumping into walls in wonder at the mind that could conceive of such an alien and complex cosmology, the woman who introduced me to him didn't know or bother to tell me that he, too, stood on some shoulders. Would have been nice to know there were some tall petticoats to use as lift. Thanks, Rabbi.
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  5263. Thanks
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  5264. Five stars. Had to listen twice.
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  5265. The Baker book is getting a revision (I checked Amazon) with a new forward by Alan Moore, supposed to be out at the end of the year.
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  5266. Don't you dare covet that ox
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  5267. Thanks!
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  5268. Thanks for everything man! Happy to see this channel growing.
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  5269. Wow, I just found your channel. I am so grateful and impressed. I look forward to learning more from you. I enjoy studying similar things.
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  5270. Any connection between old norse (not viking) mythology and Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, etc, mythology?
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  5271. Happy International WOMENS day ❤️🤱🏻❤️
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  5272. G-d bless one hundred thousand subs.
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  5273. Great video, Dr Sledge.⚒️ Keep up the exceptional work 👏 I found the discussion about runes just being more or less a writing system interesting. Perhaps the best example to me of an alphabet that WAS (in some cases) considered "imbued" with the sacred is the Coptic alphabet. Just how it was used in the magical papyri and amulets by monks and ritual specialists; i.e.: the Nomina Sacra, Charakteres, decorations of the letters. However, probably not as "sexy" and mysterious as runes or cuneiform, though 😢 P.S. loved the Bauhaus reference
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  5274. Mr Sledge, I wore your invisibility cloak shirt out today and people kept looking at me. I think the sigil is wrong 😞
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  5275. interesting that you mention that book, the stoic life, that's one of my favorite books on stoicism and i have it checked out from my college as we speak.
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  5276. Interesting! 🤔 ⚡ 💡
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  5277. I always share your stuff in my blog the Pelotas Occulta, I am from Brazil, I like the way you make your lectures Have a nice weekend occultist Rabine
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  5278. Thanks!
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  5279. 18:40 ....LMAO
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  5280. I had a feeling Michael Scott from The Office might be a necromancer. How else was he able to dodge the wrath of HR?
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  5281. I understand & applaud your decision to not address comments. Bravo! Thank You for this video. I lost some dear friends to this. Did not understand that it was a wave of social hysteria. Hurts less to know that it was not personal. Hugs.
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  5282. I'm from Egypt.. how can i participate in that epical tour?
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  5283. As a Christian, it's really frustrating to me how little Christian literature and media has any interest in talking about anything related to the Judaism it's supposed to descend from, actual history, or having ecstatic mystical experiences with an infinite, more-than-2-dimensional god... or really anything other than the same old religious clichés So i don't even know how to describe how satisfying it is to find a channel like this after being starved by The Church™️, you know?
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  5284. fascinating, thank you
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  5285. 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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  5286. Dr. J's intro reminded me of the intro for twilight zones' or Alfred Hitchcock's opening monologue . Our friend ,Esoterica, knows how to make it fun.😄
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  5287. Fantastic episode! Thanks so much for including the links for documentation. Now I'm bouncing between the english translation and the french. I should have taken more french in school, ugg.. :)
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  5288. Thank you my brother God sent me to you for truth and I fight for truth
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  5289. Bernard of Clairvaux gang 😎😎😎
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  5290. 😂😂😂😂 necromancy-this is true...you do
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  5291. Thanks
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  5292. Love your work Dr. Sledge. All the love from one michigander to another! \m/
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  5293. Wow divine timing. I wanted to know about this thank u so much. 🙏🏻
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  5294. I just registered! 🤗
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  5295. Thanks!
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  5296. I've only watched one video of yours (I actually watched it twice, as I found it highly interesting) so far, but I'm already convinced I'll be watching more of your discussions further on, as I'm very impressed with your insight, honesty, and straight-forwardness. So if the rest of your production or content has the same quality to it, I'll be a frequent 'consumer', and likely also a patron/supporter of the channel.
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  5297. Yeah, it's great stuff.
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  5298. Thanks!
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  5299. Thanks! A bit too technical for me, but still quite interesting.
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  5300. thank you good doctor.
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  5301. Sounds like she is describing a series of migraine events which conclude with a feeling of relief bordering on heavenly?
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  5302. Thank you so much Dr Sledge for this valuable video, and many thanks for sharing the link where we can read this most important work of Moshe cordovero🙏🙏
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  5303. Thanks
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  5304. People need to hear this.
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  5305. I'm sure you know there's a group actively practicing the Bruce Codex to the best of their ability, good stuff anyhow!
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  5306. Man bro I freaking love your show and hello from Saint Louis
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  5307. Yeah this video is cool and all, but what about the buried treasure?! 😂
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  5308.  @TheEsotericaChannel  more seriously, thank you for the content. I found you a couple days ago, and I find your light and humorous touch to the sometimes dry subject matter speaks to a greater love for it than trying to play it straight 100% of the time.
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  5309. Thanks!
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  5310. Wow, terrifically educational videos on a subject that is difficult to find accessible information on. Thank you so much. If I could click the like button more than I already have, I would.
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  5311. It isn't Xmas without a ghost story 👻
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  5312. Thanks!
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  5313. Hello to all from the Damien Echols following clan, some of whom Ive had the pleasure of meeting. So many people at our gathering agreed that this has been a channel we have been following and recommend to others.
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  5314.  @TheEsotericaChannel  he has a patreon and might be able to be reached via that platform. If he holds a livestream soon one of us can try to post to his comment thread. I have reached out to some people connected to him but I am unsure how quickly the message may be conveyed. Someone else in the group with stronger connections may see this and push it along....
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  5315. Thanks!
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  5316. New Subscriber. 🙋🏾‍♀️
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  5317. Good job getting it right. Big fan.
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  5318. Thank you for sharing a very very difficult point of your life. As we move forward and face further recurring adaptations of the witch hunt, I for one am thankful that you survived and escaped the evil that is/was the panic.
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  5319. Sorry I checked out there in despair 😂😂😂
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  5320. I was highly distracted sketching out some d12s to make sure my grasp of platonic solids werent as bad as some of those.
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  5321. I watched the movie in the 90s when I was a kid. This video is insightful
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  5322. Glad you found it useful content, best of luck on your studies!
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  5323. Thanks!
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  5324. Thanks!
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  5325. "you guessed it..you could find treasure..." I LOVE it! 😁
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  5326. Thank you SO MUCH. For your research and especially the personality you present these traditionaly thought of dry and or boring chunks of info. IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. "I'm buying a shirt on payday. Sorry I'm poor or I would have much sooner. I'd buy you a car if I could
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  5327. Tak! Brilliant presentation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippas esoteric library. 🙏
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  5328. You mentioned that there were several texts discussing the use of stones. What texts were these? Will you/ have you talked about these texts? I would LOVE to know more! Thank you.
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  5329. It’s my favorite day!!😄
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  5330.  @zackxmagz6343  Check the description.
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  5331. Thanks!
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  5332. Thanks!
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  5333. Thank you for sharing this experience.
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  5334. Loved this, great as always.
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  5335. Thanks!
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  5336. Thank you Dr. Sledge
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  5337. Thanks!
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  5338. Just discovered your channel and I got to say as a philosophical pagan I quite enjoy every video I've seen so far.
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  5339. Thanks!
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  5340. Thanks! Shalom 🙏
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  5341. I'm here to learn how to find hidden treasures.
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  5342. A few and rye :)
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  5343. Thanks
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  5344. Great video and much needed considering the current events regarding Qanon and trans panic.
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  5345. I was born in 1976 and I remember the how the satanic panic made me no longer believe in god or have faith in law enforcement. Ruining lives without proof and getting away with it, all while believing such nonsense made me understand the danger of religion.
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  5346. Why does it all trace back to the Greek worldview?
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  5347. Thanks!
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  5348. Thanks!
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  5349. wow. What an incredible woman :O looking forward to that "mystic women and their interminable physical headaches" episode tho
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  5350. As a Marxist Leninist and occultist I am so happy to see you make this video. Our chains shall be broken and humanity shall be free from exploitation. 9393 🖤✊
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  5351. Thanks! I really appreciated and enjoyed your opening remarks about the commercial telling of history and specially about the Templars. I've done some reading on the Templars and knew that much of what I heard and read was inaccurate, to say the least. While not totally agreeing with what you said about some issues, I really do appreciate that you bring literacy and logic to your viewpoints. Please do more on Bernard.
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  5352. I've been binging your content while painting miniatures, and its awesome how much we have in common. Everything from D&D to Ligotti. Just replace "black metal" with "thrash/prog metal" and replace the alcohol with coffee!
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  5353. Thanks!
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  5354. Thanks!
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  5355. Fantastic video on AOS!! You break down his occult philosophy where it can be understood!! Thanks again!!
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  5356. Not religous but love learning about religions 🤔
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  5357. The topic of this video and your dedication to discussing it and others matters in your work, are why I subbed to your channel However, the random Evil Dead and DnD references in this video tell me that i certainly made the right choice
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  5358. Thanks again. My lack of humility hates this channel almost as much as my ignorance. Positive waves.
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  5359. How beautiful his aquarells are!
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  5360. "Various pokey things" best line ever😂
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  5361. Dr. Sledge: talks about how magnets appear magical Me: immediately thinks of Insane Clown Posse Dr. Sledge, reading my mind: inserts Insane Clown Posse meme
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  5362. This channel is so interesting. You always cover the topics I’m interested in and the editing is awesome
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  5363. The First Version of the Apocalypse of John: "Nero sucks with a capital S, but he's mortal and so is his empire. The Jews can just wait this one out." John: "I probably shouldn't make Nero hate me and the Jewish people any more than he already does. Lemme couch this in fairly obscure Jewish lore, just to be safe." The Second Edition: "And a Seven Headed Serpent with crowns upon each head came forth and breathed holy fire." 20 Century Christianity in America: "World's gonna end in a couple weeks. Come to my tent revival and get bitten by snakes."
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  5364. Thanks!
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  5365. I really like this interview about an upcoming publication. I’d love to see more interviews with scholars who recently published or will have a publication out soon. It’s also very interesting to hear discussions about what still needs to be done. The discussion about Arabic, Persian and Chinese was interesting. Thank you!
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  5366. When you said the Magi were overseeing flour stores at Uruk I heard it as "flower stores" and imagined all these Phrygian-capped florists running around.
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  5367. I want to sit with this amazing guy and pick his brain. My kind of teacher 🙏
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  5368. Justin, I can't thank you enough for all this amazing content that you provide to us who love the occult and esoterica in general. I'm a proud Patreon of yours and will always, no matter what, find some way to support your work in whatever capacity I can. This lecture seminar on the life and work of Agrippa has been truly fascinating, and I've learned so much about this man. To me he seems to have been very progressive and ahead of his time in terms of both his thoughts and actions; kind of a rebel going his own way... I will most definitely be returning to this seminar and watch all the episodes again from start in a near future. There is likely more to learn from details that I might have missed out on. Again, thank you, and carry on the good work! ❤
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  5369. I love how the latin just made google translate give up and say [music] 20:35
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  5370. maybe you should listen to amyl and the sniffers while you look into it, good punk band from australia, rock on dr. sledge
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  5371. This episode is one my favourites you have ever done. Thanks 🙏
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  5372. Very clear and unbiased. Thank You
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  5373. Absolutely Perfect❤️‍🔥
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  5374. Sophia VPN! Sold!
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  5375. I loved this thankyou! I wanted to point out that Lilith would have allowed Adam to stay in Eden from what it appears. Eve isn’t a bad character, I don’t read it like that at all, not now at least. She helped start the Jews. The WAP song Ben Shapiro did not really like, but in the spirit of women, singing a song about the vagina being in healthy condition as opposed to these unreal depictions everywhere else where no one cared if she was aroused or heard what it was she wanted… please don’t rip the vagina, she could die :)
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  5376. So informative. Thanks
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  5377. This guy has a great sense of humor I really appreciate that from a presenter especially one that is attempting to tackle such a weighty subject
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  5378. Great and interesting video, I loved the subject matte. I've always thought of myself and a fairly smart person and can hold my hold when talking with the professors at the college I work at, but you and your videos make me feel dumber the Gomer Pyle (1960's and 70's TV character). Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
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  5379. Thanks!
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  5380. Thanks!
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  5381. A new one!!!! Thank you 🙏
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  5382. Dr., dude, thanks.
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  5383. 9:31 Early Christianity was a Mystery Religion, where they had one set of beliefs they told the members and another that the high priesthood believed. I wonder if Gnosticism was an echo of that mystery.
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  5384. Ordered the book! 📖 🎉 Thank you for all the amazing knowledge you have shared and continue to share. I have within, a major stirring to learn about and have at least a basic understanding of alchemy, hermeticism, history and hidden knowledge. Im 💯 addicted! Thank to you, Dan and countless other authors and YouTubers, my need is being met ⚕️➿⚗️
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  5385. Thanks!
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  5386. Truly a wonderful Doctor.
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  5387. Thanks!
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  5388. This has been very educational. Thank you.
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  5389. The full circle into christianity was astounding i'm gonna need that drink you mentioned earlier on the video. Although i strongly believe that the sacrifice was more a means to justify my buddy respawning 3 days later... in other words i think it's more about the salvation and ressurection rather than the martyrdom and sacrifice but you kinda needed one before the other.
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  5390. Thanks!
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  5391. Dr. Sledge, I want to say once again thank you for this, and also as a bonus, because of the material you cover, I've been able to hone the algorithm because it keeps pushing right wing "anti-woke" content that I then am able to block and hope it recommends better videos, like yours.
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  5392. I love this Guy, lol He's great :) I love all of the Video's, super Channel :)
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  5393. Subscribed! Your presentation fills in many important gaps in my studies so far! Thank you so much.
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  5394. James and Blake. The Williams.
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  5395. As always, a great video.
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  5396. Your intros are legendary! Your content as well but I was especially impressed by your intros for many episodes so far!
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  5397. I thought I did a super thanks but it seems to have disappeared, perhaps at some later date the Doc will delve into youtube mysteries.... hehehe keep up the fine scholarly work sir
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  5398. Thanks!
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  5399. I’m genuinely sad that this is over, it was fascinating and so well-presented. Not to mention that you have a wickedly subtle sense of humour.
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  5400. ❤❤❤❤
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  5401. Thanks!
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  5402. Some spells contain nonsense words like sentalach, zenzalach, nudelach...(me)..rugelach, kneidlach, creplach, teiglach ;)-
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  5403. Thanks
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  5404. I love this channel. You are appreciated!
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  5405. Worth the wait :-)
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  5406. How did YouTube knew that I needed that channel NOOoowh!!! That’s i love that you list the literature, chefs kiss!!!
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  5407. Ah, finally doing vids on more modern occult stuff. I love ancient stuff, too, tho!
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  5408. Thanks
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  5409. thank you, Dr. Sledge; great work, as always
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  5410. Thanks!
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  5411. i loved all the jokes in this video lol
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  5412. Hug.
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  5413. Thanks
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  5414. Finally went back to the beginning. Going to watch your entire channel from start to current. Thank you for all you do Dr Sledge. You are by far my favorite content on all of YouTube and have helped me immensely in understanding this stuff which has had a huge impact on my own spirituality. I hope you are doing well, and here goes my first total consumption of esoterica content.
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  5415. I do appreciate your videos, brother. Absolute scholarly information in spades every time. Thank you for what you do 🙏
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  5416. Thank you for your wisdom and education.
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  5417. wonderful video! Thank you so much!!
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  5418. 23:23 I recently had the unsettling realization that there are probably more people today that believe the earth is flat than there were 1000 years ago. Numerical speaking at least.
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  5419. Goonies never say die!
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  5420. Dear Dr. Sledge, Could you kindly suggest a book on avoiding reincarnation, please? Your guidance is well appreciated. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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  5421. Apocalypse of the Alien God sounds so much like a metal album or song.
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  5422. This may sound strange, but I want to complement you on the consistant quality of the editing of your videos.
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  5423. I'm embarrassed to admit the first time I heard the word Demiurge was when it was the name of a sweet monster truck I unlocked in Cyberpunk 2077
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  5424. This video was really informative and helpful. Thank you for your work! #randomcorpsefoot 💀😂
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  5425. April fools?
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  5426. Wow! This is very esoteric. I believe it but never heard this entire story before. Yat Justin.
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  5427. I so look forward to your videos everytime! Thank you so much!
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  5428. I came across your channel just last night and I'm already hooked. Your coverage of these topics is amazingly thorough and informative. I will enjoy going through everything on the channel, new and old! Thank you!
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  5429. Thanks!
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  5430. “…spinning around…staying up…”
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  5431. Hello! Just joined up on Patreon -- I've found your content fascinating and valuable and am pleased to support its creation. :-)
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  5432. guess he couldn't find any good rhymes for gibbous and cyclopean, have a good one dr. sledge
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  5433. I went to school in MS at the time of the Pearl high school shooting. I've always questioned the "Satanic" aspect of it. It must have been terrifying to be wrapped up so closely in that tragedy.
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  5434. There shall be no yearly kibosh put upon spooky and spectral tales! Tell the ghost sotries around the yuletide fire! It casts those deep and haunting shadows just as well~
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  5435. Thanks!
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  5436. Saw the title in my notification and said "oh helllll yes Dr Sledge, let's gooo." I've been on a big stoicism kick so this had perfect timing.
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  5437. Glad to see another video, Doc! 😀
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  5438. I appreciate what you do!
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  5439. Thanks!
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  5440. There is So much information in the first 10 minutes that has left me with more questions
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  5441. Thanks!
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  5442. Watching Dr. SLEDGE reminds me of my time in the new school for social research.
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  5443. Au contraire, the weirdo stuff that goes on on this channel is precisely why this audience (me) is here. seriously though, thank you for your hard work.
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  5444. Anyone who has ever dealt with the administration and middle managements of a college, an insurance company, a medical institution, or any corporation doesn't need to have any kind of belief in a malevolent Demiurge and its incompetent and ignorant Archons: anyone who has dealt with these things, indeed (and sadly!), has very direct and visceral gnosis of them. :(
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  5445. So sad that the Internet Archive copy of the three book is no longer accessible (site got hacked and is now inaccessible) for those of us who were reading online
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  5446. Thank you for your scholarly teaching but dude you are hilarious
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  5447. Huh...you made a riff from Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People song 🎵 appear in my head and now I have that song as an ear worm 🪱 great 👍 👌...thanks I hope it now has infected others that may have read this MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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  5448. His humor is everything 😄
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  5449. Thanks
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  5450. Medieval Aristocratic Big Pharma shirt when?
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  5451. Damn it took me halfway through the video to catch the joke.
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  5452.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Ah, a design that is understated but vaguely off-putting nonetheless. You didn't have to reverse that N either, but I appreciate that you did.
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  5453. Thanks!
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  5454. Fascinating, as usual. Thank you. 🙏 🌞
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  5455. 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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  5456. hi Dr. my name is Abraham G . i like a lot ur channel. u have good and clear info. thanx fot that and sorry for my english!! im from mexico ..!!
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  5457. Thank you for all your hard work!
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  5458. Interesting that Egyptian ghost stories are not spooky, just more to teach responsibilities to the dead.
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  5459. This channel is truly a blessing. I’ve had so many questions concerning the occult. This channel answers them all! Thank you brother
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  5460. Thank the Father Beyond Being it's Friday, that was awesome Doctor!
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  5461. Words fail me. What an astounding discovery! I doubt I'll be able to afford the Brill text, but I look forward to hearing your take on this channel. How could such an epic story of the Shekhina be lost? I wonder if it was hidden because it was considered heretical?
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  5462. WHAT MERCH?! I WOULD BUY MERCH WHERE IS IT
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  5463. 11 hours on & have watched another 11 vids (I’m getting better at this LOL). Have returned to watch this one again though:- sending it also to my sister saying “want to be intellectually stimulated -(that’s really stimulated) 🤔AND entertained ? No-one does it better on the planet 🌎 right now then:-THIS guy” Kathy Prince, Australia 🇦🇺
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  5464. as to the soul being corrupted by matter? to paraphrase a Gnostic text, cant remember which, "cast a pearl into the mud and it loses no value, rub a pearl with balsam oil and it gains no value"
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  5465. A righteous soul inhabiting another body to correct a wrong--a see a TV series here, perhaps with Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula starring.
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  5466. As a young rural journalist in the late 80s I had to track down every call we got about 'Satanic symbols' in ditches, which were, surprisingly enough, the remains of dead deer along the roads. The 'placement of the bones', ie. ribcages, were sited as ritual remains. It was absolutely insane.
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  5467. Nice
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  5468. Have you done any research on powwowing among the Pennsylvania Germans?
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  5469. Once again a very enjoyable and enlightening video from Dr. Sledge. Thank you very much, Sir, your work is much appreciated. Love from Denmark.
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  5470. I would go as far as to say this video was Cathartic 😉
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  5471. Thanks!
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  5472. I really hope what you're doing, democratizing knowledge that was intentionally obfuscated by educational institutions, has the effects I think it will. I think we will see very soon just how many of our social structures depend on these ideas and foundational concepts not being critically examined.
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  5473. Thanks!
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  5474. This was fascinating I also enjoyed Angelia's video on AOS. I am embarrassed to say that II did not read any of his works early on and I wish I had. He has had a great influence on the western occult tradition. Luckily now I have time to correct this and read his works today. Great video, thank you!
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  5475. Someone in Japan will watch this and a few years later, an epic anime inspired by the Emanations of the Left Hand Side's wars/extinction events before existence will come into being. When that time comes, I will gladly watch said show.
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  5476. What an interesting interview! Splendid collaboration between Dr. Sledge and Ms. Anzovin. I guess the Jewish Talmudic traditions are akin to the Islamic Tafisr, Hadith, Fiqh, and Sufi traditions. As a Muslim, it gives me the inspiration to explore my traditions in depth as well. Really liked Miriam's approach of one page a day. Seems manageable. Really love your channel Dr. Sledge. Peace, thoughts and prayers.
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  5477. I love your channel. Been here for a while now.
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  5478.  @TheEsotericaChannel  As you said, it isn;'t introductory material. I'll try to get back to it so maybe I can pick up a bit more. Looking forward to the next one.
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  5479. Thank you for the education. Learned a lot.
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  5480. Now that book would look REALLY good on my shelves!
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  5481. Happy Hanukkah Dr. Sledge 🕎
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  5482. i love this channel so much — thank you for the work you do
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  5483. Love this talk, Dr. Sledge. Thank you so much!
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  5484. Thanks!
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  5485. Thanks!
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  5486. Sorry for my absence, but amazing presentation as always brother!
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  5487. I've been excited for this one ^_^
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  5488. Treasure hunting was far more interesting then movies have lead me to believe.
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  5489. Always intriguing
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  5490. Your Work lifts all ships! Thank you! Much love from Mohawk country
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  5491. Indigenous heretics is a great band name.
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  5492. SUBLIME SACRED KNOWLEDGE...LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
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  5493. Thanks!
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  5494. Thanks
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  5495. Black metal is the best!
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  5496. Thank you Dr Sledge ! I like the Gnostic stuff. I like you too, you remind me of my Grandad.
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  5497. Thanks!
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  5498. Thanks!
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  5499. thank you for amazing work!!!
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  5500. Your brilliant doctor,!
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  5501. Thanks!
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  5502. Thank you Dr for the…great work! One of my favorite channels.
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  5503. Thanks for producing this content!
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  5504. Thanks
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  5505. most impressive sir, i think i could spend the rest of my days in your library
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  5506. Beautiful calligraphy, Dr. Sledge.
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  5507. Thanks! I'll be starting my education into religious studies and find your videos inspiring and informative.
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  5508. Thank you for this opportunity to study with you!
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  5509. Thanks
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  5510. So the purging stones from Dark Souls are based on a real concept. That's pretty cool.
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  5511. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo I wish I could to contribute to your wellbeing, smiles & $$$
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  5512. Thanks!
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  5513. Very intelligent commentary .
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  5514. Thanks
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  5515. haha not that Michael Scott !!!
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  5516. Thanks for your video!!
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  5517. Clear??? Ta Hell no! Dude you cracking me up man! 🤣🤣🤣
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  5518. Thanks!
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  5519. This is a great channel
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  5520. Excellent presentation. Thank you.
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  5521. Man your funny as hell and very informative.
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  5522. Fantastic thank you Justin🙂 I just did a 23&me test and it turns out I’m a whole 0.1% Ashkenazi Jewish and I am delighted🙂.
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  5523. What a cliffhanger. Can’t wait till next week!
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  5524. amazing cover and title
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  5525. 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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  5526. “And apparently Mathematics…” 😂😂😂
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  5527. Take a shot every time Justin says "being"
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  5528. Thanks! E. Aurbach claims that Elisha Acher sided with the gnostics, and these are the minim, who are the heretics who claim that there are numerous devine powers.
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  5529. Very interesting and informative presentation. I am very impressed with Stewart's passion to bring everyone to the Highlands.
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  5530. Thanks!
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  5531. I should win the book because... I can read it.
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  5532. I’ve followed your channel for a couple years, and I must say, your storytelling has become very good. The way you speak really draws in the listener. Thanks again from Midtown Memphis 🐅
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  5533. Another home-run! Thank you for your scholarly work. I tweeted about this video and encouraged those interested to subscribe to your channel and hit the notification button. :)
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  5534. 🌹 thank you 💥🌹
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  5535. 2nd watch, the art made me lose it.
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  5536. Thanks!
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  5537. Awesome! Thank you!
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  5538. i really like this channel, i was born into judaism but i never had any access to any proper resources until quite recently… overall i find this super neat to learn about.
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  5539. Thank you, and God bless you.
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  5540. 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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  5541. Thanks!
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  5542. Relatively new viewer here, I subscribed a few months ago. This channel has really been an inspiration to restart my own esoteric studies. Would love to buy you a pint and talk shop some day. Thank you for all that you do.
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  5543. I just got to this video and the announcement about reaching 1000 subscribers when you currently have 616K subscribers was something else. You've come a long way in a relatively short amount of time.
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  5544.  @TheEsotericaChannel  i learn by videos,reading is hard for me and my tbi from military cant stand commercials lol and thank you again
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  5545. We got an Edward Kelly of our own here in Australia – of course, he did quite a different kind of metalworking
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  5546. Thanks!
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  5547. Thank you!
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  5548. Perhaps schizophrenia?
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  5549. It is SO refreshing to watch an Esoterica video after just watching top ten style medieval "facts" video lol
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  5550. Aaaaaahhhhh...fancy intro...I'm a sucker for fancy intros
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  5551. 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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  5552. I'm starting to notice a subtext in this channel... your bank balance Vs Brill's pricing structure. ;)
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  5553. Life, Peace, and Health to us, every one!
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  5554. Just got a job at a daycare. I DO NOT need a latin incantation of Lillith lol. Thanks for offering tho
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  5555. Thanks!
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  5556. Damien echols had a similar but worse thing happen to him as you probably know you guys should collaborate bc you share similar interests too as I am sure you probably already know too. Just an idea and suggestion. Btw sorry to post so late I just found this, better late than never I guess Shabbat shalome
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  5557. God dammit. adds Bataille's books to the already daunting to-read pile (Seriously, an excellent video as always!)
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  5558. Your channel is the Greatest in this field and so many benefits from your hard work and academia- inspiring others to study and learn!. Thank You from Us - who can't join you just yet...
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  5559. Brilliant ✌️
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  5560.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Huh, I had a quick scan of the Wiki on him, he sounds pretty interesting. I take it he had ideas about religion in a similar ballpark...
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  5561. What place was the insane asylum manuscript found? I didn't quite hear the name.
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  5562. This channel is just awesome ... truly Phd content for free !
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  5563. Thanks!
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  5564. Thank you so much Doc, I really appreciate your effort, thank you for all those lectures!
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  5565. Absolutely wonderful! Thank you. Subscribed sir.
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  5566. Thanks!
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  5567. Dr Justin... Let's make a craft beer, and name it 'Hadewijch - The Abyss.' Waddya think? Waddya think? (...Signs graffiti on the wall of high literacy). : )
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  5568. The name of this channel alone deserves a subscribe!
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  5569. Well, after few episodes i must say that Your channel is one of greatest i have seen on YT. TY for your incredible work 🙏
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  5570. You know, seeing this now was good for me. Only two nights ago I was questioning if love as I knew it even existed in the world, and it may not right now, but it does sometimes, and that's comfort enough. Even though there can be no home for those like us in a world enveloped by leviathan/civilization, the point is to help bring about the Places where "normal" people can be safe enough and human enough be able to choose to embrace that love in all its comfortless truth. Thanks for the timely upload <3
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  5571. How does the alchemist keep his lady satisfied? Elixir. but seriously we need more alchemy videos these are great!
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  5572. Do you indulge in table top games? - perhaps W40k?
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  5573. Thank you very much
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  5574. Thanks!
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  5575. Good stuff, as always.
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  5576. Not enough scholarly biblical channels also suggest names for metal bands! That's a real shame because there's plenty of metal stuff in there.
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  5577. I like Speculation Corner!
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  5578. I couldn’t give this video a like and mess up the sublime perfection of the stat
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  5579. I enjoy all of your videos, but this one was extra special. Thank you.
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  5580.  @TheEsotericaChannel  LOL… I’ve been snowed in at home the last two days and I’ve already watched to your most recent videos. I LOVE your channel!
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  5581. I would like to thank Paracelsus for my new black metal band name “Bombastic Areolas”
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  5582. "What's a kidney compared to... gnosis?"; British tomb raiders after breaking ritual urns beneath a pyramid 200 years later "What's a kidney compared to... gnosis?"; Justin Sledge, slightly different context
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  5583. I think that looks more like a winged wheelchair.. ❤❤
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  5584. if i was friends with this guy i would host dinner parties for the sole purpose of inviting him with the expectation that, at some point in the night, he would dominate all conversations. i would purchase a special arm chair that would act as his soapbox and i would keep the drinks flowing to the room so everyone's eyes and ears are glued on him. what a delightful joy this channel is in this mediocre lifetime
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  5585. Thanks!
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  5586. Just discovered your site. So blessed to have found you.. this inspired me to continue my path in medical astrology. Subscribed!
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  5587. We are so very lucky to have you as our professor.
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  5588. Brilliant, unbiased, and blunt research. You're not from here, are you?? 😂
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  5589. Thanks!
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  5590. Thank you Dr Sledge I am sure if anyone can ever discover the source of the Abramelin ritual it will be you! Really enjoy the channel keep up the good work! 0:16
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  5591. 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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  5592. You have a great work ethic, lots of patience and so much to be proud of. It is really not an easy profession you have chosen. Kudos to you!
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  5593. Quite informative. Thank you sir.
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  5594. Thanks
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  5595. Thanks
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  5596. 💜💜💜💜💜
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  5597. We should be thanking you, was a brilliant lecture. When my financial circumstances change I'll defo be donating to your work x
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  5598. Indeed an insightful exploration of Torah as Dr Sledge says in context of History, Philosophy & Religion.
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  5599. Right... I became a Patreon supporter :) Unfortunately I can only afford the lowest level, but your channel is so great hope this also helps a bit! Just came home from a triple bill gig (Pallbearer, Graveyard, Baroness) and I am already watching this video to wind down.
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  5600. ¡Gracias!
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  5601. I avoided this one for a while because I have CPTSD because of what you're describing. Thank you for sharing, you did a great job and I'll check out the book you mentioned.
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  5602. 15:12 what was that amulet?
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  5603. I'm very happy I found this channel. 👍
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  5604. "Roll for initiative " 😃
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  5605. Your content is incredible thank you so much
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  5606. Subscribed! It was the sense of humor. Lets learn something and have fun doing it.
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  5607. Thanks!
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  5608. How have I only just found this channel!!! I can tell I'm in for a treat
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  5609. Some of that stuff in the Vatican Archives has been there for so long that you would have to use necromancy to contact a Cardinal from the 12th century to even begin to understand how much they don't know about what's in there.
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  5610. “Qlipothic teachers don’t exist on the internet… right?” I’m dying, my dude. As a beginner occultist I met so many on discord and Reddit. I was a beginner and knew very little at that time about spirituality, let alone Kabbalah. To no one’s surprise, most of them are white supremacists on top of being edgy satanists who bashed on newbie occultists.
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  5611. this video is great 👍
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  5612. I can't believe I'm getting to listen to this level of academic anslysis, forever grateful Dr Sledge ❤
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  5613. Thanks!
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  5614. That is such a unique point of view. Never heard about this guy, but he is mind blowing
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  5615. Doctor, you are a Sledge-hammer!
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  5616. So interesting! Great convo
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  5617. THOT!!! Yeaaaaaahhh👊🏽
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  5618. Lets gooo
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  5619. Thanks!
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  5620. I was not aware that getting to Paradise required looking at a Vaporwave-inspired Marble Pond and then make a series of Call of Cthulhu-style sanity checks. If that is indeed the case, I feel my 20 years of being millennial meme trash has prepared me well. Out of my way Metatron I'm here to fight god, as did my namesake!
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  5621. Thanks!
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  5622. Sounds like a woman wrote this.
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  5623. Well done and thanks for your efforts Dr Sledge. I definitely enjoy getting into the mindset to devour your content. Say hi to John Dee for me.
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  5624. This makes an important point that I never guessed at. I've read all of the extant classical Stoics (as Dr. Sledge says, there are only 4!) but did not pick up on these connections (I more interested in ethics anyway.) Great talk, thank you.
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  5625. Thanks!
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  5626. Thanks!
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  5627. this is the good stuff. keep em coming
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  5628. I got to give the 666th like on an Esoterica video! Great historical analysis, as always. I cannot help but cringe everytime bloodletting comes up in history.
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  5629. I think you may be 100% correct that they are of the same goal. Just said in different ways.
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  5630.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you sir, just picked up some merch too. Keep up the amazing content professor
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  5631. Top tier Youtube content 🤌🏻✨
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  5632. Very soothing and highly educational listening as I do my makeup this morning, as always! Up till today, I did think the Library of Alexandria was a real thing that was destroyed in one singular event, but thanks to this lovely video of yours and a video by YouTube historian Kaz Rowe, I feel much more enlightened. Everything else that surrounded the myth that you cited here was incredibly fascinating! You’re one of the best YouTubers out there. Keep it up! 🥰
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  5633. The break for shouting nonsense about the emerald tablet = the frustration if Tolkien fans at the Rings of Power
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  5634. Thanks!
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  5635. There’s also bloodletting mysticism in the Incas in Peru and recently Santa Rosa from Lima
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  5636. abomination of desolation sounds so tame in Hebrew compared to the Greek "τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως".
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  5637. Thanks!
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  5638. I love all the videos you make and I’m so happy you provide this for us. I’m an atheist (secular) witch and even though not everything applies to me, I like learning about new things or sending videos to friends. Thank you!
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  5639. i have got to read descriptions more
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  5640. I just discovered your channel, and I am delighted. I suspect I've also started with one of the more difficult-to-compress topics, and my lack of knowledge of history of the thousand or so years before and after the start of the current Era in the area loosely defined as the Middle East is rather glaring. Not that I know more recent history much better. I confess that, as a geologist, I tend to think in much larger chunks of time, but this is fascinating. Paypal appreciation forthcoming.
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  5641. Fucking amazing this guy just gets better with every video
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  5642. have you ever considered dressing up as alfie Solomons for Halloween
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  5643.  @TheEsotericaChannel  LOL. Good point.
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  5644. Damn this was a great video! I just realized that I had subconsciously kept away from looking deeper into stoicism because of how the word is used in our modern day but this just turned it around completely. Thank you!
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  5645. Lmao wise AND funny. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to enlightening others. You are definitely a light to the world
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  5646. I’m so excited about these episodes on the topic of Hildegard… I guess you could say I’ll be “Bingen” them (sorry)
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  5647. A pro tip for people interested in the Palgrave McMillian witchcraft and magic series. Palgrave has pretty significant sales over the course of the year (often 30-60% off) that if you sign up for theornemail list you can get notices about. I eagerly reccommend their Werewolf Histories and Werewolf Legend volumes
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  5648. Love your work! Keep it up! :)
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  5649. loving the videos on caainties!
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  5650. Thanks! Great series and channel. Do anyone have more information on why Haneegraaf’s Lazarelli book been out of print for so long? A used copy selling for $5K on Amazon currently. He teased at a new edition, but that was maybe a couple years ago. Is this book the true key to gnosis or something?
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  5651. Thanks!
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  5652. OMG Justin you were so young. I blame Zevi. I think he made a deal. He gets our youth and we get his inside track to the mystical and Esoteric. The price is well worth it. Much Love here and there.
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  5653. Thanks!
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  5654. watching one of your videos not 3 hours ago in my head i was hoping you would do another golem video. this is great
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  5655. Thanks!
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  5656. Many details in this, as I am sure you know, are echoed in the album Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickison
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  5657. Very interesting!
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  5658. Truly academic grade content you make is hard to come by. Academic grade content creators with merch that doesn't betray my metal aesthetic is even harder to come by. Keep up the good work! \m/
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  5659. Great episode Sir. Thank you
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  5660. I'm your biggest fan. I'm so glad i found your channel and I went through the whole back catalogue in a few weeks.
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  5661. 37:41 the ritual gives you 5 Torahbytes (תB) of memory, obviously! 😂 39:02 “Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s [The Gospel of Mary] Magdalene .”
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  5662. Bad saving throws! Lolol love it. I once walked off the side of a lighthouse due to bad saving throws for a harpy, I feel their pain.
