Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Did the Occult Influence Karl Marx and Early Communism?" video.

@TheEsotericaChannel Why be sorry, learned sir? 🙂👍
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There are ALWAYS surprising links with the occult; where the non-occultists expect least to find then! 🙂 See my comment on the main thread.
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Sounds like a good idea for a zine! Or a YouTube channel! 👍 Pray proceed... (I've always had a bit of an interest in Gnosticism: I "introduced" the Ophites to a friend a little while back (more like shoved them in his face to prove a point: for as a Lokean, I was right annoyed by his trite assumption, to the effect that: "I was only 'allowed' to see Loki as not a villain, through the lens of post-modernism". 🙄🙄 Like the "rebellious", "alternative" viewpoint is anything NEW 🙄, I retorted, and came up with the Ophites as an example, from my reading of Colin Wilson. 🙂) But overall, I've never really understood Gnosticism: though I noted that popular novelists such as Kate Mosse (and to a lesser extent, Dan Brown) made a thing of them in pop culture some years back. So I might appreciate some accessible content thereon.. 🙂
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Actually, the US liberal site Alternet (which I used to be a fan of years ago) had a book about this very topic advertised on its site.. But it was more concerning socialism in general, than Marxism in particular: and had more of an Anglo-American focus, I think... (I think they meant people like Annie Besant and Theosophy.)
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 @TheEsotericaChannel There are political-theology folks? Who? 🙂
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@AC-dk4fp Graat for you! 🙂👍 (This friend of mine is bi-polar and went a bit funny on me. This "Loki is an evil villain" shtick, comes I think either from books he's read by conservative Heathens (eg Stephen Flowers/Thorsson).. can't be off Rick Riordan, he's a bit too old for those! 😄 Or at least to BELIEVE those, I've read them.. Or you know, a conventional Christian upbringing can really make you prejudiced/blinkered in some ways.. 😏 This guy is a fairly militant atheist now, but is also quite heavily into angelology and demonology. (Oh, and Chaos magic.) But is still quite conventional-thinking in some ways I believe.. (Thing IS, I don't tell him what to believe about angels, because they're not my specialist subject! Loki, on the other hand... Is mine, and not his! 🙂) Well I think some therapy via Zoom has calmed him down a bit, is all I can say.. 🤷‍♀️)
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@cmacinc Sounds good! 👍
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@AC-dk4fp Yes. This "evil, evil" is a cultural Christian thing. I totally agree. I think my friend might have somehow been influenced by the medieval (and later) Christian texts where angels and demons are described? 🤔 (But he told me he was a "Lucifer fan" - at least regarding the Mike Mignola version 🙂 - so I don't know why he suddenly went off on one, re Loki...) Your comment is interesting and detailed! But as a Neopagan, I must say I've never had a problem, with the idea of pantheons! 🙂 Only maybe they do tend to select one of their number as the scapegoat...
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@AC-dk4fp Oh. Why do you hate New Atheists? 🙂 (Apart from the smugness.)
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SpaceDolphinPosadist Was it?! 🙂
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