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  5663. Lavish. Profound. Transcending borders and limits) Truly enjoyed this one. Many thanks and a rampage of appreciation here)
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  5664. Your feeling for this text really come through in your talk. The poetics and the mysticism make this topic fascinating. This is the most interesting lecture I have head yet on this channel.
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  5665. LESSSSS GOOOOOOO I LOVE IT
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  5666. Thanks
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  5667. 12:15 fuckin magnets how do they work?
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  5668. 🙂
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  5669. Thank you
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  5670. Thank you for your amazing content!!
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  5671. Justin, do you have a magickal/kabbalistic/ritual practice at all?
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  5672. Thank you for all the work you put into your vids.
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  5673. Thanks!
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  5674. @TheEsotericaChannel  no problem, ur hitting the nail on the head. Your series on yahweh origins was fantastic. Thank u for putting in all the work and sharing about what the people are genuinely curious about.
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  5675. You're really funny too lol
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  5676. Thank you
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  5677. I wish I knew this in the 1990’s. It would have really helped. Better late than never. Thank you so much. I will start over as if I know nothing.
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  5678. I love these eps on colonial america, make more pleaseee
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  5679. Thank you very much! I appreciate everything you have placed. Much is ‘over my head’. Still inspires me to do more digging.
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  5680. Finally subscribed, as I've been watching so many of your videos already. Thank you for so much and rare knowledge . I could spend hours asking you questions about those topics. Would you say that the Golem concept is similar to the Homonculus, tp describe an artificial human born from alchemical practices? Thank you.
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  5681. I'm a licensed therapist and I am ashamed of my profession.
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  5682. Thanks!
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  5683. LUV IT! ❤
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  5684. Happy late birthday Dr. Sledge keep up the great work. love from Chicago 💜
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  5685. I know you probably won't be glad to hear it, but I pretty often get an ad from Gaia on one of these videos, and I feel a little guilty for it but I admit they're one of the ads I never want to skip just because I want to hear whatever nonsense they've come up with this time
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  5686. Happy Friday the 13th
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  5687. Im pretty new to your channel and have watched a few things you have here. Im getting use to your style of content and realize you have a great sense of humor. This is very refreshing as I notice you cant contain yourself some time for more than two minutes without a quick under the radar joke or some dry humor. Subjects like this shouldn't be taken so dead serious, so dry and boring. Love is a gift from god which humans enjoy. Humor is another one when well timed. Great work and thanks.
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  5688. Count me in!
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  5689. Thank you Dr. Sledge.
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  5690. Yeah there is a need for a hebrew death metal ban only singing the bible verce of god warth and rage 2king2 24 : 2 bears 42 children
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  5691. Cool discussion! I own a copy of the Directorium Inquisitorum from 1595 (36:03). It has a very ancient-looking stamp on the title page and a Hebrew manuscript was used as lining for the book's spine. Despite its decrepit appearance, it causes me to pause. a), people were burned at the stake because of this book. b) innocent people of Jewish descent were also persecuted as a result of this book. The fact that a Hebrew manuscript is in the structure of the book itself is mind boggling. It is sobering to know that as I hold this book, several human lives are also held in the balance.
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  5692. I actually do need someone to voice Thunder, Perfect Mind. No one seems to want to do it 🤷
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  5693. I serisouly can't thank you enough for for your wrok and scholarship!
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  5694. Also I gotta say that I love your occasional jokes and personal comments, it adds a lot to the video.
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  5695. This holiday custom is why the best Christmas movie ever is ..... Eraser Head.
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  5696. ❤
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  5697. Love your vibe and delivery, thanks!
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  5698. I recently read "Night Battles". Fascinating stuff
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  5699. Smith's book is so thorough there are more references than words in some sentences.
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  5700. I'm writing and running a World of Darkness campaign later this year, and given Esoterica has been one of my greatest sources of inspiration, I'm making Justin into an NPC in the setting. Thank you for the wonderful videos and the immense wealth of well woven information within. May your work receive its well deserved recognition and support!
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  5701. Oh yeah, the scribe certainly is holding out on us. What a tease.
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  5702. Excellent, thank you!
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  5703. Harpo Marx looks similar to him at least in that drawing. Lots of love to your channel from Portugal 🇵🇹
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  5704. HAPPY FRIDAY DR SLEDGE
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  5705. Thanks
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  5706. I find these videos very educational.dont know how I end up on channel, maybe I was sent by an unknown entity.i have just a question which book on this has the most in depth on the topic.and uh ... which spell can I use to summon something to scare my kids into cleaning they friggin room that I can hide in a pez Despenser 😅
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  5707. Most interesting! Thankyou Dr. Sledge. I wonder if induced psychedelic states of mind nearing the so called "ego death", would be a fertile ground for the introduction of Sigils into the depths of the psyche. For certain a great deal of discipline and adepthood into those states of mind would be necessary.
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  5708. Thanks!
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  5709. I appreciate using The Young Pope photo there, I highly recommend the show and the sequel The New Pope.
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  5710. This is a truly amazing take. Thank you for all your service.
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  5711. Yes man I didnt see Voynich Manuscript coming, fantastic topic!
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  5712. Very educational. Thanks very much.
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  5713. The things almost everyone wants to listen and learn about is literally the most difficult thing to teach for a living. Had you read that line in a fiction novel you would instantly think that its obviously not a coincidence Steady on, worst comes to worst you could name metal bands and albums and live like a king
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  5714. Thanks!
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  5715. 😂 you totally had going !! The fur boots and apples made chuckle a little…. Then the “down low, low, low” … I started cracking up 😂🤣🤣 Mind you, I’m at work in a microbiology lab and no one ever laughs 😏 … so I looked like an idiot 🤷‍♂️😂😂
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  5716. Where’s part two??😢 DEFINITELY SUBSCRIBING!!!
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  5717. Thank you for your work! 🙏
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  5718. Yes! Thank you!
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  5719. In short: sad and tragic.
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  5720. Love the D&D reference with the thunderbolt +1 ;)
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  5721. Wonderful, always very informative. I like your style, Dr. Sledge.
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  5722. A very simple pray. I will turn away. I will stay. I will do for you. I will try to promise you this. You know what I like. I heard a bird sing. The song reminds me why I aline with you. I give thank and praise for all you do. I smile now because of you. I have no choice but to follow you.
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  5723. Thank's for sharing!
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  5724. Thank YOU Very Much for This Illumination and Education!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 If Only such knowledge could Stop the madness of Ignorance that is currently in Authority within the religious of OUR Day..🙏🏾 But as this study shows; the Truth Seeker themselves end being used as the worst weapons of those that are dedicated to power..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Wonderful and Very in lightening!!!🖖🏾🤝🏾✝️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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  5725. I was just about to comment that you make learning Hebrew sound like a dungeons and dragons campaign when you dropped the Final Fantasy joke. Well played sir, well played.
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  5726.  @TheEsotericaChannel  yes! Full name is Abigail Sarah Williams. Haha, I'm curious to know how come you ask. I get this question often!
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  5727. Love the graphics.
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  5728. Ooo, there it is!
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  5729. Thanks for an interesting lecture and great sense of humor.
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  5730. A video within a video within a video!
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  5731. Thank you for sharing this story with us- and I fully support your boundary about keeping it to yourself from here. Thank you for sharing such informed, rich and deep knowledge with us. I just cannot get enough of your videos!
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  5732. I just really love what you do bro. Grateful for all your hard work. 🤙
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  5733. I remember an article that came out perhaps half a year back, which proposed a new interpretation of mummification itself. The hypothesis was that one of the supernatural purposes of the mummification process was to transform (or translate) the khet of the deceased, converting it into "a sort of divine statue" that their Akh would use as their new corpus in Aaru. In that case, the fully-mummified remains would be interred more as another treasured possession of the departed than as a load-bearing column in the technological structure; even if it were to be destroyed at some later date, the Akh would not suffer for it.
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  5734. Woohoo! Sorry I’m excited 😆
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  5735. 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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  5736. had never heard of this affable bloke
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  5737. Justin, can you please tell me which pianist performs this version of Chopin's Nocturne? It's become the official version for me.
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  5738. It would be nice if you shared a list of channels you enjoy. I enjoy your channel and thanks for all the effort you put into it. Happy Holidays
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  5739. Great timing with the solstice and a dark time of year for us all, no matter what our beliefs.
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  5740. I can't use PayPal..cos well PayPal years ago... Other than merch any other single contribution method available
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  5741. Gave you a serious and highest regard reference in my interview with content creator/podcaster in England last week. Hopefully will expand your audience. Mahe Ohna ✌️ Favour to you and ALL
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  5742. Is that a Russian WW2 era oil/grease bottle on your shelf? It seems out of place for a non-firearm related channel. Is there a mystical connotation?
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  5743. THank you :)
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  5744. 💛
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  5745. Continue being our inspiration Dr. keep up the good <<<great>>> work!
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  5746. Thanks!
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  5747. Longtime youtube subscriber. I'm joining patreon today for the John dee-r joke.
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  5748. The idea that ancient mathematicians would have believed that the world is actually made up of mathematics would be more surprising if it wasn't for the fact that Shakespeare believed the world was a stage and modern technophiles believe the world might be a computer simulation. It seems like everyone just starts to eventually think that the world is made out of whatever it is they work with.
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  5749. Thank you for another great video. Been having a depressive spike but your jokes put a smirk on my face, much appreciated. I had a question, around 28:30 you recommend some reading. The first recommendation I was able to catch, but the “hardcore” recommendation sounds like “Plotinus Groschifft”? I could not find this readily. Can you help me with the search terms or a link? I checked the description box and will read the recommended book…is this the same text? Thank you!
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  5750. Fantastic job 🔮
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  5751. Just getting in on that algorithm manipulation, don’t mind me
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  5752. Very interesting. I learned a lot. Grand so. Peace from Northern. IRELAND.
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  5753. Dr Puca referred me here, but I'm a regular viewer. I love when y'all team up like this🪄✨💖❤‍🔥🖤! 🙊*Fangirlscreams* 🙊I find all of this subject absolutely amazing and intimidatingly massive, thank you for this introductory presentation. Also the Persian connection is very interesting. Humanities first taste of dystopia haha jk.
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  5754. Thanks!
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  5755. 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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  5756. There probably were really smart "before people" lol, but they were probably killed by the really stupid "before people".😆
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  5757. Thank you Doctor
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  5758. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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  5759. Necromantrix- love it 😅
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  5760. Hi Justin... your channel popped up randomly on my YouTube a week ago and I have to say I think the way you present your videos in such a calm and carefully researched way is fantastic and refreshing. Keep up the great work and Thank You from Australia! 🌏🙏
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  5761. Sir ! 🎉
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  5762. ¡Gracias!
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  5763. I think you make a good arguement for why Blake's work isn't Gnostic, though it feels like saying it isn't is also a disservice, it would still be the strict measurement of Urizen, after all. Like how a genre is more useful as a lens to examine something with, than a strict categorization system, so I think there is an argument to be made that the lack of Sophia and the lack of a sotorific element for humanity can be read as Blake suggesting Gnosis can't be reached via reason alone. I'm sure some ancient Gnostics would consider this heretical, but I don't think it disqualifies it as a valid part of a sort of ongoing discourse on how one can attain Gnosis when seen as a warning against mistaking "Your Reason" for true Wisdom.
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  5764. This was awesome 🤩 Thank you for your hard work and research
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  5765. After the intro. My ears are wide open.
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  5766. Wow! How exciting :D I love when old texts get discovered <3 Gives me hope maybe one day we'll find a couple more greek tragedies ;_;
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  5767. Thanks Justin🙏 that was great, I closed my eyes to imagine it all in it’s spooktacular glory. Shared this with poem with friends and family. Hope you and your family have a Happy Halloween 🎃
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  5768. Been waiting a while for this one! 🥳🥳🥳
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  5769. Thanks!
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  5770. Your knowledge and humor is appreciated.
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  5771. Thank you so much!
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  5772. We thank you Doc! It's a big world and Europe loves you 🗺️💞🗝️ These are the best classes 💝best homeschooling eva'
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  5773. I used to think Stoicism was a boring philosophy. I’ve never been so wrong before in my life.
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  5774. Can't stop watching
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  5775. Thanks!
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  5776. Just commenting to say hi, Dapper Dinosaur sent his subs and members over to support you 😊 subbed
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  5777. Thanks!
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  5778. Thanks!
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  5779. Thanks!
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  5780. I desperately need a movie that combines the tropes of a heist with medieval treasure hunting roles
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  5781. May know some people on a couple of magical Discords who might be interested in the kind of web database project you're talking about here. I'll point a couple of them at it and see if anyone is integrated enough to reach out to y'all!
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  5782. Hi!! Do you have videos about psalms? I’m dying to hear what you have to say…
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  5783. That Pitagora joke <3
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  5784. Incredible interesting video! You really do these topics justice, Justin!
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  5785. Thanks!
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  5786. Athanasius "look at me I am orthodoxy now" made me laugh 😂😂😂😂
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  5787. The new green uranium glass was disturbing and quite in-line with the holiday.
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  5788. Thanks!
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  5789. Don't mess with the Zohar
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  5790. Thanks
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  5791. Thank you
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  5792. It may be hypocritically light-hearted for you, but MY religious world just became round about a 1000 times bigger. I don't know how to thank you enough.
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  5793. 🍿
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  5794. It might be a stretch, but it seems like this would have also influenced Franz Brentano on his writing about intentionality.
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  5795. I believe that we do have some painted fragments of Manichean texts
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  5796. Thanks!
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  5797. You're a calligrapher as well? Okay, now I just know there's going to be a harpsichord somewhere in your house. There has to be.
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  5798. Thanks!
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  5799.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you very much Justin. Much love.
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  5800. Hey Justin you are an incredible creator. This channel is a great complex but accessible approach to the topics. Thanks!
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  5801. Again, thank you very much, can't wait for the next!
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  5802. So happy I joined ur patron dr Justin
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  5803. Thanks!
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  5804. I got here because I played a bad Japanese demon dating sim in which you can date Solomon and now I'm in love with occult history. Help
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  5805. Thanks!
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  5806. The gatekeepers per se reminds me if the tests the Egyptians had to pass in their journey through the underworld to reach the other side
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  5807. I have never subscribed to any channel. This fabulous program has my complete attention. Thank you for this outstanding and enlightening content!
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  5808. Thanks!
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  5809. Great job! I was thinking about it recently, and to the extent that the use of the Ascendant was motivated by the Egyptian use of the decans, and the earliest text on the concept of the 12 houses was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, the practice of horoscopic astrology today has to represent one of the most long lasting, pervasive, and influential instances of Hermetic doctrines influencing culture all the way into the present time.
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  5810.  @TheEsotericaChannel  For sure! We still gotta do that ancient skeptics of astrology episode one of these days
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  5811. Aloha, thanks for sharing, a lot of people can't read or write, and gain very little knowledge.
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  5812. It sounds like a mix of Saint John of the Cross and John lennon
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  5813. ¡Gracias!
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  5814. Thank you
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  5815. Hmmmmmmm. So what I’m hearing is that I’m reeeeeeeeally behind lol. Guess I need to go learn three languages so I can compete with a thirteen year old. But seriously, this is such a great channel for giving a starting point for further study.
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  5816. I’ve said it once, no doubt I will say it many times more: the Imagination is a wonderful (and powerful) toy, or in this case tool?
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  5817. Thanks for the treat of that poem! Nicely read! It also reminded me that as Xmas season nears, I should spend time listening to some of YouTube's many Lovecraftian carols.
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  5818. 🙂
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  5819. More! More!
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  5820. Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation, a book that has many recipes like this the mugwort porter does tend to lift your mood rather well, ive been both an alchemist and a brewer for almost 23 years now
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  5821. Your illustrations are superb, as always.
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  5822. So glad I found your channel. This is my every day routine now until I catch up to the current videos.
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  5823. Please be careful on your Egypt trip. The world scares me. You are a gift to humanity and we need brains like you.
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  5824. First. Loving this one
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  5825. Dude, sweet merch. Any chance you will ever drop some patches? Some of those tee designs would make for some dope metal patches.
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  5826. ¡Gracias!
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  5827. Thanks!
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  5828. Love your presentation! Clear, and to the point! Thank you!
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  5829. It was me, I started the evil. I broke the dam.
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  5830. Dr. Sledge, sir! Thank you for existing 💟 pls where is that merch link?? I cant find it 😭
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  5831. Thanks!
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  5832. Thanks dr Sledge, you explain it at layman's terms.
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  5833. Immediately put a like. Been waiting for this one from when I saw your post today in the morning.
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  5834. Excellent!!! Thank you so much
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  5835. dzięki, ziomek
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  5836. Loving you channel, subscribed after you said....hmmmm, bs! Love and light! Blessed be Dr.. I look forward to more knowledge.
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  5837. Thanks!
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  5838. I also love your (her) description of living the Trinity. Deeply moving.
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  5839. Modern carpacrationism is pretty antinomian but it's not quite that bad.... mainly artists who endow their art with the themes of bataille. E:.G:.C:. ;) ...thanks Doc.
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  5840. I haven't heard no big whoop is a while. Thank you.
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  5841. great as usual! Really like the length of this one. Some of the longer ones lose my attention span.
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  5842. Thanks!
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  5843. As a very much not spiritual atheist myself, your videos are a great resource to combine with the classical studies of religion and philosophy. While I’m a firm atheist and architect by trade, it’s fascinating to see all these aspects of the human experience. May it be in history, releigion or spirituality. Fascinating. You have a great way of explaining a multitude of topics. All the while staying grounded in actual science/academia. Glad I now discovered your content.
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  5844. I want to thank you, deeply, for your contributions to making such information accessible to everyone. Thank you.
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  5845. This is great. Thank you.
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  5846. Sefaria has both "Pri Etz Chaim" and "Sefer Etz Chaim" what is the difference?
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  5847. With some effort, I usually manage to follow what Dr Sledge is talking about. However, this episode went completely over my head due to my unfamiliarity with the writings and terms being discussed.
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  5848. Thanks!
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  5849. Dr. Sledge, can you point me in the direction of some data that shows Matthew & Mark were likely originally written in a language other than Greek? Its always been my understanding that they both have all the hallmarks of being Green original works. I'm no expert tho just a casual learner. Thanks!
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  5850. It’s absolutely insanely crazy how you answer my question without any previous messages I love it and I am love and light thank you once again
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  5851. If true, what does this mean God is not real? And how do you reconcile your faith after teaching this?
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  5852. Thanks!
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  5853. Excellent, as always, Doc! Thanks!
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  5854. Thanks
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  5855. This channel is pure gold 😎
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  5856. Dang I love conic sections. Visual differential geometry and forms is on my bedside; Hope i dont summon a shaitan.
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  5857. Thank you Dr. Sledge.
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  5858. I think with the state of politics right now. And the rise of the Christian politics in the new generation of people involved. This is very likely to happen again. Be safe
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  5859. Lets talk religion brought me here.
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  5860. Thanks!
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  5861. 🤘🔥🤘
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  5862. Thanks! second time of listening, just wonderful
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  5863. Have you seen the movie A Dark Song and how did you find it related to the real thing according to your knowledge?
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  5864. Thanks! A gem of a lecture as always! If you have told us the best place to buy his three books in english( most accurate translations) I missed it.. I would love to buy these for reference and study on my next listen thru this series.
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  5865. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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  5866. This was sublime. Great research and fantastic exposition! I liked how you weaved so naturally through Freud to Schopenhauer to Lacan to Bataille while deepening the conceptual connections and expanding on them. Brilliant stuff. Also loved all the little digs here and there (though never in an unfair way). Your work is astounding and I'm really happy I found your channel. Keep up the good work! Thanks!
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  5867. This is very well done. Excellent work
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  5868. Thanks
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  5869. Reeaally digging the depth here; although not my new favorite channel, it is my favorite new channel (new to me obviously; subjects are duly predicated). ⛵
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  5870. Thanks!
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  5871. Magnus Opus. By far! (and everything you do is unlike anything available, anywhere) thank you so much for this, for sharing your experience, for sharing your knowledge, and for being the thoughtful person you are. this was AWESOME!
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  5872. I love your videos, SOooo ESOTERIC!!! Greetings from Ghana, West Africa:hand-purple-blue-peace:
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  5873. Have you done anything on the place of revelation as a form of knowledge in society today?
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  5874. wonderful video, your humor is funny.
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  5875. Know any spells for extra kidneys; to buy books from Brill. Or should I be looking to treasure magic?
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  5876. i'made it. great class i never know about the early library's i will check it out cool. loved it. {q}
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  5877. This was fantastic !
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  5878. Such a fine episode!!
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  5879. This is such a valuable piece.
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  5880. McDonalds M
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  5881. Thanks!
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  5882. I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the good work and I look forward to a potential discord server.
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  5883. 9:22 a huge storm started while I was watching this. It wasn’t raining at all and now it’s pouring lol. Thanks Dr. Sledge
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  5884. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. The class about Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah was awesome! Also, I agree, your sense of humor is wonderful and adds so much!
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  5885.  @TheEsotericaChannel  definitely not, I just find the average person of average intelligence finds it hard to read scripture or grasp the concept of the occult in any means, while psychedelics throw people into that head space, “beware of unearned knowledge though Love your stuff btw!!
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  5886. 13:54 I never realized Elijah never died. I did know that about Enoch 🤔 love the channel! I've been sharing with my students, they all love it, too
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  5887. Thanks!
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  5888. Akh! I do love me a good ghost story...anytime! A fellow Poe lover, as well, who also had conversing mummies! Thanks for the holiday cheer 😆
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  5889.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I'll email you and send you some for thanks giving or something
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  5890. They're deleting comments on their Instagram. Truly awful behavior.
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  5891.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I found it interesting , but a little scary . but I do love your site .
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  5892. Yay analytic philosophy. Or analytic kabbalah.
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  5893. Algorithim
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  5894. 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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  5895. It's the Devil!!!! 😈🤣🤣🤣
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  5896. Next level funny!
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  5897. Thanks!
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  5898. Very excellent lecture once again and funny!
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  5899. Thanks
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  5900. @18:10 is that a Marylin Manson reference in the middle of an in depth discussion of the philosophical arguments against gnosticism? Oh you bet I'm subscribing
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  5901. I see a lot of comments here arguing that Proffessor Bowley's words represented a political opinion that was inappropriate and should not have been shared in that context. I would point out that what he said amounted to criticism of the current political administration, which is perhaps the most fundamental right that free speech is supposed to allow: being able to say "i don't like what the president is doing," or "i think the president is a fascist" and not facing legal repercussions or losing your job over it is what separates a free country from tyrannical one. Without that freedom we can't have democracy, and we can't prevent our country from falling into tyranny, wherever it comes from. That right isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.
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  5902. I don’t look forward to fridays because of the weekend I look forward to them because I get a new esoterica and a new no such thing as a fish
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  5903. I am so here for this quintessential Esoterica episode and the breathtaking Blake imagery! I'm all about the highlighted tomes of Scholastic magic and Hekhalot Literature and synopse! The Esoterica treatment is undoubtedly rigorous and researched in, as you say, informed speculation! Wax on! And will certainly revisit this singular one of a kind episode! To paraphrase-quote Einstein (yes, he did say this this time with my inserts), "(informed) Imagination is more important than knowledge ("what we know...")! Edifying and, as you say, enlightening!
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  5904. Thanks!
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  5905. Excellent! Congratulations on getting this in print. I’m looking forward to my copy arriving tomorrow. Is it available for worldwide distribution?
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  5906. This level of knowledge needs supporting.
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  5907. :hand-pink-waving::hand-pink-waving::hand-pink-waving::hand-pink-waving:
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  5908. Just subscribed, much love from the UK
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  5909. Samaecel 🤣
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  5910. Thanks!
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  5911. Hi hope you're well thanks. Do not you writing on crystal. Wow
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  5912. As a Christian metalhead, I've always known this whole "metal music is satanic" thing was bullshit. Even if it has a pentagram, or depicts Lucifer, or whatever it may be, it's purely fiction. There are no real satanic cults behind the music, even mayhem, the edgiest band, weren't satanic. They merely used these images to be provocative, and it worked.
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  5913. I started to freak out when I heard the demons in the background of your video!!! Until I recognized the sweet sound of a snoring dog, likely English bulldog.
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  5914. Thanks
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  5915. Some of us have been waiting for “more” accessible information that’s “deeper” and “higher” for years now. Yours is the second I have finally encountered in the last two years and each time: Oasis. Thank you for your good work and congrats on the growth of your audience.
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  5916. ESOTERICA : Life is good. Focal aware seizures just make me see scatomas, have Déjà Rêvé (common with TLE), synesthesia/ideathesia and such. This stuff sort of feels like a super power. The focal aware can make my personality change a bit at the drop of a hat. They are mainly just exhausting, due to the muscle spasms and severe anxiety to panic attacks because I am scared of how I will act and if it will lead to Tonic-clonic/Myoclonic/Atonic seizures that are the ones that really suck. I got slotted by fate to share an ailment that many famous occultist and philosophers, and even artist like Di Vinci had. Called ‘epileptic personality disorder’ also called (Gestaut)-Geschwind Syndrome is more common medical term however it not well liked. One of the symptoms is that I tend to be loquacious and extremely detailed. Thank you, especially if you have made it this far. However Geschwind Syndrome has so much to do with the subjects at hand if you are curious; it has its problems but I feel in love with my epilepsy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwind_syndrome Many benedictions.
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  5917.  @TheEsotericaChannel  That was fast, thank you
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  5918. Thank you for the fascinating content (and soothing narration I can play in the background while up with a newborn at all hours).
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  5919. Thanks!
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  5920. Hey Friend, Thank you for this video... Just discovering your Channel. Cordovero!!! Thanks for reminding me of his name and introducing me to some of his theories and work... It's interesting I always thought I was supposed to wait until I was 40, being raised as a Jew... At 33 I decided it was time even though I didn't have anything more than a bar mitzvah level education. Since then, the sephirot have been at the forefront of my mind and have taken me through several years of esoteric study and development. Thank you for the encouraging and interesting video! Mike, 38 years
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  5921. Life, Peace, and Health to you and yours as well, Dr Sledge :)
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  5922. Sadly the thing I get the most in this video is the joke about The Goonies. Damned iron age!
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  5923. First video I see of you, I just fell in love with your channel. Subscribed!
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  5924. Many thanks and happy holidays to you and yours! Jesse
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  5925. Thanks for what you do!
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  5926. First! :P
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  5927. Really enjoying the recent ontological turn around here.
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  5928. Thank you for mentioning the impact of the satanic panic on working women. There was already a distrust of middle and working class women putting their kids in daycare (despite generations of wealthy women hiring nannies), and I have to think that the satanic panic was in part to do with the social anxiety of more women working outside the home. As you explain, more women were working not just because they wanted to, but because the economy tanked in the 70s and again in the 80s. Thank you for this video.
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  5929. The grammar is evil. I will always remember this. 😂
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  5930. Thoth! 🎉🎉
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  5931. I just discovered your channel this week and have now watched more than a few videos on various subjects. I wholeheartedly want to say thank you for your content.
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  5932. I got into studying the occult as a rebellious youth in the late 80's and early 90's because of the Satanic Panic. I also discovered heavy metal and Dungeons and Dragons thanks to the Satanic panic. I was totally the school scapegoat as a result and found myself spending more time in the principals office and detention than in class. At 44 I'm still into heavy metal and the occult. The current resurgence of the Satanic Panic is a little scary but because of my experiences with it in my youth I now actively fight the bs narrative coming from Christian fundamentalists and Q anon wackos. For me a big part of it is living my life as an open Satanist and explaining to anyone who will listen what Satanism really is. Keep up the awesome videos!
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  5933. Thank you very much for the link! ❤️
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  5934. Intriguing, new subscriber.
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  5935. Thanks!
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  5936. scary stories you tell in the dark JUMPSCARE
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  5937. thank you mr. magic man, sling them spells like a Hebrew d&d man can.
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  5938. Always right on time when needed
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  5939. Thank you for great content!!
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  5940. Thanks
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  5941. I´m obsessed with your channel. Although, I was already interested in magic now I´m interested in religion and literature.
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  5942. I love this channel. Thanks for all your hard work
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  5943. Severus. Budding Ancient Rockstar perhaps?
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  5944. Gnosis is worth at least that.
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  5945. So absinthe in France was taken down by big wine to sell more chardonnay. That's gotta be the frenchest conspiracy ever concocted
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  5946. Excellent! Watched it on Patreon.
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  5947. Thank You 🙏
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  5948. Joeseph peterson just came out with a good copy of this work. You do a great job. Thank you
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  5949. I really enjoy your unbiased programs.thank you.
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  5950. esoterica days are the best days!!!!!
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  5951. Fantastic video. Definitely easier for a regular person to follow.
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  5952. Screenshot @29:18!!!! Love the Terminologies, 😎 Best Sniglets of the Day! And I’m squarely in the Middle of the 2.. poor beastie..🤷‍♀️
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  5953. Brilliant
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  5954. Wow!!! There is several lifetimes worth of study in your library Dr Sledge I Love this channel Shalom
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  5955. Thanks!
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  5956. Thanks!
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  5957. yay 10k
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  5958. Thanks
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  5959. Wowee with an intro like that how could I not be interested! Look forward to exploring your content 😊
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  5960. This video is such powerful ray of light! Thank you, Dr. Sledge. And thank you, Justin.
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  5961. I listen to this to fall asleep to seed epic historical dreams. Obsessed with the bronze & iron ages rn. This is not boring stuff, but it's good to fall asleep to.
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  5962.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I am a new subscriber I love your humor
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  5963. Exactly the episode I was looking for :)
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  5964. I enjoy your videos. You have so much knowledge. 💪🏼💜🦁✡️♾️
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  5965. Thank you 👍🌟
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  5966. Hahahahah Love the note about Brill. At an SBL conference years ago, I asked the guy behind the Brill desk about their pricing. Acid-free paper is not necessarily worth an additional 70 dollars. He acknowledged the issue, with a mutual understanding... They're gorgeous books, and God knows they've got the authors; they've got the books, no doubt about it.
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  5967. I watch your channel specifically for the Linux terminal on reality's master node vibes.
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  5968. 😂 devil poop 💩
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  5969. \m/ Yeah! thanks so much for this one - very excited for more as well
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  5970. Love the collection (books and other). I too have a Mosin Nagant rifle and bayonet.
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  5971. Yes the headache thing happens to me too!
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  5972. Thanks
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  5973. waited so long for someone to break this down with your cleanliness, objectivity, respectful & sacred precision. 🙏
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  5974. Ser you discuss deeply interesting subjects
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  5975. Thanks!
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  5976. Thanks!
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  5977. Definitely a crazy video with topics I would not have seen otherwise
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  5978. ⭐️Outstanding Work❤️thank you
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  5979. Thanks!
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  5980. 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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  5981. Awesome 😎 Thanks brother!!🙏 Blessed be in 23!!
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  5982. Thanks!
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  5983. How did my man miss “oldie but goldie”???
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  5984. :face-blue-smiling::face-blue-smiling::face-blue-smiling:
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  5985. Thoroughly enlightening and entertaining episode - thank you immeasurably.
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  5986. I would like to watch a conversation between you and the host of the Religion for Breakfast utube channel.
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  5987. I told you allot of personal information about myself. I so your popularity. Yes it really good your here you are so balanced view are very accurate I think you wonderful. You polite your smart. Your knowledge. Nice one. I really glad for you. I love listening because to your voice. It a shameful. Wow. You are a great teacher. I will you say my life is hard because then I get an experience in my life. Thank for that. Oo research. Then I have a funny day. I got to hold a conversation in me head then I get turned upside down.
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  5988. Thanks!
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  5989. Well, here’s hoping you find the time. I really enjoy your channel, your work and your contributions. Thank you!
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  5990. Thanks
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  5991. Commenting for the algorithm gods. As a adjunct faculty who hasn't had her contract renewed since I began my environmental activism against green energy in my hometown, I appreciate the solidarity and support for free speech here. If we all had colleagues and students like Justin here, it would be a more just world.
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  5992.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh my mistake I thought you said something about a sore throat. Take care of yourself and have fun with leg day. Just finished the video! Love all your insights. Parts of this video really gave goosebumps
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  5993. This channel is real treasure
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  5994. What is your own favourite topic within everything you've covered in all your excellent vids?
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  5995. I knew nothing about absinthe. Now I feel like I should find some and try it, and learn some more.
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  5996. Thanks!
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  5997. Thanks!
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  5998. I’m really liking your channel. Keep it up
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  5999. i hope im not just coming across as random but what is that opening piano chord you use? it sounds just like chords from the song "then we are decided?" from jesus christ superstar to me, and it bugs me not to know if its a reference or if the superstar song is referencing some earlier work that you also are using. thanks and love your content!
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  6000. Thank you so much for including this amazing woman. The field of medieval mysticism and magic can be pretty male dominated given that women were mostly illiterate (as were most men, of course). That added to their inferior status has meant that we have very little of the practices and thoughts of ordinary women, mystical or otherwise. Hildegarde is our bright light in all that obscurity. Maybe sometime you could do something on the Beguines. They're later, but still interesting from a mystical point of view.
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  6001. Great video ! I have always videos on the 3 books.
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  6002. First off thank you for such refreshing and interesting as well as intelligent and very humorous tales lore and knowledge in the area of esoterism and to be honest I had to drop out of college to get the education I was seeking lol Thank you again Dr sledge you rock!!!
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  6003. Amassing people in history
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  6004. Great video!!
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  6005. My sister got into Blake HEAVY...never saw the draw but I will definitely be sending this to her. To me it just seemed he was just reacting to mental illness.
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  6006. At appx 32:45 I found myself robotically clicking over to Patreon. Weird. I was an early D&D player in 1979 - 80 and front and center in the Panic taking off at our Catholic High School. Great episode. Well done!
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  6007. D&D 0.5e lol😂
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  6008. Thanks!
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  6009. Thanks!
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  6010. I'm sorry you had to go through this.
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  6011. thanks so much for your videos!
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  6012. Thanks!
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  6013. Another excellent and fascinating video. I like to think that your pause after saying “all religious myths…” was an exercise of materialist restraint. 😂
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  6014. Thanks
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  6015. Wait until you hear about the 'Moralized' Ovids of the Middle Ages.
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  6016.  @TheEsotericaChannel  T'was roughly 2000 likes contrasted by about 3500 dislikes. Must've been a bot attack or something among the likes of such an event but, for what reason, still remains fogged in my mind. Now it seems to have gone back to normal doe!
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  6017.  @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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  6018. Have you done part 2
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  6019. Great video Justin! Thanks so much for sharing!
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  6020. I would like to submit why i would like to win. Im happy to provide proof, but last year, my neighbor burned down my house. There were 3 of us, and all of us made it out, but then my esa died a month later from cancer. I had collections of various things, but my favorite were old books. I even had some i had bound myself in the style of ancient texts. Only a handful of anything survived. I think the worst part was honestly that most of my books didn't fully burn. A few were just completely waterlogged and it felt like their bloated moldy corpses mocked me. I don't normally try to use my life story to get things, everyone has hardships, but we are rebuilding a small library in a new home and honestly, having a book like i always dreamed of owning (in a protective case of course) would genuinely just bring me so much joy. If you read this, thank you for reading regardless.
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  6021. Thanks!
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  6022. Have you touched on how Lucifer became synonymous with Satan when the name/word Lucifer is only used once in reference to a fall of a king?
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  6023. A new subscriber . Awesome review and very informative. Thumbs 👍
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  6024. Most excellent upload!
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  6025. THIS CHANNEL IS AWESOME
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  6026. This was really great!! Thank you.🍻
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  6027. Thanks!
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  6028. You're so good at explaining this. Thank you!
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  6029. This is the most expensive free channel on YouTube. Every video I watch, I end up buying at least one book, sometimes two. I haven’t stretched to three yet, but it’s coming…
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  6030. sounds like nice light reading
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  6031. Wow,. I’m glad you said it! I agree! Have you read The Law of One by Ra
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  6032. Thanks!
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  6033. Love this!
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  6034. I love your talks so much!
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  6035. Thanks!
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  6036. I'm so glad I found this channel. My family is Ashkenazim from Germany and I've been looking for more Jewish educational content.
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  6037. This is great. I’m inspired. Thank for a great and informative interview.
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  6038. I just love your channel
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  6039. Thank you!
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  6040. Love your videos, keep up the good work.
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  6041. The description of the interrelationships between sulfur and mercury made me think about the duality between magnetism and electricity. I think that, a scientific study on the photosynthesis phenomena will bring a deeper understanding on Newton alchemy. I believe that, in the Folding the sunlight into a structure of metal and salt molecules to build the bio vassal of life is found the secret key of all creation… the transmutation (the coagulation) of light into meter, is the secret teaching of the “green man”. Thank you for all your efforts🙏 This Channel has become a reference for me.
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  6042. Thanks!
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  6043. Get your Baa out...
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  6044. Thanks
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  6045. Just let it be know that you are awesome and have a dope metal name. Thank you for your work and service, God please bless you.
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  6046. YioulTubAIoth
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  6047. Thanks!
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  6048. 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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  6049. Thanks!
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  6050. Greetings from Filip
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  6051. Wonderful video. I always wanted to know more about Agrippa when I was a student. I love the way you reference semantic theory as well as phenomenology and the Kabbalah - I did all of this but not Agrippa. Thankyou Dr Sedge!
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  6052. I had to pause to laugh on the auction off your children! brill is impossible! For me in Brazil the price goes to triple!
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  6053. I knew you were from either Mississippi or West Alabama the first time I heard you speak! It's not your accent--you mostly don't have one--it's your cadence. (I'm from Selma, Alabama.) My S.O. and I love your channel. Thank you for taking the time to break it down for us.
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  6054. had to double check when I saw it was 3 hours long, thank you for this gift!
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  6055. Thanks!
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  6056. I retired in 2020 and have been delving into the very subjects covered by your channel. I really appreciate how much knowledge you possess and share. I'm happy to hear that your channel is improving your life as it has improved mine! I too seem to possess a "strange brain" so I'm a literal sponge for information. It amazes me how the many things I find interesting all tie into each other. So many thanks for everything you do! Debi Potts
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  6057.  @TheEsotericaChannel  😂 love the channel btw
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  6058. Best channel on youtube
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  6059. Thanks for everything you do
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  6060. Thank You 🙏🏼
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  6061. Thanks!
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  6062. Thank you. As always very informative.
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  6063. 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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  6064. That was fantastic, thank you Dr Sledge
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  6065. Thank You
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  6066. I recently discovered your channel and I love it. You have my respect, sir. Thank you xx
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  6067. excellent questions and powerful answers. what a great talk. thank you both!!
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  6068. Thanks!
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  6069. What is the title of the third video in this series? I just discovered this channel and love the content
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  6070. Aw hell yeah, eating good tonight.
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  6071. Excellent episode!
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  6072. Thanks!
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  6073. Thanks!
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  6074. As a messianic I just subscribe to your channel because I been getting into the Kabbalah and druid wisdom and Wicca and the occult because of lost books im reading from and I have to say the library u have anyone who says have truth it seem like these camps Christian chruchs are in the conspiracy of not allowing people to read all these records shalom yah be with you
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  6075. When are women not depicted as evil in sacred texts? Ask that the answer will be shorter 😂😂 were always the bad guy!
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  6076. Thanks
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  6077. מזל טוב וכל הכבוד!
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  6078. Thank you🎉 peace and love from Ethiopia
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  6079. ❤
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  6080. Thanks
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  6081. Thanks!
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  6082. I'm waiting for something to finish your piece. A final element. It's still happening.
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  6083. Thanks!
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  6084. Thanks!
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  6085. You have taught and expounded upon EXACTLY what I have been studying with divine synchronicity. May your blessings be supplanted by exponentially more. May your happiness and contentment increase by orders of magnitude only imaginable by Yahweh Himself. Happy New Year!
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  6086. Lol…! 17th Century Pokémon! Bravo, Dr. Bravo.
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  6087. I LOVECTHIS CHANNEL AND JUST RECENTLY SUBSCRIBED!
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  6088. Great episode!
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  6089. Thanks!
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  6090. Plato!
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  6091. As a newcomer, and a philosophy student, I'm really grateful for you and your channel in general Keep the good work going, bless you!
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  6092. It is a good thing to see the joy and excitement you bring to the study of history. Thanks again - and BTW my life loves my Esoterica shirt!
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  6093. Do you mind if I ask what you believe it,?iv watch your videos an see you have knowledge. I just want to know if you believe in what you’ve learned.
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  6094. Ok, so I normally just listen to your lectures, but the on screen commentary is very silly, the Natural Light bit got me.
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  6095. 🖤🖤🖤
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  6096. The Pokémon joke had me laughing pretty hard. Nice work.
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  6097. Thanks!
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  6098. Thanks!
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  6099. if I'd thought it would work I would've summoned demons to help me pass my friggin physics final.
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  6100.  @TheEsotericaChannel  As someone who's been through very bad stuff, and almost lost faith in everything good, I thank you a lot for this 💗🥹
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  6101. Justinnnnn 🔥 🤘 ⚡
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  6102. Thanks!
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  6103. i love you, glad your condemed to read books for my benefit.
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  6104. Merci !
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  6105. I love your channel! I have no use for religion, but I find its history fascinating. I especially enjoy your sense of humor. Metal as fuck.
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  6106. well, Newton and Einstein had an imagination that more scientists need in the modern world and it is one of the major factors in alchemy and or science. you cultivate the imagination that's what the pictures accomplish and you use rationalism to refine
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  6107. I suspected you were taking a break to weep over the cost of Brill volumes.
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  6108. It’s hard to hear those Brill jokes. Too Damn Real
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  6109. Really sweet ep
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  6110. Thanks!
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  6111.  @TheEsotericaChannel  until finding your authoritative video, I had begun to think it was one of those old phoney texts that new agers just hang onto. Thanks for the great rundown 🙂
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  6112. Thanks
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  6113. :face-red-heart-shape:
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  6114. Thanks!
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  6115.  @TheEsotericaChannel  hey I'm an (agnostic) christian anarchist communist who thinks Christians should have never split with jews! Love the content and ur life story brother! Stay up
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  6116. When a faction in power relies on fear and insecurity, whether from within or without, to maintain power, expect massacre and cruelty beyond belief.
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  6117. Brilliant as always
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  6118. Thanks!
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  6119. Thanks!
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  6120. Thanks!
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  6121. You have the most idiosyncratic witticisms- it’s quite soulful and like a balm for this miserable era.
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  6122. Interesting video and channel, you gained a new subscriber
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  6123.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I was simply joking with you. I think you produce an excellent channel and I admire and enjoy your scholarship and rigorous presentation of the subject.
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  6124. When I found this channel last year, this is the video series I was looking for. 😊
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  6125. really enjoy your videos. always interesting, always engaging ...
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  6126. I did not skip the baptisms 😅
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  6127. What would you recommend for a good, affordable, starter absinthe (not for cocktails)
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  6128. Thanks!
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  6129. Thanks!
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  6130. Stick it to the Man
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  6131. one day im getting one of ypur shirts
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  6132. Thanks!
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  6133. I love your humor!!!
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  6134. Nice new intro😎😎😎
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  6135. Thank you. Impossible to get bored.
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  6136. Always a delight 🖤 thank you!
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  6137. Your videos are TOP TIER!
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  6138. It's never too early for whisky... but sometimes it's too late. Cheers, Doctor.
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  6139. "Put up or shut up." - Transitional Alchemists.
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  6140. Lmao that's exactly what I was going for in the lighting.
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  6141. Got some Brutal book-envy right now.😂 (I'd like to think I've got a decent collection too!😮) oh, and Dr.Skinner did a translation of "Archidoxies of Magic " I understand is pretty good.(I'm sadly only able to read the English)
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  6142. 12:25 lol
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  6143. Thanks!
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  6144. I love learning your channel please never stop teaching us
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  6145.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you
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  6146. Thank you, Dr Sledge!
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  6147. What in the HP Lovecraft?
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  6148. Ευχαριστούμε!
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  6149. Thanks! I don't have much money I'm basically destitute but I always want to let you know how much I appreciate you
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  6150. thank you for this episode i was always interested in the library of alexandria
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  6151. Once again Brilliant! So informative and humorous Enjoyed this immensely! Thank You
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  6152. Thanks for that warning yesterday haha. I'll tune in for the next one 🍻
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  6153. Thanks!
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  6154. I am fascinated by your content and I very much appreciate the academic rigour with which you approach your topics. I like that I can be confident that you're not making stuff up. I usually have plenty to look up afterwards, especially when something has gone over my head due to my lack of prior knowledge. All the best for the New Year, health and happiness to you and yours.
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  6155. Pokémon style 😅
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  6156. Banger
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  6157. Can't stand the unreasonable hatred for Christianity. As a survivor of Jehovah's witnesses people would say "ugh I hate Christianity" And I have to ask "which one?" And they just say all of it like what
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  6158. Thanks!
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  6159. Спасибо!
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  6160. My god, this is scholarly. "Get thee to some college"
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  6161. thanks you! :yougotthis:
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  6162. I'm here because I saw your post about getting suspended on Patreon. I don't use it but I've just chipped you a fiver ( that's an English phrase) to help out. Obviously that's not going to feed your family but hopefully a few other people will do the same. Thanks for the really interesting content.
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  6163. This video is incredible. It's a great account of history, a person story and touches on so many important values that we need to avoid misinformation, conspiracy and backstepping from progress. I appreciate everything you post but this video in particular I wish everyone could watch.
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  6164. This guy fuckin rules.🤘
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  6165. Thanks!
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  6166. love this sm thank you sm
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  6167.  @TheEsotericaChannel  BTW you are adorable and l ❤️ your mind 😊
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  6168. Thanks!
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  6169. 🤙 Aloha Dr Sledge Mahalo !!! Thank You to ya'all who've shared this channel ( I even wrote it on a slip of paper - gave it to a "handsome stranger" ! ), to those who can afford to donate ( I'm sooooo jealous ), and also, do comment & 👍's on each upload you wish to because those YouTube gods DO notice
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  6170. Always been interested in the subject matter but its so dense, and overwhelming to get into. Since i've stumbled upon this channel i've learned alot and am eager to know more! Theres a lodge close to me, 🤔
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  6171. My phone...crystals holding demons captive. I can see that!
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  6172. Thanks!
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  6173. I really wish I could say I come for the information but I must admit it's just the quips I mean I learn stuff too but it's basically just quips and I'm sure I'm only getting a quarter of them thanks so much
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  6174. Thank you so much Dr. Sledge for everything you’ve done both this series and all of your work. Your commitment to academic level education made accessible to all. Your endearing excitement and humor. Sharing your passion and joy for these subjects and beyond. All of it is cherished and appreciated by so many, and it truly adds to noble effort of elevating human consciousness and understanding. I’m glad I have the ability to a lower level patron and support the channel and overall project. Thank you so much again and may all that is good work its way in helping you go ever forward with your work.
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  6175. Ahh been waiting for more on Hadewich! Thank you Dr. Sledge as always for your work!
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  6176. Thanks!
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  6177. Do an episode on Golgothan!
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  6178. Black metal!
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  6179. You're a boss, well done!
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  6180. Thanks!
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  6181. ... your sense of humour 👌 I don't know what kind of spell you have going on there Professor but I am Adicted to this channel! Cheers, saúde xxo
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  6182. Do you consciously write goonies references into these videos ? Or does it just happen ?.
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  6183. Very Helpful information explained with precision and clarity!
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  6184. How much do I have to pay on Patreon to get Andy Rakich to dress up in medieval garb and read this in a thick German accent?
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  6185. Thanks!
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  6186. Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge
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  6187. Interesting note: historians Emerson "Tad" Baker and Marilyn Roche were the ones who discovered the execution site where the 19 suspected witches were hanged. There's a really good episode of America Unearthed on the Smithsonian Channel that talks about it. It's titled "Salem's Secrets". I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the Salem Witch Trials.
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  6188. TREMENDOUS
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  6189. Thanks!
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  6190. Thanks!
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  6191. Dr. Sledge, you are awesome!
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  6192. Respect, Dr. Sledge. Shalom.
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  6193. Thanks!
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  6194. of course dr. sledge goes to post-punk shoegaze shows & talks to someone about their erectile dysfunction sigil. very on brand 😂
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  6195. Happy Samhain!!!!!!
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  6196. I haven't been getting notifications, so this comment is serving as interaction to get those notifications back going. Other than that, you're the best; keep up the amazing work.
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  6197. Thank you Justin.
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  6198. Thanks!
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  6199. Awesome series..
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  6200. Thanks!
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  6201. Viewers may be interested also in Cotton Mather's first foray into a face-to-face battle with the Devil. The case is of the Goodwin Children. The Goodwin case resulted in the execution of a woman named Glover and pushed Mather from fighting witchcraft with prayer to using the courts.
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  6202. Thanks!
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  6203. Thanks!
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  6204. I'm not sure how you manage to knock it out of the park with every video. I suspect sorcery. ;-) I've been wondering--have you ever considered designing a magic system for TTRPGs? I play a game called Ars Magica, which leans into a medieval worldview though its origins were much more about designing a good magic system for fantasy and it started striving to incorporate historical elements later.
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  6205. Thank you!
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  6206. Thank you for this. It's excellent. Rigorously clear.
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  6207. Congratulations on 700!
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  6208. I just used "heretification" in my research assignment proposal. Thank you for the $5 word.
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  6209. Very good. Informative and entertaining.
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  6210. i love these lectures so much thank you thank you
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  6211. This is fantastic. Thank you!
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  6212. Just found this channel. I love your choice of words.
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  6213. Thanks!
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  6214. Thank you Dr. Sledge! This seminar was powerful and so engaging. Your translations have influenced me to begin latin classes so I can break away from relying on commentaries of other’s translations and to begin my own personal research in philosophical and theological matters. Really, truly, thank you, sir.
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  6215. Thanks!
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  6216.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thanks so much for replying! I'll give it a shot, though my local library is generally hot garbage 😆 Anyway, I love love love your channel, and I'm on my way to your Patreon now!
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  6217. Cheers Doc, buy yourself a libation...
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  6218. Thank you
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  6219. This was a great overview. Thank you.
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  6220. Golem vs. Gollum, hmmmm. Golem was clay made into a rough approximation of a human. Gollum was a human who buried himself alive and became like clay, grey cold and slimy.
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  6221. I’ve been watching your videos ‘religiously’ for like a year. Incredible stuff. My world view has been widened significantly. I also forgot to subscribe all that time and just did it now.
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  6222. Wow, would it be a problem for You if I used Your videos as sources for my academic work in the future? I am planning to write a comparistic work on the japanese buddhist and gnostic worldview. I love the topic of gnosticism and western mistical practices! Please keep doing films on those topics
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  6223. The topics this channel handles and the way it does it ,cannot be found on my native tongue , so thank you!
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  6224. Thanks
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  6225. Thanks!
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  6226. Thanks!
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  6227. Thanks Dr Sledge, your a wealth of knowledge.
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  6228. Thanks
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  6229. The Book of Urizen was always my favorite Blake work!
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  6230. Very interesting, thank you
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  6231. Love the information you share just came across your site today thank you for your hard work and studies
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  6232. Question, does anyone know if there are any scholarly books about Abramelin? Maybe I'm missing something but there really doesn't seem to be much outside of weirdos like me talking about it, okay I have a bachelor's degree in religious studies but why hasn't anyone gotten a phd looking into stuff like this? I don't necessarily mean this part of the issue, but is there anything really written about it by scholars that is substantial?
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  6233. 🤙Aloha Nice but let us yet again return to yester-year's knowledge treasure seeking adventures of the pre-1800's (& Brill be cursed for greed)
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  6234. Yo brother. I have been watching for a while now but only just subscribed. Thank you for putting out all this stuff. I love it.
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  6235. I haven't commented even tho I saw this on Patreon just because it infuriates me so much that YT does this BS... Can't say more tbh without still getting angry. AWe love your content, we love you
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  6236. Thanks!
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  6237. Thank🌹you
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  6238. Is like Wikipedia, but... better. . Or Perhaps they are daemons. If that are on my hands that of course, is broke and puf , apocalipsis.
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  6239. Wow! I cant understand how you could create video and tell amount of information without stopping stumbling or... running out of things to say! I cant overstate how incredible your delivery and storytelling in this video is seamless and How incredibly deep and multi faceted you present this information and thoughts! Also, you are curios, very very curios, and I speak from the prospective of someone who is usually deemed to be the annoying guy who ask questions but you are way more than me, like when you told about the fact that this single conflicting and complex element was worth is own video I was just like "ah really? This is such a trivial part of the picture why would you want to explore that?" and then I realized that this meant simply you were more curios than me :D also I cant thank you enough for making this video accessible and free and putting this incredible quality in you work! I'll become a 5 dollar patreon and I hope to be for some month a 45 euros' one to have a little tutoring about what I get most out your videos! Thank you very much and sorry for the (corny?) and long comment but I felt so grateful I couldn't restrain myself :DDD
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  6240. Hah the Thoth OwO meme is real
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  6241. Actually sent over from Atun Shei though longtime viewer of Andrew as well!! Your content is very engaging and I enjoyed it thoroughly!!!
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  6242. The enigmatic Solomonic Magic
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  6243. The pic of the first hipster to run out of pbr is dead accurate.
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  6244. thank youu <3
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  6245. Nerdy! Good episode!
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  6246. Thanks!
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  6247. Thanks
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  6248. Thanks
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  6249. impressive.
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  6250. Thanks!
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  6251. Thanks!
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  6252. We're adding "lifting bro" to the Esoterica lore?? 🥵 I can't wait to see Dr. Sledge absolutely swole and teaching us about apocalyptic scriptures
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  6253. Bedankt
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  6254. You got Ted too. You are the man.
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  6255. Thank you so much for your videos, I'm really enjoying them and learning so much. Peace to you.
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  6256. Metatron is my dawg 🙌
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  6257. Thanks
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  6258. thank you so much for this video. as someone into high strangeness and creepy stuff in general, I was aware of this movement but really didn't know any of this sociological bend to it. really appreciated it and shared with my husband and sister-in-law! love your content, love your mission!
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  6259. Yep! Wholeheartedly agree..shame there is (understandable) alienation from this truth, beauty, purpose, soul-salve.
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  6260. Thanks!
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  6261. Dam this dude puts it down
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  6262. Love watchin your stuff while the storm and lightning passes by here in South Carolina. So fitting! Thanks Doc.
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  6263. 3 years late but still congrats on the birth of your kiddo wishing that all the best and great things may come upon your kids life path
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  6264. Great vid
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  6265. Really enjoying the series so far, but did the Stoics believe they could escape fate? I was under the impression they believed that even a Sage was subject to fate, but just didn't suffer as a result.
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  6266. Thanks
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  6267.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you for your time. Most appreciated.
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  6268. Cry laughing by the end. Learned a lot too!
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  6269.  @TheEsotericaChannel  i see, will have a major search through that. EDIT: Found it!! you have to sign up to access it in full but it is there
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  6270. Your channel has helped me learn significantly this year of 2021
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  6271. This is such an amazing channel! Ty Dr. Sledge, for all the content, such a professional job. I am hooked.
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  6272. Bravo Dr. Justin. Another masterpiece. I hope Alaina is now home safe and sound.
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  6273. Thanks!
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  6274. Thanks!
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  6275. AAA🎉
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  6276. Thank you!
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  6277. Brill needs to be brought down a notch.
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  6278. Your work is immensely appreciated sir! Thank you.
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  6279. Thanks!
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  6280. Love this channel.
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  6281. 🙂 ive apparently left too many upside down faces, so its rightsideup faces now
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  6282. I am loving your new introduction.
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  6283. I support you on Patreon.
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  6284. 💛 25:32
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  6285. Go raibh maith agat as do dhea obair agus oíche Shamhna shona duit agus do clann. Thank you for your good work and happy Samhain night to you and your family.
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  6286. So yesterday I watched a good video about Boleskine House and now all at once here we are with the ritual. Perfect.
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  6287. I applaud you sir I joined last December 2020 and I have got to say . I look forward to learning more this year and as soon as possible investing in you and yours Bravo
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  6288. This is so interesting, because to me, gnosticism has always been appealing on moral grounds because, compared to the beliefs I was raised with, it is more accepting of the values of the material world and much, muuuuch more egalitarian in terms of who is capable of salvation. It's so funny how a different frame of reference changes things.
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  6289. Thanks!
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  6290. Thanks!
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  6291. The 17th century pokemon activate my autism brain
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  6292. Aurelius looks like the party remix of Dr. Sledge in that thumbnail.
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  6293. Love your academic approach to these topics. Your videos often send me down a rabbit hole reading history and whatnot, sometimes even just tangentially related to the original video.
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  6294. shoutout to all the ObeyMe! fans who stumbled upon this channel.
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  6295. My new fav channel. Especially how after 6 minutes in there's been a reference to both HOPWAG and Juggalos. I came here for the quality but got much more. I'm heading over to patreon RN.😀
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  6296. I wish to thank you for all the work you have put into this channel and the topics plus the historical information you have shared to teach us in your own unique and quality way. So here's wishing you a happy new year and a fantastic 2022 of more quality teaching on the channel 🙏
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  6297. ÞiCC
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  6298. 20:31 Trapping what in what now???
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  6299. my very bearded dude, i watched a couple of your videos by now just randomly gonna comment on the one the algorithm fed me now i love your content and i'm really looking forward to watching everything i haven't seen yet, amazing stuff
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  6300. Hey Eid is coming up. I might be able to get some goat bile for science.
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  6301. So happy you reached 100k!
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  6302. AOS ..made his own system,which is advisable as that is,in fact all there really is
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  6303. Thanks
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  6304. Serious question: Did you say Kimmy Gibbler, as in the character from Fuller House?
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  6305. Thanks!
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  6306. I've been looking forward to this, I actually ordered a translation of this edited by Dr. Steven Skinner so I'll be able to follow up! This was fantastic, I can't wait to read it, even without the demon semen I suppose. Can't win em all...
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  6307. I was just watching a prospector qu-pel(not sure of the spelling) his concentrates into a gold button. The few tablespoons of lead disappear at 1700⁰f and a tiny bit of precious metal is "magically" left in the vessel. He added lead if there wasn't enough natural galina(sp?) present. I can see how the process would seem magical without understanding of the science behind it, I can also see how a charlatan could fool someone by taking lead with gold melted in it secretly and reduce it revealing just the gold while the lead mysteriously vanished.
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  6308. After you mentioned in the beginning how you sit down and write 4000 words for your script. I went to your Patreon and became a supporter. I'm now giving you $5 a month. Thank you for what you do.
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  6309. Thanks!
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  6310. I burn, I pine, I perish when you touch on Goetia.
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  6311. I'm freaking out I may have to come
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  6312. "Ontological Conflagration" #Bars
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  6313. Thanks
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  6314. Thanks!
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  6315. Thanks!
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  6316. Thanks for another great video!
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  6317. But honestly as an avid pursuer of these topics your channel has genuinely been an amazing resource for learning! Not only as a foundation of where to begin, but also by providing reliable references and links to other sources. So thanks smart internet man 😀👍
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  6318. It still amazes me how much knowledge we still don’t have access to simply from the lack of study and translation. As much as modern endeavors are heroic and important, our past is completely lost in time and efforts like translating important primary sources like this could help us go into even modern day concepts with a little more context, or at least, unique perspective.
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  6319. 👍😎👍
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  6320. Thanks!
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  6321. ***
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  6322. Thanks!
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  6323. As a D&D nerd growing up in the 80s, I remember this clearly. It was certainly a pervasive concern, Satan and his worship. We always have our societal boogeymen, often to the great detriment of some part of the population. After the fall of the ussr we quickly found Terrorism, and recently new (but old) shadowy cabals harvesting the blood of children. Jung would have written a book or or 2 on the subject of these recurring fears at the social level. If there is a Devil he’s usually in the camp of the accusers
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  6324. Thank you for all your content, Dr. Sledge! I discovered your channel last October, as I was in bed for 2 weeks recovering from COVID. At the same time, I had just joined the Thelemic Temple of the Silver Star. I find it to be no coincidence. You’ve been with me throughout this entire year, helping me have a deeper understanding of my magical practice you’ve truly inspired me to pursue the truth and to gain a deeper understanding of my True Will. Lots of love - Alonso Rodriguez PS, I’m still waiting on a video about the transition from Semitic Paganism, to Jewish Monolatry, and to Monotheism. 😉
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  6325. Is this text online anywhere? And thank you for all your work and wisdom. All these videos are incredibly well done. Appreciate you.🙏
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  6326. Comment because awesome
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  6327. I sympathize heavily... I subscribe to your channel on patreon but I really hope you can preserve the channel here. You deserve some justice and peace. Im going to look up how to write YouTube, idk if it matters but I could try.
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  6328. Sounds Greek to me
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  6329. Yikes. Very on the nose.
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  6330. Thanks!
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  6331. Thank you so much for the shoutout, I'm glad you liked my videos. I absolutely loved this video and your channel in general!
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  6332. Not to nitpick, but Paul most likely didn’t write Timothy 1 and 2, and the coat business is clearly to add some verisimilitude…
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  6333. Excellent video!!
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  6334. This is the way.
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  6335. Another great Episode!! *Do you have any vids on the esoteric or symbolic meaning of satan/lucifer?
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  6336. Thanks!
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  6337. Thanks!
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  6338. Dr Sledge, what is the piece of music at the start of your episodes? It's lovely!
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  6339. Thanks!
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  6340. this channel is a treasure
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  6341. Thank you doctor , well done.
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  6342. 🎉 woohoo I am a member
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  6343. Dr. Sledge - I very much hope you reply: to what extent is Hermes Trismegistus exaggerated by Greek philosophers if he is the personification of Thoth? Are works like Divine Pymander by Hermes more so interpretations of a Thoth school of thought, or can be more directly correlated to text affiliated to Thoth?
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  6344. Man, this intro. Every time...
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  6345.  @TheEsotericaChannel  you should.... Double down on Abulafia. I will be happy to teach you what I know. I'm playing with the idea of computational kabbalah, I think you have a lot of progress already. You're amazing. I just want to help you stay protected. Humility. Tmimut. That's the key. Did I already say you're amazing?
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  6346. Congratulations Dr Sledge on the success of the channel this year. I have always felt like a fish out of water as my interests are so out of kilter with those around me but with ESOTERICA I have found my tribe and I suppose that makes you the Chieftain ..Ha Ha! Thank you so much , your content is great, presentation pleasantly quirky and I am frequently motivated to do further research on my own. May you live to One Hundred and Twenty and flourish like the Palm Trees of En-Gedi.
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  6347. Sounds like Enoch turned Super Sayain to me?
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  6348. Commmmmment
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  6349. Thanks so much for this channel! It's wonderful to get scholarly information on subjects that are ignored elsewhere.
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  6350. Thanks!
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  6351. Always like your way if teaching.
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  6352. Ah, you are on it! Thanks again, still catching up! 💖🧠🙏
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  6353. Thank you for making this channel. It means so much to me. Honestly I probably would have had more impetus to finish an advanced academic degree if I could have studied art, history, and religion from an esoteric lens. I hope this platform allows academics such as yourself to change the future of learning. Happy New Year to you and your family Dr. Sledge!
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  6354. Thank you immensely for this work. I was just talking last week about how difficult it is to get into this topic as a self-learner because of how just how much stuff is out there. The affiliate links open in the US store only(OneLink might help with that) so hope this helps offset me using the German store directly.
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  6355. Your channel has been a driving force in my budding interest of the religion and the occult, and honestly been pushing me to study some of the ancient languages you have mentioned in the past, though do not give me too much credit, I am no genuis and that progress is glacial at best. I hope whoever becomes the new owner of this ancient book truly treasures it. As much as I would love it myself, I worry I would not have the resources to adequately preserve it. Please keep up the amazing work, your videos are my primary resource for occult studies, and honestly just plain relaxing to have replaying in the background.
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  6356.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Take it as a compliment. My heart soars like a hawk!
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  6357. The channel started in March? I could have sworn that it's been several years. But actually, though. Congratulations on reaching this big milestone! I'm greatly looking forward to the seminar!
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  6358. Here we are. Thank you!
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  6359. Fascinating video Dr Sledge. Thank you for the herculean effort it must have taken you. And thank you for sharing your story. It warms my heart to see you are doing well after all that.
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  6360. I'm a big fan of Black Metal & DSBM so I love your merch. Absolutely interesting video as always!
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  6361. Goddamn what a ride. I always wondered what, if any response would've been to the slander that is Exodus and here I'm finding out they were doing whole plays about it with the Egyptians seething as they're being lorded over by Greeks in these final days of their world. Do we have a full or partial copy of the play or is it just known from a contemporary account? All these accounts of Yahweh's donkey head make me wonder also whether Gentile Romans were worshipping what they perceived as a properly modeled form of Yahweh; clearly there was some consensus on the idea, tongue-in-cheek or misunderstanding or both, so I wonder if there was that one guy who set up a shrine to Donkey-Yahweh so he could be properly worshipped, since those dastardly Judeans won't build idols. Great video as always, can't wait to dive into the next one. Litwa's book was already on my radar but it's definitely on the reading list now for sure
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  6362. Thanks!
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  6363. Nice to see two of my favorite You Tubers together. A1 and A+.
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  6364. Thanks!
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  6365. Hahaha great video, great humor!
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  6366. Wow. Thank you so much for this
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  6367. XOXOXOXXOXOXO
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  6368. Thanks!
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  6369. Let’s goooooo ✊🏼
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  6370. A superb lecture series, presented well and fascinating in substance. Thank you Dr Sledge!
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  6371. That wonder weird feeling that we are all connected somehow ... u just, I mean, kkkkk we are talking bro 😅
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  6372. ¡Gracias!
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  6373. @esoterica Did you watch the Netflix adaptation of Sandman? In particular, the episode "The Sound of Her Wings"? In this one, the protagonist, Sandman, is spending a day with his sister, Death, as she sees people into and out of this mortal world.
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  6374. Thanks
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  6375. Fantastic work Sir!
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  6376. this is my first comment in a while. Love you man, hope good things are coming your way. Excited for this series.
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  6377. OMG! Ur at 308k! Whoa 🤓🌈 u go Dr.Sledge👊😎
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  6378. Wow, thank you for going there! One of your best episodes hands down! I wonder myself whether today's mathematical description of reality is simply a continuation of the Pythagorean notion that numbers are the language of God. Is contemporary obsession with scientific materialism and the mathematical abstraction of the observable world just riding the intellectual wave set in motion by Pythagoras? "A body (or an idea) set in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon" - as another gentleman from the same tradition put it very eloquently while looking to transcribe the hidden divine language that governs realty. I was waiting for an Elipheas Levi reference but I'm glad you linked the tradition to the Sefer Yetzira and Agrippa. Please keep making follow up investigations into Western esoteric numerology, there's very little else out there on the topic and it really gives Esoterica an edge.
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  6379. I love when he talks about "blowing on dice" he's talking about a D20 lol
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  6380. I think the real litmus test of youtube content is rewatching it. Fifth time.
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  6381. Loved this one so much!
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  6382. Excelsior!
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  6383. Neat video - here's hoping you had a wonderful Halloween!
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  6384. Dr. Sledge, your channel Esoterica is a real gift to all of us. If you'll allow me a little informality here, I would like to express my gratitude for the high level of your very scholarly work by saying "YOU ROCK, PAL!" Have a very Happy New Year: you certainly deserve it!
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  6385. Excellent content. A truly fascinating account.
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  6386. Well done
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  6387. 🙏 so happy to hear all of this. Bless you and happy new year. Thank you for everything!
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  6388. Great work and explanation.
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  6389. Copyright claims can be a pain to deal with. Have you considered using a service like Epidemic Sound?
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  6390. I have a lot of free time and a love of this topic. If I get to work on this spreadsheet you mentioned, how might I get it to you? I know you have your website, but you must get flooded with so many messages Ill get drowned out
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  6391. Thanks!
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  6392. Whoopee, pancakes.
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  6393. What a great series! Thank you!
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  6394. Thanks
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  6395. Was one of those demons perchance named Alexa?
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  6396. Thanks!
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  6397. Oh and any news on discord server?
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  6398. Just finished this incredible series! It's incredible how much I don't know about my own faith.
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  6399.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Definitely. I find it incredible in my case being that I studied in Yeshiva for many years. I knew we didn't study Kabbalah/Mysticism aside for when it would come up in Mussar and Gemara, but I had very little clue why. After taking this course, I see how much it was truly imbued in our belief system. Thank you so much for your gift of a channel!
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  6400. Congratulations! Love the content. Looking forward to what comes up next year. I'm in a doctoral program called Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion, so what you present on Esoterica helps to augment my learning. Thanks Dr. Sledge!!!
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  6401. Thanks!
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  6402. you never played 7? gutted mate, you can try the remake now though
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  6403. Thanks!
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  6404. Great video
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  6405. Thanks!
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  6406.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh, I dunno what it is then, your voice sounds different enough I had to double take and check if I hadn't pressed a different video by accident. Thank you for all this enriching content, it has really meant a lot to me over the years.
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  6407. Thanks!
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  6408. I fell asleep to your vampire video this afternoon and had a dream where I was in ancient rome and "gave all the bread in the land" to mary magdelene. glad to see you have a video about her, I, like you am jewish/was raised jewish so it's thrown me off a bit to have a dream about a Christian saint I know next to nothing about. Hoping I can get some insight from this. thank you
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  6409. Interesting and informative, thank you.
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  6410. Love your sense of humor so far
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  6411. Super excited for this series!
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  6412. Oy vey gonna have to go back and watch this and take notes lol although the subtitles butcher the Hebrew, it’s useful for the Latin based English words😂 thanks so much for this content, its invaluable🎉
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  6413. My favourite thing on Friday night!!!
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  6414. love it, intelligent, insightful and funny! full marks, thanks for your scholarship, humour and humanity
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  6415. My favorite video yet.
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  6416. Such a good video! Thanks!
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  6417. Thanks!
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  6418. Thank you.
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  6419. Thank You and Happy Holidays..!🎇🎄🎇
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  6420. Thanks!
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  6421. Great video!
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  6422. Thanks!
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  6423. They see me summonin they hatin..😂
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  6424. And love, love will tear us apart again. 🎉
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  6425. Cool you always have the the most interesting content. 🙏💪🏼🪄🎩♾️
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  6426. My pleasure to share the channel with whichever friends' attention I can successfully retain!
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  6427. Thanks!
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  6428. Your humor is always appreciated over here. Referring to the algorithm as the demiurge 🤌🏻💋
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  6429. Thanks!
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  6430. I think Hobbes was nasty, brutish, and short.
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  6431. Fantastic! very interesting! also great Hashtags! :D #nercromanticsidehustle
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  6432. Very cool professor 😎 👌 👍
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  6433. Thank you so much for this ~ I'm a new subscriber of your channel. (( <3 ))
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  6434. Thanks!
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  6435. Justin🙏 your the best 🙏 and I love how you champion women ❣️ you got me on one for The Flowing Light of the Godhead🥰❣️🙏 I'll be starting a book club soon 🙏 forever grateful 🙏 oh and I rock my esoterica t-shirt often 🙏 stay blest my friend 🙏
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  6436. I like you! Good character and real. It's nice to see someone that isn't so politically correct about his presentation. The 'Sheeba bootie' comment had me laughin' real hard. Solomon had his issues didn't he. Anyway, keep 'em comming. I'm not into magic so much as just finding out about ancient cultures and their practices.
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  6437. Thanks!
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  6438. Now that was IMPRESSIVE!!!
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  6439. Thanks!
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  6440. Thanks!
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  6441. Love your channel. Man it really shows the WIDE breadth and variety within that comes under the heading of Mysticism and the Occult. You mention The Golden Dawn in this one. Do you have any other videos that go into that realm?
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  6442. thx
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  6443. The subject may be somewhat niche, but your delivery is personable and humorous on top of being knowledgable. Thank you so much for all the work you've done for us.
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  6444. tremendous
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  6445. thanks for sharing this
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  6446. Thanks!
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  6447. Thanks!
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  6448. Have to confess, I read a lot of Jung when I was younger because I was trying to keep up with college kids. Me being a precocious high schooler. I think Jung and Campbell do have some things to say about archetypes. But especially in Jungs case, there is a bit of over-reach. But that was the style at the time.
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  6449. Thanks!
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  6450. You will have a million in a year or so. You are top notch, gold standard in obscure knowledge. Thank you!
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  6451.  @TheEsotericaChannel Merely endorsing your great show with tried and tested techniques. Dr Sledge.
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  6452. Thanks
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  6453. You deserve it Doc! I've been here all through 2021 and you are my favorite teacher and creator! Keep it up! I can't get enough
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  6454. Thank you Justin sledge
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  6455. That's a really good video, I appreciate your work so much
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  6456. Happy new year ! 🎈
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  6457. thank G-d for asprin!
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  6458. super cool channel!
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  6459. Your videos are fascinating.
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  6460. 🙂🙂🙂
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  6461. Love the relish with which you pronounce “treasure” each time 💫
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  6462. The video had not yet begun and I was already checking out the youtube channel from the title (subscribed, of course).Thank you!
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  6463. Dude! This just rocks!!! Dr. Sledge makes the Internet worth having...
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  6464. Dude, you ate HALARIOUS!!! You need to find out how to contact Mel Brooks; THAT'S whom would make that movie!!! P.S. You could be the head writer!
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  6465. Thanks!
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  6466. 19:35 "We use a particularly heavy feather"
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  6467. Fellow Mississippian here!
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  6468. Thanks!
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  6469. @ the helluva boss fandom lol
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  6470. Not your average "man cave"!
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  6471. Thanks!
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  6472. fantastic
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  6473. Thanks!
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  6474. At about 12:51 in this presentation, you suggest that the demonic listing of the Goetia may have begun as an ironic mockery by Weyer. Is there another video of yours that explains how the listing might be so viewed? If not, might you treat that subject in a future? I haven’t watched all of your videos yet but this one sees you more excited than most others.
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  6475. I'm so happy to have came across this channel! Would love to see you cover the Gnostic Archons in more depth one day!
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  6476. wow this seems pretty cool! free healthcare? caring about and respecting the wisdom of all peoples and working together to preserve knowledge? heck yeah
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  6477. Wonderful! I just wanted to add that Marlowe's friend and collaborator (on one play) the Elizabethan essayist, novelist, and poet Thomas Nashe writes quite a bit about Cornelius Agrippa in his The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594). Jack and his master stop on their travels at the University of Wittenburg and witness the Duke of Saxony giving a speech to the scholars, including famous visitors Erasmus and Cornelius Agrippa. Nashe adds a few Agrippa legends to the collection: how for instance Cromwell tested Agrippa's mind by selecting books and reading a line from a page from each one, and Agrippa reciting from memory twenty pages from the book. He also brought forth the spirit of Tully to recite a speech at the request of Erasmus and showed the destruction of Troy to Sir Thomas More in a dream. And there are others. Nashe was also a great fan of Agrippa's De Incertitude, and often quoted from it n his writings. If anyone discussed Agrippa with Marlowe Nashe would have been one with much to say among that group. Jesse .
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  6478. My favorite ch
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  6479. Hi Dr. Is there a good English translation of the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh?
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  6480. Thanks!
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  6481. Thanks!
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  6482. I also appreciate your sense of Academic Social Justice!
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  6483. Thanks!
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  6484. So can we say that "the history of wester horror films is a collection of footnotes to Murnau"?
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  6485. Thanks Dr Sledge!! We love you!!!!
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  6486. Me after 3 months of digital detox: 🍿👀
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  6487. I keep learning so much on your channel. Thank you!
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  6488. Love to hear a conversation on this between you and Denis Prager.
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  6489.  @HiDesert004  I didn't say he was a Nazi. I said he was a sympathizer. He took and wrote about what was called "the Middle Way" with the Nazis in which people tried to see "the good and constructive" in the Nazi ideology. (This despite their avowed anti-Semitism and the fact that his mentor, Freud, was a Jew. He also did make anti-Semitic ( and more generally racist) remarks that are on record, which, although common for the time, were absolutely NOT universally supported. He also remained the president of the German (and Nazi controlled) International Psychoanalytical Society and did not resign until 1940. He did become concerned with the "excesses" of the Nazis after 1936 and by 1944 had publicly reneged on his former anti-Semitic comments and his earlier sympathies with them. (Yeah, who wasn't backing off by 1944.) Perhaps "sympathizer" is too strong. But opportunistic colluder is not.
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  6490. Thanks!
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  6491. Thanks!
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  6492. Very insightful! Thanks for “connecting the dots.”
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  6493. I’m so grateful and thankful that the topics you discuss are presented through an unbiased academic lense. There is a need for this content of higher learning delivered by educators who are passionate about teaching. I would have loved to be able to have enrolled in these subjects at uni but it was shunned upon and never offered. You are a dream come true.
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  6494. That lame dad joke 😭 49 😭 I hit subscribe literally bc of that 😂
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  6495. Thanks!
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  6496. Thanks
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  6497. Thanks
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  6498. Awesome 😎 thanks brother!!🙏blessed be!!
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  6499. Thank you for this fantastic video lecture Dr Sledge. You are a true Seeker and I am very grateful I found you! Blessings from south of the south.
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  6500. incredible video
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  6501. Thankyou once again dr sledge, your work is very special to me.
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  6502. Thanks!
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  6503. Happy Halloween! I love H P Lovecraft. That was great.
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  6504. This book seems to describe the magician as the jailer using inmates they jailed to do their bidding . No wonder they thought demons were evil , when you treat a person this way , wouldn't you? Love your content Doc , you truly add that special touch to all your topics. You might not believe it, may not manifest for you even, but your approach is always 💯 professional. ❤
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  6505. end of year ~ please make an bloopers and outtakes episode ~
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  6506. Brilliant Scholar and Teacher - Thanks
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  6507. I'm watching this on World Mental Health day apparently - I was offered a free guided meditation, but I figured listening to Justin talking about early Christianity was more likely to hit the spot
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  6508. Thanks
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  6509. Thanks!
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  6510. I LOVE YOUR BEARD! It looks awesome
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  6511. Thanks!
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  6512. Thanks!
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  6513. "Bad saving throws." I love it.
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  6514. I can’t express just how much joy this channel has brought me. I returned to university to study ancient history at the beginning of 2020 after a decade of putting education on hold to play music and make fun, but poor life choices. I’ve watched your videos on a near weekly basis and it has opened a world of new interests to research, I’m thinking postgrad thesis topics. So thank you Justin! P.s. how do I get you to guest DM my DnD group?
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  6515. Hmm, Paracelsius, that sounds all cool but we need to find a way to shorten his name without losing the coolness of it. Any ideas? I am biased for Para C, because it sounds a little bit like Parasite, but I feel it loses some of it's coolness. And PC just sounds like a computer. That's lame.
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  6516. Thanks
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  6517. Thanks!
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  6518. Thanks
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  6519. Would you be willing to sell recreations or even original texts? I am a collector and would be very intrested.
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  6520. As an athiest and a skeptic, I'll say that the main reason that I enjoy your content is that its purely educational and not dogmatic. Your knowledge and enjoyment of the subject is self-evident, and you make a great host. I'm looking forward to your content in 2022!
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  6521. would love access to an english translation of the notes in margins and alternative meanings to what is missing in the Benz translation
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  6522. Thanks!
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  6523. love me some esoterica yahweh content
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  6524. Thanx man respect from Syria
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  6525. Will you please play in my dnd campaign? Hahaha jkjk thanks for doing this for us friend
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  6526. God this guy is very funny. Very high qual channel
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  6527. Hey Doctor Sledge— I just thought you’d enjoy knowing that your videos have ignited a love in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, and even Islam in my mind. Though I am not pursuing a history or religious studies degree, I am still spending a lot of time reading things about these fields out of pure love for the field that you helped introduce me to. Keep doing great things!
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  6528. 0:42 hmmm I kinda see why we've changed the name.
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  6529. Thx again, Doc.
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  6530. 💜 💜 💜 YES 💜 💜 💜
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  6531. Thanks!
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  6532. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you sir. I will forever be a student of yours.
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  6533. Are you sane? They will call you crazy Before they call you a genius. Your right on schedule. Besides you provide the info From a scholarly angle. Not trying to prove a point. Merely allowing the viewer to form A thought with the info provided. You good bubba.
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  6534. This series is a great achievement. Thank you so much to Dr. Sledge (and I'm sorry but every single time I mention your name anywhere I just have to add "Primal Concrete Sledge" because that's a Pantera song and Pantera is awesome, which in turn makes your last name that much more awesome), and everyone who helped make this possible. My takeaway after 14+ hours of this is that the ability of the human mind to force itself into believing literally anything is astonishing.
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  6535. Thanks!
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  6536. Iam addicted...to ya channel💖🙏👍
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  6537. Thank you, very interesting about feminine becoming masculine.
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  6538. THIS STUFF IS SO COOL. Always so amazing, I love hearing about how AMAZING history is!!! Aaaaa!!! So sk so SO cool!!
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  6539. Thanks!
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  6540. Heavy metal on Edison wax 😂. That part got me
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  6541. I agree, I would consider myself an agnostic-atheist, but I would never turn my back on this never ending well of history, those who this will never fortify and expand their knowledge.
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  6542. Thanks!
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  6543. awesome content 🔥
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  6544. I would love to explore this information knowledge techniques practices
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  6545. Kelly's interests and even life events resemble a lot those of Joseph Smith.
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  6546. Thanks
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  6547. Hi Doc, is added music at 19:10 some sort of Easter egg? Thanks
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  6548. Thanks!
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  6549. I’m a misnagid to Orthodox Judaism 😝
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  6550. I got a copy of The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Hans Dieter Betz. I hope it is a descent treatment of this material.
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  6551. Thanks!
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  6552. Thank you!
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  6553. reads title … re-reads title Well…it ain’t called “Esoterica” for nothin I guess
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  6554. I appreciate you to the fullest
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  6555. I'm a long time watcher but this video just got assigned to me by my university course! Was so happy to see your name on the list. Thanks for all the work you do :)
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  6556. I wonder if the title is an admission of Alchemy's sunset. Like a moment of silence on Remembrance/Veterans day.
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  6557. Thanks!
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  6558. Love it!
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  6559. Thanks!
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  6560. Thanks!
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  6561. Hi Justin. Once again your channel doesn’t recognize me as a member. Can you help me learn what the problem is?
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  6562. so much better than Thots
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  6563. Your content is amazing!
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  6564. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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  6565. Another great one!
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  6566. An outstanding lecture with professional experience. Please like and subscribe this gentleman, you won't be disappointed
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  6567. delightful!
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  6568. Thank you for looking into this topic!!
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  6569. Those photos. First George Clooney at the séance (on the right), then Andrew Jackson Davis is Atun Shei.
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  6570. Thanks!
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  6571. * cries in not having accidental donkey stories *
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  6572.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Understood... I'm sure you're an uncredited source on many campaigns...
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  6573. 🐇
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  6574. Agrippa’s Diary recommended this channel. Excited to dig in.
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  6575. Kieckhefer reference 😎😎😎😎😎
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  6576. Great show - thank you!
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  6577. I was very good at this subject in kindy. It basically molded the rest of my life. ...I'm very impressed that you would even talk about this particular aspect of the matter itself at all though, Dr Justin. Jokes aside. But still - naughty naughty. What are you trying to do - incite human people to take over the world?? Luckily you lied therapeutically and misdirected people to the Timaeus FIRST.
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  6578. This is such a nice channel!
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  6579. When I'm in the mood, they're a good way to scratch the itch. The genre can be such an NSBM cesspool that I've got a few go-to bands.
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  6580. Awesome to see two of my favorite channels come together over an alchemical cocktail…keep on rockin’ in the free world, boys! Bacchanalian revels, here we come!
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  6581. As I work with programming in a language called Magik, I had to giggle a bit.
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  6582. Thanks
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  6583. Cut the music bro, not worth the risk
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  6584.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I understand, I just don't want to see you lose everything, your work is too important. Try to find the right balance of fighting what you can but relenting if it turns out the system is just broken and the fight unwinable
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  6585. Brother Sledge you need to add a super thanks button to your vids, just another way to acquire donations.😜
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  6586. The more I listen to your videos the more I rekindle my love of history. As a trans person I had many years of disillusionment with the christian church and the bland binary patriarchy that it focuses on. Since transitioning and finding a much more 3 dimensional perspective of the roots of the faith I feel as if the church has done the world such a disservice when it could be so much better.
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  6587. thank you for another amazing video!
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  6588. I note a still over your shoulder:)
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  6589. excited for this one thanks
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  6590. Great topic, thank you!
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  6591. Sorry to hear that JS. I added you to my $1 a month patreon support list! I appreciate your work and the way you teach us with YouTube
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  6592. Thanks!
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  6593. “Non-shareware version” Found the old nerd.
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  6594. I once heard that natural magic(and possibly, white Magic) wasn't banned in Europe in the Middle Ages. Is this true?.
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  6595. GC! Make the romcom already! 😂
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  6596. תודה רבה גבר. מעניין מאוד. thanks for the program.
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  6597. Mechatron is a pre-Millennial. But he still is awesome, and everything he does is 'no problem,' and -, he makes coffee. So, actual Millennial.
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  6598. #hereticalwitcharmy XD
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  6599. Outstanding and, quite frankly, important episode!!!
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  6600. Riveting i tell you. Thank you. Professor Sledge perhaps sometime you could share what conversations like these with practitioners provide for you personally and professionally. This inquiry into academic vs non academic (degreed) practitioners has vexed me for many years. This discourse is a poignant discussion on what has long been a debate for me personally.
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  6601. Hello! I really love your content, thank you so much for your hard work and by making it accesable :)
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  6602. Thanks!
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  6603. Thanks!
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  6604. Thanks!
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  6605. Wonderfully lucid exposition of Blake’s daunting work…and I will reiterate my plea for a video discussing the Dictionnaire Infernal.
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  6606. Thanks!
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  6607. I really enjoy your channel. Good work sir.
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  6608. I think I can make out a D20 and a D6 on your shelf...but no Players Handbook.
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  6609. Thanks!
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  6610. I love this channel
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  6611. Gosh I’m so grateful for this channel
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  6612. Did I hear Esoterica T-shirt??🤩
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  6613. Thanks!
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  6614. Perhaps the reason mystics "descend" into the chariots / palaces, is because mysticism is a going "inward" not outward.
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  6615. awns thanks to you, just leaving a random comment bye
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  6616. Thanks!
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  6617. I've loved every video of yours I have watched so far, but this one is extraordinary! It's easily one of my top ten favorite YouTube videos of all time now. May I ask, wasn't the Alphabet of Ben Sira more of a parody than a historical text? I remember researching Lilith and finding that a lot of commonly known information about her came from that book, but the book was more of a joke than a serious text. I read too much and forget even more lol so I could be mistaken. Thanks for the great in depth information. I make and sell a lot of Lilith custom clothing, home decor, ritual tools and the like. Would it be ok to put my Etsy shop name here? I don't want to be disrespectful, so I wanted to ask before I put it here in the comments. Either way I love your work and truly appreciate the cohesive wisdom you put out here on this channel. You have my eternal support for whatever it's worth! Best wishes!🥰🌬🔮
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  6618. Amazing knowledge brother. Thank you. 🙏
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  6619. I need to find a channel like this, but for Taoism and other eastern philosophies and religions... Thanks for your time and effort 🙏🏻.
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  6620. Thanks!
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  6621. Thanks!
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  6622. Thanks!
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  6623. Thanks!
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  6624. Would love to see you do a collab with Digital Hammurabi - Josh and Megan are scholars in Old Testament and Syrian and other works
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  6625. You do great work! I really enjoy. Happy New Year!
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  6626. Thank you justin. I sit here sick, drinking tea and watching this Video. Your way of making jokes and the way you tell stories is fun and calming at the same time. For sure my favorite channel for occult esoteric knowledge 🥰
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  6627. Thanks for helping me on my journey.
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  6628. Thanks!
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  6629. How about it's all true simultaneously but there is strength in harmony and agreements?
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  6630. Can a person of your stature interpret secular quotes into what a more conservative person can understand? Like boys will be boys, or we can do it, or big girls don't cry. Kinda like this modern proverb means the following advice in a more, let's say, professional verbiage.
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  6631. The Beguine remind of a sort of inverted version of Buddhism. Thank you again Dr. Sledge 💜
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  6632. Thanks!
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  6633. From a distant land with different spellings, I take this opportunity to show my gratitude. So I leave here my recognition for your generosity in sharing so much knowledge and for the opportunity to admire a level of study that I aspire to. I do not intend to gain this book, as it would cost too much to get here, so I have seen in the past (although not as much as any soul - I don't speak that kind of different spell).
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  6634.  @TheEsotericaChannel  hell yeah
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  6635. Para-Paracelsus 🤣 I like you. Subscribed.
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  6636. This would make a great d12 campaign, which would also make a great fundraiser for the channel!
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  6637. wow you did a video on this! i love this writing more than anything. joined your Patreon - thank you 🙏
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  6638. 👻
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  6639. LOVE YOU ! I LIKE IT! EVERYTIME GOOD JOB . DOING IT WITH A KIND OF QUALITY . MAGICAL! MUST BE ME OR MY HIGHER SELF ...DEFINITIV NICE!° THIS TITEL IS NICE! NEED NO SUMMONING OF THINGS! THEI HELP YOU IF YOU DONT DEGRADE THEM IN ANYKIND OF BEEING,, THEY LIKE IT NOT BE SUMMOND ... ASKING THEM MANITUS OR SPIRITS ANCESTORS SPIRITS OR WHATEVER YOU NAME THEM...GOD HELL HEAVEN ANGELS DEMONS ...BLASPEMIE...AL ONE TO WORK NOT TOGETHER IS KILLING OR DISTURBING YOURSELF SO THEIR IS NOONE NEED TO SUMMON,,,, MAKE A KIND OF RITUAL... AN ALTAR ... FOTOS OF DEAD ANCESTORS... MAKE THEM A CANDLE SOME INCENSE AND PUT SOME SWEETS OR SOME JUICES ON THE TABLE AS FOOD OFFERING.... THATS IS
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  6640. I’m happy that you channel exists, a year of plenty to you Dr!
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  6641. Thank you so much for these videos and the work you put into them! Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
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  6642. Very interesting, liked and subbed 👍
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  6643. Thanks
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  6644. I love your humor
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  6645. If I do find anything, I'll be sure to cut you in for a "Finders Fee". ;-)
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  6646. Thanks!
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  6647. Thanks!
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  6648. The Dude abides! Hope you are feeling better.
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  6649. Oh well, seems cheers is in order now again ;) xxo
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  6650. Thanks!
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  6651. This was really good.
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  6652. Lisa needs braces!
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  6653. i remember going to the bodhi tree bookstore back in the late 90s, early 2ks. aquired quite a collection over the years. sadly most of them were lost in a flood. still have a couple, for example one of my favs is my green hardcover 1913 copy of A.S.Raleigh's Philosophia Hermetica. A Course of Ten Lessons, Being an Introduction to "The Philosophy of Alchemy"
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  6654. I love yours and Dr. Angela Puca's work
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  6655. Thanks!
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  6656. Thanks
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  6657. Thanks!
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  6658. i like this review of the philosopher stone theory. good work !
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  6659. If you remember Kimmy Gibler, you're getting old 😂
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  6660. Love the subtle gags. Like: Magnets, how do THEY work?! lol
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  6661. Great topic. Looking forward to more.
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  6662. This series has been amazing! Thanks Dr. Sledge!
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  6663. No. Thank you!❤
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  6664. Thanks!
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  6665.  @TheEsotericaChannel  and thank you for your quick response, 🙏
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  6666. WOW You do the BEST intros on YouTube
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  6667. Nice shirt Dr. SLEDGE.
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  6668. Thanks!
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  6669. So the origin of Freud's "Death Drive" was the disproof of several of his other constructs? Hmm. Needs more epicycles!!
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  6670.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Aww that actually makes me emotional, you're such a treasure
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  6671. I fell asleep to this last night, finishing it now, your videos are fueling my drive for creative writing thank you so much for all your work
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  6672. Thank you, I so enjoyed this ❤
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  6673. Thanks!
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  6674. love your channel! thank you so much, you are wonderful.
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  6675. I've loved your channel for a couple of years now, I was introduced to you through Atun Shei!
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  6676. Thanks!
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  6677. FYI, there is a kickstarted campaign running currently with the title "Interlinear Magic: An Anthology of the Greek Magical Papyri" (I don't want to use links because I'm not sure if youtube deletes my comment or not)
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  6678. Thanks!
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  6679. Thanks!
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  6680. Thanks!
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  6681. Thanks!
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  6682. This was an interesting look thanks
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  6683. Thank you for expose me to her, as I've had revelation that were eerily similar and the conclusions I couldn't escape until it consumed me being the only thing there is until all became unintelligible in dionysian rapture and that experience never left me. And just learning that oxytocin is both the chemical biologically giving rise to Love but also Hate, so it seems this notions is even reflected empirically. Thank you so much for gifting me the knowledge of her, she already feels like a journey into gnosis I'll joyously get lost for years to come.
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  6684. I'm wearing the esoterica black metal T shirt right now while watching esoterica.
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  6685. Great video
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  6686. But… did you copy that Aristotle text with a reed pen?
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  6687. "They were catholics. Dastardly catholics " I feel like the "dum dum dummmmm" sound should follow that for some reason
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  6688. I can only try to imagine how many of these ideas were a product of breathing the fumes of all of these experiments.
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  6689. Old school doctors sound worse than serial killers
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  6690. Who the ... is Paimon? Google search Oh... Figures...
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  6691. Thanks!
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  6692.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Absolutely my friend!
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  6693. This was brilliant! Cackled my way through it 🤣
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  6694. Thanks!
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  6695. ...while watching this great topic i had the urge to join your patreon! 😊
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  6696. i have been watching your videos for the last few weeks. Your knowledge on these subjects in my opinion is second to none. You explain what could be complicated and often inaccessible information in a way that is coherent and accurate. I am now a Patreon supporter of your channel. Well worth the money for the level of knowledge you provide.
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  6697. Thank you so much
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  6698. Thanks! Seemingly synchronistic. Happenstantial or perhaps just serendipitous.
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  6699. I love your channel. It's full of fascinating content.
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  6700. Thanks I love your work
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  6701. It also overlaps with the DND niche on youtube very nicely too, and fantasy nerds; etc.
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  6702. 🙏
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  6703. Thanks
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  6704.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Ooo Can't wait!!
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  6705. I will absolutely watch the livestream on the Corpus Hermeticum, thank you!
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  6706. This might be the greatest giveaway I've seen on Youtube
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  6707. Totally outstanding—- which is totally normal here. 🎃
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  6708. You are a treasure, sir.
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  6709. Thanks!
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  6710.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh, totally missed that! thank you <3
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  6711. Thanks!
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  6712. This episode was a nail biter. I love this channel. Many times I walk away and something in me has changed. For sure, I'm not the same person I was when I first came across this channel. This is one of those episodes.
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  6713. Amazing so long ago the science Wow
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  6714. Your knowledge is just amazing
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  6715.  @TheEsotericaChannel  right on. I really enjoy your channel and thank you for all the wonderful content. I asked because I grew up Catholic, and the more I dug into other religions and philosophies, my faith became shattered. I guess it was fragile to begin with.
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  6716. Thanks!
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  6717. I could not do this. Latin is no existent. I sure it would work and the person would be shocked. I also think that sprit have nature name and abilities. Then call out of the position they hold in the air. Jealous is a spirt. Lust is the opposite of love. It's is also a spirt. Pride is one. They can effect people who call them. We say it's a spirt of the age. In modern term we all they fads. Must have the latest thing on the market place. They only inhabit a man or woman if they person let them.
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  6718.  @TheEsotericaChannel  you don't know how much you have helped my personal faith development 🙏 thank you.
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  6719. Your advice works for any difficult text. Thank you!
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  6720. Fantastic video. I've been following your work for the last year or so but I love going back and discovering gems from earlier on.
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  6721. Ooo, yet another interest of mine, Ugarit. Thank you for preserving and making this wonderful video. Hope you are well recovered by now.
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  6722. Thanks!
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  6723. ✨
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  6724. Thanks!
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  6725. This is awesome.
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  6726. Thanks!
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  6727. 24:00 Am I right in thinking that Jesus is in the role of psychopomp here?
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  6728. Love your lectures sledge
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  6729. Hi again I'm the guy who mentioned mega idiot David Ike in the preview comments . A shame we can't make him watch this episode Clockwork Orange stylee😂
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  6730. I just wanted to say I love this channel and the only reason I have to win the book is I'd love to start to become a collector.
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  6731. Awesome video. Thank you.
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  6732. Going right to left on the shelves for the Hebrew stuff, but then switches to left to right for the Western Lit. :D
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  6733. Very useful, thank you.
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  6734. Amazing episode! Thank you so much🙏🏽
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  6735. Thanks!
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  6736. Thanks!
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  6737. Nice to meet you Dr Sledge. Liked, Subscribed. I can't wait to deep dive into your channel and all your videos. This is my first of yours and enjoyable learning. Do you have any favorites to recommend of all your videos? I'm also interested in everything Solomonic and I'm basically just starting out so any tips on where to begin to dive right in would be great? Finally, what have you found most interesting and enjoyable to learn in your own explorations and what is your expertise'? Sorry if all these questions seem like an interrogation, I'm just excited to run into you and can't wait to know what your all about what you have discovered.
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  6738. this is interesting, thanks for sharing Big Dog
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  6739. Thanks!
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  6740. The “kinda vanilla” got me
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  6741. Appreciated
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  6742. Thanks!
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  6743. Excellent
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  6744. "Not that Robert Duvall" You crack me up, Doc.
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  6745. Thanks!
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  6746. Ok
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  6747. Thanks!
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  6748. I’ve really enjoyed your videos and look forward to learning more next year. Atheist here fyi, just enjoy esoteric topics 😉
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  6749. 👀🍿 and happy Friday fellow seekers.
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  6750. ¡Gracias!
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  6751. No man, it's just a prank! Don't spill the beans! 🤣
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  6752. Thanks!
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  6753. Discovered you about 4 months ago. Fantastic! Onwards and downwards!
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  6754. Lee Lou ? Her name ? The fifth element movie Her name was leelou 5:14
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  6755. God Bless you!
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  6756. :hands-yellow-heart-red::hands-yellow-heart-red:THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AMAZING JOURNEY DR SLEDGE!!:hands-yellow-heart-red::hands-yellow-heart-red:
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  6757. 😁 Basic Bros 😅
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  6758. 16:04 Arrogant teachers cause significant damage Dr. Sledge, that commentary on teachers makes me wish your videos had transcripts available - and translations into other languages. I've started for this many times through your videos! Are transcripts/translations something you've considered?
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  6759. Ah, it seems you are a fellow Aquarius. Howdy :)
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  6760. a demon earns their wings every time an occultist learns about michael scot
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  6761. Not even ten minutes in and liked and subscribed 😍
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  6762. I really appreciate the way that you treat these topics from an historical, academic perspective. I find them interesting, but having a graduate degree in physics makes it impossible for me to engage with it from a woo perspective. You are the only person I've ever encountered who comes at this stuff from a non-woo point of view. You will end up back at the university, I can promise. Maybe no university teaches classes in this, but I can guarantee that you will be the first, the founder of a department someplace.
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  6763. He also has a pretty bitchin Theme song too
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  6764. Thanks!
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  6765. Thank you!
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  6766. Has to be one of the more interesting channels on YouTube... Very well done and I love the nostalgia...
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  6767. Thanks!
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  6768.  @TheEsotericaChannel  It's an Occult and Pagan themed podcast
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  6769. Thanks!
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  6770. Thanks!
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  6771.  @TheEsotericaChannel  you're very kind for watching out for me 😭
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  6772. ESOTERICA podcast? Yes, please!
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  6773. “It’s all bad saving throws if you ask me.” Awesome 😂
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  6774. Minute 12 I lost it 😂. Glad to get knowledge with a sense of humor..aka realism
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  6775. excellent! i freakin love this channel!......i had to come back on comment....LOL, lmao. trying not to be funny makes you too funny on such a serious video, i have had to watch this vid a few times, lol, #necromancysidehustle .....LOL, the best.
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  6776. You do a great job with this (to the rest of academia) obscure material. Got the reference to here from Let's Talk Religion and/or Religion for Breakfast. I enjoy all 3 channels for finding out about the major religions from a historical and properly academic viewpoint. Yours has probably become my favorite because of the unusual content, your academic thoroughness, and your humor. Having spent about 10 years as an adjunct myself, I know you need some other earning gig so you don't end up poor (like me). It's weird that academia retains such prejudice from earlier centuries that it just totally blows off this area of study. I thought ALL things we humans do were supposed to be worthwhile for somebody to take a look at. Especially something that has to do with things like "How did we get here?" "What are we supposed to do while we're here?" "Can we use some of the mysterious power of Creation to effect our own juju?" These seem like college-level questions to me. So keep up the good work, and do try to not teach 6 classes a semester. That's just WRONG!
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  6777. Thank you!
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  6778. Just ordered "Gods library" fascinating . Thank you sir.
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  6779. Excellent video.... I enjoyed the video a lot :)
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  6780. Yo Dr. Sledge about to get mega swole in 2022 💪💪💪 2022, the year of massive pecs
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  6781. Doctor Slade in the house killing the biggest evil of the world, ignorance, with esoteric boss hogg intellectual stimulation to leave swine with their heads stuck stagnant swaying at the pearls of divinity. Haha. Much respect and thanks as per always. I need to pay the 100 at least one month brother just to get a private lesson to talk turkey with a genius linguist as well as an accomplished fact crate digger. Knowledge is divine and the divine is everything. One love my friend .
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  6782. Dr. Sledge, you are a very clever man.
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  6783. Very informative.
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  6784. Just finished Story of the Eye, perfect timing. Thanks for this.
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  6785. So good Justin, you’re an excellent writer and orator.
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  6786. I listen to you every day. Thank you for all your hard work!
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  6787. Thanks!
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  6788. Im curious...do you practice magick?
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  6789. One of the most well-kept secrets of western civilization !
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  6790. YES! I was waiting for this video :)))
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  6791. Great work. Very enjoyable.
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  6792. What's the song in the intro of the videos?
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  6793. Your references to gaming always pique my interest. Have consulted with any gane designers? Interest in doing so? Specifically regarding treatises of ( ttrpg ) demonic interaction, might I suggest looking at "The Book of Ebon Bindings" from the world of Tekumel. As baddie books go, this one is well constructed.
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  6794. Thanks!
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  6795. Thanks!
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  6796. Amazing channel
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  6797. Thanks!
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  6798. Gotta ❤ early printing drama.
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  6799. I live for the on-screen text
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  6800. Doctor Slade is the esoteric gangster maximus triumphus supremeus hahaha. All jokes aside though, this mans channel is one of the most intellectually satisfying experiences Ive ever had the pleasure of attending in my current reincarnation. There isnt even words on this plane of existence, that could do the justice of describing his expertise and poise. We really do owe him pure unconditional love filled gratitude for the content he continues to bless us with. His truly, is one of the best youtube channels thats ever been created. Please support the good doctor in anyway you can, whether thats donating, or sharing or even just watching and then passing on whatever youve learned to thirsty minds in need of ancient truths not offered in our simpleton structured public schooling and private schooling systems. For however long we have the privilege of viewing the doctors channel, i suggest we all put him in a position where the idea of him not being able to do what he does, is never something that manifests into an actual possibility. Thank you.
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  6801. ❤ This channel
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  6802. Thanks!
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  6803. boy im glad ik french
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  6804. Speculation, ok! But a very, very good speculation, and a very well-informed one too: congratulations, Dr. Sledge!
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  6805. Keep up the Good work Justin, it's hard to explain how much your channel has helped me.
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  6806. Millsaps doing its best Bellhaven impression
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  6807. Thanks for making this and spreading the word. Millsaps must be held accountable for this. Signed, Amelia Class of 2014
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  6808. Subbed
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  6809. Having had all my future progeny stolen from me by the current Covid Epoch…we are living in Lilith Times. She reigns supreme.
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  6810. Thanks!
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  6811. 6.66% CD you say? I'd be a fool to not partake of the dark sacrament!
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  6812. Thanks!
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  6813.  @TheEsotericaChannel  And thanks for properly calling us Latter Day Saints. shows you're more well thought out than most
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  6814. Wow! What a grand collaboration. My kantharos runneth over.
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  6815. Thanks!
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  6816. Thanks!
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  6817. Just two more weeks and we're gonna crack the secret of Oak Island. Two more weeks...
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  6818. Thanks!
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  6819. im catholic and im gonna have my confirmation soon. im looking for some female saints and patrons to choose for myself. shes my number 1 as for now ❤
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  6820. Excellent,Excellent,Excellent!!! Congrats mate! Many more great content I know will come from your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and I’m sure we will embark on another fantastic journey through the “occult” world of esotericism at “Esoterica” 😉😻
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  6821. Just discovering your channel now. Congratulations on the success. I've watched a couple other videos, and this really is some very high quality, well done, and interesting stuff. Definitely (and sadly) stuff not coming to our campuses anytime soon, so I am glad it is here, and you are doing it. I am an academic librarian at a small college who also does a bit of cartomancy and starting to study a bit of esoterica, so this for me is helpful and interesting. I just also enjoy learning about history. Plus the content is such a highly good level, like listening to a good college lecture. Truly, thank you for all this work, and wish you the best. I did subscribe and hope to keep coming back. Paz y amor.
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  6822. lol i've called myself a chaos witch for so long and never knew abt this guy. thanks for making this!
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  6823. Thanks again buddy for all the content that you make. You have undoubtedly worked yourself into our every day schedule and I for one am always delighted to watch and learn a thing or two. By the way props con the man with the most awesome name ever. That shit was hilarious. They call me Mr Boombastic! Thanks again and have a great new year.
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  6824. Angela Puca sent me here and I owe a debt of gratitude. This channel is something I have been searching for for a long time. Thanks.
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  6825. Part 2?
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  6826. 🙏⚒❤
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  6827. “Kind of vanilla” LMAO
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  6828. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel I'm back to finish the lesson. I have to give you credit though. You took that phrase I dislike so and made me laugh. Well played.
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  6829. Happy Samhain and Halloween! Thank you for your open intelligence, and powerful empathy you show . I hope to learn more .
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  6830. Marvellous ❤
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  6831. was highly interesting
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  6832. Thanks!
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  6833. Thanks!
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  6834. Thanks!
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  6835. Thanks!
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  6836.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you, kind sir. Just ordered it.
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  6837. How nice. And I'm right in the middle of a working with her
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  6838. Thanks!
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  6839. I really love your channel❤
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  6840. I believe people need this type of connection to topics, usually never discussed. I also believe this connection makes for a more rounded human being. 🔥
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  6841. All your work is excellent, but this video is particularly good
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  6842. This rocks! I could take a vacation and just study Dr Sledge. He’s awesome.
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  6843. Thanks!
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  6844. Dr Sledge, your content has been wonderful, informative, and (in my opinion) much needed. It is diabolic that academia will not allow this subject of study to be taught in universities. So much of our history in the West is tied to many of the ideas found in so much of esoterica and the occult. If you were ever given the opportunity to teach this in an actual classroom, I would love to be one of your students. I have yet to participate in the live chats. Maybe someday. I'm also down with the idea of you hosting a TTRPG night. I'd love to be at that table!
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  6845. I mean, at their prices, that discount is nothing to sneeze at...
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  6846. Doc, I've played at the Hi Tone a couple of times! So cool. LOVE your channel.
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  6847. Some of the first Gnostic gems ever put to print?! Oh I wish my birthday hadn’t just passed 😅
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  6848. Fuck yeah, grids!
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  6849. millsaps is no longer what makes it millsaps, this is beyond disappointing.
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  6850. Thanks
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  6851. Why did my comment saying I disagree with him but support his right to free speech get deleted? Is that not an acceptable opinion on this channel? I know it's not youtube cuz I've said far spicier stuff than that without getting the axe
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  6852. I think Ministry said it best, “ Well I live with snakes and lizards And other things that go bump in the night And to me everyday is Halloween”
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  6853. This channel is a wonderful view into a subject I'm truly interested in, and the subject has given me motivation to finish my education. Thank you :)
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  6854. Thanks!
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  6855. Very well done. Ok, I'm done.... Bli neder.
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  6856. Thanks!
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  6857. Thanks
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  6858. Thanks!
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  6859. Just came from the second part of Lilith.
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  6860. Thanks!
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  6861. Yes
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  6862. Love your videos and channel!
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  6863. Amazing video! Thank you dr sledge
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  6864. I noticed the subscribers climbing exponentially lately, Well deserved I think. While I had a little background from personal explorations, I would like to thank Dr. Justin for teaching me so much more. Especially for sifting through the complete BS that permeates most of these subjects, and getting down to the meat and potatoes of what is truly worthy of consideration. In particular I find the historical contexts he provides, which no one else I am aware of does, particularly fascinating. Very proud to have been a subscriber for coming up on two years now. Time flies when you are having fun, And now this channel is the only one I am a Patron of as well. Well done and keep up the stellar work.
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  6865. Amazing!
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  6866. Bravo.
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  6867. I fucking love this channel
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  6868. skál
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  6869. Thanks!
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  6870. My daughter and I love watching/listening in to your videos. Thank you for all that you do !
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  6871. We need Sophia VPN tshirts.
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  6872. I'm so happy to see an honest review of esotherical aspects of communism. So much on youtube are just nutjobs with conspiracy theories that just seek to demonize the ideology. I hope that you investigate it further with your professional and academic perspective, instead of how most do it, with a tinfoil hat. It's so annoying that it's hard to come by any such analysis without an obvious bias.
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  6873. Thanks!
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  6874. 💜🌺💜🌺💜🌺💜🌺💜
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  6875. I love this channel.
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  6876. The Golden Ass is actually the book that led me down the rabbit hole that led me to my anthropology major! It’s the first roman literature I ever read, and would love to have a copy of it, especially one that has likely been through so many hands
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  6877. Your content is pure gold ;) thank u for ur service <3 Edit: I love the way u talk
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  6878. Thanks!
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  6879. Thank you for this fascinating course. Dr S, are you planning to write a book covering this? i'd love to order a copy.
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  6880. Mazel tov.
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  6881. Thanks!
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  6882. Is Arabathao related to Barbaleth maybe?
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  6883. Thanks!
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  6884. what a brilliant analysis thank you
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  6885. I just want to say thank you for helping everyone to better understand the knowledge of our world! 😊👍
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  6886. Finally, something to look forward to in the new year!
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  6887. Your reference to THAC0 made my day.
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  6888. Thanks!
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  6889. I have a question for you! I just started watching your channel, love it. How come you use the name of G-d if you’re Jewish? No judgement, just super curious 🥰
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  6890. Thank you for another great year. I discovered your channel in late 2020, and I am loving every week of it so far. I am religious (Catholic) and I love your channel because not only can I learn more about my religion in an academic way, but I can also learn about others. However, I tend to be more skeptical about the supernatural, which I think your channel helps a lot with. I’m like you in that I like to learn these things but I don’t necessarily believe them. I have a bit of an academic background (MA linguistics) so I always appreciate your commitment to academic rigor. I count your channel among my favorites on YouTube up with Jackson Crawford. Happy New Year to you and your family. Enjoy the semester off!
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  6891. thank you Justin happy Samhain, Halloween.
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  6892. Thanks!
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  6893. Thanks!
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  6894. Thanks!
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  6895. I appreciate what you do.
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  6896. Thanks!
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  6897. Thank you for your work. Happy New year! :)
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  6898. hm , conspiracy theories bdsm the end of times ... a best seller.. reminder to delete my browsing history
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  6899. Great episode! Thank you!!!!
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  6900. My Father's house has a hekhalot of mansions. ,B-)
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  6901. This is a shining example of insert the thing you don't like gone mad.
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  6902. 😎
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  6903. Merci!
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  6904. I really like your channel. Showed up in my feed. Good job.
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  6905. Really enjoy your videos and humor. You have such an attention holding way of teaching. The shirts are great too, super soft and fun to talk about.
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  6906. Thanks!
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  6907. Love and respect brother...
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  6908. Thanks!
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  6909. I found this video by accident, I subscribed after scrolling down your channel content. I hope you all the best with YouTube frustrating policy. Looking forward to watch all the videos and videos are yet to come too.🙏🏾🫂 Sending loads of love and unconditional support.
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  6910. Did he really say that everything he learned about medicine was from witches at some point? Or is that an internet made up quote? Great episode, like all others 👏
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  6911. This is a great channel thank you so much for teaching
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  6912. Thanks
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  6913. wow, I have seem many of your videos and I wasn't certain I should subscribe until now. Thanks, cheers, sub'd.
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  6914. Спасибо!
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  6915. Your videos really fuel my academic interest in all the weird and wonderful things people come up with to cope with the world and its oddities. Thank you for your personality because it's made the content shine too. All in all keep doing you in religion, philosophy and the occult. Also more Greek magic things, I didn't learn any of these things in school
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  6916. Paranormal Akhtivitie lol
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  6917. it's not tedious, it's just german, ok? (😅)
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  6918. 5:20 nice Bid'ah reference 😆
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  6919. *INHALES*: ᵐᵃⁱᵐᵒⁿⁱᵈᵉˢ ⁿᵘᵗˢ
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  6920. It’s going to take me days, maybe more, to process what I just watched and listened to.
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  6921. Thanks!
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  6922. Wow would have liked to of met her
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  6923. Ya know, after hearing this plus his video on the satanic panic I would love to hear Esoterica's take on modern Satanism
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  6924.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I both hate and love the accuracy of this
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  6925. So much of the tribal god descriptions feels like kids on the playground playing the game of inventing stronger superheroes; “yeah, well my god could beat up your god cause he is omniscient!” “Well my god creates your god so there!” See what I mean? It’s the oldest game, just outthinking your opponent.
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  6926. 💯❤
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  6927. Was not expecting Popcorn Sutton to show up in this. 😅
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  6928. +1 for the Orval
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  6929. I've never heard the history of the Library broken down with this level of context. Outstanding presentation. 👏👏👏
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  6930. I thought that thumbnail looked familiar! It is on the cover of my edition of Frankenstein. I love gothic lit and gothic horror. Looks like you have a great channel - just sub'd!
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  6931. Truthfully your knowledge is great, this year has been awful and good at the same time, from my creative spark coming back and then losing my job and being unemployed for months has really been a roller coaster of emotions. Thank you for being such a lovely, wonderfully enlightening individual.
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  6932. Dr. Sledge love your Channel.
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  6933. Love thy humor brother
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  6934. Omg curing I simply must read it! 📚 not for this reason alone but primarily, I'm plagued by migraines
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  6935. Now that we know that Yahweh had a six-pack, the elaborate chest piece starts to make sense. Dude is ripped.
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  6936. This was the first grimoire I read and a major influence on every aspect of my life! I read this book online when I was only 14 and it gave me new ways of thinking about my ongoing religious education and informed my choices in the art I experienced and resultingly made. I am probably following this channel today (as well as being where I am generally) because I read this book. I am so excited to see you finally cover it! Thank you so much, Justin!
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  6937. Thanks!
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  6938. Ah! I have two of them. There were a couple different iterations of the can. Great videos BTW sir!
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  6939. Thanks!
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  6940. This channel is awesome I'm subscribing now!!!!
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  6941. Thanks!
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  6942. Hey Dr. sledge, i enjoy your content a lot, and im sorry i dont have the means to contribute to the channel, but i was wondering if someday will you make a video on Meister Eckhart
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  6943. You gained 500xp for that THAC0 reference.
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  6944. The very best channel for detailed scholarly examinations of the history of fascinating esoteric subjects. Tracing the spiritual trends we've inherited backward through rare manuscripts, first hand accounts in various tongues, archeological discoveries, and the various theories of learned minds all pondering these same esoteric remnants. Thank you so much for your knowledge and dedication. You're correct, there's much more interest in your field of specialty than other more traditional subjects.
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  6945. very good channel sir
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  6946. Nice dissection
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  6947. it’s almost as if Harb-a de-Moshe were a “Long Lost Friend”
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  6948. Thanks!
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  6949. Thanks!
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  6950. Keep up the good fight ♥️
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  6951. Thanks for all you do!
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  6952. Thanks!
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  6953. 💯
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  6954. This was intresting and informative. The practice of rituals as a means of engaging the mind in experience of spiritual revelation has always fascinated agnostics like me. This was an exciting introduction to a culture that is out side of my personal experience
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  6955. that trident story! dude! LMAO
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  6956. Thanks!
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  6957. Ah yes, the Satanic panic when D&D and Rock music was worshipping Satan, and people believed Wiccans were secretly sacrificing babies.
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  6958. Thank you so much for what you do! I appreciate every one of your videos.
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  6959. Thanks!
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  6960. I respect your efforts good sir.
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  6961. Thank you for teaching this class and making it available for free online! It was super interesting and very intense to follow. Lots of informations. It was a privilege to follow it all and learn so much and finally start to understand what the whole Kabbalah is about. It was absolutely not what I expected and it's so awesome to learn and I just cannot stress enough how awesome it was. Thank you!
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  6962. Thanks!
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  6963. 🤘🤘
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  6964. VERY USEFUL. Dr Sledge. Thank you,
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  6965. Thanks!
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  6966. (Entire comment blinking out, notwithstanding, will attempt reconstruct thoughts in moment): Previous insightful comments having already responded with on-point observations, I will say that this fascinating journey floored me in that I sat in the audience muted and STUNNED as the patreon credits rolled by on screen. Having come into it with thoughts of the vivid and awe-inspiring visuals from your excellent review of The Dark Song movie in the back of my mind as I dived into this video on the breathtaking epic of the War Scroll. Having been stunned by it, I deeply appreciate the guidance of which viable and attainable sources to avail of for the day to day person, and which are cost prohibitive as you eloquently put it, and which one you wisely noted would take “decades” to study! Much appreciated, thank you, and hearty congratulations once again on the momentous milestone of 100, 000! See you at 250K! 🎺 🗡 ⚔️ 📜 🎙 📚 🏹 📚 📖 🪨 ⛰ 🐎!
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  6967. Thanks
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  6968. Using Blake's paintings, nice. 🙌 I love this one.
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  6969. Love the video, and the channel. Thanks so much for all of these great studies. One thing I find interesting is your comment on internal alchemy only being discussed in the last hundred years or so. You don't think there's been any back and fourth transmission between the very old Taoist tradition of internal alchemy and the Western practice prior to the more recent era? It has been an intricate part of the Daoist monastic and hermetic communities for centuries. Thanks for your input!
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  6970. so dybbuk is connected to devekut too?
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  6971. Thanks!
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  6972. I would have a more erudite comment were I not so rightly enthralled and agog at the immensely badass rigorous distillation of esoteric knowledge unpacking that I can only glimpse at the idea of the depths and heights of wisdom herein within the first few moments alone. For upping the algorithm and sooner than later today comprehension in general, I will swiftly and excitedly comment! I am wont to discover by way of a friend in taking same train one time a quicker route to work across town and then share it with the very office co-worker who had been telling me the same route that I was simply too frazzled end of day to listen to and consider...long spiel. When student is ready, master will appear kinda thing. It will click soon like a puzzle in place. Gnosticism is as fascinating and elusive as quantum physics to me. Thankful for now.
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  6973. I was thrilled to find your channel this year. I so appreciate the scholarly approach to the information. This is what I miss about college. Have subscribed and told friends. And I’m glad you aren’t underemployed anymore. The academic system in this country is wack: Students in perennial debt and their instructs with poverty wages. This is not a culture that values education.
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  6974. Thanks for your work.
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  6975. Completely melted my noodle.
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  6976. Tak!
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  6977. Thanks!
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  6978. This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my YouTube channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,220 subs and > 1,000 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place. 😊
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  6979.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my YouTube channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a YouTuber, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this YouTube thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)
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  6980. 😂😂😂 I died at 12:00. I appreciate your humor.
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  6981. Lol the qanon comedic pause ⚰
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  6982. Thanks!
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  6983. Dr Sledge. It may be important for you to contact Nile Red. I trust you will understand why. It would be one HELL of a coop video. Cheers. ❤
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  6984. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo Ono (Hawai'i for good) post In the Sharing the Aloha spirit of worthy YouTubers May I offer these too? of merit If there were not 3 Y'all not think it's me https://youtu.be/kiMwv1oSOEQ https://youtu.be/b8in2b4Wet4 https://youtu.be/nVRU_QsvFXM Hope you do click on these
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  6985. wish i could read an adorno essay demystifying this sad man
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  6986. Chapter ten, chapter ten, chapter ten... Congrats on XxXxX - kinda exploded from here
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  6987. I will own that I juxtaposed the n after tge o i. Demotic and not demonic...
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  6988. lol @ the joke about Paimon's agent
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  6989. You do an amazing job breaking down complex topics and making them accessible. You are easy to listen to and often leave me wondering exactly where you stand on topics, which is respectable. Your work is impressive. I would be happy to be one of your students at university!
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  6990.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you for the response. Can I say my sharing of your videos is getting much flack from closed-minded circles. I, on the other hand, have a great respect for your historical transparency. This video specifically really opened my eyes to the esoteric influences on not just the early church and the gnostic movements therein, but the surviving theology of Paulinism found in the church today
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  6991. Thanks!
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  6992. Mer
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  6993. Thank you, and congrats.
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  6994. Oh you are a dangerous man, Dr Sledge… This bibliophile now has physical copies of the Shomer Emunim and the Moshe Cordevero book you recommended, coz if I’m gonna dive into this I needs me the pretty books! But yes, you are a dangerous man especially to my wallet and bank account!!!
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  6995. Thanks!
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  6996. Your videos are a source of my ability to connect random things to anchant philosophy and bug my friends and for that I thank you xD
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  6997. ❤ seeing that Thorndike set everytime I watch this chanel... man. the text is open source thanfully
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  6998. Thank you
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  6999. Slightly embarrassed at how hard I laughed at the John Deere joke...
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  7000. 🔥
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  7001. This is so far above my head, but still incredibly fascinating. I’ve just started working through your study guide and your (incredible) catalog of videos. I’m excited to rewatch this in the future, and absorb more of it 😂 Thank you for making this kind of self-study accessible, I’m so grateful I found your channel 🙌
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  7002. Sent a comment via your website, but submitting another here in the off chance that the God/Goddess of 400 Year Old Roman Book Giveaways will view my entry with favor. I also ritually sacrificed my dignity to him/her, by chanting "Please let me win the book" repeatedly, while ritually sacrificing a nice bottle of cabernet. Thanks Dr. Sledge, for the most interesting channel on YouTube! It's, well, magical!
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  7003. Glad I discovered this channel. Great content
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  7004. Amazing channel!
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  7005. **off topic. What are those 3 boxes sitting by your right? I have no idea what they are, but they are beautiful!! Seriously.
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  7006. I've been spreading your channel like wildfire since I discovered it in March of this year, it's one of the top tier youtube channels I follow, absolutely superb content!
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  7007. Thanks!
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  7008. Thanks!
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  7009. Thanks!
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  7010. Thanks!
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  7011. thanks for the English link!! love ur channel
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  7012. Dear Dr. Sledge, your lectures are not only the truth as best as anyone could make them, extremely informative and entertaining. When I can afford to send you support I give you my word I will send you a support payment showing my appreciation. I learn more about the truth in one lecture than I would in entire semester college books with their high percentage of misinformation put in and most of the true pertenant facts taken out. Keep up the great work. NimoysDogSpock a.k.a. John Fryer
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  7013. Thanks
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  7014.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Many thanks! 👍
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  7015. You do great work
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  7016. Well done! Your remarks about the solidarity and community of a mystical language--one that Hildegard almost certainly shared with her nuns--are wonderful. And thanks for putting a good word in for my book; I'm sorry that it's so expensive. For a while, Palgrave issued a paperback (more like rubber than paper), but I don't know if that was a productive run.
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  7017. Thanks!
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  7018. Violently destabilizing metaphysics sounds like something you definitely shouldn't do. Yet somehow that string of words doesn't deter me either...
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  7019. Thanks!
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  7020.  @TheEsotericaChannel  dammit doctor, I didn’t ask for your perfectly rational explanation! But seriously this is the most learner friendly educational channel in the history of YouTube. Thank you for all you do.
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  7021. my heart 💜
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  7022.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Apologies doc I changed one word in my comment and lost me sticker from you, sorry to ask but please can you reissue. I was proud of it and your channel means so much to me and has given me something solid to rely on in this extraordinary journey I started on in the last few years. Serendipitous is the only word that can explain it.
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  7023. Thanks!
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  7024. Thanks bro
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  7025. Welcome to my world. Keep up cranking out the fabulous content
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  7026. re: subjectivity and interiority: thats why Archilochus & Sappho are so amazing.
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  7027. Thank you so much. You are a great scholar and teacher. I love your lessons. 🌻
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  7028. okay but your intro gotta be one of the best in all of yt
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  7029. Thanks!
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  7030. Thanks!
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  7031. Great content as always,
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  7032. Cool
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  7033. I can’t wait for the Schopenhauer episode! Sadboi magic, let’s go.
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  7034. Thanks!
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  7035. Thanks!
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  7036. Oh my gosh, I almost cried hearing to hear your story, I am so sorry this happened to you. This is why I always want to have context for absolutely everything going around me, learning the history is everyone's responsibility so that things like what happened to you, don't happen to other people. Thank you for sharing and providing with context
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  7037. at 37:38, 2 words I had to look up. "Monolatry" (seems very similar to henotheism) and what's that other word? "Anaconism"? You're not saying "anachronism", right? I don't hear an "r" at all. [ Oh! "An-icon-ism", as in "against icons". ]
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  7038. @TheEsotericaChannel  cinnamon, calamus, hyssop and myrrh. I grow the hyssop and hope to eventually grow the calamus too
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  7039. An entertaining and presentation this subject
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  7040. Thank you, it was very courageous to relive your trauma to inform us. Merci de votre honnêteté.
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  7041. Thanks again for sharing more high quality research, and the subtle humour too. I bought a long sleeved T -shirt just now. Keep up the good work!
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  7043. Thanks!
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  7044. Thanks!
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  7045. Appreciate the Krallice recommendation 🤘🏽 madness leads us all to black metal eventually.
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  7046. You made a miserable year actually bearable and for that I thank you. As for the knowledge I’ve gained I’m forever grateful as actual truth is hard to come by these days. For that I thank you sir.
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  7047. the original "sixth sense", twist at the end, the priest was also dead, (insert spooky noises here), rock on dr sledge
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  7048. Dr Sledge, you are a gem of free/all academia. Please keep doing what you are doing, because you're doing it well 🙏
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  7049. Her eating the flesh of the lepers reminds me a lot of the tantric aghoras. Even her saying that life is pregnant with God relates very much to their belief that all is God and divine.
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  7050. "Connoisseur of books of necromancy. #Lifegoals!" 😂
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  7051. Having lived thru this madness in my childhood has shaped so much of my worldview ever since. And for that, I am glad. The SP taught me just how toxic and broken so much of the modern world was becoming, and that the adults around me had mental illnesses and or suffered from lead poisoning - using bizarre religious myths as a cover. The SP also prepared me for more recent events. I knew enough to expect absolute madness from the same ppl during ...more recent times.
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  7052. I appreciate everything you do here. Will you be uploading recordings of these classes for those unable to attend in real time? I’m signing up for your Patreon JUST for this. Was regularly perusing your free YouTube material but this very subject has always been near and dear to me—you’ve won me over. Thank you again for your dedication to these things.
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  7053. Adore your channel always.
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  7054. amazing as always
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  7055.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you for your time and sharing your views, Dr.Sledge
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  7056. Agrippa but would as mystified by todays science as I am, a biochemist, by your sublime course on the DOP. Never in my 17 years of youtube have I been so professionally exposed to new ideas. I've started reading the 1533 version, at you behest, and together with your videos it has expanded my worldview, quite literally, beyond what I knew existed. Humbling thanks for your work and devotion to this channel, can't praise you enough ❤
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  7057. As always, thank you for your work. Does this relate to the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram?
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  7058. Thanks!
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  7059. Thanks!
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  7060. thac0 :D
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  7061. What a great thing you do, sir.
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  7062. Huge fan of this content and your commitment to academic integrity.
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  7063. I just listened to this and this is the first I viewed. You have secured my subscription to this channel. I throughly enjoyed how you expressed this information. Thanks!
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  7064. Thanks!
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  7065. May I borrow that whiskey for a moment to toast you? Masterpiece episode
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  7066. amazing!
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  7067. Thanks
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  7068. Great information. Thanks
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  7069. Thanks!
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  7070. Full offense, I'm not ready for this to be the end
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  7071. Nize. I hope we find the missing text.
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  7072. The time you put into compiling this excellent list is appreciated.
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  7073. Thank you for all you do. X
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  7074. Enlightening as always, thanks Doc.
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  7075. You are a gem Doc. Keep up the great and necessary work.
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  7076. Thanks!
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  7077. I come for the knowledge, but stay for the annotations under the pictures and jokes.
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  7078. This is the trippiest shit I’ve ever heard
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  7079. Thanks!
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  7080. Dr Sledge is goated. 🐐👌👌👌 Good luck to everyone participating in the giveaway. 🍀🤞☺️
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  7081. Thank you Dr. Sledge! Kabbalah chai! ⛲
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  7082. Thanks!
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  7083. 8:49 Purely talking from what humans can accomplish we can make art better than nature. For example we can refine and strengthen metals increasing their purity greatly compared to the natural forming metal
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  7084. So good. And an excellent addition to your convo with "Seekers of Unity". When able, I'll make my response over there.
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  7085. Justin, your storytelling is spectacular!
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  7086. Saving throw against poverty! Sort of like when one gets a PDF emailed to them from a faceless administrator, and the person assumes it's a reprimand for having skipped out on a year's worth of mandatory, unpaid training, only to find upon opening the file that it's a renewal of their annual adjunct contract, but not only that: the adjunct has received a $0.06 raise, which is a gesture of compassion, rather than a compensation to hedge the adjunct's salary against inflation. Just saying. I find great solace in using D&D metaphors to make sense of my adjunct existence, and I'm happy that you unknowingly co-sign my metaphors. Fantastic episode! My wife bought me the OT Pseudepigrapha edited by Charlesworth (1983) for my birthday. One day, when I have lots of money from yoloing into GameStop and AMC shares on Robinhood (and not from adjuncting) I will buy the hell out of many of the amazing books you track down and sell. I can't wait. (When I was a DM I used to write/draw my own original catalogs of absurd weapons and spells--sort of like the old Sears and RadioShack catalogs. One of my best products was Pants the Confuse Evil People. I thought you should know that. I'm not sure why)
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  7087. Very good❤
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  7088. Fascinating and well-done exposition of what I feel are extremely important matters regarding spiritual reality and human life. Big wow. Thank you.
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  7089. I would love to have an antique book on alchemic, magical, or astrological medicine if you have any available.
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  7090. Thanks! (:
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  7091. I am so thankful for your contributions 💜
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  7092. Thanks!
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  7093. Wow, just found your channel. Thank you so much, just wished my old religious education teacher was half this interesting.
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  7094. This video is so amazing, I'm in tears 😂 Thank you!
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  7095. Cordovero's got hands, y'all! 🤣
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  7096. As the kid who was into Wicca (still am to some degree) and was into D&D, I remember being chased by churchgoers through my school, had to hide in the toilets (also gay, so this is a triple whammy). This was a really well laid-out timeline of motivations and fervours. Bravo sir.
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  7097. Thank Yahweh it's... Tuesday?
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  7098. Thank you brother Sledge. Quite enlightening. 🙏😇
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  7099. Dammit brill....
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  7100. "The only appropriate response is gratefulness." - Brother David Steindl-Rast
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  7101. Thanks!
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  7102. Thanks
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  7103. Teufelsdreck!
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  7104. Good stuff
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  7105. Thanks!
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  7106. Thanks!
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  7107. Excellent topic
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  7108. Thanks!
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  7109.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yes, that makes sense in the American academic environment. For us Germans, half our income already goes to the public good like universities etc., so that price came as a bit of a shock 😞And apparently I already got the early bird discount😀 Anyway, have fun, it's gonna be awesome!!! 🙂
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  7110. Man, your deadpan humour is outstanding. How do keep a straight face? Newly subbed.
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  7111. Thank you for this balanced and thoughtful introduction
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  7112. Hey Doc, Have you considered publishing your scripts, edited into a book? You could use the Indian company Gyan Books to have it leather bound with gold leaf and still be cheaper than Brill...
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  7113. Thanks!
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  7114. Thanks!
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  7115. Thanks!
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  7116. Happy Thanksgiving!🦃. Also, I bet you are a D&D legend
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  7117. Schrodinger's flask lol
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  7118. Your channel has been so helpful and informative for me (your collaboration with Genetically Modified Skeptic is a personal favorite). Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!
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  7119. Thank you so much for your contribution to this world. It is not only refreshing, but makes me hopeful for humanity to see someone who has faith not giving in to dogma. Openly and fearlessly embracing historical facts to deliver truth. You rock He-bro!🤟
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  7120. Gratitude from the heart for your on perpetual! efforts
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  7121. When I saw u lift that tome my head went: SHEEEEEEEEEESHH :face-purple-wide-eyes:
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  7122. 15:45 😁
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  7123. Brilliant
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  7124. Thank You 🙏 and for all your hard work in preparing this video presentation.🎉.
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  7125. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  7126. Amazing video! Did you ever get around to a video about translating CLM 849?
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  7127. Best channel on youtube
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  7128. Thanks!
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  7129. Best video for me. We say the only thing that changes is changed. Do you think people egos have changed. Has pride twisted ego. Being proud of an achieving
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  7130.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Despite that, it's still an interesting subject.
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  7131. Please make videos of the Olympic Spirits
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  7132. 대단합니다. 꼭 필요한 정보, 주제였습니다. 이게 제 피드에 뜰 줄은 몰랐네요. 세상이 이제 변하려나 봅니다. 다른 영상도 볼게요. 감사합니다
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  7133. Believe it or not I am cribbing off this for a paid freelance writing gig, my first!
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  7134. Thanks!
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  7135. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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  7136. The bowley family has genuinely been nothing but kind and caring to the community and their students. They do not deserve this treatment
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  7137. Thanks!
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  7138. Nice
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  7139. Thanks Dr. Sledge!
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  7140. Wow I love your content and have learned so much My favorite character is Flavius Josephus I never new or learned much about Jewish people from the past. I am a machanic and most of what I read is technical. Keep up the good work.
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  7141. Thanks!
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  7142. Thanks!
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  7143. Always a must click when Esoterica uploads!
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  7144. Oh how I wish I could give this a thousand upvotes. As always, priceless, BS-free, and totally brilliant.
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  7145. Please do Trithemius, Steganographia!
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  7146. Thanks!
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  7147. Thank you, Dr. Sledge! I really love your channel and will be happy when I can "thank" you with more $$ one day! In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy your unique and refreshing combination of academic rigor, relaxed personality and humor. You don't find that combination very often.
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  7148. Thanks!
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  7149. Thanks
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  7150. Lawful exorcist is like an authorised lawyer or distributor of software, as compared to the distributor of pirateware; or god forbid malware (witches)
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  7151. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Lilith R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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  7152. I won't be able to attend the livestream (work schedule conflict), but I signed up as patron. Thank you, sir!
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  7153. Thanks!
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  7154. God bless your channel It was so awesome I understand a lot of this and so want to dive deep
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  7155. Really appreciate all the attention paid to the material circumstances of the text, as in the Hermetic/Neoplatonist anthology. We need to understand how these books were used to understand the how the ideas in em had any meaning to their users.
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  7156. Thanks
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  7157. Holy shit! I was a senior at Brandon when this happened and had a best friend who got swept up in all of this. Even I was affected by it, though not nearly to the degree that you were. It was nothing short of a modern day witch hunt. I wondered why your name was so familiar. The fact you discussed this as level headed as you did given the fact that you were absolutely railroaded and the blatant constitutional violations involved says a lot. It was both enraging and frightening to see how quickly the law and logic were just thrown out the window by the mob. Glad you were able to rise above all of it. I don't expect a comment, but I did want to say something if for no other reason than to say that the true story never has been told and what happened to you was a complete miscarriage of the legal system. Some of us remember.
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  7158. I have been meaning to look into this very subject for a couple of years. Thank you once again, Dr. Sledge.
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  7159. So we have swung round to a Medieval form of educational system. Thank you.
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  7160. Thanks
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  7161. Thanks
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  7162. 17th Century Pokémon. You're killing me here, Doc. :D
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  7163. Starring Molly Ringwald....or Tori Amos :D
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  7164. What a treat. Such a reverent experience for a distiller.
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  7165. If someone achieves transmutation let me know cause I want to be an alchemical contractor so badly
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  7166. i love this
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  7167. Thanks, structured and interesting!
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  7168. Thanks!
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  7169. Thank you for this amazing content.
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  7170. What would "betraying gnosis" even mean? Actively chosing to worship the archons over the god of the pleroma?
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  7171. This channel is superb. I'm so happy I found it. Thank you.
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  7172. I can’t wait to rock my Esoterica shirt at the farmer’s market…or the brewery…or my sister’s church LoL
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  7173. Thanks
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  7174. I would definitely watch that movie lol
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  7175. Thanks!
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  7176. Thanks
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  7177. A wonderful channel and person to spend time with. Happy student here. Thankyou
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  7178. What beautiful food for thought 😍 really appreciate your in depth, well thought out content, and clearly communicated content!
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  7179.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Your comparison of Jung and Eliade's perspective to pre-translation ideas about hieroglyphics is clever.
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  7180. @31:47 How the hell did you know I had a copy of that book on my shelf?!?!
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  7181. oh man this is one is really great and so well put together. It's seems even the light of the sun is not exempt from cycles of condemnation and exhalation.
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  7182. Thank you , Dr. Justin !
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  7183. Thanks!
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  7184. Thanks!
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  7185. Thanks! Cant wait to see where this gnostic demiurge tale goes, I see the third released yesterday so I get a double dose today. The first lecture was fascinating!
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  7186. You keep getting more and more awesome. Keep it up Dr. Sledge!
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  7187. Danke!
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  7188. Where did that angel get that blue shirt??
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  7189. Thanks for a great year, Dr. Sledge!
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  7190. Thanks!
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  7191. Chopin Nocturne No. 9 - such a great intro
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  7192. Thanks!
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  7193. This video is absolutely stunning! The angelic language is so soothing and peaceful.
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  7194. Thanks!
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  7195. Thank you for covering this.
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  7196. Thanks!
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  7197. Thanks!
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  7198. Awesome info
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  7199. Thanks!
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  7200. I really hope Kimmy Gibbler is an ascended master.
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  7201. Thanks!
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  7202. Is that a man-kever?
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  7203. 26:57 gave me LIFE
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  7204. Well, that was riveting, bit scary for you my friend! But such a cool episode!
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  7205. I just bought an Agrippa bust that I believe is by the same artist that did your statue of Dee, I Can't wait to get it!
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  7206. Thanks!
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  7207. "kind of vanilla" im dying XD
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  7208. in LVX
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  7209. Interesting. I wonder where the classic depiction of "Death"/the reaper with a scythe comes from.
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  7210. salam from Persian enjoying your work my Brother
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  7211. Bastion of stability due to my country's ingenious foreign policy. Brilliant sarcasm as always. ❤ Be safe, always, everywhere.
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  7212. Thanks!
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  7213. J-ditty AND phreaking? I'm in 💚
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  7214. I'm Kuckoo for Kabbalah!
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  7215. Thanks!
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  7216. Thanks
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  7217. Thanks!
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  7218. Thanks!
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  7219. Fantastic channel, thank you so much for your work and effort
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  7220. Thanks!
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  7221. The names of these demons 😲😂🔥
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  7222. Poor Alkhemist! That mercury most've had poison a few them!
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  7223. fantastic
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  7224. very excited for the new year videos! yes more greco egyptian, PGM material please! Also Lingustics and Magick are a favorite subjects. I enjoy listening to your videos as I do my daily journal entries. Also your book reviews and suggestions have added more than a dozen new tomes in my library. Thank you for your work! Happy New Year!
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  7225. You’re the best. ❤
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  7226. Subscribe Subscribe Subscribe 👍🏻
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  7227. Thanks
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  7228. Fantastic episode. Thanks so much
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  7229. Great job. I am enjoying your material so far. There is always more to learn. I am so happy to have found your channel.
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  7230. I understand her hell. Untresting
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  7231. I got curious about how thoth and hermes got associated with each other and did a search. I sighed with frustration as all these magical wierdos claimed to have the answer. I sighed with relief when i say your vid. Ah! A source i can trust! Thankyou thankyou. everyone, please give this guy money! Combating the idiocy of the internet is a worthy endeavor. My friend calls you the Hebrew Hammer (yep you can have that 😆)
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  7232. Thank you YouTube algorithm ❤.
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  7233. Haaaaa. I forgot everything you said except treasure map. 😂. Just kidding
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  7234. Bro... I'm gonna have to have some coffee and come back cause Google's algorithm didn't properly prepare me for this first thing in the morning
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  7235. THOTH THe Original THought....
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  7236. This channel is amazing 🎉
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  7237. Right up my alley! Very well done!
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  7238. Bravo! Excellent video Dr. Thank you.
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  7239. Thanks!
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  7240. I found your channel about a week ago and have been watching daily since. Thank you so much. Quick question - As a fan of Kalashnikov rifles I've noticed the the Russian oiler bottle in the background quite often. It's always on the back of my mind when I'm watching your videos and just have to know what it's doing there!
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  7241. Mind the gap.
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  7242. solid presentation bro, listening on repeat its so good
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  7243. He is freakin’ awesome!! I adore his sense of humor!! It is good to connect with you, dude! Carry on!!! You are blatantly genuine, dear friend, and a breath of fresh air!! 😮‍💨😮🥱😴😮‍💨 (repeat)
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  7244. Yet another banger episode 💯
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  7245. Stunning, thank you.
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  7246. Dr.Sledge , you hammered this topic down to something ican understand !
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  7247. Thank you so very much for making these videos. Just found you page!
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  7248. Thanks!
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  7249.  @TheEsotericaChannel  hope you get well soon
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  7250. thanks
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  7251. Thanks!
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  7252. I absolutely love your teachings, thank you.
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  7253. Thanks!
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  7254. Thank you for this channel
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  7255.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I understand, just very curious on this part! Thanks for clarifying! Yes, I have some DNA from those parts and I am fair skinned when indoors more so it makes sense but I am only about 30% and I am guessing there was a mix in cultures back then too.
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  7256.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I completely understand that. I apologize if my curiosity was a little too probing! I love gaining the knowledge and hearing people’s perspectives on that part, so thank you for gracing me with your time Sir! 😊🙏🏼
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  7257. Am I the only one who gets chills from listening to the inscription of the Merneptah Stele
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  7258. I am very interested in the book, I’m a new patreon patron, and donor. I don’t want that to impact any thing but I want to say thank you. I am very grateful for the knowledge you have given me thru these videos. It’s really a passion of mine for awhile now.
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  7259. Thanks!
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  7260. I have a question about Patreon- I hadn’t ever been on their website until a minute ago. I’ve always heard of Patreon.. Are these lectures on that site itself? If you’re a Patreon supporter, are you able to watch these without being on YouTube? Two questions evidently..
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  7261. I am fairly new to your channel and have been thoroughly enjoying your content.
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  7262. Thanks!
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  7263. Thanks!
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  7264. Great stuff Justin! As a Magician I find this stuff fascinating!
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  7265. Thanks!
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  7266. Thanks!
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  7267. I would rather see Julia Roberts cast as Sophia with George Clooney playing the Demiurge, in the style of a William Blake painting of Urizen. We are a sophisticated audience here and we can handle the abstraction.
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  7268. Fantastic
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  7269. I love your work and like your merch, can you provide a video to go along with the spell of invisibility shirt.? How was the sigil derived? Looks like some magic square work on the left, the dagger in the middle, and the right side more magic squares.? I would love to be able to explain how the spell works.
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  7270. That's why I asked, as your videos have really helped me grasp philisophical topics with the limited time I have. I have read Platos Parmenides, and it was an interesting read, but I can't say I really understood it. I have also got an e Book on the text, that would normally cost about 100€ for free, by using my university's library, which is really cool, but with philosophy being very different from the subject that I am studying (Pharmacy), I haven't had time or energy to go into the topic with the attention it deserves and needs.
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  7271. Thanks!
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  7272. You are Appreciated
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  7273. Great run of lectures Doc. Thx.
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  7274. Love your video series. My profession is engineering so I don’t have the same time to invest in these topics that I find so interesting. It’s fantastic that you have a channel breaking these topics down. I bought a Thoth shirt from your shop. 😊
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  7275. Boost
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  7276. Thanks
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  7277. Are you a rabbi?
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  7278. I would love to see more videos about Paracelsus. Learning more admit him as a man, who he was, how he got his start etc. would be interesting.
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  7279. Can you do a video on Lilith?
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  7280. Thank you. I trust John Vervake when he says something and he recommended to watch this ❤❤❤
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  7281. I have just come across your channel. This is the first video I have seen. I truly enjoyed your delivery and information. I will be watching the rest of your videos. I liked your content very much.
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  7282. Thanks!
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  7283. Congratulations to the winner. I am genuinely happy for you. May you keep this book safe and in good condition and, when the time cones, pass it on to another worthy recipient who does the same, and so forth. In Love and Light.
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  7284. I've had dreams where I'm dead and a weird man is telling me that next time i need to undertake this And i think i agree but!!!!!! Dude these rituals scare me
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  7285. Its funny that you mention Final fantasy because they design their games from this kind of stuff.
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  7286. Great resources! Thank you!
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  7287. Let’s go Beguine ladies!! 👏🏻👏🏻 this made me more empowered and ready to conquer my inner magic ❤️
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  7288. Thanks!
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  7289. Always love when you bring down the Sledgehammer 💫
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  7290.  @TheEsotericaChannel  😬I hope that as well! 🙏
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  7291. Thanks!
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  7292. Nice video Doc!
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  7293. Thanks!
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  7294. Fantastic
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  7295. 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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  7296. how do you read this book? how to google it?
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  7297. ty
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  7298. Awesome! Thank you Sir
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  7299. Thanks!
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  7300. Thanks! And Awesome job!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🖖🏾
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  7301. Love to see an Odin vid
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  7302. "Relatively low..."
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  7303. Thanks!
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  7304. Thanks!
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  7305. another great video as always
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  7306.  @TheEsotericaChannel  what a beautiful reply. So many implications packed into 4 words containing all the grace necessary.
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  7307. Thanks!
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  7308. I uhh... Thank you again.
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  7309. Dear Dr Sledge ~Your blogs blow my mind, thank you for expanding my knowledge on these subjects..Sincerely J
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  7310. Thanks!
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  7311. Thanks!
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  7312. Love the Panopticon shirt, Dr. Sledge 🤙
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  7313. Thanks!
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  7314. Great video! I have a scarificator on one of my shelves, too :)
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  7315. I need to grow more kidneys, to sell, to be able to afford these books. ;)
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  7316. Thanks!
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  7317. I love u Mr esoterica
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  7318. Oh! So that's why the Betz keeps one asking to stick things into someone who died of violence.'its to transfer the life to the spell
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  7319.  @TheEsotericaChannel  A misunderstanding that is sadly cultivated by hucksters who have more money to spread their ideas than most academic institutions do.
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  7320. Thanks!
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  7321. Good lord! I am so so sorry, this is so beyond fucked up!!!!!!!!
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  7322. Great content!
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  7323. Thank you for this guidance. 💜💜💜
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  7324. I am so excited for this series! My son is named Cornelius and I’m into occultism, but not until AFTER I named him did I even know of Agrippa! Thank you so much for this information ❤️ and all the work you do and share.
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  7325. I can't believe these videos are free
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  7326. ❤️
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  7327. Thanks!
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  7328. Oh I am looking forward to this
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  7329. Thanks
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  7330. Would love to own that beautiful tome
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  7331.  @TheEsotericaChannel  what a horrible personal ordeal! Much respect to you for sharing your experience.
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  7332. Great video! I'm very much looking forward to your video on the calls. Blessings🙏
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  7333. Thanks you ❤️ very enlightening and well presented
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  7334. You’ve achieved your goal to inform both alumni and prospective students—I’m an alum and I have a college sophomore who is considering Millsaps. After hearing this I’m not sure that will continue.
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  7335. Thanks!
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  7336. What happens if the demons lie? I mean how would you even know? They are demons. Seems easier to use necromancy to summon an honest person for honest answers. Of course, one answer might be "I don't know".
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  7337. Esoterica and Ixi - a wonderful collaboration! ❤
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  7338. I love both those albums!
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  7339. I want "Stultum Misereo - Magister T" on a t-shirt
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  7340. Nice video; kind of a good idea you might consider for every year, I think; look back a bit at what was accomplished, and share your plans for the channel for the coming year. Much of the success of the channel is, I think, due to your skill in making listeners feel like they have something of a home here. Here's an idea (which for all I know has been suggested before): bring your significant other on for a chat; you two could discuss mutual, channel-appropriate interests or field questions together.
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  7341. Your channel has grown because you have done a brilliant job in explaining the difficult. You deserve all the success you get. Well done and thank you for your hard work.
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  7342. the thumbnail looks androgynous with the right amount of eye squinting
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  7343. Always a pleasure doc
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  7344. Thanks
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  7345. I wouldn't go as far as to call you fundamentally irredeemable. If I was a girl that liked to wager I'd say you'll probably end up as some fairly literal embodiment of your name.
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  7346. Love the band name alerts
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  7347. Thanks!
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  7348. Thanks!
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  7349. Thanks!
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  7350. Here's my entry for the book giveaway. Still my favorite channel 4 years later! Thanks!
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  7351. I love watching your work
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  7352. I haven't commented on here and years, but after THAT fascinating picture of someone's spiritual journey... Damn, I got it so ridiculously good. Thank you for real sizing my suffering. I'll pass on the bathwater and decomposing flesh.😅
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  7353. Great work. Your work is a blessing in my life. I like this Paracelsus guy. Following.
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  7354. Very interesting. Thank you.
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  7355. :goodvibes:
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  7356. Thank you for this insightful video. Very informative. I was a young kid in the 80’s but I DO remember D&D being banned in our home and other such nonsense.
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  7357. Thank-you and I am happy that you are able to work in your field
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  7358. Nice cool
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  7359. Thank you for making these videos. I can't express how much I enjoy learning from you!
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  7360. Thanks!
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  7361. Only a sane person can doubt their sanity. The very fact that you questioned that shows you possess the intellectual capacity to think and operate on this plane of existence just fine! I AM. Two words that are good to keep im mind.
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  7362. 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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  7363. I grew up on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain not far from where you grew up and we must be about the same age. I remember that event well. From what I can gather I think had we known each other at the time we'd have probably been friends. So sorry you had to go through that, all of it. We got targeted a lot. I actually got to work on the benefit record that was put out for the West Memphis 3 and was always proud that I'd been able to do some little bit of good for some kids that had their lives stolen from them by sensationalist media and overzealous prosecuters. I quite enjoy your channel. Thanks for doing what you do.
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  7364. 13:06 As the dwarves from the Witcher say: “Duvvelsheyss!”
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  7365. Thanks!
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  7366. Hello ❤
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  7367. Awesome! Thanks for the info!
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  7368. 🙏💜💕🙏💕💜
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  7369. Thanks!
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  7370. Thank you
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  7371. Thanks!
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  7372. Thanks for the great channel Dr. Sledge! And Happy (Gregorian) New Year to you and your family!
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  7373. Big fan Justin here in Saint Louis I was really intested in that lol treasure map episode and keep up with the "GREAT WORK" brother and peace.
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  7374. Esoterica and Gnostic informant is all I need.
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  7375. Thank you for your content ❤
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  7376. I just really love the smell of old books. The contents of this one would add to the funk. Please consider me.
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  7377. 🙏🎉👌
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  7378. This is one of the most profound videos that I have ever watched. Thank you.
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  7379. I'm looking forward to the seminar!
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  7380. I want that book
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  7381. Hi brother! I love you to speak about Zoroastrizam. Lookin forward for those ones. Love and light to you.
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  7382. Thanks!
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  7383. Hello!! I was used to watch every episode of your videos and i always was looking forward for every one of them but for some reason i stop receiving notifications, i thought you stopped doing it. I got some notifications from publications of pictures like today. So i was curious and i stop by on your channel and you have several videos in the past weeks. And my notifications of your channel was on ALL. Im not sure what was going on. I try to unsubscribed and re subscribed to see if corrects the issue. Just make sure you are not being blocked in any way! Cheers mate, wish you the best! Need to catch up on your videos!
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  7384. Thanks!
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  7385. Nothing appeared here. There must have been a missing semi colon somewhere in translation.
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  7386.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I'll hold you to that lol wish me luck tonite
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  7387. Thanks for the introduction, Justin. It’s nice to put a name to the face. 😊
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  7388. This really was a good one! Thank you all at Esoterica for gifting us with your knowledge and insight. A channel to be treasured, for true, as any good teachers should be. Well done, and thank you, again. 🔥❤️🔥
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  7389. Thanks!
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  7390. Thank you for these lectures.
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  7391. Hmm cyberpunk mummies
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  7392. Just think of all the righteous Akh-holes pulling the boat of Ra around...
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  7393. Thanks!
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  7394. Thanks!
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  7395. Another great episode.
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  7396. "...Thanks JC..." LOL the bits of dry humour you throw in here and there 😆
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  7397. Ahem; Donatine Alphonse Sade?
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  7398. Canale fantastico. Finalmente un canale che spiega chiaramente a chi non è ebreo le mille sfaccettature dell’ebraesimo. Grazie per le preziose informazioni
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  7399. I would love to see a longer episode on Cora Hatch!
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  7400. Truly brilliant this was wonderful
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  7401. SO MUCH FRAKTUR :D
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  7402. It's wild to me how fast this place is growing
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  7403. Great video. I learned a lot from your detailed explanations
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  7404. William Blake is my heart.
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  7405. Thanks!
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  7406. Thanks!
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  7407. Thanks
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  7408. Thanks!
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  7409. Thanks
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  7410. Absolutely NEED a dark metal "Relapsing Heretic" tank top (Florida🥵) &/ or sweatshirt for Winters (like right now! lol) Pleazzze⁉️❣️🙏🏻🥺🙏🏻
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  7411. 🫀🖤🫀
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  7412. Stoked to have this! Nice to follow up on the recent SHWEP interview with Kevin Bladel which got into the myth of the Neoplatonic refugees in Harran, not to mention all the great work on Islamicate Hermeticism from Liana Saif...
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  7413. Thanks!
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  7414. I've been waiting for this one!!!!!
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  7415. Thanks!
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  7416. Amazing work! I´m so happy the "vortex" brought me here!
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  7417. Thank you for all your wonderful, enlightening content showcasing the common magical and philosophical threads throughout Western history. I'd love to be considered for the book giveaway as well.
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  7418. 16:59 as a CS major i approve this analogy. Literally exactly how I was understanding this concept lol.
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  7419.  @TheEsotericaChannel  cool! I just found this one and it's excellent.
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  7420. Thanks!
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  7421. Bedankt, Dutch for Thanks.
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  7422. Thanks!
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  7423. Thanks!
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  7424. SO glad you are on Patreon! See you there. Absolutely adore all of your hard work.
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  7425. All Great knowledge thank you
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  7426. Dr sledge, I would very much like to host you at my B&B here in the Manistee National Forrest, 30 miles east of luddington. Or perhaps the private cabin that I offer on property would be more to your liking. The conversation would be fantastic and I think you may find my personal library very interesting. Aubertdendotcom. Thank you for the content you so graciously provide; I enjoy it very much .
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  7427. Thanks!
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  7428. Excellent, thank you!
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  7429. Fantastic. Very helpful.
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  7430. Thanks!
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  7431. 🎉 happy belated birthday my dude 🎉
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  7432. I don't have the constitution to have not been floored by the savings throw comment
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  7433. Thanks!
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  7434.  @TheEsotericaChannel  that's so cool. I'm going to have to take up drinking absinthe! Lol
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  7435. Thanks
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  7436. Love your channel, and all the dry humor.
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  7437. This video was amazing
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  7438. I am relatively new to your channel, but really enjoying your work. The alchemists and mystics are proving to be my entry into Medieval theology and philosophy, as informed largely by your excellent videos. I am also easily distracted by all the items and books you have in the background :). What is that copper device you have in the background, that looks like an alchemist's distillery? I may have to add such a device to my collection.
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  7439. Blessed Samhain 🖤🎃🖤
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  7440. The Ascended master Kimmy Gibbler😂😂😂 It was such a surprise to throw that in... i laughed so Hard i spit my drink out my nose.😂
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  7441. Christmas came early with the release of this video!
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  7442. I just a believe but your video have given me a small window into your amazing world of study
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  7443. Took me ~9 minutes in to realize that this was an April fools joke. I need to pay attention more 😅
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  7444. thankyou.... very cool info
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  7445. Excellent sir
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  7446. Sh’koyach.
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  7447. Very insightful stuff
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  7448. I've been looking for a video like this for the longest time. I wish there was more, but the search is clogged with modern reimaginings, and clickbait.
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  7449. Such great vids lately. Always consistently among the very best content on YouTube. Dr. Sledge has been at the top of his game for years.
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  7450. Echoes of the Abyss 👍
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  7451. I love the intro of this channel.
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  7452. Who was this Rorschach guy and why was he always painting pictures of my parents fighting?
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  7453. I love the faint "sounds fun".
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  7454. Danke!
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  7455.  @TheEsotericaChannel  lol the Set Animal truly is a pile of options lolol
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  7456. Thanks!
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  7457. What I like about you is your deeth of knowledge
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  7458. Some of these videos make me feel dizzy I mean that in a good way more euphoric or a sense of dipping my toes in waters not meant to be bathed in
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  7459. I like your videos because you cover so many topics and make my mind reason more every day :)
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  7460. It's funny, I've been learning a new programming language recently and trying to extract information from the opaque documentation strikes such a resonance with your description of attempting to penetrate the works of Paracelsus. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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  7461. another fascinating video
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  7462. Thanks!
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  7463. 🤙 aloha Dr Sledge on the weeks that there's no new upload We can catch up on a past episode !
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  7464. 6:12 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 I know what your referring to but that just made me laugh so hard right now
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  7465.  @TheEsotericaChannel  holy cow, thank you! I don’t know how I missed it. I appreciate you. I will copy and paste that link to myself so I can be more useful in the future!
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  7466. Thanks!
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  7467. I'm going backwards on all your videos thanks ✌️
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  7468. Love your channel brother ! Good job
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  7469. Thanks!
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  7470. Very well done!
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  7471. Thanks!
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  7472. In essence, the Rosicrucian myth was a literary hoax that transcended its origins, becoming a cultural catalyst. Whether joke, allegory, or aspirational blueprint, it underscores humanity's enduring fascination with secret wisdom and collective transformation.
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  7473. Thanks!
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  7474. Thanks!
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  7475. Great video. Beautiful illustrations. To feel you know something (anything) seems to immediately challenge humility. To place concern in divine redemption has a way of pixelating this challenge and allows it to be non personal. It may be the only way to 'know' a structure and to teach it with humility? Great video :)
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  7476. Thanks
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  7477. 0:17 - 0:25 i almost died from that.
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  7478. Congrats Justin! An amazing resource!
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  7479. Quite interesting! You had an excellent idea for a movie, I must add.
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  7480. 3:31 really amping up the dramatic pauses, aren't you, lol.
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  7481. Bad saving throw? Lol. Love this stuff. Thank you! You gained another subscriber.
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  7482. Thanks!
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  7483. Thanks for mentioning this on Dr. Puca’s livestream. Now I’m one of the people who has heard of this fascinating manuscript.
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  7484. Aye, Cap'n...I grabbed me cask of rum one night when I happened upon a copy of Brill treasure. I think my rum was growing fungus because the Pistis Sophia was a trip into Dante's Wonderland.
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  7485. i can't wait to start workign again to donate!!!!
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  7486. Dude ! You are awesome! I understand why you mentioned that you were friends with a "head cheerleader"... Most of us do...you had a Crissy in your life !!!
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  7487. Dr sledge i just wanted to say im a huge fan of growing crowns, urinating water like an animal, and becoming a swallow
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  7488. This is a great upload, thanks so muc. Subbed.
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  7489. I think your as cool as you are knowledgeable and dare i say cute 😂 no other chanel gibes such in depth esoteric knowledge so thanks for your time and effort and for your dry matter off fact dead pan patter and humour ❤
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  7490. When Dr.Sledge speaks i can hear adventure running on my veins like a knight facing the world on a Chrétien de Troyes novel.
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  7491. i practice every day to your videos, you're great
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  7492. So much love and admiration! ❤️💎❤️
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  7493. Thanks!
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  7494. What a nightmare, I cannot express how shocked I am… there’s no point, this system is broken.
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  7495. ​ @TheEsotericaChannel and then I get to 32:30 😳
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  7496. Hello Sir, how can I reach you directly?
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  7497. Thanks!
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  7498. Saved!!! Looking very forward to this episode later tonight when I have the time to dig in! ❤
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  7499. Your videos are wonderful!! Thank you!
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  7500. Great video, really enjoyable. Just wanted to give you props.
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  7501. Gotta love being from the South. Sadly, these cycles still have echos.
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  7502. Secret agent baby LOL
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  7503. Thanks, you’re making me feel better.❤
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  7504. 1:56 in and I already subscribed.
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  7505. Hahaha!! I like rose 🍷
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  7506. I need part 2 purty please
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  7507. Sorry I'm late to the party, but awesome as always!
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  7508. Just found your channel last week, been really enjoying the tone and tenor of your videos, and the information that you are sharing. Commenting to help push up that algorithm. Good luck, Dr. and an eloquent defense of what is and should be a basic right.
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  7509. Glad u didnt explode or get mercury poisoning or whatever! luv ya vids
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  7510. bad savings throws, HAHAHA way to throw in a joke hahah <3
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  7511. Thank you both!
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  7512. Thank you for covering this subject. I have been curious of this "book" but haven't been able to get my hands on a copy
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  7513. I can’t wait for you to tell me your upcoming plans! Thank you so much for everything , you deserve 100k so hard
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  7514. I wonder if Flo Rida was talking about the Shekinah when he said:" Shawty had them apple bottom jeans (jeans) Boots with the fur (with the fur) The whole club was lookin' at her She hit the floor (she hit the floor) Next thing you know Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low" Seems a bit suspicious that he would say low 7+1 times
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  7515. Thank you! I have beeen hoping for an episode like this.
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  7516. Ears Free & J-Ditty chasing booty!
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  7517. I love listening to your vids while I'm at work , especially this one , it's fantastic but I'd like to ask from a beginner standpoint what book(s) would you recommend for a better understanding of esoteric or magical practices/knowledge
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  7518. Amazing, ty for your time 😇🙏👑doc sledge the maji hammer ⚒️
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  7519. Dr. Sledge, I've just now only watched two videos, yet I strongly believe you could produce a great video on humor. For the weightiness and dryness some may assume this subject matter necessitates your wit and humor show that is not necessary. I'm overjoyed to have found your channel.
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  7520. Thanks
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  7521. 🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo Poem Alert for those who know me not From the sleep deprived Me, Myself and I . . . My most inner child danced smiling with glee. And this woman/child is your devotee. Even child/woman laughed & laughed & laughed she had to go, um, urinate.
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  7522. Thanks
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  7523. very clear and detailed. Thank you
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  7524. Thanks!
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  7525. The more I study history and modern moral panics the more I find nearly all of them have their roots in just racism and anti-Semitism. The anti-vaxx movement in America started as early as the 1600s with so called pious people being against the small pox inoculation because most information on it came from black slaves.
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  7526. Thanks!
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  7527. I'm really grateful for this channel, Dr. Sledge. I'm not in a position to support you right now, but someday I'll kick in my share. Thank you.
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  7528. Ya got me hooked!!!!
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  7529. As someone who has waded through some of the nonsense you outline in your opening remarks, I had avoided this video. I needn't have worried. Thank you do much for this introduction.
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  7530. This was a very important video. Thanks for sharing.
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  7531. Everytime I hear this kind of accounts I think of the poor Damien Echols. So terribly sorry to hear you doctor could have been another innocent undergoing that horror.
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  7532. Thanks!
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  7533. Fantastic video
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  7534. This so so deep and eye opening great work champ
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  7535. @narrator - I appreciate your astute knowledge of Latin as the spoken word, being that it's a dead language which is read & not spoken interpersonally. Good.
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  7536. Thank you for all you do. Keep up the good work.
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  7537. Thank you for this wonderful and thorough explanation of this movement. I'm so sorry you were effected by it. It is fascinating to see the economic links - thank you for sharing your insights and research with us.
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  7538. Brilliant breakdown thanks Dr Sledge
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  7539. You have an amazing sense of humour 😂😂😂. Loved the video!
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  7540. Thanks!
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  7541. Great video for a friday
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  7542. Thanks!
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  7543. Herman Triscuit Meniscus
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  7544. This will probably be popular even if it's not my favorite kind of content it seems that it does well with your algorithm never the less excellent video always glad to see new content from you.
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  7545. Speaking Of, here is Djedhuty now
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  7546. Thanks!
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  7547. Hi from my friend living in Basel
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  7548. Thanks! Awesome channel
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  7549. Yes! OG Adam McLean gets props! Nice!
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  7550. Thanks!
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  7551. Great stuff
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  7552. Thanks!
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  7553. Happy Halloween.
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  7554. Funny, how many of these rituals are only remembered via hypnosis, etc…
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  7555. Official my new favorite channel 💜
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  7556. Yay! Another great video from one of my favourite creators. Thank you!
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  7557. lazy comment for the algo
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  7558. Thanks!
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  7559. Good stuff 👏 👍
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  7560. Is that a Romanian AK oil bottle in the background?
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  7561. Thanks!
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  7562. I listened to this while cooking, so not entirely paying attention. After a while I just kept hearing "Dang ol' chevy", and imagined Boomhauer from King of the Hill as a Renaissance mystic. "Hey man, talkin' about that dang ol' Chevy, y'know? Talkin' about, like, enochian wisdom and secrets and I tell you hwut, that dang ol Chevy just keeps Goin off man. Like dang ol magic".
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  7563. Thanks
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  7564. I found one rare Peter Hammer-Print 1725 and feel blessed! :trophy-yellow-smiling:
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  7565. Another insightful post
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  7566. Awesome! Thank you.
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  7567. Thank you for sharing.
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  7568. I don't know what I find more astounding. The religious writing surviving in a place where the inquisition held sway until the death of Franco; A twinkle of a new section of the Zohar. I just decided that it is a pretty good time to be retired.
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  7569. Really enjoying this topic and your approach as it’s concise, detailed and entertaining
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  7570. Aw, man. Things have been so tight over the last few months. That being said, last month was my ten-year anniversary with the company I work in. In more comfortable times, there was a pretty relieving financial bonus that accompanied that. I promise, Dr. Sledge, that should that bonus still be a thing and I get mine, I am most definitely going to put my name into the hat for that document of yours. It is beautiful! And I've wanted to hit the "join" button on your channel for ages. So holding thumbs. 'Cause I'll be damned if you don't rock like Noah's Arc on a particularly stormy night, or any similar vessel that might be found throughout the worlds various literary works involving a devastating flood taking place at around that time.
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  7571. Thanks!
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  7572. Thanks
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  7573. That's worth a coffee
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  7574. Thanks!
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  7575. You are a real treasure, do you understand me?!
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  7576. Thanks!
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  7577. Thanks
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  7578. Thanks!
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  7579. Shalom brother from Saint Louis Mo.Wishing you and your blessings this season be safe.
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  7580. I absolutely love your channel. I only recently found it but it's been an immense help to my creative writing and world building. Thanks for all the effort and work you put into this channel!
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  7581. Thanks!
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  7582. Thanks!
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  7583. Thanks!
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  7584. Dr. Sledge sounds like the name of a super villain in a high production value porno movie
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  7585. Another wonderful episode - Who 'ya gonna call?... Dr. Justin Sledge ! Thanks and Cheers to You - Alex
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  7586. Thank you much, Sir. I appreciate your research and wisdom.
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  7587. Dr Sledge wildin’ 🤍✨
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  7588. Thanks
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  7589. Posted on Twitter, Threads, and BlueSky: YouTube's AI claims music commissioned by Dr. Justin Sledge and recorded by ‪@iximusic belongs to Universal Music Group. @YouTube please have a human intervention and investigation. Fix this so that the Esoterica channel's standing is not threatened. (with link to this YouTube video)
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  7590. It's an awesome channel, and you deserve every success ^v^
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  7591. Wow Dr. Sledge, knocking it out of the park w/another great episode, thank you.
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  7592. A real genius. Well done sir
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  7593. Thank you, Sir for Sharing
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  7594. Now we are cooking with fire.
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  7595. Amazing ! Thanks for sharing a lots of informations . Good luck with You work .Greetings from Czech.
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  7596. Thanks!
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  7597. sold! whens production?
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  7598. The real question is is can somebody with a disability still try enochian Magic how could you do a Nokia magic if you were somebody that was legally blind or had extremely poor vision
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  7599. This didn’t feel like a hour. Thanks
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  7600. excellent
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  7601. When can we expect this tshirt? " Nostalgia is a form of depression"
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  7602. Enjoyed.
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  7603. Perhaps for your next video you can invoke Paimon. 🍿😏
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  7604. Has Lilith's episode been made yet? I couldn't find it in the video list. Has anybody found it?
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  7605. black metal!
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  7606. Algormancy!
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  7607. You are performing a tremendously valuable service. Stunning, really. Thank you immeasurably.
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  7608. sharp wind and snow... blows.... yeah it does
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  7609. Thank you so much!
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  7610. Thanks!
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  7611. Wow are you philosophicallly refreshing…love learning from you
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  7612. For the record I hadn’t heard about religion for breakfast until this video. I started following you first!
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  7613. Thanks!
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  7614. I don't expect an answer, but I will always wonder: Was it a "Pretty Hate Machine" shirt? If so, that is objectively the coolest shirt possible, just saying.
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  7615. Sent a pay pal, let's say I have no books is the book of Jeu the place to start? and Brill WOW $$$that said I would like to start studying. foundation books are?
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  7616. thank you, teacher (knocking on the bannister) \m/
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  7617. Omg you guys, do yourselves a favor and read the google doc....the footnotes are not only informative but hilarious!
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  7618. This is my new favorite channel. Thanks
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  7619. Hello! My name is Rhiannon and I am a huge fan of your show. Although, Sometimes I have to rewind the video just so I can understand some of the words you use in the same sentence.. (AKA: your fancy word salad. ) thank you so much ! 💜
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  7620. Thanks!
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  7621. Are you on Instagram?
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  7622.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh, i guess i missed that part. My bad. Awesome video tho. It's hard to find videos like the ones you make. I'm very appreciative for all of the effort you put into your videos. Itmeans alot to people like me...Thank you.
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  7623. That was fantastic, thank you for taking the time to dive so deeply into the Turba
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  7624. Thank you for the Kimmy Gibler reference ❤
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  7625. thank you
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  7626. Why is this video age-restricted????
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  7627. Brill has a 50% off sale going on right now through August 31 with the discount code DGBSS24.
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  7628. You just like to say his name ❤
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  7629. Love the literary work you put into these as well as the third documentation throughout. 👍
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  7630. Thank you.
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  7631. Thanks!
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  7632. I just discovered your page, I'm loving it!
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  7633. good channel...thanks...LVX
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  7634. You da best baby
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  7635. Love is the way, and unconditional understanding.
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  7636. Thanks!
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  7637. Thanks!
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  7638. Man, I really wish I could financially support the channel. I’m from a third world country where inflation runs rampant and the economy is extremely unstable, I’m a law school graduate working at a top law firm and don’t earn a living wage. Anyway, enough complaining. I’d love to own this volume, I love the Metamorphoses/Golden Ass and would be thrilled to own a copy with this much history under its belt. Best of luck to everyone!
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  7639. Thanks
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  7640. I just want to say, Thank you for this. Loving your content Dr Sledge!
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  7641. i love u on foe
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  7642. Thanks!
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  7643. Congratulations on a cumulative million views 😊
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  7644. Thanks!
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  7645. Really really good Channel and I also appreciate the cut of your jib sir🙏
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  7646. Happy new year! Your channel is a treasure and I am so excited to consume more of your scholarship in the next! ✌️❤️🔮
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  7647. Couldn't find an answer on the patreon, so I'll ask here. Are the 1 on 1 chats allowed to be posted?
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  7648. I just want to say that I appreciate your sense of humor to no end
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  7649. Thanks!
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  7650. New High on Fire has a track called Trismegistus. Thought of our lovely host.
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  7651. Tak!
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  7652. Thanks!
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  7653. Congratulations!! This is a great channel! I love watching and I am learning so much!
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  7654. Thank you, for making these videos
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  7655. Is there a booklist of yours somewhere that we could peruse? Love your videos and I don’t know where to begin with literature that’s in this same vein. My friends certainly don’t have any recommendations 😅
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  7656. Thanks!
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  7657. Thanks!
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  7658. This was excellent.
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  7659. 🙏
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  7660. Thank you for this video. Fear and gossip are like fire and fuel.
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  7661. Hey! 100,000 subscribers! Congratulations!!! Great work gets around...
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  7662. 😅 my black metal album released on edision wax tubes hahahahahaaaaa
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  7663. watching this on women's day. feel like I've done my part :face-red-droopy-eyes:
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  7664. In a nutshell ...the best esoteric Chanel on the web . I'm a practicing pagan , that's what attracts me to your channel Dr Sledge. The content here is just so well researched it's really refreshing.🙂 You deserve some time off Dr Sledge you've worked so hard this year. Many thanks 💜
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  7665. Very hegelian, in a very weird way
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  7666. Of course a video drops while I'm on the clock! 😭 guess I'll have to listen on my smoke breaks
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  7667. Lmao 😂 great bit! Just wanted to say hey, new to the community. Have had one burning thing to ask you (other than thanks for your scholarly rigor of course) which is: Where do you get off having a name as cool as Dr. J. Sledge?!?! The audacity lol, thats way too cool and you need to calm down sir! 😂😂😂 Seriously though thanks for presenting this info in digestable ways, and for adding critical historical/cultural context for us "spiritual athletes" that want to be well informed, but also unfettered by the yoke of scholastic research. You've been a huge help to me in my spiritual journey, and Ive only known about this channel for 2 days! Thanks Dr. J. Sledge!
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  7668. Thanks for the books. The One I need is $120.00 though.
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  7669. Thanks!
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  7670. Thanks!
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  7671.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Awesome. Very fitting!
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  7672. Thanks!
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  7673.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Indeed...also I would think the ol "Raziel told me where to find it in a hole" approach may be a better way to explain away a bunch of ill-gotten gold. Btw, your channel is wonderful. Your content has helped open up several branches of history, anthropology, and religious studies for me. I may have alreafy saud this in a previous exchange but regardless. Thank you.
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  7674. Thanks
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  7675. MC Trimmy
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  7676. These esoteric videos are tantalising indeed. I have been watching them for quite some time in hopes of finding clarification on the relationship between knowledge, belief and faith, having reached one conclusion to date: faith is choosing to believe in the absence of knowledge. I believe a re-examination of your older videos is in order. Something fruitful to pursue while awaiting your next video. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting! (And a look at your Patreon page is overdue.)
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  7677. you are god sent, EXCELLENT work as always!! 👏
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  7678. balls capturing demons? POKEMON!
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  7679. Love your videos, thanks. Toda Raba
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  7680. Thanks!
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  7681. Fantastic episode... and fantastic beard gap there :)
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  7682. I’m a descendant of Nicholas and Margaret Jennings.. thank you for talking about this.
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  7683. Thank you for sharing
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  7684. 🦋👁️🦋
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  7685. Mega Grateful 4Your Methodology & Research & Chill Passion. Plus u pepper in hilarity.
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  7686. I hope you can find a resolution. We care so much about the educational content. ❤❤❤
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  7687. yeah the "redemption through sin" thing is a favorite topic of Robert Sepehr. An antisemite scumbag who ironically is himself Jewish, son of Jewish film director Ben-Hur Sepehr. Sadly his videos which repackage fascist beliefs as new age mysticism are still on YT. Though he has lost a lot of followers since being outed as Jewish to his racist fascist friends. (worse than fascist really but I won't dirty your channel by saying the name of their despicable movement)
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  7688. Hat up for your brilliant way of weaving the plasticity of concepts in order to substantialize the fabric of our world. Your work is great, insightful, enlightening, precious, and definitively dangerous. Thanks and rest assured you are supported in many ways. Thanks doc.
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  7689. I love you!!!!!!!! If only I could summon you and download all your knowledge. What was your Sigil again? Haha
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  7690. great vids man!
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  7691. Separating the wheat from the chaff, as always. Benedicite!
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  7692. This is a work of genius
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  7693. Thanks
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  7694. Thank you for everything you do on this channel, brother!
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  7695. Iraxua. Again a amazing Stream!
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  7696. Thanks
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  7697. Merci !
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  7698. Thanks!
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  7699. Thanks!
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  7700. Bedankt
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  7701. You recently reached ⅓M subscribers! Congrats!
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  7702. That was great !! Appreciate the content greatly !! Big love !!
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  7703. Thank you so so much for posting ISBNs of your recommended books in your description. Very helpful.
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  7704. Danke!
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  7705. I love the collection photo.
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  7706. This is a superb evaluation
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  7707. “I hope you like the taste of shoe polish” 👏🏻💯
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  7708. Very interesting video.
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  7709. "Until the stars are right" 😁
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  7710. Love the channel. I really enjoy the videos on the topics of Hermeticism, the Grimoires, and I think it was a PGM video that first made me a fan of your channel. Your humor is a nice touch as well. Just curious, how do you pull off implementing a marxist/communist economic system without authoritarianism and violence? How do you get the people to just give up their individual sovereignty and private property? Other than a slow indoctrination of a peoples children against their will and to muster the patience to wait a couple generations while trying to preserve their parents ignorance to prevent violent resistance ? Honest question. I respect your opinion. I'm just lost on how Marxism has become such a widespread ideology in America and what becomes of a conservative capitalist who desires to conserve the progressive achievements of the past rather than the perpetual dissection and purification of classical liberal values such as equal opportunity in favor of authoritarian "equity"? Being a Hermetist influenced by Neo-Platonism I'm familiar with the dialectic but do not agree with it's application within our culture and society as a whole. It just seems to me like a violation of the individual. I feel the application of the dialectic to be more appropriate when used to recognize the flaws in your own personal beliefs and life experiences. If you destroy everything that isn't perfect in the pursuit of perfection than you do not end up with perfection, you end up with nothing. That sounds like the apocalypse to me. Have you considered these possibilities in your adoption of Marxist ideology? PS . I'm not a fan of techno fascist corporatism either.
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  7711. Have I watched this before?
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  7712. also, you're excellent
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  7713. After the Lazzarelli episode , this is the most interesting one for me.
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  7714. did they use "drugs"? I learned that Sage, Frankincense and Myrrh do contain mild psychoactive chemicals that can aid in getting to highers states of mind.
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  7715. I would love to have this book. First of all, I love Roman history. But mostly because I remember finding a copy of this in the classroom bookcase of one of my high school teachers. It was with the Satyricon, believe it or not, and I remember asking my teacher if I could read them or were they verboten or what. She laughed and said nobody'd even looked at that bookcase in 30 years, so I could read whatever I wanted. They were 60s era paperbacks, so absolutely falling to pieces, lol.
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  7716. Thank you for doing these videos on Cathars
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  7717. Your videos are always insightful and would help anyone invested in these subject; either at a "practical" and certainly academic level. Thanks again Justin, hope you and yours are doing well! :D
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  7718.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I think you do just that. And very well I might add. Cheers!
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  7719. Thanks!
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  7720.  @TheEsotericaChannel  and thank you for that evidence and scholarship!! You’re one of my favorite Tube channels
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  7721. Thank you! Your content is great and I think you have the unique combination of personality, knowledge, and humor that really makes this channel attractive above and beyond the subject matter. Keep up the great work!
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  7722. The watcher names remind me of Enochian which also has a preference for angels with Z sounds
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  7723. Dr JoAnn Scurlock has a wonderful dissertation on this topic (Brill)
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  7724. Josh...lol
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  7725. Thanks for another good channel to follow! Also found Atun-Shei through you and YouTube has just been sooooo much better.
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  7726. "Don't feed ghosts donkey urine." -Dr. Justin Sledge, circa 2022 C.E. If theologists in the distant future discover just one quote from our era.... please let it be this
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  7727. You could have just said, "If the word Virtue doesn't come up every three sentences, it probably isn't Stoicism" ;)
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  7728.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Congratulations Sir. You deserve it. Your hard work and example is inspiring. Thank you so much. Your YouTube presence has changed my life.
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  7729. Thank you for your videos, your book recommendations and most of all your empowering words. I’m deeply interested in this subject but am easily intimidated in many paths of learning. I am frequently and easily discouraged when I go to learn a new thing, especially if the teacher is haughty or mean about it, which is often enough the case in academic or professional matters. It’s very encouraging and refreshing to hear someone, even a stranger, say, “You can do this.” You are appreciated, Doc. Be well.
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  7730.  @TheEsotericaChannel  sorry autocorrect lol. Schmidt.
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  7731. Worth a million bucks, kids. Better send some money before your Reptilian overlords take this man away and lock him up FOREVER. ...Actually, is potentially worth a lot more than a million.
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  7732. Thanks!
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  7733. ❤️‍🔥
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  7734. The metre of Habaqquq 3 is wild. I highly recommend learning Yemenite recitation rules for accent-punctuation, and Geoffrey Khan's reconstruction of Tiberian pronunciation. Together, it unlocks the sound/rhythm of these texts.
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  7735. Hey Justin Do you think you'll ever do an indepth video concerning the "Scholomance" aka "The Black School" and the Solomonari ?? I would think that would be right up your alley. And I imagine with it being mentioned recently in the new NOSFERATU movie, there's bound to be a lot of people asking and looking for information on it all
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  7736. I finally got around to reading Akerman's Rose Cross over the Baltic the other day (shout out to Stephen Clucas for hipping me over beers after the CHF alchemy conference) and was impressed by her critique of Umberto Eco's take on the RC Bros.
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  7737. You're getting a lot of love from the Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Inner Sanctum of Gnosis community. Usually your vids are shared by one of us as soon as it gets uploaded! :D Keep 'em coming! Congrats on 10k subs!
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  7738. Thanks!
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  7739. Really enjoying the channel. Only found you recently but am loving everything I’ve watched so far
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  7740. Thanks!
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  7741. Thank you! Please make more videos!
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  7742. Everyone kind of has a mirror of Lilith nowadays. Smartphones and google seem to do the trick
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  7743. Love the humor!
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  7744. So interesting! Love this channel
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  7745. Been watching you for some years now and I am so glad you keep making videos.
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  7746. Dear God I’m having flashbacks of past corporate performance reviews…
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  7747. Thank you, I enjoyed this talk very much
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  7748. Thanks!
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  7749.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you for the reply! Be well. 🙏
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  7750. Broooo I love megatron
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  7751. Thanks!
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  7752. Thanks!
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  7753. hello Dr. Justin are you a Mason?
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  7754. Thanks!
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  7755. So why do they single out Seth?
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  7756.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yes! I edited my reply to include SIDS/crib death. I just stumbled across your channel yesterday and I must say I am extremely impressed by your content and professionalism. Thank you for these informative, educational videos!
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  7757. Video about Pseudomonarchia Daemonum would be great
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  7758. been binging shatter and your content. continues to be a splendid time
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  7759. Thank you!
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  7760. You sealed the deal when you brought the AR500 comparison. Not only are you well versed in the knowledge my inner wizard appreciates, but you have catered to the humor my dysfunctional veteran mind knows too well.
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  7761. Is there any etymology on Jeu?
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  7762.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you for your response. I'm around 25 minutes into the chat and it's great!
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  7763. I appreciate your incredible videos so much! ❤
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  7764. Watching this again and it's dreamy af
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  7765. Thumbnail is metal af
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  7766. It just strikes me how much greatness comes through Jackson, you are one of my top creators, so that bit of lore really adds to the experience, plus you standing up for long time members of our community
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  7767. We love you, your content, and dry subject effacing wit, Dr. Sledge! Delighted you have been able to find the support online failed you by academia! Reassuring that so many share a love for the misty obscure pathways to spiritual and intellectual evolution 😊 Here's hoping for a Happy Healthy New Year for us all!
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  7768. You upload this after my last college class :l
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  7769. makes me want to watch Stargate and listen to Daniel Jackson ...
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  7770. Im deeply interested in your content but the editing has created a manic energy…you removed pauses and a natural manner of presenting this dense and invaluable history. I’ve had to rewind a dozen times to really hear what you’re saying. Slow down just a little bit! We’re listening.
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  7771. Always better. Grazie 🙏
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  7772. Wow, Goropius sure knew how to dedicate a book: "Ut auderem, rex potentissime, hunc abortivum foetum meum Maiestati tuae dedicare..."
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  7773. I love this channel <3
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  7774. You made a small mistake: article 19 is not only an error, but also blasphemy ;)
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  7775. 🙏
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  7776. Thanks!
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  7777. Somebody knows a bit about modern ballistics ^_^
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  7778. Thanks!
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  7779. Looks to be an interesting video.
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  7780. Why does the thought of moist magic strike me as funny.
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  7781.  @TheEsotericaChannel  That makes sense. Thank you for the information.
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  7782. How Stoics attributed their metaphysics to Hesiod and Homer reminds me of how the most metaphysical reaches of Advaita Vedanta still attribute their source as the Ṛgveda, the most ancient collection of mythological prayers. Or the most metaphysical reaches of Qabbalah attributing the Torah.
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  7783.  @TheEsotericaChannel  - Yes! When you referred to "vidya games". :)
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  7784. #Gratitude
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  7785. 🤙 Aloha Dr Sledge
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  7786. Again, I wished such content would be available in German. And I actually don’t mean the content alone, but also the way of presentation: scholarly, but like from buddy to buddy 😄
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  7787. Thanks!
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  7788. Great talk. Just another reason to never forget the events of January 6th 2021. The Christian Right is dangerous.
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  7789. Thank you for the wonderful content you put out every time again! …I learned a lot from you..a delight on YouTube! I wish you and your loved ones a wonderful New Years Eve and a Happy New Year.🌹🖤💋
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  7790. Thanks
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  7791. Donkey pee and gin... History is hilarious!
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  7792. Absolutely fascinating concepts and immaculately presented as always! I cannot overstate how much I appreciate and learn from your work. Time to get to work on that reading list. 😁
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  7793. Are the Nomina Barbara the Barbarous Names that i have head occultists referred to in regard to this and other spells?
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  7794. Thanks!
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  7795. Thanks!
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  7796. First
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  7797. Babies love mercury
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  7798. Thanks!
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  7799. Perfect Friday! Now to conjure some coffee and enjoy!
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  7800. Thanks!
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  7801. This is a fantastic effort, and I'll be contributing to it as soon as I get on a better financial footing myself. I've been enjoying your work since about June when the algorithm brought it to my attention. I was hooked by your straight-faced but witty approach to the academic challenges this field presents, and I was drawn in further by your apparent comprehension of the stakes involved in understanding this part of history. Thanks for bringing this material out of the dusty European libraries and into the light of day.
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  7802. Thanks!
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  7803. Let your team know that your starting to piss me off and my wrath is going to displayed.
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  7804. Thank you, great video. Will check out patreon!
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  7805. I wonder how much this perception of the academic view of alchemy comes from talking to... well scientists rather then historians. An awful lot of scientists are incredibly ignorant of the history of science. I say this as a scientist. There's no encouragement to learn the history and you need a strong interest in order to go looking for it on top of everything else you need to learn. I also think that linking World War 1 to the beginning of this use of science to commit atrocities is... not entirely right? World War 1 is the historical period most of us in the west study and it's where we're first introduced to these things. But the methods themselves- My understanding is that most of them were first used in European colonies. I really enjoy your videos, they make me think and they've prompted some intersting discussions with my partner. :)
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  7806. Loads of great info, very digestible !
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  7807. Ah yes, the mysterium of one-word-name-dudes of history... Moses - Jay - Paracetamolus - Bono
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  7808. Mind. Blown. I know too little about this history to even say what view I favour, but the sceptical view sounds well worth considering. I know a bit about the witch trials tho, & I see the similarities, so I know evil/heretical groups can be invented. And I agree; emotion plays a huge role in what we believe & how we react to evidence- I'm into the Wars of the Roses, & ofc people get SUPER-emotional about that!... Brilliant & fascinating vid!
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  7809. Bedankt
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  7810. Thanks!
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  7811. Hi! I love your YouTube videos, and also struggle to understand a lot of what you say when you teach content. Are there any beginners books you would recommend to me or other beginners? I am an adult, and have a decent vocabulary. Not at your level though for a lot of the content. To be able to follow along more smoothly. Anyway, if you have time please, I would appreciate any book recommendations for beginners!
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  7812.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Okay, thank you! I will look into doing some interlibrary loans. Have a great day
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  7813. Thanks!
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  7814. Thanks!
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  7815. Thanks!
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  7816. @ 12:15-- sometimes the absolute best humor is defined by subtlety.
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  7817. Someone is going to sleep on the couch. 🤭
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  7818. Thanks!
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  7819. 🙂
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  7820. Это место похоже на храм, я бы хотел прожить там свою жизнь.
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  7821. Thanks!
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  7822. I did too actually.
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  7823. I followed your buddy! I can't wait to start watching his videos. TY for spreading the knowledge. 💕
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  7824. 32:39 ahahahahah amazing plug man
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  7825. Happy Birthday RaMbaM
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  7826. Thanks bro
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  7827. Fantastic video with aptly timed wit to break the tension.
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  7828. Was waiting for this one.. 👍🏻🍿
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  7829. Dr. Sledge, respect!
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  7830. Looking forward to more on the development of Isaac Newton's alchemical philosophy.
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  7831. Dune on the mind😅
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  7832. Have you recorded an episode on Albert Magnus (attributed) De Secretis Mulierum? It would be HUGE since it's directly related to some of the works you've already surveyed. Thank you.
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  7833.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yeah fair, thank you for the replies sir.
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  7834. Thanks!
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  7835. Hey, absolutely enjoy the video. Great great information and in a wonderful way you got it across. Thank you.
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  7837. I got to find a little money for you. I feel like a thief getting this quality of education without paying you for the extensive amount of research you obviously do.
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  7838. Thanks!
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  7839. Thanks!
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  7840. Thanks!
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  7841. The thanks is mine. You’re a gem and I cannot wait for the coverage on Corpus Hermeticum.
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  7842. Throw Mummy would make an excellent DnD spell
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  7843.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Bahaha, I left for the last 2 minutes, literally. :) Well done my friend; I tip my hat too you. Really enjoying the recent subjects (: I personally have and am in the process of applying his current versions; amazing scholarship from the both of you!!
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  7844. you are loved, thank you for the vitamins
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  7845. dang this is so cool
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  7846. This is extremely cool
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  7847. Yes. I keep coming back and rewatching everything.
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  7848. Hi, Aidan! 👋🏼
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  7849. Thanks!
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  7850. Wow, you ordered a copy at 17! I guess Markus Marki would be proud :D How did you first hear about the Voynich at that time or did you cover that in an other video?
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  7851. “finite, grinning marionettes…” Love this!
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  7852. Thanks! keep it up :)
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  7853. Personally I still prefer Traditional Witchcraft and High Magick in my personal practices I never got to into Chaos Magick but own several books on the topics I do enjoy sigils too, I also like to add some Hoodoo into my workings their use of candles and petitions are amazing as are the Honey Jars Dollies Etc But I do find Sigil Magick fascinating just does nothing for me in my practice.
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  7854. This is all such great information. Thank you!
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  7855. Keep up the legendary work, Dr. Sledge
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  7856. I will like to jam with sephirots one day. Litterally an entire day.
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  7857. Thank you for your work and sharing your knowledge. I deeply enjoy this channel. Best wishes for truth and wisdom to all.
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  7858. Wow....thank you for really bringing this back to life...your the best..❤
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  7859. Thanks!
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  7860. Brilliant as ever proffesor, such a balanced assessment of someone I knew little about, enlightening, I love these! Off topic request proffesor and you may have covered him in a previous episode that I'm unaware of but I'd love to see one of these on Austin Osman Spare at some point? That's just my own own wish list though! Great stuff Professor, thank you 🙏 😎🖤❤️☯️
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  7861. Thanks!
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  7862. This channel is amazing, glad it crossed my path.
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  7863. So if you drink gin and tonics, you can't get possessed by dead people?
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  7864. This puts a lot of what I studied already (strolled thru Shaar haGilgulim via Chabad) in beautiful context with the rest of existence. Thank you again! 🤘😎
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  7865. Nice approach
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  7866. Thanks!
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  7867. Always brilliant!!
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  7868. Thanks
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  7869. Thanks!
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  7870. That was truly fascinating. Thank you.
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  7871. 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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  7872. Thanks!
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  7873. Thanks!
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  7874. Thank you for putting this out there. I’ve been seeing more and more strange, half baked conspiracy theories about Sabbatanism-Frankism. Even David Icke is pushing that kind of garbage. People see that 1666 date, and the redemption through sin bit, and that’s all the evidence they need to feel certain that this is the supreme evil in all the galaxy, or whatever.
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  7875. Thanks.
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  7876. Thanks!
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  7877. Wishing you and yours a most blessed Hannukah, Dr. Justin!
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  7878.  @TheEsotericaChannel  While I am at it. let me heap some praise on you. As far as I am concerned, you are the only academic that can hold a candle to Dr. Finkel. I could joyously die and go to heaven if I could see the two of you collaborate on a project some day. 🤩
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  7879. ​@TheEsotericaChannel Thanks. I forget where I heard that story. I thought it might have been just that- a story. Thank you for getting back to me on that question Doctor
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  7880. Another excellent and integral video on esoteric philosophy. Kudos!
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  7881. Thanks!
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  7882. You have intellectual rigor doc. Looking out for others is awesome of you.
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  7883. So good!!!
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  7884.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you.
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  7885. Thanks!
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  7886. HaHa! VPN. Rock-On!
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  7887. Thank you! This was fascinating. Love the dry humor
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  7888. Thanks!
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  7889. Cheers man! Thanks for all you do!
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  7890. I’m very interested in the image of the gyre in Blake’s work. I am always wanting to learn more about him.
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  7891. Very cool!
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  7892. 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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  7893. Thank you. Excellent and personally relevant discussion I thoroughly enjoyed. I am just getting acquainted with your channel, but so far, so good!
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  7894. My takeaway from this is that Peter DeAbano had excellent friends.
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  7895. my love of the esoteric as been life long i love your channel and can actually relate to your story though i was never arrested or anything but having grown up a non religious person in a small Missouri town i was called a satanist most of my life because i didn't believe in any one religion and after columbine was accused of being someone that would be a next school shooter though by that time i was getting in to drug use and wouldn't touch a gun all this has only served to inform my views and to never give in to stupid conspiracies and to study and know all i can mange to know about the ancients and what there beliefs and practices truly were as best we can piece together being this far removed from them
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  7896. Such a vibe in that intro. It's one of the many well done details of this channel. Please always include it going forward or...ya know, just loop it for a few hours.
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  7897. Thanks again, for your channel.
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  7898.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thanks anyway!
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  7899. To think I postponed this little gift cause I couldn't exactly type even half the gratitude I have for this channel. But in the short, thank you. I hope you continue making videos like this for many days to come.
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  7900.  @TheEsotericaChannel  👍 I Will
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  7901. Thank you for the honest analysis. Very interesting!
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  7902. So based when you said you are a historical materialist!
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  7903. This course was Amazing! Will 💯 be attending and on board for ur next series of lectures!! This knowledge is so so important and i appreciate you making it so assessable to us! Will always try to support when I can 😊
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  7904. Thank you, stunningly researched and presented. Having grown up during the 80s, this was a topic that fascinated me. The early Christian church history, especially the appalling antisemitism was incredibly helpful with understanding the role it played in the various satanic conspiracies even today
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  7905. Thanks!
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  7906. Thanks!
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  7907. Still no 'Angela of Foligno' shot glasses in the merch store Dr. ......Ill keep checking, thanks!
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  7908. Thanks!
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  7909. Thanks!
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  7910. Thanks
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  7911. Thanks!
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  7912. Thanks!
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  7913. The magical thinking in terms of signatures was heavily crashed in the early modern era with all the telescopes, microscopes and whatnot, when scholars discovered the reality is way more multi-layered than what all the ancient and medieval philosophers thought, and things just don't reveal themselves to us by looking similar to something (like the nice example of the theory of signatures, that if a herb looks like the human ear, it will be good to heal human ears). Thinking like that was subsequently damaged by experiments, showing that external appearance has nothing to do with the nature of the object. Btw, what a coincidence, just a month ago I finished my master's degree with thesis about ancient skepticism criticising stoic's theory of knowledge. :) The katalepsis theory really had some weird and weak spots... but skeptics can destroy any theory in the end. :D
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  7914. You have bestowed so much knowledge on us this year! Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
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  7915. Thanks!
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  7916. @32:38 The flash of "Join My Patreon!" flash on the right of the screen. Nice touch...also, nice try. That was clever, gotta admit.
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  7917. Wonderful and deeply informative series. Thank you so much. Baruch Hashem
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  7918. Thanks!
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  7919. Thanks!
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  7920.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Now that you have encouraged me, maybe I will take on this massive undertaking upon myself, thanks for the great content Esoterica. This video has been of immense value to me.
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  7921. Thank you for this introduction.
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  7922. Ain't no drama like angelic drama.
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  7923.  @TheEsotericaChannel  apart from last week. I had COVID.....
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  7924. Thanks!
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  7925. Thanks!
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  7926. you rock brother
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  7927. @27:12 you went full Alan Watts for a moment. Er...Alan Watts went full Paracelsus?
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  7928. Massive rising interest in esoteric spirituality, occultism, cults, the paranormal — Neptune in Pisces finally kicking in hard. Building to Jupiter meeting Neptune this year (2022) which will only continue the trend. Dr Sledge is a gem amongst a new firmament: our guides to metamodern wisdom. All praise the infinite!
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  7929. Yoooo Dr Dzwiza in the house! Let's goooo!!! She is sehr klug! ☺️
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  7930. Same
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  7931. Ok, I came here to write that :) He has been an inspiring person and channel.
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  7932. Thanks!
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  7933. Its so refreshing being able to access this content without having to mix with near nazi radicals.
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  7934. Thanks!
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  7935. Thank you! Amazing content
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  7936. Thank you
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  7937. I can't donate right now, but I have been a Patreon menber in the past, and probably will be again in the future I would like to be entered into the drawing because your channel has inspired me to go for my Master's in Western Esotericism (or whatever's available that's similar). I have considered Amsterdam, but we can't move there, and they don't have an online degree. So I'm currently considering the Ancient Worlds degree (Archaeology and Classics) from the University of Edinburgh. I wouldn't mind some advice, if you're willing. Thank you so much for your channel and all the work you put in.
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  7938. Bedankt
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  7939. As someone with migraines that makes me feel like my brain swells 4 sizes, the trepanning makes sense. I mean, I know better as a modern person. In context, it makes sense.
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  7940. Yes to Feb 11 being World Alchemy Day! 💫 ♒️
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  7941. Thanks!
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  7942. Thanks!
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  7943. 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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  7944. Thanks
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  7945. Well, I don't usually comment but now I would like to do it once. I think your channel is great, not just from a historical perspective but from an occult perspective too. Regardless of the target group your channel is aimed at. What I particularly like about your channel and what I really like is that it is based on facts, but nevertheless it also has nutritional value for occultists. Some occultist channels lack facts and information. But if you start from your channel you have a super fact-based start from which you can build further if you are interested in the occult. I think it's great that you give away books. In doing so, you offer some people the opportunity to access this type of historical literature without spending a fortune. Thank you
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  7946. Thanks!
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  7947. Storytelling and bonfire should be more of a Halloween tradition than candy and consumerism.
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  7948. Your channel is one of the most thorough and informed, and I got drawn in particularly when you covered ancient ritual magic. I study Greco-Roman magic and goêteia, have been dreaming of a copy of the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, having an older copy with notation would certainly aid in my study of the text. Appreciate your channel & knowledge so much😊
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  7949. Please can you give a follow-up on your professor. Was he reinstated in his post?
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  7950. I'm studying at the University of California Davis as a religious studies major with an eye to eventually transfer to a university that offers a master's program in Western Esotericism
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  7951. Disregarding that, great video. I kept hearing you mention concepts from alchemy and it kept making me appreciate how the ideas of alchemy still have their fingerprints on modern chemistry and its practices
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  7952. And here I thought I'd find here some cool tricks on how to defeat Lilith in the next Diablo 4... ah well, still interesting to listen ;-)
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  7953. Thanks!
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  7954. I haven't even begun to watch this video yet, but you are getting my sub based purely from the absolutely fantastic praise yours subscribers are lavishing upon you. Can't wait to get a free moment to dedicate to watching this and many other videos of yours. Cheers!
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  7955. Thanks!
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  7956. Thx for your time and efforts on this segment Dr. Sledge i enjoyed this one .🙏
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  7957. The music created by the followers of various sects of Christianity can be so transcendent that it must have, in my view, some element of true spirituality that it inspires in its adherents.
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  7958. I’m one of those skeptics in that second boat ya mentioned. I love the show and how in depth each episode is!
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  7959. Thanks
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  7960. 🌝❣🍻
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  7961. Thanks!
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  7962. Thanks!
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  7963. But your mileage may vary😂😂😂😂😂
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  7964. I’m going to be honest. I’ve watched a fair amount of these videos from Esoterica. A lot of it goes over my head in how arcane or academic it is, but I listen anyway trying to pick up what I can while enjoying the overall aesthetic of the presentation and subject matter. This video, however, speaks to me loud and clear. I am utterly fascinated. Thank you for giving me something new to consider.
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  7965.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh neat! Well, they sure are beautiful. Dig your whole backdrop vibe, sets a great mood for your lectures. Thanks for all you do here!
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  7966. It's all good man. They'll stop eating those D20's and move to playing D&D and other games... and then fall into (sigh...) Minecraft.. I'll bring them back to physical games eventually.
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  7967.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Appreciate the reply and after having read your FAQ I am of the perplexed. I am sure you can appreciate the reference. Thank you also for pointing me to Mordecai Kaplan. What an interesting figure indeed to dare to question the most central of all concepts in Judaism and Judaic tradition, the foundation of it all so to speak: that of "God". I will now read up on the Reconstructionist movement in order to better understand the positions taken and educate myself further. Congratulations! Your channel has managed to move my needle of knowledge ever so slightly in the right direction.
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  7968. I will definitely be using #necromancysidehustle
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  7969. Thanks!
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  7970. Thanks
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  7971. Thanks
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  7972. "And you guessed it, you can use it to find buried treasure" Dee and Kelley look at each other in excitement and clap hands 👏.... The archangel nods in disapproval.... Again.
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  7973. I wish to express my personal gratitude to Dr. Sledge and ESOTERICA for reminding me to go back to an old good special friend that I once, due to the circumstances, had to depart from. Thank you May your wishes realize in an easy and beautiful way 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
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  7974. Thanks!
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  7975. Another great one Dr. Justin
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  7976. Thanks!
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  7977. Thanks!
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  7978. Excellent discussion.
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  7979. Thanks!
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  7980. Always with the buried treasures, these alchemists.
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  7981. As a recent graduate of Millsaps and a former student of Dr. Bowley, this is shocking. He was always a wonderful and kind professor towards me and I loved his classes. Millsaps’ administration has never matched up to the quality of the professors and the education I got there.
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  7982.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I sent them an email just now Dr. Sledge. Truly a disheartening situation for our alma mater.
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  7983. I couldn’t imagine a ghost that just goes around grinding it’s teeth! 🥶😳
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  7984. thank you so much!
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  7985. Amazing channel! Thank you so much.
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  7986. Thanks!
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  7987. Thanks!
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  7988. Thanks!
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  7989. Your channel fills a unique niche. I very much enjoy our channel and am happy to know it's going to only get better. Thank you for your hard work!
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  7990. Very well done. I enjoy your channel very much.
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  7991. Thanks!
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  7992. Thanks!
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  7993. Glad to hear that you're getting to take a breather from formal teaching, especially because it's something you care about.
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  7994. Thank you, the lecture series so far is fascinating.
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  7995. Maybe one of the most interesting and educational channel on this site 🖤
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  7996. Sweet, perfect time of year
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  7997. Thanks!
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  7998. Absolutely loved this incredibly informative series! Have now ordered my Perdue version of the text so can’t wait to give it a proper read! Will be joining the patreon aswell, thanks again ☺️
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  7999. I absolutely LOVE your merch!! Thank you!!!
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  8000. Thanks!
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  8001. I found one of these painted in a coldesac with names of archangels written on it. I wonder what they were doing with it I'll have to listen to this
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  8002. What an exciting & fascinating event. Wow!
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  8003. Hello, I just started learning Latin a month ago and have been looking to buy some older books in Latin so it would be awesome to win a book like this. Thanks for the great content!
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  8004. Third time in a row I’ve hit your like button from 666 to 667... hehe... Like to think I’m doing my part to maintain cosmic order. You never know what extra dimensional unspeakable horror is lurking just beyond the confines of the puerile three dimensional angles of Euclidean space you dwell within. Thanks for all your hard work. Ad Astra Aspera! And ‏שבת שלום!
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  8005.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Interesting! Thanks for the reply & as a Christian I believe in your God so thank you for teaching on the Jewish culture. You doing teachings on mysticism would be great 👍🏾
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  8006. Thank you so much for all you do, Dr. Sledge! I'm so glad I found your channel through the Flint Art Institute!!
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  8007. Thanks! I have been thinking about asking you for a reading list. I do get recs from bibliographies and, um, am approaching the final third my life, god willing and the creek don't rise, so I know I will get to a fraction of this and of my other interests, but am grateful that you have put this out there and for all your other work. Blessings to you.
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  8008. Very informative. My one worry is that the part at the end, where you are talking about how Sabbatai Zevi helped shape modern Judaism, may be quoted out of context by the anti-Semites that are propagating the "redemption through sin" stuff. However, I guess its would be impossible to create any worthwhile body of work without it being in danger of being misused and misquoted.
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  8009. 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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  8010. I love the birds in the background. You can tell he is used to not having to think of birds chirping. All joked aside another great video from the channel that reignited my interest with religious historical studied even as a long time atheist.
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  8011. Bedankt voor de mooie video's ... assuming you understand 😉
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  8012. I like your nonchalant jokes, pure gold.
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  8013. Thanks
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  8014. you can read a sentence in the Book of Pleasure 5 times, and get 5 different meanings out of it... :D
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  8015. Thanks!
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  8016. That was very interesting thankyou.
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  8017. New to your channel and I really appreciate your scholarship. And your humor. Subscribed!
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  8018. Thank you both so much
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  8019. I don't think YouTube's AI was behind this one - as the claim was attributed directly to Universal Music Group. This is a direct attack by them on you. I'm sorry to see this, brother. :(
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  8020. Sir I can't thank you enough for your channel. I treasure your videos.
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  8021. Congrats Esoterica !
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  8022. Absolutely fascinating and exciting.
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  8023. Thanks!
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  8024. Medieval life was pretty f’d up I don’t think it helped
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  8025. Aha! Well then, the error is mine and my impression was this was (in some form) an advocacy of the Gospel of Mary rather than an unassociated comparison. I honestly beg your pardon! Though my question still stands, at least in my own mind and not to you specifically, namely what do I do with the information presented in the Gospel of Mary, particularly in comparison to the traditional gospels? Is it information for intellectual and philosophical discussion with the only real meaning being that which I ascribe to it?
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  8026. Please keep going because I love your content.
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  8027. Awesome! Always enjoy your content, great channel!
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  8028. Well informed speculation, properly properly qualified as such, is of great value. It never hurts to shine a light!
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  8029. Thanks!
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  8030. Fascinating! Hope to hear more about the topic. Would be interesting to hear you speak about sufism.
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  8031. Thanks!
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  8032. Thank you!!! I have not watched all your alchemy videos so you may note this - the roots of alchemy may lie in the practice of depletion gilding in Sumeria, which by the mid-late 3rd mill BCE was used to remove copper and silver from the surface of metal objects to leave a purer gold surface on things with a matrix of gold+silver+copper (or electrum, which is the naturally occurring form of most gold). This process was better known by the time Croesus minted the first gold coins in Lydia (hence “rich as Croesus”), which used metal purified to about 75% and more of gold. I found evidence for this process in jewelry made by early pastoralists in the area of modern Russia around 2800 BCE. These people preceded the Scythians by about 1000 years, who had a huge appetite for gold that adorned dead rulers from head to toe - controlling gold and becoming a “golden man” or woman head to toe has some alchemical implications. As you know, like Herodotus tells us, being a Scythian ruler required control of gold as part of their origin myth. It was widely used later in South and Central America before Europeans were here, and certainly independently invented. Again, I loved it. Keep making more, I’m becoming a donor.
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  8033. Really glad I bumped in to this class.
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  8034. As a German: I would love to fend of fashists by regular doses of quality Gin. Would be wonderfull if it works.. more so since i love to drink Gin Tonic :)
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  8035. Im new here, just wanted to say that i like the concept of this channel!
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  8036. Can confirm: am very strange, and I laugh at these videos A LOT. I saved a screenshot of Freddy N “Big Stache”- habitual abyss starer. Comic gold.
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  8037. Appreciate!
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  8038. I picked up a long sleeve tee from the shop! As a bookbinder & conservator I would LOVE to have this book ✨
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  8039. Thanks!
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  8040. Thanks
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  8041. Thanks!
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  8042. Bedankt. (Dutch for Thanks)
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  8043. 💛💛💛💛💛
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  8044. I find evangelicalism in its modern incarnation, banal as well as lacking agape. It’s been hijacked by fundamentalism. I’m cool with them being cloistered and conservative, I more object to their seizing Christianity for political ends.
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  8045. Thanks!
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  8046.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thanks for your reply!
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  8047. Thanks!
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  8048. Thanks!
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  8049. I swear I'm not a necromancer! but this vegetarian Jewish neoplatonist just snorted. All your videos are wonderful.
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  8050. My good friend Genesis lost her home and all her belongings and had to leave the country of hir birth because of this weaponization of paranoia Jason Louv has been offering support recently to one of the most affected victims of this hysteria.
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  8051. When you say all of Europe except Spain was under the Inquisition, did this include England? I was under the impression the Inquisition never came to England.
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  8052. omg yes this is a video i did not know i needed! clicked instantly
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  8053. Thanks!
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  8054. So this is why Heidegger wrote his dissertation of Duns Scotus.
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  8055. Amazing episode!
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  8056. Thanks!
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  8057. 28:25
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  8058. Thanks!
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  8059. I absolutely love the way you temper such serious matters with humor. The T-1000 mention was so great
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  8060.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I would have love your view on that but thank you anyway
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  8061. I still want that glass of absinth....
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  8062. Thanks.
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  8063. I'd even settle for just the Thorndykes!
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  8064. Thanks!
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  8065. "conduit adrud pronominal suffix problem" did I get that right? Can't find anything on google
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  8066. "You cowards don't even do metaphysics" is, if it's a reference to what I think it is, one of the funniest captions you've ever put on a photo
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  8067. Thanks!
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  8068. This is definitely two of my favorite newly found internet people together and I love it! 💖
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  8069. 🙌🏽🌟🙌🏽
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  8070. 1st time here. Very interesting. Heading over to part 2.
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  8071. I really like what you are doing...TY..
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  8072. Angel Jesus? wat?
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  8073. Great presentation by the way! Very good points made. 🎇
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  8074. Thanks!
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  8075. Thank you for introducing me to the mysticism of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar!
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  8076. OMG thanks for existing
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  8077. If u summon up some gold an diamonds with my incantation we goin to split that dawg this guy slays😂😂
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  8078. Thanks!
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  8079. Thanks!
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  8080. Thanks!
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  8081. Thank you Dr.Sledge. Bless you sir.
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  8082. Thanks!
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  8083. Thanks!
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  8084. I enjoy the humor very nice. Thanks
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  8085. So basically he was right that all matter was the same and you could alter it's properties and change it one to the next with heat and pressure like how all elements are generated at the heart of stars, he just lacked the understanding of astrophysics and atomic physics to know exactly how it worked or fully comprehend the forces necessary to accomplish what he wanted to accomplish attempting to do it outside the natural occurrence of stars. Give the man credit, he was pretty close for being absolutely wrong. 😁🤣
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  8086. Thanks!
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  8087. I've been a student of things occult and esoteric for 30-plus years and I just stumbled upon this channel! I'm about 3 videos in and interested to watch more. Thank you!
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  8088. I orderd my shirt!
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  8089. Just found your channel from let's learn about religion... This gonna be fun
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  8090.  @TheEsotericaChannel  incredible episode by the way! I'll look more into these books
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  8091. 👂
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  8092. Baroque Hypostatic Entities rock. Hard.
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  8093. We are all very glad you did not blow yourself up making liquid mercury when you were 15.
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  8094. Thanks
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  8095. I really appreciate your work - thank you
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  8096. Hello, Dr. Sledge. I'm a History grade degree studient and I really love your content. It's very hard to find academic information about this topics, and to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially in regards to more ancient stuff. Now, I have a silly question for the sociologists/psycologists, why so many of us are into tabletop RPGs, metal and ancient esoterisism? I'm sure somenone can steal a degree tesis out of this! Best wishes for the upcoming year!
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  8097. Thanks!
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  8098. Thanks!
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  8099. I was wondering is that a bust of John Dee on your bookcase?
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  8100. Thanks!
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  8101. What a wonderful video!
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  8102. I want so much to join and cannot devote the time at this moment to do so properly. I am very excited for you and all the people who can, and I hope my membership will help you and others and I can catch up later.
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  8103. I offer this comment for the Algo Gods 🙏🙏 bless the Sledge ⚒
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  8104. Loving this channel!
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  8105. Haha, I like the bit about it being secret knowledge and the grand conspiracy to hide it from the masses and then you find out it's all stuff that's a couple google searches away. That narrative is ubiquitous through out the New Age scene as a gimmick to get their hooks into people. They never shut up about the concerted effort by the powers that be to prevent us all from becoming spiritually aware and blah, blah... Love these vids man. Long time viewer, first time commenting. You roped me in with your Satanic Panic vid. I came from that same era of conspiratorial paranoia. As a kid I was terrified of the anti Christ and the end times when I would be asked to renounce Jesus or face execution and would have to choose death. What a shi**y thing to tell a 3rd grader.
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  8106. Angela Pucca collab? Just sayin’, sounds up her alley
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  8107. Valeu!
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  8108. awesome vid! I like that you go there, but with some clearly defined reasons, and with a major highlight of saying this is all speculation. Nothing wrong with doing this from time to time.
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  8109. Absolutely love your content
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  8110. Love that first print!
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  8111. Best Christmas present
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  8112. So unfortunate that you are dealing with this. You channel and work is such a gift to other people. I hope YouTube corrects this false claim ASAP! I will make some buzz about it on social media.
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  8113. I fell asleep listening to this video, no that dr.sledge amazing content is boring but i was really tired. Regardless a creature looking like a black ophanim appeared on my room a few centimeters from my bed and started giving me a sort of esoterical exam. Of course, i was utterly scared and in shock. To this day i dont know what this video is about. Today i will watch it fully properly. If it references any sort of creature like that i will be in shock. Sorry for the ramble dr sledge and company, and thanks again for your academic work and insights!
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  8114. Thanks
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  8115. Hey man fellow Detroiter here! My girl met you at Home Depot. Hope the fence turned out nice! Love the content.
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  8116. I found a podcast/video of McGinn today and it was amazing! The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France
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  8117. Thank you for this interesting video! What does "abyss" signifies exactly in this context of divine love? That metaphysical point I find it a bit unclear. Thanks in advance!
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  8118. Great content as usual Justin
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  8119. This topic is the only way to evolve man... In this period, the demand is high!
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  8120. As a working chemist myself, this is utterly fascinating. Nothing like trying it on the bench yourself!!!
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  8121. Thanks!
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  8122. I collect wooden Japanese puzzle boxes too, they're fun and pretty
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  8123. Thanks!
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  8124. Was just researching on this, thanks
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  8125. Oh this is gonna be good
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  8126. Thanks!
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  8127. 😮😳😳😳😳 big big books
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  8128. Wish I could pull up a seat.
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  8129. Thanks!
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  8130. Thanks!
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  8131. Reading the spell aloud? Are you insane? Have you never seen the Evil Dead movies? And with my luck it will be the Lilith from Frasier.
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  8132. Thanks again, your lectures are outstanding, and very informative. I am a student, and this is invaluable.
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  8133. Thanks!
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  8134. Nice
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  8135. Loved this
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  8136. Wait is this low key a Purim special?
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  8137. Great talk
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  8138. Thanks!
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  8139. Thanks
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  8140. People forget that people who could conceive of these horrible abuses of children in the name of “Satan” would have to be Christian based Satanists. My siblings and I were abused growing up by people related to our church. They said we were victims of SRA and we believed them but the truth is that predators are predators and will use anything to hide their crimes especially if it relates to confusing, sometimes impossible and very fantastic themes. You give a child Valium, rub some big chunk of ice on their back and tell them they are being branded for Lucifer by a church pedophile wanting to cover up their crap, that can cause some weird memories to bounce around over the years. The mind is complicated and the truth is usually painfully simple.
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  8141. Not kissing ass here but I've been listening to your vids for about 4 hours now. Very captivating content.
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  8142. Thanks!
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  8143. Thanks!
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  8144. 22:28 “kinda vanilla….” 😂
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  8145. Thanks!
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  8146. hi :) from 29:04 to 29:24 you mention anointing metal skulls… if i may ask… where is your source? the Finkel or Abusch books? which one? thanks so much:)
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  8147.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh wait… you were making contemporary commentary… skulls/metal music… ok i get it! lol:) thank you and God bless :) rock on;)
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  8148. ❤
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  8149. Thanks for the in depth look at Lilith. I bought a tshirt in support. Looking forward to the next installment.
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  8150. I grok Paracelsun Medicine, methinks. I only know what I've heard here, though. You live in a cool world.
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  8151. Thanks, Dr. Sledge: very clear and educational video about Austin O. Spares ideas.
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  8152. This series was an absolute joy to experience. Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share.
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  8153. Thanks!
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  8154. Angelic combo breaker!! Lmao! Im sooo using that! Great stuff Sir!!
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  8155. Thank you for this video. Would it be fair to say that I should be skeptical of any occult author who writes about the Qlipoth unless they have an academic background?
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  8156. I bought the latin De occulta philosophia. A german translation seemed up to now to me not too bad. Thank you. The best channel about esoteric topics here!
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  8157. Friday!!!!!!!! Yes looking forward to it
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  8158. So when is The Miskatonic University granting you tenure?
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  8159. ¡Gracias!
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  8160. Thanks
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  8161. I truly love your content. Thank you for discussing such interesting things in an exciting but never sensationalized way. Just a random thought I’ve always had which I’ll pose to you as a question- if aliens landed and they figured out how to communicate with us and understand all of our languages - do you think they would see all our distinct religions and their different mythological underpinnings as evolved over time and more or less say “yeah that’s the same thing?”
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  8162. This is one of the most bizarre videos I've ever seen on my recommended feed
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  8163. I lived with a haunted refrigerator for a while, but no one thinks that story is scary.
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  8164. Having just acquired the 3 books of occult knowledge, I though I'd tune in to learn a little before I began to read. Oh Lord I'm glad I did! Dr Sledge you are the perfect lecturer and I'm so grateful. You pack so much in I'm off on explorations of your other notable recommendations! So much knowledge, so little time. Thank you 🙏
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  8165. ..and buried treasure. The get rich quick scheme of old times.
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  8166. Thanks!
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  8167. I'm here for class
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  8168. Dr Sledge you need a mic to drop💥
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  8169. You’re a true gem in the community Justin. Never would I have expected to find so much education on Alchemy, Magic, the Occult and ancient’s interpretations of religions all in one place. And on top of that a librarian too! A small token of support which doesn’t even repay the value you’ve added to my studies. P.S pls do a video on Honorius
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  8170. #necromancysidehustle
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  8171. Secular Skeptic here, but I Adore your channel. This has been a delightful year with you, each episode has been eagerly awaited, if not watched immediately. As you've put in more jokes I've quite thoroughly enjoyed those too. But what brings me back again and again is your historical angle to it all, and that you are not delving into the modern newage woowoo. Which has it's own history and reasoning, but is still grating due to the sheer sensationalizing. You are also not asking us to believe it. You are presenting ways people have thought in the past, and what they believed. I greatly respect that, and this is delightfully more indepth than what you can get anywhere else. I've been using my interpretations of your presentations to write my own fantasy far better and more realistically than I ever could have on my own. I thank you profusely for that. Cheers to you good sir. May you continue gifting us these videos and opportunities to understand the scholarly side of the mystic. Some day I will likely take you up on your website offer to look it over. But I want to iron it out far more first.
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  8172. Tak!
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  8173. The demand of the protests must be clear. REINSTATE COMPENSATE APOLOGIZE
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  8174. New sub here...TY 🤩
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  8175. loved this
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  8176. ✯
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  8177. I'm curious to what metal bands you listen to.
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  8178. Its not much, but i showed esoterica to several of my more "spiritualy" inclined friends
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  8179. It's only the beginning. Thanks a lot & congrats, you sure deserve it.
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  8180. Thank you dude, you're cool xxx
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  8181. Thank you Dr.!! I've got new material to read. Spare seems to have discovered "All of history was yesterday." to someone living now. Lol
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  8182. Remarkable
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  8183. thank you very much, Happy and healthy 2022, greetings from France
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  8184. Thanks!
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  8185. is there going to be a livestream soon?
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  8186. “Beard gap” OK, you got some funny comments going on in the background. 😂
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  8187. Thanks!
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  8188. You're funny.
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  8189. Another great video as always
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  8190. Thanks for filling in the history.
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  8191. Magnificent, Justin.
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  8192. YOU, SIR, ARE A BLESSING TO YOU TUBE!!! Thank you fellow wise man. 🤍✨
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  8193. I donated to you it was not much but I got you thank you bro
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  8194. Thank you!
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  8195. Thank you for your great work.
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  8196.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yeah exactly lol Amazing episode btw
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  8197. Very refreshing course and it's encouraging to know that others carry the torch. Good stuff.
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  8198. 31:45 / 42:13 You Are Amazing I can’t stop cackling 😂
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  8199. 31:41 / 42:13 Siriously. Can’t stop smiling. “And then randomly Hermes Trismegistus for some reason “ Edit: spelling error 😏
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  8200. That tumblr joke was so slick, bravo
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  8201. Thanks!
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  8202. Thanks for all you do, Doc! Both the topic of mysticism and this channel are relatively new to me, so the extensive back-catalog has become my go-to content to listen to during the grind of my day job. Thus, the majority of the time I spend experiencing Esoterica content is through listening rather than watching. I'd put off this video when it showed up in my feed specifically because that word "illustrated" in the title suggested I'd want to experience it visually, and I'm glad I did, because I hadn't realized just how much visual humor I was missing! The "wifi password" gag absolutely sent me and now I look forward to reexperiencing some of my faves with a proper watch-through. 😂
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  8203. Hilariously Brilliant
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  8204.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yep! Seen it!
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  8205. YouTube would be nothing without people like you – they need to relearn that the hard way. Creators need to form a union and push collective bargaining against YouTube. This is not an AI algorithm issue - YouTube keeps bending a knee to the parasites running the music industry every time they flag anything. If content creators started organizing and threatening to leave YouTube en masse for, say, Odysee or some other platform, YouTube might start caring and might even push back? Because until the gravy train the YouTube Execs feed off (i.e., creators) starts drying up, and results in loss of ad revenue and premium members like me, they will just keep counting their money and hanging you out to dry.
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  8206. Wow this was an especially powerful episode. Thanks so much for all your work and effort. I grew up in small town South Africa, and I remember Satan being in everything in the 90's. Everything from butterflies to the yin yang. "Rituals" and practitioners were rife - I mean I was a child and the grownups told me this. And just earlier this week I was wondering what happened to all the people who slaughtered cats for fun and ritual. Where are they now? And again, most identified perpetrators were often children(teenagers) from overly strict homes (hello children of ministers and pastors) who led "gangs" of rebellion and caused small town uproar. Think Grease but with a Satanic spin. I wonder if they even self-identified as "satanists". I doubt it. They were just trying to show middlefinger to their parents, authority, and the world. It took me a very VERY long time to realise the devil won't come catch me if I looked at a yin yang, and that yoga is not, in fact, devil worship. Millennials had it hard man. They really messed us up.
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  8207. Congratulations Dr Sledge! And happy new year
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  8208. Thanks!
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  8209. Love your French cuff shirt. I love La Belle Époch. This is so much fun!
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  8210. nonsense masquerading as history is precisely the times we are living 😹😹
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  8211. Thank your for your work, I think its super important . The satanic panic came full force in Europe during the 90s. Still bubbles up due to Covid etc. Much love from Germany, keep up this amazing channel <3
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  8212. Thanks!
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  8213. m o r e w h i s k e y
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  8214. Thank you for all your hard work! This is one of the comfiest channels on YouTube.
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  8215.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you so much
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  8216. Very informative, however, I need some help. I can’t seem to make these dancing naked women leave my house now. Send help. Jokes aside, great research, informative and intriguing!
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  8217. Wow, Dr Sledge. What an origin story.
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  8218. Thanks!
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  8219. excellent, you got around to Spare.
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  8220. Blasfemous miscreant, how can a book characterized as amazing be overpriced?
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  8221. 🙂
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  8222. Best advice on enlightenment and esoteric development of power anyone gave me: "Start with how you treat others in traffic. If you can't even control you behavior there, you'll never master the self. Start with driving nice, discipline, self awareness and CHARACTER IMPROVEMENT. Otherwise, you're just masturbating by wasting time trying to shortcut to magick."
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  8223. Thanks! I love you. You're humor, and Wisdom shine, and you are handsome to boot. Thank you for being you Justin!!
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  8224. I enjoy the understated humor. Thank you.
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  8225. I just watched it twice, when do I get my medals? 😁
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  8226. Thanks!
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  8227. Thanks!
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  8228. Chanel your inner Hackett!! 😂❤
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  8229. Thanks!
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  8230. Thanks!
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  8231. Thanks! That Jimmy Gibler bit got me
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  8232. Thanks
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  8233. Just found you on YouTube. Amazing content! Thank you.
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  8234. ⚕️⚕️⚕️⚕️⚕️
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  8235. Thank you
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  8236. Love from Myrtle Beach
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  8237. 🎃🧡👍
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  8238. I see a universe of electric. It's all light.
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  8239. Always outstanding, I regularly recommend your channel to my occultural students and colleagues, and to support it if people are able to. Great Work!
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  8240. This is exactly the kind of content I've been looking for in regards to the history of esotericism without the antisemitism that often comes from other sources. It's been a challenge finding sources for my book. Really looking forward to seeing what you have!
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  8241. i read the book sacred magick ~ very difficult to follow eh?
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  8242. Gotta love the laser eyes! Well done, sir.
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  8243. Thanks!
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  8244. ¡Gracias!
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  8245. Old books had for cheaper than brill. ; Time and demand is as odd as people are unique.
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  8246. That nutter translating away an entire concept is a great example of how translators shape their translations by their own decisions. A negative example, but an illustrative one nonetheless
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  8247. Thank you!
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  8248. Seriously, thank you.
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  8249. Para humor 🤣 thank you for the laugh 💪🏻
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  8250. @ESOTERICA What kind of dog do you have? .. I can hear a big lazy dog snoring in the background starting @7:20 ish)🐶 💤 😂
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  8251. Solid stuff great series
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  8252. Super excited for the Greco-Egyptian philosophy content! Yes!!
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  8253. Thank you for continuing to spoil us with these amazing videos. Happy holidays!
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  8254. Whoo feels like you just posted one
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  8255. Wonderfully done 🎉 I always enjoy your videos.
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  8256. Wow. Thanks so much for all these new ideas!
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  8257.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I'm 56. I'm on a path to Truth. Nothing more. Nothing less. I simply desire more Knowledge. The Kybalion makes sense to me. If not to you then I'm good with that. I simple seek Truth. That's it. Any help is appreciated.
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  8258. I always learn something new here
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  8259. Thank you for your added humor, are you messianic?
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  8260. 👏👏👏 Dr. Sledge I truly cannot thank you enough for your incredible work on this lecture series and for introducing me to Agrippa. My copy of the 3 Books arrived yesterday.
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  8261. This is an amazing video.
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  8262. Thanks!
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  8263. Are those boxes on your right lament configurations?
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  8264. Thanks!
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  8265. Thanks!
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  8266.  @TheEsotericaChannel  ok yeah that’s different than mine. I’ll check that out. Thank you, and great video.
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  8267. I love your broadcast so much.
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  8268. Thanks!
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  8269. Muchas gracias por la información. Muy valiosa.
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  8270. Final Fantasy!!
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  8271. I have been following the channel for a while. It's one of my favorites to listen to on my long drive to work every day. I really enjoy the pace, details, and tone of your explanations/storytelling. It helps to take away the mundane in my life and wonder about the unknown. I truly hope you can continue pouring your heart into this for a long time! Thank you so much for starting this channel.
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  8272. Thanks!
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  8273. Thanks!
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  8274. I want to applaud you for how brave you are to talk about all this in this video and on your website.
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  8275. I loved this! Please do more 😄
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  8276. Thanks!
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  8277. Thanks!
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  8278. Ffs 😂 this turned up on autoplay, it got to the bit about trousers with apples at the bottom and i was like waiiiiit.... you absolute *@&% 🤣 i had to run to the comments like 🐎
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  8279. News to me. Good write-up. 👍
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  8280. Thanks!
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  8281. nice spoons!
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  8282. Thank you for a video that actually pronounces the word "Lil-la-ke." I am shocked and flabbergasted for my own reasons, but I needed to hear how that particular name/word was pronounced. My own conclusions have been unfortunately confirmed.
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  8283. Incredibly informative. Your work stands apart in this area of study.
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  8284. Excellent. Thank you Justin.
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  8285. Thanks!
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  8286. The natty lights got me. I’m rolling over here
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  8287. Point of clarification - my comment isn’t intended as a “theological” point, or about how the world “actually” works, but rather focusing more on how the people who wrote those words may have been thinking about the world. That’s the part I find interesting - not “how demons work” but “what did demons mean to them?” e.g.
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  8288. Great teaching
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  8289. Thanks!
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  8290. You always kind of reminded me of 60 Minutes/Andy Rooney when I would watch you. Anyhow, bravo and opah!
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  8291. "Get Lost, Satan" sounds like a book that would have one of those cheesy covers of a person standing cross-armed and back-to-back with Jesus. One of them would be giving a small red devil the boot.
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  8292. I deeply appreciate what you do❤
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  8293. Thanks!
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  8294. I wonder what the alchemists and the writers of medieval lapidary's would think of modern lab made gemstones?
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  8295. Thank you sir!!
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  8296. Thanl you very much for these videos. I just stumbled on this channel today and as a practicing witch nd someone witha keen interest in Esotercism and History. i really love your videos. very informative and interesting.
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  8297. Sir, for one I profoundly appreciate your teachings. You're much more than YouTube presenter, your a reminder, an intellectual nudge to aim higher. In this time of triumphant "ordianism" you are a sharp, a well defined study in contrast and focus. Thankyou
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  8298. You do amazing work
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  8299. Thanks
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  8300. Sorry Doctor if I smell sulfur I'm calling the Winchester boys and a Priest
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  8301. Ooooohhhh Ma gawd could yall PLEASE jus do a channel together this was too incredible!! also love both your channels individually 😍🤗✨ but seriously brava 👏🏾👏🏾
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  8302. Thanks!
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  8303. So excited! Would love to give the book to my husband ❤
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  8304. Thank you for speaking truth
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  8305. We need you to continue!
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  8306. "Four Tau." The four points of a cross? Not necessarily the Christian cross but the cross of the compass, of matter. Just my instinctual speculation.
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  8307. Thank you.
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  8308. Thank you for providing well researched info on topics that the collective seems to be fighting against hearing. You are brave and professional, and I cannot thank you more for it (except perhaps with more money🤣). God bless you with peace, compassion, and wisdom, all synonyms as you obviously know lol
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  8309. What level of Patreon would I have to be in order to request a conversational Enochian video? Love all the content. Keep it coming.
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  8310. Thankyou Dr Justin for all that you do. All the best :)
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  8311. As a Beinecke staffer, this was a very enjoyable watch.
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  8312. Amazing book! What a treasure
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  8313. Thanks!
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  8314. Wow.. I so sometimes.. apparently.. feel like Sophia personified by the statement you just made regarding the Infinity of the Creator and the inherent finitude of this mortal life.
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  8315. Thanks!
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  8316. This is truly beautiful, goodness. An interesting figure...
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  8317. Thanks!
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  8318. Thanks you I found that heavy going but left comments to the end
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  8319. I cackled at "demonic gulag"
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  8320. I wrote an email to President Neville and Interim Provost Rolph, simply titled "shame on you!", and sent a copy of it via the contact form on the college website. I am writing this comment to let you and Prof. James Bowley know that you have support from all over the world (I am a student at a Polish university), and also to increase the reach of this video. I hope that President Neville and Interim Provost Rolph will find within themselves the last shred of dignity and honor to respond to this appeal. Respond properly. If not - welcome to the fast track to Panem and Giliad, time to buy a red coat and prepare your younger siblings for the Hunger Games. Dear Prof. James Bowley - I am sorry that such an injustice has befallen you. It is sad and shameful that someone running a college can be so ignorant...
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  8321. So much goodness here!
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  8322. Thanks!
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  8323. I have wondered if being an adult is to be male. In their society, only males had standing as grownups, therefore to have standing in the eyes of the apostles she had to be a man.
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  8324. Very nice. Hey Justin, would you ever consider combining patreons with other channels like Dan attrell for instance and do a combined subscription? I'd pay 40 buck's a month to get a few more people on the donation list. I don't think I could afford to patronise all of them though. Just a thought
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  8325. 16:17 didn't anticipate that jumpscare lol
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  8326. So glad you referenced Missy Elliot that was my first thought. Love your work thank you so much.❤
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  8327. Thank you for your great work Dr. Sledge! 🙏
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  8328. I love this
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  8329. Thanks!
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  8330. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt1GxzACeFk Hanna Rubina, famed Israeli actor, played in the Dibbuk and it became her most iconic role. Here is a sketch about "Hanna Rubina goes to the doctor" by the comedy group "Hayehudim baim" I though you might like it, they have some more on some kabala stuff, i highly recommend them Thank you for sharing all this wonderful knowledge with us
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  8331. How people don't see just how deeply anti-Semitic this text and many Gnostic schools of thought are is a mystery to me. To basically be taking an ethnic Jewish belief system and claiming it's God is a demon, and twisting it's origin story so that what Jews historically took to be instructive and spiritual becomes supplanted by what a bunch of Greek Neo-Platonists thought to better .. it just strikes me as ridiculously anti-semitic and along the lines of the anti-Semitic Ezra texts.
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  8332. First 5 minutes Omfg YES I agree 100% with both points
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  8333. As a follower of the channel for three years why have we not met the dog yet? We want to see the doggo.
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  8334. Gratitude
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  8335. Awesome video!! As always very informative and thanks for posting!
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  8336. Wow ! Thank you for your great work
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  8337. !
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  8338. Like with templars was just an excuse for the French kings in Paris to take control of occitania which till then was under control of powerful magnates who paid lip service to the king. Opportunism crusade wasn’t actually a crusade against heresy but against the occitanian nobility who resisted centralization of the French crown. The religious stuff was but the cases belli excuse to allow the French king to seize land from the southern French magnates
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  8339. This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Lol this is very interesting stuff Dr, thank you!!
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  8340. congratulation 10 Thousand subscribers
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  8341. Thanks!
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  8342. Esoterica, the more mysterious and serious partner of Literotica
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  8343. Liverature
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  8344. A forthcoming fellowship at Ritmann Library in Amsterdam?
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  8345. Ha! Torah study DID beat out the romans
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  8346. Merci !
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  8347. 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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  8348. Brilliant😳🤩
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  8349. We need to see a combo video with you and @moonsrarebooks
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  8350.  @TheEsotericaChannel  oh... you mean I wasted my limited time watching something totally fictional when I could have been watching something of value. Wow. Well done.
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  8351. Super grateful for you and this channel! Hope to see much more to come.
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  8352. Thank you for this massive well organized work ❤ from Mesopotamia
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  8353. "I see you back there..." waves Hi teach.
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  8354.  @TheEsotericaChannel  It would be really fascinating if the traditional story was true. I had never thought about it, it was just one of those things you hear about, and think "wow, fascinating." like some fact about biology or physics that is very intriguing. But I'd rather know about what actually happened.
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  8355. came for the tables of enoch, stayed for the mobius strip
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  8356. Great work - thank you!
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  8357. How do you spell "ARUFEL"? The "gloom" God is hidden by I want to learn more about it but cannot find on Google yet.
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  8358. Aren't you concerned that someone like me recognizes you?
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  8359. This is such a unique and excellent channel.
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  8360. I appreciate everything you do! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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  8361. It is good news that you will be able to continue this channel. It has been very enlightening and informative. This information has been so obscured and “altered” that much of what we are taught in academia isn’t even true. Have you looked at the new theories regarding Tartaria? If this information is true it explains why so much of history has been obscured and hidden from the general public.
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  8362. Congrats! One of my favorite channels forsure
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  8363. Thanks!
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  8364. Beautifully done. It sounds so complicated.
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  8365. Dr. Sledge, is there any analysis on the grammatical ambiguities and word salads of magical texts. I’ve always felt they were more of a feature than a bug.
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  8366. Amn ken yai ratzon .
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  8367. wow, i love this channel soooooooo much!
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  8368.  @TheEsotericaChannel  That sounds great! Your hobbies are all so cool I'm still feeling down, but I will finally get some rest during my christmas break the coming two weeks I find it incredibly kind how you keep responding to my comments with so much interest, it makes me feel quite privileged
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  8369. i will never skip reading a video description again
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  8370. Man 80k people is like a Led Zepelim concert, not sure what is better but sure times are changing arent they?
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  8371. How exactly did alchemy intersect with astrology? The seven base metals of alchemy were connected to the seven classical planets. Did alchemists believe that the celestial rays were instrumental in how nature produced metals?
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  8372. The best ch
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  8373. hey! I’m doing a large scale vocal + small ensemble piece using this text very soon, I’m abt halfway thru the commission! You mentioned it was meant to be performed, I hope this will live up to that promise 😂
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  8374. Hearing that intro again just gave me 10 years of life.
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  8375. Hello Dr. Justin Sledge! Let me first start by saying that I adore your channel and thank you for your work, devotion and professionalism. I am interested to know if you are familiar with the claims of Joseph Atwill’s “Caesar’s Messiah” and his other work titled “Shakespear’s Secret.” If so, what are your thoughts on them?
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  8376.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you!! Wow, your FAQ is a roller coaster! 🤯
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  8377. Hmmmm, is this why crip & blood gangs call them selves… “SETS” ??
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  8378. I'm a new patron. I would like to be able to support the channel more than what I can at this time. I have throughly enjoyed going through the video library. I can't thank Dr Sledge enough for the excellent scholarly content. I urge anyone who isn't already a patron to sincerely consider becoming one. I won't be able to attend the zoom call this weekend hopefully I'll be able to make the next one.
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  8379. Lich? Acererak? Did I hear that right?
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  8380.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I stand corrected!
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  8381. Wow, great channel.
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  8382.  @TheEsotericaChannel  ah shame. That would be something special
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  8383. In time I'm sure universities will be begging for you to lecture for them.
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  8384. Lolled hard at 4:13
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  8385. I’m so glad Justin talks slower in newer videos bc it’s hard to keep up with all the different languages haha
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  8386. Great stuff!!
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  8387. Don’t forget Mythvision
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  8388. Very comprehensive. Thank you!
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  8389. Thank you Dr. Sledge
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  8390. We gots yo back and our support Dr Justin Sledge. You don’t know how vast and varied your viewership truly is.
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  8391. Loved the video! Random Request- Could you do a video on Goral HaGra? Would love to hear about it from a more academic and less mythologized perspective.
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  8392. 🔱
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  8393. 5:48 I'm happy to help someone live thier dream
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  8394.  @TheEsotericaChannel  guess I better move a little faster learning Hebrew 😂. Thank you❤❤ ❤
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  8395. Good job...
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  8396. Congrats! Well deserved. I'm sure one day Im gonna get occult hipster cred for being in your 1st thousand subscribers
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  8397. Thanks
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  8398. I didn't want it to end.
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  8399. Thanks!
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  8400. Sol invictus 🌬🔥❤️
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  8401. Thanks!
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  8402. Omg yasssss!!! So excited for this!!!
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  8403. ❤️🙏🏽❤️
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  8404. Thank You for Your great work, dr Sledge😊 Greetings from Poland❤️
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  8405. I appreciate your work. Thanks!
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  8406. I found this channel through your talk with Alex O'Connor and I'm so glad I did! I used to dabble in the dark arts and agrippa would always come up when people wanted to get to more "intermediate/advanced" practices. I tried reading the 3 Books of Occult Philosophy and some of it was SOOO dense, i couldn't finish it and gave up on my occult journey, but learning the history is so much more interesting to me 😂.
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  8407. Awesome 😎 thanks brother 🙏
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  8408. Nother mazing video
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  8409. Is it possible to join the trip and the seminar from Egypt directly, I already live there?
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  8410. Congratulation Justin, you have definetly earned this milestone! Love to see what comes next!!!
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  8411. 🙏🌍
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  8412. One of the few delightful intros I actually enjoy.
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  8413. Goonies never say die! Yuh!
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  8414. Thank you for your work on this text, and subsequent commentary.
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  8415. You just made me feel some joy in a time where I really needed that, thank you so much
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  8416.  @TheEsotericaChannel  😆 I agree it’s a pseudoscience. Chris does express his thinking that ‘astrology’ is evolving and growing. I say if one is to pretend it has validity, at least bring it into astronomical reality.
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  8417. Thanks!
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  8418. How did you manage to stay so serious in this video?
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  8419. Hey are you running late this week? Hope we get a video tomorrow ❤
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  8420. Oh this one is going to make me think of my dad, may Gd bless his name
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  8421. Was De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus forgotten or just ignored when scholars were re-inventing the witch-cult hypothesis in the 19th and early 20th century?
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  8422. you share a birthday with my baby. its a very special day.
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  8423. The bit about demons basically providing illusions or empty promises to their supplicants put me in mind of Robert Bloch's "Enoch" a short story about nasty little creature that has a very similar MO. Perhaps another example of how far-reaching Psellus' work has been. https://youtu.be/X1GMq8Zbk5g
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  8424. Thanks! I really mean it. Ive been into alchemy since childhood when I stumbled upon one if my dads occult studies books. Later in life when my relationship with him started to drift apart, I was able to rekindle our relationship by having strange conversations of mysticism and philosophy. It really helped sparked something within us both that brought us back together. and now, we watch your videos together when I go to visit him. I would love to win this antique book since I live antique books and do not own any, but truthfully if i did win i would probably give it to my dad. Anyways, thanks so much for incredible videos!
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  8425. Thank you to you, Justin for all your time, energy & knowledge.
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  8426. I get a big smile every time I hear you say merch… I can imagine your intellectual circles… You’re like the crazy eccentric one Dr. Justin has his own merch
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  8427. Dr. Sledge: DCM, I know you know who this is, made the following comment about this video: "This is fake and nonsense. Perhaps an April Fool's Day joke. The supposed fragment from the Zohar (8-9 minutes into the video) is obviously a modern concoction, with little Aramaic; its Hebrew is poorly written and laughable."
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  8428.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Daniel Matt
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  8429. Thanks!
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  8430.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you, I'm doing well and an taking advantage is a very early morning childcare moment to catch up on your videos. They can't be half- listened to! I really enjoyed this one and have been sharing it around! Thanks again!!!
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  8431.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Same. It's called Growlers now. Hi tone moved over here on Cleveland in Crosstown. As did Black Lodge video. All you have to do is click your heels together and repeat "There's no place like home" and you'll be sitting at the bar in Hi tone with a 16oz PBR.😉
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  8432. 24:40 I’m rofl! Lolol
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  8433. As soon as he said there would be something sad coming, I knew Brill was involved.
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  8434. Thank you
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  8435. Thanks Dr. Sledge!
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  8436. As a lover of everything Sumer and Mesopotamia, this topic got me excited. I own a copy of the ritual in the Writings from the Ancient World series. Love those books. I would also recommend The Treasures of Darkness. Read that beautiful serveral times over the years. Great beginners book on Mesopotamia.
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  8437.  @TheEsotericaChannel  They truly are. I wish more people had a interest in ancient Mesopotamia. But not from that weird ancient alien viewpoint. That's just so absurd and does a great disservice to the knowledge and great achievements of mankind.
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  8438. jewish studies professor agata bielik-robson has written about an undercurrent of gnosticism that can be traced back to Judaism as well. Is there truth to that?
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  8439. Excellent work!
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  8440. Hell yeah Doc! Hook me up! I been patreoned up for ages! Dude I only have two patreons, a crazy hippy ayawasca guzzling south american and you. I figure it's all the knowledge I need at this stage in my life. I live with some health issues and am stuck on the couch a lot so I feed my head. As above, so below. Do what thou wilt but send that book to New Zealand and you'll have a fan for life dude! Plus I love true Norweigian black metal, not the fancy shit... I bang my stupid old head to Mayhem and Burzum dude, come on.... hook an alchemist up dude!!!!
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  8441. Hello from 7 Mile! I think I speak for everyone when I say that love the interviews as much as all the other formats! Yet another great video.
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  8442. Thanks for all the great content! I'd be more than happy continue to share your very concise and intriguing thoughts and insights on many of our shared interests, which ultimately sustain the Magnum Opus of the preservation and evolution of our species! Kudo for all the hard work Justin👏 truly my brother in God. Though I too am well read in the classics, your offered book far surpasses the antiquity of any in my small humble collection.
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  8443. would be so tight to see you make a video on the occult and esoteric influences on rimbaud's voyant theory I can only dream
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  8444. #angelicdrama #fortyfortyforty
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  8445. An excellent presentation!
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  8446. Boomhour voice "Dang old chetties"
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  8447. Just on time
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  8448. nice channel, great presentation, have now subbed, thanks
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  8449. Very interesting video, thank you.
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  8450. Thanks
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  8451. When he passes on, I hope Irving Finkel will haunt you descreetly
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  8452. Another great video!!
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  8453. Awesome 😎 thanks brother 🙏
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  8454. Mazel tov on your first 10K, wishing you many more. It’s well deserved. Love this channel and the integrity and insight you bring to it, Dr Sledge. I’m proud to be a Patreon here, and only wish I could send you more. Thank you for your dedication in bringing these marvelous mysteries to light.
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  8455.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Thank you so mutch! kinda obvious. I'm from germany and try to learn english while watching interesting videos, hebraic words kill me sometimes :D
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  8456.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Got it. I'm orthodox so didn't understand what you meant by halacha being dependant on setting. Lol. Thanks for these lectures, it's fascinating to get a real glimpse of these ancient manuscripts and appreciate your analysis. הצלחה רבה!!
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  8457.  @TheEsotericaChannel  : "history", you mean the existence of the texts and certainty they come from this or that time, not necessarily the accuracy of what they describe?
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  8458. Your channel has been a life changer for me. Thank YOU for doing you!
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  8459. D—————E Brought my pitchfork, as requested.
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  8460. Tomorrow I will make a contribution.
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  8461. I bought a couple shirts. Hope that helps you out. It would be cool to win that book.
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  8462. Thanks!
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  8463. Do a patreon Book Club! PLEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEE
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  8464. "A victim of the vernacular." If I had not already subscribed, I would have, here. Beautiful turn of phrase.
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  8465. sticking my ethnobotanist oar in to say thanks for the warning about the ointments, they are genuinely very dangerous (and I say this as someone who grows wildly poisonous flowers recreationally). Real fafo hours, some of the plants in purported recipes can close the book on you for as little as handling them without gloves. There's not many accessible works about witches' ointments, which I feel both adds to their allure and compounds their danger, and that's. Bad. And of the ones that there are, a lot are also just. Bad. They really need an approach that's more multidisciplinary and less salacious, but multidisciplinary don't sell as good as a greasy broomstick. For the curious in a scholarly and inquisitive sense not an experimental one, I'd suggest Hatsis' book on witches' ointments, with the caveat that it has (of course) strengths and weaknesses and should be read with let's say an openness to correction as better scholarship emerges. But as far as mass market paperbacks go it's by orders of magnitude the best work on the subject to date.
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  8466. Rock on Sledge, another coffee for you
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  8467. Are you okay?.. you don't sound like your usual self in this video. Or maybe the tinctures from those grimmoirs are working a bit too well
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  8468. You caught the eye of some serious occult scholars and authors from the very start and it was through them I found out about this channel, so you came highly recommended and recognised early as a true scholar. I hope this can become your full time job, who doesn't want to make a living off of the thing they love after all? Plus I'm hungry for more content. Amazing work. Thank you from Australia for all your effort.
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  8469.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Yes it is lol, most people don't recognize it
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  8470. Such an interesting discussion, thank you. Just to say that I have had the experience of reading inside my dreams. It is possible.
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  8471. Just subscribed. You had me at black metalish merch 😊
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  8472. Dr Sledge, I am so pleased to hear that you are benefitting from your efforts here and deeply wish that I were in a position to do more but beginning now I am, as you said "buying you a beer each month". The didactic elaboration alone is worthy of tuition but more importantly, the savoir appris make the time spent here more productive than 95% of the courses that I have attended. I hope that your new time structure makes the Sledge household happy and you personally refreshed. You are very important an impressive number of people and I can only imagine that someone in academia will recognize a beautiful talent underutilized. God bless you for trying to educate, I thank you for succeeding.
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  8473. Enjoyed this. I will now watch the whole thing again. I love this moment in time 600-500 BCE, it is a rich moment in human history.
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  8474. Thanks really much for your Analyse
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  8475. those ancient demon bowl, are they for protecton, ore maby for scrying? considering you last video,
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  8476. Just love you and your channel, :)
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  8477. Your hard work is highly valued, Dr. Sledge! Congratulations! I'm sharing your channel in several social networks! You can't imagine how many people arond the world watch your videos! You're not only highly intelligent but also very kind and eager to share knowledge! A light is very much needed in these times of obscurity we're living in. Thank you very much for doing what you do. Wish you the best😊😄
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  8478. Shalom
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  8479. What is the name of that ladino song? Mely Zelda?
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  8480. In the interest of full disclosure i want to tell you that Ill be making a video/livestream tonite talking about this channel, & this video in particular. Peace, mercy
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  8481. Very informative video... oh, and nice Go set there on the table ; )
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  8482. Grateful for this channel
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  8483. Really interesting. I love how these figures use traditional theology and how it affects these movements. I am also really interested in how David Koresh interpreted the Bible to explain his movement and his actions.
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  8484. Mindblowing! 😲
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  8485. Thank you so much for your channel, I feel very strongly about your studies and feel that your research and delivery are the best in centuries. Could I fulfill the age old, personalities invited to my ultimate dinner party guest list, you would be there.
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  8486. So was it being left handed that was associated with being a witch or a sinister , The hidden hand Of fate ... That Fascinates me , Because the left side of the body is controlled by the right side of a brain , Possibly left handed individuals could have greater development of the Neural pathwaves on the right sides of their brains , Associated with art dream creativity Vision , As opposed to more mundane and analytical processes Handled by the left side of the Brain , At least that's what they were saying in the 1980s when I read on this
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  8487. Do you think the reason the rosy cross brothers were invisible was because of them being secretive hermits and loners. I read the hermetic arcanum and it mentions solitude as being important. After reading Bukowski I kind of agree lol
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  8488. x
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  8489. Mazal Tov!!!
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  8490. Your videos are amazing thank you 🤟
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  8491. Is our fascination with weird things part of the death drive?
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  8492. Def worth a coffee...thank you
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  8493. Congratulations on your milestone... may it be the first of many such celebrations. Seems to me that you’re working a bit of personal magic here in creating your own path to your ideal work situation. Now, on to develop the bona fides to attain YouTube tenure.
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  8494. hey y'all 😇
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  8495. As per the unethical academic "cartel" -- I would love to potentially discuss a new venture with Dr. Litwa and yourself, actually. ;)
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  8496. “I don’t like to speculate on my channel.” (Makes it the shortest Esoterica video ever). 😆
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  8497. This channel is so well produced. Great content. Bravo.
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  8498. Wow I love your teaching
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  8499.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I just don't believe it. No level of humanly dryness of humor can withstand these jokes. I would love to see a "behind the scenes" video sometime in the future. ;-)
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  8500. Great video! Thanks for the upload.
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  8501. and here I just thought the HGA was just Christianized Roman Genius worship.
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  8502. Thanks for a great year Dr Sledge. Ur a BADASS.
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  8503. ....magical...ecumenical...and extra esoteric-er
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  8504. I dreamed my whole life to have such a book , not some dribble from witch store, I have never donated to a utube channel in my life, this is channel is the only reason to watch Utube besides the music, I send donation in hopes of winning, I never win anything but sure would love to start winning, I’ve had a bad week, this could change my life
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  8505. I love you 🥰 Gnostic texts have been the gold of history have been lost to the world 🌎
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  8506. Laughing my (missing donkey emoji) off right now, Doc! “ Come at me, bro.”
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  8507. Nice job Doc; Thx.
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  8508. I'm a short term subscriber but the content is so dense that i just don't have time to devote to listening (& replaying) as often as I'd like. Really like this fragment, especially about Diocletian. Your info added to what I know about the debasememt of Roman coinage. Kinda made me think of the FedReserve and FDR's seizure of & repricing of gold back in the Depression. Keep'em coming
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  8509. Remarkably detailed!
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  8510. I found your channel yesterday and I like your videos. God bless you, my brother. 🕊❤
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  8511. Yeah! Edgy dark stuff.
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  8512. is this the truth or an april fool?
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  8513. I have to say, the idea of summoning a juggling monkey is the only thing I’ve ever heard from these practices that sounds remotely tempting.
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  8514. I would love to see an expanded conversation on this between you and James Tabor. I think people's minds would explode....lol
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  8515. Congratulations, Dr. Sledge!!
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  8516. I found your suggestions extremely helpful and invaluable!! Thank you very much!! Greetings from Vienna/Austria!
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  8517.  @TheEsotericaChannel  nooo I meant that in the best way <3 I’ve never been so intrigued about the ritual and cultural history of a drink.
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  8518.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Would I be allowed to post said video chat to FB?
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  8519. 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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  8520. angel: what secrets of the universe would you like to know? john dee: know any burried treasures? .....i am dying.lmao. i am going to ask for burries treasures now, when i meditate to metatron.
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  8521. "The distant toll of bells and murmurs of chanting" is so reminiscent of Clive Barker's hellbound heart. Nota: Barker quoted Bataille as an inspiration for that, and you love Bataille and puzzle boxes... 😃
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  8522. I thought yaweh was the god of Abraham also?? and the same guy that all the Jewish people worship?
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  8523. The owls are not what they seem.
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  8524.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Bob Martin is a fellow who has been instrumental in the development of modern programming as a discipline. I just started reading a very influential book of his called Clean Code. The reason I drew the parallel is because the damning attitudes Cordovero apparently took toward obfuscation in Kabbalistic materials seems similar to how Bob Martin views unnecessarily proprietary code. He feels it is not only counter-productive, but highly unethical when considered in the context of global essential systems running on such proprietary dependencies.
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  8525. Hi from Let's talk Religion🙏🙏
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  8526.  @TheEsotericaChannel  I understand. I just thought you'd be open to the discussion since you replied to comments about it in this thread and the ideology has been briefly mentioned in some of your videos. I appreciate your response.
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  8527. The truth + your humor = the sharing of great power.
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  8528. Friendly reminder to consider the personal motivations and religious/cultural background of anyone critiquing another religion or church.
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  8529. I wonder what the people involved in these events would make of diamonds being made from a loved one’s ashes in modern times.
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  8530. Really looking forward to this! As just one among the thousands benefitting from Dr Sledge’s hard work and the generosity of this channel’s supporters I’d like to say a huge thank you. I hope each of you know how much we appreciate what you’re doing and making possible.
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  8531. Super interesting! Love the "history of nonsense...." quote. Thank you! Dumb and obvious question but any link between Zohar and Zoarastrianism? Or just a linguistic coincidence?
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  8532. Anyone else hoping he was going to tell us what the ancient hangover cure was?
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  8533. Yes,, Healing Nature.....I want in on that process
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  8534. Thanks Doc!
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  8535. hahahah my enochian bromance
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  8536.  @TheEsotericaChannel  not yet. Felt like it for a second tho 🤣
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  8537. Very thorough and detailed research and exposition. Great video.
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  8538. How many times do you think most people say necromancy in a year? I think in a month you probably have most people beat for a lifetime.
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  8539. Smelled that way. Thanks.
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  8540. You wouldn't mind if I started a band called "Gnostic humble flex" would you?
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  8541. חזק חזק
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  8542. You Sr., You got my attention and respect. Cheers
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  8543. Let’s get you back on the LA radio!
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  8544. Hi, I am afraid to ask, but since its April Fools, does that mean this is a elaborate joke?
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  8545. May their blood be avenged, indeed. We must maintain a hard line on this subject, and we must be perfectly clear: Death to fascism.
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  8546. <33
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  8547.  @TheEsotericaChannel  !?!?! Awesome !! How do we engage ?
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  8548. Thanks! I’d love to enter the giveaway!
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  8549. I love the channel
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  8550. Great work as always :D
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  8551. Absolutely lovely intro.
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  8552. Wonderful! Thank you for this
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  8553. Drool… the catalog is absolutely incredible!
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  8554. Love your dnd and mtg references
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  8555. Magic is interesting but magnets, how do they work
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  8556. Very interesting about the Prague Golem. Also: what is that water timing device called shown in the intro?
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  8557. Nice picture of Schefter sifting at 2:57
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  8558. Thanks!
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  8559.  @TheEsotericaChannel  🙈😆👏🏻 thank you for clearing that one out. You are doing a great job! btw Love your work❤
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  8560. At last! My favorite!
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  8561. Let's Talk Religion sent me here.
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  8562.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Excellent talk! Thank you for making it!👍
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  8563.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thanks for replying. It did seem like you were a bit sceptical. I’m thoroughly enjoying your channel.
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  8564. Riveting. Just a joy to watch.
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  8565. discovered your channel through my best friend , im really interested in your content, just wanted to leave a comment because at this time i cannot make a donation. love your channel! THANK YOU!
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  8566. Me too
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  8567. ...coïnncidentally watching this on the eve of world alchemy day.
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  8568. Thanks!
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  8569. glad to be a subscriber, you make some amazing content and it has become one of my main sources of knowledge when learning about the historicity of esotericism
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  8570.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Oh, interesting. Thanks
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  8571. Thanks!
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  8572. I want to join something called Patreon for some reason...
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  8573. Thank you for that!
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  8574. We gonna party like its 300 B.C congrats
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  8575. 👌 Loved it! Thumbed and sunscribed. Thank you! 💈🌟💈🌿 :.
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  8576. I want to find the pub where scholars bring in mysterious manuscripts to study over boilermakers.
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  8577. I still can't believe this channel is free. Thank you!
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  8578. *woof!
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  8579. Thanks
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  8580. 😂 anything you can do, I can do meta❤
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  8581. Love your channel Dr. but you need to explain your subjects in a more Layman's Terms because we are not all scholars of Esoteric subjects.
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  8582. Is that pocket watch going backwards?
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  8583. Nice channel
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  8584. Impressive analysis and content! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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  8585. What’s old is new again.. my mantra for 2020-21
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  8586. Intereseting as usual, Dr. Sledge!! Thanx!!!
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  8587. Thanks!
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  8588. I really should be spending this in your catalog… 😏
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  8589. why her philosophy reminds me of Meister Eckhart? I mean, "abyss"... "Seelengrund", c'mon!
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  8590. Just discovered your channel from Let's Talk Religion and I love it, will check out more of your videos for sure :)
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  8591. super interesting, thanks. I like the idea of using the system for a game. Would love to see someone do something like that.
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  8592. Congrats on the 10K subs! You're doing great work and people respond to that. Western Esotericism isn't exactly my forte, but your videos make the material interesting and accessible. Keep it up. Love you, brother!
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  8593. Is your content on Patreon different to the one on Youtube?
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  8594. If you want to see real supra natural activity, to move heavy rain to other place, you can see at Mandalika Circuit , Indonesia, during World Motor GP...
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  8595. Thank you
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  8596.  @TheEsotericaChannel  thank you Sir for answering my questions. I respect your honesty. God bless
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  8597. I was waiting for this episode.
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  8598. Thanks for this. You are the Dr. Dee of the internet xx
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  8599. You've got a fairly loud 60Hz hum right through the audio on this. I wouldn't notice on my laptop, but it's really distracting through my near-field monitors. (I didn't recognised it straight away because I live in a 50Hz country!)
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  8600. hi fromlet's talk religion
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  8601. def on my book list, after I finish the Babylonian Talmud.
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  8602. And you’re doing Geber!
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  8603. 05:14 isn't that the similar type of thing you reported on vis-a-vis a norse sigil from etsy or something along those lines a while back? Almost seems like there may be an etsy vendor intentionally mislabeling these things, which is pretty funny itself...
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  8604. I would love the 1631 KJ Bible allowing adultery 😅
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  8605. do you also recommend A History Of God by Karen Armstrong?
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